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Cabaret review: Paula West dazzles Rrazz Room

Opening her annual six-week run on Tuesday and backed, once again, by the superb George Mesterhazy Quartet, Paula West hit the stage rocking and never stopped until the capacity crowd called her back for double encores 90 minutes later. As brilliant ...

From DAVID WIEGAND, San Francisco Chronicle,  3 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Dizzy Gillespie,  Buddy Holly

Comedy review: Celebrity Autobiography

The old saw about comics being so funny they could get laughs by reading the telephone book may very well be true of the eight comics who took the stage at Cobb's Saturday for one of the highlights of the ninth annual Sketchfest. The one difference is ...

From DAVID WIEGAND, San Francisco Chronicle,  1 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Laraine Newman,  Rachel Dratch,  Fred Willard,  Jason Segel,  Neil Patrick Harris

CD: Peggy Lee, 'Two Shows Nightly'

How can it be? A "new" Peggy Lee album? Forty-two years ago, three Lee performances during one of her regular gigs at the Copa in New York were recorded but never released because she didn't think the brass was loud enough. A few promo and rough ...

From DAVID WIEGAND, San Francisco Chronicle,  31 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Peggy Lee,  Glen Campbell

DVD review: 'Bonekickers'

If Dan Brown and Ron Howard decide to team up again, they might want to check out the giddily entertaining British series "Bonekickers," just out on Acorn Media. As ponderous and ultimately unsatisfying as "The Da Vinci Code" was, "Bonekickers" works ...

From DAVID WIEGAND, San Francisco Chronicle,  31 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Dan Brown,  Ron Howard

'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies

His death was announced by his son through Mr. Salinger's representative, the Harold Ober agency. The 1951 publication of Mr. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" signaled the arrival of a brash new literary voice and style and was seen as the ...

From DAVID WIEGAND, San Francisco Chronicle,  29 Jan 2010

Related Topics: J D Salinger,  Mark David Chapman,  John Lennon,  Ronald Reagan,  Herman Melville

Comedy review: Whitest Kids U' Know

Hmm. Well, the subject of that one sure isn't fit for a family newspaper. Oh, but the one they did about ... with the thing ... and then that one guy simulated ... and it all ... Never mind - that one is pretty unprintable, too. There was a bit, ...

From DAVID WIEGAND, San Francisco Chronicle,  22 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Abraham Lincoln,  Ford Motor Company,  Sam Brown

TV review: 'Sound Tracks' opens ears, minds

We live in a time where virtually every individual musical genre can be labeled world music. Jazz winds its way into hip-hop, lounge music samples Latin American sounds at one turn, Middle Eastern rhythms the next. Even new orchestral music, which ...

From DAVID WIEGAND, San Francisco Chronicle,  22 Jan 2010

Related Topics: David Bowie,  Radiohead (musician),  PBS,  Seun Kuti,  Vladimir Putin

TV review: Latest 'Emma' is a subtle charmer

When "Masterpiece" served up its banquet of Jane Austen adaptations last year, one course was noticeably missing: a version of the author's "Emma," the story of a young woman whose self-involvement blinds her to the emotional needs of her friends, as ...

From DAVID WIEGAND, San Francisco Chronicle,  18 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Jane Austen,  Michael Gambon,  Kate Beckinsale,  Gwyneth Paltrow,  Romola Garai

Music review: Tyne Daly puts spotlight on song

Daly is, of course, the Emmy-winning actress best known for TV's "Cagney & Lacey" and, more recently, "Judging Amy." Before that, however, she played a doomed cop in a memorable episode of "The Streets of San Francisco." She's also the daughter of the ...

From DAVID WIEGAND, San Francisco Chronicle,  13 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Tyne Daly,  Tim Daly,  George M. Cohan,  Al Jolson,  Hoagy Carmichael

TV review: All aboard for 'Return to Cranford'

Those who muse that life in a 19th century English village must have been simple and bucolic will be forced to revise that notion a tad after spending three hours over the next two Sundays in Cranford, the title locale of "Masterpiece Classic's" ...

From DAVID WIEGAND, San Francisco Chronicle,  8 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Jonathan Pryce

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