Alexis Traina's favorite Bay Area places
Carolyne Zinko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Alexis Traina, creative director at Swanson Vineyards, is one busy person. The mother of two is married to entrepreneur and philanthropist Trevor Traina, attends many society galas and charitable events, squeezes in...

Jonathon Keats at Martin Muller's Modernism
Carolyne Zinko, Chronicle Staff Writer
We've brought man to the moon. Now how about bringing the moon to man? Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats offered the latest in exotourism - the practice of going to space without technically leaving Earth - on a recent...

Fashion books for gift giving
Beth Hughes, Special to The Chronicle
If you stacked all the fashion books published this year one atop the other, the pile would probably be taller than Tavi Gevinson, the tiny teen fashion blogger. There's a good few inches just from "Project Runway"...

For activist couple, long path leads to each other
Louise Rafkin, Special to The Chronicle
When longtime changemakers Carl Pope and Shahnaz Taplin Chinoy met in 1977, both were already committed activists. Shahnaz, now 62 and the co-founder and board chair of the Muslim Women's Fund, was then heading up...

Miss Bigelow Social City / Goodbye, Gavin - hello, ladies
Catherine Bigelow
It was the end of an era - same-sex marriage, recycling, hair gel - on Tuesday when Ann and Gordon Getty and Jennifer Siebel Newsom hosted a toast to the dwindling days of Mayor Gavin Newsom 's administration. Oft the...

KRON anchor Catherine Heenan at Women's Luncheon
This week American Ireland Fund KRON anchor Catherine Heenan is the featured speaker at the Women's Luncheon. 11:30 a.m. Tues. Four Seasons Hotel, 757 Market St., San Francisco. Tickets: $125. (415) 564-3846. Champion...

PARTIES
This week's featured Bay Area charitable events: Chinese Historical Society of America dinner gala Napa benefit for Engender Health celebrates families American Bach Soloists' Gala at St. Stephen's Church Callas...

Letters to Style, Dec. 5
Re: "The lost art of sewing finds its way home" (Nov. 7), perhaps a few native San Franciscans have alerted you to our "version" of "Project Runway." During the 1950s and 1960s, a woman by the name of Middy Farnham had...