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Welcome to Best of the Bay 2025!

Our 51st annual Readers' Poll celebrates everything that's Best about the Bay Area—chosen by the people who live here.

Best of the Bay 2025: City Living Winners

Best Street Fair, Best Night Market, Best Tattoo Parlor, Best Yoga Studio, Best Gym, Best Hotel, more

Best of the Bay 2025: Food & Drink Winners

Best Burrito, Best Pizza, Best Dive Bar, Best Date Restaurant, Best Sports Bar, Best Cafe, more

Best of the Bay 2025: Arts & Entertainment Winners

Best Cinema, Best Live Music Venue, Best Drag Show, Best Strip Club, Best Karaoke, Best Comedy Club, more

Best of the Bay 2025: Shopping Winners

Best Bookstore, Best Bike Store, Best Cannabis Dispensary, Best Flea Market, Best Thrift Store, Best Shoe Store, more

Under the Stars: For Cahl Sel, electronic experimentation is a family affair

Plus: Akiko Yano's 1970s live love, Harvey Sutherland's top five house records, a new Ghostly Crushed, more music.

BIG WEEK: Techno-cyborgian Blackness, Rocky Horror, Litquake, BART Jazz Fest…

Party at Golden Gate Park Bandshell, Yvonne's Southern Sweets, Chinatown Night Market, Decembrists, John C. Reilly, more to do!

Labor-led coalition calls for Airbnb boycott

The company is trying to get out of $120 million in local taxes. Labor is fighting back

Drama Masks: ‘Hot Wing King’ pours on subversive tang

Plus: At Terror Vault's 'Hexed,' search for the magic crystal to fight the Coven of Three in the Himalayas!

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Screen Grabs: 3rd i Fest reaches ‘Beyond Bollywood’ for thrills

Plus: Mexican terror in 'Noche Oscura,' bittersweet SF nostalgia in 'Fairyland,' dark fantasy 'Ice Tower,' Orwell on the line, more movies

Dorsey wants to block city funding for supportive housing that isn’t drug-free

Bill is a direct challenge to years of data-driven policy that focuses on 'housing first' and harm reduction

Julio César Morales’ tender work renders the pain of migration

The artist's latest show 'My America' utilizes painting, sculpture, immersive sound installation, and neon to tell 'the story.'

Catch a new film about the brutality of sweeps and attacks on the unhoused

With no love from Hollywood, 'Crushing Wheelchairs' gets two Bay Area screenings

Good Taste: Honey & Pearl sweetens up Emeryville

Former South Bay pop-up bakery finds a permanent home—and the banana pudding is a must.

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Win tickets to TV on the Radio, Ty Segall, Shoreline Mafia

Go see a banging live show at one of SF's top venues, on us.

New poll shows resounding support for public bank in San Francisco

Across demographic groups, 67 percent favor the concept

Dance music legend François K: ‘I can’t cry for DJs who feel challenged to play for two hours’

Rare interview with 71-year-old trailblazer before SF appearance delves into past, present, and forward-looking sounds.

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Popscene

30 years and an astonishing array or SF debuts later, the club night is still presenting the hottest-to-be live bands on the planet.

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

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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