The Fair Trade USA founder’s book, “Every Purchase Matters,” explores how conscious consumer choices can create global change amid rising tariffs. Paul Rice is the author of “Every Purchase Matters: ...

Dede Wilsey poses for a portrait with her dog Dazzle at her home in San Francisco. Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle 2015 After 21 years as president of the board of the Fine Arts Museums of San ...

Back in the early 1970s, San Francisco photographer Michael Jang had a Chronicle press pass. And one from Rolling Stone. And one from the New York Times. None of them were real. In that analog era, he ...

The year 2024 will not go down in history as a particularly good one for movies. The big films disappointed, and the best films were small in scale and sometimes even small in ambition. There was, ...

Women of color who have been cast members at the Great Dickens Christmas Fair: Angel Dotts (left), LaToya Tooles, Victoria Spencer, Leandra Darden, Anastasia Elizondo and Mandy Beri. Photo: Chloe ...

The four-part series, which will chronicle the team’s Super Bowl-winning glory years, is set to premiere on AMC and AMC+ in 2026. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana and head coach Bill Walsh, ...

The vintage Grateful Dead T-shirt sold for a record price through auction at Sotheby’s. Photo: Sotheby's After expenses and fees, auction winner Bo Bushnell paid a total of $19,315.80 for the Grateful ...

In 2019, “Disappearing Earth” — Julia Phillips’ haunting, suspenseful debut about two young sisters who get kidnapped on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East — was a finalist for the ...

Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas basks in audience applause conducting the San Francisco Symphony in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. Photo: Jana Asenbrennerova/Special to the Chronicle Sometimes ...

It’s not just the conservative billionaire’s lavish, undisclosed gifts to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas that are offensive; his Nazi paraphernalia and Harry Potter vacation cottage also… ...

In 2022, School Library Journal Librarian of the Year Amanda Jones was living what she considered to be her best life. At 44, she was happily married, had a teenage daughter with whom she was close, ...

“Don’t Look Up” might be the funniest movie of 2021. It’s the most depressing too, and that odd combination makes for a one-of-a-kind experience. Writer-director Adam McKay gives you over two hours of ...