Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Bay Area Dance Week, music of Vietnam, bluegrass fest By The Artful Observer | Bay City News Foundation | April 19, 2023 Find performances, demonstrations, classes, and dance gatherings across the Bay Area through the rest of April.
Featured in Category Piedmont students to perform in Berkeley Playhouse’s ‘The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical’ By Reader submission | April 18, 2023 Four Piedmont middle schoolers will perform this weekend, April 21-23, in the musical based on the popular Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan.
Arts & Entertainment Asian Art Museum explores dance ‘Beyond Bollywood’ By Hilda Scheib | Bay City News Foundation | April 18, 2023 Five thematic sections present more than 100 works in a range of media.
Arts & Entertainment Aurora Theatre retells Rostand classic in ‘Cyrano’ By Caroline Crawford | Local News Matters | April 15, 2023 Berkeley theater company and an excellent cast bring the classic play to a small stage.
Arts & Entertainment Former PHS English teacher wins poetry award By Reader submission | April 14, 2023 Valentina Gnup won second prize in the 2023 Yeats Poetry Prize competition for her poem, “Doll, It All Goes by So Fast.”
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Emerson Quartet, Art of Iran, ACT’s ‘Rednecks’ By The Artful Observer | Bay City News Foundation | April 14, 2023 A quartet's swan song, digital art from Iran, and new theater are among this week's picks.
Bay Area A state bat? You bet! By Janis Mara | Bay City News Foundation | April 14, 2023 The Pallid bat is a tiny golden insectivore.
Business & Finance Life with Money | Think Like a Freak By Nick Levinson | Park Piedmont Advisors | April 14, 2023 [SPONSORED] The Freakonomics podcast team has lots to say about behavioral finance – that is, the real (versus rational) ways people manage their financial lives.
Arts & Entertainment Pass the Remote: Poppy Jasper indies, SFFILM, and ‘Wild Life’ By Randy Myers | Bay City News Foundation | April 11, 2023 Film fest season continues in full swing.
Books Local Lit | April’s top tips for book lovers By Lou Fancher | April 11, 2023 Montclair Library book discussions and seedling starters; Angie Thomas at Marcus Books; Bay Area Book Festival prologue events; and more.