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May 28, 2021 | 12:05 am
ALPAS (from left to right): Kitchie Nadal, Aia de Leon, Barbie Almalbis, Johnoy Danao, Ebe Dancel, and Bullet Dumas
THE ONGOING coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and quarantines have kept musicians cooped up in their homes, unable to perform for a live audience. While they have kept busy learning how to record, produce, and continue writing new music at home, the online community platform Kumu has made it possible for alternative/pop-rock/folk singers Ebe Dancel, Johnoy Danao, Bullet Dumas, Barbie Almalbis, Aia de Leon, and Kitchie Nadal to get together for a virtual concert.
To keep the live music scene alive while public life is on lockdown, GNN Entertainment and Kumu are presenting a digital concert called
The Bay Area s most anticipated restaurants opening this spring
After a year of casual fare, promising new fine dining restaurants are about to debut
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Mascarpone agnolotti from Bungalow Kitchen, an upcoming Tiburon restaurant by chef Michael Mina.David Varley
Many of the most exciting eats to emerge during the pandemic have been casual, takeout-oriented affairs, including pop-ups, ghost kitchens and home operations. But a rush of fine dining is on its way, with several of spring’s most anticipated openings leaning high-end and coming from chefs who used to work in Michelin-starred kitchens.
The recent lull in splashy, three-dollar-sign restaurant debuts makes sense with the pandemic, but now chefs are getting vaccinated and indoor dining is reopening across the Bay Area. Finally able to envision a future where their dining rooms can be full, these chefs have decided to open their doors this spring and many more are likely to follow this summer and fall. I