UCSC Alumna Exhibits in SF
Brigid McCabe graduated with a degree in Art from UCSC a few years ago, went back east for an MFA, and now lives and works in her Berkeley studio. McCabe's vibrant paintings of psychological environments, in brilliant hues of orange, yellow and green, will be on...
Iron Man: A Star is Re-Born
This Marvel Comix-based big screen adventure is not just for 15-year-old males. Brooding, smart, crisp, astonishing and edgy — that's Iron Man, and its star Robert Downey Jr. who pretty much owns the screen from the scorching opening in war-torn Afghanistan to the...
Real Strawberries
The Best Strawberries of the Season! Whatever we were eating before, whatever those other little red orbs were that people were trying to call "strawberries," well - this is the real stuff! At New Leaf, look for the little container of RMS Farms Organic Strawberries -...
Fond Farewells
Don Yee’s Tea Cup — which was situated on the second floor above what it now Judi Wyant’s shop on Pacific Avenue — was the required after-work pit-stop during the cocktail years before 1989. The charmingly murky bar was attached to a Chinese restaurant, though...
Bistro Breakfast?
Ham & eggs & a little light bubbly – sounds like breakfast doesn’t it? But it was bistro appetizers at Soif last week. Let me explain. A “small plate†order of salumi caught our eye – but so did the evening special of a poached egg over shiitake mushrooms....
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.