Arts And Entertainment
Arts and Entertainment Around the East Bay
Friday March 23, 2007
EAST BAY SYMPHONY AT THE PARAMOUNT
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Moving Pictures: ‘Kubrick’ Showcases Malkovich Mystique
By Justin DeFreitas
Friday March 23, 2007
After more than 25 years in the movie business, John Malkovich has carved out a unique niche for himself, a cinematic netherworld equal parts post-modernism and cult of personality.
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Pegasus Welcomes ‘Growing Local Value’ Author
By Zelda Bronstein, Special to the Planet
Friday March 23, 2007
On Tuesday, March 27, at 7 p.m., Laury Hammel, co-founder of Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), will read from the inspiring new book he co-authored with Gun Denhart, Growing Local Value: How to Build Business Partnerships That Strenghten Your Community at Pegasus Books in downtown Berkeley.
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Altarena Playhouse Stages Edward Albee’s ‘Virginia Woolf’
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday March 23, 2007
It all begins “after hours” with the simplest of games: “Anyway, Bette Davis turns around, puts down her groceries and says, ‘What a dump!’ I want to know the name of the picture!” demands Martha, and husband George teases her in a patronizing deadpan. But when he announces a nightcap, Martha rasps, “Are you kidding? We got guests coming over!”
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Arts and Entertainment Around the East Bay
Tuesday March 20, 2007
‘CITY OF WALLS, CITY OF PEOPLE’
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Berkeley Art Museum Spotlights Bruce Nauman
By Peter Selz, Special to the Planet
Tuesday March 20, 2007
If we think of Picasso and Duchamp as the two opposing poles in 20th century art, the Berkeley campus at present displays significant work by their successors. Fernando Botero’s series of paintings and drawings, documenting the torture at Abu Ghraib, has been perceived as a contemporary Guernica.
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