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‘Magic Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Live at Berkeley (First Show)’ Arrives Tonight
The Jimi Hendrix video channel hosted a one-time live screening of the 1971 film Jimi Plays Berkeley on Thursday at 8 p.m. ET. A new live album, Magic Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Live at Berkeley (First Show), arrives tonight, Friday, Oct. 16. The screening showed a longer...
Alameda Post
Famous Comedian Phyllis Diller Called Alameda ‘Home’
In 2009, historian Ron Ucovich made a very special trip to the upscale Los Angeles neighborhood, Brentwood. Phyllis Diller lived there and had offered the Alameda Museum her organ, but left the shipping up to the museum. Ron got in his truck and drove to Phyllis’s home. He not only picked up the organ but one of her dresses as well. The museum displays both of these cherished items in a special exhibit that features the Alameda housewife who became a pioneer comedian.
Pleasanton Weekly
News Digest: No Kings Vote Early Family Fair | Halloween scavenger hunt | Oktoberfest and SmokeFest
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Indivisible Tri-Valley is hosting a free No Kings: Vote Early Family Fair this Saturday, as part of a national day of action, at Emerald Glen Park in Dublin from 2-4 p.m. Non-partisan voter registration, guidance on early voting and ballot safety information will be...
SFGate
BCNARTS: Best Bets: Judy Collins Brings Farewell Tour To Berkeley
Judy Collins, one of the more acclaimed and influential singers/musicians in folk music history, has embarked on a farewell tour that lands in Berkeley this weekend. Despite releasing more than 50 albums over a six-decade career and her dogged involvement with a variety of social causes, she remains best known for two hits that were not-particularly-rabble-rousing covers of others' songs: "Both Sides, Now" (Joni Mitchell) and "Send in the Clowns" (Stephen Sondheim).
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Oakland Public Conservatory of Music celebrates 20 years and founding Director Angela Wellman's retirement
Music educator and scholar Angela Wellman, Ph.D. wanted to make music education accessible to adults and youth, especially Black and brown youth. So she founded the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music back in 2005. For just over 20 years, this musician, originally from Kansas City, has been impacting the creative spirits of Bay Area artists. Now, Angela Wellman is retiring, buut she’s going out on a big celebration. The Oakland Public Conservatory of Music is hosting a gala on Saturday, October 24, at the Downtown Oakland Science Academy. Angela talks about what led her to launching the conservatory and what's next for her.
48hills.org
At 87, the great Judy Collins sings farewell—but stays in the now
Before the stories, the famous friends, and the blue eyes immortalized by Crosby, Stills and Nash, there is the voice. Judy Collins’ clear, luminous soprano can make a complicated lyric feel immediately understandable. On her recording of “Both Sides Now,” for example, the melody floats, the words land cleanly, and Joni Mitchell’s questions about love and experience unfold with the intimacy of someone thinking aloud.
Contra Costa Herald
Vasco Road Flag Barn façade gets permanent home at Contra Costa Historical Society museum
Painted following the September 11, 2001, attacks, the Vasco Flag Barn façade has been a treasured landmark for residents for more than two decades. On September 29, 2025, with the barn structurally unsound, beyond repair, and at risk of collapse, Brentwood’s Public Works team partnered with the East Bay Regional Parks to carefully dismantle the flag barn, preserving and storing the painted panels for future display. (See Vasco Road U.S. “Flag Barn” dismantled, façade transferred to City of Brentwood for future display)
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Top Tickets: East Bay Events Happening This Week October 15–21
10/17, Lafayette; 10/20, Berkeley. The Naumburg Award–winning quartet performs Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, and Korngold’s String Quartet No. 3, which quotes his Hollywood film scores, as part of Berkeley Chamber Performances. berkeleychamberperform.org. Dance. Dimensions Dance Theater. 10/17 The company’s 54th season brings the premiere of Power Memory Freedom Joy (Healing...
lamorindaweekly.com
Town Council receives Moraga Library redwood tree removal update
When the Moraga Town Council approved an April 8 Town Facilities Energy Reliability Project involving solar improvements at Town-owned facilities, it included the Moraga Library. While deciding where the solar improvements and generators could best be placed there, it was discovered that dozens of redwood trees encompassing the library needed to be removed.
East Bay Express
Candi Martinez brings Oakland together
It’s a sunny day in May, and Candi Martinez holds her daughter’s tiny hand as the two twirl to face a pair of friends in the middle of a car-less Oakland street. She greets them as music fills the air on Lakeshore Avenue, which has been transformed into a dance floor for the inaugural Lakeshore Spring Festival.
lamorindaweekly.com
Pear & Wine Festival kicks off fall season in Lamorinda
On a beautiful sunny day with activities galore, hundreds of local residents celebrated the beginning of fall on Sept. 26 during Moraga’s annual Pear & Wine Festival at Commons Park. Held between 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., things kicked off a bit earlier with a ribbon-cutting ceremony to honor...
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‘Mr. Burton’ at the Orinda Theatre
What is left in our collective memory of the Welsh American actor Richard Burton? Maybe his tumultuous relationship with Liz Taylor, some great films – and few remember that he was a Shakespearean actor. The movie “Mr. Burton,” presented in Orinda beginning Oct. 23, however, is about the youth and upbringing of the young man. Beyond his specific story, it is a wonderful reflection on what fatherhood and mentorship mean, on transmission, and on how much of a person’s destiny hinges on the people they meet and sheer luck.
KQED
Making Their House Into a Home Full of Black Art
Living rooms are often filled with family mementos, shelves full of books, or maybe a TV, turned on as background noise for rowdy conversations. Meanwhile, the walls inside the East Oakland home of Nyallah Muntaqim and Musa Bey are filled with art. On a recent visit, as Muntaqim sits on the green couch, a white painted hammer nearby looks as if it were smashed into the wall, with roots growing from it, by Antioch artist Tunmi da Silva.
martinezgazette.com
New book from Martinez resident Matt Sieger
Martinez resident Matt Sieger, whose previous book, The God Squad: The Born-Again San Francisco Giants of 1978, was published in 2023, has come out with a new book. As with his first book, the publishers of his new volume, In My Humble Opinion: Musings of a Sports Columnist are Eric and Peggy Johnson of Alive Book Publishing in Alamo. Serendipitously, Sieger and the Johnsons attend Creekside Church in Martinez, which is how he hooked up with them to publish his two books.
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Q&A: Ashley Cooke takes Pleasanton roots on the road as her country career takes off
Rising country star Ashley Cooke is in the middle of headlining large concert halls now, including an upcoming date at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. But after releasing her self-titled album in August, her first order of business was to pay tribute to the towns that helped raise her. Ashley Cooke.
Pleasanton Weekly
Life-size elephant statues stomp into Livermore
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A herd of 30 elephants arrived in downtown Livermore last week on a mission to amplify Indigenous culture and inspire the coexistence of people and wildlife. The life-size sculptures on display in Stockmen’s Park and Bankhead Plaza are part of “The Great Elephant Migration:...