DOWNLOADING GOES ON IN FACE OF FILTERS; MUSIC LOVERS FIND IT EASY TO GET AROUND TECHNOLOGY MEANT TO BLOCK ACCESS TO COPYRIGHTED SONGS ON NAPSTER
WHEN ROSE BIE of Oakland logged onto Napster Monday, she found it business as usual. She downloaded “Je T’aime” by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, “Spirit in the Sky” by Norman Greenbaum and the Emotions’ “The Best of My Love.” She wasn’t alone. A day after Napster enacted a filter…
IMAX shudders at approach of ‘Haunted Castle’
”Haunted Castle” comes soon to an IMAX theater near you, whether IMAX likes it or not. When the Canadian-based company started expanding into commercial multiplexes after two New York investors took over in 1994, IMAX had grand hopes of going beyond the educational and wildlife tradition. It touted possible projects…
The censorship issue is raised in a dispute with IMAX
“Haunted Castle” comes soon to an IMAtheater near you, whether IMAlikes it or not. When the Canadian-based company started expanding into commercial multiplexes after two New York investors took over in 1994, IMAhad grand hopes of going beyond the educational and wildlife tradition. It touted possible projects like a 3-D…
MOVIE MAGIC SURVIVES TECHNICAL EXPLANATIONS
LIGHTS, CAMERA, SCIENCE * What: “Behind the Screen: Making Motion Pictures and Television” * Where: Exploratorium, Palace of Fine Arts, 3601 Lyons St., San Francisco * When: Through May 13. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays- Sundays, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesdays * How much: $9 general; $7 university students, ages…
IMAX IS SPOOKED; SKELETAL DECAPITATIONS NOT EXACTLY THE FAMILY FARE IT WAS PUSHING FOR
“Haunted Castle” comes this Friday to an IMAX theater near you whether IMAX likes it or not. When the Canadian-based company started expanding into commercial multiplexes after two New York investors took over in 1994, IMAX had grand hopes of going beyond the educational and wildlife tradition. It touted possible…
ORTHOPEDICS REVISITED AS ART IN SHOW; EMOTIONS AND CHALLENGES RELATED TO MUSCULOSKELETAL CONDITIONS ARE THE BONES OF SAN FRANCISCO EXHIBIT
Romantics fancy the mad artist, endowed with tortured genius and anguished visions. The idea of the orthopedic artist, though, is a more jarring notion. “Orthopedic” conjures up images of misalignment and cumbersome braces. Yet while the term defines an array of musculoskeletal conditions arthritis, osteoporosis, scoliosis, spina bifida, cerebral palsy,…
A DEMOGRAPHIC IS STRICKEN BY CUPID’S BOW AND ARROWS
I AM SIFTING through the crimson ashes of unsold Valentine’s Day cards and See’s chocolate boxes, sticky from melted rejects. As usual, I’ve missed the Saint’s Day, although not without some deliberation. Over the years and the boyfriends, I’ve learned to dodge the cloying fusillade of chocolate and flower ads….
PEOPLE
Pneumonia puts Cash in hospital once again Pneumonia has once again put singer Johnny Cash in the hospital. The 68-year-old was listed in serious but stable condition Monday morning at Baptist Hospital. Spokeswoman Donna Mason said he was admitted Sunday morning. Cash was treated for pneumonia during a two-week hospital…
SMOOTH MOVES; ADAPTED TAI CHI PROGRAM OFFERS OPTION TO ARTHRITIS SUFFERERS
Arthritis might keep you from doing deep knee bends or lobbing a ball, but you can still push a mountain. Pushing mountain, waving hands in a cloud and playing lutes are all movements of a style called Twelve-Movement Tai Chi for Arthritis. At the Pleasant Hill Adult Education Center, about…