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Arts Calendar

Friday June 15, 2007

FRIDAY, JUNE 15 -more-


Arts and Entertainment Around the East Bay

Friday June 15, 2007

TEA ’N’ CRISP -more-


Moving Pictures: A New Take on Classic Film Techniques

By Justin DeFreitas
Friday June 15, 2007

Guy Maddin’s latest film is another avant garde piece, a pseudo-silent film that employs striking imagery, dubbed sound effects, intertitles and spoken narration in the creation of a unique and fascinating experience. Brand Upon the Brain! is a strange film that seems to exist in no particular era or idiom. It is both timeless and out of time, a film and a story that seemingly could have occurred anytime and anyplace, yet in no particular time or place that ever existed. -more-


New Opera Portrays Life and Times of Black Panthers

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday June 15, 2007

Oakland Opera Theater will present two staged scenes from operas in progress by Mary Watkins—Dark River—and Clark Suprynowicz—The Panthers—this weekend, Friday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at The Oakland Metro Operahouse, 201 Broadway, near Jack London Square. -more-


Ed Reed Sings Love Songs at Anna’s Jazz Island

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday June 15, 2007

Ed Reed, the remarkable jazz singer who launched his first CD at Anna’s Jazz Island just a few months back, returns to the downtown club Saturday night at 8 and 10, with a stellar band, to display the warmth, range and interpretive style of his voice, making his album title, Ed Reed Sings Love Songs, a natural. -more-


East Bay Then and Now: Sea Captains Found an Ideal Home in Berkeley

By Daniella Thompson
Friday June 15, 2007

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third part in an ongoing series on Berkeley captains’ houses and the families that inhabited them. -more-


Garden Variety: Turning Up a New Leaf

By Ron Sullivan
Friday June 15, 2007

Just on impulse and because I spotted a parking space, I dropped into Green Jeans Garden Supply in Mill Valley the other day. I was looking for something else entirely, but there was a four-inch seedling in the Edibles rack that I didn’t recognize. The label called it “agretti” and I didn’t recognize that either. “Italian specialty green—eat raw or sautéed with garlic and olive oil.” -more-


About the House: Deconstructing Grandma’s Cookstove

By Matt Cantor
Friday June 15, 2007

The kitchens of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s had terrific old stoves. They were simple, heavy, and used lots more gas because they lacked insulation. They had built-in lamps, clocks and spring timers, but other than that they were technologically very simple. Nothing fancy. That means that, if you are lucky enough to own one, they’re repairable, and if you are of a mind to, they can be disassembled, cleaned and repaired without a lot of technical skill. The pilots for both oven and top burner have a small screw that can be adjusted to elevate or reduce the flame, but many ovens did not have pilots (except for the one that ran during operation). They needed to be lit with a match. -more-


Quake Tip of the Week

By Larry Guillot
Friday June 15, 2007

Don’t Be Frozen By Fear! -more-


Berkeley This Week

Friday June 15, 2007

FRIDAY, JUNE 15 -more-


Arts Calendar

Tuesday June 12, 2007

TUESDAY, JUNE 12 -more-


The Theater: TheatreFIRST Stages ‘365’ Play

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday June 12, 2007

TheatreFIRST, Oakland’s only resident theater company—and now bereft of their latest home in Old Oakland, will perform Week 31 of Suzan-Lori Parks’ year-long, nationwide 365 Days/Plays project 8 p.m. this Friday night, June 15, at the Temescal Arts Center at 48th and Telegraph in Oakland. -more-


Bolcom and Morris Return for SF Show

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday June 12, 2007

Composer-pianist William Bolcom and mezzo-soprano Joan Morris will make a rare Bay Area appearance 8 p.m. this Thursday (June 14) to present a “Red, White and Blue” Flag Day celebratory version of their popular recitals of American song of the past two centuries, at Piedmont Piano’s San Francisco store at 660 Third St. For information and reservations: (415) 543-9988 or www.piedmontpiano.com. -more-


Wild Neighbors: Role Models: Where Song Sparrows Learn Their Songs

By Joe Eaton
Tuesday June 12, 2007

It may be a drab little brown bird, but the song sparrow has attracted a lot of scholarly attention. The song sparrows of San Francisco Bay alone support a kind of cottage industry. We have four distinct subspecies here, three confined to tidal marshes, the fourth to neighboring uplands. The marsh sparrows, generally smaller and grayer than the upland birds, have adapted to their environment by evolving a higher tolerance for salt water (although their insect prey appears to meet most of their water needs). -more-


Berkeley This Week

Tuesday June 12, 2007

TUESDAY, JUNE 12 -more-


Open Call for Essays

Tuesday June 12, 2007

Healthy Living -more-