When the Napa County Sheriff’s Office investigated the January shooting death of American Canyon teen Anthony Gee, another teen joined them in a search for the murder weapon.

The Napa Valley Dance Center presents “The Art of Dance” this weekend at St. Helena High School. Dancers will be performing ballet, jazz and tap routines at 1 and 7 p.m., under the direction of Sandy Nugent and her son, Scott Nugent.

Volakis Gallery opened “Echoes of Surrealism,” Saturday. The stunning show features 12 contemporary and master artists from around the world and will be at the Yountville gallery through July 31.

Johnny Smith and Friends (Chris Justin and Joe Livoti) perform a Father’s Day concert at Compadres Bar and Grill in Yountville, Sunday 5-8 p.m.

For years Berkeley Repertory Theatre has stored its costumes and props in a huge warehouse across the street from its stage, but now it has to relocate its inventory, so it’s time for a clearance sale. Theater folks, bargain hunters, and anyone who loves wacky stuff won’t want to miss this two-day sale at Berkeley Rep’s Stadium Garage, directly across from the theater at 2020 Addison St. Berkeley.

For more than 40 years, mandolinist and composer David Grisman has been busy creating “dawg” music, a blend of swing, bluegrass, Latin, jazz and gypsy. In doing so he inspired a new genre of acoustic string instrumental music — and created a  niche for himself in the world of contemporary music. In addition to his own renowned groups like Old and In the Way and the David Grisman Quintet, Grisman has recorded with such bluegrass greats as Earl Scruggs, Tony Rice and Doc Watson, as well as jazz artist Stephane Grapelli, and the Grateful Dead.

A parade of Shakespeare’s greatest hits opens at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival on the outdoor Elizabethan Stage this weekend.

In “The Art of Suicide,” Napa author Jurgen Dalluge tells the story of an assassin who tries to kill a powerful drug lord with the aid of a beautiful woman.

There is a music trade magazine that publishes an annual poll of its readers and professional critics. One of the categories is, “Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.”

Downtown Napa’s historical murals will soon have a younger sibling on the north side of the city. Students at Valley Oak Career and Arts Academy painted a group self-portrait on the once-drab side wall of their classroom building on Myrtle Street.

It’s a double header of Baroque entertainment at Copia Friday night, when Violet Grgich will perform a mini concert of harpsichord music before the Friday Night Flick, Jean Renoir’s 1952 classic, “The Golden Coach.”

Napa High School 2001 graduate Timothy R. Kniefel graduated from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Co., with an aeronautical engineering degree and the commission of a 2nd Lieutenant in June 2005. Kniefel was appointed by Congressman Mike Thompson.

Julia’s Kitchen has a new locals’ night — Wednesdays, with dinner served from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. (Formerly the popular event was on Thursday and the restaurant was closed Wednesday.)

For the first three years of my life I lived in an aging brownstone apartment building in the Bronx. Eighty times a year, our neighbor, Yankee Stadium, would blast music through the speaker system.

When the Joseph Phelps Vineyards family is honored as chairs of Auction Napa Valley this weekend, Sonoma County should take notice of the long list of civic contributions the Phelps family has made over the years, because Sonoma County may soon become the beneficiary of the same generosity after the new Phelps winery, Freestone, is completed. 

While no one can predict another million dollar bid this year, the 45 lots at Saturday night’s Auction Napa Valley should attract generous bids from attendees at one of the world’s top charity wine events. 

The 2004 vintage produced some of the best-ever merlots in California, and Ronn Wiegand, MW and MS, will conduct a tasting and discussion of 12 of them, mostly from Napa Valley, on Tuesday at St. Supery Winery , 6:30-9 p.m.

Over the years, several winemakers, as they were about to leave on a trip to promote their wines, have remarked to me, “Making wine is easy. Selling it is the hard part.”

Making a toast to someone or on a special occasion is something we all do, probably without even thinking very much about it. We raise a glass of wine and say, “Here’s to you,” or “To your health,” or even simply, “Cheers,” and then take a sip.

When it comes to organizing, some people are filers, and some people are pilers, and some are a little of both.

In 1948 in St. Helena, Merle Abbott started a nursery, which was subsequently owned by Jack Champion and then his cousin David Whiting, who changed the name to Whiting’s in 1956.

Megan Rose Heinbockel and Tony David Rutherford of Minden, Nev., were married May 19, 6 p.m., in Genoa, Nev.

RONS — Amanda Irons vs. John Irons, May 29, 2007

St. Helena Hospital

BAKER-PERRY — Leslie Frank Baker, 36, Lewis Avenue, Vallejo, to Jane Elizabeth Perry, 32, Sheffield Way, American Canyon.

Harrell and Jan (Skelton) Miller of Napa will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in August with a family cruise to Alaska. The couple will travel with their children and grandchildren.