E-40 is delivering a special performance during BottleRock Napa Valley weekend. The Vallejo musician is set to perform a special Wine Country concert as part of the festival’s AfterDark series at Jam ...

Two renowned musicians with a love of jazz and popular song come together with the San Francisco Symphony for a night of piano virtuosity. French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and American pianist and ...

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 ...

Dear Teresa Concepcion: Well, in one sense of the word “best,” I’d say the Roxie Theater, the Stanford Theatre, the Rafael Film Center and the theater inside the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...

The first feature film from director James Madigan is an action drama about havoc on a Bangkok to SFO jetliner. Unfortunately, it falls flat. Josh Hartnett stars as a man on a mission who is on a ...

Chronicle film critic emeritus Mick LaSalle also answers questions about who he thinks really got snubbed at the Oscars, “The Letter” and the late Heuwell Tircuit. “My Old Ass” is one of the films ...

Despite the comedic star power of Tina Fey, Will Forte and Steve Carell, the series remake of Alan Alda’s 1981 film on midlife marriage feels old and tired. Steve Carell, from left, Kerri Kenney, Tina ...

The new documentary “In Waves and War,” by San Francisco filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, explores healing power of psychedelic therapy. A still from “In Waves and War.” Photo: Courtesy of Bonni ...

The preposterous but pleasingly escapist “G20” imagines a Black woman as the United States president, which of course almost happened in real life a few months ago. But Viola Davis’ Danielle Sutton is ...

March Madness, the annual men’s NCAA national basketball championship tournament, is coming to the Bay Area this week. On Thursday, March 27, Chase Center will host a Sweet 16 matchup between Arkansas ...

Where does the line fall between the living and the dead? How do you know when you’re awake or dreaming? Whose presence is real, and whose is merely a figment of the imagination? These are the ...

Welcome to the boomtowns, Southwest style. Phoenix is now the fifth-largest city in the United States. The population of metro Las Vegas is nearing 3 million. The cities and their states proved their ...