Arts Feature

Lou Fancher’s piece on Aurora Theatre Company’s adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Bluest Eye sparks conversations of the late writer’s works—like Beloved, Jazz and Song Of Solomon—and how rich a legacy and how lasting an impact she created in worlds of words and history.

Lou Fancher speaks with author/activist, Roberto Lovato on trauma, recovery and migration in his latest book, "Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas".

Shotgun Players celebrate 30 years with innovative program Scary, challenging, cosy, open, hard, easier, pressured,...

Lou Fancher covers the historic milestones taking place at San Francisco's Lorraine Hansberry Theatre and their latest work with Erika Dickerson-Despenza.

“Virtual theater opens up access to many more people,” Co-creator Carol Lashof said, noting that Those Women’s usual performing space, La Val’s Subterranean Theatre in Berkeley, is limited in both number and type of audience members it can accommodate. “With Hindsight 2020, people will be able to see it regardless of their ability to get [to Berkeley].”

How a Bar Defied the Pandemic One year ago at the Hatch, a narrow neighborhood...

Janis Hashe celebrates painter, Hung Liu, embraces the ghosts of the past by capturing the inner-light of her subjects.

The Bay Area honors the Black Panthers Misfortune is a test of people’s fidelity.Those who...

The Covid-19 lockdown has had a chilling effect on the East Bay’s music scene....

Brentwood-based sculpture artist Julee Richardson began her multi-piece Pieta takeoff of a Black mother...

The actual eye on the actual art. GHOST IN THE MACHINE: Gould stands with...

There are many books about filmmakers, but not a lot of films about bookmakers—specifically...

Although rhyme, reason, rhythm, poetry, hip-hop, rap and all manner of wordplay are involved...

Melissa Valentine's realizations about love and anger were not easily gained. Growing up in...