Need a new and artistic mailbox? Barbara Nemko, Napa County superintendent of schools, has got a deal for you.

One of the highlights of the upcoming  Holiday Angel Bazaar at St. Apollinaris Catholic Church this weekend is a handmade quilt by Charlotte Little. The 96 by 96 inch quilt with a grapevine motif will be sold in the silent auction. The annual St. A’s event features 30 crafters booths, more than 40 raffle prizes and 50 silent auction items. The bazaar takes place at 3700 Lassen St. Napa; 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday ; 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Info, 255-7200.

Twenty-two high school bands converge on Napa Saturday as Vintage High School Band hosts the annual band review. It begins at 10 a.m. with a street competition on Trower Avenue in front of Vintage, which is free to the public. The field competition starts at 4 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. Tickets for this event are $8 adults, $5 students and senior, under 4 free, and a family pass for four is $25. Info, 299-2520.

Studio Arts Napa Valley is offering free classes Nov. 10-14 including Dancin’ With My Baby, Pre-Kindergarten Dance and Creative Music, Ballet, Jazz-Hip Hop, Dance Exploration for Children 4-8 and  After School Art  Bring a friend and receive a special gift.

We arrived at Kilimanjaro in the evening, too dark to see that great mountain. Africa. We were in Africa!

In the dining room of a well-to-do household, a family assembles for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. A mosaic of scenes — funny, touching, rueful — create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP.

More than 40 Napa High School drama students present “Stage Door,” opening Thursday in the school’s Little Theater.

Napa Valley Colleges Theater for Young Audiences has had to add performances to their already sold-out upcoming run of “African Tales of Earth and Sky,” which they are performing for school children this month.

Five years ago, blue-eyed soul singer/songwriter Boz Scaggs recorded a collection of standards, demonstrating he’s as comfortable on Tin Pan Alley as he is on Beale Street.

A partnership of Nimbus Arts and the Cameo Cinema in St. Helena will bring opera and ballet performances to the big screen.

A new exhibition at the Napa Valley Museum offers the rare chance to see more than 90 recent works by a gifted painter who left a successful artistic career in Mexico to make his home in Napa four years ago.