In an era of emergency fundraising campaigns and sudden closures, it’s noteworthy to remain a pillar of the theater community, as Shotgun Players has.

Chronicle movie critic emeritus Mick LaSalle also discusses dark cinematography and the proper response when someone tells you about their favorite movies.

Bob Dylan’s songbook contains more than enough drama to power a hundred novels or screenplays. Yet, despite bristling with thwarted characters, ripe narrative fragments and devastatingly emotional ...

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.

When an Ethiopian American in Paris returns home for a reset, he finds only more mysteries about the immigrant experience and what we each call home.

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 ...

Set in Maine, Elizabeth Strout’s “Tell Me Everything” is a generous, compassionate novel about the human need for connection, understanding and love, and the damage that occurs when those things are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barbara Slone at City Lights Bookstore’s celebration of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 100th birthday March 24. Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle It’s estimated that roughly 250,000 new books are ...

Keith Rosson’s “Fever House” adds a literary sensibility to catastrophic violence among tough guys in Oregon.

Camille Craft arranges items at her booth, Vital Mystics, in the Magical Marketplace at the second Modern Witches Confluence in San Francisco on Sunday. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle ...