FOLLOW US
Arts & Culture
Jack London Square adds hopscotch murals that turn sidewalks into public art
A woman talks on the phone as she walks along Jack London Square’s Third Street. Suddenly she looks down, then up again, then down. She starts hopping. One foot, then two, then one and two, until she...
It’s still about all that jazz
In its 42-year history, the organization now known as Living Jazz has had only three executive directors: co-founder Stacey Hoffman, who served from 1984 until 2023; Lyz Luke, who left in 2025 to become the cultural affairs...
Social Eyes: Week of July 2-8
This week's calendar picks feature Jacob Jolliff Band, Kelsy Karter and the Heroines, Benny Amón & The New Orleans Pearls, Generación Suicida, Morillo, Orqo Taki, Rosalía, 'Scabmuggers,' Marcus King Band, and Allison O’Conor.
Free Will Astrology: Week of July 1
We’re halfway through 2026. How are your big projects progressing?
Mylo Cardona uses theater to build queer community and resistance
To Oakland’s Mylo Cardona, theater is a space of community and belonging. For them, artistic expression is an extension of both the personal and the political—creation as an act of resistance against hierarchical structures of the status...
Maren Hassinger turns trash into art at BAMPFA
Watch for a scramble in September, when Cal undergraduates will line up to help scatter—and then reclaim—trash. As part of the ongoing retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving...
