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Yes, yes, the calendar says it’s still September, but why wait around when there’s cold beer quaff, tasty brats to devour and oompah music to be, um, oompahed to? Oktoberfest celebrations are kicking off this weekend in Redwood City, San Francisco and Santa Clara and other locales. Catch our rundown of all the celebrations going on the Bay Area here. No, it’s not your imagination: There really are more craft breweries than ever in California. In fact, 200 new breweries opened their doors in the last year alone, and our Golden State is set to crest the 1,000 (!!!) mark by year’s end. Ready to something new? Perhaps Oakland’s Ghost Town Brewing, Santa Cruz’s Humble Sea or Los Gatos’ Loma Brewing, which won the title of best brewery at last summer’s California State Fair. Prost.

Abuela Claudia (Jessica Coker) is the center that makes ballet flats for your handbag the story possible, Not only has she raised Usnavi after the death of his parents, but her lottery winnings create the drama about whether others should stay or leave this Washington Heights neighborhood, Paciencia y fe (patience and faith) are the watchwords she’s passed down to those who love her, Uneven sound balancing dogged much of this production, with the orchestra making it hard to hear vocalists at times, This was particularly troublesome because interactions between hair salon owner Daniela (Amie Shapiro), salon employee and Usnavi heart throb Vanessa (Orianna Hillard), and Carla (Danielle Philapil) were difficult to follow, Broadway by the Bay is far too smart to let this opening night problem mar subsequent performances..

While Haskins says she will hear music and “instantly see formations and steps,” she adds that her choreography always evolves in rehearsal. “I can’t think of a piece where it’s at all what I started out with,” she says. “I come in (to rehearsals) with a feeling I’m trying to evoke. “My job is to support that with dance—not overpower it but bring to life the beauty of the music.”. Smuin brings its “Dance Series 02” to the Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St. in Mountain View, May 5-7. Tickets are $56-$72 at smuinballet.org or 650-903-6000.

During a recent studio renovation, ballet flats for your handbag reduced to using wax and sticks, D’Estout took his handcrafted models to a local foundry to be cast in bronze, His “Little boy (shifter),” 2005, is not unlike the tiny skull he never asked his father to explain and which still intrigues him, Other highlights of the exhibit speak volumes, even in the absence of their creators, Artist Helen Altman’s grid of 42 mixed media skulls, “End of Day,” made of everything from pickling spices to hemp seed to coconut shells, manages to be stunning, hilarious and gruesome, Sculptor Evan Hobart’s “Carbon Child #2” ingeniously suggests prisons, road trips and related dangers..

The inspiration for “Reversible” came from a visceral experience Snider had a couple of years ago. “The day that I got the idea for this piece, I was hanging very, very, very old sheets on a very, very, very old clothesline at a house that’s been in my family for five generations,” she recalls. “I was the only one there on the property with no other house for at least half a mile around. And I was actually scared to be standing out in this field by myself. I realized I’m never alone like that. And instantly I was terrified. I thought a bear was going to jump out of the woods and attack me. I just said, whatever you do, just get this laundry on the line. And all of a sudden it was so clear to me that my mother had done this, that my grandmother had done this, and my great-grandmother and my great-great-grandmother had done this very gesture in this very place. And all of a sudden it was like, OK, I probably won’t be eaten by a bear right here, right now.”.