Lafayette Mercantile
Homegrown Sustainable Sandwiches closed in the Lafayette Mercantile shopping center (where La Boulange cafe used to be) less than one year after opening. You can still check them out in Danville or their San Francisco location.
Lafayette Mercantile
Homegrown Sustainable Sandwiches closed in the Lafayette Mercantile shopping center (where La Boulange cafe used to be) less than one year after opening. You can still check them out in Danville or their San Francisco location.
The Veranda, Concord
As can be seen in the above photo, signage is now up for the gym City Sports Club at the Veranda shopping center in Concord. Check out their group fitness classes here and leagues here.
From their website:
City Sports Club embraces the energy and convenience of metropolitan living. We’re new to the Bay Area, but we believe that you’ll find in our clubs everything that you have come to love about the convenience and sophistication found in today’s greatest modern-day cities. Like any great city, City Sports Club offers its visitors an invigorating diversity of options – from plenty of state-of-the-art equipment, free weights and cardio machines, to personal training and a wide variety of group fitness classes, to a lap pool, indoor cycling, and basketball and racquetball courts. And like the heart of the city, at City Sports Clubs all of these attractive choices are just steps away. Add to this our friendly staff and clean and spacious facilities, and you’ll see why City Sports Club is your lifestyle answer to healthy living.
Postcard from Flickr user Leonard Bentley
The Regency Ballroom
1300 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco
Saturday, January 27th, 2018
12:00 – 5:00pmEnter the age-old question…Whatever to wear?! The Edwardian Ball Vendor Bazaar gathers the finest artisans, craftspeople, and merchants to make sure that you attend the Ball (and all your days thereafter) in the most exquisite style.
Orinda Theatre Square
Wild Magnolia, which replaced Table 24 a couple of years ago in Orinda Theatre Square, will be closing at the end of February. A new restaurant called Saffron Indian Restaurant & Bar will be opening in its place. Stay tuned.
Photo by Flickr user armydre2008
Are we turning into a cashless society? As paying via credit cards and more recently via phone apps like Apple and Google Pay, Venmo and other services becomes easier, there is less of a need to pay with cash. Yesterday we learned that the restaurant Tender Greens is going Cashless next week. You can pay the parking meter by credit card as well.
I find myself rarely needing to use cash these days. Do you use cash anymore? Is this a good thing?
1352 Locust St, Walnut Creek
The restaurant Tender Greens in downtown Walnut Creek is going cashless starting January 29th. I rarely use cash these days so am not really surprised by this. Are there other restaurants that don’t accept cash around here? Check out their Walnut Creek menu here.
Broadway Plaza, Walnut Creek
Thanks to a reader for sending word (and photos) that the clothing store Ministry of Supply closed less than a year after opening in Broadway Plaza in Walnut Creek. As the note in the window points out, you can still check them out at their San Francisco store on Fillmore Street or online here.
Gold Coast Chamber Players present Fantezie:
Lafayette Library and Learning Center
3491 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
Saturday, February 3rd, 2018
7:30pm | $45Pre-concert talk begins 30 minutes prior to performance. The award-winning Gold Coast Chamber Players present Fantezie, a musical journey to Romania. From folk music to the epic “String Octet” by Georges Enescu, this program brings out the passion and complexity of the Romanian spirit. Three Romanian violinists join the all-star GCCP ensemble. Enjoy a pre-concert talk with musicologist Kai Christiansen 30 minutes prior to the performance.
Tickets: $45 general admission, $40 seniors (65+), $15 students
La Fiesta Square, Lafayette
The French-style bakery La Chataigne is hoping to reopen on January 30th in La Fiesta Square in Lafayette. As you can see in the accompanying photo, there’s a bit of remodeling going on.
A new exhibit at the Bedford Gallery in downtown Walnut Creek, Ned Khan: Seed Vortex, is on display through March 25th.
From the exhibition page:
This winter, the Bedford presents the work of Bay Area sculptor Ned Kahn in a solo show that studies the artists’ lifelong fascination with the confluence of science and art. At the center of the show is Seed Vortex, Kahn’s enormous metal sculpture weighing thousands of pounds and spanning 20 feet in diameter.
Seed Vortex shifts a transient sea of tiny mustard seeds in a slow, constant and captivating spin, addressing life’s puzzles, like eternity, unity, chaos and change. The inspiration for Seed Vortex goes back to the 1980s when Kahn was an artist-in-residence at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. There, he explored the Physics of the Granular State, an emerging field of science that studied the way powders, sand and other dry, granular materials moved. Kahn created a series of interactive sculptures at the Exploratorium that encouraged viewers to influence and observe the patterns of granular motion. This work led to Negev Wheel, which Kahn made in 2016 for the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and filled with sand from Israel’s Negev Desert.