Viral Sensation Kawehi on Robots, Trolls and Life Online
Event Information Kawehi Wildly creative Hawaiian-born viral songwriter. Feb. 23, 2015 The Catalyst Details and tickets It’s all the rage these days — peering into the digital void and shuddering....
View ArticleMick Jenkins and Chicago’s New Hip-Hop Junior Class
Event Information Mick Jenkins Chicago’s new breed visits Oakland. Feb. 27, 2015 Leo’s Music Club Details and tickets A line from Mick Jenkins’ latest mixtape The Water[s] captures the Chicago...
View ArticleReassessing Janis Ian: 1970s Folk Icon, Modern-Day Sci-Fi Queen
You probably know Janis Ian from her five-decade folk legacy — not from her short stories about spirit possession and intergalactic sex spies. But Ian, the singer and songwriter behind the 1975...
View ArticleA Transgender Mission on the Bilingual Airwaves
When Kaiya Kramer, host of The Queer Life radio show on KBBF-FM, uses the word “awesome,” she actually means it. “I am in awe,” she tells on-air guest Shanna Butler, referring to the Sonoma County...
View ArticlePetaluma Arts Center Displays a Different Side of Degas
When a colleague first suggested the Petaluma Arts Center host the works of Edgar Degas, the museum’s executive director Val Richman didn’t take him seriously. “I just laughed,” she recalls. She told...
View Article‘Spotify for Libraries’: Public Libraries Edge Toward Music Streaming Services
As more people stream and fewer buy, Netflix-like subscriptions look like the reasonable bet for tomorrow’s music marketplace — a way for suppliers to mimic Spotify without going the freemium route....
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