This is What Happens When a 49er Goes With His Head Over His Paycheck
A difficult offseason for the San Francisco 49ers just got a little tougher. By now, you’ve likely heard the story of 49ers linebacker Chris Borland, who chose to retire from NFL football at age 24,...
View ArticleMy (Almost) Life as a San Francisco Vibe Coordinator
After a three-year absence, I returned to the Tenderloin a cliché, another down-and-out veteran with no job and nowhere to live. Swords to Plowshares, a local nonprofit, helped me find a studio...
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YAS QUEEN: A New App Takes Broad City to the Next Level
It's official: the app gods are reading our dream journals and granting our wishes. On the eve of Broad City's season finale, KQED Arts reported today that Comedy Central has released a Broad City...
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The Shocking Way One SF Church Deals With the Homeless (Updated)
Saint Mary’s Cathedral on Geary and Gough is under fire this morning after KCBS revealed the church’s distinctly un-Christian method of dealing with the city’s homeless. About a year ago, the church...
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I Hate The Person Who Wrote This CL Ad And You Should Too
Eleven days ago someone posted this in the men seeking women section of Craigslist's San Francisco personals. If it's real, I weep for humanity. If it's not real, the joke is depressing so I still...
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Rich People Aren't the Only Ones Getting Bigger Paydays in SF
Another day, another study showing just how outrageous income inequality is in San Francisco. Except this study, from the Brookings Institution, also indicates just how much richer the city's elite is...
View ArticleBernal Heights Woman With Huge Rent Hike Speaks Out
Less than a week ago, Deb Follingstad was just another San Franciscan who’d come face-to-face with the city's all-consuming housing crisis. You probably know the story by now, but a quick recap: Her...
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Let's All Take a Deep Breath and Watch this Lovely Video Postcard of SF
What the hell, San Francisco? This has been a rough week, between the way this church treats the homeless and this landlord raising the rent to an outrageous amount and this ridiculous Craiglist ad. We...
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Everything You Need to Know About Your New Favorite Giants Pre-Game Spot, The...
Baseball season is less than two weeks away (!!!) and San Francisco is officially title town. It’s time to get excited and this Friday, the Giants will be inaugurating a brand new pop-up pre-game...
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Watch: Servers and Bartenders Read Nasty Yelp Reviews About Themselves
It’s remarkable that many of us continue to use Yelp, since it feels like like most of the reviews come from people who want to bitch about rude waitstaff and subpar eats. Now, there’s a video of...
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Stunning Photos of San Francisco From Above
I think sometimes we get jaded. We get so caught up in our lives that we forget to look around us. We take our city, the place we used to view with such wonder and curiosity, for granted. It's just...
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A Visual Guide to What to Try at Nijiya, the Japanese Supermarket
Sure, you may have had your fair share of experiments with instant ramen, green-tea Kit Kats, and Hi-Chew candies, but there is an entire world in each Japanese supermarket filled with the potential to...
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Confessions of a Hater: I Actually Enjoyed the Mr. Marina Competition
I am not a Marina Guy. Seventy-five percent of my wardrobe is brown, I hate shaving, and I have no interest in BMWs. So when The Bold Italic asked me to cover the Mr. Marina competition, I poured...
View ArticleThe Best Horror Movie of the Year Opens in SF Friday. Go See It.
The plot of It Follows, the second movie by director David Robert Mitchell, is spelled out in its entirety within the first 15 minutes of the movie, so I won’t be spoiling much by explaining it here....
View ArticleNormal is the New Diversity Thanks to Shows Like ‘Empire’
Maybe I’m a bit of an optimist, but this week’s season finale of Empire seemed to mark the beginning of a new era in television. Empire, Scandal (and the rest of Shondaland’s Thursday), Fresh Off The...
View ArticlePass These Party Ideas Off As Your Own
I think it's fair to say that San Francisco likes to party, and in a city as inventive and idiosyncratic as this one, the played out themes just don't do it anymore. You could pay $12 to go to this...
View ArticleFinally! A Way To Send Your Enemies a Bag of Dicks
Telling someone to eat a dick is pretty much a catch-all insult. You can say it jokingly: "You don't think the college years of Boy Meets World were better than the high school years? Eat a dick, man!"...
View Article8 SF-Based Movies & TV Shows You Can Watch On Netflix Tonight
It's time to participate in our nation's favorite regional pastime, binge watching. But let's not binge watch aimlessly, friends, let's show some love for good old SF. That way when your roommate...
View ArticleThings Get Weird in New Teaser for "Silicon Valley"
There's still four weeks until Silicon Valley returns with a second season, but today HBO released a special "preview" with teasers about what's in store — and it all sounds kind of weird (in a good...
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