When the ancient Polynesians invented surfing, they often used a paddle to help them navigate. Fast-forward a few millennia, and Stand-Up Paddleboarding, or SUP, finds itself trendy again. Part of its increasing popularity is that standing upright allows surfers to spot waves more easily and thus catch more of them, multiplying the fun factor. Paddling back to the wave becomes less of a strain as well. The ability to cruise along on flat inland water, surveying the sights, is another advantage. Finally, it’s a good core workout. If you’re sold on the idea, schedule an intro SUP lesson, free with board and paddle rental, and you may find yourself riding the waves like a Polynesian king.More
Many of us remember coming home from our elementary schools with freshly glazed pinchpots, cups, or whatever else our young imaginations could conjure up. Saturday mornings at the Randall Museum can bring that memory back, or create a new one for the youngsters. Ceramics make great gifts — especially on Mothers' and Fathers' Day. Hop on board for the Randall's once-weekly class, and for $6 and two weeks to have your work fired and glazed, you'll have all the materials you need.More
December is almost over - the New Year is coming up and everyone is busy drying off from the rain or holiday shopping. Let's take a look at what's happened this month.
The conscience of the Ferry Building, the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) has been getting urbanites to know where their food comes from since 1994.
So you went out last Saturday night and wore those new dark-wash, skinny leg jeans that you just bought despite the fact that it's the end of the month and you should be saving that money for your rent check.
Living walls, the toast of Dwell magazine, have been around for a while now. But more often than not, they’re purely ornamental, the equivalent of throw rugs for your vinyl siding. But now green lifestyle evangelist (and writer-photographer) Shawna Coronado, not content with decorative verticality, is putting these horticultural wonders to work.
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Shawna Coronado
Growing your own herbs and edible flowers is much more fun when you know the result will leave you kicking back on the patio, bathed in California light and asking your liver to put in some overtime while you chillax. Or you can just muddle some mint and strawberries you’ve grown yourself into a pitcher of lemonade. Either way, since most herbs require full or partial sun, apartment-dwellers in a hilly city who have to squeeze the most out of what light they get can look to vertical gardens for those D.I.Y. happy hours.
Coronado’s Grow a Living Wall: Create Vertical Gardens With Purpose has a bunch of recipes for building your own herb garden, complete with summery recipes, including a delicious basil grapefruit martini. Using a mix of one-third potting soil, one-third manure, and one-third compost will help the plants reach maturity quickly, and harvesting only one-third of a given herb's leaves at any given time and waiting for them to grow back before plucking any more off will extend their lives, too.
Basil Grapefruit Martini
Ingredients
Fresh basil
3 oz. vodka
1/2 oz. triple sec
1 cup grapefruit juice
Ice
Slice of lime and sprig of basil for garnish
Muddle bail in a martini shaker, add all the other herbal cocktail ingredients except the garnish, shake, and serve. Or check out the accompanying video.
Bio:
Peter Lawrence Kane is SF Weekly's Arts Editor. He has lived in San Francisco since 2008 and is two-thirds the way toward his goal of visiting all 59 national parks.
Sub Pop recording artists 'clipping.' brought their brand of noise-driven experimental hip hop to the closing night of 2016's San Francisco Electronic Music Fest this past Sunday. The packed Brava Theater hosted an initially seated crowd that ended the night jumping and dancing against the front of the stage. The trio performed a set focused on their recently released Sci-Fi Horror concept album, 'Splendor & Misery', then delved into their dancier and more aggressive back catalogue, and recent single 'Wriggle'.
Opening performances included local experimental electronic duo 'Tujurikkuja' and computer music artist 'Madalyn Merkey.'"
