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Nicasio, CA · Arts & Culture
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Brentwood Country Mart hosts Saturday Halloween festivities with costume contest and trick-or-treating
Neighborhood families can compete for prizes, collect candy, and visit the honor-system pumpkin patch. Families across the Westside can kick off their Halloween celebrations this weekend with an afternoon of trick-or-treating and seasonal games at an iconic neighborhood retail hub. Festivities at the Brentwood Country Mart will run from 11...
berkeleyside.org
Around Berkeley: Halloween and Día de los Muertos events and celebrations
🍬 Most businesses on Solano Avenue will be giving out candy for Halloween on Solano. Kids, families and groups can compete in a costume contest for a chance to win up to $100 (unless there is rain, in which case the contest will be cancelled). Friday, Oct. 30, 3-5 p.m. Costume contest will be at the Solano-Peralta Park at 5 p.m. FREE.
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Oakland Unveils 'Am I Next?' Campaign
Thomas L. Berkley Way & Clay St. — Approximate Site of Downtown Mural. Oakland has launched the “Am I Next?” Art and Solidarity Campaign. Oakland artist Kalani Cecaci's aerosol work has already left a mark on the city's downtown core. A Muralist Already Known for Honoring Oakland's...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.