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Calendar
Tuesday, Sept. 24
Sustainable Business
Alliance of the East Bay
5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Panoramic Room of the Gaia Building
Reception and talk by Mal Warwick of Mal Warwick Associates, entitled: “You Don’t Have to Choose: How One Company Does Good While Doing Well”
282-5151
members $8, nonmembers $12
Vitamins, Minerals, and Nutritional
Supplements: Possible Interactions with Medications
1 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center
1901 Hearst St.
Discussed by Alic Meyers, RN
981-5190
Wednesday, Sept. 25
Planning Commission workshop
7 to 9:30 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center, corner of Hearst and Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
Interactive roundtable discussion about issues, problems, and opportunities relating to density and land use in Berkeley.
981-7481
Berkeley Gray Panthers
1:30 p.m.
North Berkeley Senior Center
1901 Hearst St.
Berkeley Gray Panthers general meeting.
548-9696
Saturday, Sept. 28
Free Legal Workshop:
“Crossroads: Health and the Law.”
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
514 58th St. at Telegraph Avenue
Navigate your way through legal issues when living with cancer or any serious illness. Panel presentation on employment, insurance and public benefits and one-on-one sessions with attorneys. Please, pre-register.
601-4040, Ext. 102 for information
or Ext. 103 to register
Free
Garage Sale/ Car Wash
Belize/ Berkeley Scouts
10 to 2 p.m.
Epworth UMC, 1953 Hopkins St.
International exchange fundraising effort for scouts.
525-6058
A Forum on the Arts with the Berkeley Mayoral Candidates
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Aurora Theater, 2081 Addison St.
558-1381
Free
Tuesday, Sept. 24
Zydego Flames
7:30 p.m.
Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo Ave.
$8 door. 12 and under free.
Wednesday, Sept. 25
DP & Rhythm Riders
9:30 p.m.
Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo Ave.
$15 door. 12 and under free.
Karen Casey & the Niall Valley Trio
8 p.m.
Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St.
548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com
$15.50 in advance. $16.50 at door
Thursday, Sept. 26
Kriby Grips, Michael Zapruder, Joe Bernson
9:30 p.m. (21 and over)
The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave.
841-1424
$5
Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill
8 p.m.
Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St.
548-1761 or www.freightandsalvage.com
$19.50 in advance. $20.50 at door
Friday, Sept. 27
The Cracked Normans,
Paradigm & Soul Americana
9:30 p.m. (21 and over)
The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave.
841-1424
$5
Eric Bogle
8 p.m.
Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St.
548-1761 or www.freightandsalvage.com
$16.50 in advance. $17.50 at door.
Fair Weather, Liars
Academy and Open Hand
8 p.m.
924 Gilman St.
525-9926
$5
Reggae Angels with Earl Zero
and Jah Light Music
9:30 p.m.
Ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo Ave.
$15 door. 12 and under free.
Saturday, Sept. 28
Barry & Alic Oliver
8 p.m.
Freight & Salvage, 1111 Addison St.
548-1761 www.freightandsalvage.com
$16.50 in advance. $17.50 at door.
From Monument to Masses,
Victory at Sea and Yesterday’s Kids
8 p.m.
924 Gilman St.
525-9926
$5
"Balancing Acts"
Through Oct. 10
Gallery 555, 555 12th St.,
Oakland City Center
Oakland's 'Third Thursday' art night features Ann Weber's works made of cardboard.
http://www.oaklandcitycenter.com.
Free.
“Hunger: What will you do about it?”
Through Oct. 30, Mon.-Fri.,
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Civic Center Building
2180 Milvia St., 5th floor
Featuring 40 photographs
by Berkeley artist David Bacon.
834-3663, Ext. 338, uchanse@secondharvest.org
Richard Misrach, Berkeley Work
Though Oct. 13
UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way
On view in Gallery 2, presents two photographic series by this internationally recognized Berkeley-based artist.
642-0808, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
$7. $5 BAM/PFA members.
$4 UC Berkeley students.
“Recent Acquisitions”
Oct. 13 through Dec. 14
Thurs., Fri., and Sat., 1 to 4 p.m.
Berkeley Historical Society, Veterans Memorial Building, 1931 Center St.
848-0181
Free.
Misch Kohn - Celebrating Sixty Years of Printmaking
Through Oct. 16. Tues.-Fri., Noon to 5:30 p.m.; Sat., noon to 4:30 p.m.
Kala Arts Institute, 1060 Heinz Ave.
549-2977, kala@kala.org
Nancy Salz
Through Oct. 23, Tues.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sat 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Barbara Anderson Gallery, 2243 5th St.
848-3822
Timoteo Ikoshy Montoya
Through Nov. 1
Reception Sept. 20, 6 to 8 p.m.
Gathering Tribes Gallery
1573 Solano Ave.
Acrylic/air brush paintings
by this Native American artist.
528-9038
Threads: Five artists who
use stitching to convey ideas
Oct. 6 through Dec. 15, Wed.-Sun., noon to 5 p.m.
Berkeley Art Center
Live Oak Park, 1275 Walnut St.
Information: www.berkeleyartcenter.org, 644-6893
Free.
A Thousand and One Arabian Nights
Through Sept. 28, Fri.-Sun. 8 p.m.; Sun. 4 p.m.
Forest Meadows Outdoor Amphitheater, Grand Avenue at the Dominican University, San Raphael
Marin Shakespeare Company’s
presents this classic story with
original Arabic music.
415-499-4488 for tickets
$12 for youth. $20 for seniors. $22 general.
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Through Oct. 12
Thurs. through Sat. 8 p.m.
LaVal’s Subterranean Theatre
1834 Euclid Ave.
234-6046
$10.
The House of Blue Leaves
Through Oct. 27
Berkeley Rep's Roda Theater
2015 Addison St.
647-2917 or 888-4BRTTIX
$10-$54.
The Shape of Things
Through Oct. 20
Aurora Theatre Company
2081 Addison St.
Play by writer/director Neil LaBute's spins a morality tale of a young art student, his art major girlfriend, and the Pygmalion-like changes that bring into question how far one should go for love.
843-4822, www.auroratheater.org for reservations
$26-$35.
Ceramics - Opening Reception
Through Nov. 17
3 to 5 p.m.
A New Leaf Gallery, 1286 Gilman St.
525-7621
Free.
Tuesday, Sept 24
“Wild Splendors of California”
7:30 p.m.
Easy Going Travel Shop & Bookstore
1385 Shattuck Ave. at Rose
Lalo Fiorelli, photographer and author, will give a multimedia presentation and talk.
843-3533
Free.
Wednesday, Sept 25
Poetry Slam with Host Charles Ellik
9:30 p.m. (21 and older)
Featured poet: Daphne Gottlieb
The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave.
841-2082
$7.
“Healing Our Hearts
for the Sake of the World”
7:30 p.m
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way
A reading by Sylvia Boorstein. Proceeds support
The East Bay Dharma Center.
595-0408
$5 to $10
Thursday, Sept 26
As ad AbuKahil
7 p.m.
Revolution Books, 2425 Channing Way
Author reads and signs his new book “Bin Laden, Islam and America’s New War on Terrorism”
848-1196
Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath,” and Labor Issues of Depression-Era California
7:30 p.m.
Easing Going Travel Shop and Bookstore, 1385 Shattuck Ave.
843-3533
Free.