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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 Art I Saw and Didn’t Write About in 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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A Collective Future, Whispered From Inside California Prisons
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The After-Turkey: Your Guide to Family-Friendly Art Viewing All Over the Bay
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The Adachi Project’s New Film Series, Made ‘For, By and With the People’
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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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Berkeley’s Jazzschool Appoints Lisa Mezzacappa as Executive Director

‘The place is just so alive,’ the bassist and composer says of the community music institution.
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A Collective Future, Whispered From Inside California Prisons

Pat Mesiti-Miller’s soundscape ‘1000 Whispers From Our Future’ is in residency at Audium.
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The Best Movie Moments of 2025

Eight scintillating scenes from (some of) the year’s most compelling cinematic journeys.
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The 25 Best Concerts That Got Me Through 2025

Live music provided transcendence and joy this year, as shown by Gabe Meline's steady calendar of shows.
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The Bay Area Animals That Made 2025 More Tolerable

Otters and reptiles and bunnies, oh my! Local animals did the most in 2025. Let’s honor their contributions.
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San Francisco Fashion Festival Showcases Bay-Made Couture

Runway shows by local designers, workshops and other events will take over the city Dec. 5–6.
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Unsigned and Hella Broke: The East Bay’s Dirt-Hustling 1990s Hip-Hop Subculture

How a movement made of homemade cassette tapes and independent hustle changed Bay Area hip-hop history.
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