We have found a wonderful new Holiday Gift option that we’re excited to tell you about: Membership to Quintessentially, a new private members’ club that has just launched in San Francisco.
We first heard of Quintessentially last year through some friends who are members of the …

Looking for a glamorous option for your holiday travel? Book your own private flight on a $20 million jet for a fraction of the cost!

Today we speak with David Costello of NorthStar Risk Management, and one of AIG’s top producers about the glamorous would of insurance. Yes, you read that right. Glamorous.

Esteban Cortazar showed his Spring 2009 collection for Emanuel Ungaro in Paris last week. This was the second collection for the company, which is owned by Asim and Isha Abdullah of San Francisco.

It wasn’t a flashy show of runway theatrics — the clothing was sexy, …

Joel Goodrich, Joseph Alioto, Jr., and Mark Calvano at a fundraiser in July, 2008.
Why I Support Raphael House
Mark Calvano
Calvano Commercial
“It is easy for me to be so supportive of the Raphael House for the following reasons:
Under the leadership of Father David, Raphael House does so …

According to our count, there are 44 northern California residents who appear on the “Forbes 400 Richest People in America” list for 2008.  Here they are, listed by Forbes ranking, with a net worth between $1.3 billion and $27 billion:

Rank: 3
Name: Lawrence Ellison
Net Worth: $27.0 …

Peter Thiel (photo via VentureBeat.)
He’s number 377 today. Next year, we’re betting at least 250.  We’re referring to Peter Thiel’s ranking on the Forbes 400 Richest People in America list.  You have to be worth at least $1.3 billion to make it, and 40-year old, …

On Friday, Sergey Brin released the following statement at the Official Google Blog regarding the company’s position on California’s Proposition 8, which it opposes:

Our position on California’s No on 8 campaign
9/26/2008 03:23:00 PM
As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding …

“Forget about Cable Cars and Sourdough. San Francisco is becoming known for one thing — parking tickets. Almost two million were issued last year and it feels like half of them ended up on our windshields at DriverSide,” says Trevor Traina, co-founder and …

“He saved me.”
The words hit me with bit of a surprise, and have stayed with me even as I write this article several days later.
They were spoken by Rafael, the personal assistant to Gurbaksh Chahal as he walked me to the elevator after departing the …

Peter Thiel is so 2007. Ever since we read that he has a boyfriend and is spending more of his time in New York than San Francisco, we crossed him off our “eligible bachelors” list. Ladies, some men just never are. But here’s …

Amber Marie Bently at the Opera opening last week. Photo by Drew Altizer.
In the last installment of “15 Minutes With…” SFluxe spoke with Peter Dundas, designer for Emanuel Ungaro (just a few months before he departed from the company.) Today I catch up with …

Now for some news on some of our favorite hedge fund guys. Though they are based in San Francisco, you don’t see them very often in our social pages. Hey — when you’re busy buying and selling everything in the world, you have little …

Sergey Brin, in Moscow with his mom in 1990.
“I don’t feel comfortable being one of the crowd. It’s kind of interesting I really liked the schools that I went to, but I never rooted for the sports teams. I was never one …

Surely you’ve read the amusing Wall Street Journal piece about Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s big fancy airplane by now, so you don’t need SFluxe to point it out to you (read it here!) But what we want to know is why they only have …