Film Review: “Away from Her”
Don't even think about seeing Away from Her unless you're prepared to 1) cry your eyes out and 2) have your cultural stereotypes about marriage shattered to pieces. As beautiful as ever, and radiantly no-longer-young, Julie Christie illuminates the broken heart of...
Cursed Locations
You know the ones I mean. Locations in which well-meaning, hard-working entrepreneurs keep trying to set up a restaurant business, and which keep resisting any success. Locations whose ill-fated feng shui, or abyssmal karma, bodes against every effort to achieve...
Art Troika
Boris Tyomkin, Dylan Morgan and Dag Weiser are showing some fresh paint on canvas - an experimental mix full of attitude and gusto - at the Michaelangelo Gallery on River Road, at the edge of Santa Cruz, starting June 1. Not what you expect. Check it out.
Chocolate Chronicles
Cocoa d'Arriba is yet another designer chocolate bar, priced at just under $3 and situated near enough to the check out lanes to tempt even the St. Anthony's among us. We succumbed. At 77% cocoa and inflected with orange liqueur, this elite treat is ultra smooth and...
Last Week @ Avanti: Read the comments!
Grilled sea scallops on a bed of Israeli cous cous, with ultra fresh snap peas and fava beans, micro bits of Meyer lemon all tossed in olive oil and Meyer lemon juice, with nano-strips of fresh basil. It is literally the month of May on a plate. Thanks to Avanti chef...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.