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Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: SCRAP SF

Beloved 50-year-old "Scroungers’ Center for Reusable Art Parts" has found a giant new home—and remains a bonanza for crafters and artists.

Fall Books Preview: Leaf through these 10 terrific tomes

Hot new reads from the likes of Chloe Benjamin, Frederick Nolan, Natalie Baszile—and Dolly in her own words, published right here in the Bay.

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Theatre Bay Area

50-year-old arts org helps the local show scene survive and stay accessible—especially with Bay Area Theatre Week.

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Picks: Flower Piano

Planted among the gorgeous blooms of the Botanical Gardens, a dozen pianos tune players and listeners into instant community.

Maren Hassinger’s evocative BAMPFA retrospective reaches up, up, up

From coiled hemp rope to wall of eye-popping pink plastic, the artist's community, colors, and contrasts are a buoying force.

Deep lessons from art and life in Dave Eggers’ ‘Contrapposto’

Local literary hero and trained artist's latest novel dives into a wide-ranging love story that shows a more mature side.

Subversive spirit matches Victorian romantic intrigue in Ayelet Waldman’s latest

Berkeley author knocked off from award-winning TV work to finish 'a failed novel I tried to write a decade ago.'

E pluribus ants: At Cabrillo Music Fest, Sarah Hennies’ work buzzes with communal activity

Under expansive theme of US's 250th, composer's 'Grain House' considers the lowly but mighty insect.

Mildred Howard writes her own history book

At Oakland Museum of California, the longtime artist's first major retrospective attacks Black erasure.

Andrew Sean Greer: ‘Everything’s terrifying to me—even buying a stick of gum’

When it comes to writing, the Pulitzer-winning author of hilarious new 'Villa Coco' knows to feel the fear and do it anyway.