Kindergarten students built a playground for the extended family, sixth-graders have studied genetics to determine the color of the goats’ eyes and the middle school students have witnessed a live birth. And one of the kids was rejected by its mother, so the school community has taken on the responsibility of caring for the little goat, nicknamed Tanzy. CREATIVE DIFFERENCES: So not everyone is as thrilled as I was with Voxel Cloud, artist Brian Brush‘s light sculpture atop the new Pierce apartment building in downtown San Jose.

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When he wore his Route 91 T-shirt in public, other survivors would come up to shake his hand. In return, he would invite them to Borderline. “He made them feel so welcome they kept coming back,” said Taylor Allen, 25, a Borderline regular who became close with Orfanos and Hoolihan at the Stagecoach concert. Of everyone who worked and partied at Borderline, Orfanos “made himself the most known,” said Kaitlyn Maki, 22, who was on the dance floor Wednesday when the shooting began. To anyone who needed it, he made himself available as a counselor, hype-man and drinking buddy. Gregarious and charming, he had a risque sense of humor and an affinity for women.

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April’s Symphony program was originally scheduled to be conducted by Charles Dutoit, but when Dutoit became the subject of sexual misconduct allegations, the Symphony cut ties with him and asked Reif to conduct. Reif said he was happy to take up the reins. Reif will also conduct the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra’s 35th anniversary concert on May 13, with the aforementioned works by Fauré and Ligeti and that monumental “Rite of Spring” score that few youth orchestras would dare to approach. Reif says his musicians are ready.