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Point of Departure

Published in , Saturday, May 1, 2010

With a lifetime of great houses behind them, a couple chooses to simplify—on a hallowed stretch of California coastline. (Read More…)

Posted in Architecture & Design

A San Francisco Treat

Published in , Monday, February 9, 2009
Exploring the California Academy of Sciences, the greenest museum on earth.

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The California Academy of Sciences, which reopened in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park this past fall, is now in a new building that resembles a high-style space station — all glass and recycled steel and capped with an undulating green roof (Read More…)

Posted in Architecture & Design, Travel

Oaxaca Gets Real

Published in , Thursday, January 1, 2009

My best-laid plans were scrapped the moment I arrived in Oaxaca City. “You want to see the real, authentic Mexico, right?” asked Alejandro Ruiz, one of the city’s most renowned chefs, as he giddily steered his SUV through narrow cobblestoned streets (Read More…)

Posted in Food & Wine, Preservation, Selected Articles, Travel