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On this Weekend Meanderings, summer whites, a San Francisco townhouse, the best sunscreen and a summer foundation for lovely skin.

Switzer Farm of Westport is the perfect setting for a wedding, or event of any kind on California’s North Coast — 35 minutes North of Mendocino in the historic village of Westport.

Visitors exploring Northern California may drive along the coast, head inland to wine country, or explore the mountains, and along the way, find plenty of quaint towns. With a list including Carmel-by-the-Sea, Pacific Grove, Tahoe City, and several others, each charming town on this list has its own story it’s waiting to share with visitors.

This past month, I set out on a three-night road upon Northern California's coast. It's one of the most beautiful drives, starting in Point Reyes Station

Above a babbling creek, a vintage weekend cabin in northern California got modernized without sacrificing period details. How? Sonoma-based architect Amy A

Situated among the sprawling wooded hills that overlook Tamales Bay, Lodge at Marconi is a new Northern California retreat.

Asya is the most promising ballerina the Royal Ballet has seen in years. Wildly ambitious, back-breakingly disciplined, and immensely driven, she has only one objective: prima ballerina. There is nothing she won't do to earn this once-in-a-generation title. But behind her ballerina grace she hides dark secrets of an inhumanly strict mother, pushing her body to cruel limits, and serial hookups with male dancers. Roman Zharnov is the star of the Russian ballet: young, successful, arrogant…

Image 10 of 10 from gallery of Charles Moore: Going Against the Grain. Sea Ranch Condominium 1 (1965), also by MLTW, shelters ten idiosyncratic units under a variety of roofs. Lawrence Halprin and Associates designed the landscape at the Sea Ranch; Joseph Esherick designed another contemporary set of houses and the general store. The complex was recently spotlighted in the book, The Sea Ranch: Fifty Years of Architecture, Landscape, Place, and Community on the Northern California Coast…

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