Nature Sculpture: Artist Zach Pine leads a holiday workshop where children can sculpt nature with sticks, stones, flowers and more and collaborate in a progressive work of art in Bill’s Backyard. A new group sculpture will be built every day. Dec. 26-Jan. 3; Meet the Artist Days Dec. 29-30 and Jan. 2. Children’s Discovery Museum, 180 Woz Way, San Jose. www.cdm.org. The Marshmallow Incident: Playful People Productions presents a play based on the book “ by Judi and Ron Barrett, with an original score by local recording artist Sean Mendelson and a script adaptation by Playful People’s artistic director Katie D’Arcey. Through Dec. 22. Historic Hoover Theatre, 1635 Park Ave. $8-$15 at www.playfulpeople.net, $8-$18 at the door.

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8 Chucho Valdes-Joe Lovano Quintet: This outfit marks the first collaboration between two jazz titans, the great Cuban pianist Valdes and the sublime sax man Lovano. Both musicians have explored wide-ranging musical styles over their famed careers, so the possibilities seem endless during the band’s stint at SFJazz beginning Nov. 17. Details: Through Nov. 20; Miner Auditorium at SFJazz Center, San Francisco; $35-$75; 866-920-5299, sfjazz.org. 9 Schola Cantorum: The Silicon Valley choral group’s program for a Nov. 20’s sing-along was no doubt conceived before our recent political developments, but its “Get Happy” concert might seem more than ever to be what many of us need right now. Assistant music director Dawn Reyen leads the chorus and audience through such irresistibly optimistic numbers as “Put On a Happy Face,” “Get Happy” and “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning.”.

No one epitomizes the pouty, sultry, fiery Puerto Rican moll better than Danielle Philapil as Maria’s brother Bernardo’s girlfriend, Anita, Philapil is deliciously devastating whenever she withers an adversary with an arched eyebrow, a sassy retort and a dismissive shake of her curvy figure, Both Josiah Frampton as Jets leader Riff and Jorge Diaz as his Sharks counterpart, Bernardo, bring a level of street cred to their roles, and both are surprisingly lithe dancers, especially Frampton, who might have some ballet training in his pointe shoe bag - ballet shoe bag - dance shoe bag - dance gift - ballet gift - small bag - gift for dancer - drawstring bag background..

My brother-in-law finally called after he found out about her diagnosis and said he would visit this past weekend. Well, he never showed. Not even a phone call. She, of course, was devastated. I texted him and he told me not to get involved, that it was none of my business. My husband agreed. I feel that since I am the only one who talks to her on a regular basis, I have every right to be outraged and callout my brother-in-law on his awful behavior, just as I would a biological brother. Do I have the right to get involved, or have I overstepped my boundaries?.