.Arts Feature

Jul 15, 2025

Black is the new white

Lorraine Hansberry didn’t live to see her final play, Les Blancs (The Whites) produced. The author of A Raisin in the Sun died of cancer at 34 before completing the complex work, inspired, it is believed, by her reaction to the Broadway production of Jean Genet’s Les Nègres (The...
Ciel Sessions return to ignite at Studio Zero
May 23, 2025

Ciel Sessions return to ignite at Studio Zero

Studio Zero feels as if it could host an intimate fashion show or be a multimedia art gallery at first glance. As the crowd makes its way through the nondescript grey entrance of Ciel Creative Space on...
Seven Mirrors gallery reflects community
May 13, 2025

Seven Mirrors gallery reflects community

Oakland-based artist Stacey Goodman’s multidisciplinary work can be described with any number of words. Even so, words fail to capture his broad portfolio and the vision that spurred him to found Seven Mirrors, a new, public-facing art...
Aurora Theatre’s 'Crumbs' triumphs despite last-minute setback
May 13, 2025

Aurora Theatre’s ‘Crumbs’ triumphs despite last-minute setback

If the phrase, “the show must go on,” was ever supremely apropos, it was May 4 at Aurora Theatre in Berkeley. Faced with the lead actor falling ill during a run of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage’s...
John Wehrle's 50 years of art unveiled in 'Time & Tide' exhibition
Apr 22, 2025

John Wehrle’s 50 years of art unveiled in ‘Time & Tide’ exhibition

From his time as a Vietnam War combat artist, to his iconic East Bay murals, to his recent digital photographic work, Richmond-based artist John Wehrle has used his insatiable curiosity about the world and human effects on...
Art heals at Bioneers with Joy Harjo and Cara Romero
Apr 15, 2025

Art heals at Bioneers with Joy Harjo and Cara Romero

Bioneers 2025—the March 27-29 eco-design conference founded in 1990 and held on and around the University of California Berkeley campus for the third year running—involved much talk about individual healing in support of collective action. It’s a...
Hugh Bonneville and cast uplift 'Uncle Vanya' melodrama
Mar 11, 2025

Hugh Bonneville and cast uplift ‘Uncle Vanya’ melodrama

People look to theater, concerts, sports and other live entertainment to experience the vicarious thrill of life’s dramatic highs and lows. But face it: Most folks spend actual, everyday life slogging along in the muddled middle. So it...
Tribal truths exhibited at Oakland Museum
Feb 4, 2025

Tribal truths exhibited at Oakland Museum

Most of the East Bay is considered Ohlone land that was stolen from the tribe by Spanish and American forces. That may be a hard truth for many of us to face and accept. Feelings of guilt...
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