Arts & Culture

Husband-and-wife team Kenneth Turner and Erika Calderon-Turner front the Chutes, a pop band from San Francisco. Both have been active in the Bay Area’s punk and hardcore scene, playing in bands including Foghorn, Fentanyl and Techie Blood....

A few highlights from “French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light,” a rewarding ongoing retrospective series that runs through Aug. 28 at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA): Director Jacques Becker’s hard-as-nails 1960 prison picture,...

This week's calendar picks include Jill Scott, Orquesta Akokán, 'Orpheus Descending,' Seija Oda, The Hellas, Jason Joshua, 2morrows June, Glen Pearson, Sparta, and Tedeschi Trucks Band.

Embrace your inner RAWR—it's Leo season.

More than 65% of the members of the Black Panther Party were women. Women of all ages, many of them young—teenagers, even. They taught at community schools, registering voters, handing out free food and running free medical...

This week's calendar picks feature Scalp, 'A Night of Hope for Venezuela,' Momotombo SF, Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Trio, Nora Free, Sundra Manning Trio with Rhonda Sauce, Orchestra Gold, Briscoe, IVE, and Poppy.

When I was in high school, I watched a lot of Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. I loved the anime and “adult cartoons” that aired at night before I headed to bed. Something that stuck with me...