He’ll make quite the statement in the Bay Area Downside Up cap ($38) from Laces. The structured cotton hat has an adjustable snapback closure for a customizable fit and comes in four colors: black, ...

La Playa Hotel, Carmel (Courtesy of La Playa) The historic La Playa is just steps from Carmel Beach and the shops, galleries, and restaurants of charming Carmel-by-the-Sea. An extensive $20 million ...

Things to Do in San Francisco's Castro (Photo by Piotr Musioł on Unsplash) Shopping There are but a few good reasons to shop along Castro Street proper, where rainbow Zippos and tacky unmentionables ...

Only one artistic style has ever officially originated in San Francisco. The art world calls it Bay Area Figurative, a movement that began taking off around the same time Abstract Expressionism was ...

Chill with Lagunitas and the Los Angeles League of Musicians at an outdoor concert under the redwoods with plenty of brews; Monday, 4:20pm to 9pm.// The Lagunitas Brewing Company, 1280 North McDowell ...

On the heels of Pebble Beach Food & Wine, I—but a pauper—was welcomed past the gates into the kingdom, to the resort’s recently remodeled Casa Palmero (1518 Cypress Dr., Pebble Beach). Of the resort’s ...

Finally, some good media news to report. Inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s 1930s-era Shelter magazine, SHLTR is a modern-day “manifesto for inventive living.”It channels the West Coast’s innovative ...

Far West Cider Co. (Courtesy of @kl_beer) Far West Cider Co’s apples are grown on a 100-year-old, fourth-generation family farm in San Joaquin County. But it’s at the Richmond cidery where they go ...

Natasha Ivantsova, founder of Glow Yoga and Wellness(Courtesy of Glow Yoga and Wellness) “When you are young, you have this attitude of ‘It helped me. It is going to help everybody,'" she says. “When ...

Sun Moon Studio (Courtesy of @sun_moon_studio_) Food critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan called it first: West Oakland’s Sun Moon Studio is the best “new restaurant in the Bay Area,” she wrote in the SF ...

Artist Masako Miki's 'Midnight March" opens at ICA SF on May 16.(Francis Baker) “She’s doing it totally in her own style and her own voice,” says Meghan Smith, Lyra Foundation curator and ...

Head to Hamel for a chef-prepared, family-style dinner with their viticulturist and associate winemaker in a breathtaking setting; Thursday, 5:30pm to 9pm.// Hamel Estate, 15401 Sonoma Hwy. (Sonoma); ...