“I can remember the first time we did it, and I have so many fond memories of dancing it year after year. This Christmas, I hope to live up to that standard but also bring something fresh to it.”. In her first major choreographing stint for the ballet, Gabay is fine-tuning the narrative and adding more kids — lots more kids. A tradition for many Silicon Valley families, “The Nutcracker” is one of the ballet’s most popular offerings. Based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s story “The Nutcracker and the King of Mice,” Tchaikovsky’s chestnut ranks as one of the cash cows of the dance world, a show that always shines at the box office. First danced in St. Petersburg in 1892, “Nutcracker” has become a perennial ritual. From its hummable score to its legions of pint-size ballerinas, “Nutcracker” is the dance equivalent of eggnog. It just doesn’t feel like Christmas without it.

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Measure C, in the West Contra Costa Healthcare District, is an annual parcel tax of 14 cents per square foot of building area for emergency room care, intensive care and other critical medical services at Doctors Medical Center San Pablo. Voters will be able to drop off their ballots from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. May 6 at the El Cerrito Community Center, 7007 Moeser Lane, El Cerrito; Hilltop Family YMCA, 4300 Lakeside Drive, Richmond; St. Luke’s Baptist Church, 165 South 7th Street, Richmond; Moose Lodge #550, 13233 San Pablo Avenue, San Pablo; Contra Costa County Elections Office, 555 Escobar St., Martinez.

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No, not Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown, the Golden State’s governor. Try Jerry D. Brown, general manager of the Contra Costa Water District. A new Bay Area News Group analysis of the region’s four major water districts reveals that all of their general managers receive more than twice as much compensation as the man who runs the most populous state in the country. And that doesn’t sit well with drought-weary residents who are being told to conserve water — and now, in many locations, being asked to pay more for the precious resource.