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Twilight returns
Where would Hollywood be without that old standby, the vampire-werewolf-schoolgirl love triangle? As every Stephenie Meyer fan knows, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” is the one where studly vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) dumps his human girlfriend, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart)...
By David Germain FULL STORY
Pattinson, Stewart and Lautner talk ‘Twilight’
LOS ANGELES — The “Twilight” series may have changed the lives of fans worldwide, but perhaps no one has been more affected by its success than the three stars of the film: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. All became overnight sensations when they were intro...
By Sandy Cohen FULL STORY
Hunks part of movie’s heartthrob history
LOS ANGELES — Fifteen-year-old Chloe Bates is in love. A 10th-grader at an all-girls Catholic school, she lights up when she talks about her handsome 17-year-old honey. Chloe doesn’t know too many boys, so she still gets a nervous, buzzy feeling whenever she thinks about HIM. Her fr...
By Sandy Cohen FULL STORY
Book Beat
“War Dances” is Sherman Alexie’s first collection of new fiction since winning the National Book Award for “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.” For readers with high expectations, this book may be an incomplete experience. The thin compilation of short sto...
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Museum gotta see ‘um
Less is more. Minimalism, stripping art down to its most fundamental features, is strongly identified with American visual arts in the late 1960s and early 1970s and with the artists Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt. The recent acquisition by San Francisco’s de Young Museum of Judd’s prints &l...
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Artist Jeanne-Claude dies
NEW YORK — Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation “The Gates” and other large scale “wrapping” projects around the globe with her husband Christo, has died. She was 74. Jeanne-Claude died Wednesday night at a New York hospital from com...
By Ula Ilnytzky FULL STORY
Winfrey to announce Friday show will end in 2011
CHICAGO — “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” an iconic broadcast that grew over two decades into a daytime television powerhouse and the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, Winfrey’s production company said Thursday...
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Unfriend: To remove someone as a friend (on a social networking site)
Intexticated: Distracted while texting and driving
Tramp stamp: A tattoo on the lower back, usually on a woman
Funemployed: People taking advantage of newly unemployed status to have fun
Sexting: Sending of sexually explicit messages and pictures by cellphone
 
 
  
High wind advisories in effect for bridges
High wind advisories are in effect for Bay Area bridges, including the Golden Gate Bridge, San Franc..
UC Berkeley students protest student fee hike
BERKELEY — University of California Berkeley students protesting a 32 percent increase in student fe..
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
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