1 DAKHABRAKHA: You’ve likely not heard anything quite like this Ukrainian quartet, whose music is derived from a variety of cultures and is driven by relentless contemporary rhythms. The musicians are especially heralded for their live show, in which the three women band members perform in peasant wedding dresses. The band’s U.S. tour lands at Kuumbwa Jazz in Santa Cruz and Livermore’s Bankhead Theater this week. Details: 7 p.m. May 4 at Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz; $25; www.kuumbwajazz.org, 7:30 p.m. May 5 at Bankhead Theater, Livermore; $16-$49; 925-373-6800, www.livermoreperformingarts.org.

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Steve Ditko, 90. The Marvel Comics artist who gave the world the woven webs and soaring red-and-blue shape of Spider-Man and the other-worldly shimmer of Doctor Strange. June 29. Irena Szewinska, 72. A Polish sprinter who dominated women’s athletics for two decades, winning seven Olympic medals, and who later became a member of the International Olympic Committee. June 29. Claude Lanzmann, 92. His 9½-hour masterpiece “Shoah” bore unflinching witness to the Holocaust through the testimonies of Jewish victims, German executioners and Polish bystanders. July 5.

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State Sen. Mark Leno read a proclamation and Wilkes Bashford auctioned a shopping opportunity at his famous store with a $1,000 gift certificate and lunch with Wilkes and Willie Brown that sold twice for $5,500. “The Voice of the Giants,” Renel Brooks-Moon, wearing her sparkling and heavy Giants’ pennant ring, performed auction duties. Some big-ticket auction items sold twice, including a chance to have a walk-on-role in a ballet that sold for $5,000, and a five-night stay in a luxurious home in Punta Mita, Mexico, that sold for $9,750. Added to the usual auction items were three gorgeous cakes by three San Francisco bakers. Tom Jackson, who shared La Russa’s table, purchased a gorgeous Chocolate Obsession cake from Katrina Rozelle Pastries for $2,000 to share with his tablemates.