Arts & Entertainment Lydia Conklin talks about their first short story collection By J.L. Odom | Bay City News Foundation | September 20, 2022 The stories in "Rainbow Rainbow" center on queer joy and communities.
Arts & Entertainment Bay City Books: New Books from Bay Area Authors – September 2022 By Meg Waite Clayton | Bay City News Foundation | September 15, 2022 Vivid social histories, powerful fiction, wondrous children's stories, and more.
Arts & Entertainment The backstory behind Oakland Public Library’s new photo blog and exhibition By Megan Keene | Oakland Public Library | September 13, 2022 Ticket stubs, photos, recipes, and more tell stories of those who once read the books.
Arts & Entertainment Acclaimed debut shows how vulnerable Black girls are By Amelia Williams | Bay City News Foundation | September 9, 2022 'Nightcrawling' is a New York Times bestseller, an Oprah’s Book Club pick, and part of the 2022 Booker Prize Longlist.
Books Local Lit | September’s top tips for book lovers By Lou Fancher | September 6, 2022 A contemporary Lear at CalShakes; NorCal Book Awards; Jasmine Guillory's latest; book bans; and more
art ‘Punk rock finds you’: Destroy Art cofounder on Fallout SF By Lydia Sviatoslavsky, Bay City News Foundation | September 1, 2022 The partnership represents nearly 100 artists.
Bay Area State Supt. Thurmond to restart literacy task force, aims for ‘comprehensive’ approach By John Fensterwald | EdSource | September 1, 2022 Announcement accompanies the release of a free, engaging dual-language resource for families in California.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: ‘Xanadu’ live, Joji on tour, and a chronicler of COVID By The Artful Observer | Bay City News Foundation | August 31, 2022 The Bay Area is a hub of artistic expression, attracting artists, writers and musicians from around the globe to live, work and create. We highlight some of the offerings here.
Arts & Entertainment Hooked on Books: Shakespeare, eternally reimagined, reinterpreted By Sue Gilmore | Bay City News Foundation | August 30, 2022 California Shakespeare Theater launches a radically reimagined “Lear” next month.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Broken Seeds Still Grow’ explores a pain point in history By Kalpana Mohan | Local News Matters | August 23, 2022 Dance, art, calligraphy, and spoken word tell stories of the 1947 Partition of the Indian subcontinent.