Plant This!
UCSC Farm & Garden's Annual Fall Plant Sale — next weekend! — offers gardeners a major selection of organically raised vegetable seedlings, perennials, and California natives. Sponsored by the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems, the sale takes place...
Top Wines
The Santa Cruz Mountains Commercial Wine Competition for 2007 awarded its medals once again — thanks to the hard work of 50 judges sampling a field of 171 wines from 34 of our premium wineries. This definitely comes under the "hard work, but somebody's gotta do it"...
Au Midi in Aptos
One of the joys of wine judging each year at the Santa Cruz Mountains competition, is getting to meet some of area's top restaurant owners and managers. But this year offered something special — Michel and Muriel Loubiére, natives of France, who have just completed...
First Thursdays @ Theo’s
The first Thursday of every month, Theo's hosts a Brown Bag Wine Dinner beginning at 6:30pm. A specific wine varietal is featured each month and Chef Nicci Tripp prepares a 3-course meal to complement the chosen wine. The price is only $45 per person, all inclusive,...
Summer Tempest
Wrapping up our tour of this year's SSC festival, we bundled up for a nighttime performance of The Tempest, an atmospheric bit of surrealism-in-the-redwoods. Thanks to ingenious visuals by costume designer Brandin Barón and lighting design by David Lee Cuthbert, this...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.