Word: fornia
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...found on beer bottles are being drafted into service for sparkling wines. Following the tradition of winemakers in Italy's Veneto region, who use these covers for bottles destined for their home consumption, Mionetto, a winery based in Valdobbiadene, seals its IL bottles with these user- friendly caps. Cali fornia's Domaine Chandon puts crown caps on étoile, its top-of-the-line cuvée. Meanwhile, Sofia Blanc de Blancs, the sparkling wine that filmmaker turned winemaker Francis Coppola created for his daughter's wedding, now also comes in magenta Mini cans with pull-tab tops...
NAME: Arnold Schwarzenegger, a.k.a. the Gubernator of Cal-e-fornia...
...response to billboards Schwarzenegger put up in Las Vegas and 10 other cities in August with an image of him, arms folded, preening in a tight California-state-flag T shirt. The message: ARNOLD SAYS: CALIFORNIA WANTS YOUR BUSINESS. (ACTUALLY, HE SAYS, "KAH-LI-FORNIA.") The grandstanding Governor even tooled along the Vegas Strip in an 18-wheel moving van to drive home the point...
...packed the neon-lit Metreon showroom to watch the bespectacled dancer clamber onto the dance platform and coolly follow the game's flashing foot-pad squares while adding a show-off flair all his own. That swaggering, 180-beat-per-minute performance made him No. 1 in northern Cali-fornia. In previous contests Aldea has wowed judges with trademark moves, like a drunken kung fu impersonation - all the while following the requisite dance steps. "I've been to Japan and the Philippines," says Aldea, whose parents are originally from Manila, "and the dancers there focus more on perfect scoring instead...