Help The Guardian Print One More Issue
Media flags are still flying at half mast on account of last week’s sudden closure of San Francisco Bay Guardian, but now there’s some tangible hope to resurrect the publication. And you can help! A...
View ArticleSF Gentrification Breeds New Kind of Homelessness
The changing face of homelessness is captured artfully in this new series. Tracey Lien, technology reporter for the Los Angeles Times, wrote a piece for Vox Media entitled "Inside San Francisco’s...
View ArticleThe Lexington Club Closing After 18 Years
SFist broke the news that the Mission’s self-proclaimed “friendly neighborhood dyke bar,” The Lexington Club, which has been throwing great parties and slinging great micheladas for 18 years is getting...
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Should You Call Your Product Disruptive?
Disruptive, disruptive, disruptive. It feels like you hear people say it all the time. But is it really necessary? We think people have gone a little overboard and started misusing "disruptive" to the...
View ArticleA Voter's Guide to SF Propositions
Each election, San Franciscans in the ballot booth are faced with a lengthy list of some seriously confusing propositions. Some seem written to purposely confuse us. Some contain hidden language– we’re...
View ArticleSoap Box Derby This Sunday
This Sunday is the third annual Soapboax Derby & Block Party on 20th Ave between Wawona and Vicente from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is free to watch, and if you have a soapbox car of your own (and...
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Smooth Sailing All the Way to TIMF
This past weekend while some stood in line for hours waiting to be shuttled across the bay and others paid hundreds of dollars for a quick Uber ride, we took a savvy group of festival-goers to and from...
View ArticleShould All Women Uninstall Uber?
How much misogyny is too much misogyny?That’s the question Sarah Lacy, editor-in-chief and founder of tech blog Pando Daily, grappled with in an article titled, “The horrific trickle down of asshole...
View ArticleRead This If You're a Superstitious Giants Fan
The Baseball Gods see all and demand everything.So, just as you placed that spoon under your pillow in grade school to pray for a snow day, you’ve got to appease the deities that be during this World...
View ArticleYour Bitchy Resting Face Could Cost You A Job
Another blow for the Bitchy Resting Face community.A study was published recently saying that humans judge each other by reading facial features.No word on if a follow up study is being planned to see...
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An Elegy to SF's Last Dyke Bar
At 9 o’clock last night, the day the news broke that Lila Thirkield was selling the Lexington Club– 18 years old and an institution; for a long time, or still, depending on who you talk to, the city’s...
View ArticleAwesome Concert in Botanical Garden's Redwoods Sat.
San Francisco's Botanical Garden is one of my favorite places to escape to in this city. Show your local ID card and you can wander through acres of amazing plants, flowers, and trees from around the...
View ArticleWe're Looking for Winter Editorial Interns
Hello writers! Are you a Bold Italic fan looking to get on the other side of the screen with us? We're looking for two social media-savvy bloggers interested in interning at The Bold Italic HQ (Hayes...
View ArticleBest New Rooftop Dining: K-Town & Beverly Hills
Barney’s in Beverly Hills has been completely revamped from the beauty basement all the way up to the 5th floor restaurant. The former staid Barney’s Greengrass has been replaced by a much hipper...
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Discount Bay to Breakers Registration On Friday
If Halloween has you rooting through your costume drawer, why not kill two birds with one stone and start planning for Bay to Breakers?On Friday you can use a special annual discount to register for...
View ArticleTahoe Officials Call For End To Bear Selfies
According to CBS SF, park officials in South Lake Tahoe have started warning hikers not to take selfies with bears. It seems that idiots – I mean guests are getting too close to bears in order to take...
View ArticleThere's Going to Be a Huge Market on Market St.
If you’ve stopped by The Hall on Market and Jones, you might have been dazzled by the softly pulsating sunbeams hitting the Moroccan-Peruvian food at Cassia. You might also have felt a wistful twinge,...
View ArticleIn Defense of Women in Sexy Costumes
A few years ago a friend confided in me that she hated “slutty” costumes. As she went on and on about how annoying these costumes were and how demeaning she found them I stared back wide-eyed. This was...
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Update: What's Going on with the Elbo Room
As has been widely (and a bit hysterically) reported, the owners of the Elbo Room space might want to turn the historic bar into condo room.But that can’t happen until Nov 1st 2015 when the lease is...
View ArticleHow Not to Treat Your Friends with Cars
San Francisco cannot be categorized as a car or non-car city in the clear-cut ways that NY and LA are. It’s more of an “it can be nice to have a car sometimes, but you can totally survive without one”...
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