As its 2023-24 season draws to a close this weekend, the San Francisco Symphony will be saying farewell to five veteran players whose years of service total more than 180. The retirements of the five ...

He also undermines listener expectations in the finale by building the musical tension to the point where you might find a spectacular cadenza, only to back off and leave just a few instruments to ...

Rapper and producer M.I.A. is introducing the “first ever street wear for the modern information era” with her new clothing line, Ohmni. The line includes pieces such as the $100 Tin Foil Hat to block ...

Stephen Curry is the latest local celebrity teaming up with the East Bay Film Collective in an effort to stimulate entertainment production opportunities. On Tuesday, June 25, the Golden State ...

Months after his three-day San Francisco residency, André 3000 is ready to head back to the Bay Area. The musician, also known as André Lauren Benjamin, is extending his “New Blue Sun” live in concert ...

“The truth is that it’s unsafe to talk about most things these days because of fear,” Johnson told the Chronicle during a joint interview with Penn at a Los Angeles hotel not far from where the two ...

The best thing that can be said for “Kinds of Kindness” is that it’s never quite boring, despite being 164 minutes long and lacking much of a story. Director Yorgos Lanthimos and co-writer Efthimis ...

Ms. Lauryn Hill and the Fugees are heading back to the Bay Area this fall to resume their co-headlining reunion tour — this time bringing one of Hill’s children along on the trek. Singer/rapper YG ...

Gere and Gabizon give us the portrait of a man who is gifted with a calm and reasonable temperament, but he confuses his temperamental reasonableness for reasonableness of thought and judgment. He ...

Datebook is the San Francisco Chronicle’s guide to Movies & TV in the Bay Area, combining award-winning news coverage with trailers and showtimes.

Winter is a season of transition, and the spirit certainly applies to the new batch of books readers can look forward to. As 2023 ends and 2024 begins, unsung and underrepresented writers are coming ...

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, ...