184 days ago - “The Wire,” which debuted in 2002, concludes its run on HBO with a finale airing at 9 p.m. Sunday. Andre Royo, who plays Bubbles, a street-smart, homeless addict, talks about the show.
197 days ago - The acclaimed jazz pianist, a former Berkeley resident, has released a new album, “jazz, JAZZ, jazz.” He appears Sunday at the Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society in Half Moon Bay and Monday at Yoshi’s San Francisco.
209 days ago - The actor’s latest movie, which opened Friday, is “Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins.” He plays a self-help TV talk show host in Hollywood who isn’t shown star treatment when he goes back to Georgia for his parents’ 50th anniversary.
291 days ago - LOS ANGELES — Not many songs can get Chris Brown into the holiday season quite like the late Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas.” So when he was asked to perform it (as well as Otis Redding’s R&B classic “Try a Little Tenderness”) in the new romantic comedy “This Christmas,” which opens Wednesday, Brown was absolutely “thrilled.”
333 days ago - If Peter Walker — front man for the group Eulogies — had his way, he’d love to live in San Francisco. He grew up in The City, and attended nearby Menlo High School. But now that he and bandmates Tim Hutton (bass) and Chris Reynolds (drums) have released their self-titled, debut album on the Los Angeles-based independent Dangerbird Records label — which Walker co-founded — the group finds itself in Tinseltown more than the Bay Area.
375 days ago - Although it may seem as though the actress and stand-up comedian has gone Hollywood since appearing on TV’s “Talk Soup,” “Friends” and “24”; and in this week’s movies “Balls of Fury” and “Death Sentence,” she says her heart will always be in San Francisco.
382 days ago - Tackling the role of a father and sports reporter in “Resurrecting the Champ” not only gave Josh Hartnett insight about parenting, he also has a newfound appreciation for journalists.
404 days ago - Except for the movie “Good Will Hunting,” Academy Award-winner Matt Damon says there hasn’t been a role that’s had a bigger impact on his life and career than that of Jason Bourne in the thrilling “Bourne” espionage franchise.
421 days ago - Perhaps outside Washington, D.C., few people are familiar with the story of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. In the mid-1960s, the former ex-con was an outspoken civil rights activist, comedian and revered disc jockey on D.C.’s WOL-AM radio station, where he worked until his death in 1984.