by NYCGirl
on February 23, 2013
Dear Marin Country Mart,
I’ve been meaning to write this letter to you for a while now. When I first moved to the Bay Area I saw your flyer for the summer Wednesday Night Movies on the Green so I packed up the kids and a picnic and headed out, not expecting very much. I was immediately charmed by the little blue pint-sized director’s chairs provided for the kids. We all sat in the sunshine, the kids happily munched on (free) popcorn and watched “Fantastic Mr. Fox” while the grown ups ate oysters and drank beer from Marin Brewing Company. It was heaven! Sort of like those fun, boozy nights my husband and I used to enjoy watching nighttime movies in Bryant Park, only G-rated. It quickly became a weekly tradition.
I love your rustic vibe, great food and interesting shops. I love you because when you do something, you do it right. Although your Saturday Farmer’s Market is not as large as the mother of all farmer’s markets at the Civic Center, yours offers a wide variety of great vendors that sell local, organic fruit and produce, fresh fish and baked goods (even delicious gluten free options from Mama Baretta) plus you provide a full day’s worth of fun activities including first-rate art projects put on by “Scrap” (a non-profit creative reuse center, materials depot and workshop), pony rides, face painting (by the most talented face painting artist I have ever seen–seriously).
Your Sunday Off the Grid Food Truck Extravaganza kicks ass. And even though I thought I was over food trucks a few years ago, your wide variety and fun vibe sucked me back in.
Yes-you are a tad too carefully curated and a bit too cool for school, but just like those hipster boys from Brooklyn that I used to crush on back in the day, I love you anyway. There. I’ve said it. I feel much better now.
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by NYCGirl
on December 2, 2013
I have what may be viewed by some as an irrational, exuberant, over the top love of stairs. It began when a friend introduced me to the stairs on Magnolia Street in Larkspur. I climbed them each morning for months then moved on to the six hundred plus stairs at the foot of the Dipsea [...]
by NYCGirl
on June 15, 2013
Women of Marin, put down that logo handbag! You buy your organic dairy from grass-fed cows lovingly raised on a nearby farm. You scour the farmer’s market for produce picked mere hours before being sold at the stand. When you do actually eat carbohydrates, you buy locally prepared artisanal bread and pasta. The fact is, [...]
by NYCGirl
on May 30, 2013
If you stop by the Off the Grid Picnic at the Presidio, be sure to come hungry. Every Sunday between March through October from 11-4 the Main Post Lawn is lined with vendors from some of San Francisco’s best restaurants, farmer’s markets and retail shops. They even have games for the kids and, my favorite, [...]
by NYCGirl
on May 26, 2013
From May 22, 2013 through May 26, 2014 visitors to Crissy Field can enjoy a public art installation by artist Mark di Suvero courtesy of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The installation is composed of eight impressive sculptures spanning up to fifty feet high and forty feet wide. Crissy Field, with its spectacular [...]
by NYCGirl
on April 30, 2013
When AmberLee Fawson, a self-proclaimed hot chocolate addict created a recipe for hot chocolate on a stick and posted it to her (insanely popular) blog four years ago it quickly became one of her most popular posts. She received so many requests to make it available for purchase that she soon realized she had hit [...]
by NYCGirl
on April 2, 2013
Shirley Tsung-Crowley did not start out designing jewelry. In fact, after getting her degree in biotech and microbiology she worked for ten years in the pharmaceutical industry. Though she always loved science, her passion remained with the arts and, inspired by a hand-made necklace given to her by a friend, Tsung-Crowley tried her hand at [...]
by NYCGirl
on February 7, 2013
Since becoming a mother I have given up many things: free time, sleep, my dignity. But I absolutely refuse to give up my sense of style. When my friend, Mike, learned that I was moving to Marin he warned me, “You won’t be able to wear any of your clothes there. They don’t dress in [...]
