Before a royal banquet Saturday night, Trump met with Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, the heir to the Saudi throne, and separately with the Deputy Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who visited Trump at the White House earlier this spring. The highlight of Trump’s stop in Riyadh is expected to be a speech on Islam that he will deliver Sunday to the larger summit meeting. Though his campaign was marked by harsh anti-Muslim rhetoric, Trump is planning to preach religious tolerance here, inviting the Arab world to join the United States in combating terrorism and evil in the region.

An Afro-Cuban legend, a comedy about shutting the (expletive) up and an opera/electronica concert top my Weekend Top 10 for Oct, 12-15, 1 Omar Sosa: The Cuban-born, former East Bay personalized dance frame, ballet frame, ballerina picture frame, i love dance frame, gift for dancer pianist, composer and world music ambassador has created a wealth of sublime music since the mid-1980s, In the nearly 30 albums he has released as a solo artist, collaborator or band leader, Sosa has followed the interwoven paths of African, Latin and jazz/improvisational music in countless directions, guided by his talent, creativity and deep sense of spirituality, He’s based in Europe now, so his visits to the Bay Area should always be noted, If you missed his April shows at SFJazz and Santa Cruz, you can catch Sosa and his acclaimed Quarteto AfroCubano Oct, 15 at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage..

CUPERTINO — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.”. In essence it’s that belief that drew thousands of people to Memorial Park on Saturday for the 15th annual Bay Area Diwali festival. The festival — one of the most significant in India — is celebrated by millions of people around the world, who share feasts, prayer and decorate their homes in an abundance of lights. At its core, Diwali celebrates the idea that light has the power to drive out darkness — and that knowledge drives out ignorance and good drives out bad.

David Gockley, San Francisco Opera’s general director (and the man who brought “Nixon” to Houston in 1987) labels it “Adam’s greatest work … calling forth his best operatic music.” He still is amused that “these bohemian artists” — Adams, Sellars and Goodman — “should lionize Richard Nixon; it was strange and unexpected, Nixon comes off with quirks, God knows, But he also comes off with a vision.”, Michael Cavanagh, who directs the production, describes “Nixon in China” as “very much where documentary meets poetry.” He calls it “the superb musical realization of big ideas,” translated through the score’s “fantastic meter, its relentless quality, its repetition and its symmetry,” all underscoring the narrative personalized dance frame, ballet frame, ballerina picture frame, i love dance frame, gift for dancer while making “leaps into the surreal, It just got everything right.”..

Tribuzi gets it right on the production number “Anything Goes” which ends Act 1, but not before Reno, her angels and a sailor-suited crew storm around the stage, smiling broadly while tapping, singing and dancing their hearts out. It’s literally a crescendo of happiness. While all this is going on, lighting designer Michael Ramsaur turns the ship set gorgeous shades of blue, pink and purple. That’s the way to send the audience into the lobby wanting to come back for more.