Week 1, October 2010
This week’s highlighted local treasure is
Your National League West Champion San Francisco Giants!
Yep, the San Francisco Giants baseball club has finally given bay area sports fans a little something to cheer about for a change around here. Beginning Thursday the Giants will be facing the Atlanta Braves in the National League Division Series in a best of five game showdown. For all of you baseball fans in the bay area, and sports fans in general, you know what a huge deal this is. May the baseball gods shine their light on our fair team for just about a month longer. 
Go Giants!!!
So, let’s find some fun ’round the bay…
The Constructed Landscape: Through October 16th in Oakland. From the East Bay Express: Mark Baugh-Sasaki investigates human perception and our impact on the environment in The Constructed Landscape (or construed?). The title may suggest Manufactured Landscapes, the documentary on Edward Burtynsky, whose epic industrial ecology photos share commonalities with Baugh-Sasaki’s “Disused System” prints. It’s the sculptures and installations that make a larger impression here, however. “The Constructed Landscape” roughs up KrowsworkGallery‘s normally orderly church pews; here, flung about as if by tornadoes, they rest at odd angles amid heaps of wooden planks and half-buried video monitors that cast their window-like blue-white glow skyward. In “Linear Progression” a topographic plaster grid becomes a miniature world onto which sliding landscapes videotaped from trains and planes are projected. Finally, two steel sculptures frame photographic slices of landscape; they’re mounted like huge microscope slides (“Cypress”) or splayed like playing cards (“SteelRiver”). Constructed Landscapes runs through October 16 at Krowswork Gallery.
Dimond Oktoberfest: Saturday in Oakland. This one is just a few blocks from my ‘hood, so I had to give them some love! From the Farmer Joe’s Market Blog: Come and join us on MacArthur Boulevard at Fruitvale Avenue for our first annual Oktoberfest. We’re going to celebrate with beer gardens, German food and dance, history tours, food booths, local artisans, a kid’s carnival area, a Green Living and Wellness Expo area and so much more! Don’t miss this extraordinary event.
Classical Revolution: Sunday in Berkeley. From the East Bay Express: On a weekend during which many of us wish we could be in at least three places at once, members of the Classical Revolution ensemble-in-residence, the Revolution Quartet, enliven the Crowden School Sundays @ Four. The quartet intersperses Brahms’ String Quartet in A minor, Op. 52, No. 2 and Debussy’s sole String Quartet with chat about the music, the individual musicians, and whatever else comes up. An artist reception follows the performance on Sunday, October 10 at 4 p.m. at the Crowden Music Center (1457 Rose Street, Berkeley). $15, free for 18 and under.
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