Vogue Magazine defined “greenâ€? as “the new black.â€? The New York Times declared “greenâ€? as the new “red, white and blue.â€? So Steve Case, a billionaire who co-founded AOL, plans to plunk down about $800 million of his own green to build the first of his eco-friendly resorts, known as Revolution Places, in the coastal…
Seated on the banquette next to a stylish woman of a certain age, I asked: “How long have you been coming to the “>Kulm?” “Oh, my dear,â€? she replied with a twinkle in her eye, “Why, we’ve been visiting here for the past 45 years.” Mingling with other (mostly veteran) guests at the champagne cocktail…
I was expecting a rusting, crime-infested, nowheresville. Instead I found a vibrant, classy city with one of the world’s top orchestras, stunning Victorian-era architecture, acres of parkland, posh hotels such as the Ritz- Carlton and the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, Tiffany stained-glass windows, and a crescent of museums and galleries. Cleveland is no Mistake on the…
Being a natural redhead, I have been cursed with that glow-in-the-dark white skin. My derm keeps yelling at me to put on almost triple digit sunscreen. I’ve tried tanning booths (pre-cancer buzz) and spray on tans, after the word came out, but it ain’t easy. Plus it’s hard to keep smiling, when at the beach,…
Visitors to the Bar Lazy J Guest Ranch near Parshall, Colorado, can make sure their muscles appreciate a good long soak or soothing massage by hopping in the saddle for trail rides that end at a hot springs spa a few miles away. Guests head out on horseback for a couple-hour ride to a jaw-dropping…
I call myself an underwater photographer because I love to scuba dive and have a camera to capture images when I’m diving. While I’m a novice, at best, my long-time friend and fellow SF native, Ken Howard, is a world-renowned underwater photographer. He recently got back from his annual trek to the Bahamas to dive…
I just returned from LA where I went to cover the Western Foodservice & Hospitality Expo. There, I was lucky enough to snag a seat at the event below. Talk about a sizzling cook-off! That Mike Midgley (middle photo) is one funny dude, and the chemistry between Oh-So-Sexy Sam Talbot (top left) and bombshell Marisa…
OK, so it’s nowheres near as good as Dr. Seuss’s title, but there’s still time to do your part to SAVE OUR SEAFOOD while feasting on a sumptuous six-course sustainable seafood dinner involving both top fishery scientists and top San Francisco chefs, at 6:30 p.m. at Scott Howard restaurant, Thursday, September 6th, 2007. I don’t…
Trattoria Stella well represents Denver’s Highlands neighborhood, in which it sits. Both the restaurant and the neighborhood are an eclectic, entertaining, attractive, often weird mix of old and new. The Highlands of Northwest Denver is made up of Victorian buildings, either nearly crumbling or in mid-renovation, sitting side-by-side with 60s-era high-rise apartments and new half-million-dollar-…
I’ve been wine tasting in Sonoma, Napa and Livermore Counties in Northern California, as well as in France, Italy, Greece, Australia, and New Zealand. But it’s always been at a winery or tasting room on land. Now, you can enjoy premium wine tasting with a gourmet dinner — while cruising on San Francisco Bay aboard…
Denver residents and visitors waited decades for a hotel to open in the heart of the luxurious Cherry Creek shopping and entertainment district just east of downtown. It couldn’t be just any hotel; it had to be a hotel worthy of the neighborhood’s luxurious, energetic reputation. In 2004, that wait was rewarded with the opening…
aloft is what Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide calls “a reinvention of the travel experience, an oasis where least expected – a spirited neighborhood outpost where uncomfortable cookie-cutter mediocrity is the norm and innovation a long forgotten luxury… until now.” Aloft strives to be more than a hotel on the road. These upscale, luxury travel…