Kelly E. Carter

New York Times bestselling author Kelly E. Carter is as versatile as she is peripatetic and a lover of the luxe life. She's covered sports, entertainment, fashion, travel, and fine dining and cocktail trends throughout her award-winning career. The jetsetter has globetrotted to more than 40 countries and territories on six continents. In 2014, Kelly won a prestigious Lowell Thomas Award for her tail-all travel guide, The Dog Lover's Guide to Travel, a National Geographic guidebook featuring 75 great destinations in the U.S. and Canada to vacation with a dog. Previously, Kelly teamed up with tennis phenom Venus Williams to co-author the NYT bestseller Come to Win. The Los Angeles native lived in Italy and New York before settling down in San Francisco, where she keeps her finger on the pulse of the hautest happenings and humans in the Bay Area.

Posts by Kelly E. Carter

7 Things You Need To Know About SF Opera’s Opening Weekend

Whether or not you’ll be at San Francisco’s War Memorial House on Friday, Sept. 11 for the opening of the 93rd season of the San Francisco Opera season, you’ll want to know what’s going on because this is, after all, the most important event on San Francisco’s crowded social calendar. We’ve got all the details for you right here from what to expect at the gala and who’s performing on stage.

Why We Love Flexjet’s Haute Gulfstream G450

Step aboard Flexjet’s version of the Gulfstream G450 and we’ll understand if you have a hard time believing you’re on an aircraft that is part of a fleet available to fractional fliers. That was our impression too. This flying lounge is so luxurious you’ll swear you’re on a high-roller’s personal aircraft.

SF: Why You Shouldn’t Miss Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival 2015

Calling all chocoholics! Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, San Francisco’s premier chocolate manufacturer, is putting on the 20th Anniversary Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival on Saturday, September 12 and Sunday, September 13 from 12 – 5 p.m. at San Francisco’s historic Ghirardelli Square.

What’s Haute: Harvest Events in Wine Country

Six Napa and Sonoma County events you shouldn’t miss this crush season.

Farfetch’s José Neves: The Delivery Man

José Neves brings haute fashions from around the globe to your door via Farfetch.

Haute Scene San Francisco

The 46th edition of Fashion on the Lake, featuring the Oscar de la Renta Resort 2016 Collection, and presented by Saks Fifth Avenue and the League to Save Lake Tahoe, began a new chapter on Aug. 1 at the annual affair that is the highlight of the Lake Tahoe summer season.

Lisa Sugar’s Sweet Smell Of Success

There was no doubt Lisa Sugar was taking Brian Sugar’s name when they wed. “I just had three Twinkies at my desk because we had a celebration for somebody leaving,” she confesses when we visit her at the downtown San Francisco office of POPSUGAR, the hautest site for female millennials, which she and her husband co-founded in 2006.

Kitchen Confidential: David Barzelay Is The Energizer Bunny

David Barzelay takes lazy bear from underground cult favorite to brick-and-mortar sensation

Inside The Sonoma Harvest Wine Auction That Raised A Record-Shattering $4.5 Million

It’s one thing to read that the 2015 Sonoma Harvest Wine Auction, sponsored by TricorBraun WinePak, the highlight of the just concluded Sonoma Wine Country Weekend, raised a record-shattering $4.5 million on Sept. 6 at Chateau St. Jean in Kenwood. It’s another to witness it all from inside the air-conditioned tent, where the stars of Sonoma’s wine community banded together—and received tremendous support from other generous guests from around the country—during an exciting afternoon that benefits a multitude of Sonoma County charities, including the Fund the Future Children’s Literacy initiative.

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