Outer Sunset, just south of Golden Gate Park, is a quiet, atmospheric neighborhood where thick fog frequently obscures the trim pastel houses, Asian groceries, and surfers cycling down to Ocean Beach. Until recently, you’d never call it cool.
The San Francisco Patient and Resource Center, or Sparc, is not your average pot club.
It’s been a long time since California’s most glamorous wine region felt like farm country. Today, the area buzzes with Michelin-starred restaurants, new hotels and shops, and nearly 150 tasting rooms. Here’s your ultimate guide.
“If anybody said this was Malibu, you’d say they were crazy,” says Richard Hirsh, the millionaire clothier-turned-vintner standing in the vineyards of his Cielo Farms estate.
If you close your eyes and block out the visual cues—the red ocher 18th-century buildings, the brightly colored bazaars, the monkeys scrambling maniacally over the dusty rooflines—you would still know you were in Jaipur, India.
Could a Northern California backwater become the next Napa?
Australia’s answer to the Galapagos Islands makes a giant leap forward.
Until the early ’90s, Hayes Valley was a seedy neighborhood, best known for prostitutes, drug deals, and the elevated freeway that once bisected its main drag. The freeway has since been replaced by a Parisian-style boulevard and village green, and the neighborhood is thriving.
Long known for its cutting-edge music and art, Iceland hasn’t made much of an impression on the fashion world, Bjork’s eyebrow-raising swan dress notwithstanding. But a nascent style scene is now taking root in the capital, stoked by the city’s pervasive youth culture and a fashion program at the Iceland Academy of the Arts.
For Alex Calderwood, Wade Weigel, Doug Herrick and Jack Barron — whose 79-room Ace Hotel opened in Portland, Oregon, last month — good design is about tapping into a city’s lifeblood.