It’s hard to imagine better timing for the release of Vauhini Vara’s first book of nonfiction, “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age.” Recently, my Instagram feed has been filled with screenshots ...

The Fair Trade USA founder’s new book, “Every Purchase Matters,” explores how conscious consumer choices and Fair Trade practices can create global change amid rising tariffs and economic… Paul Rice ...

John Brougher, left, and Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe in Magic Theatre’s “The Boiling.” Photo: Jay Yamada/Magic Theatre The art form might be called drama, but gentleness is a perfectly valid approach ...

Two art fairs are happening within blocks of each other in San Francisco’s Marina District this April. This year’s San Francisco Art Fair at Fort Mason will include a section highlighting East Bay ...

The "Late Night" afterparty benefitting the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco returns to the de Young Museum Thursday, April 10. Photo: Sam Cooper Late Night returns to the de Young Museum following ...

Though he grew up in a musical family, Rauw Alejandro didn’t always think life as an artist was in the cards for him. He spent most of his life as an athlete. From age 6 to 20, the Puerto Rican artist ...

W. Kamau Bell is the kind of comedian who gives TV interviews in a T-shirt bearing a picture of one of his daughters; who gives hearty, inviting chortles at his own jokes; who wins not just multiple ...

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 ...

FKA Twigs is set to perform in San Francisco on Saturday, April 19. Photo: Jim Dyson / Getty Images for ABA The experimental British pop sensation, whose real name is Tahliah Barnett, got her stage ...

Sona Tatoyan (foreground) with Ara Dinkjian in a developmental workshop of Golden Thread Productions' "Azad (The Rabbit and the Wolf)." Photo: Jared Mezzocchi / Golden Thread Productions Her ...

Catharine Clark Gallery presents two shows confronting modern technological anxiety, Andy Diaz Hope’s “Yesterday’s Tomorrows” and Zeina Barakeh’s “Cybotage.” “Yesterday’s Tomorrows” continues Diaz ...

The modern fairy tale is a tricky thing, what with phones and cities and all the trappings of now that tend to suck the magic out of a story and make it impossible to suspend disbelief. But Natalia ...