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

Back To The Future: The 2015 Alfa Romeo 4C Coupe

A haute look back to the future with the 2015 Alfa Romeo 4C coupe.

Haute 100 San Francisco: September 2015

We don’t have to search far to find the 100 most intriguing and successful people in San Francisco, but it can be hard to keep up with them.

Woman Of Substance: Julia Hartz

Julia Hartz elevates Eventbrite to the top floor.

Haute Living’s Guide to Dubai: An Opulent Oasis

Your haute travel guide to Dubai, the city of gold.

One-On-One With The Triumphant Tech Twosome

Michael and Xochi Birch thrive as partners in marriage, business and philanthropy.

SF: Why You’ll Want To Celebrate At The Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar This Month

This September, the iconic Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar, located at Fairmont San Francisco, lights its 70th tiki torch! The beloved venue celebrates seven decades of delighting guests with tropical décor, decadent libations and island-inspired cuisine. Tonga Room, which by the way is the oldest continually-operating tiki bar in North America, opened its doors on September 18, 1945 and has reigned as a swanky outpost of South Seas splendor ever since. In celebration of this momentous occasion, locals and visitors alike are invited to toast this legendary location throughout the anniversary year.

SF: September’s Hautest Dining + Drinking Happenings

When it comes to dining and drinking in SF, there’s never a dull moment. New restaurants, new menus, new chefs, new milestones.

POPSUGAR’s Lisa Sugar Shares Her 11 Sweetest Fashion and Beauty Items

We recently popped by the POPSUGAR offices in downtown San Francisco to interview Lisa Sugar, the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, for our September/October tech issue. We were curious to how this woman who runs the No. 1 site for female millennials gets through her day, handling work, three young children and a husband, Brian, POPSUGAR’s co-founder and CEO. During our visit, we simply couldn’t resist asking her about her fabulous hair because we were so taken with her luscious auburn locks! She shared with us not just her favorite products for her hair but what fashions, accessories and beauty products she’s loving right now.

Michael Mina Tailgate To Feature Haute Celebrity Chefs

A trip to Levi’s Stadium for a San Francisco 49ers’ game is incomplete without enjoying Michael Mina’s Tailgate experience, which promises to be just as exciting this fall as last year’s inaugural edition. The Michelin-starred chef announced quite the guest lineup of celebrity chefs who will join him in delivering the most expensive tailgate party that is so worth every penny for NFL fans who are also foodies.

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