Thursday has a clear evening shape: RuPaul's Drag Race breakout Jane Don't brings her touring show to San Jose Improv, and it is the first Thursday of the month, which means Saratoga Nights fills the Village with vendors and live entertainment from 5. If you would rather learn something than watch something, Milpitas Library is running a hands-on fire extinguisher class where you actually put out a controlled fire. The rest of the day spreads across the map, from a Mountain View park storytime in the morning to line dancing in Palo Alto mid-afternoon.

Tonight's pick

Jane Don't Does America

8:00 PM · San Jose Improv · San Jose

Watch RuPaul's Drag Race breakout Jane Don't riff through unhinged bits and drag numbers at San Jose Improv.

Also on the calendar

Everything here is free and runs from a Mountain View morning through Palo Alto, Saratoga, and Milpitas, with two kid-friendly stops in San Jose, so the map is wider than usual. Open the full calendar →

On this day in Silicon Valley

Downtown is moving

Three downtown San Jose threads landed at once, a 168-unit affordable building approved near the Hammer Theatre, a vote on renaming a plaza, and a new restaurant called IGNITE taking the old Sushi Confidential space, plus SJSU's food pantry asking for donations as the semester starts.