Learn The First Rule of SF’s Dim Sum Club
By Tamara Palmer Da Vinci Villa Hotel in Russian Hill has brought in an unlikely new tenant, a restaurant called...
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The Bold Italic Now Covering Los Angeles Too
By Jennifer Maerz Starting this month, you’ll be seeing more Los Angeles content on The Bold Italic. Although we’...
The Year I Went Without Sex
Being single means having unattached sex with multiple partners whenever available, right? To varying degrees, yes, it does, but for me it meant being celibate — for an entire year....
Best Camping within Two Hours of San Francisco
By Sierra Hartman When you’re trying to plan a weekend camping trip, and half your friends work until 5:...
What to do With Your 3-Day Weekend
Labor Day weekend is upon us, dragging the tail end of summer along with it. Lucky for us that we...
The Phenomenon of Brunch, in Graphs
By Michelle Rial The Bold Italic is a not-for-profit media organization, and we publish first-person perspectives about San Francisco and...
I Don’t Want Taqueria Cancun to Win Best Burrito
By Victor Beigelman Friends, a beloved Mission institution is in tremendous danger. Taqueria Cancún, the one located at 2288 Mission,...
Vintage Photos of Gay Love From the Early 1900s
By Jessica Saia These days San Francisco has gay pride coming out the proverbial wazoo, but in the distant (and...
What Exactly is The Sum?
By The Bold Italic You may have noticed that we’ve been teasing out details about something called The Sum...
Photos: Bay Area Bronies
A Brony is an adult male fan of the children’s animated TV series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic....
How to Tell a Racist Friend, “That’s Not OK”
Hi, Jessica. I made friends with someone I assumed was quite open-minded based on the depth of our conversations. We...
HBO’s “Looking” SF Extras Casting Call
C’mon, you know you want to have a viewing party where you sit there with the remote during “your” episode, ready to hit pause when you show up and making anybody who guesses wrong take a drink....