Arts And Entertainment
The Theater: Aurora Revisits Mae West Blockbuster
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday November 13, 2007
“What do I know about a heart? To me, a man’s an asset!” Mae West’s very intonation is proverbial—though just after the start of Sex, her 1926 Broadway blockbuster now revived at the Aurora, she intones, not too piously: “Don’t give me that church business again; you’ll get me goin’ back to the old homestead.”
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Wilson Wins NY Met Opera Regionals
By KEN BULLOCK
Friday November 09, 2007
Tenor Kalil Wilson, 26, who grew up in Berkeley and Oakland, won the annual New York Metropolitan Opera National Council competition regional finals in Los Angeles on Oct. 30 and will sing on-stage at the Met in February in the semifinals.
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‘A Shirtwaist Tale’ Is the Show to See at the JCC
By Betsy Hunton
Friday November 09, 2007
Once in a great while, everything goes right. It’s not very often, mind you, but it does happen. This time it’s the play that’s ending its two-week run this weekend at the East Bay Jewish Community Center in Berkeley.
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Film Collection Offers a Cinematic Time Capsule
By JUSTIN DeFREITAS
Friday November 09, 2007
We tend to think that once something is committed to film we have it forever. The act of recording seems by its very nature permanent, and often we forget that the very materials used to record are nearly as transient as the images they capture. For the reality is that film is a tenuous medium at best, given to disintegration and, in the case of nitrate films, spontaneous combustion. And this is compounded by the fact that cinema itself was for decades considered merely a novelty, an ephemeral entertainment of virtually no great cultural or historical value.
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Beat Chroniclers Cohen, Levi and Rothenberg Read at Moe’s
By KEN BULLOCK
Friday November 09, 2007
Poets and world travelers from the international scene of the 1960s and ’70s, Ira Cohen and Louise Landes Levi will read with poet and editor Michael Rothenberg 7:30 p.m. Monday at Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue. Admission is free.
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