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View Archive Ron Dellums was at Wednesday's opening of Berkeley Rep's "Blue Door,'' Tanya Barfield's play about African American heritage, directed by Delroy Lindo. Also in the audience were CBS 5-TV's Barbara Rodgers, MoAD's Denise Bradley, Cheryl Ward of KGO, Charles Ward of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and artist Mildred Howard. But the dignitary whose presence drew the biggest attention was Rep. Barbara Lee, who said she'd returned to the Bay Area two days before, from her third trip to Sudan's Darfur region, where the situation is worse than ever. Still, she said, witnessing one kind of agony, in Africa, opened her emotional responses to the historic degradation of African Americans in the United States. "In order to move forward," she said, "we can't forget history. Going to Darfur, seeing the genocide, pain and suffering was heart-wrenching, devastating. Then to come home and be here tonight, and see this powerful reminder of where we've been. "Washington is tough," said Lee, evoking a third set of places and challenges, including her own daily struggles. Although no matzos were served, this was an ecumenical celebration. Roman Catholics and the Greek Orthodox are getting along just fine, according to the Rev. Michael Pappas of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in San Francisco, who says the only religious part of the party was the blessing before the meal. PS: Steven Swig called about another local connection to that Vanity Fair green issue: "Multi-media environmental correspondent'' Simran Sethi -- a particularly glamorous-looking woman who gets a whole two-page spread -- has a master's degree in sustainable management from the Presidio School of Management. After reporting that a whole band's worth of instruments -- tenor sax, baritone sax, electric bass, BS amplifier, drum set and timbales -- were stolen from the School of the Arts in San Francisco over spring break, KFOG morning show host Dave Morey put out the call for donated replacements and money. One response came from a former road manager for Clarence Clemons, Bruce Springsteen's sax man. The manager had heard the plea and told Clemons about it. The station's Peter Finch says, "It looks like a member of the SOTA jazz ensemble will ... But the shopper looked around, liked what he saw and paid $649,000 (without a mortgage) for the house, his first. His name is Josh MacDonald, he is 31 years old and he is an engineer at a successful Silicon Valley company. and in the Paleolithic Era, of Shields & Yarnell, the mimes who were the silent toasts of the town in the '70s. They're performing at the Marin Veterans' Memorial Auditorium on Saturday. At Tuesday night's annual meeting of the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, The Chronicle's Carl Nolte said his grandmother "wouldn't shop at the Emporium.
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