So harsh! And so true. Even now, if you’re at the right age when you see it, “The Breakfast Club” seems to boil down high school to core truths. Yet decades after its release, we should count ourselves grateful the characters never had a chance to meet again “Before Sunset”-style, and discuss where they are now. Writer-director John Hughes, who based the film on his own years as a student at Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, Ill., died of a heart attack six years ago at 59. In a bit of eerie foreshadowing, Estevez, the jock, peaked in those Brat Pack years; Ringwald, a part-time jazz singer, is still beloved; Sheedy and Nelson have remained somewhat outsiders. Only Hall, the nerd who bulked up and into a character actor (he’s Steve Carell’s fixer in “Foxcatcher”), seems transformed.
Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, “Abstractions,” a juried exhibition of 40 works by 31 California artists, Main Gallery, “Stamps on Paper,” works by Mario Rosales, Servane Briand, Sunny Chen, Suhita Shirodkar, Caroll Woods, Amy Tang and Katherine Kain, Both exhibits through Feb, 31, Ceramics by Phyllis Lee, Craft Gallery, through March 31, Pacific Art League, 227 Forest lucielalune / spring ballet shoes/eu38.5 us8 uk5.5/ vin red / women slip on/ handmade loafers. Ave., Palo Alto, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, Free admission, Stanford Art Spaces, Jenny Bloomfield: Transform Motion; April Hankins: Chain Reaction, Through Feb, 28, Center for Integrated Systems, Paul G, Allen Building; David W, Packard Electrical Engineering Building; Psychology Department offices in Jordan Hall on the Quadrangle, Open during the week during business hours, Information: DeWitt Cheng at 650-722-3622 or dewittc@stanford.edu..
The seminar schedule is. • Part 1, Marketing — Social, online and offline, 2 classes, Wednesday and 7/23, $70. • Part 2, Finance — Funding, equity, and everything else, 3 classes, 7/30, 8/6, and 8/13, $105. • Part 3, Motivate, Lead, and Manage for Success, 2 classes, 8/20 and 8/27, $70. • Part 4, All the Stuff You Don’t Know That You Need, Structure of a business, legal, insurance, and more, 1 class, 9/3, $35. • Part 5, The Business Plan Workshop — the team of advisors will walk you through a business plan creation process, 1 class, 9/10, $35.
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Los Altos History Museum. “San Carlos: The City of Good Living,” through May 16. “Silicon Valley: The Lure & the Legends,” through April 19. Los Altos History Museum, 51 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. Noon-4 p.m., Thursdays-Sundays. Free. www.losaltoshistory.org/lure_legends.html. San Mateo County History Museum. “Let’s Play Ball,” March 21 through Sept. 2016. Rare materials about local baseball teams from the Museum’s permanent collection, plus items borrowed from schools, historical organizations and private collections. San Mateo County History Museum, 2200 Broadway St., Redwood City. www.historysmc.org or 650-299-0104.
