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  • Kate Middleton voted top fashion icon

    The Duchess of Cambridge has been voted the 'fashion icon', while late Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn has emerged as 'icon of all times' in an online poll. StyleinView.co.uk, a one-stop shop for fashion, has conducted a poll of 2,000 people to find out who they considered the fashion icons of today and of all time. The Duchess of Cambridge, whose maiden name is Kate Middleton, unsurprisingly ...

  • George Clooney in touch with ex-girlfriend

    Hollywood actor George Clooney might be dating former wrestler Stacey Keibler, but his ex-girlfriend Lisa Snowdown says he stays in touch with her as well. Clooney dated Snowdown on and off from 2000 to 2005 and Snowdown says they are good friends now, reports contactmusic.com. "I haven't seen him for a while, but we text one another. He is a good guy. There are some people in your life that ...

  • Sacramento gains 200 new jobs in mortgage industry

    Sacramento is getting 200 new jobs in the mortgage industry, sopping up some of the talent left over from the housing crash.PennyMac Loan Services of Moorpark, in Ventura County, has already hired 40 workers and will ramp up to a total of 200 jobs eventually, the company said Tuesday. Its decision to come to the region was announced by SACTO, the Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade ...

  • California health care exchange cleared to hire in Rancho Cordova

    Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation to allow the hiring of hundreds of call-center employees in Rancho Cordova and elsewhere to assist in selling medical insurance through California's new health care exchange."Most definitely, it's going to allow us to move forward with hiring," said Dana Howard, spokesman for Covered California, the health exchange. "This was the ...

  • Solar firm opens center in Sacramento

    Petaluma-based SPG Solar, a provider of utility and commercial solar power products and services, has opened its Technology and Training Center in Sacramento's Depot Park.The center will be used primarily to train construction crews, engineers and designers to assemble and install SPG Solar's SunSeeker single-axis tracker.That system "follows the sun" throughout the course of ...

Movie Review

Missing [DVD]

Missing [DVD]

Costa-Gavrass Missing has gone from being speculative to definitive. It is a rare based-on-true-events political thriller whose conjectures about then-mysterious cover-ups and governmental deception have since been vindicated. At the time Missing was released, it was a center of ... ...

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  • Twins at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club

    , represents a pooling of talents by two Susans -- Susan Tibbles and Susan Bush. These are the women who invited the artists, and judged the awards, respectively. The show includes lots of assemblage work but is friendly to painting, as well, and the result is so wide-ranging and inclusive it could be understood as a kind of twin to the Santa Barbara art scene. Even artists who were not on the ...

  • Trio of homers not enough to extend streak

    SD@SF: Guzman's two-run shot puts Padres up late SAN FRANCISCO -- Disappointed but not disenchanted, Chase Headley sat in front of his locker Tuesday night and talked about the one that got away. The game: The Giants scoring twice in the eighth inning for a 5-4 victory over the Padres before a crowd of 41,884 at AT&T Park. The streak: Seven consecutive victories, vanquished when ...

  • Giants rally in eighth after Cains sharp start

    SD@SF: Perez gets it done with his arm and his bat SAN FRANCISCO -- Juan Perez's two-out, tiebreaking RBI single capped a two-run uprising in the eighth inning that erased a one-run deficit and lifted the Giants to a 5-4 victory over the San Diego Padres, whose seven-game winning streak dissolved. As if this were the NBA, the lead changed hands three times in a two-inning span. Gregor ...

  • Helicopter saves teen hikers stranded on Calif. cliff

    Two stranded teenage boys were plucked off a peak at an elevation of more than 8,000 feet by a California Highway Patrol helicopter amid gusty winds. The boys had been climbing along a steep ridge before becoming stuck on a tiny plateau in the Sierra Nevada. Austin Deschler, 16, said he and a 17-year-old friend had climbed to the spot to take a picture Saturday without realizing there was a ...

  • Former USC professor arrested in Mexico

    LOS ANGELES -; A former University of Southern California professor indicted on child sexual abuse charges has been arrested in Mexico, a day after being added to the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted ...

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