Modesto Area 40s and Up

Group member Jackie Harris has a seat in the orchestra rear, K117. She will be hosting the event.

https://tickets.galloarts.org/10097/10098

With more than 20 years as a stand-up comedian, Tom Papa is one of the top comedic voices in the country, finding success as an actor, host, and author, in film, TV, radio and podcasts as well as on the live stage.

The comedian has had five highly rated stand-up specials on Netflix including his most recent special, What a Day! His other critically acclaimed specials include Human Mule, Freaked Out and Tom Papa Live in New York City. Tom also is the host of the weekly podcast, Breaking Bread with Tom Papa, which features Tom and his guest eating, drinking, and celebrating the true meaning of breaking bread with insightful, revealing and always funny conversations.

From The Website:
It's Trivia Tuesday @ Brethren Brewing Company in Manteca. This special Bonus Trivia Night brings a fresh take on Trivial Pursuit with categories that are for sure to challenge and entertain. Test your skills in Mythical Geography, That's Entertainment, and A Date in History. Plus, an audio round featuring One Hit Wonders! We will also have Literature Bingo, explore Colors in Nature, and highlight Sports in Movies.

As well, we can enjoy there latest beer on tap and the food truck that will be announced this weekend. No need to go on their Facebook page and create a team. I've done that for us. The Brewery does set a limit of 6people per a team.

Wicked is one of the best Broadway shows I have ever seen and I have my fingers crossed that the movie will be just as amazing. I am in seat W11 for the 6:30 show. I imagine the lines will be very long for concessions since it is opening night, so come early if you plan to buy any snacks or drinks.

This month we are reading the Briar Club by Kate Quinn. This is the author who wrote the Rose Code and the Alice Network, plus many more.

Description
The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.

Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; policeman’s daughter Nora, who finds herself entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Beatrice, whose career has come to an end along with the women’s baseball league of WWII; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthy’s Red Scare.

Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. When a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?

Capturing the paranoia of the McCarthy era and evoking the changing roles for women in postwar America, The Briar Club is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.