We’re on the brink of a nationwide rent crisis — California (and the rest of the country) is on its way into a massive rent crisis. Eventually, the thousands and thousands of overdue rent payments that are currently on hold because of Covid will come due. Nationwide, one in four Americans report someone in their household losing income, or having…

Some employees may co-work, but WFH is here to stay — After nearly a year of sheltering in place, the way we work has fundamentally changed. More than 40% of American workers are working entirely from home, and some Bay Area tech giants have already announced long-term remote or distributed work policies, including Apple and Google. As vaccines roll out across…

If your quarantine sweats are feeling uninspired, check out these styles from a century ago — This article is part of SF Throwbacks, a feature series that tells the stories behind historic photos of San Francisco in order to learn more about our city’s past. As we enter our fifth month of shelter-in-place in the Bay Area, it’s fair to say our collective style has taken…

Pride has always been more than a party — it’s a courageous act — This article is part of SF Throwbacks, a feature series that tells the stories behind historic photos of San Francisco in order to learn more about our city’s past. Since we won’t be attending the Pride parade in person this year (which happens to be San Francisco Pride’s 50th anniversary)…

And how to help make sure these icons will reopen when it’s safe to do so — Pride Month has arrived, and we here at The Bold Italic are celebrating our LGBTQ community by taking a look back at its roots in our city. If you’ve ever been out for drinks in the Bay Area, you know our gay bars are a blast. But they’re more than…

Historic photos give us a look back at our region’s legacy of racial justice activism — This article is part of SF Throwbacks, a feature series that tells the stories behind historic photos of San Francisco and the larger Bay Area in order to learn more about our region’s past. In 1961, two students named Huey Newton and Bobby Seale met at Merritt College in Oakland…

You can see parallels between the community response to the 1918 Spanish Flu and Covid-19 — This article is part of SF Throwbacks, a feature series that tells the stories behind historic photos of San Francisco in order to learn more about our city’s past. Covid-19 has completely changed the way we live, and it feels unprecedented. But the world, and San Francisco, has actually been…

This SF Throwback shows the start of modern worker organizing — This article is part of SF Throwbacks, a feature series that tells the stories behind historic photos of San Francisco in order to learn more about our city’s past. San Francisco’s radical leftist politics didn’t start with the hippies in Haight-Ashbury or even the beat poets howling in North Beach…

San Francisco’s Market Street is just the beginning — Market Street, San Francisco’s most-congested promenade, is finally going car free. The move is long overdue—as it stands, it’s one big confusing cluster of cars, bikes and pedestrians that makes up a perfect environment for accidents to happen. …