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Nearly 30 years ago, Josh Jensen, fresh from a postcollege stint in the vineyards of Burgundy and eager to make his own wine, bought a Volkswagen camper and spent two years driving around California looking for the perfect place to grow Pinot Noir grapes. He finally found grape pay dirt, but nowhere near the famed Napa Valley. Instead it was 135 miles south, on a limestone-rich mountainside east of Monterey. Jensen planned to plant vines in the Gavilan Mountains at 2,200 ft. above sea level, making his future vineyard among the highest, and the coldest, in California. Around...
While Shah Mohammed is eager to explain his his faith, he refused to discuss his own political beliefs or fault the U.S. for its policies towards the Middle East, calling a discussion of geopolitics irrelevant after a tragedy of Tuesday’s magnitude...
...help break the monotony of studio sessions, Dre has a floating band of merry men on hand--security guards, musicians, friends--all eager to crack up the Doctor. While he takes a break and eats dinner, the room fills with half a dozen folks who smoke pot, drink Hennessy Cognac, make fun of one another and generally behave like nightmare houseguests. Dre clearly loves the distraction, though he doesn't personally indulge in anything beyond a toothpick. When he folds up his plastic clamshell of chicken and says, "Back to work," the room clears...
...back I came to Cambridge with a summer’s worth of theater behind me. My travels brought me to many shows and many venues—but it wasn’t enough theater, nor could it ever be. Yet I return eager for this year’s offering on Harvard’s stages, at the ART, at the new Market Theater and in Boston itself. And I wait for the next time I go into the theater, take my seat, and sense the lights dim—I wait for my next favorite moment...
What ever happened to moody artists who believed in “artistic integrity”? In 1997, Rivers Cuomo told Alternative Press that he wasn’t eager to make anymore “gimmicky” videos because he thought that Spike Jonze’s “Buddy Holly’” video was responsible for Weezer’s rise to fame. Only one video was made for Pinkerton—a straightforward three-minute ordeal panning over the geek boys playing “El Scorcho...