The orchestra’s former music director leads a program of Schubert and Brahms with grace, if occasional shakiness.

Personal remembrances, emotional reunions and unseen footage mark this effort as the 50th anniversary of the war’s end approaches. U.S. Marine Jeff Hiers in “Vietnam: The War That Changed America,” ...

Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon come from two very different comedy worlds. Ferrell is slapstick, over-the-top silliness and pop culture irony; Witherspoon is classic rom-com, sweetness with ...

Brittany Newell, San Francisco author and professional dominatrix whose new book, “Soft Core” comes out Feb. 4th, poses for a portrait in the upstairs office at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge in the Tenderloin ...

Roots musician Taj Mahal will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards this year. Photo: Courtesy Taj Mahal Taj Mahal wasn’t shocked to get the news that the Recording ...

Ali Benjamin, whose bestselling novel “The Thing About Jellyfish” has been adapted into a new play at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, knows it can be easy to misinterpret a young person’s silence. Her ...

In the late 1990s, Lauren Francis-Sharma attended the Truth and Reconciliation Commission amnesty hearings when she briefly lived in Johannesburg while attending law school. The hearings were set up ...

Katy Perry is hitting the road for the first time since 2018, and fans will only get one night to catch her comeback in the ...

The MacArthur Fellowship genius grant recipient draws on her deep knowledge of jazz, gospel and more for the orchestra’s experimental concert series. Composer and pianist Courtney Bryan is curating ...

From “Fallout” to “Sweet Tooth” and assorted incarnations of “The Walking Dead,” postapocalyptic TV series are like a drug on the market. Paranoid political thrillers are too, as this month’s drops of ...