The Ice Cream Map of San Francisco

The Bold Italic San Francisco 5/27 10:59A Saul Sugarman

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...

How to Do San Francisco Without a Car

The Bold Italic San Francisco 5/26 7:57P Saul Sugarman

Nobody falls in love with San Francisco because the bus was punctual. You fall in love with it over a burrito at midnight, or a view you climbed to, or the specific loneliness of a very late-night diner. And you do not need a car to do this. San...

All the Ramen I Could Find in San Francisco

The Bold Italic San Francisco 5/25 9:11A Saul Sugarman

There is a specific kind of San Francisco day that only ramen can fix; the kind of foggy cold that calls for a bowl of pork-bone broth the temperature of a hot tub. I have had that day roughly four...

Anyone Else Remember the Mr. Marina Competition?

The Bold Italic San Francisco 5/20 8:46A Saul Sugarman

In San Francisco, the Marina neighborhood is what the Castro might look like if every gay man simultaneously came out as a Sigma Chi. It is where the bros go to thrive, but also some good brunch. And probably a whole lotta bachelorette parties. I...

My layered emotions about the recent Halston-themed show in Union Square

The Bold Italic San Francisco 5/14 3:03A Saul Sugarman

Roy Halston Frowick was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1932, and for a boy from the Midwest he engineered one of the most spectacular rises and falls in American fashion. He began as a milliner, and his...

Why I'll Always Show Up for Dress for Success Gala

The Bold Italic San Francisco 5/6 7:19A Saul Sugarman

I never had the money to go out all the time, or to don a fancy dress for the ball. Living is expensive, and that s especially true in San Francisco. But I found another way into the room: I became a...

Doris Fisher, Co-Founder of Gap, Dies at 94

The Bold Italic San Francisco 5/5 7:34A The Bold Italic

Doris Fisher , who co-founded Gap Inc. with her late husband Donald in a single small store on Ocean Avenue in 1969, and who spent the decades that followed assembling one of the most significant private holdings of contemporary art in the...

Fashion from 'Art Bash' 2026

The Bold Italic San Francisco 5/4 8:31P Saul Sugarman

Today is the first Monday in May, otherwise known as the Met Gala an important fundraiser for the Costume Institute at New York s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The rest of America knows it more generally for celebrities wearing high-end fashion....

Has San Francisco Really Sobered Up?

BeyondChron.org (Mid-Market/Tenderloin) 4/13 4:29A Randy Shaw

Visitor s Misleading Account of SF Last week the NY Times featured an op-ed titled, “San Francisco Sobers Up.” The piece credited Mayor Daniel Lurie with transforming the city’s culture. Former President Bill Clinton tweeted the op-ed, calling it...

Nothing Good Happens in the Woods at the Ballet.

The Bold Italic San Francisco 4/11 8:15A Saul Sugarman

So I just came from La Sylphide for the first time at SF Ballet, and I have notes. This is classic repertoire that felt like an interlude between strenuous choreography Blake Works and Don Quixote...

San Francisco Keeps Losing Pool Tables. These 32 Bars Still Rack 'Em Up.

The Bold Italic San Francisco 4/10 7:20A Saul Sugarman

San Francisco has been quietly losing pool tables for awhile. Family Billiards, the oldest continuously running pool room in the city, is being pushed out . Whiskey Thieves is gone . The Wooden Nickel...

Here's Why You Should See 'Mere Mortals' at SF Ballet

The Bold Italic San Francisco 4/8 7:22P Saul Sugarman

Every time I open my phone or talk to literally anyone, they tell me how bad everything is right now. The war in Iran. AI replacing every job you ve ever loved. Hundreds of anti-trans bills moving through state legislatures across the country. And...

The SF Secret Cave Rave That Almost Wasn't

The Bold Italic San Francisco 3/29 2:10A Saul Sugarman

Blame SF Standard. Or Partiful . Or Curious Connie . Secret parties have died in the same town that cultivated the news feed, the group chat, and the fear of missing out. I did not advertise this...

SF Ballet finally went clubbing. It's called 'The Blake Works'

The Bold Italic San Francisco 3/2 6:40A Saul Sugarman

The Blake Works is what happens when you take sweat and a filthy bass line, and pour them into a leotard. It s 21 dancers moving like they re at last call and the floor is theirs. It s ballet that...

Finding our resonance at the Grace Cathedral Gala

The Bold Italic San Francisco 2/20 11:27P Saul Sugarman

Last year at Grace Cathedral s Carnivale , I found the plastic baby in the King Cake. Tradition dictates this brings good luck. In reality, it kicked off a spectacularly chaotic year where we were...