Notably, there wasn’t a ribbon-cutting to do Thursday with the the chamber of commerce’s big scissors and members of the City Council lining up to talk about the activation of a vacant space. The opening did attract a crowd of downtown workers, bartenders and nightlife industry veterans. Club management wouldn’t comment for the record, but sentiments expressed by some at the opening echoed comments by George Mull, spokesman for the operators of the Gold Club and Spearmint Rhino, from 2013.
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• The city of Menlo Park on Feb. 9 will hold a community meeting on the new 12-month lease ordinance that goes into effect March 6. The new ordinance will require local landlords overseeing complexes of at least four units to provide renters with a 12-month lease option, but carries some exceptions. The meeting will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. inside City Council chambers (701 Laurel St.). For more information, call 650-330-6648 or emial Meghan Revolinsky at marevolinsky@menlopark.org.
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At its lowest points, the show descends into the realm of the cheesy, re-creating moves that Jackson did better (see the mundane “Thriller” homage), throwing random bits of synchronized tumbling into songs for no apparent reason and milking the crowd’s sense of loss at the star’s passing. Sometimes less really is more, and King should have been pickier about striking a balance between the arena-rock vibe and the Cirque contortions. The life-size glitter glove shtick and the swan aerial ballet, for instance, seem tacked on.