Here’s What Trump Thinks of the Bay Area
Given that we live in the bluest corner of the bluest state, presidential candidates rarely — if ever — stop to stump in the Bay Area....
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Staff Tell All: Best Coffee in the City
“You know what they say,” my aunt used to joke. “Two Jews, three opinions.” I’m true to my heritage....
Introducing The Bold Italic’s New Augmented-Reality Game
This week, we’re proud to launch our new augmented-reality game for Bay Area residents....
Nine Pokémon with Inexplicably Sexual Attributes
Maybe Pokémon Go was made by a bunch of horny dude-bros, or maybe the original designers back in the ’90s were naïve about the potential for innuendo in their creations....
What I Learned from Interviewing People with Weird Jobs
For the past year, I’ve been producing a podcast during which I spend a day or two with people who do interesting or unusual work....
Reimagining the City’s Limits
What happens when we own less and share more....
Who’s the Wise Guy Touring You Around SFMOMA?
“Why is this urinal art?” asks comedian Kumail Nanjiani. “I don’t get it.”...
Meet Monroe the Gardener: From Homeless to SRO
I’d met Monroe at Episcopal Community Services’ Tuesday breakfast support group for homeless seniors....
These Are the Faces of San Francisco’s Homelessness Crisis
The greatest power of the photograph is its ability to pause time. Things that we would not dare stare at for more than a fleeting moment are made still by the shutter — frozen in a moment, forever, compelling us to return to them again and again....
San Francisco Pride Is Over. What Next?
SF Pride has come and gone. Time to start sweeping up the streamers and face reality again....
This Week in The Bold Italic: Latina Identities, the Economics of Self-Pleasure, and Craigslist Nightmares
A week of stories on Latina identity, the economics of self-pleasure, and the enduring strangeness of Craigslist....
“Blank Map” Is a Psychedelic Performance in Black Abstraction
During my interview with the partial cast of Blank Map, two descriptive words kept circling back into the conversation: “abstraction” and “surrealism.” “When it comes to the way that surrealism and abstraction are often commonly talked about, the…...