I attended a special event for wine club members at Pine Ridge Winery in Napa Valley this past weekend. They started everyone out with a sheriff's badge and an "incident investigation report" which listed all...
At Chandon recently, I not only sampled some fabulous (albeit small) oysters with a medium bodied Pinot Noir (wasn't in for the bubbly), but I also discovered a new artist named V.E. Long.
I was drawn...
The New York Times reports on the latest of what the Bloomberg administration plans to do about their desire to slash the number of art vendors in New York City parks. I wrote an extensive...
The Willow Garage team programmed one of their PR2 robots to play pool and PR2 not only has a blast doing so, but its accuracy seems to be remarkably better than the Willow Garage's engineering...
Head east down Bush Street from San Francisco's Union Square and you will come across an alley called Belden Place, with maybe 10 restaurants on one block, most of them Mediterranean or seafood. Two of...
As you recall from our recent series, we visited an ancient Khmr sanctuary on our second day in Thailand. But we also took time for some fantastic food experiences. Let’s start off with our lunch:
Ready for...
Iceland's parliament has unanimously agreed to pass the strongest media freedom laws called the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative.Nieman Journalism Lab reports:But although the legislative package sounds very encouraging from a freedom of expression point of...
We’re in Fort Nelson, far north British Columbia on our way to Alaska. The internet is limited and slow, so this photo will have to tell the story for now. This was taken after 10pm...
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