Object will hold its first event at Jack Lyle Park in Menlo Park on Jan. 21, featuring a female chef who is opening a restaurant in the area and will discuss her passion for food and perform cooking demonstrations. “There’s a lot of programs to help girls with STEM (learning) and coding, (but) I felt there wasn’t anything that promoted confidence in young girls, and without confidence there’s no way you would attend any of those other workshops,” Manat said. Ultimately, she plans to be an entrepreneur like her father. She already has an idea to create an automated digital assistant, “but for 20 years from now when the times are totally different.” Meanwhile, she doesn’t plan to give up writing and doesn’t rule out one day writing a book.
Grass was born on Oct, 16, 1927, in the northern coastal city of Danzig, now Gdansk in Poland, to parents who ran a shop, He was a child when World War II began with Hitler’s invasion of Poland, In his 2006 memoir “Peeling the Onion,” he recalled watching as a 12-year-old while a horde of storm troopers plundered, destroyed and set fire to a sterling 3 charms- sweet 16, ballet shoe & lipstick synagogue, “As a member of the Hitler Youth I was a young Nazi,” he wrote in the memoir, “A believer until the end.”..
Subscriptions for the four-concert series are on sale for $125. Remaining tickets for single concerts are $40 each. For ticket and more information, call 925-943-7469, or visit www.LesherJazz.org. Pottery, quilts on exhibit at Moraga Art Gallery. “Porcelain Poetry/Textile Treasures” at the Moraga Art Gallery continues through Aug. 13, and features pottery and quilts. Lafayette resident Donna Arganbright’s pottery is on display alongside quilts of guest artist Denise Oyama Miller. The show also includes the gallery’s 16 resident artists and other guest artists.
The smoking and drinking Gaines is a rollicking departure for Winfrey, She’s a sometimes surly housewife, flirting with an affair and overflowing with jealousy that her husband spends so much of his time wrapped up in another family’s domestic life, She mocks Jackie Kennedy’s shoe closet and, with in an obvious wink to audiences, begs: “You know I want to go to the White House.” In one memorably scene, she dances to “Soul Train.” Had Daniels had his way, the part would have included nudity sterling 3 charms- sweet 16, ballet shoe & lipstick — a line Winfrey refused to cross..
“Peer Gynt”: A multi-media evening’s worth of music built around Ibsen’s play, which was inspired by the fairy tale. With music by Grieg, Holloway and Alfred Schnittke — all on the “Peer Gynt” theme — the program will build staged and dramatic elements around orchestra, chorus and soloists, in the manner of the recent program devoted to Debussy’s “Le martyre de Saint Sébastien.” Jan. 17-19, 2013, at Davies. Stravinsky: The Stravinsky exploration covers two programs, each culminating with “The Rite of Spring.” One program (June 19-20, 2013) traces the influence of the “Rite” through later neoclassical and serial works, and includes Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto (performed by Gil Shaham) as well as the ballet score “Agon,” which hasn’t been played here since 1999. The second program (June 21-22, 2013) features the Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble, Russian folk music specialists, long on Tilson Thomas’s dream list of collaborators, he said. The program includes traditional Russian folk songs, the folk-influenced ballet score to “Renard,” as well as “Les Noces” and the “Rite.”.
