Tickets for each are $15 for adults, and $12 for seniors and youths 17 and under, and can be purchased through the center ticket office in person, at www.lesherartscenter.org, or by calling 925-943-7469. ‘H20’ at Lafayette Art Gallery through Aug 29. The newest show at the Lafayette Gallery, “H20,” focusing on water, runs through Aug. 29 at The Forge, 3420 Mt. Diablo Blvd., in Lafayette. A group of local artists will showcase their works related to the theme of water, be it its use in the artistic process, as subject matter, or its current drought-related absence. This is a free event open to the public. For more information, call 925-284-2788 or visit www.lafayetteartgallery.com.

“Rockin’ Around (With You)”“Mary Jane’s Last Dance”“You Don’t Know How It Feels”“Forgotten Man”“Into the Great Wide ballet flats large sizes Open”“I Won’t Back Down”“Free Fallin’“Walls”“Don’t Come Around Here No More”“It’s Good to Be King”“Crawling Back to You”“Wildflowers”“Learning to Fly”“Yer So Bad”“I Should Have Known It”“Refugee”“Runnin’ Down a Dream”..

Earlier this week, state public health officials announced they are busy preparing backup plans for 17 small communities across California that could run out of water within 60 to 120 days, as wells and reservoirs run dry. And state fire officials hired an additional 125 firefighters to prepare for an early and busy wildfire season. While the governor has called for Californians to cut their water use by 20 percent, water suppliers across the region and state are calling for their customers to conserve.

Oktoberfest at the ballet flats large sizes Triton Museum: Saturday, Sept, 22, This inaugural event featuring beer, food, music and games is a fundraiser for the Triton Museum of Art, Golden State Brewery and Faultline Brewery will be pouring, Hours, 1-4 p.m, Admission: Free; beer and food extra, 1505 Warburton Ave., Santa Clara, www.tritonmuseum.org, Geektoberfest: Thursday, Sept, 27, The Tech Museum of Innovation will team up again with BioCurious, a nonprofit community science lab, to explore the science behind beer and brewing, What creates that foamy head? Participating breweries include Ale Industries, Buffalo Bill’s, Clandestine, Discretion, Gordon Biersch, Lagunitas, Laughing Monk, Mad River, North Coast, Santa Clara Valley, Sierra Nevada, Strike and Umunhum, 7 to 10:30 p.m, at 201 S, Market St., ages 21-plus only, Tickets, $20-$25; food sold separately, www.thetech.org..

Evans recalls the auditions with glee. “We held them at CBS, which is at 57th and 11th. The waiting room in this big office building was filled with a sea of elderly men and women, all with Tupperware containers,” examples of their cooking, on their laps. The ones who got callbacks exhibited what Rocca calls a strong sense of self. In the first season’s 13 episodes, production was restricted to subjects who live in the New York tri-state area. Rocca has seen the audition footage but meets the cooks only when shooting gets under way. A crew of 10 is small compared with the team needed to produce Bravo’s “Top Chef,” but it can create cramped conditions in someone’s home over the course of two days and close to 24 hours of raw footage.