The first Bay Area high tea service I experienced was at a downtown San Francisco hotel. A friend of mine at the time was ...

Week of May 7-13 features Danny Seraphine, Filipinos Sounding Everywhere, Lara Downes, San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers, and ...

Also in Alameda, apparently the high tea capital of the East Bay, Julie’s Coffee & Tea Garden is hosting a series of ...

Week of May 6 features Rob Brezsny's insightful, lyrical and always entertaining horoscopes through May 12, 2026.

“Workers of the world, unite!” might have been made famous by Marx—Karl, not Groucho—but International Workers Day actually commemorates the 1886 general strike that led to the eight-hour workday.

GARDEN COMMITTEE Volunteers work to transform the overgrown, ivy-strangled Temescal parcel into a native, flowering habitat. (Photo by A.V. Benford) Call it the scars of a beer bottle broken across ...

RESPECTING NATURE The marsh is designed to adapt to rising sea levels, providing a natural buffer for the surrounding communities while restoring a habitat that had lost 90% of its historic footprint.

YUM Now’s the time for locals to stuff themselves with America’s favorite fun food. (Photo by BeStaRoom22/Shutterstock) Bay Area Pizza Week is a 12-day ...

NEIGHBORHOOD SPOT Evergreen’s co-owners hope to provide ‘delicious food that highlights what’s beautiful about living in the East Bay and this part of California.’ (Photo by Lydia Daniller) Nine ...

REEF LIFE U.K. photographer Aaron Sanders captures clouds of white spawn billowing from a giant barrel sponge, as a frenzy of midnight snappers feast upon the rising plumes. (Photo by Aaron Sanders) ...

GIANT VACUUM Sand-mining equipment extracts sand from the Bay floor to be used to make concrete and asphalt. (Photo courtesy of SF Baykeeper) Sejal Choksi-Chugh is the executive director of San ...

UPSCALE DINER The Wasems try to keep their third location in Noe Valley accessible, affordable and casual. (Photo by @lamarrathon) Grand Lake Kitchen’s co-owner, May Seto Wasem, confirmed the feeling ...