SF's Legendary Flower Mart Might Soon Be Offices
First, the Mickey D’s across from Saison and now the Flower Mart at Sixth and Brannan? Yes, two institutions of cental SoMa are set to disappear. (One death knell is sadder than the other, especially...
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SF's Largest Food Festival is Next Weekend (And You Should Go)
After five years of doing it big in Union Square, Eat Drink SF is blowing up in 2014! The festival formerly known as SF Chefs has grown tremendously this year, expanding to take over the Festival...
View ArticleThe Bold Italic is Looking for Writers
Wondering how to get involved with The Bold Italic? If you're a great writer, storyteller, comedian, opinionated reporter, or some combination of the above, it's easy. We're looking to turn fans of the...
View ArticleSilent Dance Party on the Beach Coming in Sept!
Silent discos, or dance parties where music is pumped through wireless headphones for partygoers, have been around for years, but they continue to grow in popularity, now taking over non-club spaces,...
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How To Avoid Traffic During Sun's Marathon
The safest bet for avoiding traffic during this Sunday's San Francisco Marathon would be to play apartment survivor all day, but in case you don't have the materials one needs for that (mac and cheese,...
View ArticleSOMA Residents Spend $130/mo on Booze
Congratulations, SOMA – you're the most expensive neighborhood in the most expensive city in America.Using self-reported data culled from its users, personal finance app Mint.com shows that the average...
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Literal "Street Style" Photos
"Street Style" blogs have been hot for a while now. But let's call it what it really is: "People Style, Outside." If anything, the street is usually out of focus or is in the photo at some weird angle,...
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SF Not Prepared for Hot Mosquito Hell
Hey San Francisco, how are you? No wait, let me guess: tired as F and itchy as H? Me too!The past five days have been a nightmare. At least I think so – a nightmare is that thing that happens when...
View ArticleSF Is Officially the Most Age-Defiant City
You know San Francisco's rep for being forever young? It might be legit! SF Weekly reported on a study by Realself that ranked US cities by how good they are at "defying their real age." It turns out...
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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup (Partial)
Those tricky folks over at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass are gonna make us work for it this year. They just made the first announcement today (what would've been founder/philanthropist Warren Hellman's...
View ArticleWin $500 Prize at a Naked Dance Party Sun
Not that you needed any more of an excuse to go sans pantalon in weather this awesome, but this Sunday, the 29th annual Up Your Alley Fair will be kinking it up on Folsom between 9th and 11th streets....
View ArticleWho's at Fault if Your Car Rolls Back on a Hill?
We read our mail here at The Bold Italic. And this stumper question, sent in by a fellow stick shift driver (also called a manual or standard transmission), has been burning a hole in our inbox: "If...
View ArticleSad New Valencia: Clothes Contact to Close
Oh, Valencia Street. Must you break our hearts again and again? It wasn’t enough when kitsch Room 4 became an upscale chocolatier or Bombay Bazar [sic?] became West of Pecos. Now Clothes Contact – part...
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Map Time: Where SF Bikes, Walks, Jogs
Yesterday we brought you insight into the spending habits of San Franciscans, and today we're back with more SF-data goodies, this time with maps.Human, an app that tracks the movements of its users,...
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The East Bay is a Dog's Paradise
San Francisco may have Fort Funston, Crissy Field, and Golden Gate Park for dog walking pleasure, but the East Bay can’t be matched for the breadth of parkland that humans and hounds can enjoy. In...
View ArticleChurros Have Become a Thing on SF Menus
The Bay Area has been dusted in cinnamon sugar and dipped in hot oil. Leaping from the streets of the Mission and Fruitvale to the linen tablecloths of the Embarcadero and Lakeshore, there are almost...
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Recap: What Is The Future Of The Car?
If you take a look at past conceptualizations of what the future will look like, they almost always involve flying cars. Those obviously don’t exist, but that concept was an underlying theme about the...
View ArticleMUNI Fares Going Up Again
Here's another reason to invest in a Muni Clipper Card: Starting September 1, prices to ride the bus are going up again. Adult single fare will now cost $2.25. Yep, that means riders who pay upon...
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Official Video: That Crazy Waterslide in SF
Remember that enormous waterslide that took over Potrero Hill in June? You know, the one that made a lot of us conveniently forget that we're in a massive drought and that tapping into a fire hydrant...
View ArticleNonprofits Struggle to Afford Increasing Rents
It's easy to think about how rent increases affect what you personally have to pay to live in San Francisco, but it can take a moment longer to consider what other rents trending upwards mean for the...
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