Today's Top Event: Poetry Diversified at the World Ground Cafe.

Brainiac: Learn something new every day. Today's lecture: Blowing on Embers: Stories for Hard Times. With family therapist Ellen Pulleyblank Coffey at the Hillside Club.

Is It Lunch Yet? We recommend: Lagosia in Berkeley.

On the Town: Going out tonight? Bay Area musician Pat Nevins brings his acoustic guitar to the Bistro in Hayward for a free performance of Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Gram Parsons, & Bob Dylan tunes, as well as some originals.

Hardly Working: You've got time. We know how to waste it. You need something fluffy in your life.

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