The vintage Grateful Dead T-shirt sold for a record price through auction at Sotheby’s. Photo: Sotheby's After expenses and fees, auction winner Bo Bushnell paid a total of $19,315.80 for the Grateful ...

Dede Wilsey poses for a portrait with her dog Dazzle at her home in San Francisco. Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle 2015 After 21 years as president of the board of the Fine Arts Museums of San ...

The Fair Trade USA founder’s book, “Every Purchase Matters,” explores how conscious consumer choices can create global change amid rising tariffs. Paul Rice is the author of “Every Purchase Matters: ...

Women of color who have been cast members at the Great Dickens Christmas Fair: Angel Dotts (left), LaToya Tooles, Victoria Spencer, Leandra Darden, Anastasia Elizondo and Mandy Beri. Photo: Chloe ...

Part memoir, parts homage to the desert, political screed, and, yes, an instructional manual on how to make albondigas de la Familia Ronstadt, it even comes with its own musical soundtrack, “Feels ...

Back in the early 1970s, San Francisco photographer Michael Jang had a Chronicle press pass. And one from Rolling Stone. And one from the New York Times. None of them were real. In that analog era, he ...

The four-part series, which will chronicle the team’s Super Bowl-winning glory years, is set to premiere on AMC and AMC+ in 2026. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana and head coach Bill Walsh, ...

The Embarcadero Center Cinema as seen on the eve of its final day of operation, Thursday, Feb. 3. Photo: Courtesy Marco Cerritos Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema, San Francisco’s hub for first-run ...

For 45 years, the team at “Beach Blanket Babylon” has donned enormous hats and skewered politics and pop culture in a campy musical revue in a snug North Beach theater. The beloved show has become so ...

The verdant green of the American South and the terror of slavery are the backdrops to Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel, “Let Us Descend.” It is 1835 and Arese, an ...

New biography looks at Charlie Chaplin’s career from an illuminating new angle. Scott Eyman’s book concentrates on the 10 years leading up to Chaplin’s exile from America. British actor and director ...

Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas basks in audience applause conducting the San Francisco Symphony in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. Photo: Jana Asenbrennerova/Special to the Chronicle Sometimes ...