National Geographic Live! Capturing the Impossible: 7:30 p.m. April 3, Hammer Theatre Center, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose. A NatGeo filmmaker shares behind-the-scenes moments from his assignments to document extreme feats and high adventure in the world’s most challenging environments. $29-$46. www.hammertheatre.com. Mamma Mia: 7 p.m. April 5-6, 11-13, Saint Mary’s College High School, 1294 Albina Ave., Berkeley. $10-$15. www.saintmaryschs.org. Berkeley Playhouse — Pippin: April 5-May 5, Julia Morgan Theater, 2640 College Ave., Berkeley. This musical parable about the repeated paths one can take to find what is right in front of them. $20-$40.www.berkeleyplayhouse.org.

It would be the first effort to send powerful, repeated and intentional messages into space, targeting the same stars over months or even years, This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship, said Douglas Vakoch, president of METI and former director of Interstellar Message Composition at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute in funny ballet shirt, forget glass slippers this princess wears pointe shoes, ballet dancer gift, ballerina tee, choreography unis Mountain View, known as SETI, “If we want to start an exchange over the course of many generations, we want to learn and share information,” he said..

Cantor Arts Center. “Rodin: The Shock of the Modern Body.” Open ended. Three galleries including nearly 100 Rodin sculptures; includes comparative works by his rivals, mentors, admirers and imitators. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford. https://museum.stanford.edu/. Pace Gallery. Loie Hollowell, “Point of Entry,” reception 4-7 p.m. Sept. 19, show Sept. 20 through Nov. 2. Pace Gallery, 229 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto. http://www.pacegallery.com/. Books Inc. Palo Alto. Michelle A. Carter, “From Under the Russian Snow,” 7 p.m. Sept. 27. Books Inc., 855 El Camino Real, No.74, Palo Alto. http://www.booksinc.net/PaloAlto.

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Insta-reaction to Pac-12 developments on and off the field (and court) …. 1. The mystifying Sun Devils. It was a wild weekend — perhaps the wildest of the conference season — with Colorado sweeping the L.A. trip, Utah’s ridiculous rally at UCLA (down 22 midway through the second half) and Washington State’s double-digit double-whammy in the desert (first conference road sweep in a decade). But the focus here is on the Jekyll-ist team in the Pac-12: Arizona State. Thursday brought an astounding, unfathomable, defying-the-laws-of-nature loss to WSU in which the Sun Devils were blown out at home by a team that hadn’t won on the road in 50 weeks.