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

Bernie Sanders urges Coachella attendees to oppose President Donald Trump agenda in surprise appearance at the California ...

American Factory,” “Nomadland,” “A Face in the Crowd” and more tell stories that can help us make sense of Trump’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s one thing to be a little bit nuts, but to be a little bit nuts in the exact same way for 50 years — that’s worthy of respect. At this point, it’s clear that David Cronenberg has not been trying ...

“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 ...

Muscles fit together to form an exquisite mosaic within every human body. At least, that’s the impression readers may come away with after reading Berkeley author Bonnie Tsui’s “On Muscle: The Stuff ...

The PBS “American Masters” documentary features Spiegelman’s equally accomplished wife, Françoise Mouly, and fellow underground comix veterans such as Robert Crumb. Art Spiegelman signs a copy of his ...

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 ...