Arts And Entertainment
‘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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Aurora Theatre Stages ‘Trojan Women’
By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Tuesday April 15, 2008
Here is the end of meaning; here is loss beyond comprehension.” A former queen—only the day before, queen of a great city—finds herself and her entourage of young women captives after their home has been overwhelmed by stealth, burned and demolished. Before they are taken away to a new life as slaves, as chattel in a foreign land, there are confrontations with other women that would seem to define, or refine, the terms of their grievous situation.
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