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Emma Silvers

San Francisco

Writer and Editor at Freelance

writer & editor for hire // [email protected] // erstwhile arts & culture editor @kqed @sfchronicle @sfweekly @sfbg (RIP)

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  • 3 weeks ago | universityofcalifornia.edu | Emma Silvers

    “I thought, OK, maybe my violin career will end here,” says Cheng. In college, she assumed, she “wouldn’t have much time to practice, or opportunities like that.” Then, as a freshman at Cal, she discovered the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, a roughly 100-year-old performance group that’s open to all students, as well as community musicians. Now, three years later, Cheng is double-majoring in music and architecture.

  • 3 weeks ago | kqed.org | Emma Silvers

    Karina Deniké and Elyse Rogers in a Polaroid circa 1998. (Debra McClinton)Karina Deniké has been in a lot of bands. The San Francisco singer has performed in dive bars and on festival stages. She’s toured Europe and Japan, has released solo records, and, for the past decade, she was a touring member of NOFX, bringing a crucial shot of feminine energy to their notoriously rowdy stage show.

  • 1 month ago | alumni.berkeley.edu | Emma Silvers

    Amber Cheng never expected music to be part of her adult life. Growing up in Taiwan, she had enjoyed childhood violin lessons, but when she applied to universities to study architecture, she assumed her instrument would fall by the wayside. “I thought, OK, maybe my violin career will end here,” says Cheng.

  • 1 month ago | kqed.org | Emma Silvers

    May 12Failed to save articlePlease try againSteve Cordero and his son Julius, 5, soak themselves in a sprinkler at Meadow Homes Park in Concord during a heat wave in 2022. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)When I was a kid growing up in the Bay Area, the word “summer” conjured endless possibilities: lazy days spent lounging at Lake Anza, bleacher seats at baseball games, massive sundaes at Fenton’s.

  • 2 months ago | kqed.org | Emma Silvers

    Failed to save articlePlease try againLaura Jane Grace, who performs with her band the Mississippi Medicals April 18 at Cornerstone in Berkeley and April 19 at the Mystic Theatre in Petaluma. It’s tough to imagine a better rock star for this moment in America than Laura Jane Grace. The founder of the seminal Florida punk band Against Me! has long been known for songwriting that blends the personal and political, as well as visceral, cathartic live shows.

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TONIGHT: Dance Hall Crashers reunite for the first time in 20 years at @GAMH. As a Berkeley kid of a certain age I've been a fan since I was 13 and last week I interviewed them for @KQEDarts. Sometimes nice things happen https://t.co/mNl0nQqiyN