Arts & Entertainment Bay to Breakers 2024: An anything-goes party where many had fun and a few came to run By J.L. Odom | Bay City News | May 21, 2024 Costumes this year included dinosaurs, unicorns, butterflies, roosters, cows and condiments; Dr Seuss “Thing 1s, 2s, and 3s;” BART trains; and more.
Arts & Entertainment SF Ballet School Spring Festival boasts premieres by young choreographers By James Ambroff-Tahan | Bay City News | May 20, 2024 May 22-24, students will dance classic and new works, both pieces they made, and one made under the company’s Creation House initiative.
Arts & Entertainment Facing the music: Internet Archive accused of illegally digitizing thousands of old records By Joe Dworetzky | Bay City News | May 18, 2024 The trove, which anyone can access for free, includes audio recordings of Grateful Dead concerts, Bing Crosby classics, vintage video games, and more than 7,000 emails from Hilary Clinton’s personal server.
Arts & Entertainment Review: Truth takes on power in Berkeley Rep’s bold new musical ‘Galileo’ By Caroline Crawford | Bay City News | May 17, 2024 World-premiere production is an exuberant rock musical that seeks to get into the brilliant mind of the 16th-century polymath.
Arts & Entertainment Review: We Players bring wacky, whimsical ‘Adventures with Alice’ back to Golden Gate Park By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News | May 16, 2024 Witty site-specific show is for kids and adults alike who are guided from scene to scene starting near Sprekels Lake.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Malcolm X JazzArts fest, ‘Galileo’ musical, ‘Cinderella’ ballet, SF Symphony Youth Orchestra, two-piano recital By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | May 15, 2024 JazzArts fest features Kev Choice and Marcus Shelby and others in “The Evolution of Jazz to Hip-Hop" on Saturday at San Antonio Park in Oakland.
Arts & Entertainment Bay City Books: New fiction, non-fiction from Bay Area authors – May 2024 By Frances Dinkelspiel | Bay City News | May 15, 2024 New work by authors Daniel Handler, R.O. Kwon; Tom Steyer, Carvell Wallace; and a new perspective on the life of John Muir.
Arts & Entertainment Review: ‘Extreme Acts’ explores why people choose to live on the edge By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News | May 14, 2024 Through June 2 at The Marsh in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Pass the Remote: BAMPFA summer screenings offer something for everyone By Randy Myers | Bay City News | May 13, 2024 Features by iconic animated storyteller Hayao Miyazaki and by filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, who will appear in person, are among the highlights.
Arts & Entertainment Cruise the Bay in a new way: Port of Oakland begins offering monthly sunset harbor tours By Janis Mara | Bay City News | May 9, 2024 The port is offering free evening tours on a Blue & Gold Fleet boat once a month beginning May 10 and running through October 2024.