By: Laurie Jo Miller Farr While the grape vines are settling in for a few months’ rest, Downtown Napa is definitely not. Napa’s vibrant downtown scene is hidden in plain sight in one of the world’s best wine regions. All you need is 48 hours, a girlfriend or two, sunglasses for day and…
By: Laurie Jo Miller Farr At the intersection of cable cars and Provençal scents, beauty and well-being have found a new home high atop San Francisco’s Nob Hill. The Ritz-Carlton landmark luxury hotel opens a new Spa L’OCCITANE, a sanctuary of rejuvenation for visitors and residents in the City by the Bay. What’s your favorite…
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…
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…
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….
WOMEN: New Portraits by Annie Leibovitz March 25 – April 17, 2016 Annie Leibovitz has been making witty, powerful images documenting popular culture since the early 1970s, when she worked as a photojournalist for Rolling Stone. In the 1980s she began expanding her collective portrait of the social landscape with photographs for Vanity Fair…