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…
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 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…
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…
At hotel fox, 21 young designers were given carte blanche to show off their talent in the makeover of a former hostel. The result is a fabulous concept hotel in the Danish capital. The hotel has 61 rooms, all with expressive and very different interiors that provide sensory inspiration, spaces that seek to challenge at…
From The Cool Hunter Gadgets page: Cherish your cell phone? Idolize your iPod? Love your Blackberry or Treo smartphone? Want to protect your PDA? Then dress them up with this clothing line from the style-conscious leather products leader, Vaja. These high-end fashion for your electronic gizmos have the brightests colours on the market, including candle…
Ever almost died and saw that bright white light, people with luminous shadows, and echoed voices? Me neither. But if you have, get down to As Neves, Spain on July 29 to take part in the annual Festival of Near-Death Experience, AKA Fiesta de Santa Marta de Ribarteme.
If you’re hitting the road this summer, your favorite pet can travel with you in style. Loews hotels is offering several “pampered pet� packages in locations such as Nashville, South Beach, and Philly. The packages include a room service meal for your four-legged friend.
From People Magazine: Paris Hilton wore one as a sequined tank. Mariah Carey wore one as a minidress. Reese Witherspoon says the clothes “go from day into evening –– great for moms who don’t have time to change.” And Oprah said she’s a member of Tory Burch’s fan club. So Tory has definitely arrived as…