Summer Shows at SFMOMA Range from Timeless Contemplation of Nature to Timely Social Quest

Much anticipated “Natural Affinities” exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams opened at SFMOMA, defined by the curatorial juxtaposit...

Paris Found at Left Bank, San Mateo

Recently added to the menu authentic French delicacies – les tartes flambees and house made pates – were reason enough to forgo my trip to ...

Shanghai 1930 circa San Francisco 2009

In a city with the largest Chinatown on the West Coast and second largest in the nation, how hard it is to stand out with some traditional ...

Supperclub Experience Offers Lots of Drama

There is supper, and there is club, but the two don’t mix like oil and water. A young Sexy Dishes book-featured chef, Alex Molitz, does his...

Essex Inn, Renovated Chicago Old Time Charmer

Proudly towering over Grant Park in South Loop, a high-rise 15-story hotel is hardly “old,” but it emits a vague sense of old times – good ...

Affordable Luxury at Affinia Chicago Comes With Six-Pillow Menu

Any weary traveler knows that true luxury is not about gilded chandeliers and rose petals; it’s about creature comfort. A cozy room, a good...

Chi-Town, C-House

Once transferred from the City by the Lake to the City by the Bay, I never quite abandoned my Sweet Home Chicago nostalgia. Every visit bac...

San Francisco Sexy Dishes Served by Taste TV: Market Street Grill

Since its inception just a few years back, Taste TV became a hugely popular community of people who know their food – be it in the kitchen,...

Ask Emma

Question: We recently held an intimate wedding reception for our daughter in an expensive restaurant. We invited only family members and cl...

Midinettes of San Francisco, Unite at midi

Lunchtime in Paris comes at midi – noon, and a French brasserie-style “midi” – a new restaurant in the Galleria Park Hotel on Kearny and Su...

I Can Hold My Chocolate… Not If It’s SOCOLA

So, a month after the San Francisco International Chocolate Salon (Presented by Taste TV) I find myself not able to toss a little teal and ...

Between Art and Coffee at SFMOMA, or Through the Roof in Blue Bottle

Entering fifth-floor galleries at SFMOMA now is like visiting a whole new museum on the top of the [not so] old one. A gently curved enclos...

Eifman Ballet Revolutionizes Russian Classic With Mixed Results

Onegin, staged by Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg and based on a classic poem by Alexander Pushkin and music by Tchaikovsky, premiered at C...

Berkeley Rep Special: IRA and Box of Kittens Mix in Bubbly Bloody Cocktail

It takes some guts to stage a real black comedy in the nation raised on Hollywood and Broadway. And it takes 12 gallons of blood (made of c...

School of Fashion Graduation Show

Academy of Art University, San Francisco, presented its School of Fashion (one of the very best in the nation) at the 13th annual graduatio...