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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Armistead Maupin at his former home in San Francisco in 2017. Photo: Paul Chinn/The Chronicle “I still believe San Francisco is the greatest city in the world,” Armistead Maupin tells the Chronicle ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bay Area author Betty Shamieh with a copy of her first novel, “Too Soon,” in her home workspace in Santa Clara. Photo: Lea Suzuki/The Chronicle If you’re at all involved in the theater scene, you may ...

German actor Max Schreck plays Count Orlok, an unofficial Dracula copy, in F.W. Murnau's 1922 horror classic, "Nosferatu." Photo: Cinequest Robert Eggers’ remake of “Nosferatu” is an atmospheric ...