Post Malone is bringing his country stylings back to the Bay Area. After delivering a special country set at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival last August, on the heels of his debut country album ...

Ellen DeGeneres has unexpectedly pulled the plug on multiple performances as part of the Ellen’s Last Stand … Up tour, including a night in San Francisco. The 66-year-old comedian and former ...

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 ...

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 ...

It conjures up exactly what it is: a belch of praise for a book, generally found on the dust jacket, to lure the reader to purchase it. I must admit to reading blurbs when deciding whether to buy a ...

In 1965, J. Paul Getty published “How to Be Rich.” He’d been named the richest living American during the previous decade; within a year, the Guinness Book of World Records would declare Getty the ...

Mikka Bonel (left) as Queen Marie and Christina Augello as Queen Marguerite rehearse for “Exit the King” at the Exit Theatre. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle 2018 The Exit Theatre — the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lyndsie Bourgon is the author of “Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods.” Photo: Stacey Krolow It’s a classic Northern California travel experience: the drive on Highway 101 north ...

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 ...

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 ...