Arts & Culture

Founded in 2001, the Point Richmond Music Festival quickly became a popular highlight of summers in the East Bay. Organized by a team of volunteers and focusing on local talent, the festival experienced an enforced pandemic-era break...

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If income disparity in the U.S. were served as a sandwich, it would be sent back to the kitchen. Instead, creeping lethargy and other forces normalize the inequitable reality of life in 2026. No eyebrows rise when...

What happens when you mix post-punk, goth, rock ’n’ roll, a little blues and some Oakland flair? You get Everything But the Everything, a five-piece alternative rock outfit putting out tracks that conjure nostalgia and excitement for...

This week's calendar picks feature 'Jawbreaker: The Anti-Cimex Documentary,' Bettye LaVette, Vincent Ding, The Jazz Mafia Play Cannonball Adderley, 'MyBloodyShoegaze Fest,' Kal McRaven, Mr Cindy & the Secret Emchy Society, Aimee Nolte, Slayyyter, and Liz Phair & Sleater-Kinney.

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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...