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1 week ago | 
smithsonianmag.com | Shoshi Parks
Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, he’d followed the same guiding philosophy when exhibiting Indigenous people in “human zoos” At the turn of the 20th century, the great zoological gardens of Paris, London and New York City would have been hardly recognizable by today’s standards.
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1 week ago | 
7x7.com | Shoshi Parks
From the start, Prospect’s (300 Spear St.) primary focus was on hospitality, seasonal cooking, and local ingredients—which were conveniently available at the Ferry Building Farmers Market just two blocks away. Mazzola, who lives in Oakland’s Montclair neighborhood with her husband Charles and dog Lola, couldn’t be more proud of what the three partners have accomplished together—but they couldn’t have done it alone.
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1 week ago | 
7x7.com | Shoshi Parks
In 1906, when Mitchell was in her early 50s, she accompanied the family of her employer—a prominent banker in Macon—to France. It wasn’t a vacation, not for Mitchell, who was likely on call from sunup to dark night. But the transatlantic trip left an imprint on her memory.
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1 week ago | 
7x7.com | Shoshi Parks
In the gloaming, virtually any hike with a view is at peak beauty. But for the most spectacular show, head west. These seven Bay Area trails come alive as day fades to night. San Bruno Mountain via Summit Loop, San Bruno (3.6-mile loop)For a hike that’s a little more of a hike (yet still mellow enough to do in the evening after work), try San Bruno Mountain.
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2 weeks ago | 
7x7.com | Shoshi Parks
A few solar panels and a recycling program alone, however, do not a sustainable hotel make. Local people—modern communities as well as their tangible and intangible cultural and natural heritage—are just as essential to the equation as ecological initiatives. That’s the philosophy behind Beyond Green, a global portfolio of some of the most sustainable accommodations on the planet.
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3 weeks ago | 
7x7.com | Shoshi Parks
Even Filoli aficionados don’t often think about the sheer volume of land that makes up the Woodside landmark, a series of diverse ecosystems that sustained the Ramaytush Ohlone for centuries before its grand home and gardens were built in 1917, says CEO Kara Danport. “Historic houses in the U.S. have this tone that they’re not inviting and welcoming and friendly,” she explains.
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4 weeks ago | 
7x7.com | Shoshi Parks
My table is stacked high with pearlescent hamachi crudo in mandarin aguachile, and chubby Hokkaido scallops bathing in shiro dashi and black truffle. I’m greedily polishing off one of the best savory cocktails I’ve had lately—a basil-and-tomato gin drink with parmesan foam they call La Cosa Nostra. The vibe is cool, the menus are exquisitely designed, the music is pumping—it’s everything you’d hope for in a cocktail lounge in San Francisco or Oakland. But I’m not in San Francisco or Oakland.
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1 month ago | 
7x7.com | Shoshi Parks
“My pride and joy is furniture, like this 1940s outdoor patio set or these chairs from the early 1800s,” she explains, gliding her hand gently over the pieces. “I pulled this handpainted screen out of a moldy basement and just had it appraised—it’s worth quite a bit of money.
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1 month ago | 
7x7.com | Shoshi Parks
From K-pop to alt-rock, hip-hop to Latin pop, it’ll be one of the park’s most dynamic music seasons to date. The lineup begins this week with Stray Kids on Wednesday May 28, and Kendrick Lamar & SZA on Thursday May 29. Shakira takes over on June 30, followed by Post Malone with Jelly Roll on July 1, and My Chemical Romance on July 19. Two additional performances—Nate Smith on June 21 and Saweetie on August 16—will follow Giants games this summer.
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1 month ago | 
7x7.com | Shoshi Parks
The art world calls it Bay Area Figurative, a movement that began taking off around the same time Abstract Expressionism was emerging in New York—a kind of “revolution” among the avant-garde, in which local artists started to transform from more traditional figurative work to fully abstract, non-objective work—nothing you could recognize from the real world, with a lot of texture, energy,” says Rob Delamater, co-owner of the Lost Art Salon in the Mission.
