‘As You Like It’: Free Shakespeare returns to Dracena Park on Sunday, Aug. 10 By City of Piedmont | August 1, 2025 The Vallejo Shakespeare Group returns to the quarry.
Books Local Lit | Top tips for August By Lou Fancher | July 29, 2025 Oakland Public Library's end of summer festival; Clio's book talks; "Once Upon a Time in Dollywood," and more.
Arts & Entertainment Movies: ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka,’ ‘Heightened Scrutiny,’ ‘Cloud,’ Stanford theater summer fest By Anita Katz | Bay City News | July 28, 2025 Two exceptional documentaries about struggles for liberation are coming to Bay Area theaters, with filmmaker appearances.
Arts & Entertainment Sun Ra Arkestra descends into four-night stand at SFJazz By Anna Tran | Bay City News | July 28, 2025 Sun Ra Arkestra appears at 7:30 pm July 31-August 3 in Miner Auditorium, SFJazz Center in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment World War II-era Coast Guard tall ship back in San Francisco this weekend, with free tours By Audrey Tomlin | Bay City News | July 24, 2025 This is the second visit to San Francisco in as many months for the 295-foot Eagle.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Cupertino, Walnut Creek free concerts, Napa puppet fest, TheatreWorks’ new works fest, mezzo Nikola Printz, Music@Menlo By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | July 23, 2025 Ringing in the new.
Arts & Entertainment Retired Berkeley doctor Marc Sapir shares elders’ stories in ‘l’ll Fly Away’ By JL Odom | Bay City News | July 23, 2025 Marc Sapir appears at 5:30 pm July 23 at Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco.
football 49ers kick off training camp in Santa Clara with open practices and community events By Audrey Tomlin | Bay City News | July 23, 2025 The last 49ers training camp date is set for August 12.
Arts & Entertainment Review: Shotgun Players stage rich, luminous ‘Magnolia Ballet’ By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News | July 22, 2025 Shotgun Players’ “The Magnolia Ballet” continues through August 10 at Ashby Stage in Berkeley.
Arts & Entertainment Movies: ‘Shoshana,’ ‘Oh, Hi!,’ ‘Life of M.F.K. Fisher,’ Roxie news By Anita Katz | Bay City News | July 21, 2025 This week enjoy a visual celebration of 20th-century food writer and NorCal resident M.F.K. Fisher at Mill Valley's Sequoia Cinema.
Arts & Entertainment Meg Waite Clayton’s ‘Typewriter Beach’ a mystery about Old Hollywood in magical Carmel By Linda Lenhoff | Bay City News | July 21, 2025 Two women separated by generations— and a story about passion and persistence, creativity, politics and family is already hitting bestseller lists.