The Modern Gentleman's Blog

Official photos still to come, but in the meantime, here are some snapshots:  

Come one, come all! No more of this “soft opening” business. That photo (left) is the last time you’ll see “coming soon” in the window. Today we officially open, and joining us for the occasion are presidents, artisans, reps, and namesakes from our favorite brands: Edward Armah, Peter Millar, Bills Khakis, Margo Petitti, Megin Spivey, [...]

Long overdue, and with even further improvements since they were taken, here are a handful of photos of the ground floor of the new store. Photos of the Bespoke Basement to come in a week or two…

Starting today, we are offering shoe shines in the lobby area of Wingtip. Shoe-shiner Kea Lani has been holding down A Shine & Co.’s operation at JFK airport in New York, and now she has returned to SF and taken up residency at our vintage shoe shine stand. Our CEO Ami Arad just snagged the [...]

At the corner of Fell and Franklin, on the footprint of a torn-down autobody shop, a Hathaway Dinwiddie construction crew that numbers over 100 on a busy day is working toward a rapidly approaching deadline. They have handled big projects before, like our neighbor to the West, the Trasamerica Pyramid, and if all goes smoothly, [...]

This weekend marked the beginning of SF Opera’s 90th season, which kicked off with Giuseppe Verdi’s classic, Rigoletto. (If you’re not an opera fan, it’s the one that goes like this.) We got down to opening night to see what sort of attire a black tie affair warrants these days. And little surprise, the tux is [...]

We’ve been doing a little bit of research on our new neighborhood, specifically our intersection, and found a few tidbits: – The intersection of Clay and Montgomery (then water) is where Captain James Montgomery landed the Portsmouth in 1846 to claim California for the US. “About eight o’clock on the morning of July 9th, Montgomery [...]

Over at Wingtip, our members have just begun their singles 8-Ball tournament, so we thought we’d dig up some footage of two of the best players the game ever saw. In this video Minnesota Fats battles Willie Mosconi to see who will become the unofficial pool champion of the world. The event was the most widely [...]

Maybe you were one of the people making pointed “Thunder Thighs” jokes while watching the track cycling events. Turns out, this is no laughing matter. In fact, shopping for pants is a big problem for those bikers who lug around barrel-sized quads. Greg Bishop, of the NY Times, writes: “This often leads, of course, to [...]

Good: In the full-length Skyfall trailer, Javier Bardem looks like a classic Bond villain — almost as creepy as he looked as Sigur in No Country for Old Men. Not so good: The Great Gatsby has been pushed back to Summer 2013. Sure, we can wait. But the delay is an unfortunate indication that Gatsby isn’t the [...]