2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

From absurdist metafictions involving doppelgängers to a documentary about a slain music star that utilizes never-before-seen ...

Bad Bunny captivated listeners with the salsa escapade of “Baile Inolvidable,” while Fuerza Regida painted vivid tales ...

The KALW Music Team put together a list of their favorite albums released by Bay Area artists, including LaRussell, The Gold ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

Some years, a handful of songs dominate our playlists, festival stages and social media trends. In others, the playing field feels a lot more level, greatness more evenly distributed. The last 12 ...

Our film critics watch a lot of movies in a year. By December, their viewing slates span international standouts, festival favorites, studio blockbusters, and plenty more in between. Below, Justin ...

There are few things as life-affirming as baking a chocolate cake from scratch, but sometimes it’s simply not possible. Maybe your kid is sick, or you’re running late, or you forgot to pick up ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

Apple pie gets the spotlight, but there may be no dish more quintessentially American than cornbread. The star comfort food is a staple of holiday tables as well as a seasonal stalwart accompaniment ...

Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, ...