Self-discovery on adventures to new lands. Cross-dressing in disguise to overhear the truth. Falling in love at first sight with such speed and totality as to banish all memory of your actual ...

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 ...

E-40 is delivering a special performance during BottleRock Napa Valley weekend. The Vallejo musician is set to perform a special Wine Country concert as part of the festival’s AfterDark series at Jam ...

The politics of immigration are always present in the life and writing of Jill Damatac, author of the memoir “Dirty Kitchen.” Author Jill Damatac stands next to shelves displaying her new book “Dirty ...

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 ...

Smino is scheduled to perform at the Warfield in San Francisco on Wednesday, April 30. Photo: Paras Griffin / Getty Images Smooth funk meets heartfelt rap in Smino’s musical landscape. The artist, ...

“Feelings can never be wrong,” Anaïs Nin (Arwen Anderson) tells her father (Johnny Moreno). But as you watch that incestuous scene unfold in “Shameless Hussy” — Lynne Kaufman’s new play about the ...

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 ...

Exterior at Great Star Theater, located at 636 Jackson St., in San Francisco on Dec. 10, 2024. Photo: Yalonda M. James / The Chronicle The Great Star Theater, believed to be the last Chinese theater ...

Jared Mattson and Bobbyy are scheduled to play a sonic tribute to jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó at the Chapel in San Francisco on April 9. Photo: Jared Mattson Born in Hungary, prodigious guitarist Gábor ...

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 ...