Arts And Entertainment

Temescal Labs Stages Present a Double Bill

By KEN BULLOCK - Special to the Planet
Friday February 08, 2008
Temescal Labs, the innovative Oakland theater company (nee Ten Red Hen) that notably staged both The 99-Cent Miss Saigon and Clown Bible at Willard Metalshop Theater, is performing Clean, a work-in-progress about Silicon Valley and toxicity, which includes the story of Hans Reiser, on a double bill with Brittney Brown Ceres’ Bodily File, 8 p.m. tonight (Friday) and Saturday at CounterPulse, 1310 Mission St. near Ninth Street in San Francisco. -more-

Jan Faulkner’s ‘Ethnic Notions’ Go Up for Sale

By Ira Steingroot - By Ira Steingroothe - Special to the Planet
Friday February 08, 2008
Sometime in the early 1960s, Jan Faulkner, an undergraduate at Lincoln University in Missouri, saw some paper ephemera featuring black stereotypes and began a collection that has since been exhibited in museums, featured in monographs and the subject of a film documentary produced by Marlon Riggs in 1986. -more-

Arts Calendar

Friday February 08, 2008
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Arts Calendar

Tuesday February 05, 2008
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The Theater: FoolsFURY Stages ‘Monster in the Dark’

By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday February 05, 2008
In gathering darkness from a storm—or in a dark prisoner’s cell—a disparate group of characters find themselves confronting fears over safety, security, their own behavior—primal fears. What’s in the darkness? A monster? Am I becoming a monster? -more-

Around the East Bay: Berkeley: A City in History

Tuesday February 05, 2008
Charles Wollenberg, history professor at Berkeley City College, will speak about his new book, Berkeley: A City in History, Friday at Mrs. Dalloway’s Books, 2904 College Ave., at 7:30 p.m., and on Monday at Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Ave., at 7:30 p.m. He will also discuss the book at University Press Books on Bancroft Way on Feb. 14, at 5:30 p.m., at the San Francisco Public Library on March 5, at 6 p.m., and at the Berkeley Public Library on March 31, at 7 p.m. -more-