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Oracle Arena

7000 Coliseum
Oakland, CA 94621

Category: Sports/Recreation

Region: East Oakland

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Saturday, June 5, at Oracle Arena in Oakland. 7 p.m., $47.50; www.livenation.com.

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• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
• Saturday Night Live
• Thomas Jefferson
• U.S. History
• TV Comedies

The season finale of Saturday Night Live offered us a nip of Mojo, the first album from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers since 2002. Now, a lot can happen to a rock band in eight years: The musicians can lose all their hair, or, even worse, try to recapture youth by updating their image and sound. But not Petty. Arguably the most down-to-earth star in rock, he appeared as casually cool as ever in that recent television appearance. The Heartbreakers — very nearly the same lineup from 1976 — were loose-limbed and playful, tearing through a heavy rumbler called "I Should Have Known It" and a catchy blues tune about Thomas Jefferson's love affair with his mixed-race slave.