Culture
The Bay Area’s best music critics pick the best songs of 2025
A selection of hits from a fabulous group of local writers and editors
Print is forever
As AI rises, the Bay Area is awash in a full-on print revival, from magazines to books to this website’s own quarterly paper
Memories of overdevelopment
Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg’s ‘Hollow City’ at 25
It’s a wonderful life
In ‘The Game,’ David Fincher turned San Francisco into a trap for a man who thinks he owns the place
Hand in hand
In the Panhandle, an 18-year-old is building muscles and community through arm wrestling
Todd Haynes on ‘Carol,’ a decade later
On Saturday, the indie director comes to the Toni Rembe Theatre to honor his sweetest film (and the sweetest celebration of the film)
Tech holiday parties are getting smaller
Holiday parties used to feature Greek gods and Gatsby themes. Now they’re lucky to have a magician or inflatable shark
Louis C.K. comes to SF
The uncancelable comedian has pulled a new one off: publishing his first novel
All the edgelords pray at Star of the Sea
Among the tech bros who funded a shrine to the first millennial saint at a church on Geary Boulevard
A very Gazetteer gift guide
For all you last minute shoppers, here’s a list of the best gifts to give the people you love. And Elon Musk
