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4 weeks ago | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Zara Irshad

Ashe is set to perform at the UC Theatre on Thursday, June 19. Photo: Getty Images / Nicola Gell Music Datebook Pick Ashe is set to perform at the UC Theatre on Thursday, June 19. Photo: Getty Images / Nicola Gell A Netflix romantic comedy changed Ashe’s life and career forever.

1 month ago | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Bob Strauss

Julianne Moore stars as the ultrarich Michaela “Kiki” Kell in “Sirens.” Photo: Macall Polay/Netflix“Sirens” seems to want to satirize “The White Lotus” and its growing number of copycat shows. That’s not an easy feat, since Mike White already builds a great deal of sophisticated self-mockery and naughty class critique into his TV franchise. So the route “Sirens” showrunner Molly Smith Metzler takes here is to go more vulgar with the humor, which is fine and often funny enough.

1 month ago | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Chris Vognar

Paul Reubens in a scene from “Pee-wee as Himself,” a two-part documentary that premieres Friday, May 23, on HBO and HBO Max. Photo: Getty/HBOLooking directly into the camera, telling more of his life story than he has ever told before in public, Paul Reubens says: “I don’t want this to be like a legacy movie.”  The man better known as his alter ego Pee-wee Herman declares this without rancor but with conviction, and with a hunger for control that emerges several times for more than three hours.

1 month ago | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Zara Irshad

Raphael Saadiq is set to perform at Fox Theater on Saturday-Sunday, June 7-8. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle Music Datebook Pick Raphael Saadiq is set to perform at Fox Theater on Saturday-Sunday, June 7-8.

1 month ago | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Jessica Zack

Alison Bechdel’s latest book is “Spent,” a comic novel examining money, privilege and late-stage capitalism. Photo: Courtesy Alison BechdelIn one of many funny scenes in Alison Bechdel’s new comic novel “Spent,” the writer/cartoonist has drawn herself — or, more precisely, a loosely fictionalized protagonist named Alison — pulling Karl Marx’s “Das Capital” off her home bookshelf.