Arts & Events
Arts and Entertainment Around the East Bay
Tuesday February 20, 2007
‘FLIGHT OUT OF TIME’ RECEPTION AT KALA -more-
Green Neighbors: Winter Native Flowers: Silk-Tassel and Leatherwood
By Joe Eaton
Tuesday February 20, 2007
Along with all the flowering plums, acacias, and magnolias, a few native trees and shrubs are late-winter bloomers. Most, like the manzanitas and flowering currants, are on the shrubby side. But coast or wavyleaf silk-tassel (Garrya elliptica) is a bona fide tree up to 30 feet high, showy in its own way, and amenable to planting as an ornamental. There’s a particularly handsome silk-tassel specimen on the University Avenue median strip. -more-
Arts and Entertainment Around the East Bay
Friday February 16, 2007
THE ART OF LIVING BLACK ARTISTS’ TALK -more-
The Theater: ‘Shopping for God’ at The Marsh-Berkeley
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday February 16, 2007
In Shopping for God, her solo piece now playing at The Marsh-Berkeley in the Gaia Building, Erica Lann Clark, an accomplished storyteller with a distinctive stage presence, seems at first to cover familiar territory, albeit in her own, humorously idiosyncratic, sketchy way. But once she gets down to brass tacks, what she has to say—and act out—is much more than just another autobiographical story. The shopping is over. Or has it just begun? -more-
About the House: Secondary Drains and the Very Scary Porch
By Matt Cantor
Friday February 16, 2007
I met a very nice fellow today. A composer. Funny how homeowners end up being something other than just … homeowners. Neat guy, writes music for films, TV, industrials (corporate film) and the like. He also had the composure of musician, smooth and philosophical. Good thing for all those involved in selling him this house because let me tell you, he had some pain and it would be very easy to acrimonious with this particular type. -more-
