by Christina Waters | Feb 11, 2011 | Home |
Under the “all’s fair in love and business” category – the gloves are off just in time for the impending opening of the colossal, eco award-winning, all-new improved Staff of Life, scheduled for this coming Tuesday February 15.
Several competitors have begun incentivizing their check-out transactions.
E.g. my girlfriend was given $5 off on her recent purchase at Whole Foods, plus a coupon for $5 off her next two purchases of $25 or more at the nat food mega-store. Yes, that is tempting when you’re watching your pennies. And another top local emporium is currently offering a gift item to customers who spend $25 or more.
The attempt to attract and keep customer base is hot and heavy, and starting Feb. 15 about to get only more so. Can this community support all of its fine groceries?
You do the math.
by Christina Waters | Feb 10, 2011 | Home |
Some seafood dishes stand out, even in an ocean of great flavors.
From the kitchen of Avanti chef Ben Sims came this lovely evening special of roasted sea bass, cannellini beans, softly braised greens and broccollini all spiked with a lemon zesty tapenade. An entree that gives “dining out” a good name, even in a bad economy.
by Christina Waters | Feb 6, 2011 | Home |
Painter, poet, surfer, magician — Geoff Morten died two years ago. An artist of uncommon daring, he left all of us who knew him both thrilled that he’d entered our lives, and angry that he left so soon. A prodigious intaglio artist, painter and innovator of mixed media, Morten explored the mysteries of his own journey through a body of work rich with metaphor, psychological paradox and astute observation.
His etchings belong in the rarified company of Morandi, Rembrandt and Goya. Of the boldly produced suites of monotypes, drawings and gesturally-compex oil paintings he made during his short life, two dozen works on paper will be on view for the next month at UCSC’s Porter Faculty Gallery, starting February 2 through March 5, 2011.
Trained in the British figurative tradition, Morten pushed through fashionable genres and created magic realist studies (more…)
by Christina Waters | Jan 28, 2011 | Home |
Jeff Bridges is so good he makes it look easy.
Jeff Bridges is better in True Grit than he’s ever been, Liebowski included.
But…..Jeff Bridges won the Oscar last year.
Ergo – the impeccable Colin Firth — perfection as the stammering and reluctant King — will win this year’s Oscar. Perhaps it didn’t hurt his The King’s Speech performance that his remarkable co-star, Geoffrey Rush, won the Best Actor Oscar a few years back.
There you have it.
And once I see The Fighter, I’ll weigh in again on whether or not Christian Bale will take the gold statuette. I’m thinking he will.
by Christina Waters | Jan 27, 2011 | Home |
El Salchichero – now open!
