Late-night network shows still a white men's club
Joan Rivers
By LYNN ELBER - Published: 1:08 pm

The role of female talk show hosts in late-night TV broadcast network history, all 50-plus years of it, can be summed up in two words: Joan Rivers. It takes just another two - Arsenio Hall - to do the same for minorities.

Populist film critic Roger Ebert dies
By Carla Meyer - Updated: 8:54 am
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America's best-known film critic, Roger Ebert, was an intellectual populist who bridged the gap between old-school academic criticism and the blogosphere's quick-hit movie reviews.
Kristen Stewart talks about 'On the Road' with The Bee's Carla Meyer
By Carla Meyer - Updated: 8:49 am
To meet Kristen Stewart is to want to defend her. A young-looking 22 , she's practically still a kid.
'The House I Live In' questions long drug war
By Carla Meyer - Updated: 8:49 am
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Eugene Jarecki won the 2012 Sundance Film Festival documentary Grand Jury Prize and then kept going.
Victoria Dalkey: Exciting show by Robert Ortbal at Jay Jay Gallery
By Victoria Dalkey - Updated: 9:04 am
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"Kind of Like a Sound," a bouquet of trumpetlike flowers, greets you on the first wall of Robert Ortbal's exciting show at Jay Jay. It's quirky yet beautiful, an elegant comedian made of unexpected materials.
Counter Culture: Truckee's Trokay exceeds high expectations
By Allen Pierleoni - Updated: 9:03 am
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One summer day in 2011, we stopped in Truckee on a roundabout trip to Lake Tahoe and noticed a tiny bakery-cafe called Trokay. We went inside for breakfast, but nothing was being cooked on the stovetop that day, as the new hood fan hadn't arrived. However, if we liked baked goods …
The Beer Run: Lifting a pint to Sacramento's growing beer scene
By Blair Anthony Robertson - Updated: 9:06 am
Welcome to The Beer Run, a place that brings you news, opinion and all kinds of information about the developments in the local and regional beer scene.
Bee Critic Picks: Things to do this weekend
Published: Friday, April 5 2013 - 12:00 am
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TODAY-THURSDAY - The River Cats, the hometown AAA baseball team, extend opening weekend into next week, first against the Las Vegas 51s and then against Tacoma's Rainiers.
New DVDs this week
Published: Friday, April 5 2013 - 12:00 am
"John Dies at the End" (R, 99 minutes, Magnolia Home Entertainment): This dark comedy is a mash-up of grindhouse gore, film-noir narration and a headache-inducing sci-fi premise about a drug that opens a portal to a parallel universe inhabited by evil creatures bent on human destruction.



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Victoria Dalkey: Exciting show by Robert Ortbal at Jay Jay Gallery

"Kind of Like a Sound," a bouquet of trumpetlike flowers, greets you on the first wall of Robert Ortbal's exciting show at Jay Jay. It's quirky yet beautiful, an elegant comedian made of unexpected materials.

Entertainment news
Europe Looted Art
Matisse in Norwegian museum was once Nazi loot

The family of a prominent Parisian art dealer is demanding that a Norwegian museum return an Henri Matisse painting seized by Nazis under the direction of Hermann Goering, in the latest dispute over art stolen from Jews during World War II.

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Restaurant Reviews
The Beer Run: Lifting a pint to Sacramento's growing beer scene

Welcome to The Beer Run, a place that brings you news, opinion and all kinds of information about the developments in the local and regional beer scene.

Restaurant Reviews
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Counter Culture: Truckee's Trokay exceeds high expectations

One summer day in 2011, we stopped in Truckee on a roundabout trip to Lake Tahoe and noticed a tiny bakery-cafe called Trokay. We went inside for breakfast, but nothing was being cooked on the stovetop that day, as the new hood fan hadn't arrived. However, if we liked baked goods …

Restaurant Reviews
Dining review: Try downtown's Trio to find out how good it is

Don't be fooled by the crowds (and the fact they're not here yet). Trio is still struggling to get the right message out that it serves delicious food prepared with creative flair and exotic twists.

Music
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Ukulele orchestra bring irreverent approach to Mondavi Center

When asked how the 27-year-old Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has managed to stay together through many tours and other challenges, founding member George Hinchliffe likened it to how the Rolling Stones have kept it together so many years.

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