Under the baton of Eun Sun Kim, the San Francisco Opera Orchestra is rehearsing with the epic scope of Richard Wagner’s music in mind. Anja Kampe as Isolde, left, and Annika Schlicht as Brangane ...

Private investigator Charlie Rapp (Adam KuveNiemann) samples some cake offered by Truly (Rachel Clausen) in “Yaga” at Marin Theatre. Photo: David Allen/Marin Theatre “Do you have a rash?,” people keep ...

Beat poet Michael McClure is seen on his deck with sculptures by his wife, artist Amy Evans McClure, at their home in Oakland in 2010. Photo: Paul Chinn / The Chronicle 2010 Michael McClure, the young ...

Brittany Newell, the San Francisco author and professional dominatrix whose new book, “Soft Core,” came out Feb. 4, poses for a portrait in the upstairs office at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge in the ...

For years, you’ve seen them featured in murals, pasted on boarded storefronts, and in the windows of homes and businesses: images of bear-shaped bottles of honey in an array of guises like ballerina ...

Part memoir, parts homage to the desert, political screed, and, yes, an instructional manual on how to make albondigas de la Familia Ronstadt, it even comes with its own musical soundtrack, “Feels ...

After more than a decade of keeping his personal life private, Chaz Bear is ready to let the world know who he is. On his latest album as Toro y Moi — the most recognizable of his many musical alter ...

Patrick Dooley is a bit sheepish acknowledging that his theater’s doing well. “That feels a little bit uncool to say that — like, ‘Shut up, man!,’” he told the Chronicle. In surveying the South ...

In the late 1990s, Lauren Francis-Sharma attended the Truth and Reconciliation Commission amnesty hearings when she briefly lived in Johannesburg while attending law school. The hearings were set up ...

The In-N-Out hamburger chain is sizzling mad after San Francisco shut down its indoor dining for refusing to check customers’ vaccination status. Photo: Adam Lau / Associated Press When San ...

‘Black Phone 2’ review: Ethan Hawke is scarier than ever in this haunting Blumhouse sequel ...

The Embarcadero Center Cinema as seen on the eve of its final day of operation, Thursday, Feb. 3. Photo: Courtesy Marco Cerritos Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema, San Francisco’s hub for first-run ...