While some of us are curled up by a warm fire this winter, others of us are frost-bitten hand clamped to a team of dogs rushing through the Arctic wilderness in temperatures that can reach 40 or 50 below zero! It is Day 7 of the 9 – 12 day race, and champion Lance Mackey…
by Stephanie Block I had the absolute pleasure of meeting Jessica Flannery at a recent Spark Speaker Series event. It was mind-blowing. When philanthropy collides with Silicon Valley technology, the results are nothing short of spectacular. This is the new face of nonprofits. Don’t believe me? Would you believe Jessica’s mega-fans like Oprah and former…
Eeep, I’m writing this blog when I should be helping my mom make kugel and matzo ball soup before sunset! To all my Jewish Divas–have an easy fast tomorrow on Yom Kippur! A new year, a new exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Mazel Tov! Just as the Jewish calendar year turns…
Just 8 days and counting till the big, green behemoth that is San Francisco’s most new and improved science museum opens in Golden Gate Park. The California Academy of Sciences’ utterly anticipated opening marks TEN YEARS and tens of thousands of man and woman-hours with wild engineering marvels and the move of about 38,000 critters…
Slovenian rock star philosopher Zizek was in town last week! Heard of Hegel? Heidegger? Derrida? Plato? Well Zizek is in the stratosphere among them, the most famous living philosopher in the world. And whether or not you know what post-structuralism is or who Lacan was, there is still much to learn from this hyper and…
After four days of conventioning, I feel like I’ve been kicked in the ass by thirty-seven Democrat donkeys. Unable to eat solid foods and weighed down by flags, signs and ten thousand campaign buttons of varying cleverness (Ask Me How Many Houses I Own! Quesidellas for Obama. Obama Is My DJ), I believe more than…
The future has arrived! The super long haul, double decker monster Airbus has arrived to the US! Direct flights to Dubai from NYC are here, and LA and SF are set for this fall and winter. Just think, in 15 – 17 hours, you can say hello to the 7-star Burj Al Arab hotel! Photographer…