Located in what used to be an abandoned brick building off Mission street, the Daniel Libeskind-designed Contemporary Jewish Museum opened to the public this past Sunday. The architectural landmark adds to the already significant museum row running down Mission.
Libeskind transformed the former Jessie Street Power Substation, maintaining the past integrity of the brick exterior while adding his own bold contemporary wing inspired by the Hebrew phrase L'Chaim (To life).
Architectural tours are offered daily through this week for free, and the museum website has more details.
"Hot springs" means different things to different people. To a group of four college kids on their first cross-country road trip, it means local girls with cheap cans of beer and stealing away for a moonlight walk and getting some nookie under the stars.
Turns out, we were wrong and innocence was our bliss, but enough about us. There are lots of legit, albeit trippy, places out there such as Harbin Hot Springs, about two-and-a-half hours north of San Francisco.
The retreat center is also open to the public, and it's the perfect place to experience a weekend of hot and cold soaking, yoga, massage, vegetarian cuisine and embracing your inner animal spirit. This is the kind of place you go by yourself without telling anyone, live through the old third eye for a week and come back able to lift refrigerators and put your leg behind your head.
Accommodations at the 1,600 acre center range from outdoor camping to "dome" accommodations that look like they came from the Tatooine school of architecture.
We love any activity that blurs the line between sport and a genuine freak show. Take a thousand people, most of them in costume, many covered in tattoos and maybe even some in diapers (it's a family event) then dump the whole beautiful mess in California wine country this Saturday, June 7, and you have the 6th Annual Roshambo Winery Rock, Paper, Scissors Championship.
With a $1,600 purse on the line this year, people come from all over the world to compete in Sonoma County's premier sporting event. While the idea of strategy may seem silly, die hard RPS enthusiasts swear by psyching out the competition whether that means trash talking before the first of three throws or wearing a distracting man-baby costume.
The event takes place outside of the new Roshambo Winery tasting room located at Cornerstone Place, a landscape architecture center just 45 minutes north of San Francisco. It costs $20 to compete and it's just $10 to hang out, booze it up with the cats from Roshambo and take pictures to bulk up the quirk-factor of your Facebook page.
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