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

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

With the show’s cast all deceased, “Murder By Cheesecake: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery” is an especially pleasant way to have “the girls” back again. Left to right: American actresses Rue McClanahan, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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,” ...