Now Nguyen is determined to raise money to have the medical supplies shipped over to Thanh Hoa province. He’s putting together a new dance with his College of Alameda students addressing the political struggles between the communist and non-communist people in Vietnam and showing it at the college to raise money. The dance, which is yet unnamed, will debut Dec. 5 in Alameda. Next year, on the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, he will show this new dance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

At the center of the event will be a main music stage as well as the Roots of Rhythm stage, The California Beer Society’s Laurel Biergarten, featuring about 11 East Bay breweries, will be the hub around which various food trucks will be placed, Food varieties will range from Nigerian, Cambodian, Mexican, Korean, Cameroonian, Jamaican, soul food, American hot dogs, hamburgers, hot links and barbecue to sweet treats, including organic ice cream, kettle corn, bakery items, Italian ice and ballet slippers applique - machine embroidery design gelato..

Loewenstern credits Ballet San Jose as helping her mother “transition into her life alone as a widow” following the death of her father. “She loved to go the ballet and all the galas and to dress up,” Loewenstern says. “All of the people that were my friends became her friends and just appreciated and enjoyed her. She was like a grandmother to Raymond Rodriguez, Karen Gabay, Maximo Califano and Dennis Nahat. “They came to Sunday dinners with her and were a presence in her life even after she couldn’t make it to the ballet anymore.”.

RAISE A GLASS TO FREEDOM: Clandestine Brewing in San Jose is one of about five dozen craft-beer makers taking part in People Power Beer, a campaign launched by the ACLU to champion ballet slippers applique - machine embroidery design voting rights between July 4 and Election Day, Nov, 6, Going back to Sam Adams — the patriot, not the beer — brewers hold a special place in our revolutionary hearts and certainly the craft-beer movement has parallels to other grassroots campaigns against monolithic institutions (even if they do have good commercials)..

And if they seem overly jubilant over the newness of it all — it’s a 136-year-old historic site, after all — the celebration is justified. After a 20-year struggle to preserve this place, the Knight Foundry opened for public tours this spring. Drive down Eureka Street, just off Old Highway 49, and you’ll spot the foundry’s corrugated metal structures — the transition from original wood to metal sheathing motivated by a fire a century ago. Inside, time stands still. It looks as if the foundry’s artisans and workers just stepped away from this warren of stacked molds and woodworking equipment, powered by Knight’s then-revolutionary 42-inch cast-iron water wheel. You can still see the cupola furnace that once heated iron to 2,800 degrees and the green-sand molds used to shape those molten metal streams into not just equipment for the vast Sierra mines, but ever-greater water wheels used to generate electricity in Oregon, Utah and California.