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Feb 22, 2023
Bridging the Gap
Ukrainian musicians and artists perform with some of the Bay Area’s hottest talent at San Jose Winterfest
Friday, Feb. 24, 2023 marks the one year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion and the war in Ukraine. Those in the...
Feb 15, 2023
Exodus to Eden
Oakland Theater Project explores ‘History vs. Hope’
By Janis Hashe
In conceptualizing its 2023 season, Oakland Theater Project (OTP) is weaving together the ideas of “wholeness” and “holiness,” according to Michael Socrates Moran, OTP’s co-artistic director. The season’s theme,...
Feb 8, 2023
Abolition and Action
Angela Davis ushers in a new generation of Black women activists and artists
If there is hope and determination in 2023 that the abolition of carceral and racist systems and institutions is ever to occur—oh, that it might...
Feb 1, 2023
The Sky Is Not the Limit
Cal scientists star in Webb Telescope exploration
Astrophysicists and space buffs worldwide erupted into cheers after the perfect launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on Christmas Day 2021. Days later, they held their collective breaths as...
Jan 25, 2023
Oh Sandwich, My Sandwich
‘Clyde’s’ is about hope—topped with aioli
In Clyde’s, which previewed at Berkeley Rep Jan. 20, and opens Jan. 25, a hero can be a sandwich—but it can also be someone trying to rebuild their life.
The 2022 Tony-nominated play...
Jan 18, 2023
Coming in From the Cold
The Bay Area presents winter arts to warm the heart and stimulate the spirit
There is nothing chilly—or, in the case of California’s relentless, torrential atmospheric river storms in early January, nothing soggy—about the 2023 winter arts scene...
Jan 18, 2023
GZA’s Genius Comes to Oakland
The pioneering member of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan comes to Yoshi’s to rock mics and move rooks
Among the list of legendary solo album releases by the Wu-Tang Clan, some could say that GZA’s Liquid Swords is the...