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ARIES (March 20-April 18): Colorful opinions put you at the center of yet another controversy. Thank heavens you were born with a thick skin so you’ll weather the ensuing firestorm. TAURUS (April 19-May 19): You knew a good thing couldn’t last, but it’s no...

Sid Garrison's work in colored pencil in Limn

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San Franciscan Sid Garrison displays impressive staying power in his fourth show of drawings at Limn Gallery. Garrison works in colored pencil in a manner at once abstract, improvisational and subtly responsive to pressures of the wider culture. His medium...

Eminem sued over '06 tussle

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A man has sued Eminem, claiming the rapper punched him two years ago while they were in the bathroom of a Detroit strip club. The Detroit News reports Miad Jarbou of Royal Oak filed the lawsuit Thursday in Oakland County Circuit Court seeking more than $...

Webcasts focus on military families' lives

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In a sunny courtyard in Culver City, Kim Roy was laughing at the role reversal. For the 15 months that her husband, Army Capt. Justin Roy, was serving in Afghanistan, Kim Roy was the parent-in-chief, juggling chores and taking care of their two boys in Yelm,...

'Dundee' star investigated for of tax evasion

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"Crocodile Dundee" star Paul Hogan challenged Australian tax authorities Friday to track him down in the United States after a newspaper reported that he was under investigation for tax evasion. The 68-year-old actor has repeatedly denied that he dodged...

Sign Hill a significant site, not a target

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Editor - Don't get me wrong: Peter Hartlaub is one of the funniest writers to have graced the pages of The Chronicle in recent years. That's why I take umbrage with his dig at South San Francisco's Sign Hill ("City slogans exit ahead," June 30). I don't think...

If Goya didn't paint 'Colossus,' who did?

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For years Spain's famed Prado Museum had its suspicions about one of its most prized Goyas. Now the museum says it is certain the painting is not by the 18th century master. The Prado's announcement last week about the "Colossus," a large oil painting...

Honorary little citizens already

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They'll always have Nice. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's soon-to-be-born twins will always be considered honorary citizens of Nice, regardless of whether they opt to obtain French citizenship, the mayor of Nice said Friday. "That is for the citizens of...

France returns looted Italian pottery

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Italy's Culture Ministry says France has handed over 50 pieces of pottery dating back as far as the fourth century B.C. that were looted from southern Italy. The earthenware includes Greek-styled vases, wine cups and plates. They were seized in 2000 by...

Painter Fernand Léger - the granddaddy of Pop?

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The "modest and little" Statue of Liberty, a gift from his country, did not impress Fernand Léger as he watched from the deck of a liner sailing into the inner harbor of New York Bay in 1931. But the artist was immediately fascinated by the sight of the...

Fiction review: 'Jessica Z.'

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Jessica Z. By Shawn Klomparens Delta; 340 pages; $12 paperback Terrorism takes a back seat to boy woes in Shawn Klomparens' first novel, "Jessica Z." Sure, suicide bombers just blew up four buses in San Francisco, home of the titular 28-year-old copywriter...

Art review: Chihuly at the de Young

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Admirers of empty virtuosity may thrill to "Chihuly at the de Young," the de Young Museum's celebration of contemporary glass master Dale Chihuly. But so will those among the art public building a dossier against director John Buchanan's leadership of the...

Traveling Jewish Theatre overcoming funding woes

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The show will go on. Probably. Traveling Jewish Theatre has surmounted the first of three financial hurdles it had set for itself this summer - raising $100,000 from its supporters by June 30 - and appears to be on track to meet the rest: another $50,000 in...