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Tuesday June 26, 2007

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Around the East Bay

Tuesday June 26, 2007

O’KEEFE’S TAKE ON WALT WHITMAN’S ‘SONG OF MYSELF’ -more-


The Theater: Masquers Present ‘Ring Round the Moon’

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday June 26, 2007

“If a working man can’t kill himself on a Sunday morning, we may as well have the Revolution at once!” Witty, barbed lines like these are almost thrown away in Jean Anouilh’s Ring Round the Moon, as brilliantly translated by Christopher Fry, and charmingly produced at the Masquers Playhouse in Point Richmond. -more-


The Theater: ‘Bird in the Hand’ at Berkeley City Club

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday June 26, 2007

There’s a row of owls glaring down at the audience in the theater at the Berkeley City Club. And the program for Bird in the Hand, Anne Galjour’s new play, directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang for Central Works, lists the various parts played by the four players (including Ms. Galjour), as well as the bird calls they perform during the course of the action. -more-


Books: Hildegarde Flanner and the Great Berkeley Fire of 1923

By Phil McArdle
Tuesday June 26, 2007

Hildegarde Flanner’s Wildfire: Berkeley, 1923 is a clear-eyed description of a natural disaster seen at close quarters; and, for Berkeleyans, an unforgettable picture of nature’s fury turned against us in our own homes. After reading it, even the greenest greenhorns will understand the dreadful power of wildfire and how rapidly it can consume a neighborhood. -more-


Wild Neighbors: When One Bird’s Nest is Another’s Home Depot

By Joe Eaton
Tuesday June 26, 2007

It began with a phone call: Jean Moss, a Berkeley reader, had an odd nest that had fallen from a Cecile Bruner rosebush. She suspected it was some kind of hummingbird nest, because she had seen a female hummer hanging around it acting territorial. But what she described sounded more like a bushtit nest, bag-shaped with a small entrance hole near the top. Curious, I arranged to stop by and take a look at it. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Tuesday June 26, 2007

TUESDAY, JUNE 26 -more-


Open Call for Essays

Tuesday June 26, 2007

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Arts Calendar

Friday June 22, 2007

FRIDAY, JUNE 22 -more-


Compositions of Space and Light

By Peter Selz, Special to the Planet
Friday June 22, 2007

Michael S. Moore’s acrylic paintings at the Graduate Theological Union are images of landscapes as symbolic order. They are pictures of vast desert landscapes, of large empty spaces along the Nevada-Oregon border as well as of the Colorado plains. It would seem that the canvases are based on watercolors which are shown in display cases below the paintings. -more-


The Theater: ‘A Dream Play’ in Live Oak Park

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday June 22, 2007

“Father! Father! I hopped off on a cloud ...”—and the figure in a sari (Sarah Meyerhoff), standing on the lawn at the Berkeley Art Center, seems to be sinking, as the voice of her Father, the god Indra (Thomas West), echoes up from the creek below, reassuring her as she descends to earth, in the first scene of Strindberg’s masterpiece, A Dream Play. -more-


Moving Pictures: Stumbling After ‘The Third Man’

By Justin DeFreitas
Friday June 22, 2007

Everyone talks about Harry Lime. He’s one of the most charismatic and cynical of movie villains, a cad who plays the people and police for suckers while justifying his crimes with glib insouciance. -more-


Music Set to Fill Laurel District for Weekend Solstice Celebration

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday June 22, 2007

The Laurel Summer Solistice Music Festival, inspired by the Fete de la Musique, a solistice celebration initiated in France 25 years ago to bring people into the streets to hear and make music and now a worldwide phenomenon, celebrates its second anniversary this Saturday, 9 a.m.-10 p.m., in Oakland’s Laurel Village district. -more-


Maybeck Connections on View at Gifford McGrew Open House

By Steven Finacom
Friday June 22, 2007

One of Berkeley’s most important and historic brown shingle homes—with Maybeck connections, too—is currently for sale at 2601 Derby Street. An Open House is scheduled from 2-4:30 p.m. this Sunday, June 24. -more-


Garden Variety: Reading Palms from I-580 in Richmond

By Ron Sullivan
Friday June 22, 2007

We’ve driven past the place dozens of times on the way to the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, and it’s become a private landmark rather like San Quentin. But last week was the first time we’ve ever managed to get off I-580 and get our feet on the ground at Golden Gate Palms in Richmond. -more-


About the House: Reverse Engineering for the Builder

By Matt Cantor
Friday June 22, 2007

Ihate code books. Not code as in dot-dash-dot or SLWBT means I love you. I mean the building codes. -more-


Quake Tip of the Week: Is Your Major Asset In Jeopardy?

By Larry Guillot
Friday June 22, 2007

One thing history has taught us about major earthquakes: houses that are correctly retrofitted survive intact. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Friday June 22, 2007

FRIDAY, JUNE 22 -more-


Open Call for First-Person Essays

Friday June 22, 2007

Healthy Living -more-