Come Enjoy Seasons Bar and Lounge's New Violet Hour
Tucked inside the Four Seasons Hotel is their luxurious and mellow Seasons Bar and Lounge, which boasts great views of all the downtown action, a cozy fireplace, and amazing cocktails to boot. Now's...
View ArticleOpening: Graphic Novelist Daniel Clowes Gets Real in Oakland
Oakland-based Daniel Clowes is one of the world’s most acclaimed and respected graphic novelists. Now, you can check out some of his most famous characters and works at the Oakland Museum of...
View ArticleSan Jose: A Great Place to Play with the Kids
Bet you didn’t know San Jose boasts an average of more than 300 sunny days per year. That fact alone makes San Jose a great weekend getaway for many Bay Area families. Just an hour south of San...
View ArticleThreadflip: Flip Your Fashion Online
On the heels of Crossroads’ opening of higher end consignment shop Fillmore & 5th, comes Threadflip, an online equivalent. If you’d rather peruse, and sell, gently worn pieces online, Threadflip...
View ArticleEnter to Win: SF International Film Festival's Centerpiece Film & Party
You could win tickets to this Saturday's screening of the buzzed-about film, Your Sister's Sister, starring Mark Duplass, Emily Blunt and Rosemarie Dewitt, at the swanky Sundance Kabuki theatre,...
View ArticleSouth Lake Tahoe Celebrates a Belated Earth Day
Earth Day may have come and gone, but South Lake Tahoe is still celebrating on Saturday, April 28, when the annual help-the-planet party sets up camp from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Bijou Community Park....
View ArticleKick Off Spring with These Three Art Shows
The city’s museums now have their major exhibitions out and swinging (you’ve seen Foto Mexico and Gaultier; the ads plastered over town are maybe coaxing a return visit) and the gallery circuit is on...
View ArticleTwo Sense: Does My Partner Have a Problem with Drugs?
I'm a 30-something gay man. About six months ago, I met a really sweet/hot guy at a circuit party here in SF. We hit it off and have begun seeing each other regularly. The night we met, we were both...
View ArticleThe Weeknighter: Madrone
Weekends are for amateurs. Weeknights are for pros. That's why each week Stuart Schuffman will be exploring a different San Francisco bar, giving you the lowdown on how and where to do your weeknight...
View ArticleFoodie Agenda: Dumpling Wars, Spring Spritzers and More
Thursday, April 26 Get in on the first ever Dumpling Wars dumpling-making competition in Oakland, courtesy of the Kearny Street Workshop. Seven teams of amateur chefs will battle it out to win the...
View ArticleWhite Fence's Tim Presley on Working with Ty Segall, Their New Album "Hair,"...
Instantly infectious is the way to describe listening to Hair for the first time. The synergy is apparent between White Fence and Ty Segall on their full-length album released on Drag City Records this...
View ArticleDrink Here Now: 5 Places to Sip This Week
1. Big Opens on Nob Hill: The ironically-named Big is a tiny slip of a place in a former hotel bar on Post Street, but what it lacks in size, it more than makes up for in cocktail creativity. Barman...
View ArticleVideo Sharing App ShowYou Launches Web Channels
Earlier this year, we profiled ShowYou, the video discovery and sharing app with a distinctive grid-like interface that worked on all kinds of touch devices but reached its optimal form, not...
View ArticleLocal Brewers Team Up For a Slow Beer Festival
If you're a beer fan who couldn't snag tickets to this Saturday's sold-out SF International Beer Festival, you might be feeling down about missing out on all the beer and fun. But never fear: the SF...
View ArticleIndependent Book Stores Perfect for Kids
This is our weekly guest-blog post from the moms behind Red Tricycle, a site that focuses on the "lighter side" of parenting. Every week, they'll be bringing us their picks of stuff to do around the...
View ArticlePeer to Peer Bike Share Launches in SF
San Francisco is on the brink of a citywide bike share program, but that didn't stop Will Dennis from starting his own bike share project. Earlier this month, Dennis launched Spinlister, a peer to peer...
View ArticleEtcetera's Flammenkueche: Pizza With A French Accent
Earlier this week two friends joined me on a journey to taste real flammenkueche at Etcetera Wine Bar in the Mission. The four-month-old wine bar is owned by Alexandra Gerteis, a native of Alsace, the...
View ArticleLook of the Week: Hey There, Sailor
This week, Gabe Johnson's street style, combined with the growing buzz around SF hosting the America's Cup, inspired me to round up a collection of nautical wears, fit for land or water. What's...
View ArticleGlimpses into 7x7 Readers' Art Portfolios
With 7x7's recent magazine redesign came a revamped back page that aims to feature one piece of work each month from talented local artists. Since our initial call for submissions, we've been...
View ArticleTrulia's iOS App "Pushes" You Rental Info as Units Come on the Market
San Francisco-based Trulia, a national leader in the residential real estate search business, currently serves some 20 million unique monthly users. And while it’s well established in the home sales...
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