Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Yerba Buena Gardens fest, Beaver Festival, Walnut Creek’s Fiesta Cultural, Handel’s ‘Alcina,’ SF Symphony By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | June 10, 2026 Check out what's on tap around the Bay this weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Jazz on the Hill, Josh Jones Latin Quintet, Symphony San Jose’s nod to the soccer World Cup By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | June 4, 2026 Plus a Bob Ross painting session and a stunning "Barber of Seville"
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane, Opera Parallèle, and more By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | May 27, 2026 Plus: Oakland Museum "Free Friday Night" with Non Stop Bhangra.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Carnaval SF, Air Guitar contest, Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony and more By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | May 20, 2026 This year's Carnaval SF will cover 17 blocks in the Mission District and feature five stages, more than 50 performers, and 400 vendors.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Ensemble for These Times, Wreckless Strangers, Inocencio Jiménez Chino, Cantare By The Artful Observer, Bay City News | May 13, 2026 Plus, Herbert Blomstedt, 98, returns to Davies Hall to conduct Mahler's Ninth this weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Free Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Sarah Cahill, Zainab Johnson By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | May 6, 2026 Plus, San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers at Freight & Salvage on Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: SF International Arts, Dance Through Time, spring festivals By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | April 29, 2026 Plus, Berkeley Bluegrass fest and Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Bay Area Dance Week, Angelique Kidjo, and more By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | April 22, 2026 Plus, celebrated pianist Yuja Wang returns to San Francisco Symphony this Sunday for an almost sold-out show.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: 1906 quake remembrance, CubaCaribe fest, and Joshua Bell By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | April 15, 2026 Also: Bilingual Shakespeare with "La Comedia of Errors," and Pocket Opera's “A Midsummer Night’s Dream."
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Music fest freebies, ‘Coast Starlight,’ Richard Goode, and more By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | April 9, 2026 Plus, Shotgun Players adds more dates for "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia."