Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre, the movie palace just northeast of Lake Merritt, celebrates its 100th birthday this week. And while some classic East Bay movie houses are still in operation, like the Jack London Cinema and Landmark Piedmont Theatre, there's something undeniably unique about the Grand Lake Theatre, with its Mighty Wurlitzer Organ, reasonably priced snacks and location smack dab in the middle of the Town.
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The legend goes that the singer Chavela Vargas and the actor Jose Alfredo Jimenez locked themselves away for three nights in Salon Tenampa, in northern Mexico City, drinking tequila and singing along to the musicians, who mingled with the patrons of the grand cantina. Many years later, on the night of Wednesday, November 19, a mariachi band begins to play one of Paquita la del Barrio's classics: Tres veces te engane (I cheated on you three times).
