Stretch out, take a walk or have a drink like a local: how to make the best out of your (unexpected) time on the SF Peninsula. Original Illustration by Kaz Palladino/Awkward Affections We all know the feeling: that sinking knot in the pit of your stomach as you inch closer to the departures board only to see that your flight has been delayed. Even an extra hour in the airport can feel ...
Read MoreCoffee, entrepreneurship and a Million Dollar Mile: Max Fennell just wants to keep paving the way and putting in work. Menlo Park resident Max Fennell is featured on the cast of Million Dollar Mile, a new CBS television competition with LeBron James as executive producer. (Image courtesy of Max Fennell) Since moving to the Bay Area in 2016, life for Max Fennell has very much centered around being a ‘go getter.’ Now, ‘go’ and ‘get’ have ...
Read MoreFor Aileen Cassinetto, freedom of expression — especially through poetry — is not something to be taken for granted. Aileen Cassinetto, who began her two-year term as San Mateo County’s Poet Laureate in January of this year. Cassinetto is the first Asian-American to hold the position, which was created in 2013. (Photo by Charles Russo) Aileen Cassinetto reflects on her childhood in the Philippines through the lens of being born a self-described “martial law baby.” Not exactly typical terminology, but ...
Read MoreFrom Ouija boards to Marilyn Monroe’s jewelry, Nicole Mullen has compiled some of the Bay Area’s most compelling art exhibitions…in one of the unlikeliest of places. Day at the office: SFO’s museum program curator Nicole Mullen, in the International Terminal of the airport. (Photo by Charles Russo) Nicole Mullen has been working in museums almost her whole life. As a child she spent countless hours at Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts, accompanying her mother — head of colonial interpretation ...
Read MoreFrom axe throwing to zen meditation, we have a lengthy list of antidotes to your Bay Area anxiety Original 650 Illustration by Andrew Strawder If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a million times: This is Silicon Valley, the birthplace of modern innovation, technology and making it big. The ideal is glossy, the reality—stressful. Little surprise then that the region is also highly innovative in its many ways to cure that stress. No, we’re ...
Read MoreThe 13 most original date ideas for Valentine’s Day on the Peninsula Swap out the chocolate, the flowers & the table-for-two mania with a new approach. Original 650 Illustration by Kaz Palladino/Awkward Affections A lot of our Valentine’s Days have looked the same: scrambling to find a dinner reservation at the ‘right’ place and bracing for the crowds of other couples attempting the same. The fact is that even if we somehow managed ...
Read MoreSpecial releases, droves of IPAs and…a doughnut breakfast sandwich—all you need to know about what’s brewing during our favorite week in the 6–5–0. Something for everyone—SF Beer Week 2019. (Image via Getty) It’s no secret that we’re big fans of the Peninsula’s brewery scene. How could we not be? With high-profile breweries like Alpha Acid, Devil’s Canyon, Freewheel and Taplands increasingly making their mark on the beer world, it’s hard not to feel obligated ...
Read MoreKnit, paint, cook, forage. The 6–5–0 has an abundance of opportunities to continue your lifelong learning. “Missing Peace,” a CATA (Community Advocacy Through Art) mural in Redwood City, designed and painted by local artist Dodge Williams. CATA offers their Open Paint art classes on the first Thursday of every month. (Image via CATA Website) You’re never too old to learn something new — or, at least, that’s what we’ve been telling ourselves as we’re constantly ...
Read MoreShow your appreciation for dad with a train ride, beer or a barbecue this weekend. Father’s Day at Roaring Camp Railroads has a special train ride in store for dad. (Image via RCR website) Father’s Day is close, and if you’re like us, social media hasn’t let you forget it. That said, even if you’ve managed to remove yourself from the whirlwind of Father’s Day advertising going on right now, we hope you haven’t ...
Read MoreCheck out what’s on tap at Peninsula breweries this season with The Six Fifty’s summer beer guide Beat the heat and chill out with IPAs, sours and a whole lotta happy hour. Tis the season. (Photo by Charles Russo) It’s summer! Which means warm weather, leisure time….and beer (well, at least by our reading of it). As we’ve said many (many, many) times before, the Peninsula is the dynamic dark horse of Bay Area brewing, steadily earning a ...
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