Hidden Sf - The Bold Italic

11 San Francisco Birthday Party Ideas that are More Fun than a Bar or Restaurant

By Amy Copperman So we’ve already established that group birthday dinners are the worst. The worst! Not convinced? Read...

About 14,000 people a day enter or exit through the 24th St. BART terminal. Of those, maybe half will...

Lands End is my favorite part of San Francisco. Rain, shine, or fog, there’s never a bad time to...

When the first round of urban settlers came to the Mission in the 1850s, the landscape was not flat. There...

Good news for people with fond memories of teen movies from the early 2000s. According to Curbed, the historic firehouse...

By Caleb Pershan The real devastation of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, as history buffs never tire of noting, didn’...

The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is the largest piece of unused land in San Francisco. Since the navy left in...

By Sierra Hartman The sights and sounds of inner Chinatown may feel foreign compared to the slick and modern Financial...

By Sierra Hartman With so many new buildings going up all around the city, it’s sometimes easy to forget...

I think it’s safe to say that shipwrecks are universally intriguing. They’re old and just the right kind...

By Devin Holt Viracocha, the Valencia St. antique store with a secret basement venue (where The Bold Italic once hosted...

By Jeremy Lybarger There are approximately 530 single resident occupancy (SRO) hotels in San Francisco. They are home to more...