What We're Talking About This Week

Tasting Table just announced their annual Lobster Rumble in LA.  Tickets for the August 13th event - which features 17 chefs competing for the best lobster roll, to be judged by attendees - are available here.

We are obsessed with this foam roller, and Goop has shared an incredible guide to its use.  The tension release is incredible - the different rolling moves can undo all of the pain from sitting or making repetitive motions throughout the day.

There are still tickets available to spend this Sunday evening at SF's Castro Theatre with Judy Blume and Molly Ringwald, and we plan on being front and center to hear the author and actress in conversation about life, career, adolescence, and Blume's new book In the Unlikely Event.

Today is Nation Doughnut Day!  The past week or so seems to have brought a lot of favorite food days (including burgers and cheese), and today we want to treat ourselves yet again.... One of our LA favorite, Fonuts, has a healthier option with their vegan fonuts, selling for $2 all day - we recommend the salted caramel (pictured).

The Alameda Flea is this Sunday!  The sun has come out just enough in the Bay Area to motivate us to get outside, and across the Bay Bridge to one of the country's best flea markets this weekend... With so many different vendors, we can always find a treasure (or ten).

What We're Talking About This Week

Science is pretty fascinating sometimes, like in this BBC story explaining what would happen were you to fall into a black hole.

San Francisco's South of Market, or SoMa, area has been in a dramatic transformation recently, but the changes started nearly four decades ago.  We love these photos, by Janet Delaney, now on display at the city's de Young Museum, documenting SoMa's shift in the 1970s.

We talk about our favorite foods a lot, but yesterday was National Burger Day, and instead of indulging, we just spent way too long reading this list of Bay Area burgers we need to try.

The country's largest design fair, Dwell on Design, starts today at the LA Convention Center (plus in various homes, etc.) and runs through the weekend - see all the details here.

 These museums opening around the world are giving us a serious urge to travel - the Fondazione Prada Milano and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris are both unbelievably amazing looking - but we are happy that one of the top 5 new museums is right here in Downtown LA!  We will definitely be heading to The Broad as soon as it opens in September to see their contemporary collection.