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Arts Calendar

Friday January 12, 2007

FRIDAY, JAN. 12 -more-


Art and Entertainment Around the East Bay

Friday January 12, 2007

ARIAS ABOUT MALCOLM IN HONOR OF RON -more-


Arts: An Evening of Film and Dance at La Peña

By Justin DeFreitas
Friday January 12, 2007

Though Eve A. Ma traveled the world, she spends much of her time trying to bring that world back home to the rest of us. Ma is the entrepreneurial force behind Palomino Productions, a Berkeley-based company producing DVDs and television programs on the art of dance. -more-


Berkeley Symphony Features Olly Wilson

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday January 12, 2007

Berkeley composer and retired UC Berkeley professor Olly Wilson’s Symphony No. 3, Hold On, which sets and responds to the old African-American spiritual of that name, celebrating its sense of spiritual tenacity and persistence, will be featured as George Thomson returns to the podium of the Berkeley Symphony, 8 p.m. this Sat. at Zellerbach Auditorium, with an eclectic program including Stravinsky’s Concertino for Twelve Instruments, Sibelius’ Violin Concerto and Matthew Locke’s Restoration era theater music for The Tempest. -more-


Moving Pictures: ‘The Lubitsch Touch’ At Pacific Film Archive

By Justin DeFreitas
Friday January 12, 2007

Silent film star Mary Pickford famously described director Ernst Lubitsch as a “director of doors,” a man more at home working with the choreography of entrances and exits than with actors and emotions. This acerbic remark, uttered in the awake of an ill-fated collaboration with the director on Rosita, his first American production, has a grain of truth but should be taken with a grain of salt as well. -more-


East Bay Then and Now: Architectural Patron Phoebe Apperson Hearst Lived Here

By Daniella Thompson
Friday January 12, 2007

Fundraising for the modern university is increasingly dependent on skyboxes and suchlike mammoth public structures where the golden deal can be clinched amid resplendent surroundings. But it wasn’t always so. There used to be a time when personal magnetism was enough to accomplish the goal. -more-


Garden Variety: What to do When the Frost Hits, Before and After

By Ron Sullivan
Friday January 12, 2007

It has come to my attention that the hard freeze predicted (as I write this) for late this week is the first some of my fellow Berkeley denizens have experienced here. If it happened on time, you’re reading this in the Retrospectroscope, that scientific instrument that gives us 20-20 hindsight. Still, this might be useful. -more-


About the House: Use Luscious Lighting to Liven Livingrooms

By Matt Cantor
Friday January 12, 2007

I am something of a purist when it comes to our older housing stock. Well actually, let me revise that. What I really am is a lover of old houses and all the bits of antiquity that inhabit our cities. Buildings, signage, concrete sidewalk stamps and vintage cars. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Friday January 12, 2007

FRIDAY, JAN. 12 -more-


Arts Calendar

Tuesday January 09, 2007

TUESDAY, JAN. 9 -more-


Arts and Entertainment Around the East Bay

Tuesday January 09, 2007

‘THE FOREST WAR’ -more-


Local Jazz and Punk Promoter Dies

By Durelle Ali, Special to the Planet
Tuesday January 09, 2007

Wesley K. Robinson died on Dec. 27 at the age of 80. Wes was a key figure in the East Bay arts scene over the past 35 years for his promotion of music and theater events. Wes was renowned for focusing on the freshness and originality of the music and passion of its artists rather than the commercial appeal. -more-


The Theater: Rough & Tumble Presents ‘43 Plays for 43 Presidents’

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday January 09, 2007

The stage for 43 Plays for 43 Presidents, Rough & Tumble’s show at LaVal’s Subterranean, is dressed a little like a quiz show, with a “Quotation” sign that lights up when somebody says something that a real player in history actually, originally said—and in fact the audience gets a little of the feel of being packed into an old-fashioned TV studio for a live broadcast show, in the days when there wasn’t much difference between show genres—games and quizzes being mixed together with comic and variety acts. -more-


Excursions: It’s Time to Get Back in Touch With Nature

By Marta Yamamoto, Special to the Planet
Tuesday January 09, 2007

Picture a winter’s day 30 years ago. Even in lousy weather you couldn’t wait to get outside. Explore the neighborhood, build a fort, climb a tree, head down to the pond for crawdads; you knew the limits of your adventures but they extended beyond your door. On weekends, family outings ventured into the hills or along the coast and lasted an entire day. Hiking, wildlife viewing, building castles in the sand, being outdoors in nature, giving free reign to your imagination. -more-


Green Neighbors: The Endless Usefulness of Willows

By Ron Sullivan
Tuesday January 09, 2007

I went trolling through my photo files, looking for a good shot of a willow for this column. It took forever to find one—and as you can see, it’s not a beauty shot, but a short horrow show, a big tree split by last year’s windstorms. I found lots of other willows, but always lurking in foreground corners of something more spectacular: fall color on a big-leaf maple, or a sway of gray pines across a creekbed. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Tuesday January 09, 2007

TUESDAY, JAN. 9 -more-