Alameda LGBTQ community group, Out on the Island, will produce an Evening of LGBTQ Entertainment Wednesday, March 13 at The Local.

More than 400 umbrella-less participants took advantage of the clear skies overhead last Friday evening as they strolled along Downtown Alameda’s Whiskey Stroll route.

The West Alameda Business Association (WABA) will celebrate Lunar New Year with a huge festival set for Saturday, Feb. 16, at 11 a.m. Come mark the arrival of the Year of the Pig with WABA at its second annual Lunar Year celebration.

The annual celebration of local eateries, Alameda Restaurant Week, takes place over 11 days: from Thursday, Jan. 17 to Sunday, Jan. 27, with more than 40 participating restaurants.

Now in its 13th year, Alameda Civic Ballet’s (ACB) production of its full-length Nutcracker ballet will presented three times this weekend. Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet will be presented at 7 p.m., tomorrow, Dec. 21, and at 2 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday, Dec.

On Friday, Sept. 14, from 6 to 9 p.m. colorful collage art and poetic projections exploring the themes of migration and conflict will be on display in the previously empty storefront windows at the corner of Park Street and Santa Clara Avenue in downtown Alameda.

On Saturday, Sept. 8, at noon, local skateboarders who frequent Alameda’s Cityview Skatepark, 1177 W. Red Line Ave., will host the fourth annual “Land or Slam Skate Jam” fundraiser there in memory of the late Clay Harding, an Alameda skateboarder who lost his life in 2014.

An opening reception has been set for tomorrow, Friday, Aug. 24, for Manifestation: Making the Invisible Visible, a new exhibition featuring generative media art prints and videos by Alamedan Bill Wiatroski from 6 to 10 p.m.

Alameda’s first-ever West End Night Market brought live bands, art vendors and great food and drinks to Webster Street July 16.