Apartment hunting in San Francisco sucks. As it gets more and more difficult to find housing within the 7x7, people are looking to surrounding cities for more inventory, cheaper rent, bigger spaces, and pet friendlier landlords....
A letter to weed, written by someone finally calling the whole thing off....
On May 16, The Bold Italic, Asiento, and Revolights paired for an amazing evening in the MishiPot microhood (aka Mission Gulch, aka the sweet spot between the Mission and Potrero Hill, from Mariposa to 21st Street between Harrison and Hampshire)....
One thing that seems striking about San Francisco compared to other cities is the seeming lack of teenagers interacting with the city alongside the rest of us....
Get educated, get married, get pregnant. So it was written from the day I was swaddled in pink....
San Francisco isn’t going to the dogs; it’s gone. Doggone....
In the tech world, acronyms are king. It took me a while to differentiate between the BM (Biz Manager), PM (Product Manager), IM (Implementation Manager), PSM (Product Support Manager), OVM (Operations Vendor Manager), and SME (Subject Matter Expert) for every project....
People told me that college would be the best time of my life. And you know what, it wasn’t....
When I was a kid, I was sure I’d grow up to be a writer. I imagined living in Los Angeles with my best friend, working toward our ultimate joint-life goal of becoming the next Tina Fey-Mike West hybrid genius television-writing partners....
If you haven’t used at least three different highlighters in your calendar to mark the release of Arrested Development’s fourth season this Sunday, you’ve made a huge mistake....
Recently, a friend introduced me to the founders behind IPoopYou.com, an SF-based company that sends “high quality, farm raised, and eco-friendly, hand-picked animal poop” via snail mail....
San Francisco is such a transplant city, chances are if you’re reading this, you’re not from here. (Comments on just about every Bold Italic piece will remind you of this.) While you may be enamored by the multifarious ways in which SF is magical, unless the Giants or the Niners are kicking ass…...
