Celebrating the Guidi Era
With Lustig at the helm, the Oakland Ballet Company honors 50 years of dance this spring.
Read MorePosted by Rita Felciano | May 1, 2015 | Culture |
With Lustig at the helm, the Oakland Ballet Company honors 50 years of dance this spring.
Read MorePosted by Rita Felciano | Aug 1, 2011 | Up Front |
Ever since school let out for summer, 56 underserved middle-school students have been spending their days at Cal Performances’ annual AileyCamp, learning dance and vital life skills—for free—from the pros at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. On Aug. 4, the transformed teens go public with a performance at Cal’s Zellerbach Hall.
Read MorePosted by Rita Felciano | Oct 1, 2010 | Critic's Choice |
Our quintet of culture critics recounts the past glories that underscore the vibrant local arts scene today.
Read MorePosted by Rita Felciano | Dec 1, 2006 | Up Front |
The California Revels invokes the storytelling and spirit of the holidays this year by dancing the quadrille that hails from 18th-century France and telling the story of backcountry hunters who make a deal with the devil.
Read Moreby Rita Felciano | Feature |
Hidden in the East Bay hills, the Carmelite nuns of Kensington live at the most secluded monastery in the United States.
by Rita Felciano | Feature |
by Rita Felciano | Feature |
by The Monthly Staff | Sep 22, 2021 | Faces of the East Bay, Family Care
The pandemic created the urgency for many East Bay families to set up an estate plan. Richmond Estate Planning Attorney, Sara Diamond answers questions about wills, trusts, powers of attorney and advance health care directives.
by Pam Valois | Jul 29, 2021 | Architecture, Faces of the East Bay, History
Jacomena van Huizen Maybeck’s life began in 1901 on a Javanese sugar plantation and ended ninety-five years later in her house in the Berkeley hills. I met her in 1977, as my boyfriend and I followed the rumors of a unique cottage for rent. From the time of our first...
by Nana Twumasi | Jun 1, 2019 | Faces of the East Bay, Retail
Ray Darten means for its color clothing to be worn.
by Lisa Fernandez | Apr 1, 2019 | Faces of the East Bay, Parenting
A Cal psychologist has a simple prescription for race relations.