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REPUBLICA EYE WEAR INTRODUCES SEVEN NEW SUNGLASS STYLES IN TIME FOR SPRING '08

With daylight saving officially in full effect and spring eleven days away, here are seven new sunglass style frames from República. Also, check out their first annual sale. Older frames are now $99.00 for a limited time. Lastly, word on the street is that there will be a República + Peralta Project + SOA collabo coming this summer...stay tuned.

NOW THRU 02 24 08 | TAKING OVER BY DANNY HOCH

Bay Area folks, Danny Hoch returns to The Berkeley Repertory Theatre to unveil his latest work—a one-man tour de force that captures the indelible characters of his neighborhood, where the melting pot is boiling over with ethnic and economic tensions. Danny effortlessly transforms across the boundaries of race, age and gender, masterfully depicting a city in transition with compassionate and hilarious results.

Check out the review from the San Francisco Chronicle:

Taking Over
Written & performed by Danny Hoch
Now through February 24
Berkeley Repertory Theatre :: 2025 Addison Street :: Berkeley, CA
Info: http://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/0708/2113.asp
Tickets: http://www.berkeleyrep.org/tickets/single.asp

THE INFINITE VIDEO FORMAT WAR IS COMING

Blu-Ray will dominate the industry in three years. Or maybe it will be HD DVD. The general consensus is that whoever wins doesn't really get a lasting victory, since they're both in the last physical video format ever. That sentiment has largely been the consensus of the press and leaders in the tech industry.

The end of physical formats for movie and TV shows could be called digital convergence, a happy, wonderfully singular, unified digital world. Content moves seamlessly from your multifunction portable device to your TV, between your computers, and to every monitor and audio system and random networked appliance in between. To have that happen in a stream of bits floating effortlessly on radio waves, without physical discs or specially designated boxes, would be truly wonderful.

But an end to physical video formats doesn't mean an end to format wars. In fact, once film and television content are no longer bound by physical media, we're in for the mother of all format wars.

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