Express: Today's news and events in Mountain View

2 PM Friday, February 10, 2012

TopStories from the Mountain View Voice staff One giant leap for former fast-food joint Inside a shuttered McDonald's at NASA Ames Research Center is a surreal scene: stacks of silver disc... (Friday, 11:14 AM) FBI file: Steve Jobs a 'driven, reality distorter' A newly released FBI file on Steve Jobs paints a portrait of a driven, complex individual with a "te... (Friday, 12:23 PM) Four-track design back on the table for high-speed rail A new analysis by the California High-Speed Rail Authority calling for a four-track rail system betw... (Friday, 10:54 AM) • Mountain View Voice Home Page BestBets This week's events Friday, Feb. 10 Music: Ives Quartet The Palo Alto-based Ives Quartet joins up with guest violist Leslie Tomkins and guest cellist Tanya Tomkins for its winter concert at 8 p.m. tonight, Feb. 10. The program includes the Haydn String Quartet in F-sharp Minor and will be performed at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto. Admission is $25. Photography: Tony Grant A new free exhibition of documentary photography by Stanford graduate Tony Grant opens tonight, Feb. 10, at the Community School of Music and Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. Grant looks at quiet, unusual and humorous moments of everyday life in places as far afield as Russia and Mexico. Weekend, Feb. 11 & 12 Music: Music from Japan, China and Korea Traditional Asian instruments get a contemporary take (think electronics and modern symphonic techniques) at an 8 p.m. concert on Saturday, Feb. 11, at Stanford's Dinkelspiel Auditorium. Part of the eighth annual Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival, the concert features Zhou Long's pipa concerto "The King of Chu Doffs His Armor"; Jin Hi Kim's digital-komungo work "Eternal Rock"; and other music. $10 general, $5 students. Community: Friends of the Library book sale Book sales benefiting the Mountain View Public Library will be held in the library's bookmobile garage this weekend, Feb. 11-12, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. Music: Singers wanted The Foothill Gospel Choir is seeking singers for the community choir that will join in presenting the upcoming annual gospel concert. Singers of all ages and abilities are invited to a 4:30 p.m. rehearsal on Sunday, Feb. 12, in the choir room at Los Altos United Methodist Church, 655 Magdalena Ave., in Los Altos. Participation is free, with a donation requested for the music scores. • Master Community Calendar TownSquare Mountain View's Online Gathering Place Los Altos district needs to compromise Short of the sheriff showing up to escort school children to their rightful classrooms, it does not ... Union moves forward on initiative to cap executive pay at hospital Members of El Camino Hospital's workers' union are moving forward on their plan to seek a legislativ... • Town Square Home Page

Express is published by the Mountain View Voice © 2012 Forward this e-mail to a friend if you think they would be interested in reading this too! Subscribe, unsubscribe or change your e-mail address/preferences. Mountain View Online respects your privacy. We do not rent or sell our e-mail addresses. Read our privacy policy. Have a question, comment or want information on advertising? Contact us!