The Insiders Guide to Sausalito -- Over 500 Pages

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 Top Sausalito Restaurants on our Surveys for Views, Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch & Dinner!

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Art Festival, Ask Annie, Bike Rides, Calendar, Ferries, Ferry Schedules, Getting Here, Hotels, Houseboats, Walks, Webcam, What to Wear

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Inside Sausalito: January, 2010

     

"China Gates" -- Oil on canvas by Sausalito Artist Leslie Allen.  Artist Bio is below.

 

Charts: Best Sausalito Restaurants

Our Summary of The Best Restaurants in Sausalito tells the story of what changed in the November, 2009 surveys, or you can jump to the Best Lunch & Dinner Rankings or the Best Breakfast & Lunch Chart. 

Sausalito Calendar of Events

Music, art, Marine Mammal Center, Bay Model, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Marin Headlands, GGNRA, the Sausalito Art Festival, and all the fun of Sausalito.

  

Views from Sausalito

Ellie Klevins, OurSausalito.com Contributing Editor, shares with us a wonderful new walk that features breathtaking views... along with a few breath-taking stairs!  It's the perfect wayo burn off that Halloween candy!

  

Sausalito Stories

Feature: The October issue of Sausalito Stories, our new online literary magazine is out, featuring Sausalito writers and Sausalito content.  This month we feature a book excerpt from Joe Tate's upcoming "The Last Voyage of the Redlegs".

 

Polar Explorer Visits Sausalito

David Scott Cowper has been visiting Sausalito this week, en route to his 6th solo circumnavigation of the world.  His twist on Magellan: he takes the polar routes.  Contributing Editor Evaristo Buendia's photographs highlight the story.
  

 

Taking Arms Against a Sea of Troubles

The tall ship the Kaisei sets sail for a floating mass of plastic rotating slowly in the Pacific, intent on learning how to collect and recycle the material.  Photo: Sabine Stetson.

  

Ask Annie

We answer questions about getting from Sausalito to the Wine Country, walking from the Bridge to the Ferry, the Blue & Gold and Golden Gate Ferries, Point Bonita Lighthouse, and the Bay Area Discovery Museum.

 

Real Estate

We've added new sections offering Houseboats for Rent (with some hints for renters) and Houseboats for Sale.  The places in our first sponsors' ads look fabulous!

 

 

 

Our Featured Artist: Leslie Allen

Originally from New Mexico and Texas, Sausalito resident Leslie Allen has been an artist in the ICB Building for over 20 years.  Her large abstract oil paintings reveal the influence of Bay area abstractionists of the forties and fifties.  Through many years of study and experimentation, Allen has developed her own visual language, with gestural marks and a color sense that echo Joan Mitchell, and a geometric space-division in her work that relates more to Frank Lobdell or Richard Diebenkorn.  Allen’s work shows solid structural bones and intense love of color, gesture and paint. Some of Allen’s canvases are a dozen paintings deep, and through the layers she teases out early marks and shapes by sanding, scraping, and digging through the layers of oil paint.  As Leslie says, "It’s easy to see how a person might tear a rotator trying to get a large abstract oil painting to feel just right.  I never had that concern making small landscapes en plein air!"

For almost 20 years before meeting artist and mentor Chester Arnold, Allen had been a die-hard watercolorist with little interest in any other medium.  Though Arnold appreciated watercolors, he seemed so certain Allen would take to oil paint like a bee to nectar that Allen realized she had stumbled into a rare opportunity to learn oil painting from someone entirely old-worldly in his tangible reverence for the craft of drawing and painting. Allen studied with Arnold for the next decade, and credits him with infinite magic as a mentor and artist.  

Leslie is represented by Donna Seager Gallery in San Rafael, and will have her next solo exhibit there mid-December through January 2010.  Her work is published by ArtBrokers, Inc. of Sausalito. 

Allen and her husband, artist and architect Barry Peterson (another Artist of OurSausalito.com), also run Studio 300A at the ICB, an architectural office specializing in unique, highly-tailored residential and commercial organic architecture. 

Coming up in Featured Artists:  A Sausalito painter and decorative artist who has influenced artists and illustrators around the world, and a Sausalito photographer who shoots like a painter one day and a photojournalist the next. 

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OurSausalito.com Mission Statement

Our mission is to gather all the Sausalito information that a visitor or resident might ever need, and make it readily available in a well-organized, continually-updated and easy-to-use format.

 

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All content Copyright (c) 2008-2009, OurSausalito.com.  All Rights Reserved.  Artists' images remain the property of the individual artists and are used by permission and/or under Creative Commons terms of use.

Photo credits: Dana Draper (Harbor), Sabine Stetson (Tall Ship), Ellie Klevins (Stairway), Evaristo Buendia (Polar Bound), Leslie Allen (Main image), all other photos Copyright (c) 2008-2009, OurSausalito.com.  All Rights Reserved.

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[kare anderson]

What great local coverage by locals - kudos. I love it. Can we start a campaign to get a restaurant here that uses local food? I'd love to see our own variation of LocalBurger.

[Katherine]

So happy I found this site - I moved to Sausalito in March and have found even the city's site to be out of date and lacking in local news and events info. Thanks for all your hard work to keep this site so packed with helpful information!

[Editors]

Katherine, thanks so much for your comment. You made our day! Welcome to Sausalito, and we look forward to answering any and all questions you may have.

[James Beswick]

Great site - I live up the hill in the fog and have found your information to be extremely timely and useful (more so than, ahem, local newspapers). Keep up the great work!

[Editors]

Thanks for the encouragement, James -- we appreciate it very much. And if you ever have any comments or suggestions on how we can make the site still more valuable please do let us know.

[Jillian]

So who are you?? Please tell us more of yourself

[Editors]

Jillian, you can read about us at http://www.oursausalito.com/about-cometosausalitocom-2.html.

Thanks for stopping by!

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What if Sausalito and/or Marin businesses banded together into a coop coordinated outreach to get locals to buy local.. as is happening in Sonoma?

[Editors]

Kare, the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce does indeed have such a program. The link fer it is at http://www.sausalito.org/best10.

Thanks for your comment!

[Sunni Baran]

I have a suggestion for your featured artist section. Kathrine Smith, a Sausalito artist, has a new book of her work coming out in the next few days. She is a wonderful artist and a great character. Maybe you could feature her work. She has a great personal story story!

[Editors]

Sunni, please email us contact info for Katherine. Thanks!