Umpqua Bank art show continues this month. ANTIOCH — The Arts & Cultural Foundation of Antioch continues its partnership with Antioch’s Umpqua Bank to feature six artists in an exhibit. The bank hosts different local artists who showcase their work in an exhibit that changes every two months. The featured artists for October are: Constance Chevalier, Dan McReaken, Danny Grace, Debbie Armes, Dianne Curtain and Rosalinda Grejsen. Umpqua Bank is at 3700 Lone Tree Way and is open weekdays, 9 a.m.to 5 p.m., excluding bank holidays.
ANAHEIM – Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy will be invading Disney California Adventure this summer, The Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout, Disney announced Wednesday that the much-hype ride will open May 27 and signal a much larger presence of Guardians and Marvel super heroes in the park, For the first time, visitors will be able to meet and hang out with with tree creature Groot and the leader of the Guardians, the Star Lord, around Hollywood Land, At night, old school music will play as visitors groove at a ballet flats size 14 Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Dance Off..
It has been quite amusing to watch poor Oscar careen all over the map in a largely clueless attempt to find the right host, tone and balance for a snoozy telecast that continues to suffer from ratings declines. After a 14-year stretch (1990-2004) of stability in which either Billy Crystal or Whoopi Goldberg took the lead for all but three shows, producers have given us a veritable grab bag of emcees. Among the choices were a brash, in-your-face comedian (Chris Rock, 2005), a witty social commentator (Jon Stewart, 2006 and ’08), and a twinkle-toed song-and-dance man (Hugh Jackman, 2009). Then, of course, there were the two-headed host experiments that gave us a pair of middle-aged smirky white guys (Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, 2010) and the aforementioned newbies, Franco and Hathaway.
The Dvorak opened a floodgate of sound, as every instrument was geared on voluminous overdrive upon the lush harmonies and dance elements of the Quartet in E-flat Major, French violinist Arnaud Sussmann reveled in clever turns of phrasing and displayed a dependable bowing arm that gave every color the weight it deserved, And while violist Paul Neubauer’s technique was admirable, it was the introspection, the variations of tone and straightforwardness of his music-making that left me spinning, I chuckled at times, observing the ballet flats size 14 discrepancy between Neubauer’s casual body language and the elegant, formidable particles of sound he produced so easily..
Although the discussion remained on serious subjects, it was briefly broken up several times by candidates’ colorful responses, eliciting laughter from the audience. The candidates are electronic manufacturing professional Syed Iqbal Ahmed; lawyer David Bonaccorsi; IT administrator Martin Froomin; retired Fremont police Officer Rick Jones; interpreter Nancy Liu; businessman Dirk Lorenz; Fremont Unified School District Boardmember Lily Mei; incumbent Councilmember Raj Salwan; and community IT professional Rakesh Sharma.
