Arts & Entertainment Film festival on aging spotlights people who survived the Holocaust, internment camps and segregation By Woody Weingarten | Bay City News Foundation | May 17, 2021 The festival includes a film about Betty Reid Soskin, the 99-year-old advocate and park ranger at the Rosie the Riveter museum in Richmond
Cal University of California must drop SAT, ACT scores for admissions and scholarships By Michael Burke | EdSource | May 15, 2021 New settlement keeps UC from using SAT or ACT in admissions or scholarship decisions through 2025. UC has no plans to use them beyond that.
Around Town Last weekend | 7th Annual Juried Art Show at PCA runs through May 16 By Exedra Staff | Photos by Julie Reichle | May 14, 2021 The show will be open Saturday and Sunday from noon until 2 p.m. Reservations required.
Arts & Entertainment Earn-A-Bike Program empowers West Oakland kids and teens By Rowena Gonden | Bay City News Foundation | May 14, 2021 During the three-hour, twice-weekly classes, up to half a dozen participants spend one month learning the basics of bike maintenance and repair.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Works by Latina composers, SF Symphony in person and Nam June Paik’s electronic art By The Artful Observer | Bay City News Foundation | May 14, 2021 Live performances at Davies; Hershey Felder dramatizes Rachmaninoff; SFJazz celebrates Miles Davis; and more
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Performances ditches the digital for its live ‘Summer Music Sessions’ By Sue Gilmore | Bay City News Foundation | May 14, 2021 For the first time in its 41-year history the organization will hold a summer season of music concerts, at Herbst Theatre.
Arts & Entertainment Pass the Remote: Asian American filmmakers explore school pressures, romance, and a ghost story By Randy Myers | Bay City News Foundation | May 14, 2021 CAAMFest online and drive-in options offer a range of thoughtful, funny, and spooky stories.
Bay Area Safeway now offering walk-in covid vaccines — and a grocery discount By Eli Walsh | Bay City News Foundation | May 14, 2021 The grocery chain announced the walk-up plan a day after vaccination opened up to children as young as 12.
California Tuition increase back on the table at University of California By Michael Burke | EdSource | May 14, 2021 Proposal for annual, cohort-based tuition hikes may be brought to the UC Regents for a vote this summer.
Bay Area EBMUD: Using water ‘with purpose’ can help with conservation as drought nears By Tony Hicks | Bay City News Foundation | May 13, 2021 EBMUD declared a stage 1 drought in late April, meaning customers in Contra Costa and Alameda counties are being asked to cut water use by 10 percent, for now.