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Arts Calendar

Tuesday August 07, 2007

TUESDAY, AUGUST 7 -more-


The Theater: ‘Three Musketeers’ in Full Swing at Hinkel Park

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday August 07, 2007

You have compromised the honor of a lady!” “And you’ve bastardized an English poet!” With repartee and ripostes, fast dialogue and swordplay, Shotgun Players’ The Three Musketeers, an adaptation by Joanie McBrien (who also directed) with Dave Garrett of the rich Alexandre Dumas epic of the wars of religion in 17th-century France under the sway of Cardinal Richelieu, is in full swing weekend afternoons in John Hinkel Park, for free—and it’s quite a crowd-pleaser. -more-


Green Neighbors: The Madrone: The Red Jewel of Our Pacific Forest

By Ron Sullivan
Tuesday August 07, 2007

Sometimes when you’re walking through Briones Park, through the oak-laurel forest on the trail that leads to the archery range and that old-homestead meadow where they line up the Boy Scouts to salute things, your gaze and the sun shining through the canopy and the remnants of the day’s fogbank will intersect at just the right moment. I swear you can see the various leaves getting all excited about photosynthesis, that quotidian necessary miracle, and open themselves cell by cell to the light. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Tuesday August 07, 2007

TUESDAY, AUGUST 7 -more-


Clarification

Tuesday August 07, 2007

Regarding a report in the Aug. 3 article “Spring Agrees to Negotiate Campaign Violation,” a July 26 FCPC staff update clarifies that Berkeley City Councilmember Dona Spring did not incur any late filing obligation for the SEIU Local 535 PAC $250 contribution because it was hand-delivered a week after the date on the check. -more-


Correction

Tuesday August 07, 2007

The Planet incorrectly stated in a story Friday on the proposed South West Berkeley Benefits District that in the draft budget there are no funds allocated to address zoning issues. The draft budget, however, allocates $60,000 for the first year for “overall district management,” which will include funding a district administrator responsible for “oversight of contracted services.” Those services are to include: “Hiring professionals (to) advise on land use issues, transportation planning, [and] input on [the] West Berkeley Plan.” South West Berkeley zoning is spelled out in the West Berkeley Plan adopted by the city. -more-


Arts Calendar

Friday August 03, 2007

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 -more-


Around the East Bay: Photography: "A New Life, A New Home"

Friday August 03, 2007

‘A NEW LIFE, A NEW HOME’ -more-


No DQ Comes The Jazz House

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday August 03, 2007

Guitarist Ross Hammond, doubling on banjo and lap steel guitar, will lead a quartet dubbed “No DQ,” featuring Philip Greenlief (saxophone), Gino Robair (percussion) and J.P. Carter (trumpet) for tonight’s Free Jazz Friday, The Jazz House’s biweekly event, 8 p. m. at the Performance Space at 1510 8th St. (a block from West Oakland BART). Admission is $5-15, sliding scale. -more-


The Thrill of Visiting the Lick Observatory

By Steven Finacom, Special to the Planet
Friday August 03, 2007

Well before nuclear physics, Nobel Prizes, Free Speech, championship athletics, or alternative fuels research, the University of California was known for academic work in fields such as agriculture, mining … and astronomy. -more-


What Would Stickley Do With a Computer in the Kitchen?

By Jane Powell
Friday August 03, 2007

The Kitchen -more-


Garden Variety: Lafayette Work in Progress Is Worth a Visit

By Ron Sullivan
Friday August 03, 2007

Change is inevitable; it’s always reassuring when a change in a good business is in the spirit of the original, an enhancement rather than a trip to the oubliette—for example, when an owner retired and sells the place to people who are familiar with it and like its style already. A breath of fresh air is much better than a tornado where there’s something worth preserving. Oh, Toto! -more-


Quake Tip of the Week

By Larry Guillot
Friday August 03, 2007

Ouch! That Quake Hurts! -more-


About the House: At War with Germany Again

By Matt Cantor
Friday August 03, 2007

We’re at war with Germany again, and this time they’re winning. No, it’s not a shooting war but since shooting wars always start with economic pretexts, it’s not a far stretch to talk about shooting wars in conjunction with this war and since it involves energy, it’s easy to point to our differing approaches to the war in Iraq as one example of how they’re winning, both morally and physically. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Friday August 03, 2007

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 -more-