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Breaking It Down: The Glove Law
As of January 1, 2014, California law prohibits culinary workers from touching ready-to-eat foods with their bare hands and requires staff to wear gloves in order to practice safe serving. Chefs across...
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These Artists Wanted Nothing to Do With Tech Buses
Mission Local, a paper that has consistently been covering the Mission's gentrification struggles well, stepped into an Internet land mine this week when it announced the results of a contest aimed at...
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Looking for New Running Spots? Check Out This Map
Nathan Yau at FlowingData created maps tracing popular running routes in 22 major cities and San Francisco is one of them. If you're a runner in the city, you're probably not too surprised that the...
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How to Use an Umbrella
Fellow San Franciscans, we will put our umbrellas to good use this weekend. But no one wants their eyeball on a skewer just because the person next to them doesn't have enough experience holding pointy...
View ArticleWatch What Happened At Our Collaborative Consumption Panel
On Monday January 27, The Bold Italic and Getty Images teamed up to host a panel at Public Works about the future of collaborative consumption. The event was co-presented by General Assembly with the...
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The West Coast Started an IPA War With Your Mouth
By Brett Garling Any beer drinker worth their malt is familiar with the American India Pale Ale. The brew is based on its British ancestor, which was extra hopped to stay drinkable after the long...
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SF Neighborhoods Reimagined as Small Countries
It often seems like San Franciscans view our neighborhoods as small countries (besides the different ethnic communities here, we also all know people who practically need a passport to travel more than...
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Looking Ep. 4: Does It Smell Like I'm All Right?
This week on Girls Except With Gays:Things that were very San Francisco: Folsom St. Fair, asses you didn't want to see in chaps, asses you did want to see in chaps, pooping angrily at someone's office,...
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"See the Elephant" with Anchor's New IPA
Last week's release of Anchor IPATM from the local brewer was as much about their delicious new beer as it was about dropping some serious historical knowledge. If you asked me a few weeks ago whether...
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Subway Removes Yoga Mat Chemical from Bread
Subway's "Eat Fresh" motto may soon ring a little more sincere. The company announced last week that it will be removing azodicarbonamide, a chemical commonly used in yoga mats and other rubber...
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Girls Ep. 6 Recap: Don't Quit Your Day Job, Hannah
Last night's episode of Girls didn't suck! But before we get into it, allow me to start with the basics:Title: "Free Snacks"Nudity: Ray's ass (meh)Best line: "Who goes to the gym with fucking pavé...
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Because Someone Needed to Turn Silicon Valley into a Comedy
You know, it's about time we stopped taking everything tech related so damn seriously all the time and had reasons to laugh at, with, and about the startup culture around us. This spring, HBO is...
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Why the Google Ferry Could Be a Good Thing
Like many a bridge and BART user, I rarely think about ferries as a viable mode of transport for my North Oakland to downtown SF commute. I’m also lucky enough to not deal with delayed busses and...
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James Franco Directs a Movie about the Making of The Room
Any Bay Area-er worth their salt has been to a midnight screening of cult classic, Tommy Wiseau's The Room, at least once, but will they watch a movie about the making of the movie? News just surfaced...
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Drag Queens + Taxidermy = Awesome Photos
The fourth annual Hard French Winter Ball returns to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk next Saturday, and it’s guaranteed to be magical as hell. Hosted at the Cocoanut Grove Ballroom (a historically fancy...
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Sponsored: What's It Like to Date a Fellow Bartender?
If we had to pick one drink to have on Valentine’s Day, it’d have to be a Negroni. Not only because its bright red color makes us think about hearts, but because there’s a really sweet love story...
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This Guy and His Trained Hawks Work at the SF Dump
By Amber SchadewaldI recently went on a date to the city dump – yes, the spot where our heaps of unwanted stuff become a massive, sad lump. My boyfriend wanted to learn how to make his workplace more...
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A Machine That Helps Women Feel Sex Like a Man?
Spanish arts collective BeAnotherLab has taken the first step toward creating an immersive experience of sexual intercourse as a different gender then your own. And their notion seems totally possible,...
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Oakland Voted One of Top Cities to "Flip to Hipsters"
Leave it to a realty blog to post a how-to-guide for flipping a house for hipsters. I'm serious; last week, RealtyTrac posted the cringe-y three step infographic below, along with a list of the 20 top...
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Can We Make Muni Less Germ-y?
It feels like most Muni rides contains at least one coughing kid or sick, sneezing adult. And when the drivers blast the heat on cooler days, we're all just hot boxing those germs right into our...
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