Oakland saxophonist Howard Wiley is ready to celebrate California’s soul-powered musical legacy with the “Love, Kale, Pride & Revolution – California Love Series Part II” concert at the SFJazz Center ...

Paul Reubens in a scene from “Pee-wee as Himself,” a two-part documentary that premieres Friday, May 23, on HBO and HBO Max. Photo: Getty/HBO Looking directly into the camera, telling more of his life ...

Dear Robert Freud Bastin: I never really met Gene Hackman, but I was at a press conference where he was getting interviewed, and I was close to him and saw how he spoke to people and carried himself.

The six-legged alien Stitch from “Lilo & Stitch” doesn’t choose to be bad. He’s just genetically programed that way. Kind of like the way Disney is apparently programmed these days to strip mine its ...

The world premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s “Before We Fall” positively overwhelms in a concert featuring cellist Johannes Moser and conductor Dalia Stasevska. Conductor Dalia Stasevska leads the San ...

Cringe comedy is apparently here to stay, and the latest example is “Friendship.” The film highlights the talents of sketch comic Tim Robinson, a Second City and “Saturday Night Live” alum. If you’re ...

The new movie from the Philippou twins is a psychologically twisted example of the trapped-in-a-house horror subgenre. Sally Hawkins, right, and Jonah Wren Phillips star in the Australian horror film ...

Ambrose Akinmusire and Alonzo King partner for “The Beauty of Dissolving Portraits,” which captures the struggle for connection in a fractured world. Theo Duff-Grant performs in “The Beauty of ...

Buttons aren’t just utilitarian fasteners. Plunge your hand into a bucket of them, and it’s like a mini swim in a ball pit. They click and clack with ASMR satisfaction. And in artist Beau McCall’s ...

Jia Zhang-ke’s “Caught by the Tides” is less than two hours long and yet contains nearly a quarter-century of time’s relentless march forward. Few films course with history the way it does in the ...

Chasten Buttigieg, the author of "Papa's Coming Home," will be in conversation with author Dave Eggers on Tuesday, May 27, at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park. Photo: Carina Teoh New York Times ...

DHH (Ben Chau-Chiu) is a leading voice in Asian American theater, both for his Broadway-caliber playwriting and his outspoken advocacy against “yellow face,” the practice whereby white actors play ...