‘Heat’ crude and stumbling
By ROGER MOORE McCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE Give it up for Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. You’ll never see them work harder at comedy than in “The Heat,” a stumbling, aggressively loud and profane cop...
View ArticleCelebrities, without photoshop
The diet ads and beauty magazines will have you believing you’re not beautiful unless you’re a size 0 and possess no lines on your face. But we’ll have you know, “even Cindy Crawford doesn’t look like...
View ArticleJazz on the River’s 18th season
Peter Welker of the Peter Welker All Stars. (Kent Porter / The Press Democrat) 2008 If you’re looking for a way to relax and unwind on a warm Friday evening this summer, check out the Jazz on the River...
View Article‘Maisie’ sad tale of parental spite
By ROGER MOORE McCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE Henry James was onto something over 100 years ago when he zeroed in on the true victim and best observer of a divorce, a child, in “What Maisie Knew.” Now that...
View ArticleRide the Wine Country way
We’ve all seen the aerial TV footage of the great bicycle races, with top cyclists roaring up steep hills and speeding down the other sides. Still, that doesn’t mean there’s no hope for the cycling...
View ArticleClaire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway
By BRUCE DESILVA ASSOCIATED PRESS “Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway” just might be the bleakest noir tale since “Dope” (2006), and Sara Gran wrote that one, too. The novel is a sequel to “Claire...
View ArticleAuthor Events, June 30 to July 6
San Francisco author, Rebecca Solnit, will share stories from her novel, “The Faraway Nearby,” at Petaluma Copperfields on Tuesday. For more events or to list author events in our calendar, visit The...
View ArticleThe Heist, a novel
By JEFF AYERS ASSOCIATED PRESS Janet Evanovich, creator of the popular novels featuring bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, teams up with Lee Goldberg, writer for the TV series and books featuring Adrian...
View Article‘Despicable’ gets even better
By ROGER MOORE McCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE “Despicable Me 2” is a gag-filled delight from start-to-finish. It’s got more laughs in its first five minutes — from its larynx-bending voice actors, its loopy,...
View Article‘Ranger’ goes all dark, dismal
By ROGER MOORE McCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE Saying the new “Lone Ranger” has “tone issues” is just code for “I could have done without the bad guy tearing out somebody’s heart and taking a bite out of it.”...
View ArticleCOX: Empire
Cauliflower Fritters are served at Empire cocktail lounge in downtown Napa. (Conner Jay/The Press Democrat) Whatever your preconceptions about Empire, the new restaurant and cocktail lounge in downtown...
View ArticleAuthor Events, July 7-13
For more events or to list author events in our calendar, visit the Press Democrat’s events listings at pressdemocrat.com. SUNDAY (JULY 7) An Evening of Poetry, 5 p.m. Poets Caroline Brumleve, Lynn...
View ArticleA World at Home
Small flags hang in the meditation garden of Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary. (Christopher Chung/ The Press Democrat) In summer, we dive into bowls of spicy gazpacho and herbaceous salads to snap our...
View Article‘Paganini’ ballet resurrected at Festival del Sole
Dimitri Rostoff and Alexandra Denisova in the original 1939 production of the Rachmaninoff ballet “Paganini.” (Arts Centre Melbourne) It’s a story worthy of the Travel Channel’s “Mysteries at the...
View ArticleManolakos still amazed by her hit
Singer-actress Carrie Manolakos knows the look: “I’d show up somewhere and people would say, Oh, you’re the girl from the ‘Creep’ video.” Not, you’re the girl who left NYU before graduating to star in...
View ArticleIn the Pink
When Pink Martini singer China Forbes needed emergency vocal surgery in 2011, the band turned to a fellow Portland singer by the name of Storm Large (pictured above with band). You may have seen her,...
View ArticleWeekend FUN, July 12-14
Get back in time with Huey Lewis, Back to the Future with the Russian River Sisters, and all things in between with a weekend filled with fun. Friday, July 12 Huey Lewis & The News: Robert Mondavi...
View ArticleGroup offers nurturing place for writers
Local author Amanda McTigue reads from her book ‘Going to Solace’ during a reading sponsored by the Redwood Writers Group at Copperfield’s Books in Santa Rosa on Wednesday, July 10, 2013. (Conner Jay /...
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