Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Symphony’s Michael Tilson Thomas dies at 81 By Bay City News | April 23, 2026 MTT's last public conducting appearance in Davies Symphony Hall was on April 26, 2025 at an 80th birthday celebration concert.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Bay Area Dance Week, Angelique Kidjo, and more By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | April 22, 2026 Plus, celebrated pianist Yuja Wang returns to San Francisco Symphony this Sunday for an almost sold-out show.
Arts & Entertainment Review: ‘Come From Away’ at TheatreWorks inspires faith and hope By Jean Schiffman | Bay City News | April 21, 2026 A feel-good musical in the best possible sense of the phrase.
Food & Drink The Dish | Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies By Barbara Giuffre | April 21, 2026 Easy, nostalgic oat cookies with a wholesome boost of fiber.
Arts & Entertainment An unscientific snapshot of the Bay Area performing arts scene in 2026 By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | April 20, 2026 Despite facing desperate financial situations, art groups — and the arts — won’t be going away, at least not entirely.
Arts & Entertainment Movies: SF International film fest, ‘Steal This Story, Please!’ ‘Kontinental ’25,’ ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ By Anita Katz | Bay City News | April 20, 2026 Dozens of features and documentaries from around the world land on festival screens later this week.
Arts & Entertainment PEBCC to perform ‘Echoes of Eureka’ choral opera in Oakland on April 18 By Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir (PEBCC) | April 17, 2026 The opera traces the story of “Charley” Wei Lum, a young Chinese immigrant in 1880s California, whose community in Eureka was violently expelled amid rising anti-Chinese sentiment.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: 1906 quake remembrance, CubaCaribe fest, and Joshua Bell By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | April 15, 2026 Also: Bilingual Shakespeare with "La Comedia of Errors," and Pocket Opera's “A Midsummer Night’s Dream."
Arts & Entertainment Smuin Contemporary Ballet premieres work by Schermoly, Seiwert By James Ambroff-Tahan | Bay City News | April 14, 2026 “Jane Doe" addresses the status of women in the world with part caution, part hope.
Arts & Entertainment Movies: SF’s Balboa Theater turns 100, LBGTQ+ film series, Nadav Lapid’s ‘Yes’ By Anita Katz | Bay City News | April 13, 2026 Also, six weeks of Hitchcock in Palo Alto, and Albert Camus’ existential 1942 novella in film.