Arts & Culture

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries psychologist Abraham Maslow coined the term peak “experiences”: surging upflows of heightened clarity, awe, vitality and love. He also identified another category, “plateau experiences.” These are gentler but more enduring states, characterized...

Dr. Angela Wellman spent 20 years passing Black music from one pair of hands to the next. Now she’s stepping down, and her conservatory still rents in a city that zeroed out its general-fund arts grants. The video is...

This week's calendar picks feature Grace Kelly, Hell Comes to Oakland IV, Febuary, Odile Lavault's Baguette Quartette, Dolly's Mile High Club, Lord of the Rings Square Dance, Henry Hung's Klaxon Mutant All-Stars, Windham Hill 50th Anniversary Live, Alexandr Misko, and Ms. Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean.

The Punk or Treat Halloween party at Gilman Brewing, the brewpub located next to the famous punk club at 924 Gilman, will feature three local bands just beginning to gain some recognition for themselves: Pretty & Pissed;...

Recognized by the Alameda County Arts Commission with a 2026 Alameda County Arts Leadership Award, Samara Atkins said in an interview it comes at a time of transition. “It’s a surprise and has made me feel seen...

Happy Halloween, playful wolves and glamorous ringmasters! Eccentric inventors and mushroom spirits! Crime scene investigators and keepers of the threshold...

Bess Wohl’s Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning play, Liberation, comes Oct. 23 to Berkeley Rep’s Roda Theatre. Directed by Whitney White, the production locks up audience phones, freeing the audience to find unlimited power and hope in a...