How should we spend our time while sheltering in place? For artists, it’s obvious. Through live-streamed performances, virtual story times, cooking demonstrations and other projects, Bay Area ...

Since the dawn of domesticity, rugs and carpets have been essential for both warmth and protection and creating a sense of home in a space. More than just utility or decor, the history of the rug is ...

Orson Welles called “The Baker’s Wife,” the charming 1938 classic by Marcel Pagnol, a perfect film. Fable-like in structure and very French in its acceptance and forgiveness of human frailty, it’s the ...

Berkeley painter and sculptural installation artist Libby Black explores intersections of politics, feminism, LGBTQ+ identity and consumerism in her new solo exhibition, “The Way Things Also Are,” at ...

Unlike any work of its kind, Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” has resonated with readers around the nation, selling more than 2 million copies since it was published in 1980. It ...

As we gradually emerge into what used to be called, quaintly, the fall arts season, an increasing number of arts presenters have begun to assemble their ad hoc virtual offerings into actual seasons.

The title of the new Peninsula International Dance Festival highlights the riches of the Bay Area: the companies are mostly local, but they represent the cultures of 11 different countries, ranging ...

The mixed chorus Volti has been a champion of contemporary music for more than four decades, and not even a pandemic is going to keep it from unveiling new works for an interested audience. The ...

The Balboa Theatre’s annual Godzilla Fest is back with a roar. Starting with the original 1954 “Godzilla” (aka “Gojira”) at 3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18, and ending after a 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 20, screening ...

Poolside, the band that helped us ease into the 2010s with its soothing daytime disco, recently returned with a new lineup on its first releases in two years, the single “Can’t Stop Your Loving” and ...

This month, the South Bay’s Steinway Society joins the roster of concert presenters working through the COVID-19 pandemic to re-create a suitable version of musical life online. Its new Home Concert ...

The Haitian American musician Nathalie Joachim first became widely known as the flutist of the new-music ensemble Eighth Blackbird, a post she filled with notable virtuosity and charisma. Since ...