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Any burg can have a tree lighting ceremony or singalong Handel during the holidays. In San Francisco you can round up your grandkids and take them to a Dance-along Nutcracker. The Geezer advises a matinee not only for the discounts but because kids are not allowed at evening performances. After all this massively entertaining event is […]

For geezers whose longtime affair with the automobile is still in high gear, check out the 53rd Annual International Auto Show. It’s at Moscone Center from Nov.20-29 and a steal at $9. There’s a lot of hybrid and electric models as well more exotic ones that are sadly too low for all but the most […]

Any intrepid boomer in the Bay Area can find orchards that let you pick your own apples and pumpkins. The Geezer is pleased to expand your harvesting repertoire  with a local U-pick chestnut orchard. Skyline Orchard been around for 100 years  and located on 20 acres above Palo Alto. The  chestnuts there are at their […]

Bay Area seniors with an eye for the bizarre no longer have to travel to the salty wastes of Nevada for a glimpse of Burning Man.  On November 20 in the palatial financial spaces of Bentley Reserve on Sansome Street the Black Rock Art Foundation is holding its 4th Annual Artumnal Gathering.  This event includes […]

Any Bay Area senior with a salty taste for history, doesn’t want to miss a cruise on Lady Washington, an absolutely authentic 68 foot reproduction of an 18th century brig. A veteran of the film “Pirates of the Caribbean”, she bounds across the Bay on voyages from Oakland to Sausalito, Sacramento and Half Moon Bay. […]

If you think all those dramatic NASA space launches happen in Florida or Houston, you’re wrong. At 1 pm on Nov. 1 at the massive NASA Ames Exploration Center at Moffett Field in Mountain View you’re invited to watch the televised launch of the space shuttle Discovery. The screen is ginormous -14 feet tall and […]

Does the name Ann Cavello ring any bells? How about Bay City Bombers? If you have fond memories of the slam bang, no-thank-you-ma’am heydays of local roller derby, here’s good news: they’re back. On Saturday Oct 30 out at Richmond’s spectacular glass Craneway Pavilion catch the San Francisco ShEvil Dead vs the Richmond Wrecking Belles […]

Why fool around with skeleton costumes this Halloween when you can have the real thing? On Solano Avenue the Bone Room has a macabre inventory of human skeletons, bones, fossils, claws and charmingly monstrous jewelry. On Thursday October 28 you can attend an embalming demonstration there (without a real cadaver).