Arts And Entertainment
The Theater: Altarena Stages ‘Man Who Saved Christmas’
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday December 04, 2007
Christmas in wartime America—but it’s the First World War, and the administration is set to declare a moratorium on toy sales to encourage families to buy Liberty Bonds.
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James Rosen’s ‘Homage’ at GTU Library
By Peter Selz, Special to the Planet
Friday November 30, 2007
James Rosen’s paintings at the Graduate Theological Union library are called “Homage.” They are indeed in praise of the old masters as chosen by the painter, who sees himself as a messenger, detecting his signals from the past so that he can employ his artistic talent to send them on to us, the viewers. Rosen, like all good artists, is aware that his work is part of a flow which goes back to Paleolithic times.
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Goines Posters on Display at Hillside Club
By Karen Jacobs, Special to the Planet
Friday November 30, 2007
See 100 posters by David Lance Goines at the Hillside Club this weekend.
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Jazz Drummer Roy Haines at Yoshis
By Ira Steingroot
Friday November 30, 2007
In the 1940s, jazz drummer extraordinaire Roy Haynes worked with Lester Young, Charlie Parker (“My Little Suede Shoes”), Bud Powell (“Dance of the Infidels”) and Miles Davis.
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Moving Pictures: Early Cinema’s Grandest Spectacle
By Justin DeFreitas
Friday November 30, 2007
Though he is often credited with more than he contributed, D.W. Griffith is undoubtedly the first of the great cinematic artists. He did not create the tools of the trade, nor invent its techniques, but he imbued them with meaning, gave significance and weight to them, and thus established the grammar of motion pictures.
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Moving Pictures: 'True Heart Susie' Shows Griffith's Softer Side
By Justin DeFreitas
Friday November 30, 2007
D.W. Griffith is known these days primarily for his large-scale epics Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916). And while these films contributed greatly to the history and art of motion pictures, they do not fully convey the range and power of Griffith's talent, nor are they his most enjoyable films.
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Moving Pictures: The Movie Heard ‘Round the World
By Justin DeFreitas
Friday November 30, 2007
The great thing about DVD is that it has given the major studios the opportunity to finally do right by the classics in their archives. For the first six or seven years of the format’s existence, the studios were, for the most part, content to simply reissue their back catalogues in cheap editions, often without any attempt to remaster the image.
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Moving Pictures: The Talkies Learn to Move: Pabst's 'Threepenny Opera'
By Justin DeFreitas
Friday November 30, 2007
When Bertolt Brecht and G.W. Pabst decided to collaborate in bringing the former's Threepenny Opera to the screen, both men were at the peak of their careers. But the collaboration would be anything but smooth. Indeed it was fraught with conflict, as so many Brecht projects were.
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Lorna K. to Record First CD Live At San Francisco’s Plush Room
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday November 30, 2007
Vocalist and Berkeley resident Lorna Kollmeyer—Lorna K. to her many Bay Area fans—is topping off her 15-year “overnight success” career of singing the American songbook with a live recording session for her first CD at the Plush Room in San Francisco Monday evening, Dec. 3.
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