Culture
Pulps unbound
For three decades, Kayo Books has sold the kinds of books your grandparents wouldn’t be caught dead reading
Exit, pursued by ChatGPT
Adam Strauss’s ‘Before I Forget’ puts AI centerstage whether audiences want it there or not
What’s in your analog bag?
The latest device-free trend contains everything from knitting to notebooks to Tolstoy
Wild in the streets
With a little zaniness and a lot of Streisand, Peter Bogdanovich’s ‘What’s Up Doc?’ brought chaos to a city that was trying to tidy itself up
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
The original movable type
A visit to the San Francisco Center for the Book where the presses never stop
The fight to save Buy Nothing
In the midst of a resources crunch, Facebook shut down Buy Nothing mutual aid groups over an alleged trademark infringement
Number of the beast
How long will San Francisco’s kids be possessed by ‘6 7’? Ask their teachers
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
