Michelin dining in Milan
Il Trussardi is so stylish it makes your teeth ache, and your palate whet. I had made my lunch reservation online, timed for one of the days off from my "Ring" marathon at Teatro alla Scala. I was personally escorted up one floor by a young woman in a snug grey suit,...
Blue Jasmine review
Why am I not surprised that a man who has been in therapy for 50 years is committed to the past as destiny? And when that man is a master filmmaker, well the results are either nihilism, existentialism, or....a Woody Allen film. Blue Jasmine—powered by Cate...
Greeks bearing gifts….
Channel your inner Zorba and come join the feasting, singing and dancing the weekend of Sept. 6-8. That's when the Santa Cruz Greek Food & Cultural Festival fills the corner of Church & Center streets with the sound of bouzouki and the aromas of moussaka,...
Diebenkorn @ the deYoung
Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966. Like all Bay Area fans of Diebenkorn's über Californian abstract expressionism, I went to see the deYoung partial retrospective (the Ocean Park/LA period of the painter's life is not included) with high hopes. And...
Afternoon Wine Party for Lovell Family – Aug. 4
Pizza & Poetry - that's the theme for this delicious wine-tasting party to benefit the late winemaker Katy Lovell's family. Your $20 per person gives you access to fabulous pizza, salad bar and oodles of Poetic Cellars wine tasting. Come toast a valiant life, and...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.