Theatre Owners Agree To Keep San Francisco Cinemas Closed Due To Concessions Ban

Vanessa Bryant has listed an investment home in Irving, California, that she owned with her late husband, Kobe Bryant, nine months after his death.According to the Los Angeles Times, the pair purchased the property in 2013 in the gated community of Summit at Turtle Ridge, located just a few miles from their main residence.

Dave McNary Film ReporterSan Francisco Film has selected filmmakers Aaron Sorkin and Chloe Zhao for honors at its annual San Francisco Film Awards ceremonies, due to be livestreamed on Dec. 9.Sorkin, whose “Trial of the Chicago 7” is streaming on Netflix, will receive the Kanbar award for storytelling.

coronavirus pandemic, one of the leading management agencies has been acquired by an unusual buyer in an unconventional transaction.The San Francisco Conservatory of Music announced Tuesday that it had purchased Opus 3 Artists, which represents about 250 musicians and attractions, a group that includes conductors Daniel Barenboim, James Conlon, Christoph Eschenbach and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.David Stull, president of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, would not reveal the monetary details of

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: The San Francisco Chronicle, UK production company Ugly Duckling Films and Sony Music Entertainment are partnering to develop the first narrative podcast project from the Chronicle, a new true crime series called The Doodler.The podcast will tell the story of the ongoing hunt for the notorious serial killer known as the “Doodler” who targeted San Francisco’s closeted gay community in the 1970s and is suspected to have murdered up to 16 people.Hosted

SAN FRANCISCO – Fed up with white people calling 911 about people of color selling water bottles, barbecuing or otherwise going about with life, San Francisco supervisors are set to approve new hate crime legislation giving the targets of those calls the ability to sue the caller.

While parents worry about getting their kids back to school, what do school officials worry about more? The San Francisco School Names Advisory Committee has named 44 schools that need their names changed due to troubling links to the past. This, as kids still take remote lessons -- which may harm minorities more than others.

Mexican-American actress Francia Raisa — the star who donated a kidney to Selena Gomez in 2017 — had a rough experience on the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon, all because of Donald Trump‘s supporters.

At first, it seemed like Bruce Willis was reprising his role as John McClane for a sixth “Die Hard” movie, but not all was as it appeared.

Ellise Shafer editorTwitter began buzzing on Sunday when a teaser of Bruce Willis as “Die Hard” protagonist John McClane surfaced from several accounts, including Willis’ daughter, Rumer Willis, NFL sideline reporter Erin Andrews and comedy group The Lonely Island.

A Roman Catholic archbishop performed an exorcism in Northern California on Saturday morning at the site where racial injustice protesters toppled a statue of 18th-century Spanish missionary Junipero Serra days earlier. Unlike in movies, real exorcisms are often solemn church rituals like Saturday’s, which was intended to drive out evil and defend Serra’s reputation.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Friday hit out at the city’s school district for beginning a process of renaming schools under its control, rather than reopening them. “Conversations around school names can be had once the critical work of educating our young people in person is underway,” Breed said in a statement.

The San Francisco Zoo's missing lemur has been returned and a suspect arrested, according to officials. Maki, a 21-year-old ring-tailed lemur, was found safe after being stolen from the zoo overnight earlier this week.

At least 44 schools in San Francisco could see their names changed, as officials believe some were named after those with potential connections to slavery, genocide and colonization, according to a report on Thursday. The San Francisco School Names Advisory Committee researched school names and identified certain ones for renaming.

Janet W. Lee When the coronavirus pandemic hit California in March, San Diego Film Festival artistic director Tonya Mantooth briefly considered canceling this year’s program.

Investigative journalist and Fox Nation host Lara Logan visits House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's multi-million dollar San Francisco home in a new Fox Nation series, in which Logan delves into the ills of socialist policies.

Also on this day: Meriwether Lewis – half of the famed Lewis and Clark expedition crew that blazed a trail through the U.S. West -- is found dead in a Tennessee inn, an apparent suicide, just over three years after completing the journey that made him famous.The San Francisco Board of Education orders the city's Asian students segregated in a purely "Oriental" school.

Also on this day: A group of Spanish missionaries settles in present-day San Francisco. Laura Ingalls becomes the first woman to fly across the United States as she completes a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field, N.Y., to Glendale, Calif.The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.

No popcorn and soda? Then no reopening for movie theaters in San Francisco. The California chapter of the National Association of Theatre Owners said Tuesday that cinemas in the Bay Area city — one of the largest moviegoing markets in the U.S.