Arts And Entertainment
Books: Eastwind Books Provides Literary Hub for Asian Community
By Anna Mindess, Special to the Planet
Tuesday February 26, 2008
In order to keep his favorite bookstore from being turned into a beauty shop, Harvey Dong transformed himself from customer to owner of Eastwind Books in 1996.
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‘Wakefield, or Hello Sophia’ at Central Works
By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Tuesday February 26, 2008
Dying embers of a fire on a blustery night; a pensive woman, alone in a room ... when the door opens and a rainsoaked man steps in, greets her by name, and just stands there while she gawks. It’s her husband, who left on a two-day business trip 20 years before.
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La Peña Celebrates Words and Life of Paul Robeson
By Deb Schneider, Special to the Planet
Tuesday February 26, 2008
Paul Robeson was something of a Renaissance man. A singer, actor, lawyer, writer, civil rights advocate, all-American athlete and political activist, Robeson was a powerful and eloquent spokesman for racial justice well before Martin Luther King, Jr., or Malcolm X, yet these successors have eclipsed him in the annals of history.
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Wilde Irish Stages Centennial Bash for Irish National Theatre
By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Tuesday February 26, 2008
Wilde Irish, Berkeley’s resident Irish theater company, will stage a centennial celebration for Ireland’s National Theatre this Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m., with two original Abbey Theatre short comedies: Lady Gregory’s The Workhouse Ward and John Synge’s In the Shadow of the Glen.
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The Theater: Richards’ ‘Come Home’ Comes to SF’s The Marsh
By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Friday February 22, 2008
Jovelyn Richards of Oakland is a born storyteller. When she was little, her mother would have visitors by for coffee “and I heard things that weren’t said; I put language to their secrets. After they left, I told my mother their story. She knew the truth from them and would say, ‘Where did you get that?’ I was putting language to their secrets. I didn’t know how to decode that for her.”
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Contra Costa Civic Theatre Stages ‘The Cocoanuts’
By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Friday February 22, 2008
A clerk at a Florida resort hotel during the 1920s property boom leaps out from behind his desk and joins in a lively production number. The villainess in an engagement con on a wealthy mother and daughter leads a line of dancers doing the Charleston.
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