How should we spend our time while sheltering in place? For artists, it’s obvious. Through live-streamed performances, virtual story times, cooking demonstrations and other projects, Bay Area ...

Since the dawn of domesticity, rugs and carpets have been essential for both warmth and protection and creating a sense of home in a space. More than just utility or decor, the history of the rug is ...

Unlike any work of its kind, Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” has resonated with readers around the nation, selling more than 2 million copies since it was published in 1980. It ...

Fandom can sometimes cross into worship and obsession. That is the subject of the documentary, “The Faithful: The King, the Pope, the Princess,” by Annie Berman. Made over the course of 20 years, it ...

When Kathryn Seabron encounters a racist, she responds in a way that takes away that person’s power. “Who hurt you?” she rhetorically asks an author of anti-Black pseudoscience in “Angry Black Woman ...

Orson Welles called “The Baker’s Wife,” the charming 1938 classic by Marcel Pagnol, a perfect film. Fable-like in structure and very French in its acceptance and forgiveness of human frailty, it’s the ...

Commemorate San Francisco Heritage and its mission to preserve and enhance the city’s unique architectural and cultural identities during its 50th anniversary gala event— “A Night Celebrating ...

The title of the new Peninsula International Dance Festival highlights the riches of the Bay Area: the companies are mostly local, but they represent the cultures of 11 different countries, ranging ...

June marks the 70th anniversary of “Ace in the Hole,” a cynical 1951 Billy Wilder film. That length of time is pretty remarkable when you consider how much of what this movie talks about is still ...

Felix Mendelssohn gets all the attention, but he was just one of two musical geniuses in his family. His elder sister Fanny was also a gifted pianist and composer, perhaps even equal to her brother’s ...

Megan Thee Stallion is bringing her Hot Girl Summer Tour to Chase Center, letting Bay Area hotties ring in the sunny season. Last year, the Grammy Award-winning artist headlined the Outside Lands ...

Sam Jay was discovered at Montreal’s Just for Laughs comedy festival nearly 10 years ago. She performed a stand-up set for a crowd that happened to include a few “Saturday Night Live” producers, who ...