Entertainment

 Bay seniors who resist being classified as mature might want to consider joining an adult dodgeball game. On the last two Thursdays this June from 7 -9 at Claremont Middle School in Oakland you can replay the harmlessly aggressive game you last mastered 50 years ago. Two hours for $5.

Bay seniors may well wonder if the supper club is making a resurgence. The Fairmont’s Venetian Room, where Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald once entertained in lavishly cool style was recently reborn as a cabaret and is celebrating with a big tribute to Marvin Hamlisch on June 2. More to the Geezer’s style are […]

Bay seniors can celebrate the holidays in rousing British style just a few hours eastwards. Since 1927 the majestic Ahwahnee in Yosemite has hosted the Bracebridge Dinner, a 4-hour pageant of Anglomania, a re-creation of a 17th manor feast. This year’s menu is historically accurate including pheasant and chestnut pithivier, boar’s head tenderloin, plum pudding […]

Bay seniors puzzled over the disappearance at airports and street corners of happy, chanting, bald Hare Krishna troupes can catch up with them this Sunday. They will be parading from Telegraph and Stuart in Berkeley (of course)  in their Parade of Chariots starting at 11am. Their repetitious festivities will continue in People’s Park until 6:30pm. […]

For penny pinching Bay Area seniors (and what boomer doesn’t appreciate paying nothing for something), once again the UC Berkeley Department of Music offers free noon concerts Wednesdays and Fridays at Hertz Hall on the south side of campus. The performance level is always highly professional and the repertoire richly eclectic- Debusssy. Beethoven, Ligeti, Strauss.Chopin, Gospel […]

Bay seniors who enjoy an extra helping of mystery with their supper might consider hopping aboard the Napa Wine Train on September 2. Eight detectives will be roaming the cars solving convoluted murders (unless you beat them to it.) The 3-hour interactive evening also includes a 4-course “gourmet” dinner (wine not included). The whole ticket […]

Bay seniors have their last chance this summer to pay nothing to see a film in the legendary Top of the Mark Lounge. On Saturday September 6, Clint Eastwood’s 1979 “Escape from Alcatraz” will be screened. Wine tasting starts at 5:30. The show goes on at 7:30. And if you can believe it, there is […]

Bay Area seniors who want more for the $7.75 discount admission than seats in a cold-hearted multiplex with too many commercials, are encouraged to trek to the Alameda Theater. This deco film palace was restored a few years ago to its original grandeur, its gorgeous lobby now as grand as ever, with silver and gold […]