Tom LeNoble moved to San Francisco 33 years ago expecting to die of AIDS. Instead he built a tech career in business suits ...

When I started showing up on San Francisco's black-tie circuit several years ago, I was told the golden rule of covering these things is to never be negative. "Don't say if the fish is too fishy," is ...

Dolly Parton, the songwriter, performer and businesswoman who turned a Smoky Mountain childhood into one of the most durable careers in American popular music, has died in her home in Nashville. She ...

This is part of a series called "What It's Like" where we at The Bold Italic tell you what a place in San Francisco is actually like. Based on our own experiences and those of our readers. Café ...

I never met Clint Reilly, but knew him vaguely as that person who fired me. It was 2021, and he had just acquired the SF Examiner and SF Weekly. Through his proxies, Reilly shuttered the Weekly, then ...

For nearly twenty years, the little castle clinging to the side of Telegraph Hill has been one of San Francisco's most beautiful empty buildings. This September, Julius' Castle is coming back. The ...

San Francisco just got a new trail: a roughly 13-mile route that starts at Crissy Field, hugs the bay, bends south along the entire oceanfront, and finishes out at Fort Funston, collecting a dozen ...

"There is no San Francisco without the LGBTQ+ community." The speech was, by most accounts, a polite one. Daniel Lurie had come to the Hyatt Regency on the Embarcadero for the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ ...

The Mill, the Divisadero Street café and bakery that somehow came to stand for an entire era of San Francisco, is closed indefinitely after a fire ripped through the back of the building early Monday ...

We've added this article to our What It's Like series, where we at The Bold Italic tell you what a place in San Francisco is actually like. Based on our own experiences and those of our readers. There ...

San Francisco did not invent the cocktail, but we have spent roughly 175 years acting like we did. The pisco punch was born here. The martini, depending on which barstool historian you trust, was born ...

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 ...