Arts & Entertainment ‘Returning to Haifa’ offers personal views of Jews, Palestinians in conflict By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | April 25, 2024 The play is adapted by Naomi Wallace and Ismail Khalidi from the 1969 novella by Ghassan Kanafani.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Speakeasy’ wonderfully whisks guests to SF’s Prohibition era By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | April 25, 2024 Part immersive theater, part time-traveling escape-from-reality event, and musically retro in the best way.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: ‘A Strange Loop,’ Angelique Kidjo, and more By The Artful Observer | Bay City News Foundation | April 24, 2024 Plus: Bay Area Dance Week serves up something for everyone -- and it's free.
Around Town 54th Annual Beach Revue on stage this weekend By Reader Submission | Heidianne Pillsbury | April 24, 2024 Beach Elementary proudly presents 'Metamorphosis' at the Alan Harvey Theater April 26-28.
Books Why knowledge matters for literacy: A conversation with Natalie Wexler By Karen D'Souza | EdSource | April 24, 2024 Science of reading expert explains why teaching kids background knowledge, from science to history, is vital if you want them to become deep readers.
Arts & Entertainment Pass the Remote: 2024 SFFILM has a deluxe lineup By Randy Myers | Bay City News Foundation | April 23, 2024 Guaranteed crowd-pleasers: East Bay native Sean Wang’s Sundance Film Festival award-winner “Dìdi (弟弟)” and Josh Margolin’s charmer “Thelma.”
Arts & Entertainment A secretive family history unearthed in ‘Staggering Mystery’ By Frances Dinkelspiel | Bay City News Foundation | April 23, 2024 Author Sylvia Brownrigg appears at 7 p.m. April 24 at Mrs. Dalloway’s, 2904 College Ave., Berkeley.
Around Town Center for the Arts hosts ‘Journey to Innocence Concert’ on May 4 By Kadie Kelly | Reader Submission | April 23, 2024 Pianist Kadie Kelly weaves together classical piano music and mindfulness.
Arts & Entertainment Strong cast fuels a glowing ‘Florencia en el Amazonas’ By Georgia Rowe | Bay City News Foundation | April 22, 2024 Opera San José’s production of Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera is the company's first-ever Spanish language production.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Great Migration’ at BAMPFA offers new personal, political works by Black artists By Francine Brevetti | Bay City News Foundation | April 19, 2024 Commissioned pieces by 12 artists reveal the impact of migration on Black Americans who left the racist Jim Crow laws of the South for other parts of the country.