“Anora,” Sean Baker’s raunchy screwball comedy about a sex worker whose dangerous adventure begins when she elopes with the ...

Dasher specializes in pole. Cupid’s a juggler. Blitzen does cyr wheel (the ring a performer stands inside, appendages outstretched, a la Da Vinci’s anatomy drawing). But Rudy’s more of a blunderer — ...

The San Francisco Symphony’s LGBTQ December tradition “Holiday Gaiety” returns. Co-emceed by conductor Edwin Outwater and San Francisco drag star Peaches Christ, this adult-themed holiday variety show ...

In his often charming but oddly coy new book, Callum Robinson, a woodworker of some renown in his native Scotland, takes us inside his shop near Edinburgh, where his team builds custom-made furniture ...

Bay Area-raised film director Jon M. Chu skipped two scheduled Bay Area screenings of his smash-hit musical “Wicked” because he and his family were fleeing the wildfires that have engulfed Southern ...

It’s quite a day former boxing champ, jailbird and recovering alcoholic “Irish” Mikey Flannigan has in “Day of the Fight.” Played soulfully and as subtly as a role so back-loaded with trauma could be ...

In ‘I Might be in Trouble,’ author Daniel Aleman follows a struggling writer who’s exceptionally good at making all the wrong decisions. "I Might Be in Trouble" by Daniel Aleman. Photo: Grand Central ...

On Aug. 9, 1980, two teens — 19-year-old Kelly Drew and Timothy Hack — went missing after a wedding at the Concord House, an event venue just outside Watertown, Wis. They were supposed to meet up with ...

The Oscar- and Grammy-winning comedian comes clean in “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was …” But he doesn’t just reveal the nature of the 2023 medical emergency that almost took his life on his new ...

The young Donald Trump drama “The Apprentice” also landed nominations for its two central performances, by Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn. Karla Sofia Gascon, of Spain, winner ...

Turns out the theatrical quality meter is a circle, not a spectrum. A show can be so dumb that it crosses over a threshold, like a swing ride that loops over the top of the set, and actually gets kind ...

American Bach Artistic Director Jeffrey Thomas has conducted Handel’s “Messiah” in Grace Cathedral almost every year since 1998. Photo: American Bach When baritone Jesse Blumberg was a teenager in ...