Plus: Exposing SF's affordable housing failures—and the cops and DA can't get all the money when the rest of the justice ...

Plus: Summer with Monica Vitti, Nicholas Meyer's SF sci-fi, a daring 'Devil Queen,' A Complete Stanley Kubrick, more movies on tap ...

“No, no, no, if San Francisco needs a new statue, send them one of me! Send the giant immigrant lady back to France! Amazon ...

On any given weekend in neighborhoods like SoMa and the Mission, clubs hosting electronic music events often draw lines stretching down the block. Inside, DJs perform to (hopefully) crowded dance ...

Venues turn to big-name touring acts and social media metrics to fill rooms, rather than risk success on up-and-comers.

It is a long-running principle of showbiz that most viewers want a happy ending—any entertainment that’s too much of a downer is unlikely to be embraced by the widest possible audience. Of course, ...

Welcome to Big Week, our weekly guide to cool things to do, put together by our expert critics and writers. SAT/6 + SUN/7: FESTA ITALIANA Absolutely one of my favorite annual events, with live music, ...

The general response to the June 2 election in San Francisco is summed up by the headline on Joe Eskenazi’s Mission Local column: “We’re all living in Daniel Lurie’s America—and most San Franciscans ...

Good Taste is a menu for eating well in the Bay Area and beyond, as this week’s look at an iconic California dish reveals! Earlier this year, I had the distinct honor and joy to usher in Tết, the ...

‘Allo, lovers of music and culture. We are Under the Stars, a quasi-weekly column that stays on message with strong-ass opinions, presenting new music releases and upcoming shows. There’s something ...

Time and Water, Sara Dosa’s new documentary opening in Bay Area theaters Fri/5, was inspired when when she read a 2019 essay in the Guardian entitled, “How do you say goodbye to a glacier?” Andri Snær ...

As a social documentarian working in analog photography, Norma I. Quintana is deeply interested in the way memory inhabits the body, faces, and places of a community. Her formal studies are reflective ...