The Menlo Park Edition

If you have yet to visit the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park, you are missing out. Great venue, unbelievable acoustics, extraordinary acts. Drew Dunlevie, former Yahoo!, is the Peninsula Arts Guild, organization president.

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Editorial

I visited The Guild Theatre in Menlo Park last Sunday evening. It opened in February and has begun to develop quite a lot of “chatter” in the area. Susto, a band made up of South Carolina, Georgia and Mississipi born musicians were the main act.

The New Guild

By way of background, at the ripe old age of 17/18, I was a DJ and later booked the bands at my University. Drinking Newcastle Brown with Ray Davies of the Kinks at Kent University as we watched 10CC (he managed them) is a highlight.

And in my hometown, Scarborough, I worked at and attended the only underground club within many miles — The…