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Arts Calendar

Friday January 25, 2008

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Moving Pictures: Noir City Fest Celebrates Dark Side of American Film

By Justin DeFreitas
Friday January 25, 2008

There is no shortage of great film festivals in the Bay Area, celebrating the cinematic heritage of every corner of the globe. -more-


Around the East Bay:

Friday January 25, 2008

‘APPARITION OF THE ETERNAL CHURCH’ -more-


The Theater: Actors Ensemble’s ‘Barefoot in the Park’ at Live Oak

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday January 25, 2008

A door on-stage is thrown open, and a vivacious young woman (Wendy Welch as Corie Bratter) surveys the room before her, and heaves a happy sigh. The room is a bare, freshly-painted fifth-floor walkup apartment, with only a ladder and paint cans for adornment. -more-


Midsummer Mozart Benefit Concert at City Club Sunday

By Ira Steingroot, Special to the Planet
Friday January 25, 2008

This Sunday at the Berkeley City Club, world-renowned pianist Seymour Lipkin will join music director George Cleve and the Midsummer Mozart Orchestra to initiate the 34th season of the Midsummer Mozart Festival. -more-


East Bay Then and Now: Knitwear Magnate Looked to Europe for Building Inspiration

By Daniella Thompson
Friday January 25, 2008

The settlement of the residential blocks south of the UC campus began, naturally, on the streets closest to the university and progressed southward. In 1903, the area now known as the Willard neighborhood, comprising the Hillegass and Berry-Bangs tracts and bounded, clockwise, by Dwight Way, College, Ashby, and Telegraph Avenues, was most densely built along Benvenue and Hillegass Avenues north of Derby Street. -more-


About the House: Little Visitors in the House

By Matt Cantor
Friday January 25, 2008

When you crawl around under houses every day, you see some odd things. It’s part archaeology, a little zoology and, of course, all that construction stuff. It doesn’t take too long doing this to realize that you’re not always alone down under the house (or up in the attic). There are little neighbors that like to share the space. They’re not trying to get inside your house, per se. It’s just that they want a safe warm space and you happen to be right there. Termites use the same logic. They don’t know that they’re eating a house. What’s a house to a termite. They’re just eating some fallen trees that happen be in their path. -more-


Garden Variety: A Walk in the Inimitable Woods

By Ron Sulivan
Friday January 25, 2008

Woodland gardening takes on a new aspect when one is practicing it here in coastal northern California. There are considerations one must take with regard to natural resources and scarcity—as much a product of time as of place, as everything living here gets more squeezed by human overpopulation, including us humans who are doing the overpopulating. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Friday January 25, 2008

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Arts Calendar

Tuesday January 22, 2008

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The Theater: Hoch’s ‘Taking Over’ at the Berkeley Rep

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday January 22, 2008

As the swipe of hip-hop shifts gears into salsa, solo performer Danny Hoch stalks out on stage in character, under a banner for a festival, Williamsburg “Celebrate Your Community” day, spouting long, loopy lines in thick, nasal Brooklynese, cutting his imaginary friends out where the audience sits before the Berkeley Rep Thrust Stage, doing the dozens on down through the ethnicities—then the 49 other states, working hard on California—then shouting out, “All you American crackers, out of our neighborhood!” -more-


Green Neighbors: Celebrating the Classic Cordyline

By Ron Sullivan
Tuesday January 22, 2008

I don’t know how old you have to be to think of Sunset magazine and early 1960s swimming-poolside dioramas whenever you see a Cordyline australis in its other vocation, as a plain old yard or streetside tree. It’s a classic, though, to complete the post-TK look that starts with a turquoise pool, maybe kidney-shaped, and a Weber kettle. Some of us get whiffs of vinyl, chlorine, and firestarter fluid from our subconscious every time. -more-


Berkeley This Week

Tuesday January 22, 2008

TUESDAY, JAN. 22 -more-