Polk St. Bar Playland Busted for Selling Booger Sugar — The Bold Italic — San Francisco
Playland Bar on Polk street will be closed for a month because The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control alleges...
Nob HillA collection of 10 posts
First Look: Your New Favorite Beer Hall
By Adrian Spinelli Time to add another top-notch craft beer hall to your to-do-list. Although Hogwash might soon become your...
Iconic Meal On Wheels: House of Prime Rib — The Bold Italic — San Francisco
By Tamar Pacheco-Theard Let me preface this by explaining that I was raised next to cattle; steak and potatoes are...
Tilted SF: Flat Streets, Tipsy Houses
It’s hard enough to park a car or even just walk on the especially crazy-steep SF streets, to imagine building a house on them would seem impossible if they weren’t already there....
Secrets of the Floating World — The Bold Italic — San Francisco
“Hold your finger up until you feel it,” he said, holding up his own as demonstration. I stood across from...
British Invasion
By Tania Rohan I’m a bit of an Anglophile. Ever since I can remember, I’ve been enamored of...
Show Boys
By N.W. Smith I don’t get strip clubs. I’ve been to a few in my time and...
Costume Shopping with the San Francisco Opera
By Josh R. Every day is Halloween in San Francisco. Between the period parties, street fairs, themed races, gatherings, and...
The Mark of a Great City
A fan explores singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek’s San Francisco...
Raising Caen
By Aaron Britt On February 1st, 1997, thirteen unlucky years ago today, San Francisco lost its greatest chronicler. From 1938–...