New Year's Eve Dinner Bashes, Hangover Brunches, and More
Monday, December 31What better way to celebrate the end of the holiday season than in red with Foreign Cinema? They’ll be decking the halls with red flowers, dramatic lighting, and flickering candles...
View ArticleDo Good Baubles: Robindira Unsworth's Madres Collaboration
Revered Petaluma designer Robindira Unsworth is taking her jewelry to a new, socially responsible level that speaks to her background in social services. Launching now is the collab with the Madres...
View ArticleBe a Part of Muni's 100th Birthday with Our Photo Contest!
For 100 years, Muni has been a part of our daily lives. It can take you home when you've had too much to drink, whisk you to work, rescue you when you get a flat tire on your bike, help you get your...
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Matthew Accarrino’s Spaghetti with Shrimp and Tomato Passatina Recipe
In the December issue of 7x7, we chose the seven best cookbooks to gift your foodie (“The Cook’s Bookshelf”). We’re in the giving mood, so here are our favorite recipes from each tome.From SPQR: Modern...
View ArticlePastry Chef Nicole Plue Plays with Childhood Classics
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs? Or Oreo cookies perhaps? So is pastry chef Nicole Plue, a James Beard award winner who’s feeding the craving for her favorite childhood sweets with a just-launched line of...
View ArticleThree Reasons to Cross the Bay Bridge
In preparation for the year ahead, and for the New Year's Eve celebrations coming our way on Monday, we look to the East (Bay, that is) for ways to celebrate the past, present and future.Wizard of Oz...
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Seven Hot Chocolates To Warm Your Winter
Now that it has dipped into the 30s, it's officially cold. What better way to warm up than with a rich chocolatey beverage? From boozy options to drinking chocolates, here are seven of the best hot...
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This Town's Best Pupusas
With rising food prices in San Francisco, it’s hard to imagine anything filling, delicious, and unique costing under $5. A bagel with cream cheese, a slice of pizza, a Mission Dog, or a tamale (if...
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The Ultimate Sunday Bike Ride: Briones Regional Park Loop
It might be said that for many Bay Area riders and residents, the East Bay is regarded as one giant mass of endlessly developed land that stretches to Livermore and beyond, to I-5. However, within all...
View ArticleIn Photos: Seven Days of San Francisco Music
This town knows music. On any given night, you can find whatever genre you're jonesing to hear, sing, or dance along with. Here's a taste of what happened in the San Francisco music scene the past...
View ArticleThomas Keller's Pecan Sandies Recipe
In the December issue of 7x7, we chose the seven best cookbooks to gift your foodie (“The Cook’s Bookshelf”). We’re in the giving mood, so here are our favorite recipes from each tome.From Bouchon...
View ArticleFive Hottest SF Concerts of the Week, NYE Edition
[Check’s calendar]No time for small talk; it’s time to party. TONIGHT, NEW YEAR’S EVEA-Trak, Fort Mason, MondayBelieve it or not, Montreal’s A-Trak has been an elite name in the DJ/EDM world ever since...
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Bay Area Parks Worth a Winter Visit
Exploring the seemingly endless number of great parks in the Bay Area may seem like a summertime thing, but if you stop and think about it, it makes perfect sense. This is the time of year when we...
View ArticleDesign-Savvy Bike Racks Come to Yerba Buena
Originally published on CaliforniaHomeDesign.comIn a move that underscores the rich cultural core of the Yerba Buena neighborhood, “artful” bike racks were installed December 14 outside Metreon. The...
View ArticleThe Exploratorium's Last Day at the Palace of Fine Arts
More than 40 years ago, the Exploratorium first opened to the public thanks to physicist Frank Oppenheimer, with the hope of transforming the way people thought of science education by turning it into...
View ArticleJams We Love: 7x7's Weekly Playlist
For our column Jams We Love, we're turning you onto the songs that keep us going every day. Here, a list of songs about (or perfect for) celebrating New Year's Eve.
View ArticleSamin Nosrat’s Buttermilk-Marinated Roast Chicken Recipe
In the December issue of 7x7, we chose the seven best cookbooks to gift your foodie (“The Cook’s Bookshelf”). We’re in the giving mood, so here are our favorite recipes from each tome.FromSecrets of...
View ArticleWin Tickets to the San Francisco Ballet!
Welcome to Ticket Tuesdays, a new weekly chance for you to score entry to some of the hottest shows and events in the Bay Area.The San Francisco Ballet’s season opens with a trio of performances: the...
View ArticleI Redo. Me Too.
Many marriages fail in the United States today, but very few happen twice. Naysa and Wesley Scott took a second chance on love after a divorce following their first wedding together in 2002. Having...
View ArticleHealthy Beers for the New Year
The new year has begun and we’re all casting around for healthy lifestyle changes. A simple and tasty improvement to the beer portion of your diet can be made by adding an occasional ginger beer....
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