Bob Patterson yesterday came across a second unit film crew from Parenthood doing some shooting on Telegraph Avenue. Many locals have criticized the NBC series both for filming in Southern California and for representing a decidedly faux Berkeley. I wouldn’t count on a major change, but it’s nice that they’ll be interleaving some more footage [...]
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City to stage stand-up night
On Saturday night, the Live Oak Theatre will host a stand-up comedy night, sponsored by Berkeley’s recreation department. Live Oak Laughs (LOL, get it?) will feature Andrew Norelli (above), a fixture on the comedy club scene, who had a slot on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last spring. Other comedians include Jason Armenio, [...]
Big Screen Berkeley: In a Lonely Place
It’s no secret that actors aren’t always acknowledged by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for their best work. Take for example Humphrey Bogart: one of America’s finest screen actors of the mid-twentieth century, Bogart didn’t win an Oscar until his late career appearance in 1951’s The African Queen. Though Bogie clearly enjoyed [...]
Cal Performances plans Free for All
Cal Performances, the university’s arts presenter and producer, stuffs its schedule each year with an extraordinary variety of music, drama, spoken word and dance. On Sunday, September 26, Cal Performances will hold its first ever Fall Free For All, a day long celebration of the arts that provides a preview of the coming season and [...]
Berkeley Girl transplanted to SoCal
Singer songwriter Harper Simon, who describes his music as “psychedelic country and rock”, has released a new video of his single, Berkeley Girl. It’s the tale of a woman from our fair city who has “the style of Paulette Goddard and a smile like Joan Fontaine”. But, just as in the television show Parenthood, Berkeley [...]
Meet the director and actors of White Wedding movie
Tonight, Lot 68 Lounge at the Shattuck Cinemas movie theater will hold a film release party for South African comedy White Wedding, with the movie’s director Jann Turner, and actors-co-producers Kenneth Nkosi and Rapulana Seiphemo in attendance. The Lot 68 bar will be open for drinks and complimentary appetizers, and there’s the chance to win [...]
Big Screen Berkeley: The Expendables
Every now and then I indulge myself with a good old-fashioned popcorn movie. Man cannot live on foreign films, documentaries, and Gus Van Sant movies alone after all, and when promotional teasers for The Expendables began inundating the net earlier this year, I knew I’d found my popcorn candidate for Summer 2010. The film relates [...]
Music for everyone at Downtown Berkeley MusicFest
The first man to play the first show at Freight & Salvage in 1968 will be the kickoff headliner event for the Downtown Berkeley MusicFest, a nine-day extravaganza of music. Phil Marsh, described as a “folk-to-country-to-blues troubadour” will reunite with the Energy Crisis band for a performance Friday August 20 at 8 pm the newly-remodeled [...]
Berkeley team ascend America’s Got Talent ranks
A Berkeley team of climber-dancers has made it to the Top 48 of the current season of America’s Got Talent. As can be seen on the video above, AscenDance Project, which was founded by Isabel Von Rittberg while she was living in her van in Berkeley, blends graceful dance movement with eye-poppingly difficult rock climbing [...]
Director of Bancroft Library to retire
Charles Faulhaber, who recently oversaw the $64 million renovation of the Bancroft Library, announced this week that he will retire from his post in June 2011. Faulhaber, 68, will have spent 42 years on the UC Berkeley campus by that time – the last 16 as director of the Bancroft. It’s time to move on, [...]
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