It’s hard to miss Dockers’ Doug Conklyn as he walks down Battery Street in orange or cherry-red slim-fit khakis, a madras blazer, and cordovan penny loafers. And that’s his point. By reinventing how people wear...More»
The ultimate connector finally has a project that puts her principles where her mouth is. This fall marks the nationwide opening of Connected, Tiffany Shlain’s new documentary, which explores the history of the ties...More»
Four years ago, Toody Maher, an artist, inventor, and entrepreneur living in Richmond, started a quiet revolution that’s about to hit the ground this fall. She decided that a neglected, crime-ridden park in Richmond’s...More»
When Exploratorium board members Sako Fisher, Ravin Agrawal, and Akshata Murty saw a younger crowd pack the museum’s Science of Cocktails fundraiser in 2010, they hatched an idea: Create a fundraising board of A-lister...More»
Area yoga enthusiasts—or at least those who like to downward dog by day and down beer by night—will pack up their mats and SIGG bottles and caravan up to Squaw Valley, for the four-day frenzy of meditation, music, and...More»
East Coast transplants starved for a decent slice of pastrami, as well as folks who have simply wondered what their New York friends have been bitching about all these years, were thrilled to pieces about Leo Beckerman and Evan...More»
Watch out, Stanley, Jim, and Peter. Two young architects have emerged as the go-to team for anyone in San Francisco who is now—our track record to the contrary—serious about modern architecture. On shabby stretches of...More»
Brain-computer interactions, or BCI, is the new CGI—the technology that geeky creatives can’t wait to master. Niche leader NeuroSky, based in San Jose, has already partnered with Mattel on an acclaimed demo...More»
The local indie-art crowd and wired-in DIYers have marked August 5 on their iCals, because that’s the opening date of Miranda July’s second feature film. For anyone not part of the artist’s cultlike...More»
Here’s a thought: Could Keith Olbermann, the fulminating former MSNBC host, rescue oh-so-nice Al Gore’s Current TV from left-of-the-dial Siberia? That must be what Gore (remember when he was vice president of the...More»
“It’s pretty cool to be creating a food mecca where the freeway used to be,” says Robyn Sue Goldman, founder of Smitten Ice Cream, which recently sprang up in a semipermanent storefront as part of a new veritable...More»
In Oakland’s Uptown, nearly every night of the week, people who like their music up close and personal gather behind nondescript doors, like Templars at a secret ceremony. The area has been the epicenter of the Easy...More»
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