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Arts & Entertainment

Best Bets for streaming classical music, plays | March 27-29

By The Artful Observer | Local News Matters | March 27, 2020

I stream, you stream, we all stream for our entertainment these days: SF Symphony offers Mahler, NY's Met Opera Wagner, and local theaters their productions.

Arts & Entertainment

California Shakespeare Theater cancels 2020 season due to COVID-19 pandemic

By Dennis Culver | Bay City News | March 27, 2020

California Shakespeare Theater has announced the cancellation of its 2020 season due to safety concerns and financial hardship.

Around Town

Everyone’s A Critic

By Nick Levinson | March 24, 2020

Sequestered at home with movies and books, Exedra’s arts and culture reviewer answers the burning question: Is it worth my time?

Food & Drink

Quarantini | Diana’s Lemon Drop

By Diana Peters | March 24, 2020

When life gives you lemons...here's what to do.

COVID-19

Local restaurants impacted by shutdown, some respond by offering takeout

By Ulla Smit, Piedmont resident | March 20, 2020

"Stay home and order out" is the restaurant mantra for our times.

Around Town

Sheltering in a garden place

By Kathryn Pritchett | March 20, 2020

Because local nurseries sell plants that can be grown for food, they are considered essential services and remain open.

Arts & Entertainment

Artistic community forced to change the script in these changing times

By Randy Myers | Bay City News Foundation | March 18, 2020

As movie theaters shutter and Bay Area film festivals ponder the next steps, studios and indie distributors consider moving their original features online.