The Oakland Symphony’s first concert under Music Director Kedrick Armstrong spotlights the unsung efforts of a Bay Area ...

Bay Area filmmaker and artist Mabel Valdiviezo makes a soul-stirring journey to reunite with her family in Peru after 16 years of estrangement in “Prodigal Daughter,” the perfect opening night film ...

Carolina (Anelisa Armijo Montoya) doesn’t have papers, but in “Por la Noche,” all she wants is to get inside the border patrol office. In “Karen vs. Hell,” Karen (Annie Dick) is about to head out from ...

Wanxin Zhang, third from right, with his sculptures at the Catherine Clark Gallery during FOG Design+Art at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Photo: Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle After a decade of ...

Actor Christopher Reeves’ children, Matthew Reeve, left, Alexandra Reeve Givens and Will Reeve, attend the premiere of “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ...

Jason Reitman’s tale of the first episode of “Saturday Night Live” in 1975 is chaos, but wins you over. Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle, left), Jacqueline Carlin (Kaia Gerber) and her future husband ...

Cate Blanchett’s and director Alfonso Cuarón’s gorgeous AppleTV+ limited series looks profound but ends up a dressed-up potboiler. Cate Blanchett as Catherine Ravenscroft and Sacha Baron Cohen as ...

The publication of a little-known manuscript by chief Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter this fall is a find like no other to date, according to the Bay Area band’s official historian. “The Silver ...

Kina Kantor as Julia, left, and Emily Newsome as Jane in Aurora Theatre Company's "Fallen Angels." Photo: Scot Goodman / Aurora Theatre Company Julia (Kina Kantor) insists that she’s happy in the way ...

Elisheva Biernoff, "Fragment," 2024. Acrylic on plywood, painted both sides; painted acrylic background in painted oak frame, ceramic and metal pin 4 x 5-3/4 x 1/32 ...

A scene from Alrik Bursell's short film "Cake," which screens as part of the "Connections" short film block at the 2024 Albany Film Festival, held at the Rialto Cerrito on Oct. 10, 12 and 13. Photo: ...

Emanuel Morales as Officer Mann, left, and Anelisa Armijo Montoya as Carolina in Awesome Theatre's "Terror-Rama V: The Last Final Chapter!" Photo: Colin Johnson / Awesome Theatre Carolina (Anelisa ...