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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Pointe magazine: Dominique Larose

Petite, rosy-cheeked and quick to break into a smile, Dominique Larose looks every bit a regular 15-year-old. As she starts across the floor in grand allegro, however, the shy droop of her head suddenly unfolds to a regal length. Larose’s upper body lifts and her back arches into pliant arabesques. Her flexible extensions only enhance the impression of gazelle-like grace. A student at Ayako School of Ballet in Belmont, California, Larose seems to shed any adolescent coltishness with her poise and calmly focused concentration.

That focus was an asset last January, when Larose was one of the youngest dancers to compete in Switzerland’s prestigious Prix de Lausanne. After performing a variation from La Bayadére and a solo from Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia, Larose was offered a three-year scholarship to the Zurich University of the Arts—an opportunity she plans to pursue.

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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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