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From food and film to art, music and nature, here’s an epic sampling of ways to have some Bay Area fun this spring and beyond. Cirque du Soleil presents ‘KOOZA’: Now through March 10, 24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco. This cirque show combines acrobatic performance with the art of clowning while exploring fear, identity, recognition and power. Sit back and watch as The Innocent’s journey brings him into contact with comic characters from an electrifying world full of surprises. Tickets starting at $72.…

From food and film to art, music and nature, here’s an epic sampling of ways to have some Bay Area fun in 2024. SF Tape Music Festival: Jan. 5-7, Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th St., San Francisco. America’s only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, SFTMF features four concerts of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions projected over a pristine surround system to an audience seated in complete darkness. $10-$50. sfsound.org/tape/ BritBeat – A Tribute to The…

Updated Nov. 14, 2023 12:01 am ETListen to article(1 minute)LONDON—Shortly after taking the helm at the world’s largest spirits maker, Diageo CEO Debra Crew made a bold proclamation: She plans to take tequila global.Following a surge in popularity in the U.S., tequila is on track to become the country’s largest spirit this year, an extraordinary milestone for a drink once associated mainly with sugary margaritas and eye-watering shots. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

The time for Pride is upon us, and there’s a whole lineup of celebrations to add to your calendar. From parades and festivals to dance parties and drag shows, here are all the ways to be gay in the Bay for Pride. Lashanna Hornage, program manager for Santa Clara County Office of LGBTQ Affairs, smiles under her rainbow umbrella during Silicon Valley Pride Parade (Shae Hammond/Staff Photographer)  Silicon Valley Pride 2023: May 31 to Aug. 27, various venues in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley’s Pride celebrations are lined up…

It is the custom now for everyone in the film business to describe film-makers as “storytellers”. But even leaving aside the fact that so many film-makers are not very good at the old-fashioned business of storytelling, the fact is that cinema does not have to be about story, however uncommercial an idea that seems.The Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso is a case in point: his work is challenging and opaque and taken an uncompromisingly andante pace and yes, it is probably destined to be shown at festivals. But it is…

Check out all of these things to see and do in the Bay Area for the spring season and beyond. Mobile Light Art Station: March 3, April 13 and April 22, various venues in Oakland and San Francisco. This unique series features light art installations by five Bay Area artists, including “The Great Wall of Oakland” on March 3, Boeddeker Park in San Francisco’s Tenderloin April 13, and the exterior of the former Esther’s Orbit Room in Oakland on April 22, with music, dance, spoken word and even an open-air dance party added to…

Kathleen Turner is pondering her acting career, a smile playing on her lips. “I’m becoming legendary, which I think only means that I have been around that long,” she purrs regally. It is, after all, more than 40 years since Lawrence Kasdan’s erotic thriller Body Heat turned her into one of Hollywood’s most in-demand stars.Now, at 68, she’s coming to TV screens with White House Plumbers, playing Dita Beard, a foul-mouthed lobbyist involved in the Watergate scandal that ruined president Richard Nixon in the early 1970s.…

It was exciting news when we learned Tobey Maguire had signed on for his first film in years. It was doubly exciting to hear the film the Spider-Man actor joined was Damien Chazelle’s latest movie, Babylon, which features many other high-profile actors. It seems the actor is enjoying himself while promoting the upcoming film, because of a new video making the social media rounds. This video features Maguire beaming from ear to ear as he passes out Champagne to audience members at an early screening of Babylon.In a TikTok…

We’re nearing the close of 2022, but there’s still so much left to do! Here’s a full roundup of all the Bay Area events you still need to check out before the year is up, and for a special curation of holiday-themed events and pop-ups, check out our holiday events calendar here: bayareane.ws/3Dwwyvn  ZOPPÉ — an Italian Family Circus: Various showtimes through the end of November, 1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood City. Enter the Big Top and be dazzled by thundering horses, trapeze and acrobat artists, highwire walkers, Nino…

In a shocking event, a Mumbai-based lawyer lost his Rs. 44782 while ordering beer worth Rs. 360. Here is what happened. Online scammers are adapting new tricks and techniques to con users and steal money in every possible way. In a recent unfortunate incident, a 24-year-old lawyer from a southern Mumbai-based law firm was duped of Rs. 44782 in multiple online transactions by a scammer, Hindustan Times report mentioned. The incident took a shocking turn as the fraudster masqueraded as a wine shop owner and scammed the…