Rapper Mac Miller died of a suspected drug overdose in his San Fernando Valley home on Sept. 7. He was 26 years old. Miller had detailed his history of substance abuse in his music, and had also rapped about premature death. He and pop star Ariana Grande dated for about a year and a half. Miller’s friends credit Grande for encouraging him to stay sober but she described the fear of being with a partner battling addiction shortly after their breakup in April. Top tracks include: “Self Care,” “Ladders,” “Hurt Feelings”.

Other works on the program are Tchaikovsky’s lyrical “Andante Cantabile,” with Susan Babini as cello soloist; Anton Arensky’s exquisite “Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky” and Samuel Jones’ “Elegy.”, Details: 10 a.m, Nov, 19 at the Kanbar Performing ballet shoes Arts Center, 44 Page St., San Francisco (an open rehearsal); 8 p.m, Nov, 20 at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts; 8 p.m, Nov, 22 at the First Congregation Church, Berkeley; 8 p.m, Nov, 23 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and 5 p.m, Nov, 24 at the Osher Marin JCC, San Rafael; $29-$59; 415-392-4400, 650-903-6000 for Mountain View; www.ncco.org..

Palo Alto Players. “The Heiress.” Through Feb. 2. By Ruth and Augustus Goetz; suggested by the Henry James novel “Washington Square.” “Catherine’s opulent, but sheltered, world is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic young suitor.” Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. $10-$42. 650-329-0891 or www.paplayers.org. Pear Avenue Theatre. “Quality of Life.” By Jane Anderson. Through Feb. 23. Directed by Ann Kuchins. Featuring Carolyn Ford Compton, Mary Price Moore, Gary Mosher and Ray Renati. 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays. Pear Avenue Theatre, 1220 Pear Ave., Mountain View. $10-$35 (discounts available). 650-254-1148 or gwww.thepear.org.

Cabrera, who grew up in a housing project in the Ironbound section of Newark, found out she was infected from a routine blood test in ballet shoes 2008, She doesn’t know how she got it, A year later, Cabrera started getting unexplained symptoms including severe bloating in her legs, nosebleeds, dizziness, and internal bleeding, Doctors in Pennsylvania, where she was living at the time, misdiagnosed her with kidney disease, even as the symptoms gradually got worse and she had to quit her job working at a door factory, she said..

Fire trucks and ambulances surrounded a huge, white warehouse. Flames jumped out of the windows, upstairs and down. Smoke rose, thick and putrid, straight up and then mushroomed out above us. Young people wrapped in blankets and sleeping bags huddled on the walkway surrounding a Wendy’s hamburger joint across the street from the fire. I started to walk toward the warehouse but was pushed back by a female police officer. None of the firefighters appeared to be doing anything! They were propping up ladders, but not climbing them, or aiming fire hoses — nor going in. When I asked why no one was rescuing the people trapped inside, the officer told me the fire chief had declared the building unsafe, and firefighters were not permitted to enter. Unsafe?.