The young dancers taking part in the Creativity Workshop taught by Lawrence Pech and Wendy van Dyke will give a free performance Saturday at 1 p.m. at the District Auditorium in Napa.

Billed as a “celebration of the art of life,” Festival del Sole returns to the Napa Valley for a second season next month.

Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, considered one of the top swing and jump blues bands in the country, perform at the Napa Valley Opera House Saturday. The sultry vocals of chanteuse Lavay are backed by her all-star eight-piece band consisting of four horns, guitar, piano, bass and drums. 

LYNWOOD — It’s back to the not-so-solitary-life for Paris Hilton, who walked out of jail early Tuesday into a gathering of cameras and reporters, flashing a beaming smile and waving to the frenzied crowd.

NEW YORK — Don’t think of the Minisode Network as a brand-new Web site. Think of it as a long-overdue public service.

When Benny Barth sits down at the drums on the Garden Stage at the 50th annual Monterey Jazz Festival in September, his contemporaries and a whole lot of ghosts of festivals past will surround him.

Copia’s Friday Night Flicks take on a special glamor in July, in conjunction with the Festival del Sole. All the films start at 8 p.m. Friday night; a complementary tasting of a pinot noir takes place before each screening, 7:15 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $7 general, $6 for Copia members.

“Ratatouille” may be the first Pixar movie that is so advanced, so sophisticated, it doesn’t feel like it was made for kids.

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Kathryn Flotre sent in this photo of “my wonderful husband Scott” in their Napa garden. “He takes great pride in growing our vegetables from seed and puts his magic touch on them until they are harvested,” she wrote.

The mayor of Zagreb, Croatia, was in Rutherford Thursday to present Mike Grgich with a golden medal from the city, a rarely given award that recognized Grgich’s contributions to American-Croatian relations, his contributions to Croatia and the relationships he has built between the vintner’s land of birth and his adopted home.

The mayor of Zagreb, Croatia, was in Rutherford Thursday to present Mike Grgich with a golden medal from the city, a rarely given award that recognized Grgich’s contributions to American-Croatian relations, his contributions to Croatia and the relationships he has built between the vintner’s land of birth and his adopted home.

When Copia opened in November 2001, it was called “The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts,” but as it has evolved, it’s become clear, that, just as wine and and Napa Valley are practically synonymous, Copia’s concentration should be on the grape.

NAPA — Round and round they go, hundreds of bottles of Two Buck Chuck rattling and clinking their way toward a big machine that deftly fills, corks and seals each one in a rhythmic dance of metal and glass.

ANDREW DORNENBURG

One word — education — seemed to keep popping up during two seminars at the walk-around tasting of the Association of African American Vintners at Copia last weekend.

At most winemaker dinners, the chef who planned the menu is out of view until the end of the meal, when he or she appears to take a bow.

Oxbow Public Market, scheduled to open in the fall of 2007, announced today that three new tenants have been added — Whole Spice, Tillerman Tea and Kitchen Library. 

Our neighbors in Suisun City have reason to rejoice, in that a classy new restaurant has opened on Main Street in a storied brick building that dates from the late 19th century.

When it comes time to open a restaurant, the chef sets the menu, but who picks the dishes?

Queen of the Valley

Jessica Bea Emery and Michael Thomas Gibson of Napa announce their engagement to be married July 7 at 5:30 p.m. at the Evensen Rossi Estate in Napa.

WRIGHT -- Lea Wright vs. Mark Wright, June 11, 2007