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Analog City

Pulps unbound

For three decades, Kayo Books has sold the kinds of books your grandparents wouldn’t be caught dead reading

November 18, 2025

What’s in your analog bag?

The latest device-free trend contains everything from knitting to notebooks to Tolstoy

November 17, 2025

The searchers

Off the beaten path with Bryan Jessop, the forager supplying San Francisco’s Michelin-star restaurants 

November 13, 2025

 Save all

15 million individual items, some dating back to the 1600s, are waiting to be discovered at The Box SF

November 13, 2025

In the SFAI archive

Down in a SoMa basement, two archivists are keeping the spirit — and thousands of artifacts — of the San Francisco Art Institute alive

November 12, 2025

The original movable type

A visit to the San Francisco Center for the Book where the presses never stop

November 11, 2025

Mending the fabric of time

Inside the tiny, precise world of a watch repair hobbyist

November 6, 2025

Inside the Tape Vault

While artists rack up billions of streams recording tracks in their bedrooms, Chris von Sneidern’s Tenderloin recording studio continues to make music the hard and fun way

November 5, 2025

Tapeheads

In a basement in the Mission, the faithful worship at the altar of VHS

October 30, 2025

Welcome to Analog City

Kicking off Gazetteer’s new series about the pleasures of the humble, old real world

October 27, 2025