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November 21, 2008
The following photos were taken in Sonoma and Napa counties throughout the long process of the making of a bottle of wine. Beginning with bud break and finishing with the capsule on the bottle there are many steps along the way that capture the essence of winegrowing and winemaking. The final taste is what we [...]
November 21, 2008
WILD ABOUT FASHION!!
Lights, camera, action is an understatement, as I am sure you would agree, if you were able to get a ticket to this sold out event. The Boys and Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley has become expert in the “showbiz” factor of putting on extravagant fashion shows, and I [...]
November 21, 2008
First came Josie, a woman scorned. She poisoned a bottle of Chateau Sangfroid and gave it to ex-husband Thomas, wishing him dead. Thomas and Anne gifted it to the ridiculously rich Breretons, who passed it to their immigrant gardener Javier. It then slipped into the hands of Fat Pat and her stoner-kid Ronnie. In the [...]
November 21, 2008
Both the face and brains of the wildly popular online video blog, WineLibraryTV.com, Gary Vaynerchuk has all the trappings of a self-made media mogul. He’s appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on Ellen and has been featured in GQ and the New York Times among other media pit stops, while proffering his [...]
November 21, 2008
According to Wayne Jancik’s tuneful tome, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, the proverbial “one-hit-wonder” is “an act that has won a position on Billboard’s national, pop or Top 40 just once.” Music editor J.M. Berry mixes the notion with some cranberries and stuffing and offers 13 tracks that are one-hit-wonders in their own right [...]
November 21, 2008
Whenever winter fell upon the little town of Frozen Corners, it always fell hard, like an old angry bear tripping over a basket of eggs. In those parts, up near the summit of Big Muskrat Mountain, when the weather turned, it turned mean, pounding the rooftops and treetops with a mighty downpour of ice, hail, [...]
November 21, 2008
Dear Film Pharmacist,
They say New Year’s Eve is about making resolutions and fresh starts. That’s all well and fine if one wants to change and grow—but I don’t. I want to stay exactly how I am. It’s taken me years to reach this point of personal perfection, and I’d be remiss if I mucked it [...]
November 21, 2008
Card-bored Christmas
Finis: Hallmark cards. While in college, a cadre of drunken English majors and I once mused that alien archeologists might one day come to earth and assume “Hallmark” was a great and prolific poet, given the millions of epitaphs that bear his name. If the advent of e-mail greeting cards doesn’t wipe Hallmark’s schmaltzy [...]
November 21, 2008
Deck the Halls with Boughs of Pinot
A popular adage in the wine country is “taste not, want not.” But what fun is that?
Holiday in Carneros, the annual winery open-house event hosted by 20 individual wineries from the popular Carneros appellation shared by both Napa and Sonoma Counties, offers a bevy of special tastings (“barrel,” “reserve,” [...]
November 21, 2008
As the air grows crisp and the vines fall silent, our neighborhoods, parks and businesses enjoy a moment to shine in their holiday finery. Wine country families celebrate the holidays and share traditions like most families throughout the United States, except, perhaps, for our unequal access to a bounty of fabulous wines and epicurean delights [...]