The longtime journalist’s book focuses on the lives of Rita and Tyson, two homeless people in the Tenderloin whom he encounters in his reporting.

The orchestra approaches Mahler’s Seventh Symphony with admirable risk and excitement, if not the polish of performances ...

The bizarrely Valentine’s Day-themed action comedy “Love Hurts” has no business being as good as it is. It’s a trifle, with a barely functional script, and yet it is filled with appealing performances ...

San Francisco Playhouse’s production is “inject this into my veins” funny but shambolic, as if a ouija board is in charge. Ami (Ana Ming Bostwick-Singer, center) performs at the talent show with ...

Paolo Sorrentino’s latest film focuses on a beautiful anthropology student who becomes little more than an empty muse for the director. Celeste Dalla Porta, Daniele Rienzo and Dario Aita in ...

Geoff Sobelle pours wine into the glasses of the audience seated around an oversized dining table on the stage during “Food” at Stanford Live’s Memorial Auditorium in Palo Alto on Wednesday, Feb. 5.

Beloved San Francisco native Geographer is heading back to the Bay Area for his first appearance at Noise Pop’s annual festival since moving to Los Angeles. Known offstage as Mike Deni, the musician ...

Historian Susan Stryker, one of the pioneering voices in the transgender history movement. Photo: Michael Noble Jr. Acclaimed historian, theorist and author Susan Stryker will give a reading and ...

Danielle Balbuena, known onstage as 070 Shake, has played a subtle role in some of the biggest hits of the decade. From Raye’s “Escapism” to Ye’s “Ghost Town,” the singer has made her way onto the ...

Maeve Coyne, from left, Michael Ray Wisely, Jed Parsario and Nancy Carlin rehearse Center Repertory Company’s “Froggy” on Feb. 4 at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek. Photo: Amaya Edwards ...