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 ...

Beat poet Michael McClure is seen on his deck with sculptures by his wife, artist Amy Evans McClure, at their home in Oakland in 2010. Photo: Paul Chinn / The Chronicle 2010 Michael McClure, the young ...

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 ...

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 ...

Attorney Brian Rohan (left) confers with members of the Grateful Dead on June 23, 1968, at their sentencing in San Francisco Superior Court for a possession of marijuana conviction. Photo: Gordon ...

As your doctor, I recommend you take in “The Empusium” with an open mind and a stiff pour of psychedelics. This prescription will help you keep up with the novel’s characters, a gaggle of sanatorium ...

Draymond Green says acting is in his future after ‘St. Denis Medical’ gig ...

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 ...

Slim’s nightclub in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood is closing after 30 years, a decision made before the coronavirus pandemic forced its immediate shutdown. Photo: Liz Hafalia / The ...

The San Francisco scale model finished in 1940 has been mostly hidden away ever since — until now. The model is finally set to get the display it deserves on Jan. 25, when the wooden relief map will ...

Thomas Henry Horan, author of “The Myth of the Zodiac Killer: A Literary Investigation,” presents his theory on whether the Zodiac Killer is real in the Peacock docuseries “Myth of the Zodiac Killer.” ...

If you live in California — or anywhere in the West, for that matter — fires are a constant threat, and they’re getting worse by the year. In 2021 alone, two of them, the Caldor and Dixie fires, ...