The Drive Presents The First Inaugural Obama-HaHa featuring Dan St. Paul, Will Durst, Johnny Steele and Joe Klocek at the Last Day Saloon on Friday January 16th. Four of the best Bay Area comics come together in Santa Rosa for a great night of comedy. Click here to buy tickets for the event or listen to the Drive to win your way in!
Check out Will Durst and Friends at the Hopmonk Tavern this Monday at 8:00. For more info, visit Hopmonk.com
America's favorite political satirist Will Durst brings his motley crew to Sebastopol for the first time as part of their Sixteenth Annual Big Fat tour. The show includes stand-up comedy, improvisation, and loosely written sketches encompassing major news events of 2008. Joining Will are Bay Area favorites Johnny Steele, Jim Short, Steven Kravitz, Arthur Gaus, Debi Durst and Michael Bossier.
Check out The Drive this afternoon starting at 3:00 as comedian Will Durst rides shotgun with Steve as co-host! He will also be giving away signed copies of his latest book.
Gavin Newsom called-in live to The Drive before his event at the Santa Rosa Veteran's Building. The interview is now streaming at The Drive Youtube Channel.
Listen in this afternoon to The Drive this afternoon at 3:30 as San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom calls-in before his town hall meeting tonight at the Veteran's Building in Santa Rosa at 6:30!
-Check out the new additions at The Drive Youtube Channel! Steve's interview with Comedian Lewis Black as well as The Fondettes live in-studio performance have been added.
-Listen in this afternoon for details on The Drive Christmas Special
-Thanks to Drive listeners, we are closing in our goal to purchase the Official Drive Water Buffalo from Heifer International for a poor village some where in the world. Click here for details.
Here are this weeks reviews from Drive "movie guy" Chris Bollini:
The new film, Punisher: War Zone may be another comic book adaption, but it’s definitely not about a superhero. The story follows Frank Castle (Ray Stevenson), an ex-marine whose family is murdered by the mafia; he becomes a vigilante driven by revenge.
The film begins with a bang…literally: a massive shootout gets the story rolling. The film has promise that it might give audiences a deeper look at a grieving, tormented man, so consumed with revenge that he has to struggle to keep from being overtaken by it. Unfortunately, the promise isn’t fully realized; the film only touches upon a few character revelations; it seems to dispense with them quickly in favor of more gunfights and explosions. That's not a horrible thing, but a better balance between the characters and the carnage would have been nice. Having said all that that, there are high levels of violence: heads explode, limbs are blown off, and chair legs are jammed through skulls. At least, the scenes seem to be a fresh approach to the standard action scenes in other films like Transporter 3. Further more, the tone of the film seems to flip fop between a dark and violent to comic and campy. Several scenes play out to be comical. Although that may have been the filmmaker’s intention, the two different tones didn’t seem to reconcile very well with each other. At least not for me. This film is made for a certain audience; it’s made for the action starved masses looking for a little break for the current string of Oscar films. These fans will be pleased. There are a few good one liners and some grandiose scenes of violence to keep you involved. Didn’t love it. Didn’t hate it.
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Here is Chris Bollini's interview with Ray Stevenson
Base on a true story, Cadillac Records chronicles the rise and evolution of a Chess records, a record label based in 1950’s Chicago. The film follows many story lines but centers mostly around businessman, Leonard Chess (Adrian Broody) and musician, Muddy Waters (Jeffery Wright). These two put the new music company on the map. Along the way, Chess’s business sense and intuition lead him to foster the careers of music greats: Etta James (Beyonce Knowles). Little Walter (Columbus Short) and Chuck Berry (Mos Def).
Learning about how all these different lives intersect and about this little slice of music history was fascinating. At the same time, the film seemed to be jammed packed with so many chronological events on a timeline; it seemed to compromise the impact of some of some of the emotional moments of the characters. Overall, it was engaging even when it felt slow at times. Of note, is a solid performance from Jeffery Wright. (You may recognize him as Felix Lighter from Quantum of Solace, the new James bond film.)
Personally, I found very interesting, but there was something missing.
The Drive is teaming with Heifer International to donate the Official Drive Water Buffalo to a poor village somewhere in the world. Click Here to get involved!
Update: We are just over half way to our goal! All donors will be invited to a Drive party at a later date.
Here are the upcoming events for The Drive's Restaurant Contributor Clark Wolf, catch him throughout Sonoma County and the Bay Area for the release of his latest book!
December 7th at the Sonoma Valley Women's Club from 2 - 4pm.
574 First Street East, Sonoma, California. 707 938-8313
December 8th at the River Reader at 6:30 pm
16355 Main St Guerneville, CA 95446 (707) 869-2240
December 12th at Copperfield's Books at 6:30 pm
104 Matheson St Healdsburg, CA 707 433 9270 http://www.copperfields.net/healdsburg
December 13th at Omnivore Books from 2 - 3:30 pm
3885a Cesar Chavez Street San Francisco, CA 94131 415.282.4712 http://www.omnivorebooks.com/events.html
December 14th at White Barn from 1 - 4pm
5101 Sonoma, Hwy, Glen Ellen, CA 95442 PH: 707.996.6643
January 17th at Book Passage
1 Ferry Building #42 San Francisco, CA 94111 415 835 1020
Click here for the The Drive's Guide to Cyber Monday. PC World Editor Mark Sullivan joined us Monday afternoon and gave us the scoop on some of the best deals on the web for your holiday shopping.
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