Pop-Up Magazine Winter Tour: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1, Paramount Theatre, 2025 Broadway, Oakland. A live magazine, created for stage, screen and a live audience. The 2019 Winter Issue will change the way we think about memory; explore a unique dating scene in the middle of nowhere; pay homage to one of the fathers of the electric guitar; examine the aftermath of an infamous, viral moment in Olympics history; and bring back to life a 500-year-old, lost genre of music. $38-$42. Popupmagazine.com. Wine & Chocolate Walk: 1-5 p.m. Feb. 2. Check-in starts at 12:30 p.m., Benicia Main Street, 90 First St., Benicia. Taste more than 25 different wines paired with chocolate at participating downtown shops. $30-$35. www.beniciamainstreet.org.
Trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California along with thousands of others seeking jobs and a future, Because of the play’s mature themes, parental discretion is suggested, Performances are 7 p.m, Sept, 16, 17, 21, 22, 29 and 30 and 2 p.m, Oct, 1, Tickets are $10 for general and $8 students, Performances on Sept, 21 and 22 custom made 80s cartoon ballet flats size 2-9 u.k. available are $5 for all seats, The box office opens 30 minutes before each performance, The school is at 101 American Ave, For more information, call 925-634-0037..
Many of the dancers and vocalists in “Nevertheless” contributed their own stories detailing street harassment, but the production doesn’t take sides so much as offer a vehicle for transmuting disturbing experiences. “All the performers have to go back and forth between being a harasser and victim,” Chianese said. “Some of the movement was generated by each individual to evoke the actual feeling of what’s happening.”. “What some people might not know is that we strictly avoid admonishing harassers or talking about how it makes me feel,” Arnett added. “We tell the story, not our reaction to it. You leave the audience the freedom to interpret, to identify or not from either perspective.”.
A rising star on the vibes: Warren Wolf has been immersed in music since he was 3 years old, He fell in love with jazz and the vibraphone while in high school and became an in-demand session musician not long after graduated from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, jamming with the likes of Christian McBride, Wynton Marsalis and Esperanza Spalding, He released his fifth album, “Convergence,” last year and is touring in a quintet featuring Venezuelan pianist Edward Simon and saxophonist Tia Fuller, The tour stops at Walnut Creek’s Lesher Center on Aug, 26 for two shows, Details: 5 and custom made 80s cartoon ballet flats size 2-9 u.k. available 8 p.m.; $40; 925-943-7469, www.lesherartscenter.org.— Randy McMullen, Staff..
Advance ticket purchase required, at $70/person, or $65 for garden members. For a list of featured artists, visit www.ruthbancroftgarden.org. Guttman’s paintings are rooted in both geometric and organic forms, and the natural world — fields and gardens — often provides the inspiration for her highly introspective work. The paintings are referential, not realistic, and the process transforms literal representations into nonobjective evocations. The gallery is at 1661 Botelho Drive, Suite 110 in downtown Walnut Creek just off California Boulevard.