Arts & Entertainment Celebrate the winter solstice at the Midwinter Revels By Ken Woolfe | November 26, 2024 This year's celebration takes place at the Douglas Morrisson Theatre in Hayward.
Arts & Entertainment Pass the Remote: Escape with streaming holiday selections, entertaining new movies By Randy Myers, Bay City News | November 25, 2024 Escape reality with a selection of feel-good movies for the long Thanksgiving weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Review: A delightfully unpredictable relationship develops in Shotgun Players’ ‘Thirty-Six’ By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News | November 25, 2024 “Thirty-Six” continues through December 22 at Ashby Stage in Berkeley.
Books Back to the books: Oakland main library to reopen next weekend after major renovation By Tony Hicks | Bay City News | November 23, 2024 Located at 125 14th Street, the branch has been closed since May 27 for critical infrastructure upgrades.
Arts & Entertainment ACT debuts ‘A Whynot Christmas Carol,’ a comedy about putting on a play By Charles Lewis III, Bay City News | November 22, 2024 Opens in previews on November 26.
Arts & Entertainment Great Dickens Christmas Fair marks 40th year of transporting visitors to Victorian England By Janis Mara, Bay City News | November 22, 2024 The immersive holiday spectacle runs through December 22.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Papercutting exhibit, Smuin Christmas Ballet, Dickens fair, SF Symphony Youth Orchestra, Gryphon Trio By The Artful Observer, Bay City News | November 20, 2024 Music, dance, and more leading into the holidays.
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Youth Orchestra begins 2024-25 season with new director Radu Paponiu, sax soloist Harry Jo By James Ambroff-Tahan, Bay City News | November 20, 2024 Jo is a senior at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton who played piano as a 5-year-old, started studying violin at 8, and took up alto saxophone at 11.
Arts & Entertainment Pass the Remote: As ‘Wicked’ flies onto the big screen, check out more great movie musicals By Randy Myers | Bay City News | November 19, 2024 Bay Area native Jon M. Chu creates magic directing a cast that includes Ariana Grande as Glinda.
art exhibition OMCA photo exhibit celebrates the diversity, strength, and beauty of indigenous California By Lou Fancher, Bay City News | November 15, 2024 "Born of the Bear Dance: Dugan Aguilar’s Photographs of Native California" opened November 8.