.Arts & Culture

“When you do aerial, you’re doing something that you think is impossible,” says Drago Nesa, entrepreneur, international circus performer and longest-body-burn-while-hanging-from-their-teeth world record holder. “And when a person can conquer their ability to do the impossible, they...

Elizabeth Rosner‘s new book, Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening, is by no means a prescriptive, how-to, self-help book. But it could be. Focused on listening and hearing, the Berkeley-based writer remembers and...

Out of the ashes of a groundbreaking Bay Area music collective comes another group. Musically different but built upon the same creative values, Daggerboard is forward-looking and rooted in tradition. And at the same time, its founder...

We’ve all seen oil on canvas and pastel on paper, but few have seen acid on copper. That’s the signature medium of choice for local East Bay artist Stephen Bruce. Originally from Sacramento, Bruce now resides in...

EBM: Oddest library request you (or a colleague) received from a guest? BLAINE WENTWORTH (HE/THEY): One of the oddest requests was from a community member who wanted to hold their child's birthday party at the library. They hoped...

He’s part dog, part man, a champion of justice—and the canine hero of the Fremont Main Library’s most checked-out book.  Since the beginning of the year, readers have checked out Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea...

Cellist Jacqueline du Pré died at 42 of complications from multiple sclerosis. But during her brief, brilliant life, she was “a supernova,” said Marnie Breckenridge, the soprano who will portray her in West Edge Opera’s production of...