Filmmaker Denise Zmekhol, in her production office in Berkeley on Tuesday, Feb. 11. Zmekhol’s documentary “Skin of Glass” is about a building designed by her father in Brazil that is considered a ...

As the lineups and feel of major music festivals across the U.S. become increasingly homogenized, the wildly eclectic offerings of Mosswood Meltdown stand out. Taking over Oakland’s modest Mosswood ...

“On the surface, the collection is about a world that’s different from our own, in terms of the details of the technologies and natural disasters that (Felicelli) writes about,” Vara said in an email ...

The enigmatically titled Icelandic film “Touch” is about two different types of men: one an elderly widower who is tying up some loose ends, the other a young man on a journey of self-discovery. They ...

The two-disc vinyl LP was the first soundtrack that I ever bought. I wasn’t the only one; it sold more than a million copies, not only because of the massive popularity of the film, but because Lucas ...

Luis Cortes Romero made history in 2019 when he argued at the Supreme Court in support of DACA, the so-called “dreamers” immigration program. The Redwood City-raised attorney became the first ...

As with any Word for Word show, phrases you’d assume would be deadly onstage — “he said,” say — are instead springboards for imagination. As the Old Woman, Hunt blurts out the “Trees!” she sees out ...

For those who’ve never seen a “Hunger Games” movie, the games are a fight to the death among more than 20 young contestants, who are all thrown into an arena with some weapons and told to kill each ...

You’ll notice “Wicked” does not rely on the quick cuts and digitally enhanced or downplayed vocals of those other movies. “Wicked” shows big groups of people, including the lead actors, dancing in ...

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In adapting and directing the script for Marin Shakespeare Company, where I saw the show Friday, July, 5, Domenique Lozano makes men account for their wrongs. If her approach succeeds only ...

The Shamshine Blind By Paz Pardo (Atria; 320 pages; $28) Paz Pardo’s debut novel is an inventive blend of science fiction, hard-boiled detective yarn, and will-they-or-won’t-they relationship drama in ...