After a well-received first run in 2024, the Fraenkel Gallery’s Fraenkel Film Festival will return to the Roxie Theater this summer. The news of the festival’s second year comes as the nonprofit seeks ...

For most people, revisiting every handwritten note you ever received in high school might amount to a form of cruel and unusual punishment. But Oakland author and artist Briana Loewinsohn knew that ...

Robert Pattinson and Robert Pattinson star in “Mickey 17,” directed by Bong Joon Ho. Photo: Associated Press ...

When an Ethiopian American in Paris returns home for a reset, he finds only more mysteries about the immigrant experience and what we each call home.

Haley Bennett stars as Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, the woman who invented Champagne as we know it, in “Widow Clicquot.” Photo: Vertical More movies should be like “Widow Clicquot” — smart, ...

Chronicle reviewers pored over many books throughout the year from fiction to memoir, funny to sobering — here are their favorite reads of 2023 you don’t want to miss.

“Tomb Sweeping” is a canny title for Alexandra Chang’s eagerly anticipated second book. Chang, who is from San Francisco and now lives in Ventura County, uses her intriguing new short story collection ...

Vallie Brown, director of Grants for the Arts, stands among artwork at the African American Art & Culture Complex in San Francisco. Photo: Noah Berger / Special to The Chronicle 2021 When I reported ...

Rival British bands Blur and Oasis meet up at the Live 105 radio studios in 1994. Photo: Live 105 1994 On a recent Friday afternoon, Bay Area listeners who had their radio stations tuned to KITS 105.3 ...

Ruth Weiss in the 2019 film “ruth weiss: the beat goddess.” Photo: Melody C. Miller / "The Beat Goddess" In 1949, Ruth Weiss was like any poet of the postwar era, typing her verse in a basement ...

Beat poet Michael McClure is seen on his deck with sculptures by his wife, artist Amy Evans McClure, at their home in Oakland in 2010. Photo: Paul Chinn / The Chronicle 2010 Michael McClure, the young ...

A view from the windows of Galería de la Raza, which will be leaving its home of nearly 50 years. Photo: Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle Word of a growing Chicano art movement had spread to Europe by the ...