Nathan Lynch’s “The Same Larry” (2019, shown here with Kari Marboe), is a handmade ceramic soaking tub that fits two. Photo: Nicholas Bruno / Nicholas Lea Bruno “I always second-guess the students ...

Cynthia Erivo took to social media to call out a fan-made “Wicked” poster that she deems is “the wildest, most offensive thing” she has ever seen. The Grammy-winning singer and Oscar-nominated actress ...

A few years ago, New York-based choreographer Miguel Gutierrez announced he was making “choreography for the end of the world.” If you’re familiar with Gutierrez’s body of intimate, riveting, ...

S. Clay Wilson’s depiction of an Irish pub appeared in the March 1994 issue of Hustler magazine. Photo: Courtesy Patrick Rosenkranz Back in the maximum-outrage years of underground comix in the 1970s, ...

A new biography, “Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?: Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag” by Craig Seligman, chronicles the contribution of drag queen Doris Fish, seen here during Mardi Gras 1987, to ...

Call it a cinematic stocking stuffer, an early holiday gift for animation lovers, or a less manic family option than that hedgehog across the way at the multiplex. However you put it, Wallace and ...

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 ...

Addressing mental health crises with humor, love and palpable honesty, “My Dead Friend Zoe” does small miracles with the ghost story format. The feature-directing debut of Bronze Star Army veteran ...

Longtime movie critic Mick LaSalle also answers questions about who invented the Chronicle’s Little Man rating system and his favorite film composers. Orson Welles (1915-1985) crafted several historic ...

Dear Juzo: It’s an awful trend, because there’s no built-in story to a video game, so the movie is at a deficit from its inception. But I don’t think you’d have to pay me much to see “The Minecraft ...

Alfred Moretti was the most dominant pop star of the ‘90s, a reclusive, technopop legend that reached David Bowie-level fame and created a cultlike following. But that was then. Now Moretti (John ...

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 ...