Blend 1,000 guests and more than 100 of Northern California’s top chefs mixed with 65 top vintners and mixologists and a sprinkling of generous corporate sponsors and individuals donors and you bake up a red hot, record-breaking $2.2 million for homebound seniors served by Meals On Wheels of San Francisco. The 26th Annual Star Chefs…
The dancers were framed by a geometrically precise display of primaveral precipitation—vertical streams of spotlighted water alternately flowed and pulsed in syncopation with the movement and the musicians performing onstage. Outside the theatre the magnificent and impossibly long-stemmed white tulips gracing the festivities proclaimed the triumphant arrival of spring and a celebratory renewal of creative…
Guests arriving at the California Academy of Sciences’ Big Bang Gala were greeted by human ‘butterflies’ swooping and flitting about, their shimmering wings competing with patrons’ dresses for color and contrast. Butterflies symbolized the “diverse and delicate nature of life” that was the theme of this annual event, which summons the scientific from their labs…
The Commonwealth Club of California hosts more than 450 programs each year, but their recent event, the 110th Anniversary and 25th Annual Distinguished Citizen Award Dinner, is certainly the most memorable. The evening, presented by Chevron, celebrated and honored Jed York, the young and charismatic C.E.O. of the San Francisco 49ers who spearheaded changes that…
San Francisco’s beloved Exploratorium opened with a big splashy party that befitting its swell new digs on Pier 15. Guests were as giddy as schoolchildren on a field trip as they navigated the expanse filled to the open rafters with scientific schemes, stories, and stuff, searching for new discoveries and old favorite exhibits. Fortunately the…
