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It’s time for the weekend!

Looking for things to do in the Bay Area? Listen to KQED Arts’ Gabe Meline and Nastia Voynovskaya discuss their critic’s picks for this weekend at the audio link above, and read about each event below.

Does the Bay Area know about Lynda Benglis? Long a New York legend, her knotty, blobby, materially adventurous sculptures appear minimally in just a few local museums. SFMOMA seems to have one, as does Stanford’s Anderson Collection.

Editor's note: If you have photosensitive epilepsy, this music video features strobe lights.

More on Salmon

Trolling off the California coast, Sarah Bates leans over the side of her boat and pulls out a long, silvery fish prized by anglers and seafood lovers: wild king salmon.

Reeling in a fish “feels good every time,” but this year has been surprisingly good, said Bates, a commercial troller based in San Francisco.

She and other California fishermen are reporting one of the best salmon fishing seasons in years, thanks to heavy rain and snow that ended the state’s historic drought.

Seven environmental and animal protection groups teamed up to file the first lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s rollback of the Endangered Species Act.

Seven environmental and animal protection groups teamed up to file the first lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s rollback of the Endangered Species Act.

Following a series of mass shootings across the county, calls for more so-called red flag laws are increasing.

Such laws allow police or family members to request a person’s guns be confiscated if that person poses a threat to themselves or others. California already has a red flag law, known as a the Gun Violence Restraining Order. But experts say it’s being underused, sometimes with tragic results.

Essayist Margaret Renkl writes about what she calls "backyard nature," which, to those of us who live in crowded cities, might call to mind creatures to trap or squash, like rats, squirrels, mice and water bugs. Renkl, however, grew up in Alabama and now lives in Tennessee, so her catalog of all creatures great and small is, at once, more expansive and accepting, and includes chickadees, red-tailed hawks, rat snakes, rattle snakes and crawdads.

California Reacts to New Rules for Detained Migrant Children

California elected officials and immigration activists react with shock and outrage to the Trump Administration’s plan to not follow a court decision that prevented migrant children from being held in detention centers for long periods of time.Reporter: Tyche Hendricks

Feds Eye Inland Empire for Major New Site to House Unaccompanied Migrant Children

After her deal with Atlantic Records didn’t pan out, Netta Brielle found herself back in Northern California asking, “What am I going to do now?”

The East Bay singer-songwriter had to figure out how to pull herself up from what she saw as a position of failure. Her remedy for that dip in self-confidence? Getting active behind the scenes, making vision boards, playing the flute and even acting in movies. Now we’re about to see the fruits of her labor.

Teachers in San Francisco’s hardest-to-staff schools began the school year with news of a much-welcomed bonus.

California has the second-largest number of small communities with limited evacuation routes when compared to other states, according to a new nationwide analysis of towns with populations under 40,000.

More on ICE

The lunch rush is over at a popular, cozy restaurant in a city somewhere in Missouri. The owner, Lynn, is sipping a glass of pinot grigio as her cooking crew cleans up.

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All right. In recent months, the press has been digging into news about the late Jeffrey Epstein - his powerful friends and the allegations that he sexually exploited dozens of underage girls. For years, the media had paid only intermittent attention to the Epstein story until an investigative series last year in the Miami Herald. NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik's story might help explain why. It includes an early-morning visit, a bullet and a dead cat.

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Ever had your late night revels ended abruptly by the bartender announcing last call just before 2 a.m. here in the Bay Area?

If this strikes a chord, you’re not alone.

California’s 2 a.m. last call frustrates a lot of people. KQED listener Tara Downey even gets a little embarrassed by it when out-of-town friends visit.

KQED listener Tara Downey even gets a little embarrassed by the 2 a.m. last call.

Ever had your late-night revels ended abruptly by the bartender announcing last call just before 2 a.m. here in the Bay Area?

If this strikes a chord, you’re not alone: