“A Vintage Holiday” Photos by JOSEPH LEMAS The Vintage House also held an auction on Saturday, Nov. 22 at the annual “A Vintage Holiday” fundraiser. The event marks the beginning of the holiday social season and supplies a beautiful kick-off with champagne, hors d’oeuvres and... Continue
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Bryant Park is the 10 acre, privately-managed park in midtown Manhattan that is annually overrun by fashionistas of every stripe (that is, if stripes are in) during Fashion Week. If you happened to miss the seven-day fashion fete this past September, never you worry –... Continue
To picture a watershed, think of a leaf. From a single stem, moisture flows outward through a network of capillaries branching, with increasing complexity, into a filigree of tiny veins. Reverse the process – and magnify it – and you have an approximate picture of... Continue
Flush a toilet almost anywhere in Sonoma Valley, and a short while later the contents will travel a vast system of gravity-fed pipes to gurgle through the “ugly bars.” That’s what workers at the Sonoma Valley Treatment Plant at the southern end of Eighth Street... Continue
Some years ago, my Thanksgiving assignment was to make the pumpkin pies. No canned for me, I baked the organic pumpkins, used only free-range eggs, and perfected the flakiest crust. I proudly brought the pies into my sister’s house and stashed them on top of... Continue
Sonoma Valley did get some early rainfall recently, but it came on the heels of the driest California spring in the state’s 114 years of record-keeping, according to the National Climatic Data Center. It’s time to look at ways to plump up your water supply... Continue
While commercial fishermen were allowed to head out in search of Dungeness crab over the weekend, it may take a few days for these delectable crustaceans to reach Sonoma Valley markets. (And that’s assuming dockside prices are nailed down quickly.) The forecast is for a... Continue
[nggallery id=5] Safari West, the 400 acre wildlife preserve nestled in the heart of Sonoma County wine country, is practically a new Eden – missing only a pair of nudists and a talking snake. No worries – the shear diversity of life, represented in exotic... Continue
I am a great believer in the value of commitment in relationships. It is when the threat of abandonment is reduced, by the commitment to work through problems and painful feelings, that the real value of a relationship can be discovered. By relieving the fear... Continue
The Sonoma Classical Music Society presents the internationally acclaimed San Francisco Girls Chorus Alumnae Chorus in the gala holiday concert, “Welcome Yule,” on Sunday, Dec. 7 at 3 p.m. at Andrews Hall in the Sonoma Community Center, 276 E. Napa St. The concert will feature excerpts... Continue