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Comedian Mo Amer performs on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Feb. 20, 2019. The comedian is set to host this year’s Palestine Cultural Day in the Bay Area. Photo: NBCUniversal / Getty ...

Wanxin Zhang, third from right, with his sculptures at the Catherine Clark Gallery during FOG Design + Art at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Photo: Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle After a decade of ...

Actor Christopher Reeves’ children, Matthew Reeve, left, Alexandra Reeve Givens and Will Reeve, attend the premiere of “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ...

Cate Blanchett’s and director Alfonso Cuarón’s gorgeous Apple TV+ limited series looks profound but ends up a dressed-up potboiler. Cate Blanchett, left, and Sacha Baron Cohen star in in “Disclaimer,” ...

Jason Reitman’s tale of the first episode of “Saturday Night Live” in 1975 is chaos, but wins you over. Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle, left), Jacqueline Carlin (Kaia Gerber) and her future husband ...

Guests check out the "Liberation No. 1" oil canvas by Liu Wei on June 3, 2015, at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Calif. It was the museum's opening night gala for the "28 Chinese" exhibition.

The Marsh’s production benefits from sources who are so good that you want to see a whole separate play about how Dan Hoyle found these people. Dan Hoyle in his new solo show “Takes All Kinds” at the ...