by Laurance Lem Lee This past weekend, “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), and Best Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis). It’s an incredible film…

By Davy Carren It’s St. Patrick’s Day — are you looking for Irish coffee? I explored five spots in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, and here is what I found. Links below will jump to each venue: Donahue’s Marina Lounge in San Francisco Twin Peaks Tavern in San Francisco Freehouse…

By Davy Carren It is raining. I’m squinting through the downpour at the hostess in front of The Buena Vista like some down-and-out gumshoe with a broken umbrella and wet socks, trying to find my bearings in a valiant attempt to secure a seat at the bar of this famous…

A horrifically beautiful mountain landscape decimated by fire emits inexplicably eerie, meaningful cries — Authored by Robert Roy Britt, curated by The Bold Italic editors; originally appeared on Britt’s Medium page. Where once a grove of majestic aspens stood, their paper-thin leaves whispering at the slightest summer breeze and shouting the passage of any strong gust, now mostly denuded white and black corpses reach…

Release the stress and GTFO of Slack — By The Bold Italic’s Editor-in-Chief, Matt Charnock The pandemic has changed how we work…. which also includes what we think of work. Notions of carrying around these bags of macronutrients and enzymes to mundane desk jobs to perform monotonous tasks have become a taxing reality millions have put under a…

For one: We will lose entire neighborhoods to the sea — By The Bold Italic’s Editor-in-Cheif, Matt Charnock San Francisco is a bastion for all things pertaining to environmentalism, conservation, and biophilia. Those among us who call this 49-square-mile city home are blessed to live no more than a seven-minute walk to a City-maintained greenspace. Even our four-legged besties can wag…

An ode to chosen families and where to find them — By Matt Charnock, Editor-in-Chief of The Bold Italic As we opined in February: Going into 2022, one of our collective intentions was to consciously, and actively practice additional gratitude exercises that centered around living in San Francisco. For the most part, we’ve been quite good about honoring that intention. We’ve…

It’s important to know what’s going on in your city… even if you haven’t stepped away from your WFH setup (or showered) in two days — By Matt Charnock, Editor-in-Chief of The Bold Italic In my comparatively short time on this planet, I’ve never lived in a metropolis with such a thick network of hyperlocal news outlets. On any given day, no matter the hour, there’s an endless number of rabbit holes to fall into. Should…

And five things that seem normal now, but would’ve been albatrosses twenty-four months ago — By Matt Charnock, Editor-in-Chief of The Bold Italic I was in the Target off Mission Street when it was announced that the City and County of San Francisco, as well as six other Bay Area counties, would enact a history-making shelter-in-place (SIP) ordinance on March 17th, 2020. Mind you, I…