ORINDA — Forget XBOX. The key to young kids’ unmitigated holiday joy was revealed at Orinda Theatre Square on Dec. 14 with a super-sized sandbox, jumbo carrots, skinny sticks and Zamboni-ed ...

Elected to the first Orinda council was Aldo Guidotti, who graduated from Cal in 1941, the year the theater opened. Every day at lunch, Guidotti goes through the line at Europa Hofbrau for a half ...