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...gained a national reputation by offering demanding degrees in subjects like fibers and interior design. Students at the Culinary Institute of America can major in such fields as baking and pastry-arts management. The school has two campuses: one in Hyde Park, N.Y., and the other in St. Helena, Calif., the heart of Napa Valley. Alas, there are no wine pairings with the dorm food...
Tony Coturri, a co-owner of the Coturri Winery in Glen Ellen, Calif., began making natural wines 27 years ago and doesn't use even the sulfites that most experts think are needed to preserve wine. He's so devoted to the natural ethos that he is pushing to have ingredients listed on wine labels. "I believe that wine is best at its most basic--crushed grapes, fermented, pressed into barrels and then bottled," he says. "Nothing added, nothing taken away...
DIED. Bob Thaves, 81, award-winning creator of Frank & Ernest, the nationally syndicated comic strip that chronicles the oddball adventures of two geeky middle-aged punsters; in Torrance, Calif. The first to use block lettering, according to its syndicate, the 34-year-old strip sometimes featured the two pals traveling through time and morphing into different beings. As aliens who have landed on a tony golf course, they observed that a set of clubs appeared to be "some kind of instruments of self-torture...
...either party, because, quite simply, neither has a heart. Like the Tin Man, each party wanders about, clucking about the need for initiative and ideas, but never managing to find either. Far be it for me to criticize the sterling leadership of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and company; there are underlying structural causes of the Democrats’ serial ineptitude as an opposition party. Among the many flaws of our reified Constitution is that it intentionally undermines the development of parliamentary-style political parties. There is no platform from which to articulate a unified opposition ideology. Instead...
...Drive-In collective has combined a love of movies with a mission to reclaim public space by staging word-of-mouth screenings of films ranging from politically subversive shorts to Dirty Dancing, and it has inspired other guerrilla-flick efforts in Portland, Me., and West Chester, Pa. In Berkeley, Calif., Web developer Bryan Kennedy turned his car into a mobile movie unit, a sort of drive-in that actually drives in, with a DVD player, a projector and an FM transmitter that beams a movie's sound track to other cars. His technology has given rise to the MobMov movement...