Arts & Culture

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...

Pit bulls and punk-rock go together like peanut butter and jelly. Think of all the album covers featuring that iconic, block-headed dog, and the sheer volume of patchwork-tattooed punks seen walking pits through Oakland’s various neighborhoods. It’s...

For stateside fans of foreign films, the so-called Hong Kong New Wave began approximately when director Ann Hui’s Boat People opened in U.S. movie houses in the early 1980s. The rising tide of new names, fresh faces...

THU 10/22 REGGAE DUB SIDE OF THE MOON Rhythm is God when it comes to the Easy Star All-Stars. Worship the band’s tribute albums of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, then drop a knee to other excursions into...