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In a perfect San Diego, we’d have a monorail for getting us to various happy hours on time. Traffic at the end of the work week lately has been a sloth. And it severely cut into Dr. Ink’s prospects of slugging down as many $3 margaritas as possible at Ponce’s in Kensington.
Everyone who loves an old house cherishes the illusion that it might be historic. And usually he or she is right. Most old houses were built by someone significant, were lived in by someone who long ago did something notable or notorious or at least interesting, and are examples of a certain house type that exists only in the past, often in a neighborhood that is already considered historic or may soon be recognized as such. The problem is usually a matter of degree. Every old house is significant, but some are more significant than others.
In April, the White House proposed guidelines for marketing food to children. Generated by the collaborative Interagency Working Group, which consists of representatives from the FTC, Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and U.S. Department of Agriculture, the guidelines encourage diminishing the advertising of foods high in sugar, fat and sodium to children 2 through 17 years of age, recommending that companies instead promote nutritionally beneficial foods and suggesting the definition of terms such as “advertising” and “promotion” with regard to children under 18.
If you know Burlingame, North Park’s famous “Tract of Character,” then you probably know Virginia Sherwood’s garden. It’s on a prominent corner, and it’s exuberant: free-form, a bit wild, and filled with colorful and strangely shaped plants. Sherwood’s house, too, is a standout, painted brick-red with green trim.
On May 23, Save Our Heritage Organisation presented Elizabeth Scalice and Fred Carson with a “People in Preservation” Award for their efforts in restoring their home—an apparently abandoned two-story Spanish Revival on Pringle Street in Mission Hills.
From now until late May, desert wildflowers are in bloom, splashing bold colors against baked soil in the state park’s canyons. Anza Borrego’s annual spring wildflower displays range from micro to macro—tiny petals of deep blue on the Indigo Bush to massive blooming Barrel cacti. The park is also prolific with Chuparosa, Desert Lavender, Creosote Bush and Apricot Mallow, as well as many other varieties indigenous desert flowers
The ghostly fog breaks mid morning, warm sun gently emerging to dry the damp, Tuscan grape vines. The scene is bucolic. But the work is tough. Beth and I are among six other volunteers working at a 200-year-old vineyard in Fattoria Cerreto Libri, in Pontassieve, Italy. From dawn ’til dusk, we labor in the vineyard.
Ignore the fact that the historic Art Deco building housing Fat City Steakhouse needs a power washing and that it shares space with a Denny’s and the now-defunct China Camp. If you’re looking for drinks and steaks on the cheap, you’ve come to the right place
It’s mid-September in Manarola. Grapes hang from corroded rod iron entrance ways in the tight pastel corridors of this Cinque Terre village. Farmers and shop owners are entrenched in their yearly battle against the changing Mediterranean season; both grasping to the remaining days of summer for their livelihoods
Forget about basic pots and instead look for interestingly designed modern planters. With these, indoor plants have never looked better. We’ve rounded up some of the most interesting planters out there to make bringing plant life indoors a whole lot easier