"Chaste: An Awful Comedy" at SMC is Anything But
When theater director and professor at Saint Mary's College, Rebecca Engle, came across a New York Times review of Ken Prestininzi's play "Chaste: An Awful Comedy," Engle knew it would a perfect production to put on at Saint Mary's.
 By A.K. Carroll
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Electrifying Jazz Concert will Sizzle at Lafayette Library Nov. 13
Based in the Bay Area and soon celebrating their 25th anniversary, Charged Particles crosses stylistic boundaries and blends jazz styles with elements from Latin music, classical music, funk, and more. The band will be offering an electrifying, free jazz concert at ...Submitted by Alison Williams
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New Exhibit Links Art and Technology at Saint Mary's College
The Saint Mary's College Museum of Art's current multimedia artwork exhibition, "The Axis Mundi/Open Portals," by Ron Hutt is a true combination of art and technology - and is unlike anything the museum has featured before.
 By Ryan McKinley
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'Bridge of Spies'
"Bridge of Spies" opens as a masterpiece displaying the art of motion pictures with the use of artistic cinematography to set the thriller tone of the movie. The first several minutes of the film have no dialogue - the picture tells the story.
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Award-Winning Authors and Illustrators at Lafayette Library Oct. 24
Five well-known, award-winning authors and illustrators - Gennifer Choldenko, Thacher Hurd, Jordan Jacobs, Elisa Kleven and Michael Slack - will sign books and demonstrate illustration techniques from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24 as part of the Children's Book ...Submitted by Fran Miller
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'Marshland': (La Isla Minima)
When two teens disappear in the sparsely populated rice-growing marshland of southern Spain in 1980, two homicide detectives, with vastly different personalities, are sent to solve the mystery in the film "Marshland" - a tense, dark thriller.
 By Sophie Braccini
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'The Martian'
"The Martian" is a true "Real Hollywood Story" that has a great back story. Bay Area resident, writer Andy Wier, began working as a computer programmer at the age of 15 at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore. He originally started "The Martian" as a free serial ...By Derek Zemrak
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Sparkling Like a Good Champagne
The most entertaining play of the season in Lafayette, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," is built upon a very serious foundation: the last Charles Dickens novel that was left unfinished due to his death on June 9, 1870. But as the book was incomplete, it gave Ruppert ...By Sophie Braccini
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Zombies are Coming to Lesher
Lafayette-based improv comedy company Synergy Theater is invading the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek with its annual improvised horror spoof, "Z is for...Zombie: An Improvised Zombie Apocalypse!" at 8:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 16 and 17.
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Battle of the Bands is Back
Battle of the Bands at the Lafayette Library is back for its third annual performance. The teen event, which over 100 people attended last year, is set to take place from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7 in the library's Community Hall. Anyone aged 13-19 in the San ...Submitted by Patrick Brogan
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Final Cal Shakes' Season Production Falls a Bit Short
Given Cal Shakes' bold approach to Shakespeare's canon and the temptations of a versatile, endlessly plumbable cast to be comedic or tragic, the Orinda outdoor theater's final 2015 season production, "King Lear," chooses to be both.
 By Lou Fancher
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Sci Fi Day 2 at the Rheem Theatre, Oct. 3
Now that the California Independent Film Festival is over it is time for Sci Fi Day 2 at the Rheem Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 3. This fun-filled day of classic 1950s Sci Fi films will include a special guest appearance by Ann Robinson from "War of the Worlds." ...By Derek Zemrak
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Hungarian Folk Music Featured in GCCP's 'Gypsy'
"Gypsy" opens the Gold Coast Chamber Players' 2015-16 series, with works by Ravel, Bartok, Brahms and Haydn, spanning several centuries of music inspired by Gypsy exoticism Sept. 26 at the Lafayette Library Community Hall. Hungarian folk music will be a recurring ...Submitted by Pamela Freund
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Artistic Adaptation
Eleven years ago artist and Moraga resident Michael-Che Swisher woke up with blurry vision. "Every time I moved my head I got nauseous," she says. "That happened for four months."
A ...By A.K. Carroll
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Two Fantastic Film Festival Picks
People often ask me, "What should I see at the film festival?" Unfortunately, this is an open-ended question. My first response is, "What do you like?" Followed by the statement, "Open your mind and go see that least one film that you normally would not see." Here ...By Derek Zemrak
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA