Adv25 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, November 27 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 6:30 p.m. FS1 —…

Adv25

(All times Eastern)

Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts

Monday, November 27

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)

6:30 p.m.

FS1 — Oakland at Xavier

11 p.m.

ESPNU — Utah at Saint Mary’s (Cal)

NFL FOOTBALL

8:15 p.m.

ABC — Chicago at Minnesota

ESPN — Chicago at Minnesota

SOCCER (MEN’S)

3 p.m.

USA — Premier League: Wolverhampton at Fulham

3:20 a.m. (Tuesday)

FS1 — FIFA U-17 World Cup Group Stage: TBD, Semifinal, Surakarta, Indonesia

6:45 a.m. (Tuesday)

FS2 — FIFA U-17 World Cup Group Stage: TBD, Semifinal, Surakarta, Indonesia

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Tuesday, November 28

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)

7 p.m.

ESPN2 — ACC/SEC Challenge: LSU at Syracuse

FS1 — Wagner at Providence

7:30 p.m.

ESPN — ACC/SEC Challenge: Miami at Kentucky

ESPNU — ACC/SEC Challenge: Missouri at Pittsburgh

9 p.m.

ESPN2 — ACC/SEC Challenge: NC State at Mississippi

FS1 — Southern U. at Marquette

9:30 p.m.

ESPN — ACC/SEC Challenge: Clemson at Alabama

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

7 p.m.

ESPN — College Football Playoff: Top 25

COLLEGE HOCKEY (WOMEN’S)

5 p.m.

ESPNU — TBA

SOCCER (MEN’S)

3:20 a.m.

FS1 — FIFA U-17 World Cup Group Stage: TBD, Semifinal, Surakarta, Indonesia

6:45 a.m.

FS2 — FIFA U-17 World Cup Group Stage: TBD, Semifinal, Surakarta, Indonesia

NBA BASKETBALL

7:30 p.m.

TNT — Milwaukee at Miami (In-Season Tournament Group Game)

10 p.m.

TNT — Golden State at Sacramento (In-Season Tournament Group Game)

TENNIS

7 a.m.

TENNIS — ATP Next Gen Finals Round Robin

12 p.m.

TENNIS — ATP Next Gen Finals Round Robin

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Wednesday, November 29

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)

6:30 p.m.

FS1 — St. Joseph’s at Villanova

7:15 p.m.

ESPN — ACC/SEC Challenge: Tennessee at North Carolina

ESPN2 — ACC/SEC Challenge: Texas A&M at Virginia

ESPNU — ACC/SEC Challenge: Florida at Wake Forest

8:30 p.m.

FS1 — Merrimack at Georgetown

9:15 p.m.

ESPN — ACC/SEC Challenge: Duke at Arkansas

ESPN2 — ACC/SEC Challenge: Virginia Tech at Auburn

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)

5 p.m.

ESPN2 — Notre Dame at Tennessee

9:15 p.m.

ESPNU — ACC/SEC Challenge: Louisville at Mississippi

GOLF

8 p.m.

GOLF — DP World Tour: The ISPS HANDA Australian Open, First Round, Victoria GC and Kingston Heath GC, Melbourne, Australia

5 a.m. (Thursday)

GOLF — DP World Tour: The Investec South African Open Championship, First Round, Blair Atholl Golf & Equestrian Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa

NHL HOCKEY

7:30 p.m.

TNT — Detroit at NY Rangers

TENNIS

7 a.m.

TENNIS — ATP Next Gen Finals Round Robin

12 p.m.

TENNIS — ATP Next Gen Finals Round Robin

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Thursday, November 30

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)

6 p.m.

ESPNU — Liberty at FAU

6:30 p.m.

FS1 — Texas Tech at Butler

9 p.m.

ESPN2 — Creighton at Oklahoma St.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)

7 p.m.

ESPN — ACC/SEC Challenge: South Carolina at North Carolina

ESPNU — ACC/SEC Challenge: Arkansas at Florida St.

8 p.m.

ESPNU — Baylor at SMU

9 p.m.

ESPN — ACC/SEC Challenge: Virginia Tech at LSU

GOLF

5 a.m.

GOLF — DP World Tour: The Investec South African Open Championship, First Round, Blair Atholl Golf & Equestrian Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa

1:30 p.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour: The Hero World Challenge, First Round, Albany Golf Club, Albany Golf Course, New Providence, Bahamas

8 p.m.

GOLF — DP World Tour: The ISPS HANDA Australian Open, Second Round, Victoria GC and Kingston Heath GC, Melbourne, Australia

5 a.m. (Friday)

GOLF — DP World Tour: The Investec South African Open Championship, Second Round, Blair Atholl Golf & Equestrian Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa

NFL FOOTBALL

8:15 p.m.

PRIME VIDEO — Seattle at Dallas

SOCCER (MEN’S)

6:45 a.m. (Friday)

FS2 — FIFA U-17 World Cup Group Stage: TBD, Third-Place Game, Surakarta, Indonesia

TENNIS

7 a.m.

TENNIS — ATP Next Gen Finals Round Robin

12 p.m.

TENNIS — ATP Next Gen Finals Round Robin

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Friday, December 1

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)

6:30 p.m.

FS1 — Houston at Xavier

7 p.m.

ESPN2 — St. John’s at West Virginia

8:30 p.m.

FS1 — Iowa St. at DePaul

9 p.m.

ESPN2 — UConn at Kansas

10:30 p.m.

FS1 — Boise St. at Saint Mary’s (Cal)

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

8 p.m.

ABC — Pac-12 Championship: TBD, Las Vegas

COLLEGE SOCCER (WOMEN’S)

6 p.m.

ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, Cary, N.C.

8:30 p.m.

ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, Cary, N.C.

GOLF

5 a.m.

GOLF — DP World Tour: The Investec South African Open Championship, Second Round, Blair Atholl Golf & Equestrian Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa

1:30 p.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour: The Hero World Challenge, Second Round, Albany Golf Club, Albany Golf Course, New Providence, Bahamas

10 p.m.

GOLF — DP World Tour: The ISPS HANDA Australian Open, Third Round, Victoria GC and Kingston Heath GC, Melbourne, Australia (Taped)

5 a.m. (Saturday)

GOLF — DP World Tour: The Investec South African Open Championship, Third Round, Blair Atholl Golf & Equestrian Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL (BOY’S)

5:30 p.m.

ESPN2 — TBA

NBA BASKETBALL

7:40 p.m.

ESPN — Memphis at Dallas

10:05 p.m.

ESPN — Denver at Phoenix

SOCCER (MEN’S)

6:45 a.m.

FS2 — FIFA U-17 World Cup Group Stage: TBD, Third-Place Game, Surakarta, Indonesia

6:50 a.m. (Saturday)

FS1 — FIFA U-17 World Cup Group Stage: TBD, Final, Surakarta, Indonesia

TENNIS

11 a.m.

TENNIS — ATP Next Gen Finals Semifinals

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Saturday, December 2

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)

12 p.m.

ESPN2 — Syracuse at Virginia

2 p.m.

ESPN2 — Memphis at Mississippi

ESPNU — Indiana St. at Bradley

3:30 p.m.

FS1 — Michigan at Oregon

5:30 p.m.

FS1 — TCU at Georgetown

6 p.m.

ESPNU — Coll. of Charleston at FAU

7:30 p.m.

FS1 — Rhode Island at Providence

10 p.m.

ESPN — Legends of Basketball Invitational: Gonzaga vs. South Carolina, Las Vegas

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)

1:30 p.m.

FS1 — Bowling Green at Iowa

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

12 p.m.

ABC — Big 12 Championship: TBD, Arlington, Texas

ESPN — Mid-American Championship: Miami (Ohio) vs. Toledo, Detroit

3 p.m.

FOX — Mountain West Championship: TBD

4 p.m.

ABC — TBD

CBS — Southeastern Championship: Georgia vs. Alabama, Atlanta

ESPN2 — Southwestern Athletic Championship: Prairie View A&M at Florida A&M

8 p.m.

ABC — Atlantic Coast Championship: Louisville vs. Florida St., Charlotte, N.C.

FOX — Big Ten Championship: TBD, Indianapolis

GOLF

5 a.m.

GOLF — DP World Tour: The Investec South African Open Championship, Third Round, Blair Atholl Golf & Equestrian Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa

12 p.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour: The Hero World Challenge, Third Round, Albany Golf Club, Albany Golf Course, New Providence, Bahamas

2:30 p.m.

NBC — PGA Tour: The Hero World Challenge, Third Round, Albany Golf Club, Albany Golf Course, New Providence, Bahamas

9 p.m.

GOLF — DP World Tour: The ISPS HANDA Australian Open, Final Round, Victoria GC and Kingston Heath GC, Melbourne, Australia

4:30 a.m. (Sunday)

GOLF — DP World Tour: The Investec South African Open Championship, Final Round, Blair Atholl Golf & Equestrian Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa

LACROSSE (MEN’S)

7:30 p.m.

ESPN2 — NLL: TBA

MIXED MARTIAL ARTS

7 p.m.

ESPN — UFC Fight Night Main Card: Beneil Dariush vs. Arman Tsarukyan (Lightweights), Austin, Texas

SKIING

5 p.m.

NBC — FIS: Alpine Ski World Cup

SOCCER (MEN’S)

6:50 a.m.

FS1 — FIFA U-17 World Cup Group Stage: TBD, Final, Surakarta, Indonesia

10 a.m.

USA — Premier League: Wolverhampton at Arsenal

12 p.m.

FS1 — UEFA EURO 2024 Draw

12:30 p.m.

NBC — Premier League: Everton at Nottingham Forest

3 p.m.

USA — Premier League: Manchester United at Newcastle United

SOCCER (WOMEN’S)

3 p.m.

TNT — International Friendly: U.S. vs. China, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

TENNIS

1 p.m.

TENNIS — ATP Next Gen Finals Final

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Sunday, December 3

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)

1 p.m.

ESPN2 — Auburn at Appalachian St.

3 p.m.

ESPN2 — Wichita St. at Missouri

4 p.m.

FS1 — Creighton at Nebraska

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)

1 p.m.

ABC — Jimmy V Women’s Classic: South Carolina at Duke

2 p.m.

FS1 — Oregon at Baylor

3 p.m.

ABC — Jimmy V Women’s Classic: UConn at Texas

5 p.m.

ESPN — Jimmy V Women’s Classic: Ohio St. at Tennessee

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

12 p.m.

ESPN — College Football Playoff Selection Show

ESPNU — College Football Playoff Selection Show

COLLEGE WATER POLO (MEN’S)

6 p.m.

ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: TBD, Championship, Los Angeles

GOLF

4:30 a.m.

GOLF — DP World Tour: The Investec South African Open Championship, Final Round, Blair Atholl Golf & Equestrian Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa

11:30 a.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour: The Hero World Challenge, Final Round, Albany Golf Club, Albany Golf Course, New Providence, Bahamas

1:30 p.m.

NBC — PGA Tour: The Hero World Challenge, Final Round, Albany Golf Club, Albany Golf Course, New Providence, Bahamas

HORSE RACING

12 p.m.

FS1 — NYRA: America’s Day at the Races

NBA G-LEAGUE BASKETBALL

2 p.m.

NBATV — Westchester at College Park

4 p.m.

NBATV — Indiana at Iowa

NFL FOOTBALL

1 p.m.

CBS — Regional Coverage: Indianapolis at Tennessee, LA Chargers at New England, Arizona at Pittsburgh, Carolina at Tampa Bay

FOX — Regional Coverage: Detroit at New Orleans, Atlanta at NY Jets, Miami at Washington,

4:05 p.m.

CBS — Denver at Houston

4:25 p.m.

FOX — Regional Coverage: Cleveland at LA Rams, San Francisco at Philadelphia

8:20 p.m.

NBC — Kansas City at Green Bay

SKIING

4:30 p.m.

NBC — FIS: Alpine Ski World Cup

SOCCER (MEN’S)

9 a.m.

USA — Premier League: Brighton & Hove Albion at Chelsea

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Published Nov. 1 

01 Tickets  

02 Card of Thanks 

03 Memorials 

04 Lost & Found 

05 Notices 

Rio Grande County is soliciting sealed bids from qualified contractors for 2023 AIRFIELD PROJECTS, to be constructed for RIO GRANDE COUNTY, COLORADO.  Bids will be received at the County Office until 1:00 pm on Tuesday, November 28, 2023. Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud on Tuesday, November 28, 1:00pm at the County Office, 925 6th Street, Room 207, Del Norte, CO 81132. An Optional Pre-Bid Conference will be held on November 07, 2023 at 1:00 pm at the Astronaut Kent Rominger Airport, 883 Co Rd 22, Del Norte, CO 81132. The project consists of a 2-inch asphalt overlay to Runway 6-24, a new 450 feet Proposed Taxilane construction East of Taxiway B, and the rehabilitation of existing taxiways and apron pavements with a 608H Seal Coat treatment. Bids will be received for a single prime contract. Bids shall be on a lump sum and unit price basis with additive alternate bid items as indicated in the Bid Form. Digital copies of the bid documents are available from the county at www.riograndecounty.org. Those downloading the contract documents electronically are responsible for verifying the completeness of contract documents received view download. Failure to download a complete set of digital contract documents will not be a factor considered in the evaluation of bids or form the basis for any bid protest. In order to submit a responsive bid as a Prime Contractor and to receive all necessary addendum (s) for this project, you must be on the Planholder’s List, which requires the plans being downloaded from www.riograndecounty.org.Bids shall be accompanied by a bid security in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders. The successful Bidder must furnish Performance and Payment Bonds in accordance with the Contract Documents. Bidders must be licensed to perform work within the state of Colorado. Bids must remain in effect for 60 days after the bid opening date. Within 60 days from the bid date, the Owner may award the contract to the lowest responsive, responsible Bidder or reject any or all Bids for the Project. The RIO GRANDE COUNTY, COLORADO reserves the right to reject any or all Bids, to waive irregularities in the Bids and bidding deemed to be in the best interests of the RIO GRANDE COUNTY, COLORADO, and to reject nonconforming, nonresponsive, or conditional bids. (11-15) 

The Saguache County Landfill is looking to partner with local farmers and/or businesses currently using Waste Oil Furnaces to warm up your indoor spaces.  With a surplus of waste oil on hand, the Saguache County Landfill is reaching out to see how we can transform waste oil into an asset, before collecting used motor oil at our facility.  If you fit the criteria above…or if you are planning to invest in a waste oil furnace shortly, and would like to partner on this recycling endeavor, please call Michelle at the Landfill Office at 719-655-2554. (11-22) 

We buy antler: Use code “ELK17” and you will get $17/lb for Elk Grade A and $12/lb for Deer Grade A. 5 miles west of Del Norte on Hwy 160. 719-657-0942 (TFN) 

For information on meetings for ALANON NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS AND ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Please visit slvaa.org or call 719-937-5083. 

06 Personals  

07 Help Wanted 

The City of Monte Vista is accepting applications for the position of Finance Director.  The Finance Director has direct responsibility and supervision of all aspects of the Finance Department which includes fund accounting, financial reporting, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, pension and retirement accounting, revenue collections, purchasing, auditing, budgeting, preparation of the Annual Finance Report, and monitors the financial position of the municipality. Five (5) years progressively responsible experience in Accounting and Finance and a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Public or Business Administration with an emphasis in accounting, financial management or a related field is required.  An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.  This is full time employment.  The salary range is $70,000-$75,000 DOE, plus full benefits. To apply please visit: www.cityofmontevista.colorado.gov or applications can be picked up at City Hall, 95 W. 1st Ave Monte Vista, CO 81144. Please provide updated resume with application. Position will remain open until filled, first review November 9, 2023. EEO ADA. (11-8) 

Needed Part Time Personal Care Provider in Antonito.  A must dependable, trustworthy, and loving individual for a female who can execute transfers and other duties. Interested call 719-376-2348 or 719-588-9430 (11-8) 

MDS Waste and Recycle is hiring! Interested in furthering your skill set? We are hiring under CDL drivers with a company sponsored, fast-track program to getting your CDL. Job based out of Del Norte or Creede (your option). Call 719-658-3060, 719-221-3811 or email [email protected]. (12-6) 

Saguache County Land Use Department is accepting applications for a full time third Code Enforcement Officer position. Salary to be determined on experience starting at $35,000/year. Applicants must have a valid Colorado Drivers License, must pass a criminal background check as well as a pre-employment drug test. The County Employee benefit package includes vision, dental and health insurance coverage, paid time off, and a generous 401k retirement plan. The employment application and job description can be found on www.saguachecounty.colorado.gov, picked up at the Saguache County Administration Office, 505 3rd Street, Saguache, CO or can be emailed to you, please contact April Quintana at 719-655-2231. Completed applications can be hand delivered to the Saguache County Land Use Department, Attention Amber Wilson, 505 3rd Street, mailed to PO Box 326, Saguache, CO  81149 or emailed to [email protected]. Applications will be accepted until filled. (11/2) 

10 Apartments 

11 Rooms  

12 Houses for Rent 

Two-bedroom house for rent $850 month, two miles east of Del Norte 719-657-3439. (11-22) 

Beautiful stucco home for rent: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 car garage. Available now. Please call 719-850-2027. (11-1) 

13 Mobile Homes for Rent 

14 Business Properties For Rent 

15 Wanted to Rent 

16 Vacation 

17 Real Estate For Sale 

FARM FOR SALE in Waverly Area Sub-district #6, 1 ½ center pivots in grass and alfalfa, large hay shed, 2 bedroom home, 3 steel grainers, numerous out buildings on 8 Mile Road. Ready to farm 2023 season. Call Bruce at Steffens & Company Realty, Inc 719-580-0770. (TFN) 

35-80+ acres parcels with good grass on County Line Road north of Hwy 160. Fully surveyed and ready to build on.  Perfect location between Alamosa and Monte Vista. Call Bruce at Steffens & Company Realty, Inc. 719-580-0770. (TFN) 

35-80+ acre parcels on San Francisco Creek south of Del Norte. Very private, views, 3 miles from town, electric and phone. Call Bruce at Steffens & Company Realty, Inc. 719-580-0770. (TFN) 

40 Acres 5 miles west of Monte Vista on Lariat Road with power, phone and year around access on county road. $60,000. Call Bruce Steffens 719-580-0770 at Steffens & Company Realty Inc. (TFN) 

FOR SALE: Beautiful 3,280 sq. ft., 3 bath, 3 bedroom, large kitchen and  2 living room with mountain setting, separate 2-3 car garage with nice apartment upstairs, large horse barn, chicken house and OWNER FINANCED!! Price to sell $895,000.00. Call Bruce at Steffens & Company Realty, Inc 719-580-0770. (TFN) 

FOR SALE: 35 shares of Santa Maria Reservoir Water. Call Bruce at Steffens & Company Realty, Inc 719-580-0770. (TFN) 

20 Business Properties 

21 Mobile Homes 

22 Property Wanted 

23 Lawn and Garden 

Kenmore Snowblower, Model 247.881900, Serial 1I186B10071, pull or electric start. $400 obo. call George: 719-657-0756 (11-1) 

Sprinkler repair and winterizations. Done at reasonable rates. Quick Service. Call anytime, weekdays, weekends, evenings. 719-580-0033 or 719-376-2593. (TFN) 

24 Garage/Yard Sales 

Huge Moving Sale – Building supplies (windows, doors, etc.) furniture, microwave, household, misc.  Thursday, Friday (Nov. 2-3) 10-4 and Sunday (Nov. 5) 1-4. 3372 Carefree Way, Crestone. (11-1) 

27 Appliances 

Kenmore Freezer, 10 cu ft with lock, Model 253.8291080, Serial S910297892, Mfg 10/89. $200 obo.  call George: 719-657-0756 (11-1) 

28 Household Goods 

29 Musical Instruments 

30 Electronics/Computers 

31 Health 

32 Fuel & Heating 

Laars Mini – Therm JVH Gas fired boiler, 160,000 BTU $4,500. 1/2 HP Inline Cast Iron Pump 1inch inlet / Outlet. $150.00 719-379-3921. (11-22) 

Lump Coal and Anthracite Hard Coal available. Supplement your wood heating with “lump coal”. Burns more consistently & lasts longer so you can do more of what you want & less time carrying wood. 719-849-8261 (3-01) 

33 Building Materials 

34 Office Equipment  

35 Heavy Equipment 

36 Miscellaneous 

For Sale: New 9,000 lb car-lift, matching fridge and stove, and a new baseboard trim. 719-850-2027 (12-6) 

Cash for quality non-fiction books and LP records. Jeff 720-315-9145 (TFN) 

Propane Refrigerators Sold Here. Call For Options and Prices. We Also Stock Solar Powered Refrigerators and Freezers. Bontrager’s Variety Store, 9726 S. County Road 3E, Monte Vista. (719) 852-0500 TFN 

STEEL STORAGE CONTAINERS – Sales, Rentals & Modifications! Containers are water & rodent proof. 8’ wide, 8’-53’ in length. Call for more information and pricing. Healdworks, Inc. – Your Total Storage Solution! 719-850-0346 (TFN) 

SOLAR PANELS! 400 Watt and Smaller, We Stock Inverters, Charge Controllers, and Batteries in Brand Names of Outback, Magnum, Aims, Rolls, and More. Custom Cables and PV Wire. Bontrager’s Variety Store. 9726 S. CR 3E Monte Vista. 719-852-0500. (TFN) 

37 Wanted 

38 Machinery, Tools, Equipment 

39 Sporting Goods 

Free 11-foot trampoline frame. Bed and netting need to be replaced. 719-852-2242, leave message. (11-01) 

40 Auto Part 

41 Farm Equipment 

42 Feed & Seed 

43 Farm Products 

44 Farm Services 

45 Animal Breeding  

46 Pasture for Rent 

47 Horses & Cattle 

48 Pets and Supplies 

Large dog house made of fiber glass. Will accommodate any size dog. $50.00. Must pick up. call 719 379-3921. (11-22) 

Blue Merle Toy Aussie puppies for sale. Will be 8 weeks old on 10/24/23. 719-849-1877. (11-01) 

49 Animal Care 

50 Livestock 

51 Boats and Equipment 

1968 Duracraft 14’ fishing boat with trailer 18HP Evinrude motor. Electric Start, $1,000. 303-358-1352 (11-8) 

52 Camping Equipment 

53 Trailers 

54 Snowmobiles/ATV’s 

60” ATV Show Blade Inelydes. Extended for tracks universal mount, $300 OBO 303-358-1352. (11-08) 

55 RVs & Campers 

56 Business Opportunity 

57 Investments 

58 Motorcycles 

59 Vehicles Wanted 

63 Trucks 

64 Autos for Sale 

65 Professional Services 

4-Ever-Cleaning Homes, Air B&B And More Call Rene 719-480-4273 For More Info. (1-04) 

RELIABLE CARPENTRY 40-plus years-experience in carpentry, painting, stucco, tile, drywall, roofing, etc. Drug/Alcohol free. Free Estimates 719-496-7630. (TFN) 

LICENSED PLUMBER does all types of plumbing repairs and plumbing remodels at reasonable rates. Quick service. Call anytime, available weekends and evenings. 719-580-0033 or 719-376-2593. TFN 

Need beautiful window blinds at the best prices? Call THE BLIND GUY at 970-799-0388 for a free estimate. (TFN) 

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A list of upcoming November events in Contra Costa County and around the San Francisco Bay Area.  A ton of holiday themed vendor fairs, parades, tree lighting and more.

This is a “live” list and more events will be added throughout the month as they are made know. Also accepting events in November and December — please email [email protected]

November Events

Nov 3 – Congressman Mark DeSaulnier Hosts Veterans Town Hall & Resource Fair

As Veterans Day draws near, I’m hosting a Veterans Town Hall and Resource Fair on Friday, November 3rd from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. to connect veterans with resources from federal agencies and Veteran Service Organizations to make sure they are informed about the benefits that may be available to them. This is a wonderful opportunity for veterans of any age to come and hear from experts about benefits that they have earned. I’ll be joining virtually because of the House voting schedule, but several organizations will be on-site and available to answer your question. Event is at the Shadelands Art Center at 111 Widget Lane, walnut Creek CA

November 3: Laurel Elementary PTA Holiday Shopping Boutique

Please join us for a fun evening of Shopping, with over 20 local vendors! In the Laurel Elementary Multi purpose room. From 5-8 Friday Nov 3rd! Bring your friends, family, neighbors and more & get some holiday shopping done early this season. We hope to see you there! Located at 1141 Laurel Road, Oakley

Photo by Hospice

Nov 5- Dec 8 — Annual Tree of Lights

Pleasant Hill, CA – Hospice East Bay is proud to be celebrating our Annual Tree of Lights! For 37 years these ceremonies have provided a way for families and friends to honor their loved ones and find solace in the symbolism of light as the names of their loved ones are read. Beginning on November 5th and running through December 8th, there will be ten ceremonies at locations throughout the East Bay. Each event will feature a reading of memorial names and a symbolic tree lighting. Please check the schedule below for specific ceremonies.

• East County  Sunday, Nov. 5th, 5:30 pm at Brentwood City Park at 710 2nd Street at Oak
• Rossmoor Monday, Nov. 6th, 5 pm at Creekside Clubhouse at 1010 Stanley Dollar Dr.
• Pleasant Hill  Wednesday, Nov. 8th, 5:30 pm at Gregory Lane, near Cleaveland Road
• Danville  Friday, Nov. 17th, 5:30 pm at Town Meeting Hall, 201 Front St. Danville
• Martinez  (also honoring US Veterans)  at Saturday, Nov. 18th, 5:30 pm Morello Avenue, north of Arnold Dr.
• Alamo  Tuesday, Nov. 21st, 5:00 pm at Alamo Women’s Club 1401 Danville Blvd.
• Orinda   Saturday, Dec. 2nd, 4:30 pm at Village Square by McCaulou’s
• Lafayette   Saturday, Dec. 2nd, 4:30 pm at 21 Lafayette Cir., Lafayette **Ceremony to be held at Village Square by McCaulou’s
• Moraga  Saturday, Dec. 2nd, 4:30 pm Moraga Country Club 1600 St. Andrews Dr. **Ceremony to be held at Village Square by McCaulou’s
• Walnut Creek Monday, Dec. 4th, 6:00 pm at John Muir Medical Center, Main Entrance, Ygnacio Valley Rd., Walnut Creek
• Concord/Clayton  Tuesday, Dec. 5th, 5:00 pm at John Muir Medical Center Parking Lot, East Street & Almond Ave., Concord
• Blackhawk  Friday, Dec. 8th, 5:00 pm at Blackhawk Road at Blackhawk Drive

For more information, visit their website: click here

Nov 3-5: Annual Art & Craft Faire at the Brentwood Senior Cente

Join the Brentwood Senior Citizen’s Club for their 12th Annual Art & Craft Faire at the Brentwood Senior Center (193 Griffith Lane). This three-day event is the perfect way to kick off your holiday shopping. As the holiday season approaches, there’s no better place to discover unique gifts that your friends and family will cherish. This event will feature various activities, including giveaways, artisan vendors, food vendors, crafts, mimosas, and much more.

Event Schedule:

• Friday, November 3rd: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
• Saturday, November 4th: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
• Sunday, November 5th: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Nov 3-12: Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble: You Can’t Take It With You

You Can’t Take It With You opened on Broadway at the Booth Theatre on December 14, 1936. A smash hit, the show ran for 838 performances and returned to Broadway five times, most recently in 2014. That production, directed by Scott Ellis, earned the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress for Annaleigh Ashford as Essie.

• November 3rd, 4th, & 10th @ 7:30pm
• November 5th, 11th, & 12th @ 2:00pm

Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble’s MainStage play, You Can’t Take It With You, will be performed November 3rd-12th at the Edna Hill Theatre in downtown Brentwood and is directed by Michael Wilson.  Tickets & More info – click here

Nov 3-4– Crockett 45th Annual Calico Boutique

The 45th Annual Calico Boutique! You don’t want to miss this annual 2 day event. Keep this local tradition alive OR make it your new one!

800 Pomona Ave, Crockett, CA
Friday 11/3/23 10:00am-6:00pm
Saturday 11/4/23 10:00am-4:00pm

Shop a dozen local artisans for a wide variety of hand crafted gifts. Please enjoy this family friendly event with free admission, complementary tea & cookies for our guests.

November 3-5: Iā ‘Oe E Ka Lā Hula Festival & Competition

The 43rd Iā ‘Oe E Ka Lā Hula Competition includes an assortment of cultural dance, local music, ethnic food, and arts & craft vendors from around the world. Friday night is the solo competition. Saturday and Sunday are the group competitions.

Hours:
Friday, November 3: 3:00pm – 10:00pm
Saturday, November 4: 10:00am – 6:00pm
Sunday, November 5: 10:00am – 6:00pm

Location:
2005 Valley Ave, Gate 8 or 12
Alameda County Fairground & Event Center
Pleasanton, CA 94566

To learn more, please visit: Kumu Hula Association

Nov 4 – K911 Animal Rescue Vendor and Craft Fair

Join K911 Animal Rescue for its vendor and craft fair at the VFW Hall in Downtown Brentwood from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. There will be 36 vendors–unique one of a kind crafts to help you get a jump on holiday shopping which supports animal rescue. This is a family friendly craft fair with kids activities while parents shop–including mini-horses. For more information, visit Email [email protected]

Nov 4 – Leo Fontana Lifetime Achievement Foundation Hosts Trivia Night

On Saturday, Nov. 4, the Leo Fontana Lifetime Achievement Foundation will once again be hosting a Trivia Night and just a few tables and sponsorships remain open.

The event is at near capacity as its limited to just 30-teams of 8 and is held at the Lone Tree Golf and Event Center. The event begins at 4:00 pm with a social hour followed by dinner at 5:00 pm. After dinner, its 2-hours of trivia which includes 6-rounds of 10 questions each. The event includes 6-rounds of 10 questions per round, major raffle prizes, no host bar.

The Foundation was created to identify and sponsor programs where the youth in the Antioch community can participate that provides positive, constructive activities and support.

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Nov 4 – Antioch Historical Society Bus Tour

Join us for a journey through the history of Mid-Century Modern Architecture in Antioch on Saturday, Nov 4th, 2023, at 9:30 AM.  We will gather at the Antioch Historical Society Museum, 1500 West 4th Street, Antioch, to embark on a fun and educational bus tour.

Discover the hidden gems and iconic landmarks that define the Mid-Century Modern era in Antioch.  Our knowledgeable guides will provide fascinating insights into the architectural styles, design principles, and cultural influences that shaped this period.

During the tour, you will have the opportunity to explore Mid-Century Modern commercial buildings and public spaces. Whether you are an architecture enthusiast, a history buff, or simply curious about the unique character of Mid-Century Modern design, this event is perfect for you.

Contact: To make reservations, call the Antioch Historical Society Office at 925 -757-1326. You may also contact Claire at 415-948-7763 or Linda at 925-628-6028

Tickets are also available at the event on a First Come First Served basis.

Nov 4 – Holiday Boutique & Craft Fair (Pleasant Hill)

Free Admission. Lots of vendors (40+). Get your holiday shopping done with unique handmade gifts. Friends of the Pleasant Hill Library will also be here selling gently used books. Event is from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Pleasant Hill Senior Center (233 Gregory Lane)

Nov 4 – San Ramon Light Parade

Light up the night with this evening birthday-themed parade, stretching along Camino Ramon to Bishop Drive, that will include dancers, illuminated floats, bands, auto clubs, and entertainment! We invite everyone to join us in celebrating 40 years of San Ramon by participating or watching this year’s parade. Questions or comments please contact: [email protected]. Find more details including the registration info & packet are available at: www.sanramon.ca.gov/srlightparade

Nov 4 – Livermore Bikes & Brews

Join Livermore Valley Craft Beer Foundation (LVCBF) and TAG Real Estate Team on the most fun ride of the year to get bikes to local kids. This year’s 12-mile route will start at Trek Bicycle Livermore, head for Altamont Beer Works, then on to Homegrown Hops Brewing, then end at Tap 25 at Blacksmith Square where there will be more beer and food for purchase(and wine if you’re beered-out), live music, and an opportunity to participate in our raffle and online auction for amazing local prizes. Six tour groups of 25 riders will depart beginning at 10:30AM and depart every 30 minutes until the last ride at 1:00PM. More info, plus sign up, click here

Nov 4 – Harvest Festival (Alamo)

The Harvest Festival Craft Fair will be November 4th, 9AM-2PM. It’s time for all crafters to get their creative juices flowing! This is an eagerly anticipated event with a tradition of quality handmade items, and it’s perfectly positioned as a Christmas shopping destination. (902 Danville Blvd, Alamo)

Nov 4 — DENA Craft Fair (Concord)

Join Dana Estates for its craft fair at the Dana Plaza Shopping Center (4115 Concord Blvd, Concord) on Sat Nov. 4 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. Support vendors from Dana Estates.

Nov 4 – Annual Western Regional Beer Can & Breweriana Show

The 49er Chapter of the BCCA & NABA is hosting an Old Beer Can & Breweriana Show (indoors) on Saturday, November 4th from 9am – 1pm at the 21st Amendment Brewery in San Leandro: 2010 Williams Street, 94577. Walk-in’s FREE. Dealers/Traders, Call Larry at 408-221-9047 to reserve your table. BUY/ SELL/ TRADE: Beer Cans, Beer signs, Soda cans, Oil cans, Coffee cans, Bottles, Trays, Tins and Antique Advertising Signs. Friday night Nov 3rd: Room to Room at the Hilton Garden Inn 510-343-8105

Nov 4 – Annual Beard Growing Contest Kickoff (Livemore)

Kick-off is Saturday, November 4th at 10:30am at the First Street Alehouse. A $20 buy-in shows your commitment and gets you a beverage. Arrive clean shaven, mustaches are ok. We will take your photo and have a brief presentation about Rooms of Hope so you better understand how every dollar you raise will change the lives of families in need.

You will get set up with your own fundraising page so you can seek sponsorships from your friends and family. Your fundraising platform will send donation request letters and thank you letters, including tax-id information, once donations have been made. This is a contest so prizes will be awarded to the top fundraisers but more importantly it is an opportunity to support families in need, in a very fun way. I sure hope you will join us. Your beard will raise awareness and funds for Rooms of Hope. Check them out at www.roomsofhope.org

Nov 4 – Salvio Street Night Market

Every Saturday (Nov 4 – Dec 23), from 5 – 9pm, the inaugural Salvio Street Night Market uses the all new Salvio Street promenade and fountain courtyard in Salvio Pacheco Square. Designed to provide an eclectic and lively outdoor shopping space for all to enjoy, the market will focus on unique vendors and products and showcase local talent, crafts, clothing, music, and more! Stroll down Salvio Street, shop, dine and enjoy all that Downtown Concord has to offer. — More Info

Nov 4 – Diwali Mela in Danville

Naaritva……brings to you Diwali Mela in Danville happening for the first time ever. This event is free to all. Celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, at our Diwali Mela happening for the first time in Danville at the Danville Ranch Club House from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm, Enjoy delicious Indian food, arts and crafts booths, and much more. The mela is a great way to experience the rich culture and traditions of India. Come and join us for a fun and festive event for the whole family.

Nov 4-5: Pittsburg Fishing Derby

Don’t forget to register online here or in person (only on Saturday 11/4 from 8am-noon) at the Judge’s Station at the Pittsburg Marina Central Harbor Basin. Check out the Rules & Regulations here for new location of this judge’s station, a handful of updates to the derby highlighted, registration details and more.  Finally, you won’t want to miss out on these AWESOME PRIZES!

Prizes are awarded in each category for 1st through 6th place, including a raffle, free for all registrants, cash prizes up to $1,000 for 1-3rd places, fishing poles and gear, bait shop gift cards and more. More information – click here

Nov 4-5 – Contra Costa Mineral & Gem Society Annual Show (Concord)

20+ vendors, silent auction, door prize, raffle, mini displays, kid activities, and demonstrations. You can print this out for $1 off admission to the show. This will include gems, jewelry, minerals, fossils, meteorites, beads, display cases along with family activities, demo’s and more. Event is at Centre Concord (5298 Clayton Rd, Concord).

Nov 4-5 – Santa Cruz Sea Glass & Ocean Arts Festival

Don’t miss the 15th annual Santa Cruz Sea Glass & Ocean Art Festival. Saturday Nov 4 and Sunday Nov 5 2023, 10am-5pm. Located inside the historic Sunroom & Cocoanut Grove at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. $5 admission supports ocean conservation through the Monterey Bay Sanctuary. Admission includes a chance to win a spectacular gift-basket. Four drawings per day.

Sunday Special: Prize Piece contest, music and presentations about sea glass origins and qualities. Full bar, Kids Free, over 50 Authentic Sea Glass artists plus ceramics, fabric art, mosaics, resin art and so much more. Event is located at the Boardwalk’s Cocoanut Grove (400 Beach Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060) – more info

Nov 5 – Family Fall & Holiday Marketplace (Concord)

Experience a holiday shopping event with us and enjoy arts & crafts holiday makers, take photos with Santa and his friends, and try the holiday themed marketplace with your friends and/or family at Todos Santos Plaza . Santa and friends available from 12PM to 2PM Vendors can request an application at www.thebombshellgroupinc.com

Nov 5 – Diwali Festival of Lights (Livermore)

Join the Livermore Valley Arts for its Diwali Festival of Lights featuring traditional cultural performance and booths at the Bankhead Plaza (10:00 am to 2:00 pm). The celebration is an ancient Hindu festival that marks the beginning of the Hindu New  Year. Diwali is celebrated every autumn or spring in South Asian countries such as India and Nepal. The  tradition originated as a festival marking the last harvest of the year before the start of winter and  spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, and  hope over despair. — more info

Nov 5 – Diwali at Bishop Ranch (San Ramon)

Diwali, the Festival of Light and one of fall’s most delightful celebrations, is coming to City Center November 5 at 5pm. Come enjoy the spirited Indian music and dancing, watch a Rangoli artist at work, and get a henna tattoo if the mood strikes. There’ll be a selfie station, too — a great way to commemorate a colorfully fun evening. It all takes place in Alexander Square — more info

Nov 10: Kristi Yamaguchi Holiday Ice Rink (San Ramon)

The always popular Kristi Yamaguchi Holiday Ice Rink returns to City Center Bishop Ranch on November 10th at 6pm. This year’s rink is significantly larger, offering more space to socialize. Cabanas with firepits are available to rent for private parties, company holiday events, or whatever special group gathering your imagination creates. – more info

Nov 11 – Veterans Day Ceremonies

• City of Antioch – It all starts at the Antioch Veterans Memorial at 8am with a Pancake Breakfast hosted by the Antioch Rivertown Veterans Lions Club. Our Veteran’s Day Ceremony starts at 9:30 am. This year’s Speaker is US Army Veteran Gary Bostick. The downtown Parade starts at 11:00 am.
• City of Brentwood – Join the City of Brentwood and the VFW 10789 at Veterans Park (3841 Balfour Rd) at 10:30 am to support veterans, hear from guest speakers, a vocalist and tribute which includes a rifle salute.
• City of El Cerrito – El Cerrito Lions Club Flag Placement Ceremony 8:30am-9:30am on November 11th at Sunset View Cemetery, 101 Colusa Ave.
• City of Martinez – flag raising ceremony at Alhambra Pioneer Cemetery while they have a full ceremony at Ignacio Plaza
• City of Oakley – Join the City of Oakley for its annual Veterans Day Ceremony Saturday, 11/11, at 11 (am) in Civic Center Plaza (3231 Main Street) to honor those who have served. This event will include a performance by the Freedom High School Band, keynote speakers, and more.
• City of Pinole – Pinole Veterans Day Memorial and Flag Retirement Ceremony (sponsored by the City of Pinole and the Pinole Historical Society), 11am – Noon on Saturday, November 11th at Fernandez Park.
• City of Walnut Creek – The City of Walnut Creek will host its annual Veterans Day ceremony on Saturday, November 11, at 11:00 a.m.  The commemoration will take place in the Hoffman Theater at the Lesher Center for the Arts, and is free to the public.  The Lesher Center for the Arts is at 1601 Civic Drive. Walnut Creek Mayor Cindy Silva will host the event. The keynote speaker will be Elena Kim. Kim served as a Human Intelligence Collector in the United States Army from 2005 through 2010 in conjunction with Operation Iraqi Freedom.  She is currently the Director of the County Veterans Service Office in San Francisco.  She also is an Associate Producer and Co-Host of “Veterans Voices,” a monthly television show covering topics of interest to veterans throughout Contra Costa County. The theme of this year’s ceremony is “service,” and the program will pay tribute to those honorable men and women who have served our country. The ceremony will feature musical selections provided by the Walnut Creek Concert Band under the direction of Matthew Sadowski, including the traditional salute to each of the armed forces

Nov 11 – Chill’s N’ Cheers Wine Bazaar Sip N’ Shop

Join Hannah Nicole Vineyards in Brentwood for its Chills n’ Cheers Wine Bazaar! This enchanting event from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm is a celebration of all things wine and shopping, designed to warm your spirits during the chilly winter months. Join them for an unforgettable afternoon filled with exquisite wines, delectable shopping, and entertainment. More info

Nov 11 – The Longest Day Alzheimer’s 5K Walk & Run (Campos Family Vineyards)

Come join us at Campos Family Vineyards for a 5k Walk and Run to raise funds for The Longest Day Alzheimer’s Association.  Runners will receive a t-shirt, finisher’s medal, ticket to the panel discussion (12pm) and a glass of wine.  Check in is Friday November 10th from 1-5 pm and Saturday morning November 11th from 9-9:30 am at Campos Family Vineyards.   There will be food trucks and a DJ. — More info + sign up

Nov 11 – Veterans Day at Epidemic Ales

Join us on Veterans Day, Saturday Nov. 11 for our release of DD-214 Unfiltered IPA! Each year we purchase a special blend of Yakima Chief Hops hand picked by veterans. This year our new sales rep & Marine veteran Jordan joined us on brew day along with owner Holly’s dad Jim, a Vietnam Vet & Purple Heart recipient. We will be offering BOGO pints of DD-214 for veterans & active military on Nov. 11! — more info

Nov 11-12– 33rd Goodguys Fuel Curve Autumn Get-Together

America’s Favorite Car Show makes its final Bay Area pit stop of the season in its 40th anniversary season of Cool Cars, Cool People and Good Times! Grab your family and friends and head on out to the Alameda County Fairgrounds the weekend of November 11th & 12th for the Goodguys 33rd Fuel Curve Autumn Get-Together featuring over 2,500 of northern California’s slickest American made and powered show cars and trucks of all years on display! Plus, don’t miss Goodguys’ Classic Performance Products AutoCross racing series action featuring the Fuel Curve “Fall Shootout”, shop the huge swap meet, Cars 4 Sale Corral and vendor midway, enjoy live music, experience an earth-shaking Nitro Thunderfest exhibition, check out a metal-munching Saturday Demolition Derby presented by Hayward Firefighters 1909, see which rides take home the top awards of the weekend, and so much more!

Hours:
November 11: 8am – 4pm
November 12:  8am – 4pm

Location:
2005 Valley Avenue, Gate 8
Alameda County Fairgrounds & Event Center
Pleasanton, CA 94566

For complete details and to register your vehicle or purchase tickets, visit www.good-guys.com/agt.

Nov 11-12:  SF Coffee Festival

The 7th Annual SF Coffee Festival is held Nov 11 & 12 from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm. Get ready for an immersive coffee experience when the 7th annual San Francisco Coffee Festival® kicks off. Enjoy over 100 specially curated exhibitors, including the Bay Area’s top coffee roasters, as they share with you some of the best coffee, teas, eats, and more, in the country. Want to learn more about coffee? Just ask the master roaster at their booth, or attend one of the many educational panels.  Sway along to a soundtrack provided by some of the best bands and entertainment in the Bay, while you taste endless coffee at the iconic Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture’s Festival Pavilion. More info @ SFCoffeeFestival.com

Nov 11-12: Lodi Reptile Show

A cold blooded invasion returns to the Valley!! Lodi Reptile show is happening Sat November 11 & Sun November 12, 2023. 1000’s of reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, supplies and MORE!! Admission $15 Adults, $7 Kids (Age 6-12), Kids 5 years and under are FREE!! Also FREE PARKING!! (Please leave your pets at home) — more info + tickets

Nov 12 — Hook, Line & Sinker Bass Fishing Tournament

Hook, Line & Sinker has announced their 2023-204 Tournament schedule which includes 6 dates plus a Tournament of Champions. All events will be held at Russo’s Marina on Bethel Island and begin at first light. Hook, Line & Sinker is located at 3100 Main Street, Ste 260 in Oakley CA. (925) 625-2441.

For more information or updated information, visit them on Facebook.

Nov 12 – Sip n’ Shop Family Fun Day at Brownstone Gardens

Get ready for a day of shopping, sipping, music, and family-friendly fun! Our Sip n’ Shop event has something for the entire family. Bring your loved ones, grab your shopping bags, and let’s make unforgettable memories together! FREE for pre-registration and $5 at the door, so bring everyone you know! Join us for this unforgettable day of Music, community, laughter, shopping and more. See you there!

• Family Fun for Everyone: Kids can enjoy a host of exciting activities, including face painting, lawn games, a coloring contest, line-dancing lessons, and even a bouncy house. It’s a day of laughter and bonding that the whole family can enjoy.
• Live Entertainment: Groove to the beats of live music that will keep the atmosphere lively and entertaining throughout the day. Our talented musicians will ensure you have the perfect soundtrack for your Sip n’ Shop Fun Day experience.
• Sip and Savor: Indulge your taste buds with a delightful selection of beverages and culinary delights. Sip on mimosas, fine wines, beer, and bloody marys, and enjoy food from our local food vendors. It’s a culinary adventure that will tantalize your senses!
• Shop ‘Til You Drop:  That might be a little overstated, but you get the idea . . . Discover a treasure trove of unique and handcrafted items from a diverse array of talented vendors. Whether you’re looking for fashion, jewelry, home decor, or gourmet treats, our vendors have something special just for you. Explore the latest trends and exclusive finds, all in one place!
• Exclusive Discounts and Raffles: Don’t miss out on incredible deals and the chance to win fantastic prizes! Participate in our raffles (all proceeds go to fund local scholarships) for a shot at some fabulous giveaways and enjoy exclusive discounts from participating vendors.
• Tea Party: Set in the whimsical Alice in Wonderland theme, indulge in an enchanting hour of bonding and elegance with our Mother and Daughter High Tea. Step into a world of timeless sophistication, tea, sweet indulgence, finger sandwiches, and other English delights. $15.00 per person or $25 for mother and daughter.
• Tequila Mixology Class: Embark on a spirited journey into the world of tequila at our exclusive mixology class, where the art of crafting exceptional cocktails meets the rich heritage of Mexico’s most celebrated spirit. Nestled in an intimate setting you will enjoy 3 craft cocktails, chips and salsa (compliments of Jojo’s Taco Bar) and the expertise of our seasoned mixologist. Limited seating.

Nov 12 – Annual Winterfest 707 (Benicia)

We are back for our 3rd year at the Benicia Veteran’s Hall on Veteran’s Day weekend! We are feeling extra Grinchy this year and you can expect to find a whole lot of Grinchmas themed items, holiday gifts and unique costumes, collectibles, clothing, crafts, home decor, yard art, arts & crafts, food, drinks and more! Engage with fun holiday characters. Dance with our in-house DJ to your favorite Holiday mashups, test out fun holiday products and photo booths, an inflatable snow globe, meet Santa, take photos with guest cosplayers and more!

Interested in a vendor application? Contact us at (707) 653-0265 or at www.thebombshellgroupinc.com

Nov 14 – Helping One Woman Discovery Bay Honoring Alicia Stevens

Tickets are on sale through Friday November 10! Over 100 woman are already joining us. Be a part of a special evening with friends and support a local woman in need.

My name is Alicia Stevens, proud mom of one of the most amazing humans on the planet, Tyler. Tyler has always been
a very sweet and caring young boy. When he was little, he dreamed of saving the world through clean energy and
science. Last December he was a swimmer, training to try to join one of the best swim teams in the area. He dreamed of
being an engineer and had an idea to make propellers that would go in people’s plumbing and harnessing that energy to
power their homes. He was a leader who helped start one of the most popular clubs at his middle school where he
taught everyone to play Dungeons and Dragons. He is one of the sweetest children you could ever meet.

On January 1, 2023, we received a terminal cancer diagnosis for Tyler for the deadliest kids’ cancer. This is a cancer
with a 0% survival rate and an average life expectancy of 9 months. But as always, Tyler is surpassing the average. He
is currently on his 10th month since diagnosis and is still living and doing everything in his power to enjoy life. We
have desperately been trying to give him the year he deserves and to create memories and experiences that will help
him as well as the whole family to get through this awful tragedy. We have had a reduction in income, as he takes full
time care and we have had added expenses with driving to his doctors’ appointments in San Francisco etc. As a mom, I
am devastated. I would do anything to take this from him.

More Info & Tickets

Nov 17 – Brentwood PAL Tamale Festival

Join us at the Brentwood Police Activities League (PAL) Tamale Festival on November 17 from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Enjoy great food, music and live auction and raffle items.  Proceeds benefit charitable giving we provide to youth in our community specifically our “Shop with a Cop” program. — For tickets, click here

Nov 18 – Brentwood Makers Market

Join us every third Saturday morning in Downtown Brentwood to shop our community market featuring a premier group of artisan makers, artists, and small businesses. Gather with family and friends as you experience complimentary kids’ activities, live music, themed photo ops, and family fun for everyone. When you’re done passing through The Makers Boulevard, be sure to shop and dine with the local restaurants, boutiques, and farms downtown. The Makers Boulevard is a proud partner of the Downtown Brentwood Coalition and the Pacific Coast Farmers Market, since 2021. To learn more about our events or how you can become involved, please visit our website today — www.themakersboulevard.com.

Nov 18 – Downtown Tracy Holiday Ornament Stroll

The Tracy City Center Association will host the annual Downtown Tracy Holiday Ornament Stroll on Saturday, November 18th from 2:00PM-7:00PM. Event attendees will receive an ornament from participating downtown businesses.

Come enjoy the festive Downtown Tracy atmosphere with holiday decorations and shopping! We encourage you to support small businesses in Downtown Tracy this holiday season. Tickets are NOT required to walk Downtown, shop, visit restaurants, etc. Tickets are only mandatory for collecting ornaments. This event has historically sold out quickly, so please purchase your tickets soon! Attendees must bring their Eventbrite tickets to the Downtown Tracy Plaza for check-in. Upon check-in you will receive a commemorative reusable tote bag and map/punch card.  Event is rain or shine. No refunds will be given. more info + tickets

Nov 18 – Dec 17: Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Holiday Party (San Francisco)

This holiday season, book a trip to Victorian London- in San Francisco. For only 5 weekends, November 18 through December 17, 2023, travel to the Great Dickens Christmas Fair, an immersive adventure with hundreds of colorful characters from both literature and history. Meet Father Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, Mr. & Mrs. Fezziwig, or the Ghost of Christmas Present throughout four acres of Victorian theaters, pubs, and dance halls. Enticing aromas of cinnamon roasted almonds and hearty foods fill the air. Dozens of lamplit shops are filled to overflowing with handmade gifts. The Great Dickens Christmas Fair is a time traveler’s delight and one-of-a-kind way to celebrate the holidays. — tickets & info

Nov 18 – Foreverland at California Theatre (Pittsburg)

You won’t want to miss this electrifying performance! A tribute to Michael Jackson on the California Theatre stage for a limited time. Suitable for the entire family and something you won’t want to miss.  Tickets & Info – click here

Nov 19 —  8th Annual Winter Wine Walk & Tasting

The Annual Winter Wine Walk and Tasting Tour returns to Historic Downtown Brentwood. We are pleased to once again be partnering with the Contra Costa Wine Growers Association to bring award winning local wines to to this event. New for this year, enjoy local Art from the Art Guild of the Delta at select stops! Savor the tastes of Downtown, paired with delicious local wines while you explore and do some holiday shopping! Your ticket includes pairings at over 15 stops on your journey through Historic Downtown.  Grab your ticket today! Designated Driver tickets are available for $10.  Tickets must be purchased in advance, this event sells out quickly.  — tickets, click here

Nov 19 – McCauley Wine & Dine

McCauley will be serving its wines by the bottle, glass, and flight on from 12pm-3pm. We will have Hella Street Tacos on-site selling food and live music with Tim Cecchini. Indoor and outdoor seating will be available. Located at 2525 Sunset, Brentwood CA

Nov 19 – Exotic Bird Mart & Expo Inc (Alameda County Fairgrounds)

The Exotic Bird Mart & Expo is landing at the Fairgrounds on November 11, 2023. See finches, conures, lovebirds, cockatiels, amazons, cockatoos, macaws & more. Shop hundreds of accessories and meet thousands of potentials sellers and buyers – 2005 Valley Avenue, Gate 8 or 12 Alameda County Fairgrounds & Event Center Pleasanton, CA. More info

Nov 23 – Brentwood Turkey Trot

This is the 10th annual Brentwood Turkey Trot for Schools.  This 5K event benefits both the Brentwood Union School District and Liberty Union High School District athletic programs. The race is both in person and virtual—with the in person race being at the Streets of Brentwood (2455 Sand Creek Rd. Brentwood, CA) —  SIGN UP: www.brentwoodturkeytrot.org

Nov 25 – Brentwood Holiday Parade & Tree Lighting

Join Downtown Brentwood for a Holiday parade and tree lighting with the event beginning at 5:00 pm with a lighted parade.  Afterwards, come To The Tree Lighting at City Park After The Parade. For more information, visit the Brentwood Chamber of Commerce — click here

Nov 25 – Holiday Sip & Shop at Campos Family Vineyards

For the 8th year in a row… join Campos Family Vineyards for its Holiday Sip and Shop on Nov 25 from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm.  The Saturday after Thanksgiving, leave the leftovers at home, grab your family or your favorite shopping buddy and spend the day at Campos!  They will have a DJ! Food Trucks!, tons of local vendors! Also, the Sisters on the Fly will be returning this year with their vintage travel trailers!!!  This is an event you do not want to miss! – more information

Nov 25 – Cookies & Cocoa Sessions With Santa (Oasis Family Ranch Knightsen)

Enjoy a special cookies and cocoa Santa holiday experience. From crafting to decorating a Christmas tree, crafting ornaments, photos with multiple decorated backdrops, feeding farm animals and singing along to holiday hits, it’s a special holiday event not to be missed! Pre-registration required, no tickets sold at the door. Each guest receives one sugar cookie by Stacy’s Cakes and a special gift from Santa’s Workshop! Come with your friends or book a family session with us. This 3-hour holiday photography experience starts at 2PM! Limited reservations available!!! We have an indoor space on standby in case it rains. We can accept holiday craft makers interested in setting up products to sell within Santa’s Gift Shop. Contact us for shelf space reservations and pricing packages. RSVP — click HERE

Nov 25 – James Garners Cash Tribute at El Campanil (Antioch)

For the past 16 years, Garner and his band have faithfully recreated Cash’s biggest hits with stunning accuracy in this not-to-be-missed musical event. This world-class tribute to the ‘Man in Black’ has been featured live in concert on PBS stations, and has even performed at Folsom and San Quentin Prisons where Johnny Cash recorded his biggest albums. The show is a fun, toe-tapping trip down memory lane honoring Cash’s life and music, all set to his signature boom-chicka-boom sound. Enjoy all the hits from – “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Ring of Fire,” “I Walk the Line,” and more! –- Info & tickets 

Nov 25 – Christmas On The Farm (Vacaville)

Join us Saturday November 25 9am-3pm and Sunday November 27, 9am-1pm.
The Holiday Season is fast approaching and what better way to find that unique and one of a kind gift than at the 8th annual Christmas On The Farm, Solano Counties Premier vintage, antiques and holiday show. Come spend the day shopping with our collection of select sellers who bring out only the best finds. First rate holiday shopping and kick off the season with some Christmas cheer. Free Admission, Free off street parking, public restrooms. Complimentary hot apple cider and coffee (7478 N Meridian Rd, Vacvaille) — More Info

Nov 30 – Oakley Christmas Tree Lighting

The City of Oakley is hosting its Annual Christmas Tree Lighting on Thursday, November 30th, starting at 5pm. Join us at Civic Center Plaza, 3231 Main Street as we kick off the holiday season with this family-friendly event. Admission and parking are FREE and the event will take place rain or shine.

Civic Center Plaza will be adorned with lights and Christmas decorations. There will be free cookies and cocoa, arts & crafts for the children, live entertainment and more. Santa Claus will also be making a special visit!

Entertainment for the night will include performances by local organizations. We will gather around the live Christmas tree near the Veteran’s Memorial to watch the lights turn on at approximately 6:45pm.

For more information, call Alicia at (925) 625-7041 or email: [email protected]

Nov 30 – Lodi Parade of Lights

The Lodi Parade of Lights is back again! Have a fun family night out watching the bright lights of the Christmas parade float by and enjoying some yummy treats making this the official Christmas kickoff event of Lodi! This is an all volunteer event run by the Kiwanis Club of Greater Lodi- and a Lodi tradition!  — more info

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Six-figure homes in San Francisco are an extremely rare commodity, as our monthly Zillow listings review has repeatedly proven. In November 2022, at least 11 properties sold for less than $1 million; As for the eighth most expensive city in the world, that’s actually (unfortunately) a solid number.

But what does a home in the high hundreds of thousands of dollars actually do for you? Usually a couple of bedrooms, one bathroom (sometimes two) and, if you’re lucky, some renovated interiors.

Check out our findings from November Zillow below, including a Potrero Hill heist, and some deeply depressing reality checks on how much those same properties have cost over the last several decades.

2034 19th Ave.

Neighborhood: Sunset District

Sold for: $905,000

The listing describes this two bedroom, two bathroom home as “habitable but ready for a makeover.” If that doesn’t quite appeal to you, the bay windows on both floors and the fairly large kitchen counter could accommodate.

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1998 25th St.

Neighborhood: Potrero Hill

Sold for: $850,000

This attached corner lot features five bedrooms and two bathrooms in a surprisingly robust 2,285 square feet. It has a storage area in the basement as well as a lower level with studio/workshop, a main level with attached terrace and two (tiny) bedrooms on the top floor. It’s hard to find many San Francisco homes under seven numbers with so much space.

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140 Caine Avenue.

Neighborhood: sea ​​view

Sold for: $970,000

A two bedroom, one bathroom home measuring approximately 1,000 square feet at 140 Caine Ave. features a fresh exterior paint job, remodeled kitchen and lots of natural light.

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955 Goettingenstr.

Neighborhood: Portola

Sold for: $875,000

The property at 955 Göttingenstrasse sold well below the original asking price of $950,000. The listing says it’s three bedrooms and two baths, but only 836 square feet.

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448 Holladay Ave.

Neighborhood: Bernal Heights

Sold for: $900,000

There is plenty to do at this property which is being marketed as a ‘Contractor Special’ and could convert into either a five bedroom, three bathroom home or a triplex for an aspiring landlord. There’s not much to talk about the interior at the moment.

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1635 Kirkwood Ave.

Neighborhood: View of the bay

Sold for: $949,000

Originally built in 1907, this Victorian-style home is a decent size at 1,871 square feet with four bedrooms and three bathrooms. It was sold for the exact asking price.

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178 Sadowa Str.

Neighborhood: sea ​​view

Sold for: $938,000

It’s impossible to overlook this brightly colored two-story property: a two bedroom, one bathroom home with reclaimed hardwood floors and an updated kitchen. For comparison, according to Zillow, 178 Sadowa St. sold for $225,000 in 1994. Little difference.

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3859 San Bruno Ave.

Neighborhood: Little Hollywood

Sold for: $960,000

There isn’t much information about this two bedroom, one bathroom home, aside from another annoying blast from the past: In 2007, 3859 San Bruno Ave. sold for $530,000.

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192 Shawnee Ave.

Neighborhood: outer mission

Sold for: $825,000

This four-bedroom, two-bathroom “Fixer Upper,” as it’s described, has a large backyard, but other details are sparse.

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169 Talbertstr.

Neighborhood: visit valley

Sold for: $999,888

This is a well appointed, relatively spacious two bedroom, one bathroom home with a nice looking kitchen, an inviting living room, a balcony and what appears to be an expansive garden.

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4 Wrightstr.

Neighborhood: Bernal Heights

Sold for: $820,000

This property, a four bedroom, two full bath Bernal Heights find, actually sold well below the asking price of $949,000.

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Six-figure homes in San Francisco are an ultra-rare commodity, as our monthly perusal through Zillow listings has repeatedly proved. In November 2022, at least 11 properties sold for less than $1 million; as far as the world’s eighth-most expensive city is concerned, that’s actually (sadly) a solid number.

What does a home in the high hundreds of thousands of dollars actually get you, though? Usually, a few bedrooms, one bath (sometimes two) and, if you’re lucky, some refurbished interior space.

Below, check out our November Zillow findings, including a Potrero Hill steal, and some deeply depressing reality checks about how much these same properties went for in recent decades.

2034 19th Ave.

Neighborhood: Sunset District

Sold for: $905,000

The listing describes this two-bedroom, two-bathroom home as “livable but ready for a makeover.” If that doesn’t quite entice you, the bay windows on both floors and the fairly ample kitchen counter space might.

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1998 25th St

Neighborhood: Potrero Hill

Sold for: $850,000

This semi-attached corner lot has five bedrooms and two baths across a surprisingly robust 2,285 square feet. It has a basement storage area, plus a studio/workshop lower level, a main level with a patio attachment and two (tiny) bedrooms on the top floor. Hard to find many San Francisco homes under seven figures with this much space.

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140 Caine Ave.

Neighborhood: ocean view

Sold for: $970,000

A two-bedroom, one-bathroom home coming in around 1,000 square feet, 140 Caine Ave. sports a fresh exterior paint job, a remodeled kitchen and lots of natural light.

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955 Goettingen St.

Neighborhood: Portola

Sold for: $875,000

The property at 955 Goettingen St. sold for well under its original asking price of $950,000. The listing says it’s three bedrooms and two baths but just 836 square feet.

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448 Holladay Ave.

Neighborhood: Bernal Heights

Sold for: $900,000

There’s lots of work to be done at this property, which is marketed as a “contractor special” that could turn into either a five-bedroom, three-bathroom home or a triplex for an aspiring landlord. For now, there’s not much to speak of interior-wise.

View the full listing on Zillow.

1635 Kirkwood Ave.

Neighborhood: bay view

Sold for: $949,000

This Victorian-style home, originally constructed in 1907, is a decently sized 1,871 square feet, with four bedrooms and three bathrooms. It sold for the exact asking price.

View the full listing on Zillow.

178 Sadowa St.

Neighborhood: ocean view

Sold for: $938,000

It’s impossible to miss this brightly colored two-story property: a two-bedroom, one-bathroom home with refinished hardwood floors and an updated kitchen. For comparison’s sake, according to Zillow, 178 Sadowa St. sold in 1994 for $225,000. Small difference.

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3859 San Bruno Ave.

Neighborhood: Little Hollywood

Sold for: $960,000

There isn’t much information available about this two-bedroom, one-bathroom home, save for another annoying blast from the past: In 2007, 3859 San Bruno Ave. sold for $530,000.

View the full listing on Zillow.

192 Shawnee Ave.

Neighborhood: outer mission

Sold for: $825,000

This four-bedroom, two-bathroom “fixer upper,” as it’s described, comes with a large backyard, but other details are sparse.

View the full listing on Zillow.

169 Talbert St.

Neighborhood: Visitacion Valley

Sold for: $999,888

This is a well-equipped, relatively spacious two-bedroom, one-bathroom home with a pretty-looking kitchen, a welcoming living room, a balcony and what appears to be an extensive garden.

View the full listing on Zillow.

4 Wright St

Neighborhood: Bernal Heights

Sold for: $820,000

A four-bedroom Bernal Heights find with two full baths, this property actually sold for well under its asking price of $949,000.

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No American writer​ ever revealed more in a photograph than Joan Didion. She was small, five foot one and three-quarter inches tall, which she fudged on her California driver’s licence as five two. She weighed nothing. Somewhere there must be a photograph of her beaming with delight but I’ve never seen it. With age, her neck thinned. Her arms were like birds’ legs. Her face shrank tight in lines and folds, creases deepening around her mouth. She began to wear big sunglasses. But early and late her expression changed little. Her gaze was direct, intent, and anxious or fearful. From the beginning something cousin to sorrow weighed her down – just what is hard to say.

Didion was born in California in 1934 and died last December of complications from Parkinson’s. She published her first book, the novel Run River, in 1963; her last, a collection of essays, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, appeared in 2021. In Didion’s sixteen books, as in her photographs, she is almost brutally direct, but it’s never entirely clear what she means to say. The first work of hers to get serious attention was a collection of twenty magazine pieces, Slouching towards Bethlehem (1968), which said enough about 1960s America to plant an anxious seed of worry in the heart of a generation. It was followed by more essays and novels, and eventually by two personal narratives she did not want to call memoirs. She didn’t like the word and thought it soft. All her writing was personal to varying degrees, but it was these two late narratives – The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), about the death of her husband, and Blue Nights (2011), about the loss of her daughter – that fixed her reputation.

I never met Didion or her husband, the novelist John Gregory Dunne, but in September 1974 I heard Didion speak one evening in the Branford College common room at Yale. Dunne was there as well, stepping in when her voice began to trail off. I was teaching a non-fiction seminar on Wednesday evenings that year and everybody in the class, I think, had read Slouching towards Bethlehem. I had certainly urged them to. Didion made a strong impression, which I tried to catch in a diary I kept back then:

A thin, nervous woman, self-protective in manner – legs tightly crossed, arms hugging herself, down and back in her chair as if trying to shrink behind a cushion. Her voice was quiet, words deliberate. Occasional panic seemed to sweep over her and she would violently begin to spin a large gold ring on her left hand. Violent may seem too strong a word but it is not; the movement was so abrupt and vigorous, accompanied by such a gust of alarm across her expressive face, that the kids sitting at her feet almost seemed to start …

She talked incessantly about ‘John’ (her husband, who occasionally added details, almost like a trainer) and stuck pretty much to a tone of modest irony …

Q: ‘Do you prefer writing fiction or journalism?’

A: ‘Fiction, when I need to write fiction. Every five or six years I need to write a novel and I’m doing one now.’

She was silent for a moment, seemed to rehear that word ‘need’, suddenly hugged herself tighter than ever and furiously began to spin that big gold ring.

In the bloom of youth Didion might have weighed more than a hundred pounds but it didn’t last. At Yale she looked as easy to pick up as a ten-year-old. Everything about her manner and person suggested fragility – bones breakable as twigs, eyes pleading, feelings close to the edge. Didion understood the impression she made and knew how to use it. ‘My only advantage as a reporter,’ she wrote in the introduction to Slouching towards Bethlehem, ‘is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.’

A year later, I ran into Nora Ephron in New York and told her about the Yale evening. ‘Your friend Joan Didion seems such a fragile, breakable person,’ I said. ‘Dunne seems like an odd choice as husband.’ ‘Oh, no, Tom, you’re completely wrong,’ Nora said. ‘It’s John Gregory Dunne who’s fragile and ready to crack. Joan is like iron.’ Nora was emphatic:

My husband always said Joan was an inside-out person. Most people are tough on the outside, vulnerable on the inside. She’s just the opposite. At a party of two or three couples she’s terrific, she tells these long, funny stories, but with, say, ten or twelve she’s terrible. She speaks very, very softly like this [dropping her voice to a whisper] and pretty soon everybody’s holding his breath and talking like this [a sibilant hiss].

Didion and Ephron were friends for nearly fifty years. Both began as magazine writers, made successful movies, were media celebrities, wrote books that sold well, and knew the difference between the ordinary and the genuine. But Didion is the one we’re likely to remember longer, and her mode of attention is part of the explanation.

Her anxiety leaves its trace in all of her writing. ‘I know something about dread myself,’ she wrote in one of the essays in Slouching towards Bethlehem. Her subject was Comrade Michael Laski, who ran a splinter group of Stalinists in Los Angeles, where Didion interviewed him in 1967. He was threatened from every direction. Dealing with dread, Didion believed, invited risky measures of self-protection like alcohol, heroin, sex and ‘doomed commitments … as hard to come by as faith in God or History’. Most of the essays in the collection share the core dread of the Yeats poem the book borrows for its title: ‘what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?’

The title essay is a 44-page report from the streets of the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, where ‘flower children’ gathered to prove they knew all they needed to know about school, running away from home, sex, raising kids, getting by on next to no money, and how to survive on an ever changing menu of acid, heroin, grass, cocaine and ‘stuff’. In the Haight, Didion meets people in their teens and twenties, hangs out, asks lots of questions, and witnesses many unsettling moments, like the inattention of two friends who drop by Sue Ann’s place and are soon trying to ‘retrieve some very good Moroccan hash’ which has fallen through a floorboard damaged in a fire started by Sue Ann’s three-year-old son, Michael. Sue Ann freaks on seeing Michael chewing an electric cord and screams: ‘You’ll fry like rice.’ But the drop-in friends are too busy with the Moroccan hash to respond.

That’s the way Didion likes to tell a story – just the details you need to grasp what’s happening. It’s this restraint that illumines Slouching towards Bethlehem. ‘On Keeping a Notebook’ describes the impulse that emerged at the age of five when Didion’s mother bought her a writing tablet from the five-and-ten. Her first entry was about a woman who woke up in ‘the Sahara Desert, where she would die of the heat before lunch’ – a story, Didion concedes, which reveals ‘a certain predilection for the extreme which has dogged me into adult life’.

Didion lived in New York City for almost half her life: from 1956 until 1964, while she worked at Vogue, and again from 1988 until she died. But forty years in New York never made her a New Yorker, just as her years writing and producing movies didn’t make her a movie person. She liked the hustle of Hollywood deal-making and was proud of the first and the best of her movies, The Panic in Needle Park (1971), co-written with Dunne. It gave Al Pacino his first big role and stripped whatever shreds of romantic glamour still attached to drug addiction. But she didn’t think screenwriting was real writing. ‘You’re making notes for the director,’ she told Hilton Als in 2006. Too many people had a say in what was dropped and what stayed in.

‘It took me some years to discover what I was,’ Didion wrote in 1976, ‘not a “good” writer or a “bad” writer but simply … a person whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper.’ At twelve or thirteen she was mystified and thrilled by the first paragraph of A Farewell to Arms. In high school, she typed out her favourite Hemingway sentences to see how they worked, Later, at Berkeley, she put Henry James and Joseph Conrad on a pedestal with Hemingway and agonised in a short story class with Mark Schorer that she was ‘not good enough’. The 1950s were the glory days of the New Criticism in university English departments, but Didion rejected I.A. Richards’s intense focus on the text, which risked making the writer seem incidental to the work. She learned most and quickest at Vogue, where the editors were all business and every sentence was too wordy, too long, or too something that needed fixing pronto. ‘Run it through again, sweetie,’ they said, ‘it’s not quite there’; ‘Give me a shock verb two lines in’; ‘Prune it out, clean it up, make the point.’

Didion was a writer first and a Californian second. Much of Slouching towards Bethlehem is datelined California and a later collection of essays, Where I Was From (2003), is California all the way through. Her family went west by wagon in the 1840s. They farmed near Sacramento and acquired land. Didion grew up thinking about water: how much of it was needed to farm, how much the cities wanted for themselves, how water authorities built dams and regulated flow. And like all Californians she thought about real estate, trying to predict where prices were going. ‘The ethic I was raised in,’ she said in 1977, ‘was specifically a western frontier ethic. That means being left alone and leaving others alone.’ It also meant ‘low taxes, a balanced budget and a limited government’. By the end of her life, Didion was often seen as a figure of the left but in the 1960s she was a Goldwater Republican, not the Orange County, suburban rich kind, but the old California, frontier-ethic, landowning kind.

But in Didion the impress of California went deeper than that. The next level down was the place itself. ‘There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon,’ she wrote in 1967. ‘Tonight a Santa Ana will begin to blow, a hot wind from the north-east whining down the Cajon and San Gorgonio passes … We know it because we feel it. The baby frets. The maid sulks.’ A hot Santa Ana wind in summer turns grass and brush into kindling. A lightning bolt, an electrical spark, a camper’s fire can easily whip the kindling into a roaring gale of fire. ‘The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself,’ Didion went on. ‘The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.’

Which edge does Didion dread most? Fire or earthquake? State and federal authorities report six thousand fires and ten thousand earthquakes a year, most of them small. But the big fires darken the skies, and everybody has heard about the crack in the earth known as the San Andreas fault. It runs eight hundred miles from San Francisco to the Salton Sea east of San Diego and in places the crack is ten miles deep. ‘I have lived all my life with the promise of the Big One,’ Didion wrote. Growing up with the fires and earthquakes of California gave her ‘a strong sense that the apocalyptic moment is upon us.’

But the thing California taught her to fear most was snakes, especially rattlesnakes. The yard man found and killed them in the garden, they fell into swimming pools, they got into houses. In Blue Nights, Didion quotes a long passage from her husband’s wedding toast for their daughter, Quintana, not because she was touched by his happy memories of their life in the Malibu house when Quintana was little, but to note the things he failed to mention – ‘for example the king snakes that dropped from the rafters of the garage into the open Corvette I parked below’. Locals thought a king snake in the Corvette was a good thing – it meant no rattlesnakes! Didion didn’t trust that; she looked for both. ‘I grew up in the West,’ she told an interviewer, ‘and we always had this theory that if you kept the snake in your eyeline the snake wasn’t going to bite you.’ This gets close to Didion’s core anxiety: watching for something that could be anywhere, was easily overlooked, could kill you or a child playing in the garden – just like that. ‘The death of children worries me all the time,’ she told the Paris Review in 1978. Quintana, her only child, was about to turn twelve. ‘It’s on my mind. Even I know that, and I usually don’t know what’s on my mind.’

Acouple of weeks​ after I saw Didion at Yale, I met a man who probably knew her as well as anybody, a sometime writer of political articles and screenplays called Noel Parmentel. It was a Wednesday evening and Parmentel showed up at the weekly meeting of the Davenport Fellows, which began after my non-fiction seminar ended. Earlier in the day he had attended the funeral of Didion’s mother-in-law. (He was a longtime friend of Dunne.) About a month later he knocked on my door in New York unannounced, said yes to a drink, and talked at length about a film project he was trying to get going. The subject was John F. Kennedy’s father. Mallory was to be its name, Citizen Kane was to be its model. Noel wanted Dunne and Didion to write the script. A couple of weeks later he told me the answer was no. ‘They’re backed up with projects and they’ve fallen into the Hollywood thing – they need $200,000 a year just to live.’ But Noel kept me in the loop, dropped by a couple of times a month with news about the agent David Obst or the director Peter Bogdanovich, both dying to do Mallory. He drank bourbon, and when his glass was empty he held it high and rattled the ice cubes for a refill. He stayed until the bottle was empty and it was time to find another roost. He made nightly rounds of the city like an old fox visiting chicken yards.

When Didion at Yale said she sometimes needed to write fiction – ‘and I’m doing one now’ – she was talking about A Book of Common Prayer. By the end of 1976, the book was done and rumour spread that Noel was in it. He settled in for a long visit one night, finished the bourbon and moved on to Scotch while smoking a Caudillo Churchill. I asked if the rumour was true. ‘There’s not much else in the book,’ he said.

Without me there isn’t anything in it at all. They’d been trying to reach me to get me to read it. They were calling me all over the country. She’s captured me at my absolute worst. I’ll never see her again. It’s very sad. She lost a friend and I lost a friend. But she doesn’t have any friends. I have lots of friends. It’s very sad. I’ll never speak to her again.

A few weeks later Noel heard I was driving down to Washington and asked for a ride. On the road he growled about Didion’s treatment of him in two novels: shot dead by an angry husband in Run River, death from cancer in A Book of Common Prayer. ‘I’ll never forgive her,’ he said. ‘My goal in life now is to live long enough to piss on her grave.’

When he said it, he meant it, but he also meant it when he said that my nephew Ian Love, just out of high school, ought to meet Didion and he’d be glad to write a letter of introduction. Nothing came of that, but Noel found Ian a paid summer job with the documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker. Noel would finish the bourbon and smoke your last cigar while your wife fumed in the kitchen, but he was quick to do anything he could for a friend. He prowled the city for new arrivals with talent and he thought Didion had been the best writer to hit New York in fifty years. When she had trouble finding a home for Run River, he found her a publisher. She acknowledged the help in her dedication of the book: ‘For my family and for N.’ Noel was Didion’s biggest fan.

How Didion thought about Noel is harder to say. I think ‘N.’ is her sole reference to his name in print. But what she has to say about children, and the way her desire for one played out, helps to explain why she gave Noel such a central role in A Book of Common Prayer. And what she did in that novel – partly an account of an imagined life with Noel – helps to explain, thirty years later, the big solid book she wrote about the death of her husband, and the small elusive book she wrote about the loss of her daughter.

In New York the thing Didion dreaded most until her mid-twenties was a positive pregnancy test. When a late period proved a false alarm in December 1958 she cried all night – but it was from sorrow, she realised, not relief. ‘Some of us have this overpowering need for a child,’ she wrote in Blue Nights.

It had come over me quite suddenly … when I was working for Vogue, a tidal surge. Once this surge hit I saw babies wherever I went. I followed their carriages on the street. I cut their pictures from magazines and tacked them on the wall next to my bed. I put myself to sleep by imagining them: imagining holding them, imagining the down on their heads, imagining the soft spots at their temples, imagining the way their eyes dilated when you looked at them.

Noel Parmentel would have been the father of that child in 1958. Didion wanted to marry him, but he said he planned never to marry or have children. Noel didn’t tell me that. He told his friend, the writer Dan Wakefield, and Wakefield told Tracy Daugherty, author of a rich and thorough biography of Didion, The Last Love Song (2015). But Noel didn’t cast Didion aside; he introduced her to Dunne, one of the young talents he made a point of helping. ‘This is the guy you ought to marry,’ he said. It took Didion a while to see the merit, but in January 1964 she did marry Dunne, and a few months later moved with him to California. In ‘Goodbye to All That’, an essay about leaving New York published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1967, Didion wrote that she had learned ‘it is distinctly possible to stay too long at the Fair … . I hurt the people I cared about … I cut myself off from the one person who was closer to me than any other.’ For ten years the three remained friends, until A Book of Common Prayer closed the door for good. A year after that, Dunne praised Parmentel in print without naming him: he ‘was as close to a mentor as anyone I have ever known’ but now ‘we never speak.’

There are a dozen or fifteen characters in the cast of A Book of Common Prayer, but three matter here: Charlotte and her daughter, Marin, who are estranged; and Charlotte’s former husband, Warren Bogart (the Noel stand-in), who is Marin’s father. Roughly a year before the present, Marin, eighteen, was photographed with four friends detonating a bomb in a San Francisco skyscraper. Afterwards the bombers flew a hijacked plane to Utah, released a revolutionary manifesto on tape, and disappeared for good. Warren’s first words to Charlotte on hearing the news are ‘Fuck Marin.’ Days pass before Warren can find a free ride from New York to San Francisco (he’s broke). He arrives at last with shopping bags as luggage, tells the FBI ‘I’m the felon’s father,’ addresses the agents as ‘Irving’, rattles the ice in his glass for another drink; and later interrupts Charlotte weeping in her bedroom.

‘Boo hoo,’ he says. ‘What happened to your sense of humour?’ Warren prowls the bedroom, inspects and puts on one of her new husband’s ties. ‘I don’t like your room, I don’t like your house, I don’t like your life,’ he says. And then, because his cousin is in trouble: ‘I want you to come to New Orleans with me.’ She doesn’t reply.

‘I said I want you to come to New Orleans with me, are you deaf? Or just rude.’

‘I want you to see Porter with me. Porter is dying. Porter wants to see you. Do this one thing for me.’

‘Porter’s dying and you’re putting on your mink coat. You got Hadassah today? Mah-jong? You get the picture about your life?’

‘Somebody who loves you is dying, your only child is lost. I’m asking you one last favour, and you’ve got a lunch date.’

‘You getting it? You getting the picture? You’re never going to see Marin again but never mind, you’ve got a lunch date?’

It’s impossible to mistake Noel’s manner, his diction (‘Get the picture?’), the salt of his favourite insults (‘White trash’, ‘Palm Beach trash’). I heard him say it: ‘Me at my absolute worst’.

‘I never quite know what I’m doing when I write a novel,’ Didion said in an interview soon after A Book of Common Prayer was published. What she had done was to build a book on a mother’s deepest fears of the million ways it is possible to lose a child. The novel is set mainly in Boca Grande, an imaginary country in Central America with a handful of rich families, locals plotting revolution, and a place of refuge for Charlotte as she mourns the lost daughter she barely knew. Charlotte, like Didion, is remarkable for her ‘extreme and volatile thinness’ and fails to find words when she needs them, as Didion did – not on paper, in life. ‘I don’t talk much,’ she told Susan Braudy in 1977. ‘I am not articulate.’

Didion’s actual daughter, Quintana, had turned eleven the year A Book of Common Prayer was published – too young to serve as a model for the violent and embittered Marin. But the imaginary daughter was clearly built from Didion’s fears for the daughter she might have had before she left New York. ‘I write entirely to find out what is on my mind,’ she told Braudy – ‘what I want and what I’m afraid of’. You might say that Didion’s story of the lost daughter was anticipating trouble that lay ahead: keeping the snake in her eyeline so it wouldn’t bite her. What kind of trouble? ‘I am more attracted to the underside of the tapestry,’ she told NPR’s Susan Stamberg during the publicity blitz for A Book of Common Prayer. ‘I tend to always look for the wrong side, the bleak side. I have since I was a child. I have no idea why.’ Perhaps bleakest of all is the common fate caught in two lines from Cymbeline: ‘Golden lads and girls all must,/As chimney sweepers, come to dust.’

The truth​ of that came to Didion in the New York apartment where she lived with Dunne at about nine o’clock on the evening of 30 December 2003. They had just returned from a visit to the intensive care unit of a hospital where Quintana had been in a coma for five days with an unexplained illness. ‘We still don’t know which way this is going,’ the doctor had told them. At home Didion was putting dinner on the table when Dunne collapsed without a word and died. A couple of days later, Didion wrote the first words in a long effort to understand everything about that death and her response to it:

Life changes fast.

Life changes in the instant.

You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

The question of self-pity.

Those first words grew into Didion’s two narratives about the death of her husband and daughter: books that get about as close as words can to what is lost and what remains when a life ends. The narratives are strangely intertwined by the deaths themselves: Dunne’s ‘in the instant’, on the first page of The Year of Magical Thinking; Quintana’s twenty months later. Dunne was killed by a failing heart, which Didion had allowed herself to believe had been fixed by his doctors. Quintana died of pancreatitis – maybe. No firm diagnosis of the illness that killed her appears to have been reached. During Quintana’s ordeal, Didion writes, she was ‘strong enough to walk unsupported for possibly a month in all’.

The action of both books centres on the back-and-forth of Quintana’s illness, on Didion’s attempt to pin down what happened to both husband and daughter, and why she felt the things she felt in the first instance, and then in the next, and so on until she had quieted the last of her attempts to deny the ordinariness of death. Didion’s ‘magical thinking’ was a stubborn, involuntary effort to prepare for – even to make possible – John’s return in the event that some terrible interpretive mistake had been made and he was not dead but only gone. ‘How could he come back,’ Didion asked herself, ‘if he had no shoes?’ So she left his shoes in his closet.

While the magic promise held her in its grip for a year, Didion read deeply in the literature of death and dying, studied diseases of the heart, talked to doctors, pinned down the chronology of where she and Dunne had been and what they had done, minutely examined how they had lived with each other for forty years. In short, she went about researching John’s death as she had the background for magazine stories and novels all her writing life. In time she realised the task facing her was simple: she needed to accept the fact that he was gone. There was no going back.

But confronting the death of Quintana was more difficult: Didion couldn’t get going. ‘Why?’ NPR’s Terry Gross asked Didion. ‘Because she was adopted. She had been given to me to take care of and I had failed to do that. So there was a huge guilt at work.’ Half the time, in early life, Quintana seemed a child like any other – full of questions and sudden excitements and moments of sorrow beyond solace but forgotten just as quickly. Didion held on to a childhood list Quintana had made of ‘Mom’s Sayings’, with its sting at the end – ‘Brush your teeth, brush your hair, shush I’m working.’ All parents hear things like that. But Quintana’s feelings could go off the deep end, like a moment of sobbing despair when she lay on the floor and repeated over and over: ‘Let me just be in the ground. Let me just be in the ground and go to sleep.’ Doctors were consulted about these mood swings and gave them names, which changed without ever making a difference. ‘Manic depression’ was an early choice, followed by ‘obsessive-compulsive disorder’, and coming to rest, down the road, on ‘borderline personality disorder’. In Blue Nights Didion is bitter about the doctors, until they propose a diagnosis she has not considered: fear of abandonment. ‘Had she no idea how much we needed her?’

Quintana died at 39. Blue Nights tells us almost nothing about her last twenty years, but a little is enough. ‘She was depressed. She was anxious. Because she was anxious she drank too much.’ The doctors gave her cause of death as acute pancreatitis, a condition often associated with late-stage alcoholism. Her story is not really ambiguous. The fear of losing a child that Didion built into A Book of Common Prayer was off the mark but not wide of the mark – one of those terrible progressions that, once they have reached an end, have to be accepted. Didion was like iron. Writing was the way she handled difficulties, and the work helped her keep her feet. The wear and tear of the effort is what we see in the late photographs: the set of the mouth, the flat gaze, a look of hard sorrow without a name of its own.

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Long-range forecasts show mostly dry weather conditions in the San Francisco Bay Area through the end of November, the National Weather Service said. This news is discouraging in a region facing drought conditions.

“We’ve got pretty much dry conditions through next week,” weather service forecaster Matt Mehle said on Friday. “We’re watching one potential system. One model showed a weak, low pressure system, but it looks like it’s going to be a very low chance for that to occur.”

The weather service used a dozen weather models to forecast the weather, and Mehle said only one suggested a slight chance for light rain on Tuesday, Nov. 23. After that, models don’t show any rain until early December.

Models are in agreement that Thanksgiving Day will be dry.

The Climate Prediction Center, at arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said in its eight-to-14 day precipitation outlet that there’s a 30% to 40% chance of below normal rainfall in the Bay Area through Dec. 2.

Is it possible the Bay Area could see no more rain through the end of November?

“It’s definitely possible,” Mehle said.

The San Francisco Bay Area saw a wet start to the rainy season, and rainfall totals across the region are still well above normal.

Precipitation totals since Oct. 1 in San Francisco, Oakland and Santa Rosa are all 400% above average.

“All those numbers are going to start to course correct,” Mehle said. “We had so much rain at the beginning of the water year and the numbers are abnormally high, but all of those will go down the more dry weather we get.”

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As 2021 rapidly comes to an end, more Bay Area restaurants bid adieu after years in service.

Among the closures was Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, a live events space and restaurant owned by Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh and his wife, Jill. “We explored all possible options in an attempt to keep Terrapin at its current location, but after carefully considering a number of various partnerships and collaborations, we decided that the best thing for us, and for Terrapin, was to bid farewell,” the owners wrote on their website.

There was also news that two popular East Bay businesses will close in the weeks and months to come. The owners of the Italian restaurant Oliveto in Oakland, best known for its seasonally focused dishes, announced they would be permanently close by the end of December as they plan to retire. Berkeleyside first reported the Oliveto closure. In Berkeley, the longstanding Nordic House marketplace, famous for its deli sandwiches, shared that it would also shutter by January 2022.

Below is a list of Bay Area restaurants that closed in November. To read more about local business closures in October, click here.

Blue Bottle Coffee

Blue Bottle Coffee closed its original headquarters at 300 Webster St. in Oakland after 11 years, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. (SFGATE and the San Francisco Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently of one another). In a statement shared with SFGATE, Blue Bottle CEO Karl Strovink shared that the reason behind the closure was in cooperation with the landlord. “We appreciate our landlord allowing us to operate month to month until a successor tenant for the entire building was identified.” Read more.

Rented patisserie

Tablehopper first reported that the popular bakery was evicted from its location at Jack London Square. According to the publication, Miette negotiated rent reduction during the pandemic with its landlord, CIM Group, which subsequently affected its lease term. One of those changes included re-listing their business space, which was unknown to Miette, Tablehopper wrote. The pastry shop eventually relocated to Montclair Village in Oakland and continues to have other locations across the Bay Area.

Reveille Coffee

Réveille’s Castro location has closed after seven years, as first reported by Hoodline, but it’s not all bad news. Its other Réveille locations around San Francisco and Berkeley will remain open.

Rocky Point Restaurant

The seaside restaurant, located just south of Carmel, has permanently closed after 75 years and sold for $8 million. The property will continue to operate as a new restaurant concept sometime in the future led by Justin Cogley, executive chef at Aubergine in L’Auberge. read more

sweetbooth

After 28 years of serving boba inside Oakland’s Pacific Renaissance Plaza, Sweet Booth has permanently shuttered. Owner Calvin Tong told the San Francisco Chronicle that business had been challenging during the pandemic and ultimately decided that the time was right for them to retire.

Venticello Ristorante in Nob Hill is closing after 29 years in business.

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Terrapin Crossroads

The live event and restaurant space in San Rafael, owned by Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh and his wife, Jill, has closed. While the owners shared that closing was the best move for the business, they hinted that Terrapin could potentially open “in some form, somewhere down the road.” read more

The Cheesesteak Shop

The Cheesesteak Shop quietly closed its doors after 39 years in Berkeley, as first reported by Berkeleyside. According to its business website, the closure was a result of the business losing its lease. Customers can still visit its other Bay Area locations around San Francisco, Oakland, and more.

The Oriental Restaurant

Decades after The Oriental Restaurant first opened in Berkeley, the Chinese and Vietnamese restaurant has permanently closed its doors, as first reported by Berkeleyside. Owners Ba and Nhung Nguyen told Berkeleyside that they were stepping away from their business so that they could retire.

Venticello Ristorante

The Italian restaurant in Nob Hill announced its permanent closure following a lack of tourists amid the pandemic. “At the moment, COVID has made it impossible to keep the doors open,” co-owner Mike Deeb told the San Francisco Chronicle, which first reported the closure. The restaurant had been a fixture of San Francisco since 1992. Read more.

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