Chaiken Clothing's Sample Sale Includes Discounted Runway Gems
If you haven't already started to pack your closet with fall essentials, you're actually in luck, the best sample sale of the season just started!Chaiken Clothing is celebrating 20 years of great...
View Article10 Can't Miss Booths at the Bay Area's Glitzy New Art Fair, Art SV/SF
Right on the heels of Ai Weiwei’s monumental opening is Art SV/SF an art fair organized by the founders of Art Miami. It's the first of its kind dedicated to the serious local investor, whom fair...
View ArticleFashion Lovers Enjoy Trends, Bubbles, and Private Shopping with 7x7 and Saks...
Bay Area stylists, bloggers, and fans of all things sartorial journeyed to Union Square for a chic fête with 7x7 at Saks Fifth Avenue highlighting the crave-worthy contemporary selection at Saks this...
View ArticleSF's Most Anticipated Pumpkin Spice Items for Fall
Fall is officially here, and with that comes the tell-tale aroma of pumpkin spice. Before you get bombarded with pumpkin-flavored everything, here are the top five items we're most looking forward to...
View ArticleWhat Sonya Molodetskaya Wore During Paris Fashion Week
Sonya Molodetskaya, volcanic fashion explosion and better half of former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, has made a name for herself in 7x7 editorial meetings. Her looks are, in a word, jaw-dropping....
View Article2014 Hot 20: Matt Semmelhack + Mark Liberman, the Place Makers
General Manager–Owner + Chef-Owner Mercer Restaurant Group (AQ and TBD) / age 31 and 36The city first met Mark Liberman and Matt Semmelhack back in 2011, when the pair posted a video to Kickstarter,...
View ArticleThe Best Boutiques Off Valencia Street
Valencia Street is an eclectic mix of coffee houses, restaurants, bars, and boutiques—but for some special and sometimes hidden treats, just go a few blocks off the main drag.AmpersandFor affordable,...
View ArticleFall Cocktails to Find (and Drink Up) in SF
Keep warm this fall with eight seasonal cocktails from some of the city's most renowned bartenders.Pear, Lime, & Gin Cocktail, AQ SFAQ's Brian Felley created the "Harvest Moon," for his fall menu...
View Article5 Places to Ride Horses on California Beaches
With wind whipped hair flying, the smell of sea salt tickles your nose. Beach-goers stop and wave as you ride by on horseback. Here are five places to ride on the beach for sea horse lovers.Five Brooks...
View ArticleFoodie Agenda: Flour + Water Pasta Classes, Mezcal Tasting, & More
5 tasty events to check out this week. Tasting Menu at Plin Available every Tuesday-Thursday starting this week, Plin — the new pasta shop in the Mission from chef Alexander Alioto — has launched a new...
View ArticleArt Silicon Valley/San Francisco Brings Contemporary & Modern Art to the Bay...
Cutting-edge design. The fusion of art and tech. Banksy. Those are only thee of the many highlights coming your way at the inaugural Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco (Art SV/SF). Art SV/SF is Art...
View ArticleEscape From SF: Tahoe's Calpine Fire Lookout
This week, we escaped the Bay Area via a four-hour drive and a 5,980-foot trek up to the Calpine Fire Lookout in the Sierra Valley, just off Highway 89 near Truckee. A onetime forest fire tower that...
View Article7x7 Salutes SF's New Fashion Honor Guard at the Style Council Dinner at Pabu
On September 25th, 2014, 7x7 gathered San Francisco's style elite to raise a glass to the 2014 Style Council members at Pabu, the most recent addition to the noted Michael Mina restaurant clan. The new...
View Article2014 Hot 20: Thao Nguyen, the Voice
Singer-Songwriter, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down / age 30How to reconcile the ecstatic, rock-out mood of a Thao & The Get Down Stay Down performance with Thao Nguyen’s latest raw yet bouncy...
View ArticleHalloween Makeup How-To: Alexis Traina as Maleficent [Video]
When we asked Alexis Traina, proprietor of Modern House Wines, makers of impossibly hip California vintages, if she’d let us transform her into Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent, she replied, “Why not? We...
View ArticleDrink Here Now: Drink Wine, Sip Whisky, Make Art
Whisky, tequila, and art. Oh, my!Dirty Habit Welcomes WhiskyFestWhiskyFest is slated for Friday, and Dirty Habit is offering guests an early, small taste of what they can expect if they attend the big...
View ArticleThe Bay Area's Youngest Billionaires: See Who Made the List
Attractive, clever, and rich, rich, rich, these 13 individuals are the youngest billionaires in the Bay Area, according to the most recent figures from Forbes. Twelve of them share three things in...
View ArticleWeekend Guide: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Mill Valley Film Fest, & a Shopping...
Don't let this be another weekend you sit around watching Netflix. BLUEGRASS IN THE PARK Hardly Strictly BluegrassWhat: An annual free festival in Golden Gate Park featuring over 100 musical artists on...
View ArticleThe Top Dog-Friendly Hotels In Napa and Yountville
Hotel stays have gone to the dogs. The trend of traveling with Fido is so popular now that Wine Country abounds with pet-friendly properties. Today’s focus: Napa and Yountville.Westin Verasa NapaIt...
View ArticleRoad Trip Guide: A Weekend in Yosemite
Think of this as a refreshing alternative to spending another weekend in Tahoe. Sitting just 200 miles east of San Francisco, and only a 3-4 hour drive, Yosemite (and all of her splendor) is more...
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