Lily Janiak

1 week ago | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Lily Janiak |G. Allen Johnson |Vanessa Labi |Chris Vognar

When the Chronicle first got the idea to write this round-up, it was going to focus on TV, theater and film that could help you contextualize or commiserate about President Trump’s new tariffs. But in a whiplash-inducing feeling that’s become the mark of just another day gone by in this term, we discovered we should also include works that can help us make sense of a 90-day pause of said tariffs.

1 week ago | sfchronicle.com | Lily Janiak |G. Allen Johnson |Vanessa Labi |Chris Vognar

When the Chronicle first got the idea to write this round-up, it was going to focus on TV, theater and film that could help you contextualize or commiserate about President Trump’s new tariffs. But in a whiplash-inducing feeling that’s become the mark of just another day gone by in this term, we discovered we should also include works that can help us make sense of a 90-day pause of said tariffs.

2 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Lily Janiak

As a young man with a career on the rise, he’s all too eager to have his picture taken, arranging those photos in a keepsake album. Decades later, stooped and shriveled, he hides his face from cameras with anything available — a briefcase, a newspaper — even trying to step on photographers’ shoes. In between, a war has ended, and justice is sought. And in “Here There Are Blueberries,” the masterful storytelling of it all is bodily — for you.

2 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Lily Janiak

The latest target is San Francisco’s Dream Keeper Initiative, introduced in 2021 at the height of the “defund the police” movement with the goal of redirecting city money away from law enforcement and toward Black communities, including arts organizations. But now, a variety of theaters, media companies and other entities say the city is reneging on promised grants — a total of more than $14 million affecting 38 recipients — without explanation.

2 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Lily Janiak

When a pregnant woman seeks and is denied an abortion, we all know how the story’s supposed to go. She’ll struggle, sure, but she’ll fall in love with the child she didn’t want to have, and all her problems will, if not magically dissipate, pale before that love. Our saintly ideals of motherhood, even in progressive circles, make any other possibility taboo. The logical corollary to such misguided thinking is that some women who have abortions will rue their decision.