Don’t leave home without these new, helpful tek accompaniments. I recently went through tek-puberty, complete with all the mood swings, breakouts and angst reminiscent of my teen years. I was one of the last tek-dinosaurs, busily typing away on my big old P.C., reading books on the original Kindle and using a cell-phone that could…
The artist, Victor Delfin, and his wife are the models My last girlfriend getaway trip to Lima was about 25 years ago, when it had fallen on hard times and really was considered mostly a stopping point for adjusting to the altitude before heading to other parts of the country. But after a major face…
Does the thought of spending the evening undercover with Michael Bauer, The San Francisco Chronicle’s esteemed restaurant critic, where you’ll learn what goes into critiquing a dining experience and writing an award winning restaurant review, get your culinary juices flowing? And bet you can’t say no to the chance of winning a dinner package for…
May brings spring flowers, Mother’s Day, and a cluster of great wine events around the Bay Area. Many of these sell out in advance, and you’re going to be real sad if everyone else is heading out for a fun day of food and red, white and pink wine tasting and you’re shut out. So…
First clue is…I’m sipping it as I type this and baby, it’s rich and velvety and slips down nicely. Give up? Ok,it would be……are you ready for this……???? Van Gogh Vodka’s new Peanut Butter & Jelly flavor. More precisely, we’re talking smooth peanut butter and an intense raspberry flavored jelly,with just the right touch of…
Fashion bad-boy, Jean Paul Gaultier’s provocative multi-media exhibition, “From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk” will be on show in San Francisco March 24 – August 19 and any fashionista within a plane ride away should buy a ticket now. I was fortunate enough to have been invited to the press opening, where Gaultier regaled us…
The only thing I love more than wine tasting in Dry Creek Valley (my totally fave California wine area) is doing it during their special Passport to Dry Creek Valley® weekend. And I’m not the only one. The last few years a California girlfriend and I have made this an annual event that we both…