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SF Gets Art Instead of Ads This Summer
The Art City Project is bringing San Francisco some outdoor public art this summer as part of their exhibit Way Out West. The artsy project will take over outdoor advertising and put contemporary art...
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Help This Homeless Artist By Running the SF Marathon
One of the first things you'll probably hear (or read) about Ronnie Goodman is that he's homeless. He lives in a homeless camp under Highway 101. But there's so much more about this inspiring...
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Don't Miss These Amazing Summer & The Symphony Shows
If you’ve never seen the San Francisco Symphony perform one of its brilliant collaborations, you’re missing out on one of the city’s great musical pleasures. Our renowned orchestra unites with a...
View ArticlePunk Girl Survives the SF Tech World
For years there have been individuals that I’ve seen around town who captured my imagination. This project, Drawn From the City, became an excuse to find out about their lives through interviews,...
View ArticleAre New Yorkers Bringing Honking to SF?
There's always been a lot of back and forth between San Francisco and New York, with residents of both cities visiting, trading places, and being influenced by each other's ways and culture. But some...
View ArticleNeed Outside Lands Tix? Work Your Way In Today
Outside Lands tickets sold out in 24 hours this year. But for folks who absolutely must be on scene when Kanye, Macklemore, and Tom Petty play in Golden Gate Park this August, there might still be an...
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"My Ginga" is the Rap Parody Pale People Have Been Waiting For
As a ginger, my life is a constant hunt for shade. Example: on the car ride back from my recent Fourth of July getaway, I had to resort to covering myself in paper towels because the sun coming through...
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Can Buildings Make Us Better Friends?
I live in a 12-unit apartment building and I never see my neighbors. Never. It took me over a year to run into anyone other than the person below me who bangs on my floor and then my door when I'm...
View ArticlePerfect Names for the 6 New California States
With all this talk about Tim Draper’s ridiculous measure splitting California into six new states actually getting enough signatures to get on the 2016 ballot, people are up in arms about the potential...
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An Open Rant Against Birthday Dinners
As a kid, you probably thought birthday parties were awesome. Your mom would invite all your friends and find the least-creepy magician in town, and you just had to show up and eat your ice cream cake...
View ArticleCan I Meet a Girl if I'm Totally Lacking Game?
Hi Jessica, I'm a girl-loving girl and I am having such a hard time with dating. I've tried online, going to clubs, asking friends to set me up, and nothing seems to be working. I am tired of being...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Miami Vice-Themed Booze Cruise
If you come to The Bold Italic with any regularity, you know we love a great event and our pals, brewer/distiller Seven Stills of SF are throwing what very well could be the party of the summer, the...
View ArticleIs SF Losing Its Chinese Working Class?
In an article published in Boom: A Journal of California, David Lee reports that San Francisco is "becoming too expensive for many Asians." Namely, the working class Chinese. Lee calls San Francisco...
View ArticleThe Bay Lights Needs Your Help, SF
Do you fancy yourself a patron of the arts? Even if you aren't, San Francisco's largest art project, The Bay Lights, is in dire need of your generosity.The self-proclaimed "most iconic light sculpture...
View ArticleSo You Need Over $95k to Be "Happy" in SF Now?
Well … not quite, but you still need a lot more than people in, say, Tennessee do. That’s according to a recent report released by Business Insider examining the adjusted “happiness threshold” based on...
View ArticleBreaking Bad Actor Filming Movie Near Lake Merritt
Indie film August Falls is currently shooting in various locations throughout Oakland and Berkeley. Fairuza Balk (whose credits include The Craft and American History X) and Charles Baker (aka Skinny...
View ArticleShould San Francisco Ban More Chain Stores?
Since 2004, San Francisco has actively protected small businesses and the city’s character by placing light restrictions on formula retail. Specifically, if a chain has more than 11 locations in the...
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SF Crew on So You Think You Can Dance
Bay Area viewers might recognize some of the moves on tonight’s episode of So You Think You Can Dance. The pair behind a San Francisco hip-hop dance crew are choreographing the opening number....
View ArticleSell Clothes by Mail and Other Crossroads Trading Tips
I've always been a fan of Crossroads Trading Co., but last weekend I popped in on a whim and walked out with a impressive haul. When I got home, I hunted down each piece's original price online so I...
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