A &amp; E

It’s like clockwork when you cover the motion picture business. The beginning of a new year inevitably brings … one or more lists of the previous year’s best movies. So w... Read More

The Marina Books Inc. best-seller list – December 2017

Diary of a Wimpy Kid #12: Getaway, by Jeff Kinney (hardcover) Theft by Finding Diaries 1977–2002, by David Sedaris (hardcover) The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to ... Read More

Movie Reviews

A Christmas entertainment grab bag

‘Tis the season. Can’t miss it. Can’t avoid it. You can try to secularize it in a generic way (“Happy holidays!”), recalibrate your festive winter solstice focus to Hanuk... Read More

The Marina Books Inc. best-seller list – November 2017

Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Feed and Life, by Jim Harrison (hardcover) Origin: A Novel, by Dan Brown (hardcover) Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction, by Benjamin Percy (pap... Read More

Movie Reviews

From Cannes with love and prestige

As the holiday season approaches, those of us who cover the movie industry can be thankful the quality of the releases increases. It’s that time when we see the bulk of contender... Read More

Art World

Asian Art Museum’s Couture Korea combines history with fashion

By Sharon Anderson

The Asian Art Museum’s Couture Korea exhibition is a history lesson through fashion. Traditional culture is still relevant in modern Korea, and the traditional styles weave the ... Read More

Art World

Rauschenberg erases the rules at SFMOMA

By Sharon Anderson

Through March 25, 2018, SFMOMA presents the West Coast exclusive of Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules. As one of the heavyweights of contemporary art, Rauschenberg expanded t... Read More

The Marina Books Inc. best-seller list

What Happened, by Hillary Rodham Clinton (hardcover) Before the Fall, by Noah Hawley (paperback) I’ll Never Tell: The Odyssey of a Rock and Roll Priest, by Harry Schlitt (paperb... Read More

Television

Handicapping the fall TV schedule

The anticipation of the fall network television season has been diminished in part by the year-round premieres of shows on cable and, in a relatively recent wrinkle, streaming serv... Read More

A & E

Sixty festive years of the Monterey Jazz Festival, and a backward glance at an American art form

By Ernest Beyl

I admit reluctantly i prefer to hear small jazz groups — trios, quartets, sextets — in what we once called smoky nightclubs. That’s the way Stan Getz and the Modern Jazz Quar... Read More

Art World

Klimt & Rodin: An exhibition takes us on a journey when two artists met

By Sharon Anderson

This month, Oct. 14, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco will present the first major Gustav Klimt exhibition on the West Coast through Jan. 28, 2018. A leader of the symbolist ... Read More

The Marina Books Inc. best-seller list