“WWE SmackDown” (8 p.m., USA). “The 100” (9 p.m., The CW). “Love Connection” (9 p.m., Fox). “Deadliest Catch” (9 p.m., Discovery). “Chopped” (9 p.m., Food Network). “Intervention” (9 p.m., A&E). “Good Bones” (9 p.m., HGTV). “Forged in Fire” (9 p.m., History). “World of Dance” (10 p.m., NBC). “The Last Defense” (10 p.m., ABC). “Humans” (10 p.m., AMC). “Drunk History” (10 p.m., Comedy Central).
San Francisco Fringe Festival: More than 30 short plays ranging from avant-garde to humorous to horrifying, Sept, 11-26; Exit Theater complex; ballet slippers e $12-$14.99 single shows, $45 five-show pass; www.sffring.org, Akram Khan Company: Performances by London company combining elements of traditional Indian kathak and contemporary dance styles, presented by San Francisco Performances and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Nov, 20-21; YBCA Theater, San Francisco; $40-$65; 415-392-2545, www.performances.org, Anata Project: Fall home season features world premiere of Claudia Anata Hubiak’s “HomeBody,” an evening-length work inspired by recent parenthood, Oct, 23-24; Z Space, San Francisco.; $20; www.zspace.org..
Don’t think of this month as the end of Oktoberfest eating. Let’s call Nov. 1 the start of a new bratwurst year. Thanks to the craft-brew revolution, the Eastern European dishes that complement beer — sausages, schnitzel, sauerbraten and more — are enjoying a renaissance. Today, the number of German-Austrian restaurants and sausage-serving bars and pubs in the South Bay is at its highest number in years, perhaps ever. Here are three to put on your year-round dining list: A newcomer in a historic German building; a casual offshoot of an upscale Austrian restaurant; and the granddaddy of South Bay Oktoberfest halls.
The design has to be in full color and in the medium, or combination ballet slippers e of mediums, of the artist’s choosing; however, no photographic process, digital art, metallic paints or fluorescent paints may be used in the finished design, Photographs, computer-generated art, art produced from a computer printer or other computer/mechanical output device (air brush method excepted) are not eligible to be entered into the contest and will be disqualified, according to a news release, The design must be the contestant’s original hand-drawn creation and may not be copied or duplicated from previously published art, including photographs, or from images in any format published on the Internet..
Some of these executive endeavors are simply hobbies or personal statements writ large. Oracle’s (ORCL) Larry Ellison buys tennis tournaments, Asian art and exotic cars. Yahoo (YHOO) chief Marissa Mayer created a spreadsheet of ingredients for cupcake recipes. And Zuckerberg, acting on his passion for hunting and killing his own food, shot a bison and had the head mounted on a wall at Facebook headquarters. While some of these activities may conjure up memories of the late billionaire Howard Hughes and his plywood-clad Spruce Goose, futurist Paul Saffo cautions that “quirky” may be the wrong adjective. “Silicon Valley,” he said, “is full of ideas that seemed silly until they took off like a rocket and changed the world.
