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...
It’s a Good Time to Be a Woman Who Loves Beer
Anyone who watches beer advertisements may assume that beer is not a drink for ladies....
10 Fantastic Hikes Within an Hour of DTLA
By Emily Ansara Baines It’s no secret that we Angelenos enjoy our fitness. Every week there’s a new...
Visual PSA: What You THINK Your PDA Looks Like vs. How It Looks to Everyone Else
Among all the people I know whose souls heave at the sight of even the TAMEST public display of affection,...
By Michelle Rial
By Michelle Rial Hey, can we talk? The Bold Italic is a not-for-profit media organization, and we publish...
Map Shows That Single Men Outnumber Single Women In SF
By Ann-Marie AlcĚÁntara You’ve heard it before but now there’s data to back it up: There are...
A new proposal calls for a block of 12th Street outside the Eagle Tavern to become a…
A new proposal calls for a block of 12th Street outside the Eagle Tavern to become a “leather-themed public plaza.” According to the Bay Area Reporter, the block — or a third of a block, really...
Why Your Wearable Fitness Tracker is Junk
Let this be a trigger warning to any obsessive-compulsives, but a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association claims your wearable fitness tracker might not be worth shit. In fact, it might...
‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Makes Me a Happy Hapa
Though I’m half white, our pudgy middle school protagonist here exhibits similar shades of childhood, in his trek through a culturally distant American suburbia....