SFGATE is trying something new: “Get a Room,” a sporadic round-up of accommodation news, trends and oddball items of interest. It’ll be a collection of the good, the bad, and the ugly in hotels, vacation rentals, camping, glamping, staycationing, and whatever other obnoxious new travel portmanteau strikes SFGATE’s travel editor, […]
‘RHOSLC’s Mary Cosby Responds to ‘Cruel’ Allegations and Explains ‘Going Missing’ From Season 1 (Exclusive)
Mary Cosby entered The Real Housewives canon with a bang… well, a whiff. A whiff of “hospital smell.” With an unexpected dig at co-star Jen Shah (“You smell like hospital”), the pastor with a passion for fashion cemented herself in the reality TV annals… but then, she slowly showed up […]
Meet an Artist Monday: Mary Anna Pomonis
Primarily known for her sharp, mandala-like geometric, geodesic abstract paintings, for Mary Anna Pomonis those sparkling gem-toned Op Art delicacies are but the most visually radiant part of her practice. Curatorial and community actions are every bit as central — and all of it is focused on an inclusive, feminist […]
Mary Cappello’s ‘Lecture’ Sees Distraction as Valuable
Take, for instance, a lecture I recently gave my freshman composition students on the stealthy manifestations of ingrained misogyny on readers’ and critics’ responses to books by women. The lecture was relevant to all 23 of my students, but relevant, I imagine, in 23 different ways. Not every student needed […]