Epagomenal Festival: Celebrate everything Egypt

Mummies - and daddies and everyone else - will celebrate ancient Egyptian style at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum's annual Epagomenal Festival this weekend in San Jose."

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Arts & Wonders: Yerba Buena Gardens Festival

If you've been looking for the right time and place for that sequined and feathered outfit, get dressed up and join the conga line for a Carnaval-inspired afternoon Sunday at the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.

'We love to present a diversity of wonderful artists from all kinds of cultures,' says Linda Lucero, the executive and artistic director of the long-running outdoor festival. 'But we also want them to embrace the idea of public participation.'

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Iron Science Teacher: Exploratorium contest

There's no wild-eyed master of ceremonies brandishing a bell pepper, but all the fun and madcap antics of a game show are there for Iron Science Teacher.

The contest is a takeoff on the foodie cult TV series "Iron Chef," in which master competitors pit their creative talents against each other to create a concoction around a theme ingredient. In the Exploratorium's version, teachers devise science experiments around a secret ingredient, anything from wire to oil to potatoes to clothespins.

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