Our Favorite Films of 2025
Myron Angus lists twelve films from 2025 that you should check out. Grab your popcorn, kick your feet up, and enjoy.
Our Must-Read Stories of 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, we're feeling a little reflective, a little nostalgic even.
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As 2025 draws to a close, we're feeling a little reflective, a little nostalgic even. We looked back at the last six months of Current and gathered some of our favorite stories of our very first year. Enjoy, and happy almost new year!
Why Stop AI Thinks Artificial Intelligence Will Kill Us All
By Victor Zhenyi Wang
The group behind all those flyers wants you to think about AI doom, tech power, and human extinction.
Meet the Young Revolutionaries Building the Bay Area Workers’ Movement
By David de Leeuw
Young workers, sick of their bosses' bullshit, are hitting the picket lines. But their motivations aren’t only economic.
San Francisco's Billboards Aren't For You
By Wendy Liu
We explain what those weird tech billboards are really saying.
In Santa Cruz, an Unlikely Venue Unites Punks and Veterans
By Rebecca Gross
For more than 40 years, the Veterans Hall has modeled what a shared public space can look like for those cast off by society. Can it withstand increased privatization?
Data Shows The Vibes Are Bad
By Zoe Stahl
In the Bay, data and vibes compete to define our lives. But what if they’re not as different as they seem?
A Decade Without Heat: Inside the Valley Street Tenants’ Fight for Dignified Housing
By Cecelia Shaw
Tenants at 2341 Valley street, a 41-unit building in uptown Oakland, are fighting against squalid conditions, an absent landlord and city bureaucracy. But they’re not giving up.
LA’s Uprising Against ICE Was a Long Time Coming
By Lucio Maldonado
The LA protests weren’t just about Trump, ICE or the National Guard. They were the result of decades of dispossession of working-class Angelenos.
Meet the New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia
By Jimmy Wu
Libs and the far-right ‘link and build’ in the Bay Area’s tech publication scene.
This Is How We Win: Lessons from the Bay’s Pro-Palestine Encampments
By Joni Prince
Student camps in solidarity with Palestine sprouted up at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State and Humboldt last year. We made a ledger of their success and failures.
NO BIAS Is All Caps, No Capture
By Gabriel Lopez
DJs in the Bay want us to know they are workers, too.
P.S. Did you have a favorite Current story from 2025 that wasn't on this list? Email us at editors@bayareacurrent.com and tell us about it.
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