By Tom Jacobs, UCSB In the fall of 1977, Nori Muster was starting her senior year at UC Santa Barbara. A transfer student from Humboldt State, she was working towards a degree in sociology. Like so ...

This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in an N95 mask.

If you simply cannot get enough of the lush costumes, grand estates, sprawling fields, and gripping stories that make British ...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire wasn’t just a turning point in the story—it was also a turning point in book cover design ...

Also: Whitney White in “Macbeth in Stride,” Ani DiFranco’s dramatic return, Takeshi Kitano’s inventive new film, and more.

Medieval book covers previously thought to be made from deer or boar skin are actually made of sealskin from northern regions ...

The contradictions of life in late-capitalist America under Trump: Most Americans want the return of manufacturing jobs to the US, as long as they don't have to work them. But they simultaneously ...