Arts & Entertainment GaHee Park’s surreal paintings at YBCA upend male gaze, critique surveillance society By Caroline Picard | Bay City News | September 17, 2026 Park’s paintings capture a diffuse state of consciousness through a strategic use of recurring objects and animals.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Opera, CritterFest, My’Kal Stromile, and Kam Patterson By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | September 16, 2026 A round-up of some top upcoming performances and events around the Bay Area.
Arts & Entertainment Exedra Reads | Graphic novels by local authors By Edna Lewis | September 15, 2026 Bishop O'Dowd teacher and author Briana Loewinsohn's "Raised by Ghosts" is set in the East Bay.
Arts & Entertainment PHS, MHS students encouraged to audition for high school musical ‘The Music Man’ By Amy Moorhead | PHS | September 15, 2026 Online audition submissions are due week of September 22.
Arts & Entertainment Movies: CritterFest, ‘The General,’ ‘Last Picture Shows,’ ‘Oldest Person in the World,’ ‘City of Neon Series’ By Anita Katz | Bay City News | September 14, 2026 Creature features and Buster Keaton are coming to Bay Area screens. Also on the slate: two new documentaries.
Arts & Entertainment SanSan Kwan & Dancers explore passivity in immersive San Francisco premiere By James Ambroff-Tahan | Bay City News | September 14, 2026 The immersive performance comes to iMPACt Center for Art and Dance in San Francisco September 18-20.
Arts & Entertainment Smuin Ballet premieres My’Kal Stromile’s polyphonic dance By James Ambroff-Tahan | Bay City News | September 14, 2026 A native of Dallas, Stromile graduated from The Juilliard School in New York in 2018.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rep’s ‘The Cook’ details one family’s life amid Cuba’s revolution By Jean Schiffman | Local News Matters | September 14, 2026 The production of Eduardo Machado's play runs through October 11.
Around Town Piedmont profile: Podcaster Adam Fishman talks to dads By David Thigpen | September 11, 2026 "Startup Dad" shines its light on the dad side of being a tech exec.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: San Jose Book Festival, Bay Area Theatre Week, ‘Simon Boccanegra,’ Christian McBride, Chanticleer By The Artful Observer, Bay City News | September 9, 2026 The fall arts and culture season is underway.