Haute Ambassador Oliva Hsu Decker gives the run-down on highlights of the Bay Area’s First California Lifestyle Auction.

San Francisco Ballet’s China tour, which included six sold-out performances in Beijing and Shanghai from Oct. 21-31, 2015, was a huge success.

San Francisco Opera Guild honored its longtime passionate supporter and composer/librettist Gordon Getty with a gala dinner on the stage at the War Memorial Opera House on Dec. 7, the eve of the U.S. premiere of the renowned renaissance man’s opera The Fall of the House of Usher in the same building.

10 smashing days celebrating the 10th season of Napa Valley Festival del Sole.

The 2015 Hotbed, Art by The Bay charity event was co-hosted by auctioneer extraordinaire Sharon Stone and Joe Jonas on August 22. The weather could not have been more perfect for this outdoor event at Maxwell Drever’s nine-acre Tiburon estate Giardini Del Paradiso.

The Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance has been the annual showcase of the world’s finest vintage cars since 1950.

The biggest names in sports and film came together in Shanghai for the 2015 Laureus World Sports Awards.

The $1.5 billion UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay—a “Next Generation” hospital that took 10 years to become a reality—opened on Feb. 1st, just a few weeks after a star-studded Champions Gala was held at the center to thank and honor the “champion” donors. Led by philanthropists Marc and Lynne Benioff, Dede Wilsey and Ron Conway, these supporters, along with hundreds of other backers, donated over $550 million in private funds for this new, state-of-the-art hospital complex.

Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s innovative and daring co-founder, chairman and CEO, hasn’t just made a name for himself in cloud computing: his philanthropic deeds garner nearly as much attention, especially now as the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco prepares to open.