ASAP GETAWAYS : DINE, SEE ODE TO `JERSEY LILLIE'.Byline: Daily News History- and theater-lovers can go see ``Lillie,'' a musical based on the life of famed late-1800s singer Lillie Langtry, later this month in Lakeport, southeast of Ukiah, and get dinner, too. Performances of the show - which features 20 songs told from the perspective of the characters in the life of Langtry, who once owned 4,200 acres in Lake County - will be presented Sept. 28 and 29. The Saturday night performance is a theater package that includes a 6 p.m. dinner at the Lower Lake Brick Hall and a 7:30 performance of the musical at the Lower Lake Historical Schoolhouse and Museum, across the street. Cost of the dinner and show is $25 per person. Another performance of the show (without dinner) will be at 2:30 p.m. the following day; ticket price is $10. Information: (707) 995-3565. Healdsburg: Sept. 27 and 28 are free fishing days at Lake Sonoma Lake Sonoma lies west of Healdsburg in northern Sonoma County, California. Main access from U.S. Route 101 is from Healdsburg, via Dry Creek Road. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built Warm Springs Dam across Dry Creek in 1983 for flood control, to supply water for , off Dry Creek Dry Creek may refer to:
San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden : The oldest blues fest in America, the San Francisco Blues Festival Debuting in 1973, the San Francisco Blues Festival is the longest running blues festival in the United States.[1] Tom Mazzolini, the event's producer, founded the blues festival to educate the public about the history and evolution of the blues. , runs Sept. 27-29 in the Great Meadow Great Meadow is a 250-acre field events center and steeplechase course located in The Plains, Virginia. It is operated under the stewardship of the Great Meadow Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of open space for community use. at Fort Mason Fort Mason in San Francisco, California is a former U.S. Army post located at the northern Marina District, alongside San Francisco Bay. Aquatic Park is adjacent to the east and the Marina Green is adjacent to the west. at Marina Boulevard and Laguna Street. Events run 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. all three days. Free parking and shuttle service to the festival grounds is available. Tickets are $17 in advance or $20 at the gate. Information: (415) 979-5588. San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. : Tellers of tales - and those who like to listen - will gather Sept. 21 and 22 at Montano de Oro State Park campgrounds, off Los Osos Valley Road, northwest of San Luis Obispo, for the Pacific Storytelling Festival A storytelling festival is often an annual event that features local, regional and/or nationally known oral storytellers. Each storyteller will have a scheduled amount of time(s) to share a story (or stories) with an audience. . Events run 9 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. and 8 to 10 p.m. Sept. 21 and 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sept. 22. A few camping spaces are still available, at $30 each, from noon Sept. 20 to noon Sept. 23. A shuttle to the campground for noncampers is available for $1 per person per day from Monarch Elementary School on Osos Valley Road. Tickets are $25 a day for adults, $23 for seniors and $18 for children age 4-12, or $40 for adults for a two-day pass. Information: (805) 594-8856. Colorado: Steamboat steamboat: see steamship. steamboat or steamship Watercraft propelled by steam; more narrowly, a shallow-draft paddle-wheel steamboat widely used on rivers in the 19th century, particularly the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Springs' Fall Foliage Festival and BrewFest runs Sept. 21 at the base of the ski area in Ski Time Square and Torian Plum Plaza, with polka music, dancing, arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. , pony rids, puppet shows, a petting zoo, German food, local beers and demonstrations of weaving, iron smithing and stained glass making. Information: (970) 879-0880. Advance tickets are on sale for the ``Imperial Tombs of China'' exhibit, which will be at the Denver Museum of Natural History from Nov. 2 through March 16. Tickets are $9.50 for adults, $7.50 for children age 4-12 and seniors 65 and older. An audio tour is available for an additional $3.50. The museum, at 2001 Colorado Blvd., is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and until 9 p.m. Friday. Information: (800) 925-2250. Mexico: Through Sept. 16, Rosarito Beach will celebrate Mexico's 1810 independence from Spain with a Las Fiestas Patrias, a variety of events featuring music, art, dance, food, arts and crafts, a carnival, theater performances, horse racing, demonstration bullfights and food at the north end of Rosarito Beach. Admission is 10 pesos (about $1.30) Monday through Thursday, and 15 pesos (about $2.10) Friday through Sunday. Children under 12 are admitted free. Admission for all is free Sept. 15 and 16. Information: 011-52-661-203-96. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Lillie Langtry, seen at the height of her popularity , will be profiled in a Lakeport musical show. |
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