The New Mexico History Museum in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico is celebrating its grand opening on Sunday, May 24, 2009. The only museum dedicated exclusively to New Mexico historical education and research, its mission is to fundamentally change the way visitors understand the history of the state and the nation as a whole. The…
Warhol Live is closing and Mother’s Day FREE entrances to various Bay Area Museums! Warhol Live at the de Young closes in a few weeks on Sunday, May 17! There are a few special Warhol Friday Nights left. Here is the line up: FRIDAY, MAY 8 Celebrating Warhol Live and College Night Wilsey Court 6-8:30…
Ahoy, ocean-loving Divas! If you’ve ever dreamed of exploring the waters around Catalina Island, you now have three chances to do so with the Maritime Museum of San Diego. They’re offering three separate trips aboard the schooner Californian, a traditional tall ship sailing vessel. As their promo materials put it: As an active member of…
Some things remain to be true, one of them being that I was born in the wrong era. The era that I should have enjoyed my post-pubescent partying years would have been the late seventies. But alas, in 1977, I was only 8 years old. You see, it was in 1977 that Studio 54 came…
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…
Museums overflow in excellence! SFMOMA re-introduces us to Frida Kahlo, that icon of expressive, surrealist sufferings. Then over at the Legion of Honor, we take a fascinating look at Women Impressionists. Try to name 3. I bet you can’t! (I couldn’t before this woman-cational exhibit!!) And finally the prolific eye-patched glass pirate that is Chihuly…