Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Punk rock at New Farm, Hearts in SF, John Santos, Pivot Festival, California Symphony By The Artful Observer, Bay City News | January 29, 2025 A roundup of weekend highlights in SF and the East Bay.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Lunar New Year events, Takács Quartet, Symphony San Jose, Django Reinhard fest, Kev Choice By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | January 22, 2025 Le Jazz Hot, aka the Hot Club of San Francisco, performs during the Django Reinhardt Birthday Celebration at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: ‘Dinner Date,’ Porchlight at SF Sketchfest, Isabel Hagen, SF Art Week, New Century Chamber Orchestra By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | January 15, 2025 Comedian Rachel Bloom is among the celebrities appearing in "Dinner Date," a fake dinner date show that's part of SF Sketchfest.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Indie bookstore crawl, Gaffigan and Chen, ‘Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,’ Cris Williamson, ‘Some Like It Hot’ By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | January 8, 2025 Local writer Charlie Jane Anders invites book lovers to an Emergency Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl in Rockridge this Sat.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Berkeley Community Chorus, Pacific Mambo Orchestra at Yoshi’s, ‘Nosferatu,’ Aida Rodriguez By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | January 1, 2025 Freebie of the week: BCCO presents three concerts of music by Fauré, Beethoven and Haydn Jan. 3-5 in Hertz Hall at Berkeley.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: SF Chamber Orchestra, SF Ballet, SF Mime Troupe, SJ Chamber Orchestra, Vienna Teng By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | December 25, 2024 Jory Fankuchen leads the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra in free year-end Main Stage concerts in San Francisco, Berkeley and Palo Alto.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Orinda free films, ‘Cinderella,’ ‘Nutcracker,’ ‘A Chanticleer Christmas’, SF Symphony screens ‘Elf’ By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | December 18, 2024 Oakland Ballet brings back Graham Lustig’s adaptation of “Nutcracker” to the Paramount Theatre December 21-22.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Dorrance Dance, ‘Christmas at Pemberley,’ SF Youth Symphony’s Peter and the Wolf By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | December 11, 2024 Cal Performances presents Dorrance Dance’s “The Nutcracker Suite” this weekend at Zellerbach Hall.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Holiday Arts Fest, ‘Dance-Along Nutcracker,’ ‘Sherlock Carol,’ Polyphony, Chopin on strings By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | December 4, 2024 Find prints, crafts and more holiday shopping at several free festivals taking place around the Bay Area this weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Sock skating, ‘Waitress,’ Scrooge, ‘Merry-Achi Christmas’ By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | November 27, 2024 Ice skating without blades is possible all this month at the Cabot Space and Science Center, which has opened two Sock Skate rinks for patrons.