Monthly Archives: September 2007

Waitress

September 24, 2007
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Adrienne Shelly’s weirdly wonderful Waitress is now playing at the Balboa. At first, I thought this might be another misguided foray into Southern stereotypes (as a native of Alabama, movies in which non-Southerners attempt Southern accents always put me on guard), but within the first five minutes of the film I was fully invested in the ride. Keri Russell plays a woman who is impregnated by her maniacally controlling husband. She sees her pregnancy as a trap, and throughout the movie she eschews the warm fuzzy feelings that expectant mothers are supposed to have. There’s a delightfully off-kilter play-like...

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Cole Valley Street Fair

September 23, 2007
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I took a turn signing books at the Booksmith booth at the Cole Valley Street Fair today. Thanks to everyone who came by and said hello! My friend Ellen Sussman, editor of Bad Girls, was also there. You can see her on The Today Show on Tuesday. The fair’s still going on. Some great stuff for sale, including jewelry and glasswork by local artisans. I particularly liked the bags by Janine Marie and the beautiful necklaces by Blue Wild Indigo. My son was really into the balloon guy. The full author line-up is here. You might also want to...

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Prop D & Your Local Library

September 21, 2007
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If all those props make your head swim, here’s one worth remembering: Vote Yes on Proposition D Proposition D asks voters to renew the Library Preservation Fund, which funds general library operations and is set to expire in 2008-2009. Passed overwhelmingly in 1994, the Preservation Fund has enabled the library to increase operating hours by 53% and has expanded the budget for books and materials by almost 400%… If Proposition D is not passed, the Preservation fund will expire and thus key funding for the libraries will dissolve. Help keep ensure that the libraries continue to be fully funded,...

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The Night of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance

September 19, 2007
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Miguel Matias, the owner of a restaurant at the resort where Madeleine McCann went missing on May 3, has described a happy family playing and dancing together just a few hours before the disappearance. The article appears in The Telegraph: He said she enjoyed an early evening meal with her father, mother Kate and younger twin brother and sister, two-year-old’s Sean and Amelie… “It was a perfectly normal, relaxed, happy, family scene,” said Mr Matias. “The little girl was even dancing on the esplanade with her dad to the sound of music that was playing.”

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Interviews with Gerry and Kate McCann

September 18, 2007
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Here are a few video clips of interviews with Gerry and Kate McCann, parents of missing four-year-old Madeleine. From the beginning, I have felt that a terrible thing happened to the McCann family. Surely, few horrors can begin to compare to that of having one’s child disappear with no trace. And it seems almost impossible that the couple could have hidden Madeleine’s body amid the intense and constant media and police scrutiny that has followed them since Madeleine’s disappearance from their vacation apartment in Portugal on May 3. To do so would have required that not only the McCanns,...

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