The orchestra’s former music director leads a program of Schubert and Brahms with grace, if occasional shakiness.

Readers of all ages can find much to appreciate in stories about Black Americans centering family, justice, history and resilience. “Beacon of Hope: The Life of Barack Obama” by Doreen Rappaport.

This festival features an array of celebrated artists, with performances by Jason Moran, Edward Simon, Paula West, Sasha Berliner, and more. Concerts will take place in cozy and intimate settings, and ...

Personal remembrances, emotional reunions and unseen footage mark this effort as the 50th anniversary of the war’s end approaches. U.S. Marine Jeff Hiers in “Vietnam: The War That Changed America,” ...

Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon come from two very different comedy worlds. Ferrell is slapstick, over-the-top silliness and pop culture irony; Witherspoon is classic rom-com, sweetness with ...

Brittany Newell, San Francisco author and professional dominatrix whose new book, “Soft Core” comes out Feb. 4th, poses for a portrait in the upstairs office at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge in the Tenderloin ...

Roots musician Taj Mahal will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards this year. Photo: Courtesy Taj Mahal Taj Mahal wasn’t shocked to get the news that the Recording ...

Ali Benjamin, whose bestselling novel “The Thing About Jellyfish” has been adapted into a new play at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, knows it can be easy to misinterpret a young person’s silence. Her ...

In the late 1990s, Lauren Francis-Sharma attended the Truth and Reconciliation Commission amnesty hearings when she briefly lived in Johannesburg while attending law school. The hearings were set up ...

Katy Perry is hitting the road for the first time since 2018, and fans will only get one night to catch her comeback in the ...