During a December 3, 1965 concert, a stunned audience at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium hears a loud pop and sees an eruption of blue sparks as…
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Stories about the arts in California
The first gurdwara serving the Sikh community in the United States and Canada is founded in 1912 on South Grand Street in Stockton. For 55…
Comments closedDorothea Nutzhorn is born on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey to Heinrich Nutzhorn, a lawyer, and Johanna Lange Nutzhorn. At age seven, Dorothea…
Comments closedOn January 21, 1913, the Oakland YWCA announces that the city’s own Julia Morgan — the most accomplished woman architect in the country — is…
Comments closedIn 1940, the Treasury Department holds a contest to choose an artist to paint a series of murals for the lobby of the Rincon Annex…
Comments closedPhyllis Diller, 37, mother of five, former San Leandro News-Observer shopping columnist, gets her first stand-up comedy gig at San Francisco’s Purple Onion on March…
Comments closedHer Indian name, or at least one of her Indian names, the only one any of us know, is Tsupu. She is my great-great-grandfather’s mother, or…
Comments closedInspiration comes to Malvina Reynolds as she drives through a Daly City housing development in 1962. Her song, “Little Boxes,” a satire on conformity, becomes…
Comments closedFor nearly 90 years, as a city and a world have change utterly around it, the famed hotel Chateau Marmont, perched above a famous road…
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