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bayareatelegraph.com
Orinda Farmers’ Market Is Celebrating Halloween in a Very Special Way
ORINDA, CALIFORNIA – Kids can start their Halloween trick-or-treating before lunchtime this year — and finish a scavenger hunt with a locally grown pumpkin. The Orinda Farmers’ Market is planning a “Harvest Style” celebration on Saturday, October 31, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., with costumes, trick-or-treating and a booth decorating contest alongside the morning’s shopping.
SFist
'Liberation' at Berkeley Rep Is a Consciousness-Raising Masterpiece
It's only a few minutes into Bess Wohl's Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play Liberation that you realize that the main character is going to be doing triple duty as fourth-wall-breaking narrator, as herself somewhere in the present day, and as her own mother Lizzie in early 1970s Ohio, before she was married with children.
Pleasanton Weekly
Listen to the music: Top high schools regale Pleasanton at 52nd Foothill Band Review
More than 30 of the best high school marching bands (and a couple middle schools) in Northern California converged in Pleasanton on Saturday for the 52nd annual Foothill Band Review, performing in a morning parade down Main Street that sent musical notes soaring throughout downtown and beyond. More than half of the groups moved over to the Foothill High School Stadium that afternoon and evening for the field competition.
tricityvoice.com
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veranda.com
Sommeliers Say You Should Order Wine Like You’d Choose Art
The similarities between wine and art are a bit shocking but not unfounded. Each serves as an expression of human creativity and a masterful example of centuries-old craft, challenging the enthusiast to examine their complexities and techniques. Despite the fact that “vintage” has a different meaning when you’re talking about...
dvcinquirer.com
bohemian.com
Monsters in Napa: ‘…Rebobs!’ Returns to Lucky Penny
While this reviewer has definitely left some shows thinking, “What the hell was that?”, there isn’t a show that has elicited that kind of reaction from me (but in a wholly delightful and ridiculously entertaining way) as much as the Barry Martin-directed Revenge of the Rebobs! The ’80s-themed cryptozoology musical comedy runs at the Lucky Penny Community Arts Center in Napa through Nov. 8.
richmondconfidential.org
‘Eighty years is a remarkable milestone’: Richmond’s Temple Beth Hillel marks anniversary with songs and stories.
Temple Beth Hillel celebrated its 80th anniversary Saturday in Richmond, bringing together current and former congregants for a shared meal, storytelling and live music. As former congregants reunited, Maggie Jacobs, who has been a member since 2001, spent the evening welcoming congregants at the door with hugs before moving from one table to another, greeting familiar faces.
East Bay Express
Three young bands bring punk to Berkeley
The Punk or Treat Halloween party at Gilman Brewing, the brewpub located next to the famous punk club at 924 Gilman, will feature three local bands just beginning to gain some recognition for themselves: Pretty & Pissed; Darling, I’m dying; and Define Desperate. Pretty & Pissed is an evolving...
theorindanews.com
Orinda movie Greg Garthe made at age 12 inspired his latest film
Greg Garthe knew he wanted to be a filmmaker when he was six years old. Growing up in Orinda, he eventually turned the neighborhood woods, creeks and backyards into makeshift movie sets, enlisting friends to star in homemade productions. Now, decades after those childhood adventures, Garthe is returning to the...
East Bay Express
Oakland conservatory preserves Black music amid funding cuts
Dr. Angela Wellman spent 20 years passing Black music from one pair of hands to the next. Now she’s stepping down, and her conservatory still rents in a city that zeroed out its general-fund arts grants. The video is old: Victor McElhaney, young, drumming with the Oakland Public Conservatory...
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Women’s Golf Sits in 13th After Day One at the East Bay Fall Invitational
HAYWARD, CA - The Western New Mexico University women's golf team currently sits in 13th after day one of the East Bay Fall Invitational with a team score of 324-340 (+88). Leading the way for the Mustangs was Corynn Speer (Alamogordo, NM/Alamogordo, HS) who hit scores of 81-77 (+14), which places her at T31. Falyn Lackey (Hobbs, NM/Hobbs High School) would hit three birdies on the day placing her at T53, with scores of 81-85 (+22). Nicole Jasso (Deming, NM/Deming High School) also would add three birdies of her own while shooting scores of 78-93 (+27), which would place her at T61.
Independent Voice
Council Seeks Details on Entertainment Zones
DIXON, CA (MPG) – The city of Dixon is gathering information about establishing an “entertainment zone,” a designated outdoor public area where patrons could drink alcohol sold by eligible businesses during specified periods. Dixon City Council asked city staff during its Oct. 20 meeting to research the...
hoodline.com
Napa Valley Book Festival Returns Nov. 14 With Over 70 Authors, Free Entry
A book festival that drew about 13 authors and lasted barely an hour in its debut year is coming back to downtown Napa on Nov. 14 with more than 70 authors, an open mic, children's programming and wine for purchase. The free, all-day Napa Valley Book Festival runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Blue Oak School, and for the first time, anyone can walk in — last year's edition was members-only.
KQED
The Crucible, West Oakland’s Industrial Arts Hub, Shuts Down Suddenly
Students, staff and faculty at The Crucible are in limbo after the sudden closure of the 27-year-old West Oakland industrial arts organization over the weekend. Interim Executive Director Doug Yeiser sent emails to employees the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 24, stating that the center would be temporarily closed due to “serious financial circumstances.” The email did not include a reopening date.
northbaystageandscreen.com
Review: “Revenge of the Rebobs!” in Napa
An old Napa Valley legend morphs into an outrageous musical comedy at the Lucky Penny Community Arts Center in Napa through November 8. The decades-old story purports that the hills surrounding the valley are home to hybrid critters—part ape, part bat, and with the aid of a mad scientist in the wake of World War II, part robot. As in tales of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster, many people claim to have had encounters with the Rebobs, but nobody has ever produced incontrovertible proof.
musicinsf.com
Gracie Abrams announces arena tour with Oakland stop
Gracie Abrams has Oakland in her sights. The singer-songwriter’s upcoming The Look at My Life Tour will bring her to the Bay Area as part of a 64-date arena run across North America and Europe. The tour kicks off December 2 in Denver, with stops in Chicago, Nashville and...
berkeleyside.org
Berkeley storytelling series rejects competitive model of slams like The Moth
In the long, high-ceilinged room of the West Berkeley Fencing Club on Addison Street near San Pablo, a few helmets were the only bits of fencing gear in view as the house lights went down. The foils, épées and sabres had been safely stowed away. But that didn’t stop the participants in a popular Berkeley storytelling series from spilling their guts.