With a list of accolades that began with his first vintage and includes 17 100-point scores from five different wine critics, it’s safe to say winemaker Jesse Katz has his act together. But long before he had garnered an A-list fan base (Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel toasted their 2012 nuptials with a red blend Katz custom crafted for them), as a boy he traveled the world and top wine regions with his father, photographer Andy Katz, which is how the memory of his first taste of wine became...

“I figured that if the old guys pre-70’s could be tough enough to surf through the winter and just stand by trash can fires afterwards, I should be able to do the same, even though these days it’s harder to find a good 50-gallon trash can fire.” – Mac Hillenbrand

"Singer-songwriter Kris Angelis doesn’t just wear her heart on her sleeve; she brandishes it in the very titles of her folk/pop songs, like “Heartbreak Is Contagious” and “I Hope I Never Fall in Love Again,” as well as her 2013 album The Left Atrium, which garnered an LA Music Critics Award for Best Female Album upon its release..."

On a memorably wretched winter day in late 2009, 27-year-old Marine Captain Kevin Kinkade was leading a mission in a Taliban- controlled area of southern Afghanistan as part of Operation Cobra’s Anger...

"We’ve barely sat down at Caffe Trieste in San Francisco’s North Beach when he begins sharing reflections, personal and cultural, about having lived in an SRO apartment above Trieste while finishing his first novel, Boonville. The café had served as his de facto living room..."

"“I’m Mr. Cinnamon,” grins Joe Cannella, at the Craft Spirits Carnival at Ft. Mason where he was offering samples of his Cannella Cinnamon Cordial. His first batch, made at the Seven Stills Distillery in Dogpatch, sold out shortly after its release late last year..."

"Wilson traversed California’s northern Central Valley and the Sierra to photograph barns, silos, hop kilns, grain elevators and the like. I was honored to spend some time with Wilson recently, learning about his work and aesthetic..."

"He loves sharing the history and folklore of the spirit, peppering his conversation with tidbits such as the fact that the gin and tonic was the most frequently ordered cocktail at Studio 54 in New York during the late disco era..."

"Parisian Pauline Carmona has been serving as Consul General of France in San Francisco for a little under a year. We recently visited with her to ask for some reflections about her hometown, food and drink, and what it’s like to be French here in San Francisco..."