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"The Menopause Monologues" at Town Hall breaks culture of silence |
By Elaine Borden Chandler |
"The seed was my dying ovaries," drawled Carrie Vanhouten with ironic relish when asked what the seed for "The Menopause Monologues" was, to the visible amusement of Lisa Anne Morrison and Lulu Braunstein. These three women - Vanhouten, the creator; Morrison, the director; and Braunstein, the producer - are the driving forces behind the new play at Lafayette's Town Hall Theatre.
"The Menopause Monologues" is a collaborative play with fifteen different vignettes on menopause, ranging from traditional monologues to poetry to dance to live painting to puppetry. It follows the format ...read |
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Moraga's 50th Anniversary Parade & Pear Festival |
By Jeff Heyman |
A town only gets to celebrate its Big 5-0 once. And so it was a day of celebration and festivities on Saturday, Sept. 28, when the Town of Moraga celebrated the 50th anniversary of its incorporation with a ...read |
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Miramonte High School seniors gather around a table at the Contra Costa County Election Department's pop up office on the school's front lawn during the lunch hour on Sept. 25 as part of a voter pre-registration effort.
Photo David Scholz |
"Excited" about voting drives Miramonte High School's student registration effort |
By David Scholz |
Senior Max Harold will come in just under the wire ahead of the Nov. 5 General Election with a late Oct. 18 birthday, and he is stoked to have the opportunity to vote in what is building up to be a historic ...read |
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The Real Estate Quarter in Review |
By Conrad Bassett, CRP, GMS-T |
The third quarter of 2024 showed consistency in the volume of closings on the residential side of Lamorinda real estate. The recent softening of interest rates did not help increase the number of closings over ...read |
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Mario DiPrisco for
Lafayette's City Council
We first met Mario DiPrisco and his wife
Jen at Lafayette Nursery School in 2009.
We got a front-row seat as to what type
of father, husband, and teammate he was,
as LNS is a cooperative preschool that
requires parents to do chores,
participate, and essentially help
sustain the school. Mario was...
Re-Elect Mayor Gina
Dawson and incumbents for Lafayette City
Council
Experience matters, especially on the
City Council. Decisions on complex
housing regulations and the fiscal
budgets, for example, require a
knowledge and history that best comes
from years of council and commission
service. Luckily with this election we
have four standout candidates: Gina
Dawson, Carl Anduri...
AUHSD Board candidate Stacey Schweppe
Strong and thriving schools are
essential in shaping our children's
lives. We need Board members that will
advocate on behalf of students, parents,
and teachers to build on the exceptional
educational standards that characterize
AUHSD and to lead the district as it
faces budget and other challenges.
That's...
City Council and Measure H
My wife and I moved to Lafayette in 1989
because of excellent public schools,
beautiful open space and nature, and
fiscally responsible city government
openly engaging volunteers to serve on
boards and commissions that help shape
policy for the City. Everytime I travel
away from Lafayette, I...
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