In One SF Block, 3 Stellar Home Stores
Every city has those magical blocks that, by chance, happen to house awesome store after awesome store. In San Francisco, there are plenty of these little gems. Lately, our favorite has been Valencia...
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Bay Area Kids Love the Pacific Pinball Museum
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...
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Department 17 Moves its Menswear to Hayes Valley
Department 17 is starting 2012 with a fresh coat of paint. The indie menswear store is moving from Nob Hill to Hayes Valley, into a larger space, large enough to integrate some womenswear into the mix....
View ArticleGet Your Sandwich Fix Via Two Wheels with Banh Mi by Bike
Remember the good old days of Kozmo, where whatever your craving was would miraculously appear at your apartment door, in the arms of a sometimes smiling, often studly bicyclist? Well, Kozmo may have...
View ArticleDate Night: Piccino Pizza and Plexiglas Art in the Dogpatch
If you want to have a successful excursion in this town, you need a plan—and it better be a good one. Since it's not always easy to strike that perfect balance between "pre-game" drink, food and a...
View ArticleMen's Look of the Week: 9 Go-Sockless Loafers, Perfect for This Weekend
While it's become an increasingly popular trend for stylish summer menswear, foregoing socks can be scary for a lot dudes out there. Fear not. Save the flip-flops for the beach, and don't fuss over...
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Predict the Future: Win Two Tickets to the 7x7 Eat + Drink Awards
Calling all soothsayers. This year, Monday, January 23rd happens to be auspicious for two reasons: It's the date of Chinese New Year and 7x7's annual Eat + Drink Awards— essentially the party of the...
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7x7's Wine Buying Guide: Korbel Champagne, Lake Sonoma Winery, Kenwood...
Celebrate the season with California’s best wines and food pairings. KORBEL CHAMPAGNE CELLARS Korbel California Champagne is the perfect sparkler for every kind of celebration; big celebrations like...
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Market Watch: How You Can Help Eatwell Farms, One of the Ferry Plaza Farmers...
Two weeks ago one of the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market’s founding farmers, Nigel Walker of Eatwell Farms, was diagnosed with a cancer of the blood that has primarily attacked his spine. Nigel has always...
View ArticleSecret Recipe: Betelnut's Curry Laksa Noodles
7x7 asks the city's chefs for the recipes to their most loved cocktails, bar snacks, starters, mains, and desserts. If there's a dish you can't stop thinking about, email lauren@7x7.com. Your wish may...
View ArticleIndie Theater Roundup: 7 Movies to See This Week
The third and final German Gems, a single-day showcase for new and vital German-language cinema, arrives Saturday for its farewell appearance at the Castro Theatre. Otherwise, it's a week of birthdays...
View ArticleWomen's Look of the Week: 10 Bold Loafers for Bay City Walking
This season, color, texture and embellishments transform the classically androgynous loafers into strong, feminine footwear. With prints, patent and pony-hair, these 10 tradtionally preppy flats are...
View Article5 Activities Beyond Snow in Lake Tahoe
Welcome to June-uary. That's what folks around Tahoe are calling this snowless time of year. And with the paucity of powder -- more than six weeks and counting -- and the endless sunshiny days, many...
View ArticleAsk the Parking Guru: SFO Parking Whistle Blower, or Just Hot Air?
Hi David, I enjoy your 7x7 posts and your website. I pulled up at SFO this morning and stopped just for 20 seconds partially on a pedestrian crossing, just to let my son get his stuff out. Saw a meter...
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Matt Treski & Heather Rimmey Win Tickets to the SF Wedding Fair with a Truly...
When Matt Treski wrote and shared the romantic tale of how he asked Heather Rimmey to be marry him, we couldn’t believe the time, thought, and creativity he put into the question. Not only did his...
View ArticleJoin the Cal Academy of Sciences' LoveLife Photo Competition!
One of our favorite places to get lost in the city is the California Academy of Sciences deep in Golden Gate Park, because sometimes we need to be reminded there's a whole world out there beyond all...
View ArticleA Piece of Francis Ford Coppola at FIFTY24SF
Film buffs, listen up. FIFTY24SF is working with the art department of Coppola's newest horror film, Twixt, to recreate a set inside the gallery. The installation, TWIXT sc. 83, reflects the film's DIY...
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The Best Luxury Spa Specials in Wine Country
Between January and March, Wine Country is packed with specials on spa packages as it's traditionally the slowest time of the year. Whether you're looking for a discounted massage or something romantic...
View ArticleThis Week in Local Music News
Royal Baths premiere a haunt-your-dreams kind of video for their excellently eerie track "Black Sheep," and we get even more excited for their upcoming album Better Luck Next Life [via Pitchfork.tv]...
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Consumed: The Best Things I've Eaten This Week
I was on vacation in Mexico last week. We were in Tulum (I was there in March too—can't get enough of it), mostly cooking in the kitchen of the beautiful house we rented on the beach or filling up on...
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