Graff San Francisco sparkled more than ever during a Valentine’s cocktail celebration for the Sundance Film Festival premiere of Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s film The Mask You Live In on Feb. 11.

Davies Symphony Hall was a sea of blue on Jan. 15, as revelers wore the favorite color of San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas in honor of his 70th birthday.

Calling all foodies and wine enthusiasts! It’s time to prepare for the eighth annual Pebble Beach Food & Wine Festival, four days of gastronomical hedonism at its finest on one of the world’s most picturesque coastlines.

Carmel-by-the-Sea dazzles even when there is nothing going on. Throw in Relais & Châteaux GourmetFest 2015, held March 5-8, and you’ll understand why this idyllic coastal town was the haute spot for gourmands these last few days.

Laurent-Perrier champagne flowed freely at the launch of The 1907 Club, The Fairmont San Francisco’s appropriately named local loyalty program which got off to a bubbly start at a champagne reception at the stately Nob Hill hotel on March 5.

A word of advice to those who plan to check out Botticelli to Braque: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland, on display at San Francisco’s de Young Museum from March 7 to May 31: Give yourself plenty of time.

George Hamel Jr. simply couldn’t resist the lure of competition. Here he was, at the top of his game as an active investor—think Carl Icahn—and so good at what he did after decades in the business that he didn’t need to spend the energy he once did to successfully do his job. Money flowed in like water through a faucet at the investment company he co-founded. So what does Hamel do? He walks away from it all to start anew in… the wine business?

When entrepreneur and Bently Enterprises CEO Christopher Bently saw 240 Stockton Street in San Francisco’s Union Square, the building’s exterior was peeling, there was a quarter inch of dust on the stairwell, trash was piled up inside and discarded furniture filled the basement.

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