Mick LaSalle also answers questions about enduringly creepy movies and the theater with the best projection in San Francisco.

Danielle St.Germain, who was most recently the executive director at the San Francisco Ballet, will join the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco as its chief philanthropy officer, the institution ...

“An Approximation of Resilience” by Alex Ketley uses dance to explore a real-life murder case and California’s justice system.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Review: Almodóvar at top of his game in ‘The Room Next Door,’ his first English-language feature Julianne Moore cares for terminally ill Tilda Swinton in the Spanish auteur’s gentle drama of ...

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 ...

The further “Back to the Future: The Musical” gets from the film, the more it succeeds. When Doc explains his time machine to Marty, a line of girls dances in, with little explosion designs on their ...