I’m a fan of making up my own words. I’m a fan of fashion. However, I’m typically not a fan of fashion trends that require a new name and/or hybrid of existing words to describe them (case in point: jorts, skorts. I shudder.) Now there is a new term to add to the jumbled jargon…
There are two David Mamet plays running in San Francisco right now. ACT brings us the west coast premiere of November, a political comedy. This review is about the classic Mamet play Oleanna at a lesser known venue, Royce Gallery. The BF & I came a bit late having been sidetracked by the bright lights…
The weather in Morro Bay was surprisingly warm for late October. We had left a cold and windy San Francisco and drove four hours south to Morro Bay. Unlike touristy Santa Barbara or uber-expensive Carmel, Morro Bay is a sleepy little coastal town with lots of otters and even fewer tourists. After the drive, we…
So often I jet off to exotic locales, far from my home in the United States, to explore the world and its many wonders; but there are places right here, domestically, that tug at my heartstrings as well. One of those places is the spectacular state of Utah. While some might think Utah is just…
Mummies have never been my thing. Seeing dead people wrapped up in dry dust clothes seems a bit freaky to me. But I went to a new exhibition at the Legion of Honor that really gave me a new apperciation for mummies and the past. The exhibition is called Very Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine and…
Hey Divas, like to cruise? And I am not talking about cruising Main Street in a Camero with the windows down while Journey is blaring. (you know you did it!) Top Cruise Club, a new online social network for cruise travelers, launched today with the introduction of innovative new technologies. Created as a place for…
The BVI Charitable Fund, which is organizing the December series of the 2009 Virgin Islands Winemakers Dinners, announced today that Chef Anne Burrell, the host of the Food Network program “Secrets of a Restaurant Chef” and sous-chef to Mario Batali on Iron Chef America will be one of the six visiting chefs participating in the…