Jeanne Powell

American film director Kasi Lemmons has been interviewed extensively on her vision for her stirring film biography of Harriet Tubman. Lemmons has said: "She was incredibly strong. She was incredibly tiny….This very small, very strong, very fierce woman was doing this work in incredibly turbulent times….The physicality involved in...

Chef Aboghanem is happy to be offering his signature dishes, rooted in his Yemeni background, to San Francisco diners again.

From 2010 to 2015 the Downton Abbey television series fascinated American audiences. Created by Julian Fellowes, the miniseries chronicled the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family in the early 20th century, after the Great War (1914-1918) and before the Great Depression. Downton Abbey The Movie was made for devoted fans...

Keira Knightley’s performance is central to the success of the film.

Closing night at the 2019 San Francisco Film Festival featured Q Ball, a powerful documentary about basketball with Kevin Durant as an executive producer. This was the premiere showing for the film. A Fox Sports Film release, Q Ball has multiple producers and executive producers. In this film director and...

While Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton musical continues to light up the stage at a SHN theater, one of its original stars lit up the stage at the San Francisco Symphony during the weekend just past. Leslie Odom, Jr., best known to many Hamilton fans as vice president Aaron Burr, is...

During its 2019-2020 season the SFJAZZ Center will feature more than 400 concerts in its Civic Center location. Included are residencies by such luminaries as Marcus Shelby. Last April the venue hosted the NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert which honored Bobby McFerrin, Roscoe Mitchell, Reggie Workman and Dorthaan Kirk. Late...

Leaving the SHN Golden Gate Theatre in a good mood, you won’t even mind the traffic jam outside the theater.

Celebrating nearly two decades of Asian American film and culture, CAAMFest returns to San Francisco for ten days packed with movies, music and cuisine, presented by the Center for Asian American Media. In a warm press release from Mayor London Breed, CAAMFest is honored as a showcase "for the richness...

A parable about America, political narratives, and the absence of free will.