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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

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

November 7, 2025

Mending the fabric of time

Inside the tiny, precise world of a watch repair hobbyist

November 6, 2025

Number of the beast

How long will San Francisco’s kids be possessed by ‘6 7’? Ask their teachers

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

Banana Republic still sells jeans with allegedly stolen design

Despite being called out on social media and in the local press, the elevated casuals company sells yet another pair of jeans that looks suspiciously similar to a one-of-a-kind pant design from the Future Past

November 4, 2025

A table divided

Charting the distance between Sam Altman and Steve Kerr at the Sydney Goldstein Theater

November 4, 2025

‘I’m the luckiest drag queen in the world’

Per Sia, the city’s newest Drag Laureate, shares a stage with the mayor

October 31, 2025

When Satan lived at Fisherman’s Wharf

For a few years in the 1970s, the Museum of Witchcraft & Magic cast a spell on San Francisco tourists

October 31, 2025