The former home of Bumble and House on First will open a new chapter in 2025 when the popular Luna Mexican Kitchen opens its third location in Downtown Los Altos. The Michelin-grade restaurant already has successful spots on the Alameda in San José and the Pruneyard in Campbell. Learn more from the Town Crier.
Where else in the world can you step out of your home and into a redwood forest straight out of a fairy tale? Living by the Bay, we’re spoiled with parks, trails, and open spaces. We owe it to ourselves to take the time to enjoy it!
In 2020, when the pandemic changed everything, San Francisco bakery Craftsman and Wolves started selling their pastries at the California Avenue Farmers Market in Palo Alto. This fall, they’re poised to open the doors of a brick-and-mortar location in Mountain View. The Voice has more about what to expect.
There’s nothing like an ice cool frosty beverage to take the edge off of a heat wave, and if it happens to have a little alcohol, well, so be it. So blend up a strawberry daiquiri, kick back on the patio, and remember that it’s only July!
The Olympics are returning to Paris for the first time in 100 years, which got us thinking about all the ways the world around us has changed in the past century, and how it’s stayed the same. Would you prefer to live in the 2020s or the “Roaring” Twenties?
I’m intrigued by the fashion of the 1920s, from hats and flappers to rising hemlines and bob hairdos. Everyone was letting loose in the wake of Prohibition, and women were putting more skin on display in a show of liberation. And from all the photos and films of the era, it looks like everybody was having a lot of fun! If I had a time machine, this would be one of my first destinations.
Tight suits, bowler hats, cigarette holders? A little too stodgy for me. Call me a big dumb guy, but I’m always happier lounging around in a Hawaiian shirt and jeans than getting dressed up for a cocktail party with people who couldn’t care less about the score of the ballgame. And there’s one thing that’s taken a big leap in the past 100 years that I couldn’t possibly live without: power tools!
