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Performed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan players, this lively and comedic operetta by the company’s namesake is about two Venetian gondoliers who wed brides who later find out one of them is the King of Barataria. Which one? You’ll have to see this chaotic, colorful and musical tale to find out who, and how the newlyweds take the news. Friday at 8 pm. and Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m. Tickets $10, $8 regular; $8, $6 students and seniors. Agassiz Theater...
Andrea Di Robilant reads from A Venetian Affair. 7 p.m. Free. Wordsworth Books...
...Cote in Oakland, or they can snack on stuffed dates with chorizo and blue cheese for $8 at the Spanish-Moroccan Baraka in San Francisco. The Russian Hill restaurant Pesce last year shifted away from traditional full-service Italian food to small plates in the Venetian cicchetti style, like swordfish rolls or octopus-and-potato salad...
...need for Venetian water control has never been greater. Especially high tides have caused major floods 10 times in the past 67 years alone, most disastrously in 1966, when the water in parts of the city climbed to more than 6 ft. Compression of sediment under the city, along with rising sea levels, often causes smaller floods, shutting down businesses and making sidewalks and squares impassable...
...Venice is primarily a small cluster of interlocked islands set in the northern end of a 207-sq.-mi. lagoon. A long ridge of land separates the lagoon from the far larger Gulf of Venice except at three major inlets. These openings allow high gulf tides to become high Venetian tides, with the water sometimes climbing far enough to swamp the city's seawalls...