Fall TV Preview: Shake Yo' Money Maker, 'Cause Hellcats Premieres Tonight!

Do a little backflip with us, will ya? Tonight marks the the first premiere of the 2010-11 TV season...the CW's Hellcats! It's got Superman (Tom Welling) as a producer, lots of skin and...

Under Fire: Mark Hewitt’s ‘Big-Assed’ Pots

I must have chosen the hottest week of the summer to fly down to North Carolina to watch Mark Hewitt , one of the best known ceramic artists now at work in America, fire his big groundhog kiln. It was 98 degrees in the shade when I pulled into Johnny Burke Road in the red-clay hamlet of Pittsboro, a half hour south of Chapel Hill. Hewitt, a tall and athletic Englishman of craggy good looks, and ...

Museums-East Bay Through September 19

AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND LIBRARY AT OAKLAND The Oakland Public Library's museum is designed to discover, preserve, interpret and share the cultural and historical experiences of African Americans in California and the West. In addition, a three-panel mural is on permanent display.

Short route to success for moviemakers

LOS ANGELES - Some years back, investment banker Carter Pilcher stumbled across some really good short movies made by a few talented friends, and the money-making and artistic sides of his brain suddenly clicked.The idea was to...

A dance of death at the Venice film festival

Natalie Portman is superb as a troubled ballet dancer, Robert Rodriguez gets trashy, and a Jerusalem-set drama provides this year's turkey at the Venice film festival The Venice film festival began with a feverish combination of burning heat and rainy thunderstorms that swept the Lido, and its opening film was appropriately hotwired with psychodrama, melodrama and ionospherically over-the-top ...

Owner of Wrightsville Beach Italian food store says sausage making, butchering in his blood

Martino Pica was born in Southern Italy, and the owner and operator of Martino’s Fine Italian Foods and Catering is the genuine article when it comes to Italian meats and foods.