Fall Harvest @ Big Basin Vineyards
Big Basin Vineyards celebrates the crush of 2009 this weekend, September 12 & 13, from noon til 5pm at the scenic winery property above Boulder Creek. Join winemaker Bradley Brown for the annual celebration of harvest at Big Basin Vineyards, famed for its Rhone...
Eduardo Carrillo @ MAH
Paintings by the late Eduardo Carrillo are currently on display through November 22, in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Carrillo was a true shaman of light and color — prepare to be dazzled. A bravura practitioner of magic realism in hallucinogenic...
Meder Street Sunday Market
If you're like us, you live for August and September — dry-farm tomato season! The best, the most intensely-flavored, the juiciest - tomatoes the way the Great Mother intended them to be. And there are lots of terrific tomatoes out there at our farmers markets. But...
Birichino Malvasia Bianca
The best white wine you've never heard of. The initial opening of jasmine and mineral salts, continues into a center of golden delicious apples, green and crisp. The piquant finish offers hints of tangerine and lime. At 13% alcohol you could drink this all day long....
Meryl Does Julia – Bon Appetit!
Nora Ephron's new film is just a trifle. A mere bon bon. An amuse bouche for baby boom nostalgics. But for providing the cinematic feast that is Meryl Streep playing Julia Child, Ephron deserves our unrestrained gratitude. Streep is as joyous in her over-sized...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.