The film, directed by Michael Jacobs, is among the opening features at the San Francisco Documentary Festival.

More than 200 former Great Dickens Christmas Fair participants are organizing a boycott, saying it has not done enough to address concerns from people of color.

While I adore the Sistine Chapel and the sumptuous oils of Titian, I know that these artworks aren't free from the all-too-human problem of racism.

When an Ethiopian American in Paris returns home for a reset, he finds only more mysteries about the immigrant experience and what we each call home.

The doctors who were in the emergency room with Kennedy counter the Lee Harvey Oswald lone gunman theory in the latest documentary about the assassination.

Rival British bands Blur and Oasis meet up at the Live 105 radio studios in 1994. Photo: Live 105 1994 On a recent Friday afternoon, Bay Area listeners who had their radio stations tuned to KITS 105.3 ...

The Netflix comedy-mystery starring Ted Danson was partially filmed in San Francisco, where producers worked through filming challenges with city officials. Charles (Ted Danson) and Julie (Lilah ...

Beat poet Michael McClure is seen on his deck with sculptures by his wife, artist Amy Evans McClure, at their home in Oakland in 2010. Photo: Paul Chinn / The Chronicle 2010 Michael McClure, the young ...

Keith Rosson’s “Fever House” adds a literary sensibility to catastrophic violence among tough guys in Oregon.

Haley Bennett stars as Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, the woman who invented Champagne as we know it, in “Widow Clicquot.” Photo: Vertical More movies should be like “Widow Clicquot” — smart, ...

The expansion of the Asian Art Museum includes a new Akiko Yamazaki & Jerry Yang Pavilion, seen here in an artist’s rendering. Photo: Asian Art Museum San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum announced the ...

About a third of the way through “Dope Thief” you might get hit by a gnawing and familiar thought: This should have been a two-hour movie, not an eight-episode limited series. It is sporadically ...