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...