Stop force-feeding us losers!!!
A plea to cable TV talk hosts! Just stop it! I have had to assume for the past year that the incessant updates on CNN and FOX news about the lifestyle status of Lindsay Lohan is purely comic relief. After all what with a tanking economy, horrific Mexican mafia...
Lunch @ Greens
The place was Fort Mason. The day was perfect — a blend of fog and brilliant sunlight playing tag with the Golden Gate bridge in the distance. The excuse was the American Craft Council design show and a chance to learn some tricks of the trade from my designer buddy...
Get Down on the Farm!
UC Santa Cruz offers a Fall Gardening Workshop on Saturday, August 28, from 10am until 1pm. Planting a late-summer garden is a great way to save money on your fall and winter grocery bills, so come get some tips on growing a great fall and winter vegetable garden....
Big Label, Big Wine
From Loma Prieta Winery comes a statuesque red wine made from rarely-encountered Pinotage grapes, grown in the Sierra foothills. The locally-made Pinotage — a varietal usually associated with South Africa and produced in only a handful of North American...
Artist Profile: Ian Pines
A recent graduate of UCLA's renowned MFA program, Ian Pines continues to explore the wickedly inventive color work and lavishly gestural oil paintings he began while still an art major at UCSC. Here's a sample of Pines' highly original abstract style, played out in...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.