What it was like leaving Medium for Ghost

The Bold Italic San Francisco 8/4 2:29A Saul Sugarman

The Bold Italic is a scrappy website that launched at the end of the 2000s. The iPhone only existed for two years at that point, so modern video watching, Instagram, and mobile-forward websites had...

Clint Reilly, Political Consultant and Newspaper Owner, Dies at 79

The Bold Italic San Francisco 7/20 9:45A Saul Sugarman

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...

Drug-Free Housing: SF’s Best Public Safety Strategy

BeyondChron.org (Mid-Market/Tenderloin) 7/20 4:15A Randy Shaw

How SF Can Promote Recovery, Safe Streets. Of all the strategies San Francisco has used to reduce drug-filled sidewalks - the $22 million Linkage Center, $13 million crisis clinic at 822 Geary, the $6-14.5 million for the RESET Center, and the...

A Vacant Chase Bank on Mission Street Is Becoming 'Hidden Frequency,' an Immersive Music Venue

The Bold Italic San Francisco 7/6 3:00A The Bold Italic

For nearly two years, the corner of 21st and Mission has sat behind plywood. The former Chase branch at 2500 Mission St. became one of those dead storefronts that get invoked whenever people start...

When Did Karl the Fog Become a Thing?

The Bold Italic San Francisco 6/15 9:57A Saul Sugarman

Lately I have been playing around with the OG social media trick of spouting truisms. Like did you know it s hard to drive on San Francisco hills ? Or that our weather has a mind of its own ? The most...

How a Welder Used SRO Housing to Rebuild His Life

BeyondChron.org (Mid-Market/Tenderloin) 6/15 4:28A Julia Zrihen

A Place for People to Start Spencer Hughes, 62-year-old resident of the Graystone Hotel, came to San Francisco in 2021 without a dime in his pocket. He figured he wouldn’t need one, as he had something more valuable to him Read More The post How...

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...