The modern fairy tale is a tricky thing, what with phones and cities and all the trappings of now that tend to suck the magic out of a story and make it impossible to suspend disbelief. But Natalia ...

Is there a distinctive sound to the music of California? Clearly not, so long as you leave the Beach Boys out of the equation. But there may be a distinctive attitude infusing the music of the Golden ...

Like many young people before him, Kenji Yamamoto had a vision of what he wanted to be when he grew up. He dreamed of having an art career as a painter or sculptor and even attended the San Francisco ...

Robert Smith and The Cure have scheduled a 2023 U.S. tour, which will include a show at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. Photo: David Wolff-Patrick/Getty Images The Cure has announced details ...

Ferruccio Busoni’s Piano Concerto, which got a superb performance with soloist Igor Levit, is a work like no other. Esa-Pekka Salonen (left) conducts the San Francisco Symphony with pianist Igor Levit ...

Review: New 'Grinch' movie has heart, but the plot is two sizes too small ...

At a sideshow near Lake Merritt in Oakland, two young filmmakers ask onlookers: “Do you know who Mavis Beacon is?” The woman — and that question — is at the heart of the new documentary “Seeking Mavis ...

Sara Jane Moore — who fired two shots at President Gerald R. Ford — is the subject of Robinson Devor’s documentary “Suburban Fury,” which will close Doc Stories, SFFilm announced on… Would-be ...

At the opening night of Deneen Reynolds-Knott’s world premiere about Black college students, the crowd layered on its own soundtrack, to glorious effect. Sundiata Ayinde, left, and Tierra Allen in ...

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 ...

Rival British bands Blur and Oasis meet up at the Live 105 radio studios in 1994. Photo: Live 105 1994 On a recent Friday afternoon, Bay Area listeners who had their radio stations tuned to KITS 105.3 ...

Women of color who have been cast members at the Great Dickens Christmas Fair: Angel Dotts (left), LaToya Tooles, Victoria Spencer, Leandra Darden, Anastasia Elizondo and Mandy Beri. Photo: Chloe ...