No one will be in San Francisco this weekend. The city that knows how will be emptied of Mission District hipsters and Pac Heights plutocrats. The steady buzz of tattoo guns will cease up and down Valencia. And San Franciscans will be in one of two places: Burning Man Sonoma Wine Country Weekend To help San Franciscans find the correct {…}
When the local paper called and asked if we could comment about a story they were doing on naked ladies, I thanked my lucky stars and calmly inquired where I could observe these libertine maidens for myself in order to form a better opinion of the issue. I was told they could be found on the sides of roads and {…}
Levi Leipheimer, Sonoma County resident, professional cyclist, friend to animals, and until a recent spill broke his wrist, Tour de France title contender, is in it deep. Yes friends, Levi Leipheimer is promoting a cool bike ride here in Wine Country to raise money for the Tour of California, as well as for a local group that brings together at-risk {…}
The BoHos are back! Not to be confused with BoBos, who are all over the place in Northern California, or even lowercase bohemians, who are oft caught at non-corporate coffee shops sneering at those who order things by asking for a “venti” ; the BoHos are the members of the Bohemian Club, an exclusive men’s club based in San Francisco and which {…}
UPDATE – August 21, 2009: Looks like Rupert Murdoch has sic’d [sic] microtrend blogger Mark Penn from the Wall Street Journal on the glamping trend, a full month-and-a-half after Inside Sonoma called out glamping and all it’s neologism cousins. Got that WSJ? Inside Sonoma was here first! What’s next- you want us to start running the same editorial every December {…}
It’s back! The Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic is back! Returning to Windsor (unofficial motto: “Healdsburg charm, Santa Rosa price”) and marking its 20th year, this is a crowd pleaser. The dawn patrol features balloons launching into the morning sun of wine country; tethered balloon rides for those who want that hot air balloon feeling, without all that drifting away into {…}
While my ongoing row with the Wine Country blimp has been covered in exhaustive detail by TMZ.com, Perez Hilton and The Economist, little is known of the fierce grudge I hold with all hot air balloons. That is because I don’t have one. Many a cheery morning finds me stepping out jauntily to my car, morning coffee in hand, as I prepare {…}
A lot of people callously use the perceived rivalry between Napa and Sonoma counties as a reason to promote their own agendas. It is shocking, I know. Next thing you know, people will be talking up the rivalries between LA and San Francisco, Pepsi and Coke, and Google and God. Pish-posh, says I. Just as the tourism authorities in Los {…}
This just in… a Brit has won “the best job in the world.” Quote: A bungee jumping, ostrich-riding British charity worker was named the winner Wednesday of what’s been dubbed the “Best Job in the World” — a six-month contract to serve as caretaker of a tropical Australian island. Ben Southall, 34, of Petersfield, beat out nearly 35,000 applicants from {…}
Murphy-Goode winery is taking a page from the Aussies’ marketing book and offering a job to a blogger/tweeter/videographer for $10,000 per month. While details are sketchy, the internets describes how someone will have the cool job (or a “really goode job” according to the flack who penned the release) of blogging about life in Sonoma County and how it relates {…}
