Arts And Entertainment
Midsummer Mozart Kicks Off New Season
By Ira Steingroot, Special to the Planet
Tuesday July 17, 2007
For the last two weeks, Maestro George Cleve has been teasing Mozart aficionados with hints of what they can expect at this year’s upcoming 33rd Annual Midsummer Mozart Festival.
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The Theater: Impact Briefs: Sinfully Delicious
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday July 17, 2007
To the strains of “Makin’ Whoopie,” the Impact Briefs 8: Sinfully Delicious ensemble (Steve Budd, Elissa Dunn, Leon Goertzen, Jon Lutz and Monica Coretes Viharo) hits the stage with a round-robin confession, disguised as a survey: The Last Sinful Thing You’ve Done—ran over a frog, poked a badger with a spoon, talked to my ex under an assumed name, shoplifted an onion, mooned the Pope, touched myself and thought of Prince Gomovilas, had a secret orgasm onstage (“Just now?”) ... and the humor gets equally bad in proportion to the sins.
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San Francisco Mime Troupe’s ‘Making a Killing’
Friday July 13, 2007
Promising “more song-and-dance than a Bush Administration press conference,” the San Francisco Mime Troupe will be Making a Killing this weekend, for free, at Cedar Rose Park, a block from Cedar and Chestnut Streets.
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SFMOMA Highlights Art of Sculpture
By Peter Selz, Special to the Planet
Friday July 13, 2007
It has been 35 years since the Berkeley Museum brought New York’s Museum of Modern Art exhibition, “Sculpture of Matisse,” to the Bay Area. The current show as SFMOMA permits us to re-examine the great painter’s three-dimensional work. The museum’s press release speaks of his “sculptural masterpieces.”
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Trinity Lyric Opera Stages Copland’s ‘The Tender Land’
By Jaime Robles, Special to the Planet
Friday July 13, 2007
This Friday Trinity Lyric Opera opens its second season with Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land at its new home in the Castro Valley Center for the Arts.
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Moving Pictures: The Meditative Art of Kiarostami on Display at BAM/PFA
By Justin DeFreitas
Friday July 13, 2007
It’s a perverse world that lets the name of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami remain obscure to the vast Western film-going public. He is considered by many to among the three or four greatest artists in cinema today, the creative force behind some of the most thoughtful and compelling films of the past 25 years.
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