“I’ve always liked long hair on men,” she says. They chatted some and agreed to meet for dinner. After dinner, they sat in front of a fireplace and drank wine. She asked, “Should I follow you home?”. There Aldridge met Doris, whom she had expected to be a female roommate the way Gosvener talked about her at dinner. The two watched an episode of “Will and Grace” and spent the rest of the night talking. “I just felt an instant connection, that our lives had been very parallel, that our marriage situations had been similar in that we stayed in those marriages out of a sense of commitment,” she says. “We fell in love overnight.”.

Emma’s Revolution: Mentored by Pete Seeger and championed by songstress/activist Holly Near, Emma’s Revolution is a politically engaged power duo featuring Pat Humphries and Sandy O on vocals and guitars, With a name inspired by legendary feminist anarchist Emma Goldman (who didn’t want to be part of a revolution in which she couldn’t dance), the women wear their progressive politics on their sleeves, They recorded their new album “Revolution Now” in the Bay Area with a crack crew of locals, including a rhythm section that will be joining them in Berkeley on March 14, featuring pianist John R, Burr, bassist ballerina shoe necklace, dance jewelry, gifts for women, ballet dancer slipper necklace, hand cut coin Jan Martinelli, and drummer David Rokeach, Details: 8 p.m.; Freight & Salvage, Berkeley; $18-$22; 510-644-2020, thefreight.org.— Andrew Gilbert, Correspondent..

Sunday Burquest, 45. Survivor skills: Sunday says she is bossy, compassionate and tenacious. In her spare time she likes to repurpose and paint furniture, design interiors and go thrift shopping because “I love the thrill of the hunt for a good deal.”. Survivability: Sunday — who we sort of want to mock because of her name, but we realize that we need to blame her parents instead — is a breast cancer survivor, undergoing five operations as well as chemo and radiation. That implies she has more strength than us, for sure. She thinks her personality will keep her going in the game, and that her strong people skills will help her gain allies. She plans to use her leadership skills to get work done around the camp, which is exactly what will doom her.

HOUSE OF BOOS AND CHEERS: Woodward conceded to being taken aback when he heard some jeering as San Jose Silicon Valley CEO Matt Mahood announced the list of elected officials attending the dinner, “I loved that there was the guy who got all the boos,” Woodward said, Then, he said, he was told backstage it was the traditional greeting for Larry Stone, the county assessor — and he immediately understood, The Chamber also presented its Excellence in Education awards at the dinner, Alejandra Bonilla of San Jose High School was recognized as Student of the Year; Michelle Goetowski of Village School in the Campbell Union School District received the Teacher of the Year Award; and Lincoln High School’s Matthew Hewitson was honored as Principal of the ballerina shoe necklace, dance jewelry, gifts for women, ballet dancer slipper necklace, hand cut coin Year..

Details: 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m.; $22-$26 (proceeds benefit the East Bay Regional Parks’ outreach programs); www.ebparks.org. 3 JACKSON BROWNE: Few folk-rock singer-songwriters have bridged the personal and political as effectively as Browne, whose plaintive voice and compositions have laid bare the traumas of his life and his despair over the many ways people find to imperil the planet. His latest album, 2014’s “Standing in the Breach,” was more of the same. Browne brings his potent song catalog to San Jose’s City National Civic on Aug. 16.