What Goes through Your Mind the Week of Thanksgiving?
Sunday. While watching Obama pardon a turkey, you suddenly realize you don’t even have your Thanksgiving plane tickets. Your...
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What’s on the Bay Area’s Mind?
Two things: weed and Trump. Since Election Day, the protests have been pretty much nonstop. Many Bay Area residents are...
My Body Hates My IUD — But It Was Still Worth It
The doctor points to a tray full of dangerous-looking objects. They’re all really long and narrow and make it...
The Best (and Worst) Museums to Visit While Stoned
Countless San Francisco museum guides exist. In fact, we’ve probably written a few ourselves. But we realized that there...
We Asked a Politics Professor to Explain What Your Life Might Look like under a Trump Presidency
Do you like free speech, reproductive rights or Obamacare? I have some bad news for you....
I Guess We Have to Gentrify the Tenderloin Now
By Lauren Thomas It is with a heavy heart that I have come to the conclusion that we should probably...
From Beats to Hippies to Punks to 9/11, Bruce Conner Saw It All — Experience the Twentieth Century Through His Eyes
A sponsored story from SFMOMA San Francisco has always been a haven for cultural refugees. From the Disability Rights Movement...
Democracy Means More Than Voting Once a Year: An Open Letter
Every November around this time, the American public is harassed about the importance of voting. Perhaps you’ve seen the...
The Bold Italic Welcomes the Russians!
Здравствуйте, comrade reader! (This Russian for “hello.”) My name Dmitri. I new commissar-in-chief of Bold Italic, now subsidiary of Russian...
The Bold Italic Presents: Festival Stories
We sent a video crew down to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass to record the shenanigans, and spent the last month painstakingly editing all the fun into a short film....
Classic Pop Songs, Reimagined as Infographics
Two years ago, local artist Elle Luna challenged artists from around the world with her “100-Day Project,” an idea with...
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