Arts & Entertainment Pass the Remote: As ‘Wicked’ flies onto the big screen, check out more great movie musicals By Randy Myers | Bay City News | November 19, 2024 Bay Area native Jon M. Chu creates magic directing a cast that includes Ariana Grande as Glinda.
Arts & Entertainment Review: Berkeley Rep’s ‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’ a sensitive, fun look at sisterhood By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News | November 14, 2024 Performances continue through December 15 at Peet’s Theatre in Berkeley.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Bhangra and Beats, Sweet Honey in the Rock, ‘Nutcracker Suite,’ pianist Vyacheslav Gryaznov, ‘Carmen’ By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | November 13, 2024 Acclaimed vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock brings its 50th anniversary tour to SFJAZZ Center November 14-17.
Arts & Entertainment Pass the Remote: SF Transgender film fest, ‘Stripped for Parts,’ Berlin & Beyond preview, Stanford Prison Experiment series By Randy Myers | Bay City News | November 11, 2024 “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink” screens at 6:45 p.m. November 19 at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland.
Arts & Entertainment Vancouver’s Ho Tam among diverse artist lineup in free SF Chinatown zine festival By Lou Fancher, Bay City News | November 8, 2024 From noon to 4 pm this Saturday in Ross Alley, between Washington and Jackson streets in SF.
Arts & Entertainment NPR Tiny Desk Contest winner The Philharmonik plays Glide’s festive holiday fundraiser By Lou Fancher | Bay City News | November 7, 2024 This year's Holiday Jam, "The Love Agenda: A Tenderloin Legacy", is on November 13 at the Masonic in SF.
Arts & Entertainment Legion of Honor marks 100th anniversary Saturday with day of free music and dance By Janis Mara, Bay City News | November 7, 2024 The event is the first of 12 months of free music and dance performances, lectures and movies in honor of the institution’s opening in 1924.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Leonard Cohen fest, Mike E. Winfield, Berkeley Symphony, ‘Opera in the Planetarium’ By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | November 6, 2024 San Francisco vocal group Conspiracy of Beards appears this weekend at the Leonard Cohen Festival in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Pass the Remote: Spotlight on producing great Saul Zaentz, ‘I Am My Own Woman’ By Randy Myers | Bay City News | November 4, 2024 The three-time Oscar winner also founded Berkeley’s Saul Zaentz Film Center, a bustling creative hub and spark plug for indie filmmakers.
Around Town Piedmont Center for the Arts | ‘Remembering, 80 Years Later’ By Exedra Staff | November 1, 2024 Wendy Tokuda, Kimi Hill will share their families' stories of life in internment camps during WWII.