After a well-received first run in 2024, the Fraenkel Gallery’s Fraenkel Film Festival will return to the Roxie Theater this summer. The news of the festival’s second year comes as the nonprofit seeks ...

Despite the comedic star power of Tina Fey, Will Forte and Steve Carell, the series remake of Alan Alda’s 1981 film on midlife marriage feels old and tired.

The Fair Trade USA founder’s book, “Every Purchase Matters,” explores how conscious consumer choices can create global change amid rising tariffs.

“Noises Off,” running Sept. 25-Nov. 8, opens the company’s 2025-26 lineup at its Union Square venue on the second floor of the Kensington Park Hotel. And English acknowledged that amid ongoing ...

During the pandemic, Alex Ketley — a former Lines Ballet dancer who has gone on to a boldly experimental choreography career – began a correspondence with Bill Clark, a prisoner on San Quentin’s Death ...

Robert Pattinson and Robert Pattinson star in “Mickey 17,” directed by Bong Joon Ho. Photo: Associated Press ...

The Chronicle movie critic also answers questions about favorite election films and whether Walter Matthau would have made it in 2024.

The Netflix comedy-mystery starring Ted Danson was partially filmed in San Francisco, where producers worked through filming challenges with city officials. Charles (Ted Danson) and Julie (Lilah ...

In the early days of the COVID pandemic, author Muriel Leung moved to San Francisco as she finished her Ph.D. and completed the recently released novel “How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable ...

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 ...

School Library Journal Librarian of the Year Amanda Jones came under fierce personal attack in 2022 when she spoke out against book bans.

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.