Food & Drink The Dish | Crunchy Weeknight Turkey Tacos By Courtney Azad | 13 hours ago Weeknight dinner dilemma solution that everyone will love!
Arts & Entertainment Movies: 2025’s unsung little gems By Anita Katz | Bay City News | January 5, 2026 Also, Gus Van Sant’s dark hostage comedy and two Oscar-shortlisted Palestinian stories.
Books Local Lit Events | January 2026 By Lou Fancher | January 2, 2026 Poetry — including youth poetry — journalism, birding around the Bay, and local Wiki fun are all on tap this month.
Bay Area Tilden Fungus Fair: Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 By East Bay Regional Parks | January 2, 2026 View hundreds of local mushroom specimens on display and hear from guest speakers.
Arts & Entertainment Notable 2025 nonfiction by Bay Area authors By Linda Lenhoff | Bay City News | January 1, 2026 From incisive social histories to meditations on nature, 10 books from 2025 to add to reading lists.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Neil Diamond tunes, Chris Botti, Pacific Mambo Orchestra, ‘Into the Woods’ By The Artful Observer | December 31, 2025 A strong showing of theater and music performances to kick of 2026.
Arts & Entertainment The sound of wildflowers: Audiobook lets visually impaired ‘see’ nature By Woody Weingarten, Bay City News | December 30, 2025 Peter Coyote lends his voice to "Voices for the Splendor of California Wildflowers: A Descriptive Journey for the Visually Impaired."
Arts & Entertainment Movies: Here are 2025’s 10 best as cinema stays alive and well in the Bay and beyond By Anita Katz | Bay City News | December 29, 2025 Still time to catch some of the year's best before awards season kicks into gear.
Arts & Entertainment Hooked on Books: Up jumps the devil, again, in the pages of a book By Sue Gilmore, Bay City News | December 26, 2025 New works by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Julian Barnes, Louse Erdrich, and others kick off 2026.
Arts & Entertainment Lake Merritt Donut Runners bring fun to Friday mornings By JL Odom, Bay City News | December 26, 2025 The group meets every Friday at 7 am in Snow Park, rain or shine, for a lap around the lake.