'Pride and Joy' back at Connoisseurs' Marketplace 'Pride and Joy' back at Connoisseurs' Marketplace (July 06, 2005)

The dance band "Pride and Joy" will return to the Menlo Park street festival, Connoisseurs' Marketplace, in an evening concert of Motown tunes at Fremont Park on Saturday, July 16, from 5:30 to 8 p.m.

The concert is a highlight of the two-day fair of art, food, music and kids' activities to be held Saturday and Sunday, July 16 and 17, along Santa Cruz Avenue in downtown Menlo Park.

The hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days.

This is the 19th year for the event, sponsored by the Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce.

Food, wines, and arts and crafts will be for sale. Kids' activities include a virtual reality motion theater and a 24-foot climbing wall.

Jesse Cool, owner of Flea Street Cafe in Menlo Park, will again host the cooking demonstrations. Ten chefs are expected, including Jose Lopez of Menlo Park's Carpaccio.

Admission and parking are free. For more information, call 325-2818 or go to www.miramarevents.com.

Artists sought to 'celebrate the coast'

Are you a Bay Area painter or photographer? Do you love to portray nature? Are you turned on by San Mateo County's incomparable coast?

Three yesses, and the Committee for Green Foothills wants you. The Peninsula environmental group is looking for artists to participate in a juried exhibition to celebrate the coast, on the coast, next fall.

"Nature's Inspirations: Celebrating the Arts" will feature photographs and original landscape paintings by Bay Area artists on Sunday, October 2, at Strawberry Ranch in Half Moon Bay.

Finalists will participate in the exhibition. And someone will win the Jane Gallagher Award and $250 cash prize given to an artist whose work reflects the places, people and organizations that inspire protection of open space.

The entry fee is $15. For a prospectus, visit GreenFoothills.org/Art.

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