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Sep 26, 2023
Complicated Abundance
Consider an oft-repeated line from a film: “If you build it, they will come.” Misquoted by actor Kevin Costner’s Ray Kinsella in the 1989 movie, Field of Dreams, it’s widely understood to mean that building a ball...
Sep 26, 2023
Free Will Astrology: Week of September 27
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Diane Ackerman says it’s inevitable that each of us sometimes “looks clumsy or gets dirty or asks stupid questions or reveals our ignorance or says the wrong thing.” Knowing how often I...
Sep 19, 2023
Cosmic Country
Ryan Wong, longtime member of the garage-rock outfit Cool Ghouls, recently released his first solo album, The New Country Sounds of Ryan Wong. “I grew up in Benicia and moved to San Francisco to attend SF State...
Sep 19, 2023
Homegrown Groovin’
Introducing the Brodies and their unique style—R&Bay. This island-influenced Bay Area supergroup includes Oakland’s Adrian Marcel and Vallejo’s CRSB, a.k.a. Chris Ramos and Sonny B. These fellas will take the stage and vibe with JBoog for San...
Sep 19, 2023
Khmer Graffiti
Ask any American film fan, even the most adventurous arthouse enthusiast, what the name “Cambodia” brings to mind and they’ll probably blurt out The Killing Fields, Roland Joffé’s shocking 1984 dramatized account of the Khmer Rouge takeover...
Sep 19, 2023
Free Will Astrology: Week of September 20
ARIES (March 21-April 19): So it begins: the Building and Nurturing Togetherness phase of your astrological cycle. The next eight weeks will bring excellent opportunities to shed bad relationship habits and grow good new ones. Let’s get...
Sep 19, 2023
Ruin and Renewal
Even regular visitors to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive may not realize that right around the corner is another local museum treasure: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.
Established in 2010 following the...
