Thursday has the biggest night on the calendar in a while: Soda Stereo at SAP Center, Disney's touring Beauty and the Beast at the Center for the Performing Arts, and San Jose Giants playoff baseball at Excite Ballpark. It is another sunny 93° afternoon, so the daytime plans worth building around are indoors, starting with a free lunch-hour jazz set from SJSU faculty and a Spanish-language book club in Los Gatos. Kids get a Cloud Lab at Calabazas and a middle school math club that starts its fall run tonight.

Today's field guide

Qigong, an AI lab, and playoff baseball

Start with the Qigong class at Cupertino Library, taught in English and Mandarin, with GIWA's eggs and pancakes on Halford Ave in Santa Clara for breakfast. The afternoon lab at King Library puts you next to SJSU students and staff trying out new AI tools, and Smoking Pig's slow-smoked brisket and ribs are the lunch. Tonight is a California League Division Series game between the Giants and the Stockton Ports at Excite Ballpark, with San Pedro Square Market's vendors covering dinner.

Tonight's pick

Soda Stereo

8:00 PM · SAP Center · San Jose

The biggest name on tonight's calendar is playing the biggest room in the South Bay, which settles the question of what to do tonight. If you would rather play than watch, Murder Mystery Trivia at San Jose Improv is an interactive whodunit from Die Laughing Productions where the trivia night doubles as the case, also at 8.

Also on the calendar

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Around town

Both threads had zero replies as of this morning, so a library looking for adults to help teens build Halloween woodworking projects and a local hunting for Friday plans for a New York visitor could each use one good answer.