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‘Despicable’ gets even better
By ROGER MOORE McCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE “Despicable Me 2” is a gag-filled delight from start-to-finish. It’s got more laughs in its first five minutes — from its larynx-bending voice actors, its loopy,...
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‘Ranger’ goes all dark, dismal
By ROGER MOORE McCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE Saying the new “Lone Ranger” has “tone issues” is just code for “I could have done without the bad guy tearing out somebody’s heart and taking a bite out of it.”...
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COX: Empire
Cauliflower Fritters are served at Empire cocktail lounge in downtown Napa. (Conner Jay/The Press Democrat) Whatever your preconceptions about Empire, the new restaurant and cocktail lounge in downtown...
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Author Events, July 7-13
For more events or to list author events in our calendar, visit the Press Democrat’s events listings at pressdemocrat.com. SUNDAY (JULY 7) An Evening of Poetry, 5 p.m. Poets Caroline Brumleve, Lynn...
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A World at Home
Small flags hang in the meditation garden of Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary. (Christopher Chung/ The Press Democrat) In summer, we dive into bowls of spicy gazpacho and herbaceous salads to snap our...
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‘Paganini’ ballet resurrected at Festival del Sole
Dimitri Rostoff and Alexandra Denisova in the original 1939 production of the Rachmaninoff ballet “Paganini.” (Arts Centre Melbourne) It’s a story worthy of the Travel Channel’s “Mysteries at the...
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Manolakos still amazed by her hit
Singer-actress Carrie Manolakos knows the look: “I’d show up somewhere and people would say, Oh, you’re the girl from the ‘Creep’ video.” Not, you’re the girl who left NYU before graduating to star in...
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In the Pink
When Pink Martini singer China Forbes needed emergency vocal surgery in 2011, the band turned to a fellow Portland singer by the name of Storm Large (pictured above with band). You may have seen her,...
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Weekend FUN, July 12-14
Get back in time with Huey Lewis, Back to the Future with the Russian River Sisters, and all things in between with a weekend filled with fun. Friday, July 12 Huey Lewis & The News: Robert Mondavi...
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Group offers nurturing place for writers
Local author Amanda McTigue reads from her book ‘Going to Solace’ during a reading sponsored by the Redwood Writers Group at Copperfield’s Books in Santa Rosa on Wednesday, July 10, 2013. (Conner Jay /...
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