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 ...

Mal Sharpe in his barber chair at home with his collection of jazz records. Photo: Tim Maloney / The Chronicle Mal Sharpe, an inventive radio comic, pitchman and jazz man best known for his genius and ...

“The Golden Girls” — Rose (Betty White, left), Dorothy (Bea Arthur), Sophia (Estelle Getty) and Blanche (Rue McClanahan) — was a hit with its biting humor and its heartfelt depiction of female ...

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, ...

The first time I tried to open “Here There Are Blueberries,” I thought my hard drive might crash. A simple PDF of a playscript should load right away, without making my laptop’s angry fan whir, I ...

A London party girl returns to her Scottish homeland, where fresh trauma awaits, in an effort to get sober in “The Outrun,” a predictable yet solid drama anchored by a typically outstanding ...

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 ...

As your doctor, I recommend you take in “The Empusium” with an open mind and a stiff pour of psychedelics. This prescription will help you keep up with the novel’s characters, a gaggle of sanatorium ...