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 [la's The Place - Los Angeles Magazine] Sonya Paz: A California Artist Infuses Pop Art with California ...: A Sonya Paz painting feels right at home on a wall in a beautiful Napa Valley home, with the warm breeze and golden sunshine streaming in through the doors of the terrace; the air filled with aromas of California wine, garden-fresh cuisine, and great friends.

 [Box Wines] Souverain Alexander Valley Merlot 2005: Leland “Lee” Stewart harvested his first crop of wine grapes from his Howell Mountain property in the northern part of the valley. At the suggestion of his young daughter, Stewart named his winery “Souverain” (taken from the French word for “sovereign” or “supreme”), and his Cabernet Sauvignon bottlings from the 1960s were considered by many to be just that.

 [Gather: Articles by LadyNalita California Wine Fine/Georgia Peach W.] The MEN of NFL Football PinUP Calendar.: I have GOT to find my Roger Craig images, but until then, this one shall have to do. Okay, I need your input: Who?

 [Photographic Engineers goings on] Wine, long the province of California, branches out: said Roger Rogers, who with his wife, Gail, founded Shasta View Vineyards near the California-Oregon border a decade or so ago. Now that they’re producing 1,000 cases of wine a year with a number of awards to their credit, “people are quite surprised at the inroads we’ve made,”

[Roger Hedgecock: Perspective] Remembering Reagan: This last weekend, I broadcast my Saturday national radio show (rogerreport.com) from the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, spoke to a conference of high school students at the Center, and got a private tour of the Reagan Ranch, Rancho del Cielo, in the mountains above and north of Santa Barbara.

 [Zagat Buzz: Chicago] Sake Stakes Its Claim on the Wine List: Long a staple of sushi bars, sake is known to most Americans - if they know it at all - as a generic, hot high-octane drink you toss back in between bites of raw fish. But there are many different grades, flavors and styles of this ancient Japanese rice wine, and it’s the more premium varietals - served chilled like their grape counterparts, bearing musical names like Wandering Poet, Pride of the Village or Moon on the Water - that, increasingly, are coming to a wine list near you.

 [work] Outlandish LandscapesFINANCIAL TIMES: The gallery’s founder, Chris Hougie, a former toy company owner, was initially inspired to create a series of evolving walk-through gardens in 1996, while visiting the International Garden Festival at Chaumont-sur-Loire in France. In collaboration with Peter Walker, an acclaimed conceptual architect whose credits include the World Trade Center Memorial in New York, Hougie invited 15 landscape luminaries, such as Martha Schwartz, Claude Cormier and Christophe Girot, to create exhibits that would connect art, architecture and nature.

[San Francisco Sentinel] GLOBAL GREEN USA CELEBRATES THIRD ANNUAL BENEFIT AT BENTLY RESERVE: Chef Joel Huff served a five course ultra-gourmet dinner with wine pairings by connoisseur, Kim Beto, in The Gallery, an exclusive, elegantly appointed private room at Silks restaurant.

 [Box Wines] Toad Hollow Erik’s the Red: Wine bloggers mostly love Erik’s the Red. Commenting on the diverse makeup of this wine, Benito’s Wine Blog comments on an earier edition of this non-varietal red: “A fun wine to drink (and it would be hilarious to take one to a blind .

 [Shop Wise Blog] Toppings Tops in Doncaster: AP - After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the University of California, Davis established a research department that led to the flourish of the California wine industry. Now, it hopes to do the same for olive oil.

[OUR MARILYN BLOG] Anna Strasberg & Mark Roesler = Downfall: Judge Morrow held thatMMLLC was asserting an inconsistent position here to “gain theadvantage that they can assert Monroe’s right of publicity.” JudgeMorrow refused to allow MMLLC to obtain an unfair advantage by“attempting to play fast and loose with the courts.” Judge Morrowordered that MMLLC cannot acquire Marilyn Monroe’s right of publicityby such underhanded tactics.

 [Mark Bellinghaus' Weblog] Mark A. Roesler Exposed: No, this is not quite the case -Judge Morrow’s ruling means: 1) California’s right of publicity only extends to deceased celebrities who were California domiciliaries when they died (previously established in the Princess Diana case)2) All deceased celebrities who were California domiciliaries when they died since 1915 potentially have a post-mortem right of publicity.3) However, only the families of deceased celebrities who were California domiciliaries when they died before Jan 1, 1985 own the right and not persons designated by their wills.4) Deceased celebrities who were California domiciliaries when they died after 1985 also own a post-mortem right of publicity and they could have transferred it during their life to a trust or by contract and after their death, their family members received the right, not by their will but by the statute.

 [Curtiss Blog] Red Wine Glasses: Orrefors red wine glasses are crafted to match the varietal quality of an array of red wines. The proper red wine glass has the ability to highlight the regal flavor of Cabernet Sauvignon, the elusive perfume of Pinot Noir, the fruity Pinotage, and the brooding power of a Burgundy.

 [Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog] Not Just Another Bomb...But, Much More.: If California is not to be doomed totypecasting as devolved Muscle Wine, winemakers must redouble theirefforts to explore alternative styles outside the mainstream andrecapture the magic which our wine carried before bulking it upactually dumbed it down."

[Wine] The Red Wine Diet: Corder has surveyed over 300 red wines from most of the world’s wine regions and has awarded each a heart rating score from 1 to 5 hearts based on procyanidin levels. The book provides the reader with a list of foods and diets which are high in procyanidin as well.The book serves as a ready resource for anyone interested in locating wines and foods rich in procyanidin.

[OUR MARILYN BLOG] Mark Roesler, 52, The 'Official Loser' Of Marilyn Monroe: No, this is not quite the case -Judge Morrow’s ruling means: 1)California’s right of publicity only extends to deceased celebritieswho were California domiciliaries when they died (previouslyestablished in the Princess Diana case)2) Alldeceased celebrities who were California domiciliaries when they diedsince 1915 potentially have a post-mortem right of publicity.3) However, only the families of deceased celebrities who were California domiciliaries when they died before Jan 1, 1985 own the right and not persons designated by their wills.4)Deceased celebrities who were California domiciliaries when they diedafter 1985 also own a post-mortem right of publicity and they couldhave transferred it during their life to a trust or by contract andafter their death, their family members received the right, not bytheir will but by the statute.

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