
It was June in Sonoma—when all everyone expects is sunshine and blue skies for miles—but it rained. And rained. And every event in the area was cancelled. Except one: the second annual Huichica Music Festival. In fact, it’s our belief that the inclement weather made an outstanding music festival that much more “rock and roll.” [...]
Aug 10, 2011 | Categories:music | Tags: band, bejkr, breathe owl breathe, cb brand, cult, david williams, event, festival, fruit bats, fruitbats, gun bun, gundlach bundschu, huichica, j mascis, live, music, richard swift, show, sonny, sonoma, sunsets, the bejkr, these united states, tu fawning, video, wine, winery | Comments Off

So, here’s the question: what good is a 125-something-year-old tractor barn if you can’t clear it out once in a while, bring in a wildly popular East Coast art pop band and throw a boot-stomping, jaw-dropping, twinkly-lit, Gewurz-fueled, utterly sold-out show that surely must have blown at least a few historic rafters somewhere off into [...]
Jan 28, 2011 | Categories:music, videos | Tags: band, barn, concert, event, givers, gundlach bundschu, live, music, pepper rabbit, ra ra riot, show, song, sonoma, video, wine, winery | Comments Off

“If you spend a lot of time here, you start to lose track of . . . everything,” laughs Andrew Mariani, proprietor of Scribe Winery. Standing on the balcony of an old hacienda, a colony of swallows catching the updrafts around us and dusk settling on the vineyards, we couldn’t agree more. Andrew, his family, [...]
Aug 03, 2010 | Categories:epicurean, happening, videos | Tags: 18 reasons, art, event, farm, food, hacienda, music, scribe, sonoma, wine, winery | 1 Comment »