From the Bay Area and beyond, this roundup of fall reading captures the latest from an Oakland cartoonist, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a tech industry expert and more. A stacked fall season for readers ...

The Berkeley shape-shifter’s latest album, “Mahal,” is an exploration of sounds inspired by 1960s and ’70s global psychedelic funk and soul. “The Loop” is as groovy of a song as you’ll hear this year ...

Calling all opera queens: San Francisco Opera is hosting its first ever Pride Concert. The celebration features the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim and Robert ...

From Alexandra Chang’s “Days of Distraction,” which chronicles the coming-of-age of a young Asian American tech journalist, to former Instagram employee Josh Reidel’s “Please Report Your Bug Here,” ...

Beautiful books make classic gifts for a good reason. What better way to show you understand what delights, inspires or just plain occupies the minds of your loved ones than giving them a thoughtful ...

Wildfires, floods and rising seas are giving Americans a foreshadowing of what is to come, the author of a new book about the environment says — disruptions on a near biblical scale. In “The Great ...

Nathan Marken as Winnie (left), Jeff Manabat as Trixie, J.B. McLendon as Angel and Spencer Brown as Trampolina in New Conservatory Theatre Center’s “Oy Vey in a Manger.” Photo: Lois Tema / New ...

Linda Gordon’s latest book, “Seven Social Movements That Changed America,” examines seven pivotal social movements, including the Montgomery bus boycott and the California farmworkers’… Historian ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Post Malone, Lizzo, Duran Duran, Lil Nas X and the Smashing Pumpkins are slated to headline the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival, Live Nation and Latitude 38 Entertainment ...

In ‘The Book of Love,’ Kelly Link harnesses the surreal and the everyday in a tale of three teenagers learning to wield magic. “Book of Love” by Kelly Link. Photo: Random House Three teens have come ...

When you pick up a Bryan Washington novel, it’s best to know what you’re getting into. What you can expect right off the bat: graphic sex with acquaintances, partners and strangers (and then more of ...

Over the past 20 years, the SFJazz Collective has mined the jazz canon for inspiration, interpreting the music of the masters with each band member also writing an original tune for the ensemble. Now ...