Big Basin, Big Dinner – Nov. 17
Big Basin Vineyards winemaker Bradley Brown teams up with Chef Josiah Slone of Sent Sovi in Saratoga next week for a sparklling four-course dinner on Thursday, November 17. Winemaker Brown will talk about the various wines served, and bring participants up to speed on...
Don Breaks over the SF Opera House
If you think it's not possible to ruin Mozart’s mighty trickster masterpiece Don Giovanni, think again. The new production currently underwhelming audiences at the San Francisco Opera is a directorial mess studded here and there with some tremendous singing and two...
Shrinking Soap!
Dial soap has been a staple in my shower since the pleistocene. Big yellow bar makes for squeaky clean epidermal surfaces, etc. But wait! What's this? No more big bar, now a highly compromised size and a fraudulent shape. Okay. Let me back up a few steps. I'm...
another angle on that fraudulent soap
Is that disgusting or what? I mean look at how they did that. Oh I'm sure their spin doctors put out the word that the new shape was more ergonomic, easier to hold, etc. But it's just smaller, period.
R.I.P. Classical KBOQ
Along with many Monterey Bay listeners, we tuned into 103.9FM Monday evening to enjoy a bit of Mozart with our dinner, only to hear—gasp!—elevator muzak from somewhere in the 70s. What had happened? This is what happened. The Central Coast's only classical music...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.