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Arts Calendar

Tuesday January 30, 2007

TUESDAY, JAN. 30 -more-


Arts and Entertainment Around the East Bay

Tuesday January 30, 2007

NEW TAPESTRY TO BE UNVEILED -more-


The Theater: ‘The Strangers We Know’ at the Julia Morgan

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday January 30, 2007

A rather involved tale of the appearance (and disappearance) of a boarder in a Parisian flat, a young woman from Marseille, studying acting ... but is she from Marseille? Or studying acting? Certainly she proves to be “enceinte”—and the effect of the ephemeral tenant on the family, narrated wistfully by Madame, especially after seeing her again, years later, for an instant in a commercial on TV, while the background of the 13ieme Arrondisement constantly changes as Asian immigrants move in ... -more-


Books: Literary Con Artists

By Dorothy Bryant, Special to the Planet
Tuesday January 30, 2007

TV news clips of a contrite James Frey being castigated by Oprah for adding fictional sins to his (until then) best-selling memoir “A Million Little Pieces,” reminded me of G. B. Shaw’s hilarious character “Rummy” in Major Barbara. (1905) Rummy is a regular at Salvation Army rallies, where he confesses long lists of imaginary sins, making good money in contributions for himself and for the charity. Probably our appetite for vicarious sin and redemption goes back even further than a century. -more-


Wild Neighbors: Bug Bombs: The Stink Beetle Meets the Killer Mouse

By Joe Eaton, Special to the Planet
Tuesday January 30, 2007

First, my apologies for the last column’s headline, which I suspect was a spell check-inflicted error. “Scooter” is one of the surf scoter’s many vernacular names, along with “skunkhead coot,” “blossom bill,” “tar-bucket,” and several that involve distasteful ethnic references. But officially, it’s “scoter.” -more-


Berkeley This Week

Tuesday January 30, 2007

TUESDAY, JAN. 30 -more-


Arts Calendar

Friday January 26, 2007

FRIDAY, JAN. 26 -more-


Arts and Entertainment Around the East Bay

Friday January 26, 2007

IRAQI LIFE IN A TIME OF WAR -more-


The Theater: ‘Pillowman’ is a Knockout at the Rep

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday January 26, 2007

An anxious detainee faces two cops in traditional configuration, tough and charming, for questioning in a bureaucratically, old-fashioned high-ceiling office—where? Everything seems timeless, and foreboding. But of what? The police seem sure, as usual; the suspect puzzled. -more-


The Theater: Parks’ ‘365’ Cycle Comes to the Rep’s Theater School

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday January 26, 2007

Pulitzer and MacArthur prizewinner Suzan-Lori Parks’ ongoing national dramatic marathon, 365 Days/365 Plays, for which Parks wrote a play a day for a year, is in its 11th week in the Bay Area theater round-robin, to be staged Sunday by 23 acting students of the Berkeley Rep’s theater school. -more-


Moving Pictures: ‘Talk Cinema’ Gives Cinephiles a Place to Meet

By Justin DeFreitas
Saturday May 31, 2008 - 03:36:00 PM

Every few weeks a group of about 60 film lovers gather at 9:30 on a Sunday morning in the lobby of the Albany Twin on Solano Avenue, to sip hot beverages while waiting in anticipation for the day’s mystery movie. It’s a small room and it fills up quickly with people and chatter and the aromas of coffee and tea and bagels. Enthusiastic as the crowd may be, they’re in no hurry to enter the theater; it’s a Sunday morning, after all, and much too early to move at anything but a leisurely pace. So by the time 10 a.m. rolls around they almost have to be cajoled and herded into the theater. -more-


East Bay Then and Now: Sierra Club Pioneers Lived Near Pre-Stadium Strawberry Canyon

By Daniella Thompson
Friday January 26, 2007

The Save the Memorial Oak Grove tree sit-in is about to complete its second month. Among the campaign’s environmental supporters, which include the Native Plant Society and the Oak Foundation, the Sierra Club is the most powerful if not the most active. -more-


About the House: Singing the Praises of Linoleum

By Matt Cantor
Friday January 26, 2007

I am in love with old houses. When I get a chance to spend a few hours or a day in an older home that has been left unchanged over the decades, I’m really in something of a trance much of the time. -more-


Garden Variety: An Ecological Calamity Below Albany Hill

By Ron Sullivan
Friday January 26, 2007

We gardeners learn (or try to) that our work is worth doing despite disheartening setbacks. It’s the sort of nasty life lesson that somehow doesn’t stop hurting just as badly the tenth or hundredth time as it did the first. Still, we go on. -more-


Quake Tip of the Week

By Larry Guillot
Friday January 26, 2007

It Won’t Be So Bad -more-


Berkeley This Week

Friday January 26, 2007

FRIDAY, JAN. 26 -more-