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Arts News Roundup: April 13, 2011

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From SFGate:
Phish, Arcade Fire, Muse top Outside Lands lineup
The fourth annual Outside Lands festival, which takes place every August in Golden Gate Park, has unleashed this year’s lineup. In addition to Muse, Arcade Fire, and Phish, concert-goers can expect performances by Erykah Badu, Girl Talk, Beirut, Best Coast, OK Go, MGMT, and the Roots, just to name a few. Start getting over your fear of peeing in front of drunk strangers in the woods.

From SFIFF:

SF International Film Fest Awards
The San Francisco International Film Festival plans to honor Zoe Saldana, most widely known as the blue chick from Avatar, at the Midnight Awards on Saturday, April 23, 2011. There’s no mention of Saldana’s work in Britney Spears’ unintentionally comedic film, Crossroads, on the SFIFF website. I can’t imagine why. The Film Society also plans to present the 2011 Founder’s Directing Award to Oliver Stone, who has just enough room for it next to his three Oscars.

From SFGate:
The Fine Art of Baseball: Giants-tinged show
Can’t get enough of Giants fever? Then check out the new show at George Krevsky Gallery, which is currently exhibiting 73 art pieces on baseball, with a few special nods to the home champs, from Tim Lincecum’s luscious locks and Buster Posey’s baby face to Brian Wilson’s world-famous fearsome beard.

From Reuters:
“American Idiot” movie lands at Universal
“American Idiot,” the Broadway musical based on the Green Day album, is moving to the big screen. Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black is in talks to write the screenplay and, randomly enough, Tom Hanks will serve as producer alongside the three members of the band.

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From the Huffington Post:
‘Cloud Atlas’: Tom Hanks To Star In New Book-To-Film
Speaking of Tom Hanks, it’s also been recently announced that, in addition to starring in the movie based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close, he plans to also star in the movie adaptation of David Mitchell’s 2004 novel Cloud Atlas. Since both of these writers have appeared on our weekly reading series, The Writers’ Block, I think this is Hanks’ special way of letting us know that he’s a fan. Listen to David Mitchell and Jonathan Safran Foer read from their work.

From The Bay Citizen:
Iconic Castro Bookstore Going Out of Business

The Castro’s historic A Different Light Bookstore is closing mainly because you only buy ebooks now or because the last book you read was The Great Gatsby in high school. For shame.

From The Bay Citizen:
Print in Peril? Not for Lit Mags
Despite the doom and gloom in the publishing world, literary journals, such as the San Francisco-based ZYZZYVA, are still popular. Hurrah for literacy!

From The New York Times:
That Noisy Woodpecker Had an Animated Secret
Woody the Woodpecker was pretty annoying and a bit deranged, but was apparently also a platform for modern art. Animator Shamus Culhane, who worked on the cartoon in the 1940s, has been found to have hidden experimental modern art throughout Woody’s rampages.

From The New York Times:
Stolen King Tut Statue Returned to Cairo Museum
A priceless statue of the boy pharoah that was stolen during the Cairo protests in January has been recovered! Praise Osiris!

From The New York Times:
Crist Apologizes for Misuse of Talking Heads Song
Politicians have a habit of illegally using songs for their campaigns (McCain’s campaign got away with using Heart’s “Barracuda” to personify the then-unknown Sarah Palin in 2008). Charlie Crist, the orange-hued former governor of Florida, tried to do the same with the Talking Heads’ “Road to Nowhere” when he was running for Senate, but, alas, David Byrne wasn’t having it. He sued Crist for a million dollars, won, and insisted on Crist apologizing on YouTube. Consider him spanked.

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