Hospitality values vary across Asian countries, but there are common characteristics: an emphasis on graciousness, attentiveness and genuine care for others, particularly guests. Those principles are ...

At Wildflower Aesthetics & Wellness, founder and RN Julie Bones brings balance and harmony to each client’s unique features through a personalized and refined approach. With an emphasis on soft, ...

A lot has changed in cosmetic dentistry—especially with preferred materials and complex treatment techniques—since dentist Sean Wilson started practicing dentistry 25 years ago. Wilson, who also ...

A joyful buzz fills the air at Headlands Preparatory School as students and teachers work alongside—collaborating, conversing, and discovering the excitement of learning together. There’s a true sense ...

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Sit up Straight Michael Amsler General’s Son: Executive chef Joseph Vitale Jr. serves up stylish, succulent elegance at the General’s Daughter. The General’s Daughter gets our attention By Paula ...

The modern picture of The Artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be ...

Calistoga Art & Music Music, memory and mandolins converge this weekend at Sofie Contemporary Arts, where musician Josh Martin—Coast Guard vet turned NorCal troubadour—brings his genre-crossing trio ...

This is Bay Area Burger Week (June 18-29), providing a time to reflect, respect and perfect our experience of the once humble hamburger. The concept of a protein patty betwixt sides of a sliced bun ...

August Sebastiani’s last name might sound familiar if one happens to know a thing or two about wine. He is, in fact, a fourth-generation member of one of California’s founding wine families. And being ...

In an age of AI-generated everything, live storytelling might seem quaint—until one is in the room. That’s when the magic happens. Eyeball to eyeball, story to story, something stirs that no screen ...

For sheer speed of growth, bamboo, that terrestrial family of jointed and woody grasses, takes the silver, seconded in that race only by giant sea kelp. For that, and for fact that it grows happily in ...