Arts And Entertainment
Pulitzer Finalist Eisa Davis Returns Home
By KEN BULLOCK, Special to the Planet
Friday September 21, 2007
I was on a break at the Public Theatre in New York,” said Eisa Davis, playwright, actor and South Berkeley native, “during the second week of rehearsing Passing Strange, when I got a voice message from the actress who played the lead in Bulrusher, and she was crying. ‘Have you heard the news?’ I jumped up and screamed!”
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Oakland Museum Receives Major Gift
By Peter Selz, Special to the Planet
Tuesday September 18, 2007
While General Betray-us tells us to “stay the course” and while the glaciers are melting, the museums in the Bay Area are doing great. The celebrated artist Fernando Botero has made a munificent offer to donate his powerful drawings and paintings of Abu Ghraib to the Berkeley Museum upon their return from their international tour. The Fishers are about to build a museum at the Presidio to house their significant collection of contemporary art.
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