Kristen Pearson
Staff writer
I was walking through the Music building because I love listening to people practice, and I stumbled upon a poster for Opera San Jose: “The Marriage of Figaro” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. My first thought was of the Woody Woodpecker sketch where Woody gives a guy a haircut, but he uses a cleaver, and the Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini played in the background. Classical music reminds me of cartoons I watched when I was a kid because the music has repeatedly been used for background music. Tickets are still available for this opera for $51 to $91. It runs until Sunday, but it definitely won’t have anything to do with Woody Woodpecker giving a haircut.
Xavier Cortada has placed art at the Earth’s poles to make people aware of global warming. He’s giving a lecture at SJSU this Tuesday, according to a flier in the Art building. The lecture is in Room 133 from 5 to 6 p.m.
When I arrived at the Engineering building to cover a story, I found a flier on one of the bulletin boards for tryouts for something called Giddha dancing. It sounded interesting, but I’d never heard of it before, so I looked it up. Giddha dancing is a dance performed by Punjabi women. The tryouts are tomorrow at 6 p.m., and they’ll be held in the SJSU Sports Club near the Event Center.
In more serious news, I don’t know if you heard, but a plane crash in Palo Alto this morning shut down business in the area for the day. The hospitals were without power until their generators kicked in, and some restaurants ran on little to no power all day including Pluto’s, Hahn’s Hibachi and Gyros Gyros. It was nice luck for the people who didn’t want to work today. Unfortunately, all three of the people in the plane were killed. My thoughts are with their families.
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