Why I'm breaking up with Burning Man
Adriana Roberts is a well-known burner who has gone for 30 years and needs to quit the playa. This is why.
People know me at Burning Man. For 27 years, I’ve been the editor and publisher of Black Rock City’s most popular newspaper, first known as Piss Clear (named after the Black Rock Desert’s #1 survival tip: drink enough water so that you piss clear) and then re-branded in 2010 as the more professional-sounding BRC Weekly.
As I’ve done nearly every August since I moved to San Francisco, I’m once again headed out to “the playa” this week, but with one important difference: this will probably be my last time.
Read the latest by Adriana Roberts
Where to eat with your family in San Francisco
Whether you’re going out with your own kids, friends with kids or taking out local niece and nephews as I do, you don’t want to compromise what you eat. And you shouldn’t ever have to in San Francisco.
There is no end to the wealth of food education one can casually participate in with children while eating heartwarming, fun meals. Covering a range of cuisines from Korean to Cajun — across neighborhoods — here are eight places you may not initially think of as kid-friendly.
Read the latest by Virginia Miller
San Francisco Circus Center helps students tumble and fly
Nestled in an old church building, its graying yellow facade prominent to passers-by, across the street from Golden Gate Park is where such trapeze, acrobatics and even aerial routines take place. This is the home of Circus Center: a school for students of all ages who are interested in circus arts or are simply interested in staying in shape.
Read the latest by Aaron Levy-Wolins
What we’re doing this week
The Monster Show: Florence + The Machine vs Tori Amos
Castro’s longest-running drag show continues this Thursday for just a $5 cover, hosted by Elsa Touche, who recently wrote about hooking up for The Bold Italic. It’s time for the theme, “Tori Amos vs Florence + the Machine” with a cast of incredible performers ready to give you the feels! Age 21+
WHEN: Doors at 9 p.m., show starts at 10ish. Bring cash for door cover and tips.
WHERE: The Edge at 4149 18th St.
What’s on our mind
We keep content mostly fun and light at The Bold Italic, but the future of the Bay Area interests us, too. Here’s what we are thinking about in local news. Brought to you by GrowSF.
Tracking SF’s fentanyl overdoses
The Chronicle has just launched a visualization of the incredible toll the fentanyl overdose crisis is taking on SF and the nation, using data from the Stanford Lancet Commission and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overdoses, driven by synthetic opioids like fentanyl, are a national crisis that are actually “driving down the nation’s life expectancy.”
The piece shows overdose rates over time and by ethnicity with county-level granularity. Lest anyone think San Francisco suffers the fentanyl scourge alone, this demonstrates the truly national tragedy. In fact, the west coast was late to see fentanyl’s rise. “In 2018, 90% of the synthetic opioid (primarily fentanyl) overdose deaths occurred in the 28 states east of the Mississippi River.”
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