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. Armed with our guides, intrepid...
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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
By Casey Miner For the past year, I’ve been producing a podcast during which I spend a day or...
Reimagining the City’s Limits
What happens when we own less and share more...
Who’s the Wise Guy Touring You Around SFMOMA?
A sponsored story from SFMOMA “Why is this urinal art?” asks comedian Kumail Nanjiani. “I don’t get it.” From...
Meet Monroe the Gardener: From Homeless to SRO
By Lilian Wang I’d met Monroe at Episcopal Community Services’ Tuesday breakfast support group for homeless seniors. He came...
These Are the Faces of San Francisco’s Homelessness Crisis
Photography by Phoebe Heaton / Text by Keith A. Spencer The greatest power of the photograph is its ability to pause...
San Francisco Pride Is Over. What Next?
SF Pride has come and gone. Time to start sweeping up the streamers and face reality again. Fortunately, finance whiz...
This Week in The Bold Italic: Latina Identities, the Economics of Self-Pleasure, and Craigslist Nightmares
By the time you read this, the NBA Playoffs will either be over or almost over, so you might want...
“Blank Map” Is a Psychedelic Performance in Black Abstraction
A Sponsored Story from Circo Zero Performance During my interview with the partial cast of Blank Map, two descriptive words...
The Strange Beauty of Joshua Tree, California
By Ruthie Brownfield Just north of Palm Springs and on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, the town of...
Thank God It’s Thursday
A sponsored story from the Asian Art Museum They say Thursday is the new Friday, but then what does that...