So, that's - at San Francisco - oh I was listening to little stuff on the sly but I wasn't interested in secular music.
John Dory and caramelized fennel, green garlic, bouillabaisse jus, and black olive crostini enhanced by a full-bodied Feudi di San Gregorio 2007 Falanghina--I could go on (and we did, well into a third dessert), but suffice it to say that thanks to some thoughtful updating, the Mansion has reasserted itself among the Lone Star State's elite.
At Sushi Sasaki, a small counter in Toyama city run by Sasaki-san and his wife, I sampled a variety of fresh nigiri and sashimi, washed down with a few glasses of local sake.
For a trip to the U.S. and Europe I'm taking next month, I tried making bookings three separate ways -- through my regular agent in Hong Kong, by consulting a round-the-world specialist in San Francisco I found on the Web, and by myself online.
San Francisco, California (CNN) -- A few weeks back I went on a mancation to San Francisco.
For four swoon-filled years during the dot com boom and bust a decade ago, I lived in San Francisco, the beautiful lotus-eating, Pacific-touching, city on a hill.
While still a student at San Jose State University, I co-founded Intelligent Buying Inc.
" The San Francisco-based attorney admits, "I opted out of most of the fun activities.
For all my childish panic over San Jose, I am a stud at hand-flying the Cessna into Lawrence Municipal Airport.
Two decades later, fresh out of culinary school and working in San Francisco, I was doing healthy, produce-driven cooking with a broad range of global influences.
After two nights in the one-horse town of San - one tarred road, one half-decent hotel, no supermarket, lots of dust - I felt I deserved some good luck.
Zipping down Interstate 5 in a sleek silver Tesla Model S en route to Los Angeles from San Francisco the only sound I hear is a century-old gasoline-powered paradigm being smashed.
At La Gloria, a bright new restaurant alongside the soon-to-open San Antonio branch of the Culinary Institute of America, I'm given a taste of chilli's genesis.
It earned the label by meeting standards developed by the Indian Green Building Council, the local chapter of U.S. Green Building Council, which created LEED standards. (Here I must give a shout-out to my hometown San Francisco International Airport, whose Terminal 2 also won gold certification, soon after Delhi did.) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad also won a LEED-Silver rating.
After a three-year exile to the East Coast, I came back to San Francisco.
Also at Arafat, I speak with a 26-year old Imam based in San Jose, California.
Its not like I had a carpet back, claims the 25-year-old San Diegan.
San Diego, California (CNN) -- For much of this election season, I saw a lot to admire in Marco Rubio.
Car2Go-San Diego will have no other cars in its fleet, and the last time I looked the Smart was strictly a two-seater.
"(There was) a lot of damage, a lot of fire -- I don't think anybody could make it through that, " San Angelo said.
Continue towards Campo di Santa Maria del Giglio, an area just west of the Piazza San Marco, where Woody Allen stalked Julia Roberts in the light-hearted comedy Everyone Says I Love You, then turn north to the theatre Teatro La Fenice and the nearby Ponte Maria Callas bridge, dedicated to American-born Greek opera singer Maria Callas who debuted at the theatre in 1947.
The new campus is adjacent to The Outlets at Traverse Mountain, just off of I-15 at exit 284, and was created for Adobe by the San Francisco-based architecture and planning firm of WRNS Studio.
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Growing up in San Francisco with frequent trips to Chinatown, I interacted with newly arrived Chinese as well as third- and fourth-generation Asians who spoke without accents.
While riding the local commuter train from Stanford University to a recent San Francisco Giants baseball game, I found myself in a car filled with drunken teenagers and twenty-somethings.
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Last week I was in San Francisco and experienced a series of events that foreshadow the coming importance of what I call the last-second economy.
The federal stimulus money will be put toward widening seven miles of I-215, a heavily used cargo and commuter corridor running through the city of San Bernardino.
There they commemorated the 90th anniversary of the San Remo Conference which determined the legal status of the Ottoman Empire after its break-up in World War I.
With the Focus Electric rolling into showrooms, I took a pre-production model on a two-week tech test drive around the San Francisco Bay Area last month to experience daily life in the cloud with an electric car.
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"I could barely walk, " said Elizabeth Pederson, a 34-year-old lawyer from San Francisco.
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