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Friday, January 11, 2008

Classical to pop

The MBFA Gallery in Napa is highlighting the talent of 33 Vintage High School art students and providing the young artists with insight into the culture of the professional gallery world.

Two couples romantic retreat gets a comic twist in Dreamweavers 'Weekend Comedy'

Dreamweavers welcomes 2008 with a much-welcome promise of laughter as it presents “Weekend Comedy,” opening this weekend.

Next Idol NV scheduled for 2009

Napa Valley Opera House artistic director Evy Warshawski has announced they’ve decided to postpone the planned Idol NV instrumental competition until spring 2009.

Downtown art gallery gives Vintage High students insight

When Tessa Mini, a Vintage senior,  worked as an intern at the MBFA Gallery in Napa last summer, she came up with the idea of showing students’ works in the unique business, which combines art and real estate.

Laughs are on the menu at Downtown Joe's

On the second Sunday of every month, Downtown Joe’s American Grill and Brewhouse serves up big-city comedy along with the burgers and beer.

Worship notes

Grace Church of Napa Valley

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Education

Boutique owner promotes a 'mannerfesto' for gracious living

Fête, a newly opened boutique at the Oxbow Public Market in Napa, takes its name from the French word that means to celebrate, entertain or honor.

Master Gardeners survey

The Napa County Master Gardeners are trying to determine the best way to serve the local gardening public with workshops, and they welcome your ideas.

Birth announcements

ST. HELENA HOSPITAL

Local woman inducted into honor society

Becky Elaine Timcang will be inducted into the Beta Beta Sigma Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa at Napa Valley College on May 17, 2008.

Discovering Ontario’s Niagara-on-the-Lake wine route

Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario – My wife and I are driving down a two-lane road bordered by vineyards, a scene you’d say was vintage Napa Valley. Except for one thing: We’ve just pulled off the Queen Elizabeth Highway after the hour-and-a-half drive from the north shore of Lake Ontario at Toronto and find ourselves in the storybook town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, where the vineyards of Ontario’s Niagara Peninsula spread out across a 30-mile plain.

Coombsville or Tulocay?

Tulocay is one of the proposed American Viticultural Areas that is currently on hold pending review of recommendations offered by the Treasury Department’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.

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