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Paul Gauguin’s Spiritual Journey Now at the de Young Museum in San Francisco

December 4, 2018December 4, 2018 California, News, Reviews, San Francisco, Stephanie 3

Text and photos by Stephanie Levin. French painter and Post-Impressionist, Paul Gauguin, cultivated and inhabited two images, one a sensitive artist, the other a

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Entrance to the Grand Canal by Canaletto, Casanova exhibit, Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Casanova, The Seduction of Europe opens at the Legion of Honor

February 9, 2018June 10, 2018 Italy, News, Reviews, San Francisco, Stephanie, Venice 0

Story by Stephanie Levin. An intellectual, social and artistic enlightenment swept through Europe in the 18th Century that lasted a hundred years. In an

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Taste of Travel, Bay Area Travel Writers Taste of Travel Fall 2017

Bay Area Travel Writers publishes Taste of Travel Fall 2017

January 18, 2018May 28, 2018 Food and Wine, John, Lee, Reviews 0

By Lee Daley and John Sundsmo Taste of Travel News: Reading the Fall 2017, second publication, by the Bay Area Travel Writers Taste of

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'Blues is a Woman' Custom Made Theater, San Francisco, CA

Review: ‘Blues is a Woman’ relives the Greats

August 11, 2017May 28, 2018 Carol, Concert Events, News, Reviews, San Francisco 0

Story by Carol Canter. ‘Blues is a Woman,’ from Ma Rainey to Bonnie Raitt, at San Francisco’s ”Custom Made Theater through August 27 I

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Rancho La Puerta, Mexico, Patio off the dining room where many choose to relax during lunch at Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico

Rancho La Puerta to Enrich, Relax and Renew

May 25, 2017May 28, 2018 Desert, Food and Wine, Hotel Reviews, Mexico, Reviews, Stephanie 3

Story and Photos by Stephanie Levin. Located at the base of mystical Mount Kuchumaa range, Rancho La Puerta defies definition. Some hail it a

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Claude Monet painting "La Grenouillère", a boating and bathing resort on the Seine, not far from Paris. Monet quote: "I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillère, for which I have made some bad sketches, but it is only a dream. 1869 Medium: Oil on canvas Now on exhibit "The Monet Early Days" at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA

Monet: The Early Years at The Legion of Honor

March 7, 2017May 28, 2018 Destinations, News, Reviews, San Francisco, Stephanie 0

Photos and Story by Stephanie Levin. On a chilly, wintery Parisian afternoon I descended the staircase in the Musée de l’Orangerie and discovered Monet’s

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2017 Cuisine and Culture Tours Foodies Alert

November 18, 2016May 28, 2018 Food and Wine, Reviews 0

By Karen Misuraca. My first food-focused vacation was with Kandra Kitchen Crete, when the queen of Greek cuisine, Rosemary Barron, held forth in her

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Alluring Autumn Art Exhibitions at 3 San Francisco Museums

November 7, 2016May 28, 2018 Carol, Destinations, Reviews 0

By Carol Canter. Three of the top San Francisco autumn art exhibitions feature artists as diverse as Bruce Conner, “realist, surrealist, hippie, punk;” The

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Imagine Tree, Copenhagen, Iceland, Oko Ono

Imagine Peace: Yoko Ono’s “Wish Tree:” From Copenhagen to Iceland and beyond

July 31, 2016May 28, 2018 Copenhagen, Destinations, Europe, Iceland, Lee, Yoko Ono 0

By Lee Daley. If you should encounter a Wish Tree, this is Yoko Ono‘s suggestion: “Make a wish. Write it down on a piece

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