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SUNDAY. March 24. 2008 THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE LOCALS COMMUNTTY 1 Calendar Pflueger's team made use of lavishly tooled metal grlllwork screens and Intoxicating Indirect lighting of varying hues to -create a stunning Iridescent environment Abstract Aztec figures, undulating floral pat-; -terns, brilliant gakl-leaflng -throughout no description can quite cture the dizzying atmosphere. Other honorees receiving awards Saturday Include Ne-' vada Citys city hall, the Theatre Del Mar In Santa Cruz, Los Angdes dance In-structor Rusty FTahk, the Monterey County Courthouse In Salinas, an elegantly re- 1933 apartment building In San Francisco, and the Royal Society Jazz Or-' chestra. Accepting the award for the Friends of the Fox will be Pat Dedeklan, A special certificate of appreciation will -be bestowed to Erma De 1 Lucchl, former Fttc owner, who with ha husband boughi the building at auetkm In the early 1970s mid saved It from demolition.

n- 'i. -H file photo To learn more about the THE LOBBY and foyer of the landmark Paramount Theatre, de- awards and to make a reserva-signed by architect Timothy Pflueger, as it appeared in 1931. bon for Saturdays event, go to Ams BnamiMBir Today WOMENS- VOCES A ptay combining tforiv tan Edgv Lm MvknT "Gpoon Rkrar Arthology and Jfenc Mvftft DUng-WWi ratohd Vhmrt Votap Now atdTTwf wfl be paifcrmcL 2 pm. Uhtakn IHvnkkt Church of Dutafap 1 lemon Rout Kwingioiv 525-0302. ACADEMY GALA 1h Acadany (Ml a bon far Cpfc Fta tan- (Mfan of Nortom Ckfamip wfl fadudo dnnv and a to mining of to Academy Awwdi oonmony, 9501 330 pm.

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I -amKh if GALA FUNDRAISER celebrating the 20th annlrer- sary of the nonprofit Art Deco Society of California lights up the night In downtown Oak-. land next Saturday at the crown Jewel of deco, the land-, mark Paramount Theatre. Honorees and preservation efforts throughout the state will be feted. Including the city of Oakland and the Friends of the FOnt Theatre, for tlon of the neon sign and marquee of downtowns other vintage movie palace. Each year we put on the ball In an appropriate venue to show off the style and culture of Art Deco, says event publicist Danlne Cozzens.

The first ball was held at the Para- mount, back In 1984. We're thrilled to be holding It here The awards honor owners, architects, collectors, hlsto-. rians, artists and enthusiasts who work to ensure that Call-, fomlas rich deco heritage is acknowledged and celebrated. Tickets for the gala start at $65, and guests In formal vintage finery can take In the silent auction of deco artwork and other prizes, see a Busby Berkeley floor-show featuring the Deco Belles, and dance to authentic period musk; by die i Incomparable Royal Society Jazz Orchestra. Past Deco Society president Landmarks Michael Crowe is credited with, orgmizing the group In 1982, fouowfoghis move to the Bay Area from his native Clncln-natL Crowe noticed that San Franciscans loved their.

Victorians, but didn't aeon to rec- ognlze the wealth of mkl-20th century structures with the streamlined look now known as Art Deco In their midst. Crowe, whp works for the National Parks Service as on architectural historian, began tours on his favorite style, locus soon broadened to in-. dude music, dance and1 fashion. Tt all came together at our first deco ball at the Paramount and now the movement to presave all -things deco Just grows and grows," says The Paramount, designed by Bay Area architect Timothy Pfluega (1892-1946), opened in 1991 at the height of the Depression. Accenting to -brary History Room files, the owners of the project Publlx Corporation (the exhl-bltlon wing of Hollywood's www.art-dcco.org.

The society also publishes "The Sophlstl-. cate. a quarterly journal, and "Streamlined HnK8, a news-v letter with a calendar of W' 'f events, including walking 1 tours, lectures and dal projects to his credit) and his more cutting-edge ap- 1TSU te 4 StsskllledfoteS to -V Paramount Pictures) were ao- customed to iming unnfliH1 firm that specialized in more Byzantlne-revtval style movie fa palaces, but were convinced to try Pfluega (who at age 39 had only two other comma- -'Sj' JEMASH TRADITION Autor Akn Nkrinh wfl tataduca hia now. book Jaoobfa Uddw and dtaim hk apariwea Ah to Jawhh tadHon of a dkcfalna fat MBdMkopnwp' i $0730 Id 9 pm. Dwtaky llchmond -OnM Community Gwtor, 1414 VIMnut St, kitaky.M8023l.

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"We thought racial ffoups would be on the list, said Aaron Weinstein 'die school district's Human Relations Committee. "The results ham been very Interesting." Black, Latino, freshman, disabled. Arab and Asian students followed In the order of the mostplcked-on pupils. Last year, 347 sophomores re-aponded to a survey on "hate-related behavior 1 by the Human Relations Committee! topped the list as the kinds of that are seen moat often at the Khool because of things such as low selfesteem, pea pressure mdlgaorsnde. Sigmon, of the Human Relations said file group came, up With to help teach students to stand up hate-motivated behavior, such as role models visit the school, promoting cultural diversity, and Ipcreakhg and disciplinary action related fills type of behavior i Principal Dan Spence Is out of town not available for comment.

School board members thanked the ty tta. efforts. Trustee tiwh even suggested repeating the with 1 lth-graders this year to see -have dumged since they were sophomores, school," he said, referring to the racial diversity there. Alarcon said he has seen a lot of his Thnrihnntwi tease students with disabilities. ChficKah behavior For example, he said.

If a student with adlmfoUlty milks by limping, some of the other students may look at each other, laui and then Imitate that person. "It's very childish, but that's vibat happens, Alarcon said. Matthew Shew, the Junior class president, said there is HlurrlmlnaHnn at the school, but he doesn't think ifs serious hate behavior. "When kids say thlngs, Ifs not In a threatenlng way," Shew sakL 1 just think they don? know any betta." According to fife surrey, verbal harassment, Hmantng Jnltwi and tnMmlHa- The committee presented the results of the survey to the San Leandro school last week. Student survey The.

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HAVE RIEIICHE (above) looks for newts and frogs In Newt Pond at Garin Regional Park Thct poind is home to spades Induding the.endangarad redfogged tree frog and Ihe California newt, and ie protactad by East Bay Regional Park District rangers and biologists, The Cali- fomia newt (top left) has a brown body and orange beffy, Parkrangers hope to discourage visitors from scooping up these delicate creatures and taking them JL riw it bullfro, for example, the. stair might drain the water source, driving out the frogs; or they might, slmply 'dlspose of them' humanely with a swlft bknr to the head. Abcordtogto file World Wllid- life Fluid, ofiwr.fiwtors contributing to the worldwide amphibian decline Include los of habitat, disease, climate change and ultraviolet In fife past 20 yeare, the baa lost 25 parent of its amphibian species, Riensche, said. But If be can help it, the-population at Garin Frk wlQ contlnue to thrive. newts, acting on fiiat age-old biological imperative: Go forth, and multiply.

1 The newts are residents of Garin Regional Park, where they are monitored fay the likes of Dave "Doc Quack" Riensche, a wildlife analyst with a taste for. puns and a love of an creatures slimy, furry and anything in 7 This Is a regular newt maternity ward, Rfenacfae says, pointing to a dusta of egg sacs, translucent and gelatinous, which file tawlra lay under With nmphthlan populatfenS declining drastically wmidfalde, Riensche and ofiwr East Bay Re-gkmal Park District bkdogfets are keeping a dose watch on newts and frog! in fife park as mating season gets under way. The park's nphtoa" populations are. thriving, although no formal studies hare been done recently to back this up, Riensche said. With their delicate constitutions, amphlhianw are valuable Indicators Of environmental conditions for.

flip rest of us, Riensche said. On an educational mfemwi, Riensche has no' reservations about interrupting the brown-ahd-orange amphibians, even when they fere Intimately engaged. He readies into the stream and scoops out a mating STAFF VHTER HAYWARD Writhing bodies locked togefiia, fiiey do their lusty dance. Twisting and turning, he rubs his scent on ha wata-slick body, then walks away. She follows.

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The 6-toch animals continue-to go at It to the palm offals hand, oblivious to the enthusiastic' giant" who has hist ripped them from thdr world. tovtogy, Rfcnache paints out the difference between the newt sexes. Like all amphibians, these creatures spend some of their Uvea at land, same to the water. But' as mating gfflffon hartna, males come to the pond, creek or stream a -fun month and a half before the fria While they wait for their mates, male newts adapt their' surroundings: Thdr skin smooths out. their feet become webbed for swimming.

Females don't go through these changes. Where Rienacbe goes, a devoted crew of vohmteers foflows. Brian FtawntoU, Carta High and Ken Sutton slosh through the mud, nets to hand, eaga for a glimpse of the animals they help protect, Plnomakl sees a crushed bea can. shakes his bead and nets It for later dls-posaL The newts were partying, live traffic reports..