Newcomers and Friends: A women’s social club with the purpose of developing friendships through monthly social events and activities. Open to women living in Los Gatos, Monte Sereno or Saratoga. Club coffees are held the last Thursday of each month at 10 am. Email newcomerslgmss@gmail.com for the location. newcomersoflosga tos.com. Figure Drawing Sessions: Classes are uninstructed, with no registration required. Bring a portable easel and supplies. For ages 18 and older. Tuesdays, 2-4:30 p.m. Los Gatos Museums Gallery basement, 24 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos. Drop-ins welcome. $16, plus tip for the model. museums oflosgatos.org/site/educa tion/classes.

California Theatre Center: The company, which specializes in theater for families, presents The Elves and the Shoemaker, Dec, 17, 7 p.m, and Dec, 18, 11 a.m, $11, McAfee Center, 20300 Herriman Ave., Saratoga, 408.245.2978 or www.ctcinc.org, Library Programs: Opera San José presents Hansel and Gretel, a one-act, condensed version of Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera, Dec, 16, 3:45 p.m, Saratoga Library, 13650 Saratoga Ave, 408.867.6126, Gallery Saratoga: “Farms, Vineyards ballet flats navy and the Fruit of the Land,” bright pastoral landscapes by Charlene Celio, Through Jan, 2, 14435A Big Basin Way, Saratoga, 408.867.0458 or www.gallerysaratoga.com..

“Everyone is used to standing there on Main Street and focusing on the show,” Davison said. “Now the show happens all around you.”. Disney plans to test projection mapping on the castle once it is covered with construction scaffolding and decorative scrim. A Mickey’s Mix Magic program has already been created for the castle visuals once the Disneyland landmark returns in all its glory this spring. “We’re going to keep building on it,” Davison said of the new show. “You’re going to see the first wave of it. We’re going to see how it goes. We’re going to keep playing and making it a bigger and bigger and bigger celebration. As long as the park wants to keep playing in the sandbox.”.

For tickets, call 925-931-4848 or go to www.firehousearts.org, Berkeley’s Shotgun Players present a fresh take on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” by mixing up the casting at each performance, Seven highly capable actors have learned all the lines in ballet flats navy this ultimate revenge play, and five minutes before curtain, director Mark Jackson has an audience member draw one of the many casting combinations out of Yorick’s skull, The cast then has five minutes to get into character, When I saw the show on opening night, the casting was: Claudius/Guildentern (actress El Beh); Hamlet (David Sinaiko); Gertrude/Rosecrans (Megan Trout); Laertes (Beth Wilmurt); Polonius (Cathleen Riddley); Horatio/Ophelia/player (Nick Medina) and ghost/gravedigger (Kevin Clarke)..

But Microsoft’s latest operating system for servers, called Windows 2000, won’t be capable of supporting the most powerful machines for years yet. Intel wants to sell its new chips now. So that means courting the makers of Unix systems: Sun, HP, IBM and Silicon Graphics Inc. “They’re the ones that were already in that market, ” said Paul Otellini, executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s Architecture Business Group. “It made sense if we wanted to be there that we work with them.”.