The Dating Challenges of Being a Plus-Sized Woman in a Figure-Crazy City
Finding love is always challenging, but it’s especially hard in a city with tunnel-vision-like focus on appearance for someone who doesn’t match the high standards set for beauty in Los Angeles. LA is...
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Check Out All The Changes Coming to Muni This Month
Complaining about Muni is a San Francisco tradition as deeply entrenched as poop watching or rent gouging, but get ready to tap your Clipper Card with joy because a whole new round of improvements is...
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Hidden Gems of San Francisco
San Francisco is like an artichoke. It’s not an onion, whose layers are stinky and may make you cry — but rather a big, beautiful bud that makes you really work to get to its rich center. Oddball...
View ArticleWelcome to the New Bold Italic
Hello, and thank you for checking out the new iteration of The Bold Italic! We are excited to keep a San Francisco institution alive, and are grateful for your continued support. We know you have...
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The Best Way to Prepare for an Earthquake? Take Xanax.
Last month, New Yorker readers in the Pacific Northwest freaked out after reading Kathryn Schulz’s article about the imminent massive earthquake and tsunami in the Cascadia subduction zone. The piece...
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A Day in the Life of a Cannabis Farmer
*Some names have been changed to protect the sources’ identity.Many of us hardly stop to think about where our weed comes from. Beyond the standard plastic bag exchange, marijuana’s origins generally...
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The Best $10 Dinners in San Francisco
It’s a Friday night. You want to eat something new and tasty, but you’re watching your purse strings these days and don’t want to blow it all on one dinner. You, my friend, are in luck by virtue of...
View ArticleHow Tech is Ruining Dating
A couple of years ago, my husband and I were at a bar with some friends we hadn’t seen in a while, when one of them turned to us and asked, “So what’s it like to be married?” We both glanced at each...
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Badass Lady Musicians Take Over Bay Area Stages
Photo courtesy of Kendra McKinleySan Francisco’s 1960s rock scene helped put the city on the music map and was associated with a decade-long counterculture era that shook the nation. But while...
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I Visited San Francisco's Worst-Rated Yelp Restaurants and Got Food Poisoning
I am writing this on breaks between bathroom visits. Having an iron stomach (a lifelong claim that I have now rescinded), I thought it would be funny to find five of the worst-rated Yelp restaurants to...
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An Overview of the San Francisco "High-End Toast Scene"
I must admit I was confused by the toast trend when I first heard about it. My roommate was going on and on about how she wanted to go to a place with amazing toast … that cost $4. “It’s more than just...
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4 Incredible Places to Grab a Drink in San Francisco
San Francisco has a storied history of speakeasies and old-time bar-and-grills. There’s something romantic about stepping into certain old-school San Francisco bars and grabbing a drink. As a...
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I Hate Running, but I Ran a 5K Beer Run, and It Was Awesome
I hate running. Even just the thought of it evokes within me a certain childlike petulance. I slouch. I sulk. And more than anything else, my stomach curdles—a bubbling, miasmic discomfort, best...
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7 Gorgeous Runs to try in San Francisco
There are plenty of ways to get your adrenaline fix under the San Francisco sun, like sailing in the bay or driving a fast car down the 101. For me, though, the simple joy of a quiet scenic run is the...
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An Interview with Lyn Ulbricht, Mother of "Silk Road" Founder Ross Ulbricht
Lyn Ulbricht has temporarily relocated from Austin, Texas, to be near her son, Ross Ulbricht, who is currently being held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. He was given two life...
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9 Places for "Nerds" to Hang out in San Francisco
San Francisco has played home to smart misfits for decades. The City by the Bay has a reputation as a friendly refuge for nerds, dorks, and otherwise goofy intellectuals with weird ideas. We’ve fought...
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4 Awesome San Francisco Food Bloggers
It’s your turn to pick a spot for dinner, but in this city, the sheer number of choices can make such a simple decision feel like an overwhelming task. It’s true that many SF denizens would rather...
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Here are some of the Best Burrito Joints in The Mission
As someone who has eaten a lot of Mexican food in both LA and San Francisco, I can say that San Francisco is ground zero for amazing burritos, the best of which can be found in the 24th Street area of...
View ArticleThese were my 3 Craziest Roommate Situations
Roommate horror stories: we all have them. Most people will live with a roommate at some point, whether that person’s their BFF or some stranger they find on Craigslist. While where you live is...
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An Interview with Mayoral Candidate Broke-Ass Stuart
The Bold Italic recently sat down with San Francisco journalist and funny man Broke-Ass Stuart to chat about his views on the changing social and economic realities of the city, his run for city mayor,...
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