Calling all opera queens: San Francisco Opera is hosting its first ever Pride Concert. The celebration features the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim and Robert ...

Wildfires, floods and rising seas are giving Americans a foreshadowing of what is to come, the author of a new book about the environment says — disruptions on a near biblical scale. In “The Great ...

In ‘The Book of Love,’ Kelly Link harnesses the surreal and the everyday in a tale of three teenagers learning to wield magic. “Book of Love” by Kelly Link. Photo: Random House Three teens have come ...

Over the past 20 years, the SFJazz Collective has mined the jazz canon for inspiration, interpreting the music of the masters with each band member also writing an original tune for the ensemble. Now ...

Fallen Catholics, lifelong sybarites and those just flirting with the possibility of leaving puritanical morality behind can all take inspiration from sketch comedy this month, as the 28-year-old ...

Lower Grand Radio is hosting a string of events in the East Bay to celebrate its anniversary. Photo: Courtesy Alex Shen Oakland’s Lower Grand Radio is pulling out all the stops for its 10th ...

Perfume Genius’ unapologetic alternative pop music began as somewhat of a lifeline. The musician, whose real name is Michael Hadreas, was the only out gay student at his high school in Seattle, and ...

The Box Show at the Jones Institute invites 39 artists to explore the form, shape and figure that is the box. Photo: Jason Henry When I read the curator statement that contained a single sentence, I ...

Before 1979, lesbian moms had not appeared in U.S. children’s picture books. Then came “When Megan Went Away” by Jane Severance. Not widely available, it had a paper cover and staples to hold ...

The connection between “The Odyssey” and post-traumatic stress disorder is potent from the opening lines of the one-woman show “Penelope,” as writer-performer Ellen McLaughlin sings about a “stranger ...

If Anya’s memory, as she sings, is “glowing dim as an ember,” Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens’ song somehow conjures that image’s musical equivalent. The melody in “Once Upon a December” smolders ...

Rick Estrin and the Nightcats are scheduled to play Biscuits and Blues on Friday, Oct. 11. Photo: Steve Jennings / Alligator Records Long recognized as one of the most dependably pleasurable combos on ...