Bay Area filmmaker and artist Mabel Valdiviezo makes a soul-stirring journey to reunite with her family in Peru after 16 years of estrangement in “Prodigal Daughter,” the perfect opening night film ...

Wanxin Zhang, third from right, with his sculptures at the Catherine Clark Gallery during FOG Design+Art at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Photo: Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle After a decade of ...

Actor Christopher Reeves’ children, Matthew Reeve, left, Alexandra Reeve Givens and Will Reeve, attend the premiere of “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ...

Jason Reitman’s tale of the first episode of “Saturday Night Live” in 1975 is chaos, but wins you over. Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle, left), Jacqueline Carlin (Kaia Gerber) and her future husband ...

Cate Blanchett’s and director Alfonso Cuarón’s gorgeous AppleTV+ limited series looks profound but ends up a dressed-up potboiler. Cate Blanchett as Catherine Ravenscroft and Sacha Baron Cohen as ...

The publication of a little-known manuscript by chief Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter this fall is a find like no other to date, according to the Bay Area band’s official historian. “The Silver ...

Elisheva Biernoff, "Fragment," 2024. Acrylic on plywood, painted both sides; painted acrylic background in painted oak frame, ceramic and metal pin 4 x 5-3/4 x 1/32 ...

Kina Kantor as Julia, left, and Emily Newsome as Jane in Aurora Theatre Company's "Fallen Angels." Photo: Scot Goodman / Aurora Theatre Company Julia (Kina Kantor) insists that she’s happy in the way ...

A scene from Alrik Bursell's short film "Cake," which screens as part of the "Connections" short film block at the 2024 Albany Film Festival, held at the Rialto Cerrito on Oct. 10, 12 and 13. Photo: ...

Emanuel Morales as Officer Mann, left, and Anelisa Armijo Montoya as Carolina in Awesome Theatre's "Terror-Rama V: The Last Final Chapter!" Photo: Colin Johnson / Awesome Theatre Carolina (Anelisa ...

The “Fight Club” author discusses his latest novel, “Shock Induction,” and why 11 pages is the perfect short story length. “Fight Club” author Chuck Palahniuk is out with a new book, “Shock Induction, ...

“Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie” charts a life of cultural curiosity with the likes of Susan Sontag, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and more. “Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, ...