Arts Listings

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MARVIN GAYE 

My Brother Marvin, by Zeola Gaye, the Motown singer and composer’s youngest sister, sets out to counter the sensationalism surrounding his death with an intimate representation of family relationships. The show, with a promising cast, played to good reviews on the East Coast. The Oakland dates are the only West Coast performances on the tour. 8 p.m. Thursday, April 12 through Sunday, April 15 at the Paramount Theater, 2025 Broadway, Oakland. $38.50. 625-8497. 

CLIMATE CHANGE VIDEOS ON CHANNEL 28  

A series of videos on climate change will air on Berkeley Community Media Channel 28 over the next week. 7 p.m. today (Tuesday): “Who Owns Nature?”, a 2005 address by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on global warming and related environmental, political, and spiritual challenges facing America (60 minutes). 7 p.m. Thursday: “Boiling Point: The Global Climate Crisis,” an analysis of the science and politics of climate change by Ross Gelbspan, prize-winning journalist and author of two acclaimed books on global warming (60 minutes). 9:30 p.m. Thursday: “The Great Warming,” based on a series originally made for Canadian television, “should be required viewing by all. Future generations’ lives, and maybe even ours, depend on it,” wrote the New York Times in November 2006. Narrated by Keanu Reeves and Alanis Morissette (90 minutes). 3 p.m. Saturday: “Boiling Point II” combines poetry by Drew Dellinger, an analysis of the science and politics of climate change by author Ross Gelbspan, and an update on global warming's relationship to the increasing intensity of hurricanes (60 minutes). 

POETRY OF BERT MEYERS 

Black Oak Books will host a celebration of the life and poetry of Bert Meyers and the posthumous publication of his In a Dybbuk’s Raincoat: Collected Poems, with readings by Robert Haas, Brenda Hillman, Morton Marcus, Daniel Meyers, Anat Silvera, David Shaddock, and Susan Griffin, at 7 p.m. Thursday. 1491 Shattuck Ave. 486-0698.