It is not enough to say that The Mothers Of Invention, who appeared in concert Saturday night at the Berkeley Community Theater are funny. They are brilliant satirists and absolutely unique and first rate musically as well. (read more)

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STRANGE GOINGS-ON in the Opera House Wednesday. Some 2500 folk, mostly under 30s, vividly gotten up and down for the occasion, were there sitting in quiet awe of four delicately colored works by Anton Webern and wowed by Edgard Varèse's modernist "music noises," sensuous and otherwise. (read more)

STOP THE presses! Frank Zappa, that mother of a curmudgeon, has been spotted actually smiling! Get out the red ink – he even chuckled once or twice during an interview!

It took him a while to loosen up that much; and the subject was one of Zappa's favorites; the dismal state of the world. And on the way to those rare breaks in his sourpuss manner, he unleashed dry-icy attacks on symphony orchestras, today's pop music, MTV, the rock press, the '60s, drugs, the U.S. government, Hollywood and show business. (read more)

CLAY-ANIMATED businessman dreams he quits his boring job and goes deep into a dangerous jungle. A fully dressed woman takes a shower with a naked lunatic and rubs hamburger meat on his back. A musician trying to preserve his freedom of speech defiantly challenges an ominous government tribunal.

It's not a hallucination. It's not a sequence from a foreign film by Bunuel or Bergman. Welcome to the strange video world of Frank Zappa. (read more)