Your Commute Might Suck Today
This morning, The SFMTA tweeted a warning, "HeadsUp: Drizzling conditions this morning. Please give yourself extra time to get where you need to go," followed by several tweets about bus and cable car...
View ArticleFinally, a Nice Meter Maid Story
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,...
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The Building That Will Transform Chinatown in 2015
“Our goal is to demystify Chinese food,” says restaurateur George Chen, touring through the construction site at 644-660 Broadway Street, the future home of China Live. “A lot of people think it just...
View ArticleLesbians Have More Orgasms Than Straight Ladies
Huffington Post reports that a study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine on the variation of orgasm occurrence by sexual orientation has found that single lesbian women have the highest...
View ArticleThose ALS Challenges Wasting 25k Tons of Water
By now we've all seen politicians, celebrities, regular people, and whatever Lady Gaga is, getting cold and wet for the "ALS Ice Bucket Challenge," the latest series of viral videos to fundraise for...
View ArticleY Combinator Has to Womansplain Harassment to VCs
Business dinners that turn out to not be about business. Unwanted hands slipping under the table to land on a thigh. Trying to be taken seriously in a man’s world. While it may sounds like I’m talking...
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There's an App to Erase Your Online Regrets
With smartphones and social media, it can be hard to keep your scandalous and incriminating items a secret, especially when you're wasted and don't realize until the morning after that you've shared...
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Photos: SF's Cutest Shoe Cobbler
Anyone who's been to Haight Street Shoe Repair in Upper Haight will know exactly what I mean when I say that I am head over heels in love with Carlos, the man who runs the little shop. Not only can he...
View ArticleSunset May Look Different in 10 Yrs
Curbed SF reported yesterday that there are plans to create new mixed-use buildings, including more than 1,000 new homes, in the Sunset District in the next 10 years. District 4 Supervisor Katy Tang's...
View ArticleSF Needs These Theft-Proof Bikes
It happens to every cyclist, sooner or later. You come out of the store, or a bar, or a spontaneous overnight sexual escapade, and find your bike is gone and the naked “No Parking” sign you locked it...
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Add Your Polaroids to This Public Art Project
Got Polaroids that were taken in SF? Polaroid SF wants to include them in their design for a 400 pound Hearts In SF sculpture. Their design will include hundreds of different people's Polaroids and...
View ArticleShare Good News on FB Without Everyone Hating You
If life were a contest, Facebook would be the scoreboard. Through vacation photos, career updates, and blurry proposal videos, the most depressing website in the world allows users to compete with...
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Recap: How Successful Crowdfunding Works
Five years ago, if you had told us somebody would end up raising over $55,000 for the sole purpose of making a potato salad funded by strangers on the internet, we’d have probably said, “Yeah, at this...
View ArticleThis Dude Uses BART as His Gym
I'm trying not to think about all the gross things this guy might contract from the BART carpet and I definitely hope this video doesn't encourage more people to sweat (or exude any other bodily...
View ArticleMills College Changes Gender Policy
Mills College, the well-regarded liberal arts school in the Oakland foothills, is a 160-year-old institution that until now, only women who were assigned as female from birth were eligible to attend....
View ArticleMaybe Don't Do Donuts on the Golden Gate Bridge
If you haven't seen this video of People Behaving Badly with Stanley Roberts that features a driver doing donuts on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge, it's worth a watch. I recommend...
View ArticleBoard Our Party Boat to the Treasure Island Fest
After a fun first year, Rock The Boat is back for 2014. Unless you’ve got your own yacht (and even if you do), this is the fun, worry-free ride to and from the Treasure Island Music Festival. Once...
View ArticleBART Explains Why It Will Never Be 24 Hrs
Those of you still holding out hope that BART will one day run as late and often as trains in other cities, time to face reality. Our major multi-city connector can't go late night because the hours...
View ArticleNYT on the Tech Gentrification of Burning Man
Even if you’re only tangentially aware of Burning Man, you may have seen this story on the New York Times website, which has been making its rounds on social media here. But if you haven’t, it shakes...
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We're Looking for LA-Based Visual Contributors
The Bold Italic has been staunchly dedicated to covering all things Bay Area. And now that more and more San Franciscans are migrating south (while we have so many Angelenos living here), we've decided...
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