Shoshi Parks

Whether you’ve just met or you’ve been together for years, every couple needs a vibey date spot now and again, the kind of place with a design perspective so strong, it’s transportive.High-brow or low(er)-brow, San Francisco has plenty of atmospheric destinations for dinner. From the bite-sized roma...

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San Francisco is considered the nucleus of the counterculture movements of the 1950s and 1960s. It’s the place where the Beat Generation, psychedelic rock, and the Summer of Love ignited; the place where Allen Ginsburg and Jerry Garcia blew up the conformity and complicity of post-WWII America.What ...

As summer turns to fall, farms, ranches, and vineyards across the Bay Area are in peak production mode. That makes now the ideal time of year to see exactly how their gardens (and cows, and goats, and oyster beds) grow.From Moss Landing to Sebastopol, these farm and ranch tours are pulling back the ...

Things in San Francisco were not looking especially rosy in 1854.Five years after the discovery of gold in the Sierra foothills, the patina of Gold Rush fever had worn thin. Prices were bottoming out, banks were failing, and prospectors and the businesses that preyed on them were declaring bankruptc...

Sure, hiking is rewarding: the exercise, the fresh air, the peace and quiet. But why not also have a toast to celebrate your hard work?

High above Wine Country, an Italianate villa crowns the Mayacamas Mountains. On one side, the Tuscan-style estate faces a small, private vineyard bound by a broad green lawn where deer graze in the twilight hours. On the other, the patio of a large pool with a sunken hot tub is lined with swooping l...

A fiery sun beat down on our small flotilla of kayaks as we pushed off from the shore near the Feather River Fish Hatchery in Oroville late last September. Not long ago, adult Chinook salmon would return by the thousands to spawn in this tributary, dropping eggs and milt (sperm) into nests dug into ...

Dalya Sachs never intended to own a vineyard or get into hospitality. It was “far more of an investment” than she ever wanted to make.But after a few years in Austin, the Marin-grown, UC Berkeley-educated Ph.D. in French and Italian literature desperately missed the Bay Area. When pandemic shutdowns...