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Arts Calendar

Tuesday October 09, 2007

TUESDAY, OCT. 9 -more-


The Theater: Japanese Puppet Theater Comes to Zellerbach

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday October 09, 2007

When the Bunraku (National Puppet Theater of Japan) begins a performance—as they will this Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. in Zellerbach Hall, for the first time since 1983—a particular kind of magic takes over. -more-


‘Whatever She Wants’ Opens at Paramount

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday October 09, 2007

Featuring Richard Roundtree—“Shaft” on the silver screen—and TV star Viveca A. Fox in her theatrical debut, Whatever She Wants, a romantic comedy by Je’Caryous Johnson, is onstage this week, Thursday through Sunday, at the Paramount Theater in Oakland. -more-


Green Neighbors: Tobacco on the Streets, With Diverse Digressions

By Ron Sullivan
Tuesday October 09, 2007

For a couple of decades at least, Joe and I have lurked around a few of the little stands of the weed Nicotiana glauca, tree tobacco, that are scattered along Del Puerto Canyon Road just east of I5. Short lurks are part of our usual spring day-trip itinerary along that route from Del Puerto Canyon to Mines Road because we might see Costa’s hummingbirds feeding on the tall shrubs’ tubular yellow flowers, and who knows what other hummers might show up while they’re migrating? -more-


Berkeley This Week

Tuesday October 09, 2007

TUESDAY, OCT. 9 -more-


Arts Calendar

Friday October 05, 2007

FRIDAY, OCT. 5 -more-


Arts and Entertainment Around the East Bay

Friday October 05, 2007

TURN OF THE SCREW -more-


McGoldrick’s ‘Countercoup’ at S.F. Marsh

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday October 05, 2007

I’m fascinated by why some succeed, and why some struggle with life,” said Alameda County Deputy Public Defender and Berkeley resident Mark McGoldrick, “why similarly situated people do differently, even from the same family. Why do some make it and some have a harder time? It’s one of the mysteries of life. Why does one kid from East Oakland make it to Julliard and others never get out of the ‘hood? How do you describe it? Is it luck? The will to live? It’s unquantifiable.” -more-


Moving Pictures: Festival Brings Out Best in Indie Cinema

By Justin DeFreitas
Friday October 05, 2007

The Berkeley Film and Video Festivals marks its 16th year this weekend with another vast and varied program of independent productions. If there’s a theme to the annual festival, the theme is that there is no theme; it simply showcases independent film in all its unruly diversity, from the brilliant to the silly, from mainstream to left field, from documentaries and drama to comedy and cutting-edge avant garde. -more-


East Bay Then and Now: Bennington Apartments Evoke 19th Century Euclid Ave.

By Daniella Thompson
Friday October 05, 2007

In June 1906, the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company released a three-minute film called “A Trip to Berkeley, Cal.” The short was filmed aboard a moving streetcar on the #4 line of the Oakland Traction Consolidated Company, a precursor of the Key Route System. The #4 line ran between downtown Oakland and the intersection of Euclid and Hilgard Avenues, four blocks north of the UC campus. -more-


Quake Tip of the Week

By Larry Guillot
Friday October 05, 2007

Earthquake Tidbits -more-


About the House: Houses in Need of a Cold Compress

By Matt Cantor
Friday October 05, 2007

There’s a house in my neighborhood that’s back on the market again. You know the one. Been on and off the market for years and despite all reason, it’s listing for well over a million dollars. It has big problems: foundation, parking, odd use of space, geological issues and problematic drainage (let’s not even talk about the paint job), but there it is, asking more money than the last time and you know what? They’ll probably do all right. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Friday October 05, 2007

FRIDAY, OCT. 5 -more-