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Moss Landing–Cruising around Santa Cruz
Last weekend, driving back from our daughter’s spectacular wedding at Costanoa Lodge, we stopped in Moss Landing to introduce some relatives to a small, going-back-in-time sort of place along the...
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Napa Valley Film Festival–Is this the next Sundance?
Last week (November 9-13) I attended the inaugural Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF) with a friend who lives in Calistoga and has volunteered in the festival’s planning. Over 100 films were presented,...
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“Mud Slide”– A Spa Experience
During President’s Weekend I decided to take my daughter, Maya, to Calistoga for a spa decompression treat–a Girls Getaway–that actually was a promotion at the Solage Spa and Resort in Calistoga....
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Seagrass Restaurant: Bon Appétit–Mi Cuit
Last weekend we went to Santa Barbara and had a delightful experience participating in the inaugural cooking lesson by Chef Robert Perez, owner of Seagrass (30 East Ortega Street). Trained in France,...
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Bar Pintxo: In a pinch
Recently on a trip to LA we embarked on a culinary adventure beginning with a cooking demo by Bar Pintxo Chef David Planowski at Surfas, a gourmet kitchen supply store in Culver City. Recently rated...
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Machka–Istanbul in San Francisco
A new Mediterranean restaurant opened in San Francisco last month ( at 584 Washington St. in the Financial District) called Machka. The small 32-seat dining room features long communal tables, a few...
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Azuki–The Sushi, Not the Bean
We’ve eaten at just about every high-end sushi restaurant that exists in any town we are in, looking for the Holy Grail of sushi, and some standouts have really been memorable. In San Diego, I...
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Osteria Mozza–A Tongue Thriller
Burrata de Puglia Last week we had a wonderful gastronomic adventure at Osteria Mozza in Los Angeles on Melrose Avenue (West Hollywood). We selected this restaurant on a friend’s recommendation (see...
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Bottega Louie–A Mega Bottega
Bottega Louie opened in 2009 in downtown Los Angeles and is in good company with some of the finest restaurants in the area. The 10,000-square-foot paean to the good life is more than a marble and...
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SideTour–When You Don’t Want to Feel Like a Tourist
On a recent vacation in New York City, we thought we would try out SideTour (www.sidetour.com), an online marketplace for unusual, offbeat experiences and activities. Originally designed not for...
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Green Chalk Contemporary–It’s All About Fish
The year-old gallery, Green Chalk Contemporary, in Monterey, is currently presenting “FRESH FISH “, a show of over 50 artworks contributed by local, national and international artists....
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GORGEOUS: Confronting Beauty in Some Extreme Forms
[Guest post from artist Tracey Adams who currently has her own show at the Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, and K. Imperial Fine Arts, San Francisco. In addition, The Huffington Post interviewed...
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TBD–Totally Beautiful Dinner
The second San Francisco restaurant in SoMa from the entrepreneurs, Matt Semmelhack and chef Mark Liberman, TBD –“To Be Determined”– serves a very different menu from AQ (their first restaurant...
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Los Angeles Book Festival—Not for Book Lovers Only
The Los Angeles Book Festival attracts approximately 150,000 people each year and is the largest book festival in the country. Not only booksellers, authors, and publishers attend but also musicians,...
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Windhover—Where the Mind Can Hover
Zen Fountain Over Memorial Day Weekend I visited Windhover, the new spiritual and contemplation center on Stanford University’s campus, a minimalist architectural style suggesting Zen and personal...
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Son of a Gun—On Target
A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of going to Son of a Gun, a newish West Hollywood restaurant. Small, intimate—when we first drove by, we had to circle the block twice to find it—the food is...
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AL’s Place—A Favorite New Spot in SF
AL stands for Aaron London, the young energetic chef of Ubuntu fame (renowned for vegetarian food in Napa Valley). This newly opened San Francisco restaurant on the corner of 26th and Valencia is a...
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“Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography” at the Getty Center [until...
Light, Paper, Process For anyone who loves photography, “Light, Paper, Process” is mind-blowing. Do you want to know what can be done with a photograph processed the old fashioned way? Before...
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“The Broad”—A Vast Expansion of Modern Art
Murakami The Broad Museum, funded by billionaire philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, is one of the hottest tickets in downtown Los Angeles. Just scan the huge stand-by crowds for tickets (which are...
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Carmel Bach Festival–The Joy of Music
Now celebrating its 80th anniversary, the world-renowned Carmel Bach Festival has just begun its summer season! If you are in the Carmel, California area sometime between July 9th and July 29th, stop...
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