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Arts Calendar

Friday October 12, 2007

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Nicholas Bearde to Record Live CD at Yoshi’s Tuesday

By Ken Bullock
Friday October 12, 2007

Singer and actor Nicholas Bearde, longtime Rockridge resident, one of Bobby McFerrin’s original (and ongoing) Voicestra vocalists and a favorite at Bay Area clubs and parties, will record his third CD live, performing at Yoshi’s Jazzhouse in Jack London Square Tuesday evening. -more-


European Short Films

Friday October 12, 2007

Cinema 16 is a UK company bringing greater visibility to the short film through a series of DVD releases showcasing some of the best works in the form. -more-


The Good, the Bad and the Brilliant

Friday October 12, 2007

Sergio Leone is often thought of as an ironic and humorous filmmaker, a mischievous genre deconstructionist. But though his films have plenty of humor and wit and mischief, they also contain great beauty and depth and insight. Though he may have worked most famously in a genre largely considered pulp—the Western—but Leone was one of the great cinematic artists. -more-


Satirical ‘By George, It’s War’ Opens at La Peña

By Janet Somers - Special to the Planet
Friday October 12, 2007

Greg Brockbank, who plays Dick Cheney in By George, It’s War!, composer Dale Polissar’s new satirical musical comedy about the Bush administration, says he tries to put a “tough, Republican look” on his face while swinging his golf club in the Bohemian Grove during the number “The Republican Men’s Chorus” as the group sings, “We’re just hard-working, regular guys trying to make an honest buck; and if we have to poke our fingers in a few people’s eyes, and cut a few throats, what the fuck?” -more-


Victorian ‘Enigma’ in Central Berkeley on View Sunday

By Steven Finacom
Friday October 12, 2007

2206 Jefferson Ave. in central Berkeley is a charming enigma of an old Berkeley house. Precisely when it was built and how it arrived where it is are matters of some mystery. -more-


Fall is Planting and Plant Sale Season

By Ron Sullivan
Friday October 12, 2007

Some promising plant sales and garden events will happen over the next couple of weeks. One thing to remember about plant sales: Most of them accept payment by cash or check only, as it’s not feasible for them to set up a credit-card facility for such infrequent events. So remember your checkbook along with your walking shoes and some cartons or recycling boxes to tote your plants. -more-


Ceiling Heights Get Real

By Matt Cantor
Friday October 12, 2007

For those of you who’ve been reading this column for some time, you know that I have what might be called a conflicted relationship with the building codes. Basically they bug me. I’m glad they’re there but they still bug me. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Friday October 12, 2007

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Arts Calendar

Tuesday October 09, 2007

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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-