Joey’s @ the Jersey Shore
If you had told me I would have to go to the Jersey Shore to experience manicotti so good that it would make a goodfella cry, I would have told you to "fageddaboudit." But I did. And at Joey's, a big, friendly, non-designer pizza and pasta joint in Manahawkin, NJ, I...
Last Sushi @ SFO?
Maybe I'm catastrophizing, but you know. . . .So we're taking the red-eye to Philly and need something to hold us until dawn. Presto! Tomokazu, a nicely-run sushi bar in the International terminal at SFO fit the bill nicely. We shared some sake, spicy tuna tekka...
Art on a Plate
When in Philly, I always try to stop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (yes, the same one whose monumental front steps were immortalized in Rocky). I visit the van Eyck St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata, the magnificent Roger van der Weyden Deposition, and then...
No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf
Santa Cruz-based author and coffeehouse habituée, Carolyn Burke, has done it again. Deepening her reputation as an historian of French modernism, Burke has published an accessible and richly-detailed saga of the life, loves and career of French chanteuse Edith Piaf....
Pinot Paradise – March 26 & 27
Don't miss next week's Pinot Paradise festival, March 26-27, which begins with a self-guided tour of the region's pinot-producing wineries $25, and culminates on Sunday with the Grand Cruz Tasting at Villa Ragusa in Old Town Campbell ($55/65). Find all the details you...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.