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Arts & Entertainment

Best Bets: Cartoon jazz, classical birds, and pandemic song

By The Artful Observer | Bay City News Foundation | January 28, 2022

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.

Bay Area

Four endangered Mexican gray wolves find new home at SF Zoo

By Kiley Russell | Bay City News Foundation and Exedra Staff | January 27, 2022

The Mexican wolf is one of the rarest land mammals on earth.

Arts & Entertainment

SF Opera’s 100th season will kick off with a John Adams premiere

By Sue Gilmore | Bay City News Foundation | January 25, 2022

The program for the centenary season is both long on ambition and heavy on nostalgia.

Books

Shelf Life: Should books ever be banned? Ask the experts

By Tony Hicks | Bay City News Foundation | January 25, 2022

The American Library Association tracked 273 targeted books in 156 challenges to libraries, schools, and universities in 2020.

Food & Drink

The Dish | Bake Sale Betty’s Coleslaw

By Brynne Staley | January 25, 2022

The iconic (and fantastically easy to make) accompaniment to any main course.

Arts & Entertainment

New book eyeballs visual legacy of absurdist group The Residents

By Lydia Sviatoslavsky | Bay City News Foundation | January 24, 2022

The anonymous avant-garde freak group has been injecting the music world with absurdist humor and psychedelia since the late 1960s.

Arts & Entertainment

Pass the Remote: Old-school movies plus a Kurdish film fest

By Randy Myers | Bay City News Foundation | January 20, 2022

Nosferatu, a Bogdanovich classic, and Tosca on film are some of the "classics" screening this weekend.

Arts & Entertainment

Bay City Books: New Books from Bay Area Authors – January 2022

By Meg Waite Clayton | Bay City News Foundation | January 20, 2022

This eclectic selection of local books includes stories and histories of spies, space, driverless cars, world history, and the strange and surreal.

Arts & Entertainment

Paint the Void shows murals from the pandemic’s darkest days

By Gina Gotsill | Bay City News Foundation | January 20, 2022

Lockdown murals painted during the peak of the pandemic in 2020 have been gathered in one place for a limited retrospective.

Arts & Entertainment

Best Bets: ‘Swept Away’ at Berkeley Rep, return of MTT, and more

By The Artful Observer | Bay City News Foundation | January 20, 2022

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.