Archive for January 2008

Community calendar - January 30

Akron Beacon Journal - … Northeast Ohio Chapter will host a food- and wine-tasting event featuring dishes from local restaurants, such as Bricco and Hudson’s Restaurant on the Green, and wine from national and international wineries. Featuring a silent auction, wine bottle …

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La Buca

Los Angeles Weekly - … burrata with vegetables, and trenette al pesto , the dining room at La Buca, the beloved pasta-intensive commissary down the street from Paramount, is at last bigger than the inside of a minivan — a soaring, wood-paneled space with wine-bottle …

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One shoe at a time — Encinitas writer’s novel sees magic in the …

North County Times - I have carrots and peas talking in a story, a wine bottle talking, a can of whipped cream talking,” Shapiro said about some of her short stories in the genre. “It’s taking reality and playing with it. “I just wrote a story recently where a teenager …

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Frugal Finds: Get Great Gifts For Less Than $30 - WSB-TV Atlanta

With Valentine’s Day, the winter holidays and multiple weddings, your wallet can be close to empty by the time your best friend’s birthday rolls around. So, do you whip out your credit cards and throw yourself in the red just to give your loved one …

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Cork-makers take stoppers from bark to bottle - Napa Valley Register


Cork-makers take stoppers from bark to bottle
Napa Valley Register, CA - Jan 27, 2008
Working for a cork company, Mowe hears the inevitable questions about other types of wine bottle closures. He acknowledged that screw caps — which are

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An Evening to Uncork Memories

Wall Street Journal - Imagine if an evil genie took some of your very best memories and hid them in a wine bottle. That’s what so many of us do to ourselves. These dear bottles have a special way of retrieving warm and often-forgotten memories, but you have to pop the …

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How you can give that special bottle a special opening - Wall Street Journal


How you can give that special bottle a special opening
Wall Street Journal - Jan 24, 2008
Imagine if an evil genie took some of your very best memories and hid them in a wine bottle. That’s what so many of us do to ourselves.

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Jury gets Poirier case

Sun-Journal - The bullet pierced a glass, shattered the neck of a wine bottle and struck Roland Poirier, killing him. The trial focused on what Scott Poirier was thinking at the time. Prosecutor Marchese said he was thinking about killing his father. That’s what he …

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Teenager’s rights violated in murder case, court says

San Francisco Gate - The prosecution also presented two witnesses, Ronald McFarland and Mark Mikles, who said Jackson had told them in jail that he had beaten Ott unconscious and then raped her with a wine bottle. Mikles also said Jackson admitted killing Curtis. …

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And More!

New York Observer - Inside the party, where a giant wine bottle hung from the wall, Ms. Hilton was meeting a few select members of the press. Two girlfriends waited patiently on couches nearby, occasionally whispering in each other’s ears. Ms. Hilton wore a sparkly …

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