Guest conductor Elim Chan returns with a passionate yet graceful program that pairs “Swan Lake” with the “Pathétique” ...

Robert Pattinson credits the Oakland native with helping him through a scene that drove him “crazy for three days.” ...

Mickey agrees to be an Expendable, meaning he’s the guinea pig in testing out potentially fatal viruses and other dangerous ...

Around the one-hour mark on Tuesday, March 4, Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter strummed the opening chords of “Change (In ...

Like many young people before him, Kenji Yamamoto had a vision of what he wanted to be when he grew up. He dreamed of having an art career as a painter or sculptor and even attended the San Francisco ...

Cate Blanchett, from left, and Michael Fassbender play married espionage agents in Steven Soderbergh’s “Black Bag,” which opens in theaters on Friday, March 14. Photo: Claudette Barius/Associated ...

The Berkeley City Club is always an up-close-and-personal venue, but it’s a special thrill when actors’ necks are bulging and steaming to lift giant weights. Clark (Andre Amarotico, left) and Nolan ...

Isn’t someone going to do something? It’s a refrain we’ve been hearing quite a bit lately. That feeling of exasperation – and what happens when the despairing find common cause – permeates the ...

This movie, which stars Jack Quaid, is about a man who doesn’t feel pain, but its makers sure want you to feel it. Nathan (Jack Quaid) is on the run in “Novocaine,” an action comedy directed by Dan ...

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 ...

Baritone Craig Irvin, left, as Thalasso, soprano Shayla Sauvie as Kosmo, soprano Angela Yam as Orsia and members of the San Francisco Girls Chorus in Opera Parallèle’s world-premiere production of ...