Screening of “The Beautiful Country.” Free showing of “The Beautiful Country,” about a young man born to a Vietnamese mother and an American father during the Vietnam War, as part of the Contra Costa County Library’s Big Read series, centered around Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried.” 7:15 p.m. May 7. Rialto Cinemas Cerrito, 10070 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito. Free. 510-526-7512, www.ccclib.org. Terrace Park Cleanup Day. Dress in your gardening gear and get ready to work when the Friends of Albany Parks hosts a community cleanup of Terrace Park. Pizza punch follows. 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. May 9. Terrace Park, 1548 Terrace St., Albany. Free. www.albanyca.org.

Ticketed shows are $5 each and go on sale Tuesday, June 17, They can be purchased by calling the Lesher Center Ticket Office at 925-943-SHOW (7469) or by visiting www.LesherARTSCenter.org, It’s “The Skull Show,” which also will highlight the role the skull has played in the contemporary arts, exploring its appearance in counter cultures crystal ballet shoes stud earrings such as skate, surf, tattoo, as well as urban graffiti projects, The Bedford Gallery is in the Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Dr, in Walnut Creek, For more information, go to bedfordgallery.org..

“Then I was in a show … and that was it! Being on stage for the first time was another-worldly experience. I was hit by a thunderbolt and realized, ‘This is what I should be doing. I’m in love with this and this is a part of me that I need to acknowledge and not be so rebellious about.’ The next six months, I saved my money, so I could move to Spain.”. Her time in Spain was valuable. In the early ’90s, she began her own dance company in San Diego, then spent time in Spain again. Yaelisa came back to the Bay Area, when her mother was battling breast cancer. Mura succumbed soon after her daughter’s return.

Based on the raunchy 2011 film that starred Cameron Diaz as a woefully unfit educator, this sitcom has Ari Graynor playing a former trophy wife who masquerades as a teacher in order to find a new man after her wealthy husband dumps her and leaves her penniless, The show has its moments, along with a solid cast (Sara Gilbert, David Alan Grier and Kristin Davis), but the bet is you won’t be so hot for “Teacher.”, Not crystal ballet shoes stud earrings much is known about it, but promos have Oliver playfully dismissing today’s fast-paced, as-it-happens approach to news, Instead, he promises his once-a-week program will get to the headlines “eventually.”..

2 Bay Area originals on stage: Vocalist Ed Reed, 88, and pianist Larry Vuckovich, 80, come together July 16 for an evening of intimate jazz duets informed by their long, wending paths. The Yugoslav-born pianist endured fascist occupation and communist repression before moving with his family in the early 1950s to San Francisco, where he became a top-shelf accompanist known for his work with vocal stars like Mel Tormé and Jon Hendricks. Reed survived a decades-long heroin addiction and several prison stints, emerging late in life as a powerfully evocative musical storyteller. On ballads he’s often a revelation. Details: 4 p.m.; Piedmont Piano, Oakland; $20; 510-547-8188, www.piedmontpiano.com.— Andrew Gilbert, Correspondent.