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Mix 106.5 holiday show: Featuring Matt Nathanson, Fitz and the Tantrums and Parachute; tickets given away by the station to listeners; 6:45 p.m. Dec. 13; San Jose Civic Auditorium; www.mymix1065.com. BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, a Cajun Christmas: 8 p.m. Dec. 15; Yoshi’s, Oakland; $25; www.yoshis.com. Wild Jam: Featuring J. Cole, Mac Miller, Ariana Grande, Kid Ink, Iggy Azalea, Jay Sean and the Far East Movement; 7 p.m. Dec. 15; SAP Center, San Jose; $18.50-$94.50, www.wild949.com. Hardly Strictly Klezmer: Concert featuring contemporary Jewish music performers the Red Hot Chachkas, Klezmer Playboys and Reich & Goldberg; 8 p.m. Dec. 17; Freight & Salvage, Berkeley; $20.50-$22.50; www.thefreight.org.

Flor de Toloache: The Grammy-winning, all-female mariachi band performs with the Villalobos Brothers, who blend Mexican folk ballet boxes stickers • ballerina • tutu • designgardenia • leotard • pointe shoes • barre • exercise • practice • class • class music with jazz and classical music, Jan, 31, 7:30 p.m, Hammer Theatre Center, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, $35-$45.www.hammertheatre.com, 408)-924-8501, Mothers and Sons: Terrence McNally’s Tony-nominated drama pays tribute to a generation stricken with loss, and reflects on the major changes in America’s gay community in recent decades, Twenty years after losing her actor son to AIDS, Katharine unexpectedly shows up on the doorstep of his former partner, Cal, Through Feb, 17, City Lights Theater, 529 S, Second St, $23-$44, cltc.org, 408-295-4200..

This will be my sixth Prince concert. My first was the “1999” tour in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1983, when 1999 seemed like a long way off. My friends and I drove an hour through a major snowstorm to get there. Prince and his band performed an electric set that included “Controversy,” “Dirty Mind” and “Little Red Corvette.”. At the time, I was in college in Massachusetts. Many of the other students were into Springsteen and the Stones. But if you walked past my room, you were more likely to hear, “Am I black or white, am I straight or gay? Controversy,” blaring from my speakers. Today, those lyrics wouldn’t be considered controversial at all. But this was the early ’80s, long before the huge shift in societal attitudes toward gays.

Johnson talked about the late actor and comedian John Ritter, who was asked by Barbara Walters, “John, what is it you want to be remembered for?” in an interview held prior to his untimely death in 2003 at age 54, Ritter’s reply was, “Barbara, there is a thread that goes through me, through you, through the cameraman over there out to all the people in the world, That thread is the golden thread of humanity that connects us all together, What I want to be remembered for is just ballet boxes stickers • ballerina • tutu • designgardenia • leotard • pointe shoes • barre • exercise • practice • class • class a guy who plucked that golden thread of humanity, made people laugh and cry, and made people feel a part of the human family.” (www.imdb.com/name/nm0000615/bio)..

TheatreWorks’ Director of New Works, Giovanna Sardelli, directed the company’s 2011 premiere of Joseph’s “The North Pool.” She found his work so enthralling, she’s directing his latest piece, “The Lake Effect,” which opens in previews at Palo Alto’s Lucie Stern Theatre tonight. “For me, Rajiv is one of the finest playwrights working right now,” Sardelli tells The Daily News, “so whenever he comes to TheatreWorks, I’m thrilled and honored. I love his ability to capture human beings as they struggle to choose whether to listen to their better angels or not. He’s amazing at writing people right on the cusp of those decisions, so that we, as audience members, see ourselves in those struggles.”.