| | | Jogging your memory A few months ago, I wrote about how I was preparing for my very first half-marathon. As you can imagine, the column prompted my fans to send in literally hundreds of e-mails asking all sorts of running-related questions. That's why, just 10 days until race day, I've decided to devote another column to those questions. Read More | Military duty sparks local band's reunion show Local band Skintight definitely knew how to put on a quality rock and roll show when they were together. Read More | Herzog documentary finds charm at bottom of world No penguins, vowed Werner Herzog. No fluffy waddling munchkins. No anthropomorphizing, and no sentimental slop in his documentary, "Encounters at the End of the World." The National Science Foundation and the Discovery Channel may have paid the famously dour filmmaker to venture to McMurdo Station, a community of 1,100 somewhat eccentric scientists and researchers in Antarctica, but no one was going to tell him what to film at the bottom of the world when he got there. Read More | Local art center looking for new exhibitions Redux Contemporary Art Center is currently accepting applications for the 2009-10 exhibition schedule. The center welcomes all media and artists, and is especially interested in work that can be made (at least in part) on site. Each artist invited to exhibit will receive a minimum of one week for their installation process, followed by a 45 day exhibition. Read More | Little Tokyo It was thanks to a loyal reader that I first learned about Little Tokyo restaurant. She dropped me a line and told me this was the place that the Japanese community went to for a taste of home. Read More | | | | |