This Week in Entertainment
By Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.
Jun. 2–Theater
Thursday: San Leandro’s California Conservatory Theatre Company opens “Grace and Glorie,” a drama about an elderly cancer patient being cared for by a young, unhappy New York City woman. Through June 29.
Friday: Pleasanton Playhouse tackles the Neil Simon comedy “Rumors.” Through June 29.
Saturday: Zanzibar Fairytale Puppet Theatre Company opens its unique take on “Cinderella” at Oakland’s St. Paul Lutheran Church. Through June 15. Two additional shows are slated for June 21 at Harry Denton’s Starlight Room at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco. More information is available at www.sanzibarpuppets.com.
Concerts
Saturday: Radio station KITS-FM 105.3 (Live 105) hosts its annual BFD concert, with Cypress Hill, Flogging Molly, the Kooks, Pennywise, and many more. Music starts at noon.
Saturday: ’70s heavyweights Chicago and the Doobie Brothers hold forth at Sleep Train Pavilion.
Sunday: Singer Erykah Badu and hip-hoppers the Roots play the first of two nights at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre (also June 9). Read Jim Harrington’s review Monday morning on Inside BayArea.com.
DVDs
Tuesday: Will Ferrell stars as the player-owner of an awful American Basketball Association team scrambling for a slot
in the NBA in the comedy “Semi-Pro.”
Jessica Alba is a blind violinist who sees dead people after undergoing two corneal transplants in “The Eye.”
A janitor (Michael Caine) and a corporate exec (Demi Moore) plan a diamond heist in London in 1960 in “Flawless.”
CDs
Tuesday: Grammy winner Ashanti is back with “The Declaration,” singer-songwriter Jewel goes country with “Perfectly Clear,” Aimee Mann delivers “@#%&! Smilers,” former Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale (aka Mr. Gwen Stefani) goes solo with “Wanderlust” and emo stars Weezer drop the “Red Album.”
Movies openings mbc The following movies are scheduled to open Friday in the Bay Area: “Bigger, Stronger, Faster*” (R): The documentary blends comedy with pathos, personal with public, live action with animation to explore the competitive drive in U.S. culture. “The Foot Fist Way” (R): The ruler of a small kingdom is a tae kwon do teacher with marital problems and anger issues. Jody Hill stars. “Kung Fu Panda” (PG): Animated comedy centers around a slacker panda (voiced by Jack Black) who needs to remake himself into a kung fu master to save his village from an evil snow leopard. “Love Songs” (NR): Set in Paris, Christophe Honore’s modern-day musical examines three stages in a couple’s relationship, with each other and with the people who waft into and out of their love lives. In French. “Stuck” (R): Campy tabloid-type thriller with a drugged-up caregiver (Mena Suvari) accidentally hitting a homeless man (Stephen Rea), then driving off with him stuck in her windshield so she can to deal with his disposal when it’s convenient. “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” (PG-13): Adam Sandler play an amped-up Mossad agent who fakes his death so he can become a New York hair stylist. It’s a comedy.
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