music // Huichica Music Festival 2011
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.” [...]
music // Storming the Barn : Ra Ra Riot, Givers + Pepper Rabbit : Gundlach Bundschu : 2011.01.27
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 [...]
epicurean // An Evening at the Hacienda : 2010.07.21 : Scribe Winery
“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, [...]
