A wooden salad bowl, because of its heirloom quality and high price tag, can feel aspirational, like something you’d put on a wedding registry. But you don’t have to wait for a momentous life event to ...

Newcomers are encouraged to take lessons, said Nancy Miller, director of membership for the Honolulu Lawn Bowls Club, shown above preparing to throw a bowl. “It’s just more fun to play a game where ...

It’s a short golf game, played on a curling field, with wooden Italian bocce balls. Lawn bowling may not be well known in San Francisco, but its history in The City dates back more than a century.