Whether or not you’re hankering for some vacation dance performances or would relatively chortle on the finish of the world or hit a pop-up vacation bar, this weekend has simply what you want. So let’s get to it, lets?
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1 SEE & HEAR: Vacation dances are right here
From the traditional “Nutcracker” to such Bay Space favorites as “The Velveteen Rabbit,” vacation dance productions are again on Bay Space phases. Right here’s a rundown.
2 SIP & SNACK: Have a correct tea
It would sound like an historic customized relegated to the stuffiest of Anglophiles, however afternoon teas are very a lot a recent factor, thanks partly to well-known practitioners just like the TikTok star, Queen of Afternoon Tea. You’ll be able to learn all about her and discover out the place to take pleasure in a cup within the Bay Space, proper right here.
3 WATCH: Daniel Craig such as you’ve by no means seen him.
For those who’re used to the proficient British actor as a brooding James Bond or quirky Benoit Blanc from “Knives Out” movies, Craig will go away you surprised and impressed in his newest movie, “Queer,” directed by Luca Guadagnino (“Challengers”) and opening this weekend. Right here’s our evaluation.
4 SIP & PLAY: Pop-up vacation bars
Due to in style pop-up manufacturers like Miracle and Sippin’ Santa, holiday-themed ingesting institutions are, um, popping up throughout. Right here’s the place to search out them. In the meantime, Northern California wineries are entering into the act as properly, with quite a lot of holiday-themed specials and occasions.
4 SEE & HEAR: A most Dandy rock band
The Dandy Warhols have been placing out top quality, if a little bit quirky, rock music for 30 years. For those who haven’t seen them — and in case you are a fan of well-played rock music, it is best to — you’ll be able to rectify that this weekend. In the meantime, right here’s our chat with the Warhols’ glorious guitarist Peter Holmstrom.
5 WATCH: A intelligent kitty and a hate-group thriller
“Flow,” an animated movie a couple of cat navigating a flood, and “The Order,” with Jude Regulation taking over a white supremacist group, couldn’t be extra completely different. However each are glorious, and prime our roundup of what to look at this weekend.
6 SEE & HEAR: Sherlock Holmes meets Charles Dickens
San Jose Stage’s comedic vacation present merges an iconic detective and a traditional Christmas story. To which we are saying: why the heck not?
7 WATCH: Reimagining the daybreak of the twenty first century
Bear in mind when the yr 2000 approached, and it appeared everybody was prepared for all heck to interrupt free? In fact, nothing occurred. However the loopy new movie comedy “Y2K” offers us the catastrophe we had been all pining for.
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