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 ...

Chanticleer has been performing “A Chanticleer Christmas” since 1978. It’s a signature concert for the renowned San Francisco-based men’s chorus, one that features both continuity and change. “There ...

Anthony Mackie, left, and Danny Boyd as single father and son in the postapocalyptic survival tale “Elevation.” Photo: Scott Garfield/Vertical “Elevation” is postapocalyptic entertainment at its most ...

Nicholas Collon makes his San Francisco Symphony debut with Edward Elgar’s “Enigma Variations,” while pianist Conrad Tao solos in Tchaikovsky. The cello section of the San Francisco Symphony. Photo: ...

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 ...

The documentary, featured at this year’s Green Film Festival in S.F., showcases Indigenous activists working to protect vital water resources. Late Honduran activist Berta Cáceres with her family in ...

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 ...

San Francisco Playhouse’s production is “inject this into my veins” funny but shambolic, as if a ouija board is in charge. Ami (Ana Ming Bostwick-Singer, center) performs at the talent show with ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Timo is leaving his old friend Mickey to die in an icy crevice on a barren planet, he says, “Nice knowing you, have a nice death” — before adding, “See you tomorrow.” Mickey (Robert Pattinson), you ...