Make plans for this Friday’s opening reception. Art for Art is positively packed with new works by some of our best painters, printmakers, and mixed media mavens. I’m especially looking forward to seeing what Charles Prentiss, Hildy Bernstein, Sara Friedlander, Bridget Henry, Ann Wasserman and Daniella Woolf have been up to.
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Come celebrate an astonishing array of oral histories of organic farmers and researchers, from the 60s through the present – on Monday, May 24, 5-7pm at the UCSC Farm. Music by the Rolling Cultivators (with a name like that, they have to be good), food and biodynamic schmoozing – at the Louise Cain Gatehouse and Amphitheater. Lots of history highlights and photos on view.
Home grown history — nothing better — thanks to the UCSC Library Regional History Project.
Please RSVP by contacting :
ihreti@ucsc.edu or call 459-2847.
(photo: Rachel Glueck)
This Thursday, May 20, Vine Hill Winery teams up with top talent from the Cabrillo College Culinary Arts program for a dreamy match-up of wines and menu.
Actually, it’s close to the deal of the century. A four-course, $65 prix fixe dinner matching innovative dishes with memorable wines made by Vine Hill’s award-winning Sal Godinez. I was lucky enough to sit in on the class in which students sampled wines (instructor Michael Wille shown here), listened to comments from the winemaker, and then began to strategize on ingredients, seasoning and cooking styles to harmonize with the varietals.
Here’s what the students have planned.
The first Course involves duck rillettes with eggplant terrine, goat cheese tomato sauce and brioche toast points, paired with Gatos Locos Syrah, 2006.
Second course, matched with Vine Hill Chardonnay 2008, (more…)
Destined to be THE major event of the outdoor food, wine and music season, this Sunday, May 16 2:30-5:30pm, the gala New Music Works Garden tour and musicale unfurls at the gorgeous garden estate of Sam and Terry Wright.
You will savor flowers and music, while tasting wines and finger food from Salamandre, Windy Oaks, Alfaro, Silver Mountain, Storrs, Avanti, Gabriella, Ma Maison and cooking queen Mimi Snowden.
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Nickelodeon Theater founder and fearless world traveller, Bill Raney, will be on hand this coming Thursday, May 13, at the Cabrillo College Bookstore, signing and talking all about his colorful book, Letters to Zerky, A Father’s Legacy to a Lost Son & a Road Trip Around the World.
An anecdotal account of hippie era trekking literally around the world—Europe, Turkey, Afghanistan, India, Nepal—the book tracks Bill’s journey with wife and young son during the late 60s. It’s a real-life caper loaded with hair-raising events way beyond the pale of mere touristic wandering.
Bill is a trip unto himself and the upcoming Cabrillo event will be pure pleasure. Come meet a remarkable man with supernatural abilities to be lost, and found.
The book talk starts at 7pm on May 13 – FREE. Call 831/429-4234 for details.
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.