Details: Extended through March 5; SF Playhouse, San Francisco; $25-$120; 415-677-9596, http://sfplayhouse.org. 2 KRONOS FESTIVAL: The famed Kronos Quartet kicks off its four-day concert series Feb. 4 with a performance featuring the West Coast premiere of “Chernobyl, the Harvest,” with the composer, Mariana Sadovska, singing and performing on the Indian harmonium. Other highlights include the West Coast premiere of Sahba Aminikia’s “Sound, Only Sound Remains,” featuring the San Francisco Girls Chorus.

All the information about the festival can be found at www.artandsouloakland.com, But I’m mainly here to concentrate on the music right now, So, here are my top picks for the 2018 Art and Soul Oakland, Pointer Sisters — Of course, I am leading off with this legendary Oakland vocal troupe, It should be a blast to hear the Pointer Sisters perform such big hits as “Jump (for My Love),” “Automatic,” “Fire,” “He’s So Shy,” “Slow Hand” and “I’m So ballet birthday invitation ballet birthday party -- choose girl Excited” before a hometown crowd, Indeed, I’m betting that this set will be nothing less than the defining moment of this year’s festival, And, quite fittingly, the band will receive the official key to the City of Oakland following the performance..

Jodie Foster was barely out of diapers when she started to perform. “I remember my very first time in front of the camera. I had a little tiara and a little tutu and little slippers. I had to walk on stage and say, ‘I am the good fairy.’ I was about 4 or 5. I walked on and said, ‘I am the good fairy,’ and looked past the camera and saw my mom’s face. “She had tears in her eyes, and she was looking at me in this kind of respectful way. As I look back on it now, I remember that as very seminal moment — about watching your children and being so proud that they can walk away from you, and now they don’t need you anymore. That was big moment for me.”.

A few moments later, Oppenheimer has launched into a long, neatly organized chronology of how he came to make “The Act of Killing,” a film that recounts the mass ballet birthday invitation ballet birthday party -- choose girl murders of communists, ethnic Chinese and intellectuals in Indonesia in 1965 and 1966 and documents the massacres’ pernicious aftermath, The film, which was given its premiere last year at the Telluride Film Festival, has been a sensation on the festival circuit for its artful fusing of cinematic artifice and truth at its rawest and most unnerving, Oppenheimer not only found a death squad leader and his followers who would speak candidly about their crimes they committed 50 years ago, but they also re-enact those episodes, in lurid, amateurish improvisations derived from the Hollywood genre films they imitated during their most heinous actions..

Old-timers are taken aback by the changes in their community, where crab feeds and an annual family car show count for homespun excitement. “I remember us saying, `Nobody would pay $200,000 for a house in Alviso,’” said Mike Guerrera, 46, a heavy equipment operator who grew up in Alviso and rents from friends. “I have a better deal than most,” he said. “But I could not afford to buy the house I grew up in. It’s ridiculous.”. Guerrera had stopped by Vahl’s Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge — an old-school hangout, on the same corner since 1941 — for karaoke night. The ruins of a 19th-century stagecoach house and an abandoned, historic cannery, once the third-largest in the U.S., are within blocks of Vahl’s. The restaurant’s patrons described their community as “a time capsule” and “a ghost town” — and the next bastion for the tech industry.