Arts And Entertainment
Fourth Street Hosts Annual Jazz Festival
By Ira Steingroot, Special to the Planet
Tuesday May 15, 2007
Photograph: Wayne Wallace will be appearing at the Jazz on Fourth Street Festival this weekend.
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The Theater: Eastenders Present ‘Fear and Misery of the Third Reich’
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday May 15, 2007
Before the opening scene of the Eastenders’ production of Bertolt Brecht’s Fear and Misery of the Third Reich—which opens Thursday, May 17, at the Jewish Community Center for a four-show run, after four days last week at San Francisco’s Traveling Jewish Theatre—there are projections of National Socialist posters of happy comrades, of mother and child, the cheerful false face of Nazi propaganda for the German public and the world.
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‘The Hip Hop Project: Rap Goes New Age
By Gar Smith, Special to the Planet
Friday May 11, 2007
You may not be a fan of the rap industry, but if you’re looking for a movie with more heart and soul than a dozen Dream Girls, check out The Hip Hop Project, which opens today (Friday). And there’s something else that sets this film apart: all the profits from ticket sales are being donated to youth art programs.
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Young, Salas and Lockett: Poetry at City College
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday May 11, 2007
“He can sing you jazz, the songs,” said Richard Silberg of Poetry Flash, introducing Al Young, California’s Poet Laureate, a Berkeley resident, as one of three readers, with Floyd Salas, also of Berkeley, and Reginald Lockett of Oakland, Tuesday night, in a round robin: “They’ll riff back and forth ... in sweet conclave!”
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