What’s Happening This Week: March 1, 2021

What’s Happening This Week: March 1, 2021

  • Compass Blog
  • 03/3/21

San Francisco Bay Area

Redwood Rescue 

Some great news for open space enthusiasts as a sprawling redwood forest north of San Francisco will likely be protected in perpetuity. Save the Redwood League bought easement land surrounding the 15,000-acre property to help preserve as many of these towering NorCal tree treasures as possible. 

giant sequoia tree

New normal?

Knock on wood, but it appears San Francisco is taking the first tentative steps back to normalcy. With COVID cases plummeting across the state, indoor dining, movies, and museums in the city could start to reopen at reduced capacity as soon as this week. It can’t happen soon enough. 

Local residents enjoying outdoor dining in North Beach. | iStock

Howl in appreciation

San Francisco lost an icon of its past with the recent death of renowned beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti at the age of 101. Supporters and admirers of the longtime City Lights bookstore founder and owner gathered in, appropriately enough, Jack Kerouac Alley, to pay their respects to the legendary contemporary of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and the like. Check out the pics here.  

City Lights Bookstore | iStock

Truffle Shuffle

Oakland-based Truffle Shuffle has been a hit since it started offering weekly live cooking classes last year. Founded by a group of alums from Napa’s legendary French Laundry restaurant, the operation has been such a hit they recently enlisted rapper Snoop Dog to guide viewers through a class on making wild mushroom fettuccine alfredo. 

Courtesy of Truffle Shuffle

 

Los Angeles Greater Area

Pick your own produce

Fat red beets. Impossibly fresh broccoli. Cabbage and carrots. Ruby grapefruit. Gleaming spinach and sugar snap peas. Just some of what’s ready for you to pull from the soil in March at this Moorpark family farm. It doesn’t get any fresher — or more fun.

Courtesy of Underwood Family Farms

Griffith Park, set to its own changing music

This is not a hike. This is Soundwalk, over 100 tracks by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid. Geotagged to more than 20 milesof trails to create a sonic landscape that morphs around you. It can’t be explained. It must be experienced. 

iStock

LA Zoo reopens: What to know

Yes, there are changes. Limited capacity. Advanced, timed-entry reservations for everyone (including members). New traffic flows. Modified exhibit access. But you’ll be able to visit the majority of animals — and reexperience the magic you’ve been missing.

Courtesy of LA Zoo

dineL.A. Restaurant Week is March 1-14

Twice a year, hundreds of local restaurants showcase their diverse creations this way. And it’s easy. Just order from participating restaurants’ special dineL.A. menus for eat-in, takeout or delivery. Then get ready to add some new favorites to your old standbys. 

Courtesy of dineLA

The post What’s Happening This Week: March 1, 2021 first appeared on California Real Estate Blog.

 

 

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