Rosner has a talent for flagging science-related tidbits that suggest we can sharpen our attentiveness by observing animals. Owls, she writes, use mimicry to ward off mortal danger, while some bats ...

Brazilian architect Roger Zmekhol’s crowning achievement, Pele de Vidro (“Skin of Glass” in Portuguese), opened in Săo Paulo in 1968. The gleaming glass tower was an architectural marvel and became ...

As the lineups and feel of major music festivals across the U.S. become increasingly homogenized, the wildly eclectic offerings of Mosswood Meltdown stand out. Taking over Oakland’s modest Mosswood ...

Disaster, in forms both natural and manmade, haunts the fiction of Anita Felicelli. Wildfire smoke chokes out moonlight. A tsunami threatens the drought-scorched West Coast. Nuclear fallout degrades ...

It’s a strange one, and like several of the stories in the linked collection, “The Acorn” teeters between magical realism and the fantastical. It’s also one of the more visceral stories (one on which ...

The enigmatically titled Icelandic film “Touch” is about two different types of men: one an elderly widower who is tying up some loose ends, the other a young man on a journey of self-discovery. They ...

The two-disc vinyl LP was the first soundtrack that I ever bought. I wasn’t the only one; it sold more than a million copies, not only because of the massive popularity of the film, but because Lucas ...

Mick LaSalle Mick LaSalle is the film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, where he has worked since 1985. He is the author of two books on pre-censorship Hollywood, "Complicated Women: Sex and ...

As with any Word for Word show, phrases you’d assume would be deadly onstage — “he said,” say — are instead springboards for imagination. As the Old Woman, Hunt blurts out the “Trees!” she sees out ...

Luis Cortes Romero made history in 2019 when he argued at the Supreme Court in support of DACA, the so-called “dreamers” immigration program. The Redwood City-raised attorney became the first ...

For my fellow millennials, the 1993 film “Mrs. Doubtfire” is a cultural landmark. It said a mother was allowed to want a divorce, even if her husband was as charismatic and funny as Robin Williams. It ...

Of course, when the franchise has collectively grossed nearly $5 billion, things like “happy endings” are entirely dispensable. Thus, here we go with “Despicable Me 4 ” — this time with baddie Maxime ...