Arts And Entertainment
Arts: ‘The Glass Menagerie’ Plays at the Berkeley Rep
By Ken Bullock Special to the Planet
Friday April 14, 2006
A match struck in darkness on the “veranda” of a tenement fire escape to light a cigarette is the first illuminating ray in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, at Berkeley Rep, as Williams’ young “double,” would-be poet Tom Wingfield (Erik Lochtefeld) slowly drawls out, in Delta Faulknerian, the introduction to his nostalgic narration of a “memory play.”
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Moving Pictures: Seeking Redemption in the Words of the Bard
By Justin DeFreitas
Friday April 14, 2006
It can be tempting to dismiss violent criminals, to simply lock them up and write them off. The details of their crimes justify it for us, allowing us to make them into monsters, to dehumanize and judge them.
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Appraisal Extravaganza: Our Own ‘Antiques Roadshow’
By Marta Yamamoto Special to the Planet
Friday April 14, 2006
Is there really a secret behind the crystal perfume bottle passed down from your grandmother? What about the French landscape you bought at a hotel liquidation sale in Hawaii for $5? Could it be valuable? Join the Appraisal Extravaganza and these mysteries will be solved.
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Arts: New Paintings at Turn of the Century
By Robert McDonald Special to the Planet
Friday April 14, 2006
Six major paintings and 10 small landscapes on paper, all in mixed media by Micaela Gardner, are on view through April 30 at Turn of the Century Fine Arts.
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Berkeley Police Had Hands Full with Quake Refugees
By Richard Schwartz Special to the Planet
Tuesday April 11, 2006
The following is an excerpt from Richard Schartz’s Earthquake Exodus, 1906: Berkeley Responds to the San Francisco Refugees. This is the third in a series of four installments from the book. The Daily Planet will run the last excerpt on April 18, the centennial of the 1906 quake.
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SF Troupe Mounts Original Production at Shotgun Lab
By Ken Bulock Special to the Planet
Tuesday April 11, 2006
“He was her man/But he done her wrong.” That’s about all for motivation in the lyrics of that old chestnut of popular song, “Frankie and Johnny.”
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