This imaginary friend fantasy, co-starring Ryan Reynolds, is too unfocused on  making an emotional connection.

Maupin first left San Francisco in June 2012, just a couple years before his last “Tales” book was published, for Santa Fe ...

That’s basically the plot of “The Towering Inferno,” the 1974 movie where Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway and a ...

Miranda July knows that despite her latest novel, “All Fours,” being labeled a work of fiction, many of her readers are likely to assume that her unnamed narrator — an eccentric, semi-famous Los ...

Tom (Jomar Tagatac), Jim (William Thomas Hodgson) and Amanda (Susi Damilano) toast in San Francisco Playhouse’s “The Glass Menagerie.” Photo: Jessica Palopoli/San Francisco Playhouse Crack open “The ...

Straight from the tortured poet’s department, Taylor Swift has brought her new Oakland-produced song “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” to the Eras Tour. The star kicked off the European leg of her ...

Like “Chinatown” with no stakes or “The Big Lebowski” minus the laughs, “Poolman” is a neo-noir comedy that shares just one quality with its superior influences: a palpable love for Los Angeles in all ...

In her latest novel, “Exhibit,” San Francisco author R.O. Kwon examines how kink and queerness can upend the lives of Korean American women. San Francisco author R.O. Kwon, whose new book “Exhibit” ...

Early in her memoir, musician and activist Kathleen Hanna attributes the time she spat a mouthful of Frosted Flakes into her father’s face as her “first act” of performance art. Created in response to ...

The first thing you see when you open “Another Word for Love” is an arresting color photograph of a 7-year-old Carvell Wallace wearing a plaid shirt and sharp vest common among well-dressed kids in ...