Arts And Entertainment
Project Opera Stages Leoncavallo’s ‘Pagliacci’
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday February 12, 2008
Pagliacci, Leoncavallo’s “gritty realism” classic of verismo opera, the tale of the fatal crossover between stage and real life in a troupe of carnival performers, will be performed by Project Opera, founded by musical director-conductor Robert Ashens, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights at the Hillside Club, on Cedar near Spruce, a venue associated with the beginnings and early years of Berkeley Opera—and one which has recently seen a diverse renaissance of concert programming.
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Historical Society Opens GAR Vet Group Records
By John Aronovici
Tuesday February 12, 2008
Items on Display at Berkeley Main Library
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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.
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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.
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