For as long as video games have existed, they have needed music to go along with them. Even if it was just a chirpy eight-bit earworm coming out of a first-generation console, there had to be ...

The modern fairy tale is a tricky thing, what with phones and cities and all the trappings of now that tend to suck the magic out of a story and make it impossible to suspend disbelief. But Natalia ...

Nicholas Collon makes his San Francisco Symphony debut with Edward Elgar’s “Enigma Variations,” while pianist Conrad Tao solos in Tchaikovsky. The cello section of the San Francisco Symphony. Photo: ...

Chanticleer has been performing “A Chanticleer Christmas” since 1978. It’s a signature concert for the renowned San Francisco-based men’s chorus, one that features both continuity and change. “There ...

Richard Gere looks for answers about the dead son he never knew he had in “Longing.” Photo: Lionsgate “Longing” takes strange turns and works in strange ways. It doesn’t succeed entirely, but the fact ...

At a sideshow near Lake Merritt in Oakland, two young filmmakers ask onlookers: “Do you know who Mavis Beacon is?” The woman — and that question — is at the heart of the new documentary “Seeking Mavis ...

Sara Jane Moore — who fired two shots at President Gerald R. Ford — is the subject of Robinson Devor’s documentary “Suburban Fury,” which will close Doc Stories, SFFilm announced on… Would-be ...

Reading Irish-born Claire Keegan is like succumbing to a drug: eerie, hallucinogenic, time-stopping. Her simplest sentences envelop the brain (and all the senses) in a deep, fully dimensional dream.

Mal Sharpe in his barber chair at home with his collection of jazz records. Photo: Tim Maloney / The Chronicle Mal Sharpe, an inventive radio comic, pitchman and jazz man best known for his genius and ...

The first time I tried to open “Here There Are Blueberries,” I thought my hard drive might crash. A simple PDF of a playscript should load right away, without making my laptop’s angry fan whir, I ...

Women of color who have been cast members at the Great Dickens Christmas Fair: Angel Dotts (left), LaToya Tooles, Victoria Spencer, Leandra Darden, Anastasia Elizondo and Mandy Beri. Photo: Chloe ...

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is threatened by tsunami waves unleashed by the largest magnitude earthquake ever recorded in the movie, “San Andreas.” Photo: Contributed photo If you want ...