43rd annual Mountain View Art & Wine Festival. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sept. 6 and 7. Art, crafts, music, food, drinks, kids fun zone. Castro Street between El Camino Real and Evelyn Ave., Mountain View. Free. 650-968-8378 or www.miramarevents.com. Movies on the Square. Sunset on Thursdays through Sept. 25. Free. July 10: “E.T. The Extra Terrestrial.” July 17: “Turbo.” July 24: “Saving Mr. Banks.” July 31: “Gravity.” Aug. 7: “The Wizard of Oz.” Aug. 14: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” Aug. 21: “The Croods.” Aug. 28: “Monuments Men.” Sept. 4: “Mr. Peabody and Sherman.” Sept. 11: “Spaceballs.” Sept. 18 : “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” Sept. 25: “Muppets Most Wanted.” Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City. www.redwoodcity.org/events/movieschedule.html.

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Another option at the theaters, but probably not an award contender, is Drew Goddard’s twisty “Bad Times at the El Royale.” A group of strangers congregate at a Tahoe hotel — not a cabin in the woods this time — to sort out secrets and get involved in weird shenanigans. The great cast includes Chris Hemsworth, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm and Jeff Bridges. Halloween has been haunting retail stores since the latter days of summer, but the movies have largely showed more restraint (“The Nun” excepted) — till now. “Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween” continues the YA monster madness wrought in the decent 2014 first film with Jack Black. A crew of monstrosities led by an evil dummy again terrorize teens in a small town.

The characters, too, were readily visible on the streets of New York (and many other coastal U.S, cities embroiled in the war effort), as “Fancy Free” explores the unstable dynamics created when three Navy sailors on leave, determined to have a good time in the big city, pick up two women, The dance quickly spawned the classic 1944 Bernstein, Comden and Green musical “On the Town,” which is now in the midst of yet another successful Broadway revival, “I think great art responds to the times and surroundings,” says Philip Neal, who’s restaging “Fancy Free” with Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley as part of this weekend’s aptly named “MasterPieces” program, which opens the company’s second season under artistic director José Manuel Carreño, new ballet shoes pointe on sale The performances also feature Balanchine’s “Theme and Variation” and a company reprise of Twyla Tharp’s “In the Upper Room.”..

Tammy Hall plays piano for both groups. She’s performed with Alive! since the band reunited for a 40th anniversary concert in 2015, replacing the late Janet Small. Sharp-eyed readers might notice that Hall is the common thread running through many of these March concerts. For Ashkenaz, the decision to showcase groundbreaking women musicians seemed more urgent than ever this year. Founded by progressive activist and folk dance enthusiast David Nadel in 1973, the nonprofit venue “is in a unique position to celebrate all the different people who have come from all over the world and to uplift communities of women and immigrants and people of color,” says Brandi Brandes, who’s coming into her own with the Maestra Series after a year on the job as Ashkenaz’s executive director.