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Here's a Postcard for San Franciscans to Send to Their Cold Friends This Weekend
My phone tells me it's going to be a high of 70 degrees this weekend. SEV-EN-TY. I don't care how many years you've lived here, or if you grew up in a place like Southern California where this kind of...
View ArticleMeet Our New Managing Editor, Jeremy Lybarger
Hi, I'm Jeremy, The Bold Italic's new managing editor. Pleased to meet you. Here are some of the least interesting facts about me.I moved to San Francisco from New York almost six years ago, imagining...
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San Francisco's Love/Hate Relationship with McDonald's
San Francisco has always had a love/hate relationship with chain restaurants, feeding our guilty pleasure fixes with fries on one hand and protesting to keep their corporate clutches out of our...
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12 Things You Won’t Be Able to Buy Anymore Now That SkyMall is Bankrupt
Our in-air staple catalog of gadgetries, curiosities, and other inexplicably useless items, SkyMall, has folded. The company filed for bankruptcy protection after realizing that no one wants to buy...
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Rickshaw Bagworks: Your Dream Bag Shop in Dogpatch
Ever get on a congested MUNI train and wish your backpack didn’t take up so much precious personal space? Or looking for the perfect, customized bike commute bag? If these thoughts have crossed your...
View ArticleYou Won’t Die if You Ride the Bus in LA
I said good-bye to my 1996 Volkswagen Jetta at an impound lot somewhere in the hinterlands of South Los Angeles about three years ago. Before that moment, I never once considered riding public...
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Old Photos Of Dogpatch Show It's Always Been a Cool Looking Hood
Dogpatch's melding of stark industrial and cozy neighborhood aesthetics is like no other part of San Francisco. Walk the streets crisscrossing 3rd St. and you'll pass huge warehouses housing artist...
View ArticleMean Hannah's Back: Girls Season 4 Ep. 3
Nudity: Jessa's sunburned assBest line: “This whole thing is why I hate relationships between white people” - JessaSpoilers: Last night's episode of Girls was lukewarm at best, but at least there was...
View ArticleA Gay Rugby Shower Scene and Some Other Stuff, Too: Looking Ep. 3
Office birthday parties are interminably dull, so read whatever you want into the fact that Looking Episode 3 opens with one. A colleague who Kevin thinks is a lesbian because she packs a chain wallet...
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Insane Video Shot From the Top of The Golden Gate Bridge (Updated)
Editor's Note: Well, it was fun while it lasted, but we've been asked to take these down as well. A while back we posted some gorgeous, anonymously-submitted photos from the top of the Golden Gate...
View ArticleThe Things You Give Up When You Break Up With Someone in SF
Love is grand, ain’t it? That is, until you break up with someone in a city as small as San Francisco, where we’re all separated by a just few degrees. That means you need to add a few of those degrees...
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Photos: Inside a Hollywood Prop Warehouse
Serving the Hollywood movie industry, prop houses are one-stop shops for manifesting every director’s wildest dreams. Need a stuffed bobcat? You got it. Looking to transform your set into...
View ArticleJulia Roberts Will Star in Upcoming Batkid Movie
It’s been a little over a year since Batkid mania took over San Francisco, in what was one of the most heartwarming examples of our city’s seemingly preternatural ability to come together for the sake...
View ArticleCalling All Wedding Vendors!
The Bold Italic is currently accepting vendor submissions for Love/Make, our 2nd annual indie wedding expo, and we're looking for the best vendors, venues, makers, and big-day experts in the business....
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Portraits of Cats Dressed in Matching Outfits with Their Owners
Since fashion can be a form of self-expression, coordinating outfits with someone else is a good way to communicate your ties with that person. We’ve all seen our fair share of photos with smiling...
View ArticleSF's Awesome Muslim Superhero Fighting Those Ridiculous Bus Ads
The day after the January 7 attacks on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, one member of BAAQUP (Bay Area Art Queers Unleashing Power) texted another one, saying, “Get ready, Pam Geller’s...
View ArticleChariot, Private Van for Muni Haters, Expands to Cole Valley
Construction work on the Sunset Tunnel has been suspended because of noise, although volume is the least of the issues for people who depend on the N for their commuting. (Does it seem to anyone else...
View ArticleGet Tickets to See Labyrinth Because We Know You Like It
Good news for all you David Bowie superfans, tickets are on sale now for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' March film series highlighting the work of Bowie. Cracked Actor: David Bowie on...
View ArticleWill Trees Turn the Mission into a Google Theme Park?
At first glance, The Mission Street Public Life Plan, a project of the city’s Planning Department, seems to have admirable goals: to “promote the street as a vital transit corridor” and “create...
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Graphs Show How Early Minorities are Eliminated on "The Bachelor"
There is a weird, rose-petal scented place in my heart for ABC's Bachelor franchise. Eight of us get together every Monday night to drink rosé (duh) and spend up to three hours watching that week's...
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