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Arts Calendar

Friday March 23, 2007

FRIDAY, MARCH 23 -more-


Arts and Entertainment Around the East Bay

Friday March 23, 2007

EAST BAY SYMPHONY AT THE PARAMOUNT -more-


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. -more-


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. -more-


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!” -more-


About the House: The Last 10 Percent Rule of Remodeling

By Matt Cantor
Friday March 23, 2007

Economics is a wonderful and fascinating field. When I think about the things I’d like to study as I get older, it keeps getting pushed higher up on the list. The fun thing about it is that it’s at work everywhere around us. As long as money or goods are flowing through a system it’s there and from my very prejudiced vantage point it appears to me no more prevalent or relevant than in the world of construction. -more-


Quake Tip of the Week

By Larry Guillot
Friday March 23, 2007

Russian Roulette? -more-


Berkeley This Week

Friday March 23, 2007

FRIDAY, MARCH 23 -more-


Arts Calendar

Tuesday March 20, 2007

TUESDAY, MARCH 20 -more-


Arts and Entertainment Around the East Bay

Tuesday March 20, 2007

‘CITY OF WALLS, CITY OF PEOPLE’ -more-


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. -more-


Wild Neighbors: Thinking About Breakfast: The Mind of the Jay Revisited

By Joe Eaton
Tuesday March 20, 2007

Nicola Clayton and her scrub-jays have been at it again. Clayton, as you may recall, is the Cambridge experimental psychologist who keeps making startling claims about the cognitive abilities of the western scrub-jay, a bird she met while at UC Davis. (It’s the most widespread of three closely related species of crestless blue-and-gray jays; the others, the Florida scrub-jay and island scrub-jay, have limited ranges). -more-


Berkeley This Week

Tuesday March 20, 2007

TUESDAY, MARCH 20 -more-