The Best 2021 Food and Drink Advent Calendars
The holiday season may be a month away, but it’s never too early to start planning to honor family traditions, especially given the current uncertainties of the supply chain.
Jack London State Historic Park’s Fundraiser Celebrates the Author and his Wife in 1920s Style
The spirit of Charmian London, author Jack London’s irrepressible wife, was invoked on September 25 as more than 320 guests were welcomed to Charmian’s Wild Call, a gala fundraising event at Jack London State Historic Park. Attendees at Charmian’s Wild Call (a play on the title of Jack London’s most notable book, The Call of the Wild) were […]
With Local Art and Innovative Dining, Santa Rosa’s Flamingo Resort Makes a Perfect Weekend Getaway
Think Santa Rosa an odd choice for an overnight? Not if the destination is the newly remodeled Flamingo Resort. This 10-acre campus, built around a large pool that’s heated year-round, has been reimagined to bring back the original fun Flamingo flare with an immersive wellness program, including access to a 20,000-square-foot fitness club and spa […]
Tour a Cozy Park City Vacation Home That Will Have You Counting the Days Until Ski Season
With their three children now young adults, a couple on Chicago’s North Shore realized that having a vacation home would make family get-togethers easier and therefore more frequent. “We all love to ski and hike, so being near Park City is perfect for us,” the wife says. “While we’ll probably always keep a home in […]
Amy Tan Talks Family History, Teaching a MasterClass, and Being in a Band With Dave Barry at The Sonoma Valley Author’s Festival
Here’s something you may not know. Dave Barry and Amy Tan are in a band. Yep. The beloved humorist and newspaper columnist who kept us chuckling over the years and the incredibly talented novelist famous for bringing to the page and the big screen stories of women in the Chinese American community joined together to […]
New Rules: Etiquette for Pandemic Entertaining
The pandemic has done a number on us — our mental health, our psyches, our jobs and even our manners. We spoke with etiquette expert Lisa Grotts to decipher a few clues about how to be a great host — and guest — in today’s weird, where-did-all-the-manners-go, world. Lisa Grotts, who served as director of protocol […]
Health, Beauty and Wellness Reinvented: Bay Area Tech Leaders Changing the Game
Remember the days when speaking to a doctor by phone or video conference seemed too, well, remote? Or when we almost always went to a salon to cover our roots? As the world around us shifted due to the pandemic last year, however, so has our relationship with technology, and leaders in the health, wellness […]
How Becoming a Minimalist Family Can Declutter — and De-Stress Your Life
Minimalism has become a trendy topic this millennium but exploded to the mainstream with Marie Kondo‘s 2014 book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing”. The concept has been around for a while, but Kondo’s New York Times bestselling book brought to light what many Americans had been feeling […]
Wilmette Fitness Studio Teams Up With Their Clients to Create Impact Beyond the Gym
ReDEFINED Fitness calls itself the “neighborhood’s toughest gym,” but Eric Smoot and Silviu Gansca, co-owners of the Wilmette fitness outpost, have a soft spot for giving back. Every year for the past 20 years, they have challenged their clients to not only build their strength and endurance but to support communities in need. The fitness studio, […]
Is Aduhelm the Drug Alzheimer’s Patients Have Been Waiting for? Buck Institute Scientists Weigh In
November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month — drawing attention to the more than 6 million Americans living with the disease. While there is no cure for Alzheimer’s, the FDA recently approved a drug called Aduhelm that is reported to aid in disrupting the onset of Alzheimer’s, offering hope to those suffering from the disease, […]
