Pour one out for halfheartedly pinot-gregious comedy ‘Wine Country’
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Glass after glass is poured, but in a wine cellar’s worth of bad jokes and poor timing, the film never achieves a satisfying buzz.
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Hot Mulligan carries intense emotion through Cornerstone show
This energy transferred into the audience as the halcyon crowd jumped around, aggressively pointing fingers up at the boys of Hot Mulligan.
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The 1975 brings vibrant sound to two-night San Francisco performance
The spellbinding Brit pop band dazzled in a synth-wave to blow the hipster beanies right off the audience.
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Cornerstone hosts magnetic lineup of local bands MintJulep, More Fatter, Westpark
In a sea of local support, the crowd at Cornerstone came together to enjoy some of the best of recent additions to Berkeley’s music scene.
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Got a question about sex? ‘Ask Dr. Ruth’ addresses that and more in new biographical documentary
In full, “Ask Dr. Ruth” is a study in frankness, both in how Dr. Ruth is unabashedly open about her own life experiences and in making discussions around sex accessible to the too-often-repressed public.
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A communion of interiorities: At Bay Area Book Festival, readers and writers make personal, social discourses heard
The Bay Area Book Festival embodies the communal aspect of literature — its potential to bridge differences and highlight commonalities.
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David Thomson discusses cinematic voyeurism for his book ‘Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire’
Thomson noted that being able to intrude upon the lives of others is taboo in real life but is a fundamental aspect of desire in movies.
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David Wallace-Wells, author of ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ argues for role of alarmism in confronting climate change
For two people battling with the label of “alarmism,” moreover, Wallace-Wells and NoiseCat were both nuanced and articulate throughout their conversation.
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Laurie R. King moderates panel of 4 European crime writers at Bay Area Book Festival
When interviewing four high-profile robbers, make sure to put them in the same room, or else they’ll give you four different stories.
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At Bay Area Book Festival’s ‘On Not Mothering,’ talk of freedom, lack of direction
Choosing whether or not to have children, the panelists noted, is one of the most consequential decisions a woman has to make.
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