If you’ve never visited a Prada Store, don’t dare call yourself a luxury shopper. We toured their store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills last year. It’s part modern art museum, part boutique, and all Italian style. Now, Prada has opened its luxury retail store in a stylish building honored by the American Institute [...]

As a native-born son, I enjoy walking around the different neighborhoods of San Francisco with 40 hills and bay views. Each has its own personality. But I’m not the only one who loves the streets of this city. The city is the most “walkable” in the nation, according to rankings released by WalkScore.com, a [...]

The big green thing you see in major US cities soon isn’t “The Incredible Hulk.” Because Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide just announced it’s introducing a new green hotel chain. Element is opening its first hotel in Lexington, Massachusetts, with others soon Irving and Houston, TX, plus Las Vegas, NV.

Now, there’s a different kind of dealer on the Las Vegas Strip. Lamborghini Las Vegas just announced the launch of a multi-billion dollar venture at the The Palazzo Resort Hotel and Casiono, bringing together five distinct Lamborghini properties — a car dealership, an exotic sports car gallery, a café, a retail boutique, and Dal [...]

More games. More music. More navigation. More office apps. In fact, there are now more than 500 new software programs for the next-gen iPhone 3G that will run on the 3G cell phone network.
They’re all at the App Store, which is now part of the iTunes software site.

I was tasting some dessert wine last weekend in Sonoma at Viansa Winery, which is a gorgeous setting reminiscent of Tuscany. Anyway, I saw several people walking to the register with these flat bubble-wrap thingies, which turns out to be called WineSkin.
When you slip your bottle of wine into one, it protects it from [...]

If you’re addicted to golf (and I’ve been bitten by the bug, too) and have always yearned to play the British Isles or European courses on a golf vacation, Perry Golf is offering three special value tours to northwest Ireland, Wales and Spain’s Costa del Sol, for less than $3,000 each.

It’s shaped like a bullet, has two cylinders, two seats, weighs 660 lbs., is made of carbon fiber, offers a magnesium steering wheel, has video cameras instead of side mirrors, and gets a whopping 235 miles per gallon (or 282 per liter).