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Best of 2025Best of 2025

The best movies, books, music, art, meals and more from the year.

2025 Was the Year of the Great Crash Out

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These Four Concerts Gave Me Life in 2025

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The Best Movie Moments of 2025

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The 25 Best Concerts That Got Me Through 2025

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The Bay Area Animals That Made 2025 More Tolerable

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8 Novels From 2025 That NPR Staff and Critics Loved

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The Best Dishes I Ate in 2025

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A guest wears a bright olive-green leather coat with a green snake-print cuff peeking from the sleeve, a silver-toned ring, and a glossy red pointed manicure, while a brown Louis Vuitton Monogram coated-canvas mini top-handle bag with tan vachetta leather rolled handles, leather tabs, a gold-tone zipper and padlock, and a yellow-and-orange pumpkin motif is carried; two Labubu plush bag charms are attached-one cream plush figure in a pink tweed dress with a matching bow, the other blue-gray plush with bunny ears in a brown Gucci GG monogram dress finished with a black Double G emblem and gold-tone hardware attachments, outside Rotate, during Copenhagen Fashion Week, on August 07, 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Best (and Most Polarizing) Fashion Developments of 2025

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The Best Bay Area Theater We Saw in 2025

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