De Beers Opens on Post Street

The De Beers Group opened its seventh North American store in San Francisco last week.
The latest store in De Beers’ growing roster of North American locations (including doors in Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, New York and Beverly Hills) is located at 185 Post Street in Union Square.
Its huge interior features open spaces, ebony walls, etched-glass [...]

Emerging Artists at AAU

Dialogue, by Lucia Hye Yoon Joo
The 2008 Academy of Art University Annual Spring Show presents exceptional achievement from student artists who have joined their superb talent with first-class instruction from the school’s distinguished faculty. As the west coast’s most trusted locale for discovering exceptional rising artistic talent, the Academy of Art University’s Annual Spring Show’s [...]

Gavin’s Awkward Evening

SFluxe doesn’t follow local politics very closely, but even we know that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa are both planning to enter the race for Governor in 2011. So what could it possibly mean when Willie Brown and Kamala Harris are on the host committee for an event [...]

Post-Parade Celebration at Crunch

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Since we believe [...]

Burning Woman at the Beach

Amber Marie Bently is a woman of many talents, as I discovered with a group of friends at Ocean Beach in San Francisco recently. Sure, we all know her as a great jewelry designer, as a smart business woman, and with husband Christopher, one of the leading philanthropists in San Francisco. But who [...]

Beckhams Seen at One Market

June 18, 2008. 3:00 pm.
David Beckham and Victoria Beckham ate with their children Romeo, Brooklyn and Cruz at One Market today at 3:00 pm (located at One Market Street, in case you didn’t know.) Anyone have photos? Come on, you know at least one of those financial district folks had a camera phone [...]

15 Minutes with Catt Sadler

This month’s cover model for San Francisco’s new “944 Magazine” takes a few minutes out of her busy schedule as E! TV host, part-time actress and full-time mom of two to chat about this week’s visit to San Francisco for the magazine’s big launch party.
D: Catt, you have such an interesting, varied background, starting with [...]

Nordstrom Fundraiser

Pat Murphy of The Sentinel, with noted photographer Jason Steinberg, takes us into an exclusive party at the Pacific Heights penthouse of Asim and Isha Abdullah, hosted in preparation for the upcoming July 9th fashion show that Nordstrom is throwing to benefit the Raphael House.
Invitations for this year’s event at the Fort Mason Herbst Pavillion [...]

Out with Zara Traina

Two public sightings of Zara Traina in one week? It’s almost too much to handle. We’re fascinated by this young lady! Not sure why, but think it must be the hair. The hair is pure fab.

Katie Traina, Zara Traina, Danielle Steel, Todd Traina
The first sighting came unexpectedly at the John Varvatos opening. [...]

John Varvatos Launch

If you weren’t at the mega-launch for the new John Varvatos store on Maiden Lane last week you undoubtedly heard about it from friends the next day. Or indeed, you heard it as it happened… from across town! The music was loud, the crowd was colorful and the party was rockin’ (well, as [...]