Plus: Hitchcock Fest hits the Balboa, while Alamo Drafthouse celebrates Brian De Palma's Hitchcockian breakthroughs.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch' at NCTC cranks things up and down. Plus: The colorful drama of SFMOMA's 'Woman in a hat' ...

Emerging Black Composers Project-winner brings 'Embers' to Davies Hall, pushing a marginalized horn to center stage.

AI may not help the Bay Area, but dozens of lawsuits against AI lords could create a wonderful spectator sport for us all.

The life-changing program that has attracted national attention is facing a devastating budget cut—in defiance of the will of ...

All-star tribute 'Unlimited Miles' at Presidio Theatre voyaged through five decades of the jazz giant's astonishments.

'The excitement of improvisation was palpable, and the joy of being onstage together was addictive,' co-founder says of early years. From the very beginning, it’s been a wild flight into the unknown ...

Regal San Francisco party queen La Doña —student, teacher, and preservationist of Latinx traditional music like corrido, bolero, cumbia, and mariachi—brought songs from her new album Corriente s to UC ...

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It takes an incredible amount of guts, drive, and fortitude to run a neighborhood newspaper in this day and age, let alone two. When it was announced over the weekend that Michael Durand—editor and ...

An idea percolating for decades in author Kate Schatz’s mind came to fruition in March with the release of her debut novel, Where the Girls Were (The Dial Press). The Bay Area-based, New York ...

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