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The Best Movie Moments of 2025
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The Best Bay Area Theater We Saw in 2025
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The 20 Best Bay Area Albums of 2025
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The Best Dishes I Ate in 2025
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San Francisco’s Only Free Grocery Store Is Featured in a New PBS Special
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Friendsgiving 101: A History of the Made-Up Holiday and How to Celebrate it
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‘Be Not Afraid’ Is a Cathartic Cathedral of Queerness
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‘Rosemead’ Tells a Tragic — and True — Story
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A Collective Future, Made of Whispers
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The Indian American Essayist Who Championed Social Justice and Feminism
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The Jewish ‘Red Angel’ Who Withstood Incarceration for Workers’ Rights
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The Palestinian Therapist, Teacher and Music Lover Who Built Cultural Bridges
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Unsigned and Hella Broke: The East Bay’s Dirt-Hustling 1990s Hip-Hop Subculture
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Spice 1 Talks Growing Up in Hayward, Running From Cops and Breakin’ at the Mall
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Remembering Anticon and Hip-Hop’s Reckoning With Weirdness
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In 2025, Writing Letters Helped Me Reconnect With What Matters

In post-grad life, texts and email feel cold and fleeting, but postage and paper are forever.
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A painting of a ram, bleeding from a chest wound into a golden chalice marked with a red cross, stands with a cross in its mouth displaying a pink and blue flag with a white cross on the flag. The ram has a halo.

‘Be Not Afraid’ Is a Cathartic Cathedral of Queerness

KT Seibert’s new show at Moth Belly Gallery meditates on religious iconography and transgender culture.
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A young Asian man and a middle aged Asian woman cling to each other playfully as they take a windswept walk on the beach. The ocean and a pier are visible behind them.

‘Rosemead’ Tells a Tragic — and True — Story

The new movie stars Lucy Liu as an ailing mother to Joe, a teenager living with mental illness.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin: My Favorite Cat Is a Sociopath

Sometimes a momentary disappointment is fate’s way of opening the door to something far better.
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Frank Gehry, Whose Designs Defied Gravity and Convention, Dies at 96

Gehry transformed modern architecture with exuberant buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum.
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2025 Was the Year of the Great Crash Out

Celebrities, politicians and everyday people lost it this year.
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These Four Concerts Gave Me Life in 2025

A Destiny’s Child reunion, LaRussell at SFMOMA and other shows reminded me that music heals.
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