Comedy UNHOOKED!: Be a Dear and Donate a Brassiere, ComedySportz and Comedy Day present a fundraiser to support Housing 1000’s quest to end homelessness. With performances by ComedySportz, Tina Allen Gallo, DNA, Michael Slack and Phil Johnson. Plus bra unhooking and belly dancing by Angel “The African Queen” Thacker. Raffle for prizes donated by Mountain Winery, ComedySportz, Psycho Donuts, Phil Johnson, others. Bring your new or gently used bra and receive a free raffle entry. Aug. 15, 8-10:30 p.m. ComedySportz Theater at Camera 3, 288 S. Second St., San Jose. $18 online at http://bit.ly/Unhooked ($25 at the door). 408-985-5233.
Jill Morris, one of Clark’s nieces, says Clark has always been an inspiration, “She was dubbed in the family as the person of steel,” says Morris, 43, who lives in Gaithersburg, Md, “She thrives off fighting through struggle.”, At the shelter, Clark ballet shoes charm necklace, ballet slippers necklace, ballet dancer shoes, ballerina, dance charm, dancer, initial necklace, mo unfolds yellowed newspaper clippings that show her breaking barriers in a male-dominated sport, “Clark dispatches Tonawanda,” declares the Feb, 17, 1979, headline in the Louisville Courier-Journal, Women’s boxing in the United States was in its infancy then, not the Olympic sport and professional draw it is today, Laila Ali and Jacqui Frazier — the daughters of heavyweight boxing champions Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier — had yet to command a pay-per-view audience by squaring off in 2001, (Ali won.) People don’t know the history of women’s boxing in the United States and how difficult it was for women to get licenses and fights, Clark says..
Live Salsa, Bachata, Merengue and Cha Cha Cha with Orquesta Saboriqua. 9 p.m. Feb. 22. Club Fox, 2209 Broadway, Redwood City. $15. 877-435-9849 or www.clubfoxrwc.com. The Peatot Purium Party 2013. 8 p.m. Feb. 23. Club Fox, 2209 Broadway, Redwood City. $20. 877-435-9849 or www.clubfoxrwc.com. Mitch Woods (Club Fox Blues Jam). 7 p.m. Feb. 27. Club Fox, 2209 Broadway, Redwood City. $5. 877-435-9849 or www.clubfoxrwc.com. Berkeley Rep. “Troublemaker, or the Freakin Kick-A Adventures of Bradley Boatright.” By Dan LeFranc. Directed by Lila Neugebauer. Commissioned by Berkeley Rep, it is the story of a 12-year-old boy who sees himself as an action hero protecting his single mom. Featuring Matt Bradley, Chad Goodridge, Gabriel King, Ben Mehl, Jeanna Phillips, Jennifer Regan, Thomas Jay Ryan, Danny Scheie and Robbie Tann. Through Feb. 3. Berkeley Repertory Theatre Thrust Stage, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. $29-$77 (subject to change; discounts available). 510-647-2949 or http://berkeleyrep.org.
For Siena, though, each morning included a negotiation with her parents, “I don’t want to go to school today,” she would say, ballet shoes charm necklace, ballet slippers necklace, ballet dancer shoes, ballerina, dance charm, dancer, initial necklace, mo “I don’t feel good.”, At drop-off, she would search the parking lot for the cruiser of the police officer assigned to Townville Elementary after the shooting, She needed to know he was there, One day, Siena announced to her mother, Marylea, that she couldn’t go to summer camp anymore: “They don’t have a police officer.”..
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. “Inside Rodin’s Hands: Art, Technology, and Surgery,” through Aug. 3. “Carleton Watkins: The Stanford Albums,” nearly 70 photographs of Yosemite and the Pacific Coast by a foremost American landscape photographer of the 19th century, through Aug. 17. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays-Sundays; Thursdays till 8 p.m. Stanford campus, off Palm Drive at Museum Way. 650-723-4177 or museum.stanford.edu. Gallery 9. “Bodie,” digital photograpy by Aki Mori. Through April 26. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturday, noon-4 p.m. Sundays. Gallery 9, 143 Main St., Los Altos. 650-0941-7969 or www.gallery9losaltos.com.