If you can’t make it to the SF/Bay Area July 24 – Aug 9th, here’s my greatest hits list for your Netflix queue. As always, this diverse lineup promises to astound you with fantastic performances not likely to ever be seen at a theater near you. If you just have time for one film, pick…
Now that commercial Kombucha has started to disappear off store shelves after questions of alcohol content, what’s a kombucha fan to do?Rancho Parnassus to the rescue. The first retailer to provide kombucha on tap. There are also bottles to go. There’s the custom grilled panini, obscure beverages, awesome Thanksgiving Coffee from Fort Bragg and crazy…
A collector you’ve never heard of has opened a pop-up gallery in a space you have never seen to showcase a remarkable collection of 20th century photography. It’s so large the SFMOMA would have to create another building the size of the new Fisher wing. To find the gallery, you must wander down an unmarked…
An oasis amongst the summer film dreck, Mother & Child, is another fine offering by Rodrigo Garcia , (Nine Lives), who just happens to be the son of famed author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This is no mere chick flick, which it is, but it’s so much more. The film introduces us to three diverse women…
Thanks to the fantastic San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, preview screenings currently in progress, I was treated to a great independent film, sort of a romantic comedy for the hip urbanite. Daryl Wein & Zoe Lister-Jones, a real life New York couple, wrote a fictionalized version of a point in their relationship when they tried…
Thanks to the gazillion random emails in the inbox, i found this really cool African shoe line. It’s called Oliberte, and their products are entirely locally produced in Africa. The designs are inspired by street and euro culture, all leather is made in Ethiopia, and lined with goat leather. The crepe rubber soles are made…
I’m used to being called a princess, but i never knew i could use my powers for good. No matter where you live you can send your dry-cleaned dresses to The Princess Project and provide prom dresses to disadvantaged teens in California. San Francisco: Last year they served over 1,800 high school girls. Girls from…