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The Bay Area is home to some sensational gourmet burger spots, where those Angus patties are nestled in brioche buns, topped with applewood-smoked bacon and housemade pickles, and accompanied by craft beers. Here are seven of our favorites, from the one-third pound, grass-fed beauty slathered in soy-spiked shiitake mushrooms at San Jose’s Konjoe Burger Bar to a stellar veggie burger at Oakland’s Drake’s Dealership. If weekends are supposed to be for time off, Oakland Ballet didn’t get the memo. The venerable company will be busy presenting its spring program, featuring five new story-driven dances, plus hosting a mini-festival offering short works from scads of Bay Area companies. Details are here.

“The Time Machine: Love Among the Eloi.” 8 p.m, Feb.11, Ohlone College Theatre Department, One-night fund-raiser to send cast and crew to Western Regional Conference in consideration for the Kennedy Center’s national award for Best Original Play, Smith Center at Ohlone College, 43600 Mission Blvd., Fremont, $15-$20, 510-659-6031 or www.smithcenter.com, “Working.” A musical based on the book by Studs pointe shoes. ballerina feets. original illustration art poster inspired by ballet. gift for dancer. Terkel, Foothill Music Theatre, Feb, 18-March 6, Lohman Theatre, Foothill College,12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos, $13-$26, www.foothillmusicals.com or 650-949-7360..

The tours include docents in each room, refreshments, a souvenir booklet, live music, and resident “ghosts” wandering throughout telling fascinating stories of their relationship with the castle and Pacifica. Tour proceeds will benefit restoration of The Little Brown Church Museum and Event Center as well as the Ocean Shore Railroad Car No. 1409 restoration. No parking at the castle. Free shuttle vans will pick up tour groups or individuals at Oceana High School’s upper parking lot at 401 Paloma Avenue in Pacifica prior to tour departure time.

——, HIS APARTMENT, Univision News reported that it entered the unlocked home of Mateen and his wife in Fort Pierce after the FBI swept for evidence, Family photos, drawings, blackboard messages, a Quran and books on Islam decorate the apartment, On the living room table was a document listing items investigators removed: 9 mm cartridges, an iPad mini, a Samsung phone, a Dell computer, a CD labeled with Mateen’s name, ——, Associated Press pointe shoes. ballerina feets. original illustration art poster inspired by ballet. gift for dancer. writer Eric Tucker contributed from Washington..

The little-known story of the Shadis was a prominent part of the celebration, described by Mayor Greg Lyman in his welcoming remarks. The day was billed as an appreciation of “multiculturalism, tolerance, and diversity in our community” and Lyman opened the program with a moment of silence for victims of the mass shootings in Orlando, Florida the night before. Sundar and Dorothy Shadi raised a family in El Cerrito and became prominent members of the community. Dorothy became a professor at UC Berkeley and well known in the field of Spanish literature.