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“This trend is driven by some weird amalgam of guilt and ego and a desire to help the planet, but it’s like everybody wants to be Bono now,” said author Michael S. Malone, long a keen observer of valley culture. “They want to do good, but they also want to make themselves look good in the process. It’s really just another form of one-upmanship.”. Either way, the stampede is on. Whether it’s Bezos with the “10,000 Year Clock” he’s helping build inside a West Texas limestone mountain and his Blue Origin spaceflight startup, or Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million campaign to jump-start public education, the new moguls of online commerce and social media are fanning out with outsize dreams and a ton of cash. Brin, in particular, is one busy paradigm-shifter, pushing wind power and driverless cars, even as he sports Google Glass eyewear while hawking humane hamburgers.

SUNDAY: “Flesh ballet slippers kind and Bone” is a gritty new limited series that follows a troubled young dancer (Sarah Hay) as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York, There, she finds just as much dysfunction as glamour, 8 p.m., Starz, MONDAY: It’s the first night of the “live playoffs” on “The Voice,” so it’s time for the remaining vocalists to really sing their hearts out, 8 p.m., NBC, MONDAY: Speaking of singers, pop star Britney Spears makes a guest appearance on “Jane the Virgin.” She plays herself, which shouldn’t be too much of a stretch, 9 p.m., The CW..

She arrived during that first act — and seemed a touch nervous, smudging some of her high coloratura lines in her duet with Boyer, who sings the role of Nadir, one of Leila’s two competing love interests. In the second act, however, López began to roll. Her voice was opalescent and plush as she sang through a duet with the Brahmin priest Nourabad (mellifluous bass Silas Elash, always rock-solid). Her own cavatina followed, and then another duet with Boyer, including a perfumed song of memories (they were lovers once before), “Ton coeur n’a pas compris.”.

Dead Man’s Cell Phone: Los Altos Stage Company presents a surrealistic comedy that confronts our assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world, Sept, 3-27, Bus Barn Theater, ballet slippers kind 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos Hills, $18-$36, losaltosstage.org, 650-941-0551, Full Circle Farm Stand: Open Friday, 3-6 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m, 1055 Dunford Way, Sunnyvale, fullcirclesunnyvale.org, Open Gardens: Charles Street Gardens opens its gates to the public, Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m, 433 Charles St, Sunnyvale, charlesstreetgardens.org..

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