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

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 ...

Haley Bennett stars as Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, the woman who invented Champagne as we know it, in “Widow Clicquot.” Photo: Vertical More movies should be like “Widow Clicquot” — smart, ...

A new art installation that baffled and delighted visitors to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for a few days has been removed by city officials. The sculpture, which depicted the extinct Xerces blue ...

When San Francisco’s only In-N-Out Burger restaurant at Fisherman’s Wharf was temporarily closed by the Health Department for violating the city’s indoor vaccine mandate on Oct. 14, many were ...

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 ...

Joshua Robison, husband of Michael Tilson Thomas, is a force behind the scenes, serving as manager to the San Francisco Symphony director. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle Joshua Robison ...

The expansion of the Asian Art Museum includes a new Akiko Yamazaki & Jerry Yang Pavilion, seen here in an artist’s rendering. Photo: Asian Art Museum San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum announced the ...

Water pours out of the Vaillancourt Fountain at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco. Photo: Paul Chinn / The Chronicle On a recent early-morning walk in Embarcadero Plaza, the sky was radiant. The bay ...

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 ...