Once again, San Francisco is electrified for a night with one of the largest cast of celebrities and broadway stars who come together for a great cause! The 22nd Annual Help is on the Way Gala will be on Sunday, August 21st at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. Help is on the Way is Northern…
Conductor Carlo Ponti and the Festival Orchestra NAPA are joined by two of opera’s most exciting young stars – tenor Michael Fabiano and mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard – for an unforgettable night of arias and duets. Fabiano, whom the San Francisco Chronicle called “the hardest working opera singer in show business” and a singer “with a muscular and mellifluous tenor voice,” has earned raves for…
Each year, Festival Napa Valley (formerly Festival del Sole) features the Bouchaine Young Artist Series with free concerts at Jarvis Conservatory Theater in downtown Napa. This year, all three of the artists are from, or have roots in, Northern California and the Bay Area. Each has been acknowledged recently and all of these awards/grants have…
You got it. It took me years and a lot of advice from other amazing Divas to figure out WTF I was actually doing with my life. What I found out is that I am a human BEING, not a human DOING. I now choose my friends, clients, and partners very carefully. I’ve learned to…
Did you know that 40 years ago California wines were not considered worthy by the rest of the wine world? Especially in France, who indeed, has been the epicenter of winemaking for centuries. But, one glorious afternoon in Paris, a courageous man named Steven Spurrier decided to see which wines were actually the best. He brought in famous…
Dr. Lisa Kang is one of those rare souls who is beautiful on the inside and out. We met when I went in to get Botox at Serenity Medspa, a medspa that she founded 10 years ago this month. We started talking about charities and giving back to the community. It was then I knew…
While most cousins just get together on major holidays, like 4th of July and Thanksgiving, the Mondavi cousins, Rob and Angelina are creating wine together. It makes sense, since they are members of the iconic Mondavi family who brought wine to the masses by creating quality wines that were reasonably priced and delicious. Rob Mondavi Jr….