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CLICK HERE if you are having trouble viewing these photos on a mobile device. Oakland’s Chinatown is a small village wrapped in a big city, and it seems like another world.Many worlds, in fact. As you wander the 16-block area — roughly from Sixth to 12th streets and Broadway to Oak — you’ll hear Cantonese and Mandarin, but also Vietnamese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Mien and more. The sidewalks are packed with people toting shopping bags and pull carts. Workers tie up bundles of bok choy, and cardboard boxes overflow with dried mushrooms, conch and sea cucumber. And there’s a sweet, earthy smell of dried herbs everywhere you go.
“We’ve edited it in a way where I feel proud,” Taylor-Johnson says, “It’s dirty but classy, It feels pretty balanced: a nipple of hers, ballet flats too big a butt cheek of his.”, The studio has not announced whether it will make the second and third books, and Taylor-Johnson is mum about whether she’d participate, Mostly she’s eager that audiences finally see what she’s had to keep hidden from nearly everyone but Beyoncé, “When the scene finished, Beyoncé just went, ‘Wow, that was hot,’ ” Taylor-Johnson says, “So I thought, ‘OK, that was fun, That was a good day at the office.’ ”..
Very Merry Pops Christmas: The California Pops Orchestra celebrates its 25th jubilee season with a show featuring favorite holiday songs and an audience sing-along. Dec. 22, 3 p.m. Smithwick Theatre, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. $15-$47. 650-856-8432. A Winter Wonderland: The exhibit features dolls dressed for an ice-skating party on a frozen pond with lacy garlands on the trees and crochet snowflakes falling from the sky. The museum’s annual ornament sale takes place concurrently. Through Jan. 11. Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Lace Museum, 552 S. Murphy Ave., Sunnyvale. Free. 408-730-4695, thelacemuseum.org.
The entire band finds power in the music they play, “One thing that has drawn us to tango is the music’s ability to tell a story of passion, heartache, betrayal, nostalgia, and romance in two and a half minutes,” Selissen said, “The form is that of simple folk songs, yet, is coupled with complexity in rhythm, melody and harmony that is the backbone of classical and jazz music, The music is short and sweet without neglecting the complexities of sound that are important to us as musicians with ballet flats too big classical and jazz backgrounds.”..
Los Altos Stage Company. “Maple & Vine.” Jan. 29 through Feb. 22. By Jordan Harrison. “Katha and Ryu have become allergic to their 21st-century lives. After they meet a charismatic man from a community of 1950s reenactors, they forsake cellphones and sushi for cigarettes and Tupperware parties.” Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. $18-$34. www.losaltosstage.org or 650-941-0551. Palo Alto Children’s Theatre. “Junie B. Jones — The Musical!” Through Feb. 8. Book and lyrics by Marcy Heisler, music by Zina Goldrich, based on book series by Barbara Park. Palo Alto Children’s Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. $12-$14. 650-463-4970.
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