Arts And Entertainment
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.
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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.
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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.
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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!”
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