Blogger-author Kevin Smokler relates: I recently got a call from the publicist of Beach Blanket Babylon, which has been running at Club Fugazi in North Beach [in San Francisco] since Jesus was a pup. They’re dying to get more natives, more young people, more tech savvy folk to come see the show. So based on […]
‘Inconvenient Truth’ opens wider; new studies back its science
“An Inconvenient Truth” opens in San Francisco, Berkeley, Mill Valley, Nevada City, San Jose, Palo Alto and hundreds of U.S. theaters this Friday. MoveOn.org is asking members to pledge to see the movie and get tickets in advance. They’re also sponsoring a conference call with Al Gore this Sunday, June 4, at 7 pm EST […]
Video sites: the new must-see media
Front-page story in today’s San Jose Mercury News: The new must-see on your PC: YouTube. Video-sharing shifting entertainment options. Excerpt: Allen Ng’s YouTube habit is eating into his TV habit. Every chance he gets, the 14-year-old from Fremont checks the Web site YouTube to watch short videos of badminton clips, excerpts of Chinese movies and […]
‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and Al Gore’s talk
An Inconvenient Truth opens in wide release this week. It could be the most important you’ll ever see. As I blogged earlier this month, I saw Al Gore’s slide presentation in San Francisco and blogged about it here, but I didn’t have a chance to trranscribe my brief notes because I was about to leave […]
Closing out Cannes
Today’s the last day of the Cannes Film Festival. I attended — for the first time — this past week and felt the rush of an international event filled with beautiful people. Here are 35 shots in a Flickr photo set. Technorati tags: Cannes, photos, film , photography