Here are the events that we recommend for this weekend and beyond.  Click on the title of an event to visit that event’s official web site.

California

Napa (Calistoga)

Calistoga Wineries Spring Celebration: May 3, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.; $30 per person — all proceeds go to non-denominational St. Luke’s Preschool.  Plainly put, Calistoga is gorgeous, which fact alone […]

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Donafugata Anthìlia 2007 is composed of 50% Ansonica and 50% Catarratto.  Quite honestly, we had never heard of these grapes before, which are native to Sicily and have apparently been used for making wine since ancient Roman times.  Regardless, we liked how the wine was described to us in the store — a crisp, not-too-big white, with fragrant apricot […]

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On our way back to San Francisco from a Sunday afternoon picnic at the stunning Muir Beach Overlook, just 20 minutes or so from the Golden Gate Bridge, we stopped off at the nearby Pelican Inn to track down 6 ounces of water for our son’s bottle.   We had been to The Pelican Inn twice before, […]

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While we were in Durham, North Carolina at our law school reunion a couple of weekends ago, we made a point of dropping by several of our old haunts for old times’ sake: Ben and Jerry’s, Whole Foods, Duke Gardens, and Parker and Otis (which used to be Fowler’s Market during our law school days).   It […]

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