Shorts: The Arts

Artist Nancy Katz's farewell party postponed

The goodbye party for Berkeley-based fabric artist Nancy Katz has been postponed due to the death of her brother in a motorcycle accident.

After 25 years in the Bay Area, Katz is moving to her native Massachusetts to be near her aging parents.

The party, which was scheduled for June 8, will now take place from 7 to 10 p.m. at the boathouse at Lake Merritt, 1520 Lakeside, in Oakland on June 22.




March of the Living profile on KGO

ABC7 TV news will air a 30-minute "Behind the Headlines" special Sunday, June 5, based on anchor Dan Ashley's reports from Auschwitz-Birkenau. The reporter traveled to the death camps last month with the annual March of the Living to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation. "Behind the Headlines" will air at 10 a.m on KGO-TV.




Classic Yiddish comedy back on screen

The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival will present Edgar G. Ulmer's 1940 film "American Matchmaker" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Wednesday, June 8. The screenings complement the San Francisco Symphony's upcoming celebration, "Of Thee I Sing: Yiddish Theater, Broadway and the American Voice."

Set in Manhattan's Upper West Side, the romantic comedy portrays second-generation Jews struggling to balance the old shtetl ways with New York sophistication. Leo Fuchs, the "Yiddish Fred Astaire," stars as Nat Silver, a wealthy Jewish American businessman whose eighth engagement has gone awry.

"American Matchmaker" (Yiddish with English subtitles), 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Yerba Buena Gardens screening room. Tickets: $6-$7. Information: (415) 978-2787.