If you live in California — or anywhere in the West, for that matter — fires are a constant threat, and they’re getting worse by the year. In 2021 alone, two of them, the Caldor and Dixie fires, ...

The Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble’s “Dawn Chorus” consists of 11 short instrumental works inspired by America’s national parks, including Yellowstone and Grand Teton. Photo: Innova ...

“The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown” (Knopf; 448 pages; $28.95) by Julia Flynn Siler. Photo: Knopf In the Evergreen Cemetery in East Los Angeles, ...

Benjamin Bossi’s sax solos for San Francisco new wave band Romeo Void were influenced by jazz and funk. Photo: Frank Zincavage Benjamin Bossi, the dynamic saxophonist for San Francisco new wave icons ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“Tell Me Everything” proves to be an apt title for this bighearted novel about the importance of hearing the stories — sad, wistful, heartbreaking — of ordinary people. Oh, and there’s a… “Tell Me ...

Rose Byrne was terrified to star in ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.’ This is why she did it anyway ...

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in Beethoven's Ninth at Davies Symphony Hall Photo: Stefan Cohen In his first concert as music director of the San Francisco Symphony, in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...