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Broadway hit at SF Playhouse, Carl Lumbly stars

6 years ago

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The San Francisco Playhouse continues its celebration of their 10th season. The company has moved into larger, remodeled digs, 450 Post Street @ Powell (formerly the home of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre) opening to appreciative audiences. Up next, a stirring production of playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis’ 2011 Broadway hit, The Motherf**ker with the Hat.[...]

Anthony Hamilton Speaks, Sings in Bay Area

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Community, Inspiration, Music

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Grammy Award -winning singer Anthony Hamilton, who also serves as the national spokesman for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), is the keynote speaker for the 2013 Black History Celebration at University of the Pacific. He will both lecture and then perform a short intimate set of songs at 7 p.m. Feb. 7 in the Bob Hope Theatre in downtown Stockton[...]

Superbowl Gospel Extravaganza honors Ray Lewis

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Travel

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BALTIMORE RAVENS STAR RAY LEWIS TO BE HONORED BALTIMORE RAVENS STAR RAY LEWIS TO BE HONORED WITH THE LIFETIME OF INSPIRATION AWARD AT THE SUPER BOWL GOSPEL CELEBRATION ON FEBRUARY 1, 2013Hosted by Kirk Franklin and Sherri Shepherd, with an All-Star Line-up of Performances By Fantasia, Donnie McClurkin, Marvin Winans, Bishop Paul S. Morton, and NFL “Playe[...]

Rusty Cundieff talks "Movie 43"

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Movies

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MOVIE 43 is touted as one of the most irreverent films of any kind, this equal opportunity offender, a comedy with some 12 directors, nine writers and a gang of producers plus an impressive cast too long to list. I spoke with one of the daring dozen, filmmaker Rusty Cundieff (Sprung, Tales from the Hood, The Dave Chappell Show), about his participation in MO[...]

Following a dream, Sheldon Candis

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Movies

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Much love for “LUV”New film from the indomitable and talented Sheldon Candis Mayhem, miss-steps and machismo meet in LUV, a timeless classic with contemporary, masculine gloss from director Sheldon Candis starring actor/activist/rapper Common alongside Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Meagan Good and amazing young actor, Michael Rainey J[...]

LUV's Dennis Haysbert

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Movies

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He was cast as David Palmer, president of the most powerful country in the world on the smash TV hit, 24; and, his commanding baritone voice can be heard daily in nationally televised commercials for ALLSTATE Insurance.On inauguration weekend, Bay Area (San Mateo) native Dennis Haysbert (Wreck-It-Ralph, Breach, Jarhead) costars alongside a band of celebrat[...]

Oscar nominated BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Movies

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Oscar nominee Quvenzhane (Qua van janay) Wallis stars in Beasts of the Southern Wild directed by Oscar nominee Benh Zeitlin is a beautiful film!The opening scene presents an amazing golden child innocently immersed in her own animal kingdom --a world of domestic pets, remnants of a crude existence-- bearing a striking chord of realism, albeit suspended b[...]

CALIFORNIA SOLO, a recommended pick

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Movies

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Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty, Trainspotting) has a penchant for portraying the forlorn near do-gooder who finds his way haplessly through life, and that’s a true compliment. Carlyle, centers himself adeptly as Lachlan MacAldonich, a former British pop rocker who has strayed 360 degrees from his former life in the indy release, CALIFORNIA SOLO, from Strand [...]

Marlon Wayans, One-on-One

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities, Movies

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Marlon Wayans (Scary Movie film franchise, Norbit, White Chicks) takes the helm directing and starring in the raucous comedy feature, A HAUNTED HOUSE, bringing his unleashed humor to full measure with no holds barred. The tale centers on a couple who decides to live together and take their relationship to the next level. The scary part unfolds when “the hou[...]

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

6 years ago

Sandra

Celebrities

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Academy-award winning filmmaker Peter Jackson’s THE HOBBIT: An Unexpected Journey is a visual masterpiece. Jackson, ever the technical and creative genius takes viewers to an elevated level of optical delight with 3D at 48-frames-per-second, twice that of current day engineering. What it renders is exceptional depth, clarity and dimension by comparison to [...]