I had the opportunity on Saturday night to, along with David Clark and Linda D., to attend The People in the Picture, a musical being staged at 3Below Theatre (brought to you by the folks who ran the late lamented RetroDome).

( Worldcon 76 and 3Below: A Good Match )

While doing my errands in Fremont and Sunnyvale this afternoon, I realized that my schedule put me in a position to offer Linda D. a ride from SJC Airport, so I left her a text message, and when she arrived, she let me know that would be welcome. I was a little slow through traffic, but not too bad, and I collected her and drove us down to the ( Read more... )

On Friday evening, Lisa and I headed down to the lovely Campbell Heritage Theatre to see the limited-run production of The MeshugaNutcracker! before it heads off for New York City. We had two tickets as a premium for contributing to the crowd-sourced costs of shipping the production east next year. They did a short run in San Francisco and an even ( Read more... )

The MeshugaNutcracker is a delightfully fun musical that sets stories of Hanukkah to the music of The Nutcracker, as interpreted by the people from The RetroDome. They're doing a short engagement in San Francisco and San Jose before heading off to New York City, and today only, you have a chance to buy tickets at half off the regular $72 price. Go ( Read more... )

Because of the SFSFC Board of Directors meeting this afternoon, I had to stay Friday night in the Bay Area, and thanks to (a) finally having had something approaching enough sleep and (b) being able to leave work on Friday at a decent hour, I was able to go to The RetroDome screening of Goldfinger with an introduction by a Bond enthusiast who gave ( Read more... )

As I wrote a couple of days ago, I spent much of Saturday helping the RetroDome do more moving. We didn't have to move seats, but there was a lot of other stuff that had to go, and along the way I tried to snap a few photos.

( The Dome is Doomed )

I spent much of today helping move more stuff out of the RetroDome Theatre and take it over to the warehouse where they are storing things until they get a new home. This was a great deal of work, and I said I was glad I don't do it as my Day Jobbe, but I was happy again to help. I snapped a few photos along the way, and if any of them turn out, I' ( Read more... )

Near the end of last night's Final Event at the RetroDome, those of us costumed people who Shannon Guggenheim dubbed the "Super Fans" gathered for a final set of photos in front of the backdrop that dprisoner had set up and where he'd been recording video testimonials for the RetroDome. The Other Jerry (McAllister, the Production Manager, as opposed to ( Read more... )

Last weekend was the last "public" event for the RetroDome (that is, an event for which you could purchase a ticket), but Saturday night was the final event of them all. The RetroDome put on a special retrospective/farewell event for friends, family, invited guests, and a few lucky fans who were able to get the handful of remaining seats (I read ( Read more... )

I spent today at the RetroDome's last paid public event, that being the "Quote-along" Raiders of the Lost Ark. It was all good fun, with plenty of people in costume (alas, I left my fedora in Fernley) including a simply adorable little boy in a full Indy kit.

( Young Indiana Jones )