Wednesday, July 17, 2013
"Grown Ups 2"
Not much has matured in this latest Adam Sandler movie "Grown Ups 2." What does anyone expect from him, the king of lowbrow humor? The movie opens with Lenny (Adam Sandler) being urinated on by a deer. Need I say more? The toilet "humor" continues for 1 hour and 40 ...By Derek Zemrak
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| Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Award-Winning Songwriter Returns to Hometown for Guitar Workshop
Ali Handal has come a long way since singing in the choir and in musicals at Acalanes High School. Now a multi-award winning songwriter with three albums under her belt, her songs featured in numerous TV shows and movies, and author of a guitar instructional book/CD ...By Jennifer Wake
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| Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Young Orinda Film Director Works on New Movie Short
Christopher Tennant and a group of friends from Miramonte High School were seen at Barbacoa in Orinda's Theatre Square shooting scenes for the young director's new production, "Before A Fall." Tennant says that the film he wrote is a silly, goofy story of a street ...
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| Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Cal Shakes' "Romeo and Juliet" A classic tale of love, and hate
If you think you've seen William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" one too many times to see it once more, think again. Director Shana Cooper takes seven top-notch Cal Shakes actors on a terrific romp through the classic hate story at Orinda's Bruns Amphitheater in a ...By Lou Fancher
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| Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Additional Rowing Camp Moves Closer to Home
This summer marks the inaugural year of the Oakland Strokes rowing camp at the San Pablo Reservoir in Orinda. The Oakland Strokes rowing club was founded in 1974, and began teaching rowing to local middle and high school students. More recently, they began offering ...By Michael Sakoda
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| Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Author Examines Complex Life of Jesus of Nazareth in New Book, "Zealot"
Rising like a rigorous intermission amid a summer of escapist beach reading, writer and scholar Reza Aslan's "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" (Random House, 2013) is this season's muscular literary entity. The author of the international bestseller "No ...By Lou Fancher
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| Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Moraga Library Wants Teens to Come Back
It is not always easy to get tweens and teens to consider the library a cool place to be. By the time they are in middle school, many young people who once loved to go to the library with mom and discover new books and activities often decide the quiet, book-lined ...By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Cover Girl Discovered
At age 4, Charlotte Tschann is a bona fide cover girl. The smiling Orinda preschooler adorned the front page of the July 3 issue of Lamorinda Weekly, dressed in red, white and blue, clutching a lollypop in one hand and waving a U.S. flag with the other.
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| Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Canine Hypothyroid Disease
Is Fido tired all the time? Does his fur look patchy and dry, or he has ongoing skin infections? Is he 2-8 years old? Have you tried to get him to lose weight, but no matter what you do, he is still fat? Is he a golden retriever? Hypothyroidism is the most common ...By Mona S. Miller, DVM
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| Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Precarious Gas Meter Needs SecurityUtility's program aims to remedy the situation
Is Fido tired all the time? Does his fur look patchy and dry, or he has ongoing skin infections? Is he 2-8 years old? Have you tried to get him to lose weight, but no matter what you do, he is still fat? Is he a golden retriever? Hypothyroidism is the most common ...By Cathy Tyson
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| Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Lafayette Filmmaker's Directorial Debut a Winner
"8 Guns Over a Dead Girl," the directorial debut of Lafayette filmmaker Phillip Mayall, took home the award for Best Action Film at the Snake Alley Film Festival in Iowa. "I was genuinely stunned," said Mayall about the win. "I wish I had remembered to thank Luis ...By Michael Sakoda
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| Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Lamorinda Slow Food Event at Moraga Herb Farm
The multiple fragrances of the herbs that grow in Hollie Lucas-Alcalay's garden drift in the warm summer air; 10 different species of mints, five varieties of basil, lemon verbena, calendula, lavender, rosa rugosa, lavender balm, lemon balm, tulsi tea (tulsi krishna ...By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, July 17, 2013
100 Years of Living
David Skilling does not look like a centenarian. Yet the proof is on his driver's license, which is still valid. "I gave up driving at 98," he says, and gave his son his car. Skilling loves the reaction he gets from those who see an old birthday banner still tacked ...By Cathy Dausman
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| Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Swim, Baby, Swim!
Water babies. Steve Sherman sees them almost daily. Toddlers who splash and laugh in the pool, but who are also learning independence and lifelong water safety skills.
Sherman, of ...By Cathy Dausman
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| Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Hundreds Mix it up at Annual Martini Contest
Attending the 13th annual Best Martini in the East Bay Contest on June 18 at the Lafayette Park Hotel and Spa required a unique skill set. Patience, for waiting in lines for appetizers; elbowing, for prodding an opening in the wedged-in, 450-plus crowd; and ap ...By Lou Fancher
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