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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
