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Karen Caldwell Designs shined when the movie Spotlight won Best Picture at the Academy Awards on Feb. 28. When Spotlight producers Blye Faust and Nicole Rocklin stepped on the stage to accept their gold statuette, they did so wearing the designs of the talented Karen Caldwell, our favorite local designer.

If you happen to see Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger behind a bar pouring his family’s almost 300-year-old label’s champagne, with a Black River Caviar bar on one side of him and a Hog Island Oyster bar on the other, either you are dreaming or you are at the first night Welcome Party of the GourmetFest Carmel 2016. The four day foodie extravaganza featuring an exclusive roster of Relais & Châteaux chefs and the world's best wine estates took place Feb. 25-28, and we're still in recovery mode from the decadent offerings.

The unmistakable power of fashion house Chanel, the tech world and philanthropy helped to raise $2,5 million for California Pacific Medical Center.

Vintners Kathryn Walt Hall, the former U.S. ambassador to Austria, and Craig Hall, owners of HALL Napa Valley, WALT Sonoma and SENZA Hotel, are one of the Napa Valley's favorite couples—and they make some pretty darn delicious wine too. They share with us their haute secrets to the Napa Valley.

Whether it's a girls’ getaway, a family vacation, or you just want a romantic escapade with your favorite hautie, Saint Lucia is at your service. This Caribbean jewel might only measure 27 miles north to south but it’s filled with verdant jungles, UNESCO mountain peaks, cocoa plantations, sandy beaches and sublime sunsets.

Netflix, the world’s leading streaming service provider, ordered its first Germany original series.

Yountville, known as the Napa Valley's culinary capital, already boasted some of the best restaurant in the region. Now, it also has the hautest new spot, make that spots, with flamboyant Frenchman Jean-Charles Boisset's new JCB Tasting Salon, a wine tasting and luxury lifestyle retail destination, and Atelier by JCB, a gourmet epicerie that offers a curated assortment of gourmet culinary delights.

Zinfandel lovers are gathering in San Francisco for the 25th annual festival in honor of the great Californian grape. Here is what's not to be missed.

In the ‘easy come-easy go’ world of restaurants, longevity is increasingly exceptional. Rare is the dining spot that thrives beyond a handful of years. Rarer still is the eatery that approaches two decades, its hip quotient still firmly intact and its delectable dishes still drawing raves. Such is Delfina, the chic Italian cornerstone of the San Francisco Mission district’s epicurean evolution.

To entice wine lovers to stay in the city limits, RN74, the Michael Mina stalwart that has held culinary court for years to the movers and shakers in its Millennium Towers South Beach location, and 1760, the new Polk Street dining sister to the established Acquerello, have created weekly wine programs that are imaginative enough to titillate even San Francisco’s been-to-that-wine country, drank-that-cab oenophiles.

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We continue to be delighted at the haute new shopping options in and around San Francisco's Union Square. The latest to dazzle us is Barneys New York, which just opened a haute new, dedicated men's store in its San Francisco flagship location.