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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...

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,...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

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...