Arts & Culture

We are in Virgo season. What’s the best, most healing trouble you could provoke right now?

Everyone knows a kid who spends her entire weekly allowance on comic books, or a child constantly scolded for “doodling” instead of doing homework. Then, there’s the immigrant family in America in which the parents speak only...

Stay Out came together when the band’s singers, Grant Pack and Mason McGeorge, met at a party. “We had a lot in common.” McGeorge said. “I’d been searching for my musical partner. We started jamming Green Day...

This week's calendar picks feature the Freight's Annual Fiddle Summit, Cosmik Debris, the Hogan Brothers, the Holdup, Bill Callahan, Tori Amos, Brad Mehldau, Mike Monford, Cape & Cowl Con, and Avery Wilson.

Will you answer the call to adventure, Virgo? How will you reduce your karmic debt, Taurus? In what way could a seismic shift heal your landscape, Aquarius?

After a lifetime of playing instruments, bouncing between bands and experimenting with new musical techniques, Oakland’s Kevin Moan had a simple idea. Alone in his rehearsal studio during the pandemic, he decided to plug his guitar amp...

Two things guide the work of comedian Amy Miller: holding to one’s ethics and fighting to protect one’s community—values the Bay Area native learned in part from the punk scene at 924 Gilman. Now she brings her...