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Rasquache Liberation Front
Rasquache Liberation Front celebrates the release of their debut self-titled album, produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos. RLF released the trippy “Aie Cumbia,” the album’s first single, in April. The group plays, as their website says, “Chicano rock and Mexican blues,” but there are many more layers to their sound, which draws on a variety of Latin genres, from cumbia to son jarocho, mariachi to Afro Cuban, with powerful horns and percussion, and touches of psychedelia and funk bringing it all together. The group has played throughout the Bay Area and Santa Cruz and Salinas areas, with Peninsula shows including Palo Alto’s 3rdThursday live music series.
June 12, 8 p.m., at Club Fox, 2209 Broadway, Redwood City. $18.78-$24.13. eventbrite.com.
Keach Hagey
Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey offers a glimpse behind the curtain at one of the most prevalent people in the AI field with her biography of Sam Altman, co-founder of OpenAI, best known for the chatbot ChatGPT. To write “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future,” Hagey drew on 250 interviews with family, friends, colleagues and others in Altman’s orbit. The book chronicles Altman’s life and career, from his childhood in St. Louis to his becoming the protégé of entrepreneur Paul Graham, his time leading startup accelerator Y Combinator, the founding of OpenAI and rivalry with former friend Elon Musk. Hagey comes to Kepler’s to discuss the book with fellow journalist and author Cade Metz.
June 10, 7 p.m., at Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, #100, Menlo Park; $27.24 (admission only)/$48.24 (admission and book); keplers.org.
AI Decodes Ancient History
The technology that makes artificial intelligence possible might seem worlds apart from the Greek papyrus scrolls that were damaged and buried in the 79 AD eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum. But AI is actually helping to decipher the Greek philosophical writings on the many fragile scrolls. Learn more about these groundbreaking efforts when the Computer History Museum hosts an in-person and virtual talk with Federica Nicolardi, assistant professor of papyrology, University of Naples Federico II; Brent Seales, chair of Heritage Science and professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky; and investor and entrepreneur Nat Friedman, with the museum’s Senior Producer and Manager, Programming Russell Ihrig moderating.
June 10, 7 p.m., at the Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View; admission is free; in person or virtual options available; computerhistory.org.
Viewpoints Gallery
Artist Kaaren Marquez uses an unexpected medium and unusual tools to paint vibrant, uniquely textured landscapes and other scenes. Marquez is the featured artist for June at Viewpoints Gallery, with the show “Explorations in Oil and Cold Wax” highlighting paintings created with a blend of cold wax medium and oil paint and applied using tools such as squeegees and brayers (small hand rollers), rather than traditional brushes. Her colorful paintings feature bold, expressive lines and textures. According to her bio, Marquez, who is based in Mountain View, is a Stanford alum who worked as an engineer with HP and Agilent before shifting to art as a career. She has shown throughout the South Bay and the Peninsula. Meet Marquez and learn more about her work and techniques on June 12 and also June 21.
“Explorations in Oil and Cold Wax” is on view through June 29 at Viewpoints Gallery, 315 State St., Los Altos. Meet the artist day, June 12, noon-6 p.m. and June 21, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. viewpointsgallery.com.
Joan Lane, trailblazing volunteer and Stanford’s go-to for ‘sticky problems,' dies at 97March 25, 2026 3:23 pm