Feeling Crabby? Steer Straight (tho mind the curves) to Mendocino, Ca.
This cold, gray stormy weather can really make you crabby – in a good way. The best thing about January is that it’s Dungeness Crab season
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Women Winners: Of Gondolas and Wine
Women made great strides this spring! Venice welcomed its very first female gondolier, Alexandra Hai, a German in her late thirties. Although she is only allowed to ferry guests of a single hotel, the fact that Alexandra, a foreigner AND a woman, could jump in where laws since the eleventh century have held chauvanist sway,…
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Charming Sophisticates: 07: Alan Kantor
Name: Alan Kantor Age: 48 Hometown: Mendocino, California Occupation: Chef Status: Badboy 1. Where do you like to flirt? I flirt for fun, for the moment, whenever there is an esprit between me and a woman. It isn’t about going home with someone…they may be clearly not in that category…between 7 and 70. I think…
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Culture: Yemenite Filigree: A Lost Art
by Janet Bein, Young at Heart Diva Looking for jewelry that is exotic and artistic? Consider Yemenite filigree. Its origins go back over 3000 years. Perhaps King Solomon’s romance with the Queen of Sheba was the reason that the Jews left Judea and arrived in Yemen by way of Africa. Once they arrived, they remained…
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Spa Review: Calistoga, California: Dr. Mud
At the end of a long afternoon of wine tasting in Napa Valley, I feel as light headed as a hot air balloon riding on the warm currents. As much as I love a good Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, I think I overdid it: all I want to do now is rest and detox….
