entertainment

People Magazine staff writer Oliver Jones will be at the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis tonight (April 4) for a reading of his essay "The Last Time I Had Zinfandel," part of the book "The Time of My Life: Writers on the Heartbreak, Hormones and Debauc...

Maybe it's not so much of a drag getting old. The Rolling Stones have announced new dates for its "50 and Counting" tour - celebrating the band's 50th anniversary - and they include stops at Oakland's Oracle Arena on May 5 and San Jose's HP Pavili...

Bogey and Bergman will always have Paris, and film buffs will always have "Casablanca." Round up the usual suspects, get the tub of popcorn and settle into a screening Wednesday of the 1942 Academy Award winner at selected Sacramento-area theaters....

Singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips appears tonight at the Miner's Foundry in Nevada City. If you don't know the native of Stockton from his successful Grant-Lee Buffalo, you might know him as the troubadour on the "Gilmore Girls." In his new albu...

The kendama craze in Sacramento continues with back-to-back events set for this weekend. For those not keeping score at home - or don't spend much time with young people - the kendama is a traditional ball-and-cup toy from Japan that's become all the...

Sacramento's Tower Theatre is rolling out the red carpet Thursday night (March 28) for a special screening of Tyler Perry's new movie "Temptation," which stars Cordova High School and UC Berkeley graduate Robbie Jones, who will be in attendance. In...

Bows & Arrows tonight taps into the Bay Area's "New Song Movement" with a three acts. On the billing is Grex (pictured), which synthesizes indie and blues rock, modern jazz and contemporary structuralist composition, and features Karl A.D. Evangelis...

Friday night at Sacramento's Colonial Theatre, songs will be sung, organs will be extracted (on screen), and a cult-horror film director and star will interact with fans. Director Darren Lynn Bousman and actor/writer/performer Terrance Zdunic...

Spring arrives today with a new spin on gardening at the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show at the San Mateo Event Center. Centerpiece for the mammoth show - the third largest flower show in the nation - is the world's largest succulent globe. Thi...

Some stage adaptations stray far from their source material while others offer faithful adaptations. Foothill Intermediate School's production of "The Wizard of Oz" is a faithful adaptation — of the 1939 film starring Judy Garland, not the L. Frank...