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I have to admit, I hadn’t been to a traditional indoor mall in ages. So I decided to engage in a highly scientific, thoroughly unofficial study: visiting several local malls to try them on for size, so to speak, and see if they still fit in today’s world. Yes, it’s called research. Boom or bust?. What I discovered was a mixed shopping bag. In a pleasant surprise, it seems some are downright thriving. Concord’s Sunvalley Shopping Center (turning 50 in August) is elbow-to-elbow on the weekends — even rife with teenagers! — especially since they put in a huge arcade/bowling/karaoke entertainment complex last year, plus restaurants with better offerings than the mere mall mainstay of Hot Dog on a Stick. (No offense, hot dogs. Or sticks.).

Valley Art Gallery’s ‘New Brew’ starts March 21, Valley Art Gallery’s artists will come together for an exhibit of abstracts, watercolors, landscapes, monotypes, florals, oils and figurative, plus photography and fine crafts, called “A New Brew,” to run March 21-May 2 at the gallery, 1661 Botelho Drive, Suite 110, Walnut Creek, An opening reception will be held Saturday, March 21, from 4 to 6 p.m, at the gallery, Gallery new applique ballet shoes hours are 11 a.m, to 5 p.m, Tuesday through Saturday, For more information, call 925-935-4311 or go to http://valleyartgallery.org/..

To vote go to www.walnutcreekmagazine.com. Voting is open till Oct. 1. The winner will be announced at the county’s awards luncheon Oct. 16. Tickets are $50, to purchase call Janet Abrams at 925-932-2746. The cost is $20 for general admission to the garden and $12 for garden members. The garden is located at 552 Bancroft Road in Walnut Creek. For more information call 925-944-9352. Classes will be held Monday evenings Sept. 10-Oct. 15 at Tony LaRussa’s Animal Rescue Foundation, 2890 Mitchell Drive. There is a final graduation drill during the daytime on Saturday, Oct. 27.

Not unlike young people today, “West Side Story’s” members of rival teenage street gangs Jets and Sharks feel angry, displaced and itching to strike out at their perceived enemies, A story as old as, yes, “Romeo and Juliet.”, So although there’s really nothing new about the story line in Hillbarn Theatre’s current production of the Arthur Laurents-Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim socko-1957 Broadway hit “West Side Story,” there are some small pleasures and a splendiferous voice to appreciate in the tiny package of delightful Ana Paula Malagon as Maria, As one admiring new applique ballet shoes audience member marveled at intermission, “Boy, has she got a great set of pipes!”..

The historic choir traces its beginnings to the year 1498, when the Emperor Maximilian of Vienna established his Hofmusikkappelle with a choir of 12 boys and eight men. During ensuing centuries, such great musicians and composers as Jacobus Gallus, Franz-Josef and Michael Haydn, Franz Schubert, Hans Richter, Felix Mottl and Clemens Krauss were members. The choir prospered until the end of World War I, when the Austro-Hungarian Empire expired, leaving no Hofmusikkappelle to supply monetary support. Since the Austrian people are such inveterate music lovers, its new Ministry of Education assumed responsibility for the choir, but could supply little funding. In 1921, Josef Schnitt, the new dean of the Imperial Chapel, reorganized the choir at his own expense, under the name “Wiener Saengerknaben.” The choir started giving concerts both inside and outside the chapel, initially performing sacred motets and secular pieces, and eventually, at the boys’ request, even short operettas. In less than a decade, they were performing in Berlin and throughout the rest of the world.