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Byline: Reyhan Harmanci In 'Never Saw Me Coming,' Tanya Smith tells of her life as a young financial criminal - and the harsh prison sentence that changed everything. NEVER SAW [...]

Jonah Weiner, the co-owner of the fashion newsletter Blackbird Spyplane, has been in a relationship with Hokas for years. ''I've had a saga of falling in and out of love [...]

As employees in tech face layoffs, an emoji meets its moment. When Elon Musk walked into Twitter headquarters in late October carrying a sink, it seemed like that image might [...]

Byline: Reyhan Harmanci Want to fight fair? Some couples advocate taking it to the texts. On a Tuesday in early October, at around 5 p.m., Robb Loeb was with his [...]

Want to fight fair? Some couples advocate taking it to the texts. On a Tuesday in early October, at around 5 p.m., Robb Loeb was with his wife, Jenn, in [...]

Byline: Reyhan Harmanci In the wake of a mass shooting, reaction videos fill a desperate need. From the moment reports of a shooter in a Texas elementary school hit social [...]

Running into acquaintances used to be a routine annoyance. Now, it's an unholy rush. Last month, for the first time in two years, I went to a play. Afterward, on [...]

As we start another year, still in isolation, our clothing choices are getting increasingly weird. I don't really remember when I pulled the black Everlane pants out of the drawer [...]

As the saying goes, if you don't have something nice to say about anybody, come sit by me. Seriously, sit by me. Like Alice Roosevelt Longworth -- to whom that [...]

Byline: Reyhan Harmanci When my husband's cousin tested positive, all of the months of pandemic headlines converged. It started with a text. Or perhaps it was the phone call. Or [...]

When my husband's cousin tested positive, all of the months of pandemic headlines converged. It started with a text. Or perhaps it was the phone call. Or perhaps it's more [...]

Byline: Reyhan Harmanci What all of the women with Amazon coats are doing this winter. A few weeks ago, during another unseasonably warm fall day, my husband, in a pensive [...]

What all of the women with Amazon coats are doing this winter. A few weeks ago, during another unseasonably warm fall day, my husband, in a pensive tone, posed a [...]

''You look really cute,'' the coffee shop barista said to me, handing over a pastry. ''You just look so cute,'' my co-worker said when I came in, late, to our [...]

A few weeks ago, after a Pilates class in a studio above my former office, I rolled up a mat while the teacher spoke to another student, someone who seemed [...]

When Carletta Sue Kay takes the stage, it can take the unin-itiated by surprise. The singer is over six feet tall, with a figure more like a wrestler's than an [...]

Walking into Berkeley Repertory Theater's rehearsal and office complex, on a nondescript street in West Berkeley, felt very different from the klieg lights of the company's downtown performance space. The [...]

At first glance, musicals from the Cockettes would seem to be an unlikely candidate for revival. That San Francisco gender-bending performance group of the late 1960s was hugely influential. But [...]

Spring has sprung -- in all its rainy glory in the Bay Area -- but animal shelters are steeling themselves for the beginning of a dreaded annual event: kitten season. [...]

When Shawn Lani biked to work at the Exploratorium in San Francisco on a recent sunny morning in March, his thoughts turned to light. The sunlight peeking through the shadows [...]

When Michelle Long saw workers throwing out documents at her San Francisco church, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal, at a conference 12 years ago, she decided something had to be done [...]

When Jet Martinez set up a scaffold inside Building 17 in Facebook's new Menlo Park offices to work on a colorful flower mural called ''Bouquet'' late last month, he did [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDLast Sunday, worshipers at the 11 a.m. service at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco heard something unusual: a sermon delivered by Anna Deavere Smith, the award-winning actress and playwright.Clad [...]

Last Friday, a group of about 60 writers, artists, Telegraph Hill residents and community activists gathered in a North Beach art gallery to hear seven poets wax lyrical about that [...]

Tensions typically run high before a theater company performs a work for the first time, and working outside a traditional theater compounds the worries. For Christopher W. White, the founder [...]

Like a dancer careening wildly to the edge of the stage, Ballet San Jose, one of the most respected arts institutions in Silicon Valley, was on the brink of chaos [...]

This season, the Raiders and the 49ers have had standout performances by players who rarely get their hands on the ball. Meet the place-kickers and punters whose feet, though gnarled [...]

On Dec. 8, the residents of Fair Oaks Street in the Mission woke up to the news that a brutal rape had taken place in the early morning on their [...]

An official audit by the city controller's office has confirmed what employees and the local arts community have suspected for years: The operations at the San Francisco Arts Commission are [...]

When Matthew and Terces Engelhart, owners of the Cafe Gratitude raw-food chain, announced on Facebook last week that they would close all eight of their Northern California restaurants, the public's [...]

To Alfonso Dominguez, calling his project to populate a mostly vacant stretch of downtown Oakland with locally minded retailers Popuphood is both literal (''The stores are popping up!'') and a [...]

Millions of pounds of hulking concrete. A $50 million blue crane, rising hundreds of feet in the air above the Bay. Deep red scaffolding girding huge stretches of the unfinished [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED They come in buses, 50 or so Bay Area contemporary art collectors, consultants and enthusiasts, to visit 30 select emerging artists every two years. For six Saturdays, the [...]

When Gwen Lutz, a clothing designer and avid bicyclist, was asked to produce a bike fashion event at the annual San Francisco Bike Expo three years ago, she struggled to [...]

Last November, the Bay Area was abuzz over beards -- specifically, the beard of Brian Wilson, the San Francisco Giants relief pitcher who captured the nation's imagination with his jet-black [...]

Peter Orner is the publishing equivalent of a character actor: many Bay Area readers might recognize his name but not quite be able to place his work. Mr. Orner, a [...]

Call it occupation envy. The first wave of Occupy San Francisco protesters made their way down to the financial district a month ago to take a stand against what they [...]

While Hal Fischer, interim director of S.F. Camerawork, pondered his organization's move to the Mid Market district, he conducted an experiment. About three months ago, he went to an 11 [...]

When Jack Boulware and Jane Ganahl, a pair of San Francisco writers, gathered together a few dozen authors for two days of literary events back in 1999 and called it [...]