Failure is so popular these days there’s even a convention extolling it’s virtues. Presenting FailCon to the rescue, an annual one day conference of encouragement and enlightenment for start-ups and fans of all things tech. Seems there are lots of reasons why we fail, the first being that fear keeps us from even trying. Speaking…
When the play ended the audience was memorized. That does not happen much in modern theater, but Scorched is different. Scorched is a story of love, family, motherhood, feminine power, wrapped around a dark history of war, lies, secrets, and unbearable pains. For Divas who want a moving theater experience, then I highly recommend a…
Healdsburg restaurant Spoonbar at h2hotel and Waterbar in San Francisco take carbon footprints seriously. To maintain the high quality of meals and drinks while lowering their impact on the Earth they are proud to announce community programs asking locals to bring in fruit from their backyard trees. The fruit, picked at the peak of freshness…
KOREAN STONEWARE DESIGN: WHAT’S OLD IS NEW AGAIN During a press conference this week to unveil the Museum’s spiffy new logo I slipped away to enjoy a self guided tour of the latest exhibition, “Poetry in Clay”. This well rounded collection comprised of Korean buncheong ceramics is from the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art. Full…
San Francisco divas get ready. It’s theater season again. The American Conservatory Theater (ACT) will be opening their season this month with a revamped version of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s, Once in a Lifetime. ACT Director Mark Rucker directs the comedy, which was first performed in 1930 as commentary on transitioning technology in…
Listen up, thirsty friends. EARLY BIRD tickets are now available for the 5th Annual San Francisco Cocktail week held September 19-25th, 2011. A record number of partners for seven days and nights of the best the Bay has to offer. The week-long extravaganza, which hosts a series of events from September 19 to the 25,…
This week I took the oath to “Buy Local” and on a rare sunny Saturday in San Francisco I came across Heathered at the Lower Haight Art Walk. The artist Heather Logsdon makes the perfect items for the stylish Tango Diva traveler. Turns out I was quite lucky to catch her between adventures. A self-styled…