From the cutting-edge Cool Hunting: They’re clean. They’re simple. They’re fashion forward. They’re T-shirts with slogans about underwater life. They’re called Scubapunk. Cool Hunting says: “Like its name, Scubapunk juxtaposes otherwise unconsidered concepts. The designs are a clean and simple interpretations of underwater life. Their site, on the other hand, brings in the more punk…
If surfing the waves isn’t enough of a thrill, try “he’e holua,” or Hawaiian Lava Sledding. This 2,000-year-old tradition started with barreling down grassy slopes on tea leaves and banana stumps. Today, it’s evolved to riding 4″ high, 6″ wide, 12′ long hardwood Papaholua sleds that weigh about 50 pounds down man-made courses of hardened…
The design geniuses at Sanyo have done it again. They’ve created a cell phone that features on-demand digital video, stills and audio with Sprint PCS Multimedia service. Choose from Silver, Atlantic Blue or Red Hot, plus a whole bunch of interchangeable Accent Plate options to fit your daily fashion plate. It also lets you experience…
Today, we’re celebrating a milestone of sorts… This is our 150th blog since we went live on April 12. That’s more than one per day. Now, as we continue to add terrific travel writers to create even more blogs, this site will continue to push the envelope on the coolest clothes, the hottest spas, the…
US and European representatives from France, Spain and Portugal have come together to join forces in an attempt to protect the use of the names of wines that rightly belong to their respective regions such as Napa, Porto, Sherry and Champagne. Technically, only wines produced in these regions can bear the name on the label,…
For one week a year, a gathering of free-thinkers, punks, carpenters, artists, pyromaniacs and evironmentalists escape their respective rat races and trek 350 miles from S.F. to an empty Nevada lake bed, 90 miles NE of Reno. It’s known far and wide as Burning Man. Now entering its 20th year, so many will come to…
And now for something completely different…. For four days (July 31, August 6, 14 & 27), the Birch Aquarum at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego County, California, is offering you a “Snorkel With Sharks” program. From 8-10 am, you’ll suit up in a wetsuit, and dare to inhabit the Pacific Ocean reef with…
I will be attending a wine tasting tonight at the Bulgarian Consulate in New York featuring wines from Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. The event is free and open to the public. I found out about it on localwineevents.com, a great website with listings of wine tastings, dinners and classes in cities across the U.S. and…
I spent my childhood summers in the town of Sonoma, long before it became a world-class wine growing area. Even then, the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa was a classy oasis in this bucolic setting and a place to escape the heat. Today, it’s a 5-star resort owned by The Fairmont Hotel chain blessed…
Here is some juicy information on a not so widely known appelation from Bordeaux. Usually a marriage of Merlot and Cabernet Franc this wine is produced in a slightly warmer environment …is it worth a sip? via [basicJuice]
Here’s something to look forward to. A new wine region will be officially in the books shortly and will be known as Horse Heaven Hills. It is located in Washington state, about 115 miles east of Vancouver, along the Columbia river and is expeced to grow to cover nearly 400,000 acres of wine grapes. Read…
The Pink Adobe serves the best steak I’ve ever tasted — and I’ve purloined the sirloins at the premier beef houses in SF, NYC, Dallas, Chicago and more. Affectionately known by Santa Fe locals as “The Pink,” it was established in 1944. Fifty-one years later, it’s now a national landmark housed in a 300-year-old rose-colored…