Arts & Entertainment Must-See TV: New series “Blindspotting” set in Oakland By Amelia Williams | Bay City News Foundation | June 15, 2021 The new STARZ series picks up six months after the film's 2018 timeline and focuses on developing new characters during its premiere season.
Arts & Entertainment Bay City Books: New Books from Bay Area Authors – June 2021 By Meg Waite Clayton | Bay City News Foundation | June 14, 2021 Slow food, enigmatic fictional worlds, and teens coming of age feature in this month's releases by Bay Area authors.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: an Alvin Ailey world premiere, two unique SF tours and a play about internment By The Artful Observer | Bay City News Foundation | June 11, 2021 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 Pass the Remote: Five Frameline features worth watching By Randy Myers | Bay City News Foundation | June 11, 2021 The world's largest LGBTQ film festival is in its 45th year and includes large-scale screenings at Concord drive-in and Oracle Park.
Bay Area Oakland Public Library returning to pre-pandemic service hours next week By Exedra Staff and Bay City News | June 11, 2021 Just in time for summer vacation, all 18 library branches will extend hours, with the Main Library open seven days a week.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland activist uses drone to save animals from climate disasters By Amelia Williams | Bay City News Foundation | June 11, 2021 Doug Thron's rescue efforts around the globe have been documented in a new series, "Doug to the Rescue."
Arts & Entertainment SF Neo-Futurists offer theater performed over the phone By Charles Lewis III | Bay City News Foundation | June 8, 2021 The San Francisco branch of the famed experimental theater troupe pivoted to online performances early in the pandemic.
Bay Area Cobby, oldest male chimpanzee in U.S., dies at San Francisco Zoo By Kathleen Kirkwood | Bay City News | June 8, 2021 The popular chimpanzee, who arrived at the zoo in the 1960s, was 63 years old and had recently been ill.
Arts & Entertainment Myriad ways to celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month in Bay Area By Amelia Williams | Bay City News Foundation | June 4, 2021 Events across the Bay Area throughout June include workshops, performances, film screenings, and a fitness festival.
Arts & Entertainment The theater world grapples with its role in systemic racism By Woody Weingarten | Bay City News Foundation | June 4, 2021 In the wake of anti-Asian, anti-Black violence these Bay Area actors and companies are tackling institutional racism from within.