The little flashes of light that pop up onscreen in the opening moments of the San Francisco Symphony’s enchanting staged production of “L’enfant et les sortilèges” are the first harbingers of the ...

Nathan Lynch’s “The Same Larry” (2019, shown here with Kari Marboe), is a handmade ceramic soaking tub that fits two. Photo: Nicholas Bruno / Nicholas Lea Bruno “I always second-guess the students ...

Cynthia Erivo took to social media to call out a fan-made “Wicked” poster that she deems is “the wildest, most offensive thing” she has ever seen. The Grammy-winning singer and Oscar-nominated actress ...

S. Clay Wilson’s depiction of an Irish pub appeared in the March 1994 issue of Hustler magazine. Photo: Courtesy Patrick Rosenkranz Back in the maximum-outrage years of underground comix in the 1970s, ...

A new biography, “Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?: Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag” by Craig Seligman, chronicles the contribution of drag queen Doris Fish, seen here during Mardi Gras 1987, to ...

“The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,” an anime prequel to the beloved film trilogy, is a visually lush diversion crafted with undeniable care. It’s also a profoundly cynical example of so ...

Beautiful books make classic gifts for a good reason. What better way to show you understand what delights, inspires or just plain occupies the minds of your loved ones than giving them a thoughtful ...

In 2022, School Library Journal Librarian of the Year Amanda Jones was living what she considered to be her best life. At 44, she was happily married, had a teenage daughter with whom she was close, ...

Longtime movie critic Mick LaSalle also answers questions about who invented the Chronicle’s Little Man rating system and his favorite film composers. Orson Welles (1915-1985) crafted several historic ...

Welcome to the boomtowns, Southwest style. Phoenix is now the fifth-largest city in the United States. The population of metro Las Vegas is nearing 3 million. The cities and their states proved their ...

Jharrel Jerome, left, stars as one-legged wrestler Anthony Robles and Jennifer Lopez as his supportive mother in the Prime Video movie “Unstoppable.” Photo: Ana Carballosa/Associated Press ...

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 ...