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It wasn’t all bad! Our 16 favorite local cultural moments of 2025

Dead & Co, Mychal Threets, Coyote Media, Golden State Valkyries, Art Book Fair, rap royalty... moments that shone last year

Culture Marke B. - January 20, 2026

Tip-top tomes: Our favorite books of 2025

Oakland community history, knockout African folklore, Julian Brave Noisecat's debut. Here's what got us through the year

Lit Lou Fancher - December 16, 2025

At Zinn Fair, Steve Martinot connects police brutality to US fascism’s rise

SFSU Instructor Emeritus has written several books on racism and police; he'll speak at social justice gathering.

Lit Andy Gillis - December 4, 2025

Turn that anger into action at this year’s Howard Zinn Book Fair

The annual social justice bonanza celebrates the history and possibilities of engagement in an era of despair.

Lit Marke B. - December 1, 2025

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‘Poetry for Men’

Nina Ruth Mir - November 19, 2025

A poem by Nina Ruth Mir on International Mens Day.

Music

Roddy Bottum: ‘It felt like a sense of royalty’ to live through SF’s alt-rock era

Joshua Rotter - November 16, 2025

Faith No More and Imperial Teen musician’s memoir 'The Royal We' captures scrappy scene's roots.

Lit

In ‘Vera,’ Gary Shteyngart depicts growing up in a world becoming ever more cruel

Lou Fancher - November 1, 2025

The writer draws on his Soviet childhood—and watching his own son today—for latest novel about a wondrous little girl.

Lit

Join us for Litcrawl’s ‘The Waymo That Ate San Francisco’

Marke B. - October 23, 2025

Indie media journalists take on the AI Bubble and Big Tech with hilarious, thought-provoking, and award-winning pieces.

LGBTQ

Trans trailblazer Miss Major has passed: Read our 2023 interview with the Stonewall veteran

Caitlin Donohue - October 14, 2025

'The best trait an organizer can have is to listen, and to listen closely to what the people want,' she told us.

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First-ever Robert Crumb biography zaps with iconoclast’s free speech and wild pen

Joel Schechter - October 11, 2025

Author Dan Nadel gained intimate access to living legend and comic book peers for 'A Cartoonist's Life.'

Lit

Two decades in, you still can’t break Broke-Ass Stuart

Joshua Rotter - October 6, 2025

Beloved SF chronicler and bon vivant releases new book 'The Worst of Broke-Ass Stuart: 20 Years of Love, Death & Dive Bars.'

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Join 48 Hills’ Marke B and author Sarah Schulman at Litquake!

Marke B. - October 6, 2025

Join us Sun/12 at Counterpulse for a free Tenderloin workshop on 'The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity.'

Lit

Writer Michael Luo is ready for the happy ending

Emily Wilson - September 18, 2025

'Strangers in the Land' author shares what his deeply researched book on Chinese immigration history has in common with 'KPop Demon Hunters.'

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Litquake 2025’s lineup is here, and it’s stacked like the Bodleian

Marke B. - September 10, 2025

Sprawling literary fest takes over the city with spicy readings and events in October—here are some of our first round picks.

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City Lights poetry editor revisits the lion of Surrealism, André Breton

Nicole Gluckstern - September 8, 2025

Interview with Garrett Caples on reissuing Philip Lamantia—and how Breton contributed to the fall of the Haitian government.

Lit

How to be butch (or not)

Marke B. - July 29, 2025

Clark Henley's scandalous, witty, ultimately heartbreaking 1982 gay classic 'The Butch Manual' rides again.

Business + Tech

Steal this future

Annalee Newitz - July 24, 2025

We don't need to let the Big Tech oligarchs and creepy cyber-libertarians decide what city—and what kind of society—we want to live in.

Lit

Scissor Sisters’ Babydaddy grows into a new ‘Nostalgia’

Joshua Rotter - July 17, 2025

From EndUp dance floor to pop fame, musician Scott Hoffman now delves into the world of graphic novels.

Lit

Live Shots: SF Art Book Fair was rad and packed

Marke B. - July 14, 2025

Eighth edition of sprawling showcase featured tiny tomes, big names, 150+ booths, Karl Marx booty shorts.

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Lit

It wasn’t all bad! Our 16 favorite local cultural moments of 2025

Tip-top tomes: Our favorite books of 2025

At Zinn Fair, Steve Martinot connects police brutality to US fascism’s rise

Turn that anger into action at this year’s Howard Zinn Book Fair

‘Poetry for Men’

Roddy Bottum: ‘It felt like a sense of royalty’ to live through SF’s alt-rock era

In ‘Vera,’ Gary Shteyngart depicts growing up in a world becoming ever more cruel

Join us for Litcrawl’s ‘The Waymo That Ate San Francisco’

Trans trailblazer Miss Major has passed: Read our 2023 interview with the Stonewall veteran

First-ever Robert Crumb biography zaps with iconoclast’s free speech and wild pen

Two decades in, you still can’t break Broke-Ass Stuart

Join 48 Hills’ Marke B and author Sarah Schulman at Litquake!

Writer Michael Luo is ready for the happy ending

Litquake 2025’s lineup is here, and it’s stacked like the Bodleian

City Lights poetry editor revisits the lion of Surrealism, André Breton

How to be butch (or not)

Steal this future

Scissor Sisters’ Babydaddy grows into a new ‘Nostalgia’

Live Shots: SF Art Book Fair was rad and packed

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