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Features for Wednesday, February 20, 2008
The theatrical experience that defies classification by populating the stage with comic amphibians, acrobatic larvae and metamorphosing humans, Frogz stops for one night this Saturday at the Lincoln Theater in Yountville.
Copia's Community spotlights: Italian music and PUC faculty
Next up in Copia’s Community Spotlight Concert series is Una Bella Sera: An Evening of Italian Music with Steve Albini and friends Thursday, Feb. 21 at 8 p.m.
The art of Pirkle Jones captures a lost town at Napa Valley Museum
In 1956 photographer Pirkle Jones was commissioned by Life Magazine to document the last year in the life of Monticello, the town doomed to be flooded to create Lake Berryessa.
'Fun is the word' for Maikai Gents at Copia
Napa weather notwithstanding, conditions are predicted to be balmy and bright on the evening of Feb. 23 when the Maikai Gents return to Copia.
A lifelong love of poetry and music led Sean Garvey from the Napa Valley to New York and Nashville.
Before the Napa High School spiritleaders leave to defend their titles in the National Dance Championships in Feb. 28-March 3 in Orlando, Fla., they’ll present a National Preview Night at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25 at the Napa gym. The performers will be showcasing their highly technical, crowd-pleasing routines in this one hour show, which also includes performances from the undefeated JV spiritleader team and the Jazz 1, Jazz 2, Jazz 3, Breakers and Latin Rhythm dancers from the NHS dance department.
Education
Video Gamer: New life for 'Devil'
Beer dinner in
Sterling hosts Academy Awards fundraiser
Should Oscar get hungry in wine country, there are topnotch chefs aplenty willing to fill his plate.
Twenty years of putting the spotlight on AIDS
Pained by the loss of a close friend — a former Napa High School classmate — Floyd McGregor knew he had to do something to help combat AIDS.
Braised Short Ribs with Peas and Carrots
Andy Arndt, executive chef, Elaine Bell Catering
Stir Fry of Minced Chicken and Vegetables in Crisp Lettuce Cups with Toasted Pine Nuts
Peter Pahk, executive chef, Silverado Resort
Caramelized Cippolini Onions with Cabrales Blue Cheese and Apple Cider Dressing
Dominic Orsini, executive chef, BarVino
LEVITTOWN, N.Y. — This prototypical suburban community, known for mass-produced housing that went up for soldiers coming home from World War II, is again trying to standardize a way of life for its residents.
BALCH-RAMIREZ — Jim Foster Balch, 55, Marina Drive, Napa to Andrea Frances Ramirez, 54, Marina Drive, Napa.
QUEEN OF THE VALLEY
Backstage at Vintage High School’s production of Miss Saigon, actors bustle about getting ready for the show. Girls huddle around mirrors with curling irons and eye makeup. Members of the ensemble brush out their wigs. Dancers flurry past in ballet flats and stockings.
This is a story of passions - or make that three passions: art, wine, and an impoverished country half a world a way.
“The 2007 icewine will be the one that everybody looks for,”. Charlie Pillitteri predicted, surveying the now-empty vineyards at Pillitteri Winery. The harvest started Jan. 3 when the temperature plunged to 12 F for the third night in a row. The cold crystallized the body of the grapes and brought the sweetness up to about 42 brix, well above the minimum required to earn the title “Canadian Icewine.”
On March 2 and 3 the James Beard Foundation will honor winemaker Christian Moueix of Dominus Estate and Chateau Petrus at the third Legends of Wine fundraising event in Napa Valley. Hosted by Ken Frank of La Toque in Rutherford Legends of Wine will be a weekend of wine tastings, wine dinners and a vineyard tour with Moueix. Proceeds from the event benefit the James Beard Foundation and the La Toque Scholarship in wine studies.
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