I’m Not Your “Black Friend”
The only thing worse than being racist is being called racist...
Tomboy Tailors, The First LGBT Tailor In SF
By Sarah Medina On Saturday I attended the opening for Tomboy Tailors, the first tailor in the city to cater...
Craigslist Housing Horror Stories
It should surprise no one that SF-level apartment desperation + Internet strangers = inevitable housing nightmares, quietly marinating under that dial-up era homepage....
Why is The Curiosity Shoppe Closing?
By Jennifer Maerz We’re huge fans of The Curiosity Shoppe here at The Bold Italic. In the six-plus years...
7 Pairings to Elevate the Way You Cheese
By Kirstin Jackson I might be what some call an “expert cheese eater and wine drinker.” While nothing so official...
The Best ‘Sex’ in the City
When the Trannyshack gang first revived enthusiasm for The Golden Girls a couple years back, I thought their concept was brilliant. A drag re-enactment of long-lost episodes, complete with audio of old commercials to keep the...
Living with Your Ex
By Randy Scott Hyde When I moved to San Francisco in 2007, I knew it wouldn’t be cheap. Ever...
How to Cohabitate with a Loved One
I had sworn I would never again live with a romantic partner, because when you break up it makes things...
5 Reasons Vine Could Get Old Fast
Vine is a free app that has been acquired by Twitter that allows you to share up to six seconds...
How to Ride an Escalator
By Helen Tseng The Phenomenon of Brunch, in Graphsthebolditalic.comthebolditalic.comFLOWCHART: Should You Get a Dog?thebolditalic.comthebolditalic.comClassic Pop...
Telling Your Friends You’re Sober
By the time my decades-long chemical spree had ended, I had published a memoir about my exploits that a sober friend called a “drunkalogue” — a reference to AA disclosures that painstakingly detail every gutter puked in, stranger punched and bedsheet peed upon....
Corner Store Food, Plated Fancy
By Jessica Saia All photos by Erin Conger; food styling by Mason Lindahl If you live in San Francisco, it’...