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A Recap of Halloween in SF (NSFW)

Halloween in San Francisco is not an affair to be taken lightly. Sure, you can go to a bar or...

By Christopher Michel Readers deep in thought at Caffe Trieste. Cool cats at Specs’ Twelve Adler Museum Cafe. This friendly...

San Francisco is a lively, luminous place filled with seemingly endless opportunities to celebrate something — anything. And celebrate we do,...

Turns out, San Francisco doesn’t just bleed tech. While the tech industry might dominate headlines, it doesn’t dominate...

Residents here accept it as just another thing to get used to...

Congratulations, San Francisco. It looks like we’re subject to yet another cringeworthy statistic other than that about ridiculous rent...

A ballot is a reflection of a city’s collective consciousness, its fears, hopes and dreams. But those dreams can...

By Christopher Michel “Come on, people, how about a little something for the effort here? This pose ain’t gonna...

California native Traci Des Jardins is one of San Francisco’s rock-star chefs. While her five restaurants keep her super-busy,...

The Bold Italic is a not-for-profit media organization, and we publish first-person perspectives about San Francisco and the Bay Area....

By Rachel Smith Remember the good old days of transportation yore, when Muni passes were multicolored and had that trippy,...

Every few months, like a pimple familiar to the forehead, this question rises back to the surface of our city’...