The LGBTQIA+ community loves a public transit moment — The Covid-19 pandemic took an astronomical, near-extinction-level hit on public transit agencies across the United States. Ridership for New York City’s subway system saw an apocalyptic crash; 2020 experienced a 92% dip in passengers. …

The plot around this chaotic spin around the circle of life is also thicker than you’d think — Mother Nature is a wild and wonderous entity; she’s also a ruthless presence that isn’t afraid to illustrate how balance plays out in the animal kingdom. …

It’s the ostensible small details that make these paintings even more massively captivating — On a picturesque afternoon in Golden Gate Park, dozens of curious writers — editors, journalists, conduits of art and culture — gathered inside a window-less, rectangular, all-black room on the de Young Museum’s second floor to fawn over the official presidential portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama. Having been the…

Mother Nature really served us a well of good brain chemicals recently — The Bay Area is among the most biodiverse regions in California. Not only is SF home to arguably the most breathtaking serpent in America — the San Francisco garter snake — but also one of the third-largest cat species found in North America, the bobcat. …

Plot twist: It wasn’t because of a collective emotional weight present that day — On any given day during the week, over 112,000 vehicles drive over the Golden Gate Bridge — a number that fell by over 40% during the pandemic’s shelter-in-place orders. …

From June 14th to 18th, the CA Department of Parks and Recreation will host unique community events honoring its 279 state parks — California’s natural magnificence knows no bounds. Whether straining your neck to look up at giant sequoias or, say, more interested in observing vociferous elephant seals, there’s a CA park that can satiate such a tingle. As of 2022, California’s state parks system now includes 1.3 million acres of a wild…

It’s a mash-up of apathy, exhaustion, and delusion that feels somehow personal — Whenever I have the chance, I vote in person at San Francisco City Hall on Election Day; I’m always self-conscious about whatever body odor might’ve wafted out from me when raising my hands passing through an on-site metal detector. There was no line yesterday. I spilled coffee on my mail-in…

Well… $995,000… to be exact — We’re big fans of all things tiny living here at The Bold Italic. In arguably the country’s most walkable city, the notion of having your living room be the city, itself, really does have a solid ring to it. This makes it more digestible to stomach downsizing one’s life in…

It’s a ‘sign of the times’ — the recession vultures circling over us bipeds below — This weekend, I went to my neighborhood Whole Foods to rumage the hot bar and see if there was anything worthwhile; moderately edible. I had just finished running seven miles. It was the path of least resistance to securing susenate; to usher myself past these automatic doors that sit a…