Chronicle film critic emeritus Mick LaSalle also answers questions about Lawrence Welk and generously allows a reader to quote him without attribution.

“My Mother’s Boyfriends: Stories” by Samantha Schoech. Photo: ? 7.13 Books Samantha Schoech has an undeniable gift for ending stories. Her closing lines — sometimes referred to as a “button” in ...

Writer-director Azazel Jacobs will join stars Elizabeth Olsen and Jovan Adepo to accept the SF Honors Award for the film during a one-night special screening. Elizabeth Olsen, right, stars in Azazel ...

The consumer advocate, and former presidential candidate, highlights business leaders he actually likes, offering an interesting perspective on leadership.

As if bracing the reader for the explorative, musing journey they’re about to go on, Sigrid Nunez in the opening of her new novel, “The Vulnerables,” mimics the very structure of the pandemic ...

Joshua Moehling’s sequel to the Ben Packard series, “Where the Dead Sleep,” is packed with big family drama and small-town politics.

Terence Blanchard, the renowned trumpeter and composer who will assume the role of executive artistic director for SFJazz, has been chosen as one of the esteemed 2024 National Endowment for the Arts ...

From the Sex Pistols to Warhol to Dalí, filmmaker Mary Harron takes us into alternate universes The eclectic filmmaker is back with “Dalíland,” starring Ben Kingsley as the flamboyant Spanish artist ...

This weekend, nestled beneath majestic views of Half Dome, Romeo and Juliet are going to fall in love — but not die tragic deaths. At Shakespeare in Yosemite, which features uniformed park rangers ...

Brian Katz, co-founder and executive artistic director of Custom Made Theatre Company, is leaving the theater industry to work at the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund. Photo: Lea Suzuki ...

In his debut novel, “The Twilight World,” Herzog returns once more to this fertile well by immortalizing the surreal saga of real-life Imperial Army Lt. Hiroo Onoda. “The Twilight World” by Werner ...

Brian Doherty is the author of “Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art ...