Spotted in downtown Walnut Creek on Locust Street. My kid said this must be a really old sign, like from the olden days, the 1980s. 🙂
Spotted in downtown Walnut Creek on Locust Street. My kid said this must be a really old sign, like from the olden days, the 1980s. 🙂
In My Life – A Musical Theatre Tribute to The Beatles:
Lesher Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Dr, Walnut Creek
Sunday, September 13th, 2015
2:00pm | from $39Take a magical musical tour through The Beatles’ most iconic performances in this rock ‘n’ roll stage biography narrated from the unique point-of-view of longtime Beatles manager Brian Epstein. In My Life takes audiences from the mop-tops’ humble beginnings in Liverpool’s Cavern Club and their career-defining performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, to their famed final live performance on the rooftop of the Apple Records building. Renowned Beatles tribute band Abbey Road stars at the Hofmann Theatre, providing spot-on renditions of 33 of the legendary group’s classic songs.
Locust St, Walnut Creek
The building that features the Chinese restaurant Dragon’s Pond and the future Fuego Tequila Grill has finished up their external makeover in downtown Walnut Creek. This is what it looked like four years ago when the outside redevelopment was just beginning. Looks like Dragon’s Pond lost the paint battle in the middle.
1500 Mt. Diablo Blvd, Walnut Creek
Significant progress is being made on the 1500 Mt. Diablo building at the corner of Mt. Diablo Blvd. and Main St. in downtown Walnut Creek as the scaffolding has been removed revealing the cool design that we saw in the renderings over two years ago. The corner entrance will be home to the clothing store Vineyard Vines while the second floor restaurant will have Barcelona-based Telefèric with the top floor occupied by ROOFTOP. Check out updates on ROOFTOP’s Facebook page here.
From the Moraga PD:
At 2:50 p.m. today (Tuesday), Moraga Police received a report that a subject in a pickup truck attempted to entice 2 girls to get into his vehicle. The girls were walking on Camino Pablo, near Camino Pablo School, when the subject drove up to them and asked if they could come with him to help find his dog. The girls did an excellent job and quickly ran away and summoned help at the school.
The subject is described as a white male adult, 30-40 years old, short light colored hair, clean shaven, wearing a grey shirt and sunglasses. The vehicle is described as a white 2-door pickup with a lumber rack and a decal on the passenger door (there may also be one on the driver’s door, but the girls only saw the right side of the truck).
When the girls ran away, the truck drove off on Camino Pablo towards Canyon Road.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Moraga Police Department at 925-284-5010.
California Independent Film Festival:
Orinda, New Rheem and Castro Theares
Thursday, September 10th – Wednesday, September 16th, 2015The 18th Annual California Film Festival (CAIFF) is excited to present another year of a diverse array of films from around the world to the San Francisco Bay Area from September 10-16, 2015. From World Premieres to celebrity tributes, CAIFF has included some of the best inindependent films from around the world. The festival takes place at the New Rheem Theatre in Moraga, The Orinda Theatre in Orinda, and The Castro Theatre in San Francisco. For more information about the festival visit www.caiff.org.
Via Google Maps
Last week we learned about concerns over a proposed winter homeless shelter at the Armory near Civic Park and the Iron Horse Trail in downtown Walnut Creek and it turns out that the Walnut Creek police opposes the location of this shelter. Read the complete police memorandum here (click the link and then attachment 6a at right) to find out why they are “concerned that the project will negatively impact our ability to protect the community.”
This evening, Sept. 8th, at 7pm, the city council will hold a, “special meeting to consider the Trinity Center’s request that the City enter into a license agreement with the State Military Department so Trinity Center may operate a winter nights homeless shelter at the Armory adjacent to Civic Park”.
1822 Grant St, Concord
Grant Street Pub & Pizzeria opened at the beginning of summer in Concord a block from Todos Santos Plaza where Time Out Sports Bar used to be. One interesting thing I learned is this place used to be a tiki bar. Check out their food menu here and beverage menu here. They plan on opening up the upper floor which has an additional bar sometime in the future. Check out the amazing outside mural after the jump made by the owner.
More photos after the jump…
1373 N. Main St, Walnut Creek
In June we learned that the cycling sports gym Flywheel was coming to Walnut Creek and their signage is now up. This will be their first East Bay location. Thanks to a reader for pointing this out.
More info from their web site:
The Walnut Creek studio features Flywheel’s signature stadium cycling and FlyBarre body sculpting classes. As always, every Flywheel class includes complimentary cycling shoes and every ride and FlyBarre class includes complimentary towels. Equipped with beautiful showers and changing stations as well as an exclusive retail boutique, the studio offers the ideal setting to refresh, recharge, and relax post-class.
From BART:
The dates and times of the track closures are as follows:
Date Track Work Times
September 5-7 From the end of service Friday and all day Saturday, Sunday and Monday (reminder, Monday is a holiday and BART will operate on a Sunday schedule). Regular train service will resume for the Tuesday morning commute.BART is encouraging travelers to plan ahead, avoid unnecessary transbay travel, or to find alternate means of transportation across the Bay during Labor Day weekend. BART will close the West Oakland Station and will not run trains between West Oakland and Embarcadero stations on September 5,6, &7th, while we repair a critical section of track near the Transbay Tube.
