This is Where You Should Be Going In Pasadena
By Clarissa Wei Pasadena is usually associated with the Rose Parade and football games, but there’s much more to...
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The Ten Types of Flakes Everyone Knows
By Kayla Lott It’s Friday (ok, it’s Tuesday but who’s counting?) so you obviously have plans to...
Stop Renting In SF And Own A House In Oakland Instead
By Punctuate These days, paying $3,000 for a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in San Francisco is increasingly hard to...
One SF Supervisor Has a “Drastic” Plan to Save the Mission
If one neighborhood exemplifies San Francisco’s bittersweet attitude towards development, it’s the Mission. Even as the closure of longtime community hubs like Esta Noche and the Lexington signal the end of an era, new...
“Girls” Went Off the Rails and I’m Into It
If this season went any longer without telling us WTF was going on with Hannah and Adam, I was gonna cut a bitch....
By Jessica Saia
By Jessica Saia San Francisco makes it easy to pretend you’re in a movie, but usually it’s a...
5 Things SF’s Kink Community Wants You to Know About “Fifty Shades of Grey”
The Fifty Shades of Grey franchise has became a pop culture phenomenon fueled by equal parts fandom and furor over...
A Field Guide to San Francisco Penises (NSFW)
By Ali Wunderman It used to be that you couldn’t live in San Francisco for long without seeing a...
New Blind Dating App Makes Men Compete for a Date
By Ann-Marie AlcĚÁntara Let the dating games begin for real. A new dating app launching in beta today in San Francisco let’s men compete to be a woman’s date. The Catch (which has...
Cheap Ass Things to do on Valentine’s Day
By Molly Sanchez Happy Valentine’s, Galentine’s, Anna Howard Shaw Day to you all. Whether you’re taken, single,...
The Missed Connection Muni Website of Your Dreams is Here
By Ann-Marie AlcĚÁntara If you’ve ever pined after a beautiful stranger on Muni but couldn’t work up...
Our 20 Favorite Entries for the State Bird Dinner Contest
During my time at The Bold Italic I’ve launched quite a few contests with some pretty great prizes on the line, but never have I seen anything so fiercely competitive as the battle for a...