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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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This Gas Station Food Truck Serves Amazing Kyrgyz Street Food in Santa Clara
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Feast Your Eyes on These 10 Cookbooks From 2025
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This San José Pop-Up Bakery Sells 18 Different Varieties of Egg Tarts
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Asylum-Seekers’ Stories Come to The Freight in Berkeley
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The Korean Satire ‘No Other Choice’ Is a Masterful Thriller From Park Chan-wook
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‘The Housemaid’ Is a Twisty Horror-Thriller With Nudity and Empowerment
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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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The Bay Showed Love to Messy Marv in 2025
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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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Why Do We Make New Year’s Resolutions?

An early mention appeared in a Boston newspaper in 1813. But the practice itself can be traced back to the Babylonians.
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Asylum-Seekers’ Stories Come to The Freight in Berkeley

A screening of the documentary ‘No Separate Survival’ celebrates the work of East Bay Sanctuary Covenant.
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This Painting Is Missing. Do You Have It?

An important work has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting for it.
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The Korean Satire ‘No Other Choice’ Is a Masterful Thriller From Park Chan-wook

Leaves and bodies fall in ‘No Other Choice,’ a devilish satire with a chilling autumnal wind blowing through it.
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The Refurbished Curran Theater reopens Jan. 25 with the show 'Fun Home'

The San Francisco Giants Now Own the Curran Theatre

The surprise sale announcement marks the end of Carole Shorenstein Hays' ownership of the historic theater.
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This Gas Station Food Truck Serves Amazing Kyrgyz Street Food in Santa Clara

Vostok is dishing out piping-hot shawarma and plov until 11 p.m. every night.
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SFMOMA and MoAD Jointly Hire First Curator of Art of the African Diaspora

Cornelia Stokes will be the first curator in the three-year, full-time role.
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