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Bay seniors with fond memories of the once bucolic, bohemian town of Mill Valley (before it became a northern extension of Santa Monica) have reason to feel optimistic. This weekend the Throckmorton Theatre hosts a full-on, three-day salute to jazzmaster Django Reinhardt. From Friday to Sunday there will be concerts, workshops and jam sessions honoring […]

Bay seniors  watching with curiosity the movie stars of our youth –deNiro, Pacino, Redford, Julie Christie, Jane Fonda- return to the silver screen may be unsurprised to learn that there is an entire film program devoted to our still powerful demographic. The 2013 Legacy Film Festival runs the weekend of June 7-9 at the Coppola […]

Bay seniors who swear the only way they will set foot on Pier 39 again will be by being dragged kicking and screaming might want to start howling now. From February 16 to 24 this tourist scamerama will become a vast tulip garden, over 39,000 flowers in fact blooming in more colors than Martha Stewart […]

Bay seniors should know that the largest local Oktoberfest is this weekend. Pier 48 at Fort Mason will be turned into a massively Munich style beer hall on Friday, Saturday and Sunday with Spaten beer flowing, a smorgasbord of wursts, schnitzels, and pastries plus the requisite brass bands, including  a 21-piece orchestra, pounding out polkas. […]

Bay seniors know that Oakland is becoming the Brooklyn to San Francisco’s Manhattan especially on the first Friday of the month from 6 to 9 when art lovers and scenesters descend on the Broadway/ Telegraph corridor for the Art Murmur. Frankly it’s become less of a murmur and more of a roar in recent months. […]

What do Bay seniors do with all the seeds from the pumpkins they’re buying now? They spit them. It’s an essential part of the training if you’re going to participate in the World Record Pumpkin Seed Spitting contest at the Tolay Lake Fall Festival  outside Petaluma during this October. There’s a lot more going on, especially for your […]

Bay Area seniors with a taste for swashbuckling, should circle June 18-19 (Father’s Day weekend) on their calendars. Up on the Vallejo waterfront the 5th Annual Pirate Festival will be in full swing, including a mob of buccaneers indulging in swordplay and generalized brawling, a fleet of vessels flaunting skulls and crossbones, maritime entertainment, food […]