Two weeks before the Egyptian uprising, San Francisco curator Renée Dreyfus was at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum on the edge of Tahrir Square, marveling once again at the treasures of King Tutankhamun.

She’d installed some of them at the M.H. de Young Museum in 1979, when the first blockbuster Tut show came to San Francisco, including a gilt statue of the boy king standing on a jaguar. Ten days ago, the piece was smashed in two by would-be looters who broke into the Egyptian Museum amid the mass protests and mayhem in Tahrir Square. They damaged 70 irreplaceable antiquities, ripping the heads off two mummies and throwing objects to the floor.

“I was horrified to hear the museum had been broken into and objects destroyed,” says Dreyfus, the curator in charge of ancient art and interpretation at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Full Post…

KXRM/Channel 21 took advantage of their huge Super Bowl audience to unveil a new look to the news set that gets rid of the virtual studio at 6:30 p.m. Construction crews worked right up to the last minute to put on the finishing touches.

“We updated the look by eliminating all the red from our news set, including that bright red anchor desk,” news anchor Joe Cole said in an e-mail.

Fox21 ran hilarious promos introducing their new theme, “Telling it Like It Is,” featuring a wacky hairstyle for Kimberly Price, Magnum P.I. look for Terry Gerbstadt and hair on Joe Cole’s normally shaved head.

Their commercials say: “You may not always be able to tell it like it is, but we can.” Click here to see one.

No new co-anchor was revealed during the game, but Sade Malloy, a new reporter, started Friday. Steve Dant, K

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Who knew Chekhov could be so sexy?

Dressed in her customary proto-goth-girl black, Liz Sklar’s depressive Masha exudes desperate sexual longing for the unavailable estate owner’s nephew, Kostya. As her mother, the estate manager’s wife, Polina, Julia Brothers is so intense in her jealous passion for the local doctor that her gaze threatens to wither a bouquet in another woman’s hand. When Tess Malis Kincaid’s stage diva Irina prostrates herself before her younger lover, the nakedness of her need is almost terrifying.

The web of frustrated passions is so thick in the new “Seagull” that opened Tuesday at Marin Theatre Company that it pretty much overwhelms the usually central story of the ill-fated, aborted love of young would-be writer Kostya (John Tufts) and wannabe great actress Nina (Christine Albright). Full Post…

ARIES (March 20-April 18): Side with your faith and not your fear. Just because people question their beliefs doesn’t mean you should question yours.

TAURUS (April 19-May 19): Somehow you go from interested bystander to spearheading a venture. Not what you expected but work with it.

GEMINI (May 20-June 19): A troublesome client offers you more work, but with higher pay. Think before answering. It may still not be worth it considering what went down before.

CANCER (June 20-July 21): You don’t think of yourself as an expert but others do. Sometimes you don’t realize the wealth of your experience until asked to mine it.

LEO (July 22-August 21): Stop playing it safe.

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