Arts & Entertainment Bay Area books: new novels and natural disaster non-fiction By Bay City News and Exedra Staff | February 2, 2024 A sampling of book events around the Bay Area this month, with a focus on East Bay connections.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: City Lights’ Ibsen, Kenny Barron, Terrence Brewer, French chamber music By The Artful Observer | Bay City News Foundation | February 2, 2024 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 Oakland filmmaker’s film details achievements of Black mathematicians By Francine Brevetti | Bay City News Foundation | February 2, 2024 The documentary screens February 7 at Berkeley’s Brower Center in a free presentation sponsored by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute.
Arts & Entertainment Local Lit | February’s top tips for book lovers By Lou Fancher | February 2, 2024 Featuring: "Lunar New Year Love Story", new library card designs, the author formerly known as Eve Ensler, and more.
Arts & Entertainment Pass the Remote: A newly restored ‘Bushman,’ plus raucous comedy, charming animation, and Mads Mikkelsen By Randy Myers | Bay City News Foundation | February 2, 2024 Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and The Film Foundation identified “Bushman” as a lost Bay Area gem.
Arts & Entertainment Family chaos in Berkeley Rep’s riveting ‘Cult of Love’ By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News Foundation | February 1, 2024 A three-act look at one family’s spectacularly emotional meltdown.
Uncategorized Elizabeth Taylor’s jewels topic of talk at Piedmont Center for the Arts By Exedra Staff | January 30, 2024 Gemologist and Piedmont resident Sacha Q. Grippando continues her lecture series on Thursday, February 1 at 801 Magnolia.
Arts & Entertainment Idris Ackamoor marks 50 years for Underground Jazz Cabaret By Charles Lewis III | Bay City News Foundation | January 30, 2024 Danny Glover and Rhodessa Jones will join anniversary shows in San Francisco.
featured Drawing on video games, educators land on unlikely idea: ‘playful assessment’ By Greg Toppo | The 74 | January 30, 2024 Advocates hope to someday make tests more personalized and, in many ways, indistinguishable from games.
Arts & Entertainment YMTC production of Don’t Stop Me features Piedmont performers By Lindsay Saffouri | Reader Submission | January 26, 2024 Playing Feb 9-18, Youth Musical Theater Company’s sci-fi pop-funk musical is inspired by lives of 21st century teens.