Those of us at a certain age hate to admit we now can’t read the phone book, newspaper, even the screen on our cell phone without putting on the embarrassing magnifying glasses. But hide no more – make those failing eyes a statement with the fun and funky hand-painted glasses from Art 4 the Face,…
Get ready for a long weekend of culinary and autumnal merriment with organic food, wine and beer tasting, wool spinning, butter churning, cooking demos, book signings, and other gerunds featuring farmers, food artisans, vintners, musicians, and beekeepers. It’s the Fifth Annual Ferry Building Marketplace Harvest Festival, October 26-28, along San Francisco’s Embarcadero.
I thought we’d have fun exploring gold country, but I never expected to hit gold in the dining category. Yet, after dining at Taste Restaurant, located in the one-horse town of Plymouth (which we learned about from our affable host at the Days Inn) I stand corrected! We were completely blown away by the hip…
The details are staggering… 32 stories high. 550 rooms. $195 million. Translucent blue glass skin. San Francisco Bay, Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge views. Flat-screen in-room plasma TVs. A 5,000-foot spa. A terrific SoMa 5th & Howard Streets address, adjacent to Moscone Center and a a few blocks from Nordstrom’s and Bloomies in the…
If you answer “No”, that’s perfect because: A) You must be a really nasty person with no passion for life, so we don’t want you anyways! B) And — since the Annual Fundraiser La Soirée 26th Beaujolais and Beyond Festival is definitely gonna be a sell-out event — it just means more tickets available for…
Autumn and early winter are ideal times to cozy up in the Pacific Northwest. Whether poking around the shops and galleries of the small, artsy seaside town of Langley or watching the waves roll in on the wild side of Vancouver Island, snag a long weekend and chill. Here are six inns and lodges that…
Snow fell briefly this morning outside my office window here in the Rocky Mountains, turning thoughts of golf to skiing or snowboarding and the mind-numbing process of deciding what lift ticket products to buy: season passes, multi-day passes, multi-mountain passes, buddy passes, and on and on and on. Crested Butte Mountain Resort soothes such brain…
Belly up the bar, folks. It’s time for the 1st Annual WhiskyFest in San Francisco, on Tuesday, October 23rd at the Hyatt Embarcadero. This event is an extension of the respected WhiskyFest NYC and Chicago, the largest and most prestigious whisky tasting and distiller tour (with a focus on independent producers) in the US. It…
A few of my friends in Marin and Sonoma County have sizable yards with actual acreage. Rather than just let their dogs run free to compost the land, they’ve chosen another way to enjoy their spacious property… planting wine grapes. Some do it for fun. Some do it for profit. All do it so they…
Editor’s Note: This really is Janice’s 200th posting! (I miscounted on the SITC article yesterday… my bad… So in a few weeks, she’ll be second only to me in the number of her articles written for Vagablond! Congrats, Janice!
Boston’s Via Matta Restaurant hosts Chef Mark Strausman and famed restauranteur Pino Luongo for a very Special Wine Dinner and reception on October 11th — which sounds like a whole lotta fun! It’s in support of the release of their new book, “Two Meatballs in the Kitchen.â€? Though Pino Luongo (the big guy) and Mark…
Denver International Airport is going greener. The nation’s fifth-busiest airport has announced plans for a 2 megawatt solar energy system to generate 3.5 million kilowatt hours of clean energy each year – about half the power needed to run the airport’s terminal-connecting underground train system. The project, to be operational by the middle of next…