“Sirens” seems to want to satirize “The White Lotus” and its growing number of copycat shows. That’s not an easy feat, since Mike White already builds a great deal of sophisticated self-mockery and ...

As an action movie director, Guy Ritchie is better than he used to be, because he no longer calls attention to himself in silly ways. In “Fountain of Youth,” he shows himself capable of delivering ...

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

Alison Bechdel’s latest book is “Spent,” a comic novel examining money, privilege and late-stage capitalism. Photo: Courtesy of Alison Bechdel In one of many funny scenes in Alison Bechdel’s new comic ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rachel Chinouriri’s rise to fame has been seven years in the making. The British Zimbabwean singer-songwriter released her debut single in 2018 and spent the subsequent years making music and trying ...

Joshua-Morris Williams, left, and Vaughn Easterday in Inferno Theatre's "Twelfth Night." If you find Shakespeare inaccessible and off-putting, consider the fine art of translation. What if “what the ...

Jake Shane’s skyrocketing social media career began with an octopus review account. In 2021, the comic started an Instagram account to rate different octopus that he has tried, eventually making a ...