A no-host cocktail hour will be held from 5 to 6 p.m., followed by dinner and the program starting at 6 p.m. Holiday attire is admired but not required. The cost is $75 per person or $700 per table of 10. For tickets, either call the chamber of commerce at 650-755-3900, fax: 650-755-5160, email staff@dalycity-colmachamber.org or go to www.dalycity-colmachamber.org. A huge variety of books — hardbacks and paperbacks — and media will be available for all ages and in a variety of languages.
Wracked by guilt, he visits her grave, where he’s confronted by the seductive but wrathful spirits known as Wilis who force men to dance ballet flats target until they drop dead from exhaustion, Giselle’s spirit is the only thing that can save him from the Wilis, but that requires that she forgive his thoughtless duplicity, Based on Slavic folklore, “Giselle” borrows from verse by the German poet Heinrich Heine, who described the Wilis (pronounced willees) as the spirits of maidens who died virgin before their wedding (no wonder they’re wrathful)..
This weekend’s concerts by the Berkeley Symphony were originally scheduled to be conducted by music director Joana Carneiro. But Carneiro is at home in Lisbon, Portugal, expecting the birth of her fourth child, and the Symphony has announced that she is unable to travel to Berkeley. The concerts will go on, however, with guest conductor Keitaro Harada on the podium. Harada will conduct Faure’s “Cantique de Jean Racine,” Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique” and Gordon Getty’s cantata, “Joan and the Bells,” featuring soprano Lisa Delan and baritone Lester Lynch as the vocal soloists. Harada, a Tokyo native, is currently in his second season as associate conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Pops and the Arizona Opera.
SnowGlobe Music Festival: This crazy-popular event offers three days of music, all sorts of wintery delights and a New Year’s Eve celebration, too, Dozens of world-class musicians will appear on multiple stages, including Above & Beyond, Diplo, Eric Prydz, Rezz, RL Grime and ballet flats target Big Gigantic, Tickets are $199-$449, Dec, 29-31, Community Play Fields, 1 College Way, South Lake Tahoe; snowglobemusicfestival.com, Merry Days & Holly Nights: Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows celebrate the holidays in a variety of ways during the Merry Days fest, from a moonlit snowshoe tour and dinner to a “Twisted Nutcracker” dance spectacular, Plus train rides, Reindeer Games scavenger hunts, farm-to-table dinners and more, Dec, 14-31, squawalpine.com/holidays..
Bynes tweeted earlier this week about her father, “He called me ugly as a child. My dad was verbally and physically abuse (sic) to me as a child.”. “My dad fondled himself in front of me so many times that i started recording him on my phone in hopes of catching him saying or doing something inappropriate around me so I could get him arrested & put in jail for the rest of his perverted life,” she continued. “My mom knows that my father’s literally and physically incestual towards his own daughter and the fact that she never called the police on Him embarrasses me to no end. So, today I am meeting with a lawyer to get a restraining order against my dad.”.