The film, directed by Michael Jacobs, is among the opening features at the San Francisco Documentary Festival.

Fans who want to enjoy Outside Lands 2024 without the fog can once again livestream the San Francisco festival from home, thanks to a partnership with Amazon and Twitch. The three-day outdoor concert, ...

More than 200 former Great Dickens Christmas Fair participants are organizing a boycott, saying it has not done enough to address concerns from people of color.

Dede Wilsey poses for a portrait with her dog Dazzle at her home in San Francisco. Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle 2015 After 21 years as president of the board of the Fine Arts Museums of San ...

The vintage Grateful Dead T-shirt sold for a record price through auction at Sotheby’s. Photo: Sotheby's An original Grateful Dead T-shirt from 1967 sold for $17,640 through Sotheby’s on Friday, Oct.

Mal Sharpe in his barber chair at home with his collection of jazz records. Photo: Tim Maloney / The Chronicle Mal Sharpe, an inventive radio comic, pitchman and jazz man best known for his genius and ...

'The Golden Girls' didn't just talk us through social issues, it reminded us that we don't have to lose ourselves as we age.

Don Asmussen had been a cartoonist for The Chronicle since its merger in 2000 with the Hearst-owned Examiner, where he was an artist for several years earlier. Photo: Penni Gladstone / The Chronicle ...

The year 2024 will not go down in history as a particularly good one for movies. The big films disappointed, and the best films were small in scale and sometimes even small in ambition. There was, ...

Muriel Leung, author of the apocalyptic but hopeful novel, “How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster.” Photo: Muriel Leung In the early days of the COVID pandemic, author Muriel Leung ...

His appointment comes at a time when the organization must restore confidence in the continuity of its leadership — the entrance to the director’s office has been a virtual revolving door for the past ...

Attorney Brian Rohan (left) confers with members of the Grateful Dead on June 23, 1968, at their sentencing in San Francisco Superior Court for a possession of marijuana conviction. Photo: Gordon ...