1414 N. Main St, Walnut Creek
Opening February 1st in downtown Walnut Creek, Consignit Couture signage is now up.
1414 N. Main St, Walnut Creek
Opening February 1st in downtown Walnut Creek, Consignit Couture signage is now up.
Lafayette Art Gallery
3420 Mt. Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
Saturday, February 1st, 2014
5:00pm – 7:00pm | Free“Love at First Sight”, the new show at the Lafayette Art Gallery celebrates our love of the visual and tactile world, and the multitude of ways we express that love through the mediums of our art.
If you haven’t yet visited our beautiful new location in the Forge at 3420 Mt Diablo Blvd in Lafayette (at the corner of Brown Ave), please come by and view the over 100 works of original art by our local members.
Paintings, prints, photography, ceramics and handmade jewelry offer a tempting array of visual experiences and gift possibilities, with particular thought for that special person on Valentine’s Day.
Please join us for a Champagne and Chocolates Reception at the Gallery Saturday, February 1st, 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Thanks to a reader for sending word that construction on the long delayed Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in the Sprouts Shopping Center in Walnut Creek has finally begun. I can’t wait to try this out!
A large protest by the anti-circumcision group Bay Area Intactivists turned heads last Saturday as all four corners at Mt. Diablo Blvd. and N. Main St. in downtown Walnut Creek were manned by both male and female protesters with colorful signs and outfits protesting circumcision.
From their website:
Founded in 2001, Bay Area Intactivists is a human rights organization with members working to eradicate all forms of genital mutilation including routine infant circumcision. Members participate in various community events to educate and raise awareness of the right of all individuals—male, female, and intersex—to genital autonomy.
As I was snapping photos a woman from one car driving by yelled, “Yes to circumcision!” to which one of the protesters replied to me that they get that kind of response all too often. I couldn’t help but smile as I never realized women had such strong opinions about this.
The French clothing store Lacoste is closing their Broadway Plaza location this Friday and in its place Tesla will be opening a temporary showroom. I’ve been noticing more and more Teslas on the road lately so it makes sense they would open a location in Walnut Creek. According to the Walnut Creek Tesla web page a new service center is on the way as well:
Our Walnut Creek service center will open soon. In the meantime, Tesla Rangers are available to visit you at your home or office.
Lesher Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Dr, Walnut Creek
Friday, January 24th – Sunday, January 26th, 2014Johann Strauss’s bubbly tale of temptation and revenge. Spend a riotous evening in the company of Gabriel von Eisenstein, his beautiful wife Rosalinde, her besotted lover Alfred, the pert and saucy parlor-maid Adele, and the wily Doctor Falke, as they confuse and amuse themselves and us in a sophisticated hide-and-seek game of mistaken identity that will spin you from the fabulously licentious ball of the eccentric Russian Prince Orlofsky to a night in jail on charges of disorderly conduct. A night of Viennese love, laughter and levity, where Champagne is King!
Way back in October I noted that Burberry was closing in Broadway Plaza in downtown Walnut Creek and they are now gone as you can see. I wonder if the more accessible Burberry Brit will take its place when the Broadway Plaza redevelopment is completed…
These great chairs were spotted in the patio area at MexCal in Danville. (I posted about their new Orinda location last month).
Danville location:
Back in October I posted a Friday question of the day about the Lafayette Terraces plan to bring an apartment complex for moderate income families to the corner of Pleasant Hill Rd. and Deer Hill Rd. in Lafayette. That plan was rejected by the Lafayette design review commission and now an alternative plan that calls for 44/45 single family houses has been offered. Detailed information about the alternative plan can be found on the City of Lafayette’s website here.
In addition to the single family homes there will be a separate parcel owned by the city for public use with a soccer/lacrosse field, dog park, playground, parking lot and a multi-use trail. It seems there will not be any concrete traffic improvements made with this alternative plan although I imagine traffic wouldn’t be as bad as compared to a large apartment complex with hundreds of units.
If this alternative plan is rejected then it looks like this will go to the courts to get the original 315-unit apartment complex built. With that being said, do you support this alternative Lafayette Terraces plan for single family homes with a separate public space for city residents to use?
There will be a public meeting about this alternative plan on January 22nd at Veteran’s Memorial Building (3780 Mt Diablo Blvd) at 7pm where you may comment and give your opinion.
