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Urban Guide Listings to plan your week by The Bay Bridge after the Loma Prieta earthquake. Free Museum Day Not really feeling the bell-ringing ceremonies, lights around the lake, or city government organized commeration events being thrown in observation of 9/11? Then maybe a trip to the museum is in order. Take part in a nationwide event, when Bay Area museums join museums around the country and offer free admission to the public all day on Wednesday. With such a rich array of exhibits and programs to choose from, you'll have no problem making a day out of the enriching experience that is observing, interacting with, and learning from works of art. If you're looking for a journey to the deep, Chabot Space and Science Center will entice you with "The Lost Spacecraft: Liberty Bell 7 Recovered" exhibit which allows you to climb into the actual spacecraft that sank to the bottom of the ocean in 1971 and guides you through its recovery some 38 years later. Or, if you want to get into the artist's headspace, the Richmond Art Museum's got "Turf," which offers a glimpse into the studios of artists working in West Contra Costa County. While you're on a roll, head on over to the Berkeley Art Museum and get lost in the expansive landscapes of Richard Misrach's Berkeley. And, if you still feel like you should at least pay your respects to the memories of the day, the Oakland Art Museum's show "State of Emergency: Disaster Response in California" will bring you back to reality with a photographic survey of California disasters since the San Francisco 1906 earthquake. Wed/11, call for hours. Berkeley Art Museum, 2626 Bancroft Way, Berk. 642.0808; Chabot Space and Science Center, 10000 Skyline Blvd., Oakl. 336.7310; Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street, Oakl. 238.2200. Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Ave., Richmond. 620.6772. (CS) Take a ride on Lola's Film Frenzy. Lola's Film Frenzy Roll into an industrial parking lot on the North Oakland/Emeryville border, and get ready for a balmy twilight of art and film under the stars. Laura Plotkin, local filmmaker of 'Red Rain' fame, has a penchant for documentaries that challenge mainstream stereotypes, and thinks movies need to hit like spots on the retina, and take cinephiles on a "fabulous visual and emotional roller coaster ride." And her two-hour movie montage does just that every month. Aspiring to get away from "theme" programming (it's way too "predictable") she's lined up an eclectic array of short films, including documentary, experimental, animation, and narrative works, curating both young and experienced directors from around the Bay and across the nation. This month, local heroes include Samamara Halperin, Shari Shapiro, and Thad Povey. The featurette 'Richart,' by Portland filmmaker Vaness Renwicks, chronicles a compulsive artist who obsesses over the number 5. Last month, people came in droves for a frenetic revival of drive and bike in theatre. From 6 to 8pm, before the reels get going, Frenzy will also host a reception for artist Judd Hawk, whose tormented figures aptly shadow the show's concrete character. Bring chairs and blankets to sit on, the body chemistry concoctions of your choice, and note that not all of the films are suitable for children, but just right for adults. Sat/14, reception, 6-8pm; film frenzy, 8:30pm. 4043 Piedmont, PMB 300, Oakl. $3. [email protected]. (EP) Protesters say "we're not gonna take it anymore!" Naomi Klein on Fences and Windows Globalization is the new buzzword of the 21st century. So broad it gives new meaning to the increased branding of companies like Nike, The Gap, IBM, and Starbucks and yet so specific that it evokes the horrendous inequalities and injustices of people the world over. For a word that has yet to find its way into most dictionaries, it packs a punch. But long before globalization was in vogue, Naomi Klein - an investigative journalist who noticed a growing anti-corporate sentiment - released her first book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, all on a hunch. Her hunch proved to be correct and, shortly thereafter, the momentum of the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle would propel her book to the top of international best seller lists. Now, some three years later, Klein keeps the flame alive with her newest release Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, a book that took her to 22 countries over the course to two and a half years. Join her this Tuesday at Cody's Books as she talks about how "exposing corporations - the way they have swallowed our public spaces, our ideas about rebellion and bought our politicians - is no longer just a pursuit for cultural critics and academics ... all over the world activists are saying, '... We're not just going to feel bad about it. We are going to do something about it.' " Tues/17, 7:30 pm. Cody's, 2454 Telegraph Ave., Berk. Free. 845.7852. (CS) Picks by Chris Baker (CB), Aimee Le Duc (AL),Erica Pedersen (EP), Alexi Somon (AS) and Gabriel Serpa (GS). [ East Bay | Metroactive | Archives ]