Arts And Entertainment
Magnes Museum Moves Ahead with Downtown Berkeley Relocation Plans
By Riya Bhattacharjee
Thursday July 03, 2008
The Judah L. Magnes Museum will ask the Berkeley Landmarks Preservation Commission today (Thursday) to approve a structural alteration permit to rehabilitate the landmarked Armstrong University in downtown Berkeley, where it plans to relocate in spring 2010.
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Virago Alameda Announces Play Reading Series
By Ken Bullock
Thursday July 03, 2008
Virago Theatre Company has announced a July and early August series of staged readings of new plays by Bay Area playwrights, featuring professional actors, on Monday evenings at 7 p.m. in Alameda, featuring venues that include a cafe, a drawing studio and community centers, with some readings staged outdoors, followed by wine and talk-back receptions.
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Contra Costa Civic Theater Stages ‘Kiss Me Kate’
By Ken Bullock
Special to the Planet
Thursday July 03, 2008
With a musical comedy based on Shakespeare gone south, lyrics and score by Cole Porter, topical humor of the postwar (WW II) era popping up amid the iambs and a couple of gangsters thrown in when the male ingenue goes bust at craps: how could Kiss Me Kate miss?
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Moving Pictures: San Francisco Silent Film Festival Showcases Cinema’s First Golden Era
By Justin DeFreitas
Thursday July 03, 2008
Far from the ragged, blurry, jumpy images in the popular imagination, the silent era of filmmaking was an age of discovery, innovation and supreme achievement in the new medium of cinema. Motion pictures, at first treated as a mere novelty, came into their own between 1910 and 1920, growing from brief, flickering diversions into full-scale narratives. But it was in the 1920s that cinema truly blossomed into the great art form of the 20th century.
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