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Thursday August 07, 2008 - 12:39:00 PM

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7 -more-


‘W. Kamau Bell Curve’ at Oakland’s Pro Arts

By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Thursday August 07, 2008 - 12:46:00 PM

Kamau Bell dances around the stage at Pro Arts, a little bit like a boxer in the ring, but he’s smiling. And exercising the audience and himself: “Call me an Obvious Ethnic. We all are ethnic; some of us are obvious.” -more-


Shotgun Stages ‘Ubu for President’

By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Thursday August 07, 2008 - 12:47:00 PM

Cries of “Hornstrumpot!” and “By my green candle!” mingle strangely with the savage shrieks of warring pom-pom girls and feel-good admonitions to “send your energy” in the Shotgun Players’ Ubu for President. The play is Shotgun’s offering for their annual free outdoor theater extraganza at John Hinkel Park, and it coincides nicely with election season as the group confabulates the specter of Alfred Jarry’s seminal avant-garde play, Ubu Roi, with a bunch of ghost images from the media. -more-


Arts & Entertainment: PFA Screens Oliveira Retrospective

y Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Thursday August 07, 2008 - 12:50:00 PM

Around the East Bay: DENNIS BANKS-MASAOU YAMAMOTO FILM COLLABORATION SCREENS IN SF AS PART OF ‘LONGEST WALK 2’

Thursday August 07, 2008 - 12:52:00 PM

Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, and filmmaker Masaou Yamamoto will show a documentary film-in-progress on the Longest Walk 2, a walk across America for the environment, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original Longest Walk for Native American rights. Banks will speak, tell stories and play drums in a performance on the theme with dancer/choreographer Mary Sano and pianist/songwriter Tony Chapman. 7 p.m. Tues. Aug. 12 at the Mary Sano Studio of Duncan Dance, 245 Fifth St. #314, San Francisco. (415) 357-1817 or info@duncandance.org $10-15. -more-


East Bay - Then and Now: The Curious Case of Honora Townsend Bentley

By Daniella Thompson
Thursday August 07, 2008 - 12:54:00 PM
This Italianate Victorian at 2109 Fifth St. was built in 1877 by Chilean tanner Juan Velasco and acquired by Honora Townsend in 1886.

On April 30, 1906, Chief of Police August Vollmer observed an aged woman receiving supplies at the YMCA headquarters, where refugees of the San Francisco earthquake and fire were given food and clothing. Vollmer identified her as Honora Bentley, a well-to-do West Berkeley property owner who lived in apparent poverty at 2439 Ninth Street. -more-


About the House: Kristi’s Rule: Proactive vs. Reactive

By Matt Cantor
Thursday August 07, 2008 - 12:56:00 PM

The weather has been so nice lately. I always tell myself that when it finally gets nice, I’ll get out and finish my arbor. My poor neighbors have to look at that thing all year, and you’d think that with what I know about construction, I’d just get it done, but Noooo. I just want to loll around the house looking for more 1 point snacks and watching YouTube. -more-


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Thursday August 07, 2008 - 12:15:00 PM

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7 -more-