South Valley Symphony concert
The South Valley Symphony will hold its Winter Romance concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 at the Gavilan College Theater. Anthony Quartuccio, music director and conductor Jason Klein. Guest conductor Scott Spangler, soloist.
“Dirty Dancing” – A little dusty and tired
A tired and a little worse for wear stage production of ”Dirty Dancing” limped into the Golden Gate Theatre – any resemblance to the 1987 box office hit movie with Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray is purely, as they say coincidental.
Getting out: Mission Peaks: Climb 2,500 feet in three miles
I placed the $2 one-day parking pass on my dashboard then looked up from the Ohlone College parking lot at Mission Peak looming overhead. Holy cow, I thought, that thing is way up there. It crossed my mind that maybe today was a good day to rearrange my sock drawer instead.
Jack London Historic State Park: Legacy of a genius
Jack London State Historic Park was created in 1959 when a small portion – about 40 acres – of Jack London’s 1,400-acre Beauty Ranch was acquired by the state, partly through a gift from London’s nephew and an heir to the London estate.















