Café Jacqueline—A Living Treasure of San Francisco

In the city where so much depends on good luck, you are lucky if you’ve already been to Café Jacqueline , and you are lucky if you still hav...

Rex Ray’s Colorful Prints at Zinc Details

Well known through his distinctive designs for books, magazines, posters, and album covers, the San Francisco artist Rex Ray has exhibited h...

Elsewhere Gallery Displays Monthly Themes

Open merely months ago, Elsewhere Gallery in Fairfax, just north of San Francisco, showcases local artists and pursues a different theme eac...

Birth of the Cool at Oakland Museum of California

It was a cool crowd in tuxedoes, little black dresses and pearls, strolling through the Oakland Museum of California gardens and terraces du...

Iyemon Cha Launches is San Francisco

Japanese green tea from Kyoto, Iyemon Cha , comes to San Francisco retail today, all fresh and pretty in two varieties: original green and r...

Open Air Exhibit of Jean Lannen Altered Photography

Jean Lannen—a photographer/conceptual artist, who lives in Pacifica, creates her moody art by using altered real photographs and multimedia....

Berkeley Rep to Broadway, All the Way to Tony

Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of “Passing Strange,” which now shows on Broadway, has been nominated for seven Tony Awards includin...

Wild Ceramics at SF Museum of Craft+Design

“Within Two Hands: The Eye of The Collector” exhibit presents more than 70 works from the Fred Marer collection, which this math teacher fro...

Say Cheese at The Melting Pot

The Melting Pot fondue restaurant in San Mateo is one busy place on a Saturday night. Couples, families, and groups or friends happily occup...

Coconut Grove on Sutter

Far from your usual coffee addicts’ watering hole, the Coconut Grove, just opened last Friday on Sutter, sports leopard print carpets, frame...

Survivor of Eating Disorder Creates Spoon Art

To fight a nearly 20-year-long eating disorder, Karin Collins started turning actual spoons into bite-sized wearable art as part of her ther...

Ask Emma

Q: I have a good friend who has unexpectedly and suddenly found herself single again. She is very beautiful and intelligent, and is therefor...

Palo Alto Jewelry Designer Appeals to European-Americans

Elfi Altendorfer , born in Austria and educated in Munich, Germany, came to design her own jewelry after exploring several other careers in...

Ask Emma

Q: My husband is the biggest pack rat there is. We have a two-car garage, but our cars are parked on the street. All his previous jobs, hobb...

Thai Buddhist Monks Visit Castro Valley Restaurant With Blessings

For its second anniversary on May 1, Top Thai restaurant in Castro Valley invited a group of Buddhist monks from a Thai temple in Fremont to...