Tens of thousands of people will pay four figures and drive six hours to a place with no shade in order to be somewhere hot ...

There’s a great little kitschy dive bar in Lower Nob Hill in San Francisco called the Owl Tree. From the window seat, you can sip a dirty martini and look across the intersection of Post and Taylor at ...

San Francisco is not an ice cream town the way a place with an actual summer is an ice cream town. We eat it anyway: in the fog, in a fleece. Then we get our four real days of heat in February and ...

You grew up in one of these five counties: Marin, Santa Clara, Orange, Loudoun or Westchester. You went to a private high school that cost $40,000 a year to attend, yet when you mention it, you ...

My mom has this Craigslist printout from 2002 that she’s kept framed in the bathroom since I was a kid. The title reads: “SF I love you. Unrequitedly.” In it, the author details their love for the ...

So you’ve decided to write a movie script for the Hallmark Channel holiday season. We are thrilled to spend another summer shooting Christmas movies in Canada. In order to produce our annual quota of ...

The iPhone has changed so much about how we live and interact with one another that it’s hard to believe that the original iPhone went on sale just over 10 years ago, popularizing the concept of the ...

Here's the thing about oyster happy hours in San Francisco right now: most of them got more expensive. The $1 oyster used to be a reliable weekday fixture, the kind of deal you could count on at a ...

Editor's note in 2026: The Bold Italic is not-for-profit and teeny tiny. We need a budget before we can pay freelancers. And we don't like doling out assignments that pay nothing. Thank you for your ...

You may have noticed PurpleAir and AirNow.gov giving different Air Quality Index (AQI) values for your zip code. For example, on August 21st, when I checked these sites, the AQI given on AirNow.gov ...

As of this morning, Loveski Deli has officially opened its doors at 499 Jackson Street in Jackson Square, and the carb era on one of SF's most bougie blocks has officially begun. We wrote about this ...

This week in The Bold Italic, we are publishing A Californian’s Dilemma, a series that goes beyond the headlines about the “California Exodus,” featuring essays from San Franciscans about why they’re ...