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.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Latin American photos, Trocks drag ballet, and Marcus Roberts By The Artful Observer | Bay City News Foundation | January 26, 2024 Also: SF Playhouse premiere, symphony concerts.
Bay Area UC moves to ban political statements from its websites by faculty and others By Michael Burke | EdSource | January 26, 2024 Vote to consider limits has been postponed to March.
Arts & Entertainment Pandora meets AI in San Francisco Ballet premiere of Aszure Barton’s ‘Mere Mortals’ By James Ambroff-Tahan | Bay City News Foundation | January 26, 2024 The premiere features a commissioned electronic and orchestral score.
climate change What’s happened since California cut home solar payments? Demand has plunged 80% By Julie Cart | CalMatters | January 26, 2024 Experts worry that the steep decline could stall the state’s battle against climate change.
Bay Area State launches first-of-its-kind survey of LGBTQIA+ older adults By Susan Nash | Bay City News Foundation | January 25, 2024 A multidisciplinary group of researchers hopes to establish a benchmark for better understanding aging populations.
Education UC rejects plan to allow campuses to hire undocumented students By Mikhail Zinshteyn | CalMatters | January 25, 2024 The proposal would have meant challenging a federal law that bars employers from hiring undocumented immigrants.
California California ranks high worldwide for rapidly depleted groundwater By Rachel Becker | CalMatters | January 24, 2024 The research revealed that rapidly declining groundwater basins are virtually non-existent in places without farming.
Bay Area Oakland Ballers have a (very) new rival By Tony Hicks | Bay City News | January 23, 2024 The Yolo High Wheelers will be based in Davis and participate in a training "lab" for careers in professional sports.
City Pickleball noise reduction technologies demo at Linda Beach Courts By City of Piedmont | January 23, 2024 City partners with USA Pickleball and invites community members to attend and observe these new technologies in action.