Arts & Entertainment July 2025 author events: Bridget A. Lyons, Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, Joanna Sokol, Miranda Spivack, and more By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | June 30, 2025 Debut novels, anticipated novels, memoirs, essays and other timely non-fiction titles by California writers are in this month’s lineup.
Arts & Entertainment Healdsburg Jazz Festival swings with Barron, Shimabukuro, Muhammad and more to come By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | June 18, 2025 The Healdsburg Jazz Festival continues through June 22.
Arts & Entertainment Review: ACT’s ‘Co-Founders’ a thrilling, perfect Bay Area musical By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | June 13, 2025 “Co-Founders” continues through July 6, 2025, American Conservatory Theater’s Strand Theater in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Review: East meets West in enlightening ‘Pacific Overtures’ at SF’s Brava Theater By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | June 12, 2025 Kunoichi Productions’ “Pacific Overtures” continues through June 15, 2025 at Brava Theater in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment At 27, Healdsburg Jazz Festival again boasts big names in bucolic settings By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | June 9, 2025 Healdsburg Jazz Festival runs June 13-22, 2025 with 19 shows in 10 locations.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Art Museum spotlights, shares legacies of African American women quilters By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | June 8, 2025 The exhibit continues through November 30, 2025 at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley.
Arts & Entertainment Review: Neil Diamond fans get on board for ‘A Beautiful Noise’ By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | June 6, 2025 “A Beautiful Noise-The Neil Diamond Musical” runs through June 22 at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment McCartney’s fascinating Beatlemania pictures on view at the de Young By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | June 5, 2025 “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm” continues through July 6.
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera’s free ‘Bohème Out of the Box’ comes to downtown Hayward By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | June 4, 2025 “Bohème Out of the Box” is at 2 pm June 28-29, 2025 in Heritage Plaza, Hayward.
Arts & Entertainment Podcasters invite readers to tackle Joyce’s epic ‘Ulysses’ via online community group By Leslie Katz, Bay City News | May 30, 2025 The podcast and international community summer reading project starts June 1 and ends August 19.