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February 2022 saw the resumption of the traditionally annual North American Tre Bicchieri roadshow after the pandemic-mandated halt to large-scale, trade-only wine tastings. Tre Bicchieri, which translates into “three glass” is the designation that Gambero Rosso, home of the comprehensive Vini d’Italia wine guide gives to the fewer than one percent of the more than […]
San Francisco’s Chinese New Year Parade had been an annual tradition since 1851…that is until Covid forced a break last year. But it came back in 2022 with the year of the Tiger. Thousands of people came out to watch it wend its way from San Francisco’s Financial District, past Union Square reviewing stands, and […]
North Beach’s Club Fugazi is a small San Francisco performance venue built in 1913. It is best known as home to the 45-year run of the ever-changing Beach Blanket Babylon musical review, which is now closed. The building has had a long life. It was: It was the venue at which Thelonious Monk recorded his […]
The SFMOMA retrospective, Joan Mitchell San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) currently has an exhibit on Joan Mitchell (September 2021 – January 2022) called Joan Mitchell: A Life Lived through Color. It traces the evolution of her art over 50 years from 1940 through her death in the 1990s. Abstract Expressionism Joan Mitchell was […]
Calder and Picasso The deYoung Museum in San Francisco currently has an interesting special exhibit that traces the parallels between Calder and Picasso. Calder and Picasso were among the most innovative and influential artists of the first three decades of the 21st century. Pablo Picasso was 18 years older than his contemporary, Alexander Calder. The […]
It has been too long since we have been able to enjoy an in-person dinner that paired food with wine due to Covid. But they started reappearing in the San Francisco area. San Francisco’s Vault Garden teamed up with the Vine Connections (an importer that specializes in Chilean and Argentinian wines) that paired a five-course […]