Pinot Paradise: Sip, sample and meet many pinot noir producers from the Santa Cruz mountains. This event also features food from more than a dozen local restaurants, as well as live and selection auctions with local wines, artisan foods and winery tours on the block. March 24, 2 p.m. $75. Villa Ragusa, 35 S. Second St. scmwa.com. Santa Clara Valley Orchid Society Show and Sale: The society holds its 62nd annual show and sale. March 22, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; March 23, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. and March 24, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free admission. Westgate Mall, 1600 Saratoga Ave., San Jose. 408-489-8974 or SantaClaraValley OrchidSociety.org.
A five-time Grand National Fiddle champion and a cellist who’s influenced a generation of players with his command of folk idioms, jazz and pop, Clarridge toured and recorded with Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings as a teenager and went on to work with ballerina feet - machine embroidery design, ballet slippers, toe shoes, ballerina the seminal newgrass band Crooked Still before launching the Bee Eaters with his sister, the similarly brilliant fiddler Tashina Clarridge, Together they run the Shasta String Summit, a summer program that changed Sumaia Jackson’s musical course..
This is a development that Pleasanton can be proud of. Don’t be fooled by misinformation. Fact-check at www.YESonK2016.com. Passage of Measure K would allow development on Pleasanton hillsides, in violation of the hillside protection ordinance (Measure PP) that was passed by voters in 2008. It’s passage will bulldoze hilly terrain and lead to the removal of more than 645 truckloads of dirt to build roads on Pleasanton slopes. If this critical measure passes, it will set a precedent for the majority of the City Council to make future interpretations of Pleasanton’s hillside protection ordinance that favor developers. There are at least two more pending hillside developments in the planning stages.
Matthew Berry, of Alberta, said some friends picked up the robot while heading to a wedding in Golden, B.C, They picked it up on the border between Alberta and Calgary, where its previous driver was looking to offload it, “It was good fun; we took it out onto the dance floor to, well, do the real robot,” Berry said, “It was funny because it was a very meticulously planned wedding so I wasn’t sure ballerina feet - machine embroidery design, ballet slippers, toe shoes, ballerina how the bride would react, but she loved it!”, Berry said while the couple was giving their speech, the bride thanked the couple’s friends for attending, and the robot interrupted, saying, “I like to make friends.”..
On Tuesday, Melania Trump was again photographed letting her husband take her hand in public, this time at Mar-a-Lago, where they hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie Abe. For the occasion, the president and first lady also seemed to have coordinated their outfits, with his striped tie matching her striped, off-the-shoulder Carolina Herrera dress. Meanwhile, in a further sign of his increasing reliance on Melania to promote his presidency, Trump is having her represent the first couple at former first lady Barbara Bush’s funeral Saturday.