Orinda Theatre Square
Piccolo Napoli, which opened over six years ago in Orinda Theatre square, is under new ownership according to a sign in the window. It looks like some remodeling is happening before they reopen. Stay tuned for the opening…
Orinda Theatre Square
Piccolo Napoli, which opened over six years ago in Orinda Theatre square, is under new ownership according to a sign in the window. It looks like some remodeling is happening before they reopen. Stay tuned for the opening…
39 Moraga Way, Orinda
The boba cafe Sharetea is coming soon to Orinda where Sleepy Cat Books used to be, across from the Orinda Theatre Square. Check out their menu here. Anyone know how this compares to iTea in Moraga?
From their website:
Established in 1992, Sharetea started off business with to-go black tea and pearl milk tea drinks in Taipei, Taiwan. Since then Sharetea has opened many branches and franchises in 18 countries such as United States, Canada, UK, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia and over 450 stores.
Orinda Theatre Square
Thanks to a reader for sending word that Lava Pit Hawaiian Grill closed recently at Orinda Theatre Square. Also, “Shelby’s is now serving brunch” around the corner.
Orinda Theatre
4 Orinda Theatre Square, Orinda
Thursday, July 11th, 2019
7:00pm | FreeViva Las Vegas is a 1964 American musical film directed by George Sidney and starring Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret. The film is regarded by fans and film critics as one of Presley’s best films, and it is noted for the on-screen chemistry between Presley and Ann-Margret. –Wikipedia
Cal Shakes Theater
100 California Shakespeare Theater Way, Orinda
Wednesday, July 3rd – Sunday, July 21st, 2019In a city of “haves” and “have-nots,” can a good person stay good even as their fortunes rise? The Good Person of Szechwan is a fable for our times exploring the lengths to which one must go to keep clean in a dirty world.
by Bertolt Brecht
adapted by Tony Kushner
translated by Wendy Arons
directed by Eric Ting
Orinda Books
276 Village Square, Orinda
Sunday, May 26th, 2019
1:00 – 3:00pm | FreeFeaturing Maw Shein Win and Rebecca Foust
Maw Shein Win‘s poetry chapbook Score and Bone is on Nomadic Press (2016). A full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. Maw is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016 – 2018), and her forthcoming second full-length collection of poetry will be published by Omnidawn in Fall 2020. She is currently a Visiting Scholar in the English Department at UC Berkeley.
Rebecca Foust’s books include Paradise Drive (Press 53 Award), reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. Recognitions include the Cavafy Poetry Prize, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the Lascaux Flash Fiction Prize, the American Literary Review Fiction Prize, and fellowships from Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee. Foust is passionate about literature being for everyone, not just the elite, and is happy to be able to promote this goal as Marin County Poet Laureate, an Assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine, and the Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change, https://womensvoicesforchange.org/category/arts-culture/poetry.
Free Movie – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof:
Orinda Theatre
4 Orinda Theatre Square, Orinda
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
7:00pm | FreeBrick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Orinda Theatre Square
Anytime Fitness, which we learned would be coming to Orinda Theatre Square last summer, is finally opening this week. Find out more about the membership here and coaching and training services here.
Orinda Books
276 Village Square, Orinda
Sunday, April 28th, 2019
1:00 – 3:00pm | FreeThe featured writers for April 28, 2019 will be Cynthia Leslie-Bole and Sally Bolger.
Cynthia Leslie-Bole is a writing coach, editor, and certified Amherst Writers and Artists Method group leader who has published in Pure Slush, Rootstalk, Moonshine Ink’s Creative Brew and the just-released anthology Fire and Rain: Eco poetry of California. Her first collection of poetry, The Luminous In-Between, invites us to experience the radiance of one woman’s evolution through marriage, motherhood, spiritual individuation, and kinship with nature. This lyrical volume celebrates our innate capacity to create, heal, and perceive what lies beyond the ordinary in ‘the luminous in-between.’ Cynthia lives in Orinda.Sally Bolger is a writer, explorer, and conservationist who follows her heart beyond the boundaries of her comfort zone into the unknown. Born in Lafayette and raised in Orinda, Sally now travels the world, engaging in on-the-ground conservation efforts, returning to tell the tales of her adventures in poetry, fiction, and spoken word. Sally’s first book for children, Fun in the Mud – a Wetlands Tale, has been named a Hot Off the Press pick by the Children’s Book Council.
