Robert Morast

Metallica’s final night in the Bay Area blended thrash metal, nostalgia and social commentary in a stadium show that echoes the chaos of 2025.

Sturgill Simpson didn’t care about his audience in Berkeley. Here’s why that was a good thing.

OpenAI, the San Francisco tech company leading the artificial intelligence race, is changing its corporate structure to enable it to raise more capital

The Texas singer’s Chase Center performance was flawless, yet constrained by the predictable beats and sheen of a country-pop concert.

John King, longtime urban design critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, to retire after 32 years of writing about the city's changing landscape

Vacant downtown office buildings. Shifting home prices. NIMBYs versus YIMBYs. The “doom loop” narrative. Covering housing and real estate is a critical window into Northern California’s future — how the state is transforming, how San Francisco is recovering and what it’s like to live in a region with massive housing issues. To ensure we bring our readers the most critical coverage before anyone else, the San Francisco Chronicle has expanded our team of journalists who break news and analyze the…

Two collections of photos focused on Bay Area punk scenes give a glimpse into a time of rebellion.

Two collections of photos focused on Bay Area punk scenes give a glimpse into a time of rebellion.

Disney Plus will give us “Soul,” the latest Pixar film and HBO Max is sending us “Wonder Woman 1984”

Disneyland opened to the public at 10 a.m. July 18, 1955, under a sunny Southern California sky. And, if you look at the photos from that day, the scene was what you’d expect: collections of kids — boys with cropped hair and dark rimmed glasses, girls with dresses colored in summery pastels — sprinting through the Anaheim property, their excitement pulling them to magic castles and teacup rides and to a space port with men dressed in spacesuits, years before the first manned space flight. There…

Hater’s guide to loving the 49ers