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Oakland Is No Longer 2nd Most Dangerous City in America
The good news: Oakland crime is down (Yay!) Bad news: But so is police morale. Here's why that matters:Last year, Oakland was named the second-most-dangerous city in the US. The data came from Crime in...
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8 Other Ways to Save Water, From Lazy-ass to Advanced
You know what they say about water: “Can live with it, can’t live without it.” and California is getting closer to being “without" it than ever before. I detailed my sentiments about the drought...
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How To Use SF's New Textile Recycling Bins
San Francisco just got a new set of fancy pants recycling bins for your fancy pants and other used clothes as part of the city's goal of Zero Waste by 2020. According to FastCoExist, the containers...
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Meet San Francisco's 2014 Billionaires
In case you were wondering who you should hit up for a loan in this city, SFLuxe just published its list of 2014's Bay Area Billionaires. (And in case you were wondering what SFLuxe is, it's a site...
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Boycott the Olympics and You'll Hurt, Not Help Gay Rights
Many of my friends are boycotting the Olympics this year. Vladimir Putin’s homophobic rants that compare gays to pedophiles and his anti-gay laws that criminalize mentioning homosexuality have turned...
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Beef Tartare Is the New Kale in SF
At least, that's the claim that SF Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer makes in a post on Inside Scoop. Bauer lists more than a dozen restaurants in the Bay Area including Wayfare Tavern, Local's...
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San Francisco's Most Expensive Nails
I was walking with a friend of mine when he did something really odd around 48th Avenue. He paused to look at a telephone pole, pointing out a nail with the number 57 stamped on the head. He then...
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Why I Love Living in Chinatown
By Mike WalkerChinatown has a reputation for being part of the tourist circuit, a place few people you know actually reside. It’s been my neighborhood for over a decade, and friends have actually asked...
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This Human Font is Totally Freaky
We're very specific about the fonts we use at The Bold Italic, so we keep an eye on trends in design and creative lettering. I have to say, this collection of human-body typeface from French design...
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Should We Call a Whambulence? Real World SF Ep. 5
Get out your Dramamine, because this week you’ll get seasick from the ocean of emotion arriving with the exes on the Real World. What little stability our friends have found in San Francisco over the...
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SF Beer Week "Bear" Picks
When I first started drinking beer, my library of selections spanned from Hamm's, Rainer, and Rolling Rock to Tecate (when I was feeling exotic). Living in the Pacific Northwest for most of my twenties...
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Where Did San Franciscans Move to (and Where Did They Come From)?
The U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, released on Wednesday, shows interesting data about the nation's population during 2008 to 2012. The survey was taken over a five-year-period, asking...
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SF's Soda Tax Is Less Annoying than New York's Soda Ban
Plastic bags, Happy Meals, guns in movie ads on MUNI, the sale of baby ducks – San Francisco lives to ban things. With soda, though, it's not so simple. Instead of following in former NYC-mayor Michael...
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The Fantastic San Franciscos That Never Got Built
Imagine you're on Twin Peaks, looking out onto the San Francisco skyline. In front of you is a sweeping view of our great metropolis, the Bay around it, and on the slopes of the hill before you ... a...
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Hot Ladies Eating Vegan Desserts
If you like vegan, gluten- and soy-free desserts, especially if they're being eaten by sexy ladies who look like they were photographed by Terry Richardson (or in the case of the woman above, like the...
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SF Voted Most Charming City 'Cause Like, Duh
This is one of those the-headline-is-basically-the-whole-story posts, but how cute is this news? According to Hotels.com, 1,200 internet users were randomly surveyed by Google Consumer Surveys and SF...
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You a Developer? Work with Us!
The Bold Italic is seeking a creative and innovative developer to support our stack: Postgres, Rails, HTML/JS/CSS. Heavier back-end experience is appreciated, but fullstack skills are a MUST (you don't...
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San Francisco Homebuyer's Guilt
By Michelle TeaI never thought I’d be a homeowner. I never even thought I’d want to be one. Most of my experience with home ownership has been scary and secondhand. I grew up moving from rental to...
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If You Complain About Facebook on Facebook, You Still Like Facebook
What unites all my friends on Facebook is a professed hatred for Facebook. That is why smart, successful, stable individuals with happy lives drop off the site all the time, saying they need a break....
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Rain Cancels Oakland First Fridays Tonight, Art Murmur Is Still On
In case you haven't heard already, First Fridays, Oakland's popular monthly art and community celebration, is officially canceled due to the impending rain that's supposed to shower down on us all...
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