Why I live here

Here’s where we really brag, because life in the West is never routine.


Zone Envy: Cocktail Plants I’d Grow if I Lived in SoCal

By Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist, out in March ’13. Like most gardeners, I spend all my time thinking about the plants I wish I could grow, and very little time thinking about the ones I actually do grow. Lately I’ve become convinced that I need a tropical garden so that I can cultivate all of my favorite cocktail […]

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(Not) Your Run of the Mill Food Cart

If you had asked me to guess what the next iteration of food cart would be, I probably wouldn’t have said a moped with a custom tandoori oven serving Georgian & Chechnya street food made by the former Meadwood pastry chef, Boris Portnoy.

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And You Call Yourself an SF Giants Fan

A die hard cyclist + Giants fan has mapped out a bike route in San Francisco that traces the baseball team’s logo. It’s hard to imagine a Tiger’s fan doing something similar but what do I know from Detroit? GO GIANTS!

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The Exotic Paradise of California

Recently an article in Collectors Weekly wrote about the history of camping “before camping got wimpy.” Do you think they could be referring to this take on camping featured in Sunset’s May 2011 issue?

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