arts and entertainment reporter don sanchez reports. >> reporter: it is massive, it stands three stories weighs 15-tons. yes, 35,000 pounds of copper and brass. the sculpture is called three heads, six arms. this man was inspired by broken frments of buddhist statues that he fod in tibet. >> and gave him lots of inspiration and then he start to understand the cultural and the people' spiritual life in tit. he said the mass the sculpture has, he like to create supernatural power and bring good wish to san francisco. >> reporter: he'considered one of the most influential and provocative contemporary artists working today. the artwork was presented as part of the shanghai-san francisco sisr city 30th anniversary. >> we want to do something bold. we were looking for something that wod be impactful. we knew size would be important. but fndamentally, weant to do identify an artist that had a powerful idea. >> reporr: then transporting it was an exerci in logistics. >> getting something thi monumental in size across the ocean on timefor this event was a feat. >> reporter: because it recreates f

don sanchez, abc 7 news. >> a high school senior who is already a stand out among her peers is reachings. abc 7's money scope reporter david introduces to us a young lady launching her third start-up. >> reporter: diane's enthusiasm draws plenty of attention at the floor on this tech show. she ising about he explaining ar on-line business. >> it's very overwhelming to manage and edit all of those data from all the different social portals. it takes up a lot of time. we've aggregated them into one place. you drag and drop. >> reporter: this is her third start-up. the first was a t-shirt business. the second, a market research firm. by the way, diane is a senior in high school in cupertino. >> that's kind of the idea that you go in there and you act like every other professional. >> reporter: she manages to get in six hours of sleep daily, plus homework and cramming for advanced placement exams. where do you get your start-up capital? >> from a investor. our father. >> reporter: dad invested $100,000, but not until he asked tough questions of diane and her brother, the co-founder. they ar

arts and entertainment reporter don sanchez give us a tour of the new uptown theater. >> reporter: it'sic of 1937 art did he co- design, such few of them remain. this man bought it in 1998, hoping to bring it back to life. >> it was such a beautiful thing at one time. i want to restore it. >> reporter: it had been turned into a fourcomplex, run down, then shut down. george would have to wait. >> downtown was deteriorating. so i quit when i thought -- i thought, i'm not going to lose my shirt. so i'll kind of hold it and eventually napa will come back. >> reporter: last year he decided it was time. breaking through coats of paint and walls, they found these designs. his granddaughter directed the pricey restoration. >> there were a lot of original details that i had to work with. that was helpful. >> reporter: in a word, it is stunning, recapturing a past glory. >> it's a beautiful job. it's beenngly pain-stakingly refurbished and the detail, the ceiling. >> reporter: it took 12 years to open this place as the city of napa went through some tough economic times. now the uptown and other

in palo alto, don sanchez, "abc 7 news." >> 32nd annual san francisco marathon is still going but lanese already reopened on the golden gate bridge. first wave of runners started at 5:30 this morning outside the ferry building. runners ran up the embarcadero and across the golden gate bridge. organizers say more than 24,000 registered runners are expected to take part this year. you can expect street closures, traffic delays and detours all along the marathon route. embarcadero is set to reopen at 1:45 this afternoon. marathon ends in front of the ferry building and all runners must finish by 12:45 or what? >> you're done. cool conditions for running out there. temperatures in the 50s all morning long with the clouds and fog rolling in. partly cloudy by the afternoon. look for a high of 62 in san francisco. we'll see 70s in the east bay. 80s further inland then we cool things off. >> that is it. thank you for joining us. our next newscast starts at 5:00 tonight. stay connected 24/7 at www.abc7.com. i'm carolyn tyler, along with jeff martinez, have a great sunday everyone. bye-bye.

don sanchez, you know what we're talking about. garlic festival in what's hot. >> they are serious and funny in the world premiere of a new comedy from theater works at lucie stern theater in palo alto. >> san francisco sim tony finale. they celebrate the mexican bicentennial at dolores park. >> passionate story telling, jewish film festival begins at five theaters around the bay for two weeks. >> america's premiere summertime event, cooking demos and food and 4500 pounds of garlic. nothing to sniff at. >> julian is a new jazz star. at the mend dough seen oh music festival. music on the edge of the world. >> berkeley teenage group presenting a new drama based on a new story. >> it features live music in six clubs. flee dance lessons geary and market on saturday night. >> quality family entertainment with theater for kids, chevron family theater at theater for the arts. i'm don sanchez. >> 6:20, ringing of your phone may create a ringing in your ears. growing connection between cell phones and hearing issues. the cost of a troubled

don sanchez reports on the machine and the mission. >> it looks like it's moving just sitting there andakes off. silently. its high performance all electric car based on a chassis of the fastest production car in the world. it's been modified by a group of engineering graduates. >> we wanted to build a car with the longest range possible. pan american highway is the longest road in the world. >> 16,000 miles, from alaska to argentina, a three-month trip for the team of six. take a look. two electric motors. the radiator is fan powered. top speed 120 miles an hour. there is potential for even faster performance. >> good thing, it's like sport car. >> it comes in handy, with three inches of ground clearance they have to avoid road problems. >> and for them it's part of a big green program. >> it's right thing to do and i think people get it much more today than other days. >> i think what we hope people will do, they will buy a car they will consider test driving an electric one. >> sure had is just a prototype but the technology under the hood could wind up in a vehicle that is parked in

don sanchez has what's hot. >> it's serious and funny new comedy auctioning the ainsleys from theater works in palo alto. >> san francisco symphony, they celebrate mexican bicentenni at dolores park. >> story telli, images of spirit. jewish film festival begins in five theaters around e bay for two weeks. >> america's premiere summertime event, gilroy garlic festival has food and 4500 pounds of garlic. new jazz star catch him saturday afternoon in mendocino music festival muse identical the edge of the world. >> a berkeley teenage theater group presenting a true story at julia morgan theater. ♪ >> salsa festil features live music in six clubs and dancg in the streets. free dance lessons saturday night. >> quality family entertainment and theater for kids. chevron faly theater all day saturday in the leer center for the arts. >> you know what. >> not yet. all of those activities will be under clear skies r the weekend with inland temperatures and readings in the 70s. >> pretty comfortable for the gilroy garlic

don sanchez has what's hot. ♪ it comes to the bay area, piaf, love conquers all at the our rica theaterrs. warren's profession at bruns amphitheater. >> pete escovedo sound sensation with a free concert at plaza de caesar chavez downtown. >> the little engine sbin that could is the popular children's book classic. comes to life on stage. children's fairy land in oakland. contra costa civic theater celebrates 50 years, a reunion cast party is saturday afternoon. carly ozard in bewitched bothered and bipolar at the razz room. >> mopt ri strawberry festival in watsonville. >> elvis on tour, tonight only, blu-ray of the king's performance will follow. >> looks like fun. >> from all of us, thank you for joining us. "who wants to be a millionaire" is next. have a great day. giants take on marlins. see you later.

don sanchez has what's hot. ♪ >> it's plenty hot. crucible present heat, a fire cabaret.the crucible in oakland. ♪ >> pete escovedo celrates 75th birthday at yosli's in oakland. >> menlo park connoisseur market place features world class cars and chef demo >> it's disneyland's anniversary. this weeke the family museum has a special display. >> they add faces and they didn't need voices, 15th annual san francisco silent film festival at castro theater. >> reliving radio, live at kre is benefit for the historical anselmo art and wine festival in downtn san anselmo >> justin roberts sos are about childhood, celebrate the release of his new cd saturday at the swedish ameran hall. >> co-narn o'brien in a tribute at herbst theater. >> from all of us here, thank you so much for joing us. "who wants to be a millionaire" is next.

don sanchez has what's hot. ♪ it cometo the bay area, piaf, love conquers all at the our rica theater mrs. warren's profession at bruns amphithter. >> pete escovedo sound sensation with a free concert at plaza de caesar chavez downtown. >> the little engine sbin that could is the popular children's book classic. comes to life on stage. children's fairy land in oakland. contra costa civic theater celebrates 50 years, a reunion cast pty is saturday afternoon. carly ozard in bewitched bothered and bipolar at the razz room. >> mopt ri strawberry festival in watsonville. >> elvis on tour, tonight only, blu-ray of the kins performance will follow. >> looks like fun. >> from all of us, thank you for joining us. "who wts to be a millionaire" is next. have a great day. giants takeon marlins. ♪ hey, at&t u-verse tv? yeah, it's our new tv service. every y thousands of customers acro the nation are switching to at&t u-verse. [ female announcer ] visit a store today. hurry and take advantage of our summesale on u-verse tv. just $29 a month for six months. plus for a limited time, get a 30-day mone

don sanchez has what's hot. ♪ >> it's plenty hot. crucible presents heat, a fire cabaret.t the crucible in oakland. ♪ >> pete escovedo celebrates 75th birthday at yosli's in oakland. >> menlo park connoisseurs market place features world class cars and chef demos. >> it's disneyland's anniversary. this weekend the family museum has a special display. >> they add faces and they didn't need voices, 15th annual san francisco silent film festival at castro theater. >> reliving radio, live at kre is benefit for the historical radio society. >> san anselmo art and wine festival in downtown san anselmo >> justin roberts songs are about childhood, celebrate the release of his new cd saturday at the swedish american hall. >> co-narn o'brien in a tribute at herbst theater. >> from all of us here, thank you so much for joining us. "who wants to be a millionaire" is next. we'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning. bye-bye everybody.@Ñ@Ñ honey?... yes. honey, i can't find my internet cord. oh, i'll borrow hailey's. you're downloading movies. fast! from here? where is her cord? we

don sanchez has what's hot. >> it's serious and funny new comedy auctioning the ainsleys from theaterlo alto. >> san francisco symphony, they celebrate mexican bicentennial at dolores park. >> story telling, images of spirit. jewish film festival begins in five theaters around the bay for two weeks. >> america's premiere summertime event, gilroy garlic festival has food and 4500 pounds of garlic. new jazz star catch him saturday afternoon in mendocino music festival. muse identical the edge of the world. >> a berkeley teenage theater group presenting a true story at julia morgan theater. ♪ >> salsa festival features live music in six clubs and dancing in the streets. free dance lessons saturday night. >> quality family entertainment and theater for kids. chevron family theater all day saturday in the lesher center for the arts. >> you know what. >> not yet. all of those activities will be under clear skies for the weekend with inland temperatures and readings in the 70s. >> pretty comfortable for the gilroy garlic festival. >> have fun.

don sanchez has a preview. >> images are unmistakable. art tri-of pixar, the studio that redefined animation. 600 works of collaboration in every frame. >> one artist will make something and another will look at it and they are reviewing their work and changing to make sure it fits the story. >> seeing how they do it makes it easier to understand the process to take away the mystery. at pixar, values has been on strong characters, story and a convincing world. >> before anybody touches a computer at pixar, all the characters, world of pixar is done by hand, from paintings to skult to your. >> she convinced pixar executives that the work should come here after a world tour. >> it was a combination of not only these things being great works of art but telling really important stories. >> wall-e, this is the logical place for the exhibition, pixar is a few miles up the road. >> having it in the backyard meaning the artists will be able to interact with museum goers. the wide screen is you a inspiring images that takes you inside the animatio

product designed to treat pain without making users high z zac efron tries to get serious, but don sanchezhy you should think twice about seeing this wanna-be tear jerker, coming up at 6:00. >> singer kanye west dropped into twitter's san francisco offices told employee what's he likes and doesn't like. all kanye west impersonators out there. west has 271,000 followers. but he follow nose one. the video was uploaded to you report. powered by you tube f you have video you want to share with us, up load it or e mail it to us. u report at kgo-tv.com. what we've learned here is that he loves twitter. the president... taking a pass. >> he'll take a pass. >> world news is coming up next.

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don sanchez hits the road. >> reporter: y're tooling along clayt road and maybe in a hurry. thspeed limit is 40 miles an hour, but you are pushing it. then look, a police car. wow. got to slow down. you pass, you notice there is no one in there. the police chief calls this decoy an effective traffic tool. >> high visibility. police car has an effect on calming the trafficnd slowing it down. >> repter: the chief got the idea from wha the chp did in the '60s near highway 17. they would place car size billboard replas along the road. it slowed things down, a psychological thing. >> people have a tendency to go too fast, so when we see a police car we slow down to within the sed limit. >> i think it's a great idea for people to slow dow on the street. >> reporter: are you sometimes speeng? >> not really. i he two kids. so i havto be really careful. >> basically a plot to its plan. a metho to the madness. have a police presence, be out there and be seen and people abide by the rules. >> reporter: to keep it interesting, they rotate the vehicle ang six different locations. there i

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and there is don sanchez. >> james franco as franco. starring with julia roberts in "eat, pray, love". >> i love you you mom. >> that is betsy franko his real life mom. >> we'd be saying things that we'd never say in real live. >> -- life. >> big deal, but it felt strange, she says. they still live in the house where james and his brothers grew up. writing more than 80 childrens books. >> it's math problems with words instead of numbers. >> encouraging young people to use their create activity. she writes and she acts in improv classes, two sons are actors, one is an artist. >> tom illustrated "metamorphosis". skbraims dave read the audio book. >> home has been artistic environment. >> we encouraged it. there are materials around they can work with. >> james inspire bid watching her write books uk see a model of someone who is making a living doing something creative. >> he's gooding for a phd at yale. >> he's just always been curious, very focused. interested in everything. >> and she says they inspired her. >> my sons are creative mak

don sanchez, "abc 7 news." >> and we have link to the website don mentioned at www.abc7.com under seeup next, yet another pit bull attack as a child in the east bay sending a 7-year-old girl to the hospital. and solano firefighters battle two grass fires, how a neighbor just a woman from the flames. [ banker ] when ashley's violin teacher told her parents she was gifted, they were thrilled. she's a natural vibrato. oh. we started saving for this music camp in vermont. so i told them about some of the wells fargo online savings tools like my savings plan, which helps them set up and monitor a savings goal. until we found out that maybe her teacher uses certain terms a little bit loosely. rebecca is clearly very gifted. [ banker ] we decided to roll that money into ashley's college account. turns out there's seven gifted kids in ashley's class of nine. [ male announcer ] wells fargo. with you when it's time to save. ♪

corporate spy thriller "inception" it just happens to be the subject of tonight's review from abc 7's don sanchezi specialize in a specific type of security. >> i know how to search your mind and find secrets. i know trick autos corporate espionage with a twist. leonardo dicaprio is an exception at changing thoughts and destiny. spy stuff with jason borne twists to it. it's inception 101. >> you create the world of the dree. you bring the subject into that dream. they fill witness their subconscious. >> got that? so your dream can change the world around you. and this is only a dream. pretty bizarre. and then, he did the black night, reviving bathman. and marianne cotillard is in and out of the picture. no question, a stunning look at a chal yempblging film. you may get lost in a dream. and what happens if you wake up? >> it's overwhelming in excess of two and a half hours. and there is confusing and disturbing it becomes. what is real? there is a lot of psycho babble in the film. and there is no denying vash walls and i'll give it less than two quarters of a bucket. abc 7 news, we'll see you on

don sanchez found him, where else, in dance class. ♪ >> dance is his destiny.something magical happens when mario hears the music. 19-year-old knew a week after he began lessons that this would be his life. >> i just started to discover music and the way you can move, you can transcend that a role. >> he performed for the ballet and always working, learning, and pushing. arn his instructor says he can make pedestrian moves interesting. >> he has a genius to his thinking, the way of approaching it. >> something he was born with. so he dance is all consuming. >> i love dance can, in my bedroom right before i go to sleep, any time. even in the park. >> he applied to the bolshoi, it has been a world standard and he was accepted for fall classes. >> it was a state of shock. how did this happen. >> bolshoi, it's demanding discipline to learn dance and russian. >> they have had rept reputation as some of the best dancers in the world. all he needs is money. >> $20,000 for tuition and expenses. to raise money he has a website, his mom has sent out hundreds of letters t

here is don sanchez. >> high definition images, action and pulsating sound.mer showcase, games that will be in stores in summer months. >> it's downloadable arcade games for the first time. >> this is the world's biggest game producer, but they can't rest because more people are getting involved which means more competition in a business that has mushroomed. >> the whole industry, the whole gendre has exploded. it iced to be something that a younger boy would do in his basement on a console. now it's older people. >> with more adults playing, it's become more common. then is the best selling of all time. 50% of its users are girls and women. >> you can be a celebrity or you become a vampire. >> sure there is an edition of football and they brought out patrick willis. >> they have more authentic look to them. >> we want to give you those tools, using the joystick to do moves and create moves like kobe or lebron would. >> even martial arts, it's more realistic, that is one on one. >> we're in the entertainment business. >> these people are expected to create am

don sanchez found him, where else, in dance class. ♪ >> dance is destiny, an extension of being, somethingears music. 19-year-old from alameda knew a week after he began lessons that it would his life. >> i discovered music and the way you can move. >> he performed for the oakland ballet and this is typical day, always working, pushing. instructor says mario can even make a pedestrian move interesting. >> he has this genius, to his thinking. >> so mario, dance is all consuming. >> in my bedroom before i go to sleep, even in the park. >> he applied to the prestigious bolshoi ballet. for more than 230 years it has set the standard and he was accepted. >> it was a shock. how did this happen? >> bolshoi, demanding, discipline, they learn dance and russian. all mario needs is ability to get there is money. >> $20,000 for tuition and expenses. to raise money he has website. his mom has sent out hundreds of letters to friends, nothing can stop his dream. >> it's something that i want so much. there is no room for me not to do this. >> to help him get to the bolshoi we have a link to his website a

here is don sanchez with more. >> high definition images and pulsating sounds realism defines video gamesonic arts summer showcase. games that will be in store in a few months. >> to downloadable arcade games for the very first time. >> e. sasmtd the biggest game producer but they can't rest because more people are getting involved which means more competition in a business that has mushroomed. >> the whole industry it has exploded in the last ten years. it used to be something that a younger boy would do in his basement on a p.c. or a console. now it's older people. >> with more adults playing it's become more common and then there is this one. best selling of all time. 50% are girls and women 12-24 years old. >> you can be a celebrity. you are can become a vampire. >> trading camp today brought out 49er linebacker patrick willis. >> there is more realistic look about them. technology just keeps getting better. >> we want to gist tools using the joystick to do mos and create moves like kobe or lebron would. >> and martial arts got even more realistic. >> we're in the entertainment busine

and don sanchez caught up with him tuning up they're rehearsing now doing sound checks. a lot of the roots go back here to oakland. and he feels here. used to live nearby. do you know what? he's having a party. you're invited. pete and his family at yoshi's. daughter sons celebrating his 75s -- 75th birthday. >> playing with family is the best thing. i got a lot of birthday cards and e mails from people. made some friends traveling all of these years. you know? >> and he grew up in west oakland and felt inspired and learned from them. and is played in clubs he owned. >> they were just learning this joy of everything. taking it in like a sponge. >> no surprise they've joined him. >> this is a fact that the kids are carrying on tradition is mazing. >> and he's a big advocate for music in schools saying his biggest thrill has been playing the white house for a hispanic heritageage concert, meeting and performing for the first family. >> i said we just played for the president of the united states. isn't that something? she let out a scream, ah! we're so excited. >> and you