Late Holiday in the Bay Area

Filed in archive Weekend Getaways on May 31, 2005

It's summer. You waited until the last minute and now find that Hawaii and all the other tourist destinations are fully booked.

Well, staying in the Bay area wouldn't be so bad. You can join the other tourists with the standard Bay Area for Tourists route: walk to the Fisherman's Wharf, see the Golden Gate, drive to the Northern California Wine Country to taste the wines, etc.




OR, you can check out Mercury News' Off the couch Things to do in the Bay Area.

Late Holiday in the Bay Area wouldn't be so bad, after all.

Art

San Jose Museum of Art. Girl Power, works by Laurie Long, through Sunday. Inside Out: Selections from the Permanent Collection,'' through July 9, 2006. Vital Signs: Photographs by Jacqueline Thurston, through June 19. Blobjects & Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design, through July 10. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. today. Museum tours 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. daily. 110 S. Market St., San Jose. Free. (408) 294-2787, www.sjmusart.org

de Saisset Museum. Beyond Boundaries, through July 31. Masks fashioned from palm fronds, bound books made from handmade paper using local plants and fibers, paintings created with vegetables, clay reliefs, and a musical CD written, recorded and produced by the students of Blue Ridge School in Morgan Hill. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. today. de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara. (408) 554-4528.

Legion of Honor. Artwear: Fashion and Anti-Fashion, exhibition features the evolution of wearable art, through Oct. 31. 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. today. 100 Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave., San Francisco. $8, $6 seniors, $5 ages 12-17 and free to children 11 and younger and every Tuesday. (415) 750-3614.

Pop music

The Pixies. 8 tonight. San Jose Civic Auditorium, 145 W. San Carlos St. $40. (408) 998-8497, www.ticketmaster.com

Comedy

Blue Rock Shoot. Justin McClure. 8 tonight. $5. 14523 Big Basin Way, Saratoga. (408) 872-0309.

Luggage Store. Open mike comedy. 8 tonight. $3. 1007 Market St., San Francisco. (415) 255-5971.

Punch Line. David Feldman. 9 tonight. $10. 444 Battery St., San Francisco. (415) 397-4337, www.punchlinecomedyclub.com

Theater

The Mambo Kings. By Oscar Hijuelos, Arne Glimcher and Carlos Franzetti, based on Hijuelos' novel The Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love. Two brothers take their act from Havana to the nightclubs of New York in the 1950s. Opens 8 tonight. Runs through June 19. Best of Broadway. Golden Gate Theatre, 1 Taylor St., San Francisco. $22.50-$85. (408) 998-8497, www.ticketmaster.com

Honour. By Joanna Murray-Smith. A seductive young journalist enters the lives of a couple who have been together for 32 years. 8 tonight. Runs through July 3. Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Thrust Stage, 2025 Addison St. $43-$55. (510) 647-2949.

Here Lies Jenny. By Kurt Weill. Bebe Neuwirth stars in this musical about a woman who stumbles into a gin joint, becoming transfixed by the music and the bar's patrons. 8 tonight. Post Street Theatre, 450 Post St., San Francisco. $40-$45. (408) 998-8497, www.ticketmaster.com

The People's Temple. By Leigh Fondakowski with Greg Pierotti, Stephen Wangh and Margo Hall. World premiere. The rise and fall of the Rev. Jim Jones and his followers in Jonestown, Guyana. 8 tonight. Runs through June 5. Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2025 Addison St. $43-$55. (510) 647-2949.

Arabian Night.' By Roland Schimmelpfennig. The story of five tenants of an apartment house in Berlin. Previews 8 tonight. Runs through July 10. Shotgun Players. Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. $10-$30 sliding scale. (510) 841-6500.

Clubs

Moe's Alley. Antibalas. 9 p.m. $12-$15. 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. (831) 479-1854, www.moesalley.com

C.B. Hannegan's. Mostly Celtic Jam Session. 8 tonight. No cover. 208 Bachman Ave., Los Gatos. (408) 395-1233, www.cbhannegans.com

Prince of Wales Pub. Joe Bithell and his Silicon Gulch Jazz Band. 7 tonight. No cover. 106 E. 25th Ave., San Mateo. (650) 574-9723.

Ashkenaz. Anoush. 8:30 tonight. $9. 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley. (510) 525-5054, www.ashkenaz.com

Coming up

North/South/East/West. San Francisco photography exhibition that is part of World Environment Day. The exhibition offers a 360-degree view of the dramatic impact of climate change on earth and the solutions being implemented around the world. Wednesday and Thursday at Civic Center Plaza (in front of City Hall); Friday and Saturday at Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco. Admission is free. (415) 227-9700.

Bryan Adams, Def Leppard. 6:30 p.m. Friday. Municipal Stadium, 588 E. Alma St., San Jose. $45. (408) 998-8497, www.ticketmaster.com .
Hot Tuna. 9 p.m. Friday. The Fillmore, 1805 Geary Blvd., San Francisco. $25. (408) 998-8497, www.ticketmaster.com

San Francisco Black and White Ball. LaBelle of the Ball. Features Patti LaBelle, Train, Violent Femmes, Village People, Minnie Driver, San Francisco Symphony, others. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. June 11, San Francisco Civic Center, Van Ness Avenue and Larkin Street, San Francisco. $200, $160 ages 21-30. Benefits San Francisco Symphony education programs. (415) 864-6000, www.bwball.org .