The year in film: Perfect pairings
Revisit the best movies of 2025 with our critic’s hand-picked double features, from dark comedies to poignant family dramas. Plus, picks for best documentaries and animated films, and the worst films of the year.
Young jazz musician forges a path playing traditional jazz from the Peninsula to New York
Reeds player Nathan Tokunaga, who graduated from Belmont’s Carlmont High School this year, is already playing storied New York jazz clubs as he also attends college.
Our picks to ring in 2026: New Year’s Eve parties, performances and deluxe dinners around the Peninsula
Don’t wait until the eleventh hour: Get your plans in order with our guide to New Year’s Eve happenings.
Cantor delves into the art of magic
The Cantor Arts Center’s “Cunning Folk” exhibition explores how our modern concept of witches is conjured from centuries-old historic roots.
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Performing arts
Peninsula Lively Arts goes ahead with classic, hip-hop Nutcrackers
The Sugar Plum Fairy will pirouette — and pop, lock and drop — once more…
Music
What’s up this week: Thievery Corporation, local astronaut and more
This holiday week, catch genre-melding electronic music, hear a Peninsula-raised astronaut discuss his flights on the Space Shuttle and more.
Visual arts & more
Woodside resident and tech founder publishes memoir
Vinita Gupta was CEO of Digital Link and brought it to an IPO in 1994, becoming the first Indian woman to take a tech company…
