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June 27, 2025
A coastal escape offers waves, wildlife and worry-free luxury
While dreaming of travel and craving respite from summer season busyness, I received a fortuitous email in May that planted a seed-like idea. Short...
June 27, 2025
Fantastic Negrito confronts his past on new album
Three-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Fantastic Negrito is rarely hesitant to travel. Since winning the first-ever NPR Tiny Desk Contest from among 7,000 entrants...
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April 28, 2025
Asawa’s art revealed in SFMOMA retrospective
In a fourth floor gallery at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, two women stand transfixed. Gazing upward at a hanging sculpture made...
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February 28, 2025
How to fireproof homes in style
Recent images from Los Angeles and in 2023 from Lahaina, Hawaii, of homes left untouched and intact while surrounding houses were entirely destroyed by...
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December 31, 2024
A recycling love story births Urban Ore
Two tiny steps and a 15-minute kiss launched the 40-year marriage of Daniel Knapp and Mary Lou Van Deventer. The couple lives close to...
November 29, 2024
Embracing non-digital giving
Everything in the universe is becoming high-tech “smart.” When refrigerators, clothing, shoes and vehicles talk to people more than people talk to each other,...
November 29, 2024
Body love leads to thoughtful giving
The premise was simple: Search out local artisans and makers to best complete the ellipsis-ended phrase, “When you love your body, you…..” Here is...
October 29, 2024
Lesley Evers’ style lifts spirits
Colors can lift people’s spirits,” says designer Lesley Evers. “I have a customer who said she started wearing our clothes and it changed her...