PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM 19 JUNE 2024 + 30 DAYS + SUMMER’S ADVENT + OUR 71ST ISSUE {quickpunch} Start Up + No other month starts on the same day of the week this year as June: Saturday. + Acknowledge living in our great country with respect for our flag on June 14. + Appreciate and share some special time with your good ol’ dad on June 16. + Enjoy the longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice, on June 20. Venture Out + REACH for the sky on the ferris wheel, pet some 4-H lambs and fill up on funnel cake at the San Mateo County Fair, from June 1-9. sanmateocountyfair.com + TRAVEL to a Middle Eastern bazaar for 1001 Nights, a sumptuous pop-up of Persian cuisine with a contemporary twist on the elaborately decorated Quatro Terrace at Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley, June through September 15. fourseasons.com + PET and promote rescue pups at the Peninsula Humane Society’s Bark n’ Brewfest on June 22 at West Washington Park in Burlingame. phs-spca.org/beer When summer slowly embraces the Peninsula, occasional blazing hot days spread fear that heat (and sleepless nights) will be the rule. Thankfully, our pattern of warm days and cool evenings usually prevails. June means our windows are either open for the chilly air to lull us to sleep or closed tight on those few hot days that call for air conditioning (with the soothing whir of the units). Either way, it’s this time of year when we most appreciate the Peninsula’s mild weather with the sweetness of the cooler nights and lack of oppressive humidity. “June is bustin’ out all over.” —Oscar Hammerstein II welcome back
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