Lamorinda ShortDocs Film Fest Call for Submissions through April 19th

March 23, 2017 4:30 pm

Lamorinda ShortDocs Film Fest Call for Submissions:

The Lamorinda Arts Council (LAC) is excited to announce our 2nd Annual Lamorinda ShortDocs Film Fest at the Lafayette Library and Learning Center on May 7th at 3pm. This documentary film festival provides local filmmakers of all ages an opportunity to create new work as well as showcase it at a community screening. Entries for the Lamorinda ShortDocs Film Fest will be accepted from now until April 19th. The competition is open to anyone five years of age or older who is living, working or attending school in Orinda, Lafayette or Moraga.

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Arrest in Kidnapping in Lafayette at Chase Bank

March 21, 2017 10:30 pm

NBC Bay Area reported that a man was kidnapped and forced to withdraw money at the Chase Bank on Mt. Diablo Blvd in Lafayette. When the victim entered the bank he notified bank staff and eventually the suspect was arrested at gunpoint.

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CG Designs Opens in Lafayette

March 15, 2017 11:30 am

3416 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette

CG Designs, formerly Taylor & Jacobson, has opened in the El Diablo Forge building in Lafayette on Mt. Diablo Blvd. Check out their website here.

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Car of the Day

March 9, 2017 8:30 am

Spotted in downtown Lafayette. It’s a Bumblebee Camaro with a special Transformers emblem on the grill.

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RadioShack Closing in Lafayette

February 28, 2017 8:30 am

Lafayette Clocktower

Thanks to a reader for sending word (and photo) that RadioShack is closing at the Lafayette Clocktower on Mt. Diablo Blvd. A couple of years ago they integrated Sprint stores within but looks like it was too little too late. For a way bigger selection Fry’s Electronics is located in Concord, worth the trip.

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Craig Ventresco & Meredith Axelrod Playing at Mighty Fine Guitars in Lafayette on March 4th

February 27, 2017 4:45 pm

Craig Ventresco & Meredith Axelrod:

Mighty Fine Guitars
85 Lafayette Cir, Lafayette
Saturday, March 4th, 2017
8:00 PM | $15 – $20 suggested

Come jump in the time machine and travel back to the early 1900s. Craig’s virtuosic early-jazz and Tin Pan Alley chord-melody guitar playing is nothing short of astonishing, as well as hugely transportive and Meredith’s voice, well …

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Joseph Di Prisco Speaking at Lafayette Library on March 30th

February 23, 2017 4:32 pm

Joseph Di Prisco:

Lafayette Library and Learning Center
3491 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
Thursday, March 30th, 2017
6:00pm – 8:30pm | $15

Joseph Di Prisco’s anticipated memoir brings the hustler, gambler, criminal, bookmaker, and confidential informer―Joe’s father―back to life, and reveals the fascinating and unsettling truths that simultaneously bound and separated father and son. The Pope of Brooklyn is both sequel and prequel to his much-praised memoir, Subway to California.

Joseph Di Prisco is an acclaimed writer of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and a prize-winning poet. His latest book of poems is Sightlines from the Cheap Seats.

Joe will be in conversation with poet Kim Dower, the Poet Laureate of West Hollywood.

6:00PM Reception hosted by Joseph Di Prisco, wine and small plates catered by Postino
7:00PM Program

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House of the Day

February 23, 2017 10:00 am

Brendan Moran is a broker associate with The Simply Bay Area Team at Keller Williams Realty. Neither he nor any company he’s affiliated with represented any of the parties or were directly involved in the transaction reported below. The source of information is Contra Costa Association of Realtors MLS. Information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

This one of a kind contemporary Lafayette home is straight out of Architectural Digest with beautiful views of the Lafayette Reservoir and Mt. Diablo just sold for a cool $5 million and change! This beauty has 5 bedrooms, 5.5 baths and over 5,800 square feet on a nearly 2 acre lot.

Address: 1152 Brown Ave, Lafayette, CA
List Price: $4,999,888
Sold Price: $5,082,388
Days on Market: 117
Close of escrow: 2/1/17

Listing courtesy of Anton Danilovich and Maribel Cribb with Bay Sotheby’s International Realty.

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Smokey Joe’s Cafe Playing at Town Hall Theatre in Lafayette March 3rd – 25th

February 22, 2017 4:30 pm

Smokey Joe’s Cafe:

Town Hall Theatre
3535 School St, Lafayette
Friday, March 3rd – Saturday, March 25th, 2017

Did you ever hear a tenor sax swingin’ like a rusty axe? Baby, that is rock and roll, and the two voices behind an entire generation were Leiber & Stoller. With music such as Poison Ivy, Charlie Brown, On Broadway, Stand By Me and many, many more, don’t miss the greatest rock and roll revue of all time, and the most explosive event of the season!

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Art and Science of Eyewear Reopens within La Fiesta Square in Lafayette

February 21, 2017 8:30 am

La Fiesta Square, Lafayette

Last September we learned that the eyeglass shop Art and Science of Eyewear would be relocating within La Fiesta Square in Lafayette where Itrim used to be and they have now reopened. Check out their website here.

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