Ruth Newman was the oldest remaining survivor of the earthquake before her death on July 29. She was 113. Newman was 4 years old when the quake struck, shaking her home on a Healdsburg ranch the early morning of April 18, 1906. “She would tell us she remembered my grandmother being upset because they had just milked the cow earlier and she had separated the cream and all and put it in containers that got thrown to the floor,” said Newman’s daughter Beverley Dodds, 85, of Fair Oaks. Newman’s son lives in Novato and she had grandchildren in Novato and Mill Valley.
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Dane’s Friends Benefit Concert: The fourth annual Dane’s Friends for FIRSTconcert and silent auction benefiting the Foundation for Ichthyosis and Related Skin Types features “America’s Got Talent” Season 9 finalists Sons of Serendip. Sept. 12, 6:30 p.m. Flint Center for the Performing Arts, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino. $29 and up. danesfriendsforfirst.com. Dead Man’s Cell Phone: Los Altos Stage Company presents a surrealistic comedy that confronts our assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world. Through Sept. 27. Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos Hills. $18-$36. losaltosstage.org, 650-941-0551.
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For the 40th anniversary of the Ethnic Dance Festival, 21 companies, all based in the Bay Area, will be presenting music and dance from Alaska, Bolivia, Cambodia, China, Cuba, India, Korea, Liberia, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, Spain, Tahiti, the continental U.S., and Zimbabwe. Eight of those troupes are offering world premieres of work created especially for this milestone season. Julie Mushet, executive director of the event run by the nonprofit World Arts West, is thrilled that opening weekend will highlight Chuna McIntyre and the Nunamta Yup’ik Eskimo Singers and Dancers troupe he founded and directs. The artist, choreographer and performer, a native of Eek, Alaska, has long worked to preserve the art and culture of the Yup’ik people.