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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On board the Demeter, the vampire Count Orlok, played by German actor Max Schreck (1879 - 1936), emerges from one of his coffins before they can be destroyed by the ship's first mate, played by ...