Arts Feature

When Pragati Sharma Mohanty was a little girl growing up in India, the nation was riveted to a television show telling the epic tale of the Ramayana. But as an adult, she said in a phone interview,...

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...

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...

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...

He started as an alto. Not a baritone, not a tenor. An alto. In the chorus of a Philadelphia elementary school, singing parts he was told to sing, performing repertoire he found corny and sometimes worse. He...

Cheryl Dunye, an Oakland-based Liberian-American filmmaker, director and producer, says telling stories about Black queer identity, history and culture is energizing. “I’ve always worked in the space where identity gets complicated,” she says. “That’s not new for me....

People faced with incongruous truths or unanswerable questions often say, “Life’s a mystery.” While the cliché is escapist, there’s no denying life is thick with improbability. Which explains how Oakland-native Ted Lange as an actor came to portray...