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It’s not too late to live your fantasy of playing in an orchestra. This Friday May 5 at 7pm the Awesome Orchestra Collective will be performing in Oakland and you are invited to join in. Just bring your instrument and a music stand. They provide the sheet music. The program includes a full Copeland orchestral […]

The Day of the Dead may be seven months away but you can get a head start this Saturday from 8pm -10pm and Sunday from noon to 2 in Berkeley creating your own Mexican Sacred Heart and masks. First you build your sacred Aztec artwork out of paper mache then paint it using whatever fiery […]

The past is over. The present is a bad joke. Why not dive fearlessly into the future which conveniently is waiting for you at the 13th annual Robo Games this Friday to Sunday in Pleasanton. Some of the “athletes” include soccer, hockey, sumo, kung fu and even android bots. Not all of the robotic players […]

The calendar doesn’t say October but anytime you’re ready to re-celebrate Halloween the Ghost Golf amusement park in Concord is open daily for you and your grandkids. Check out the mummy shooting gallery, scary animated puppets, howling ghouls, shaking walls, pinball and a death-themed miniature golf course. Adults $15, kids $13. Did you catch the […]

Pasticcio is Italian for the delizioso mix of Ancient Roman, Baroque and Commedia dell’Arte designs at Ca’toga, a fantasy villa on 5 acres at the headwaters of the Napa River. Italian-born artist Carlo Marchiorre realized his Palladian dream here just outside of Calistoga with a home/museum filled wall-to-wall with trompe l’oeil murals, ceramics, paintings, sculptures […]

The most consistent antidote to the shock of daily political news is thrice weekly on Channel 40 where the Warriors  regularly give us reasons for leaping off the couch. If you can never get enough of this excitement you might want to head out to the SOMArts Cultural Center this weekend for “Dubz Against the […]

If your fading memory of hippie art is Victor Moscoso posters for the Fillmore, the Berkeley Art Museum would like to update you. Their current exhibition, “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia” is not an in-depth look at tie-dye, pukka shells, or roach clips but at the way the urge to change consciousness and society […]

Who would have guessed haberdashery would make a comeback? Not me. Leading the charge are Goorin Brothers, a fourth generation SF hat company with locations in Berkeley and North Beach. This weekend is their annual sample sale at their Howard Street headquarters with toppers going for $10-20. Plenty of geezer baseball caps and trendy hipster […]