The Bay Area’s Kronos Quartet introduces its latest incarnation during a festival at the SFJazz Center with two new ...

Bernie Sanders urges Coachella attendees to oppose President Donald Trump agenda in surprise appearance at the California ...

The show reimagining Henry VIII’s six wives makes clear that the boundary between pop concert and musical theater is increasingly blurring, to salutary effect. Gaby Albo as Anne Boleyn, center, and ...

The first time Dr. Jessica Zitter, a critical care and palliative care physician at Oakland’s Highland Hospital, was asked to join in prayer around a patient’s bedside with Chaplain Betty Clark, she ...

Fallen Catholics, lifelong sybarites and those just flirting with the possibility of leaving puritanical morality behind can all take inspiration from sketch comedy this month, as the 28-year-old ...

The PBS “American Masters” documentary features Spiegelman’s equally accomplished wife, Françoise Mouly, and fellow underground comix veterans such as Robert Crumb. Art Spiegelman signs a copy of his ...

Composer and percussionist Andy Akiho curates an adventurous program partly inspired by the art of Japanese American ceramicist Jun Kaneko. Composer and percussionist Andy Akiho performed “Cylinders,” ...

The tariffs President Donald Trump has begun to set into motion over the past few weeks have led to some serious financial stress, making consumer goods more expensive and creating a volatile stock ...

Longtime movie critic Mick LaSalle also answers questions about who invented the Chronicle’s Little Man rating system and his favorite film composers. Orson Welles (1915-1985) crafted several historic ...

Harper’s journalist Joe Kloc details his decade-long quest to tell the story of Sausalito’s controversial community of renegade boat dwellers. Journalist Joe Kloc is the author of “Lost at Sea: ...

Kitamura has written a short, propulsive novel that suggests that at work and in life, we are constantly trying out roles and making it up as we go along. This cover image released by Riverhead shows ...