“Bicycle Watchers” bike rack, spotted in downtown Walnut Creek in front of Vineyard Vines.
“Bicycle Watchers” bike rack, spotted in downtown Walnut Creek in front of Vineyard Vines.
Ruth Bancroft Garden
1552 Bancroft Rd, Walnut Creek
Friday, June 17th, 2016
5:00pm – 8:00pm | $25 admissionJoin us at the Ruth Bancroft Garden for Opening Night of our 22nd Annual Sculpture in the Garden. The Garden’s world-class collection of succulent and drought-tolerant plants provides a spectacular backdrop for artists to display their works. Discover classical to fanciful pieces of art around every bend in our outdoor gallery.
Meet many of the 45 artists exhibiting pieces this year.
Live Music by Derek Smith Steel Drum Duo. Food by United Bites food truck and local beer, wine, and soft drinks sold separately.
Spotted at the Walnut Creek Ike’s Love & Sandwiches shop. I thought this was curious as I have never encountered such an explanation before:
rather than secretly raise our prices, we want to be transparent with this new implementation process…
Wouldn’t raising prices be transparent? If a sandwich used to cost $9.95, and now it costs $10.45, wouldn’t that be transparent to me? After all, it’s on the menu. 🙂 This sign on the other hand…
Broadway Plaza, Walnut Creek
Last October we learned that the resort and swimwear store Everything But Water would be coming to Broadway Plaza in downtown Walnut Creek and as you can see in the photo they will be opening next month in July and will be located where L’Occitane en Provence used to be. L’Occitane is now in the newer redeveloped section across from Macy’s.
There is plenty of work going on the backside of Broadway Plaza as it gets ready to open later this week. Stay tuned…
Downtown Walnut Creek Wine Walk:
(Starts at) Patioworld
1628 Mt. Diablo Blvd, Walnut Creek
Wednesday, June 15th, 2016
6:00pm – 9:00pm | $30 ($40 at the door)Tickets are now on sale for the 9th annual June Wine Walk hosted by Walnut Creek Downtown, where a portion of the proceeds benefit the Walnut Creek Education Foundation. Sip a variety of carefully curated wines while strolling charming downtown Walnut Creek’s one-of-a-kind retail shops, public art and restaurants to live, acoustic music along the way. Participating wineries include Frog’s Tooth Winery, Fenestra Winery, Concannon Vineyard, JC Cellars, Lynda Tranel Vineyards, and Wente Vineyards.
7001 Sunne Ln, Walnut Creek
A couple of weeks ago we learned about a new eatery called EnRoute opening in the Avalon apartment complex near the Pleasant Hill BART station and the owner contacted me with an update:
I’d like to clarify that the concept is a “reinvented” convenience store, so taking the elements of convenience food and elevating them to today…think grab and go breakfast, lunch and dinner that’s organic, local and sustainable. There will also be kid-friendly cuisine, gluten-free and vegetarian options. Coffee, craft beer, delicious wine, cheese and charcuterie along with amazing (healthful) snack selections for those of us who are constantly “EnRoute” somewhere. I like to say I’m serving “Nourishment For Life’s Journey” in a “deliciously convenient” format. (I will also have some “not so delicious” items, aka sundries.:))
I definitely plan on checking this place out. Stay tuned…
Photo by Flickr user danmoyle
Thanks to local broker Brendan Moran with the Moran Group at Keller Williams Realty for the monthly real estate updates for Beyond the Creek.
Click the links below for a complete list of home and condo sales in Walnut Creek for last month, May, 2016:
Walnut Creek May sales (Acrobat Reader .pdf)
Walnut Creek May sales (Excel)
1523 Giammona Dr, Walnut Creek
Walnut Creek is getting a taste of Puerto Rico as a new retaurant featuring Puerto Rican and Latin cuisine is headed downtown where Hamachi used to be and is scheduled to open this month according to their Facebook page.
From their Facebook page:
Fortress Restaurant & Lounge is an exciting and unique addition to Walnut Creek’s downtown scene. A stylish destination featuring the finest Puerto Rican and Latin cuisine along with fantastic cocktails during happy hour and dinner service. Stay later on the weekend for a sophisticated lounge experience to enjoy cocktails, music and late night tapas with friends.
Photo by Flickr user johnjones
The FBI and the War on Encryption:
Ygnacio Valley Library
2661 Oak Grove Road, Wanut Creek
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
6:30pm – 7:30pm | FreeWhat are the implications of that? Dr. Jeremy Gillula, Ph.D., staff technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, will discuss the technical issues around the crypto-wars. This free program will be held in the community room of the Ygnacio Valley Library, located at 2661 Oak Grove Road, Walnut Creek, 94598. Registration is not necessary but is helpful for an email reminder. REGISTER>
Encryption is a fundamental building block of modern computer technology, from the encryption your web browser uses to make sure your purchases are secure, to the encryption your insurance company uses when they store your health records, to the encryption your smartphone uses to ensure that a stolen phone doesn’t also mean a stolen identity. Most of the time this encryption happens in the background, and nobody pays it a second thought. But encryption jumped into the headlines this year when the FBI demanded that Apple help decrypt an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters.
In this talk, Dr. Jeremy Gillula from the Electronic Frontier Foundation will explain everything you ever wanted to know about encryption, from how it works to why the FBI wants to make it weaker–and why most computer security experts (including many former FBI and NSA officials) disagree. You’ll learn all about the history leading up to the Apple case, what the ramifications of the case are, and what the current battleground looks like in the fight between some parts of law enforcement and the digital security community.
Dr. Gillula is a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. His work there focuses on a wide variety of issues, from net neutrality to mobile privacy to defending encryption. Prior to joining EFF, he earned a PhD in computer science from Stanford, and a BS in computer science from Caltech.
