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Arts Calendar

Friday June 02, 2006

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World Music Festival This Weekend Along Telegraph

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday June 02, 2006

The Berkeley World Music Weekend is this weekend, Sat. and Sun., from noon-9 p.m., on Telegraph Avenue from Bancroft Way to Parker St., with over two dozen performances, all free. -more-


Looking Inside Barbara Cushman’s World of Collage

By Robert McDonald, Special to the Planet
Friday June 02, 2006

Barbara Cushman is an artist to the very tips of her fingers. The form of her artistry has varied widely and wildly, ranging from cuisine and salad dressing to pottery, jewelry and collage. The key to her successes, however, has always been inventiveness. Having envisioned what she wants to do, she finds a way to achieve it. “Experience has always been my teacher,” she says. As much could be said of her life. -more-


About the House: On the Case of House Mold

By Matt Cantor
Friday June 02, 2006

It never ceases to amaze me what madness the media and the legal community have created out of a little thing like mold. -more-


Garden Variety: The Place to Look for Unusual Garden Tools

By Ron Sullivan
Friday June 02, 2006

One of my favorite places to look for—or just look at—esoteric, obscure, clever, or kinky garden tools is Hida Japanese Tools on San Pablo, across from REI and a few doors down from Ashkenaz. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Friday June 02, 2006

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Arts Calendar

Tuesday May 30, 2006

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Moving Pictures: Kieslowski’s ‘Decalogue’ at PFA

By Justin DeFreitas
Tuesday May 30, 2006

Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski made The Decalogue, a series of 10 one-hour films based on the Ten Commandments, for Polish television in 1988. Since that time it has rarely been screened commercially, other than in a handful of film festivals. -more-


Books: On the Trail of Hitler’s Nuremberg Laws

By Marty Schiffenbauer
Tuesday May 30, 2006

In June of 1945, General George S. Patton, Jr. returned from Germany to his native Southern California for a triumphant homecoming. Patton’s welcome included a parade and a movie star-studded celebration at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Never known to shy away from the limelight, he exulted in playing the war hero to the cheering crowds. -more-


Theater: Weisman, Founder of The Marsh, Stages Own Show

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday May 30, 2006

Somewhere between writing and producing, Stephanie Weisman and her performance piece, Aphrodisia, ended up in The Marsh. -more-


Hooray for Hollywood Junipers

By Ron Sullivan
Tuesday May 30, 2006

Hollywood juniper—Juniperus chinensis “torulosa” or J. chinensis “Kai-zuka”—is one of those trees you know even if you’ve never heard of it. It’s all over the place, one of those Sunset magazine California place markers, the twisty green thing waving its arms outside half the apartment buildings on the West Coast. It’s a city feature like pigeons, and like pigeons you hardly ever see a dead one. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Tuesday May 30, 2006

TUESDAY, MAY 30 -more-