
The Good Life: Santa Fe
Steeped in culture and class, Santa Fe promises Southwest sojourners a sophisticated weekend away.
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Steeped in culture and class, Santa Fe promises Southwest sojourners a sophisticated weekend away.

It’s not every day that an opportunity to take a private art lesson from an instructor with bona fide bloodlines to famed French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir presents itself.

Now, with the May 2014 debut of their four-in-one restaurant complex Playa Provisions, the husband and wife culinary team of Nick Roberts and Brooke Williamson, a Top Chef runner-up solidifies their standing as a culinary mainstay.

A close shave, a cigar and the perfect pair of denims— Deep Pocket Jean Company celebrates a timeless male trifecta.


Award-winning Farmhouse Inn sits on six acres of storybook surroundings, emerging this spring from an $8 million expansion and redesign.

Artistic Habitat offers European antiquities and super-mod French kitchens, along with velvet pouf chairs and smartly upholstered couches by sustainable, LA furniture makers Cisco Brothers.

Manhattan Beach Festival of Motoring is just around the bend. On Saturday, April 25th, a slew of exotic and classic cars, including a Porsche 918 Spyder, a hybrid supercar with a million-dollar price tag, and a Porsche 911 GT3 RS, will post up at Mira Costa High School from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.


“A little playful, a little traditional” is how Executive Chef Richard Crespin sums up a recent prix fixe dinner at BALEEN Kitchen, where savory grilled watermelon served with heirloom tomatoes and feta cheese, plus a straight forward steak frites topped with Béarnaise sauce, were among the offerings.


South Bay DIGS stops by popular decor destination Fringe to chat with co-owner Debbie Talosi about the move to Manhattan Beach.