The Alexander String Quartet says that the challenges of sustaining a career in the Bay Area led to the decision to part ways ...

Fans dressed as their favorite characters from Chris Columbus’ films as they competed for memorabilia signed by the director.

With plant chemistry and passion for the environment, Oakland photographer Beatrice Thornton creates sustainable images ...

The Bay Area’s Kronos Quartet introduces its latest incarnation during a festival at the SFJazz Center with two new ...

Bonnie Tsui’s latest book is mosaiclike in its exploration of muscles and how they shape ideas on beauty and power. Berkeley author Bonnie Tsui’s latest book “On Muscle” is mosaiclike in its ...

The new documentary “In Waves and War,” by San Francisco filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, explores healing power of psychedelic therapy. A still from “In Waves and War.” Photo: Courtesy of Bonni ...

Late Honduran activist Berta Cáceres with her family in "Water for Life," which makes its broadcast premiere on PBS on Monday, April 21. Photo: Tim Russo/Goldman Environmental Prize Just in time for ...

Dear Juzo: It’s an awful trend, because there’s no built-in story to a video game, so the movie is at a deficit from its inception. But I don’t think you’d have to pay me much to see “The Minecraft ...

“The Legend of Ochi,” a scrappy and darkly whimsical fable about a misunderstood teenage girl on a dangerous quest, has the feeling of a film you might have stumbled on and loved as a kid. Something ...

The U.S. premiere of the courtroom drama blends historical testimony, modern elements and feminist themes of revenge with mixed success. Maggie Mason, center, accompanied by Alicia M.P. Nelson, from ...

Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into ...

“On Swift Horses” is about two people searching for their own unique destiny in the post-Korean War United States, and another who buys into the American dream of the 1950s. Lee and Julius, products ...