“Tenderness” is the word that keeps coming to mind while watching Alex Ketley’s “An Approximation of Resilience.” The dance is unfailingly, unflaggingly, extraordinarily tender. This is surprising, ...

Opera Parallèle presents the West Coast debut of “Fellow Travelers,” based on Thomas Mallon’s McCarthy-era novel that also inspired the Showtime LGBTQ miniseries. Thomas Mallon, author of “Fellow ...

In the teaser for the reboot of the “The Naked Gun” parody films, Berkeley-born director Akiva Shaffer wastes no time making a joke at the expense of the original series’ problematic cast member. In ...

Before transgender performers like Laverne Cox, Indya Moore, Hunter Schafer and Hari Nef burst into pop culture in the 2010s, Candy Darling was the world’s first trans actor to make a major impact.

In his inspiring book, “The Chair and the Valley,” Martinez author Banning Lyon details how the outdoors helped him survive his traumatic past. Author Banning Lyon poses for a portrait in May near his ...

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.

“Tuesday” blends two artistic universes, and it would have helped if both were of equal quality. It’s a Julia Louis-Dreyfus movie that concentrates on a mother-daughter relationship, and to that ...

June Squibb, in her first leading role, plays a nonagenarian who gets help from a friend, played by Richard Roundtree, in retrieving money that was stolen from her in “Thelma.” Photo: Magnolia ...

In 2019, “Disappearing Earth” — Julia Phillips’ haunting, suspenseful debut about two young sisters who get kidnapped on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East — was a finalist for the ...

The year 2024 will not go down in history as a particularly good one for movies. The big films disappointed, and the best films were small in scale and sometimes even small in ambition. There was, ...

Can a comedian take on the Israel-Palestinian conflict?

The In-N-Out hamburger chain is sizzling mad after San Francisco shut down its indoor dining for refusing to check customers’ vaccination status. Photo: Adam Lau / Associated Press When San ...