Arts And Entertainment
El Cerrito’s Contra Costa Civic Theatre Stages ‘Foxfire’
By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Tuesday April 22, 2008
What the eye don’t see, the heart don’t grieve.” Foxfire, now onstage at Contra Costa Civic Theatre in El Cerrito, is about the grieving of a vernacular culture for what’s gone, whether it’s seen or not.
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‘Horsewomen of the Apocalypse’ in SF
By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Friday April 18, 2008
Red means War,” said Harriet March Page of Goat Hall’s San Francisco Cabaret Opera to explain “The Red Horse,” the title of the second concert in the series Horsewomen of the Apocalypse, featuring all female vocalists Saturday at St. Gregory’s Church in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill.
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Berkeley Poet Wins Pulitzer Prize
By JAIME ROBLES Special to the Planet
Friday April 18, 2008
Poet Robert Hass won a Pulitzer prize last week for his most recent collection Time and Materials, a book that also won the National Book Award last year.
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Moving Pictures: Three Films Examine The German Conscience
By Justin DeFreitas
Thursday May 01, 2008
First Run Features has released three provocative films on DVD that delve into the complex consciousness of the German people. From the atrocities of the Holocaust to the repressive post-war socialist government of East Germany, these films offer fascinating glimpses of artists and historians struggling to come to terms with their nation’s past while battling forces—in the form of both the government and the people—who would rather keep such horrors hidden.
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