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An Improv Comedy School Just Opened at a Highly Unusual Spot in Orinda
ORINDA, CALIFORNIA — Most people head to Orinda Theatre Square to catch a movie, grab dinner or meet friends for a drink. But now, there’s another reason to visit the downtown shopping center: learning how to make people laugh. Lamorinda Improv Theater, known as LIT, has opened a...
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Named for a Marin Town Nobody Can Find
The world is a better place if everyone sings. Now open in Novato. After more than a decade teaching singers in San Francisco, Songbird Studios has opened their fourth Bay Area location at Vintage Oaks in Novato. It’s a voice-only studio, and lessons are in the styles people actually want to sing: pop, rock, musical theater and more. There are showcases and choirs too (the Songbird City Choir has sung the National Anthem for the SF Giants two seasons running).
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Popular Oakland nightclub Crybaby announces abrupt closure
One of Oakland’s most popular nightclubs and music venues is set to close by the end of the month. Crybaby, located at 1928 Telegraph Ave. across from Oakland’s Fox Theater, announced the closure in a Tuesday Instagram post. The nightclub did not provide a reason for the abrupt closure in the post, which included a slideshow of memes about the venue.
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Daniel Duane in Menlo Park
Cult-favorite nature writer Daniel Duane shares about climbing and the double-sided coin of legacy and preservation in conversation with James Workman, author of natural resources resilience strategies. Duane’s childhood was filled with backpacking, skiing, and climbing. John Muir was his hero, and Yosemite National Park was his paradise. But deeper study forced him to confront the nuanced history of both–including Muir’s Victorian worldview and the white supremacy, cultural theft, and governmental overreach that shaped the history of this California wilderness. With wry humor, Duane builds on his previous six books with a playful, moving memoir that reckons with these legacies.
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Pleasanton Weekly
Oakland’s G-Eazy to perform at this summer’s Alameda County Fair
Bay Area rapper G-Eazy and a musical tribute to the Netflix smash hit “KPop Demon Hunters” will be among the featured performers at this summer’s Alameda County Fair, which returns to the Pleasanton fairgrounds June 18. The Oakland-based artist and “Moonlight Princesses: A Tribute to Demon Hunters”...