Monica Turner

Lodi Wine Country vintners are inviting wine enthusiasts to enjoy the fruits of their labor at “The First Sip – Celebrating Lodi’s New Vintage” on Saturday and Sunday, November 14 & 15, 2009. Attendees will enjoy mingling with the winemakers as they unveil the new 2009 wines with barrel sampling,...

Don't miss a thing everyone. Clint and Loni are on the way to the Baja, where the sea meets the sky. What adventure awaits? Follow SSC here to get the latest, but also make sure you get updates in real time, including photos, and what's happening on the ground by following...

Arias and symphonies! We're very excited to be now working with San Francisco Opera and Opera San Jose. Look for continued coverage here throughout the season as we bring some of the most in-depth, Twitter and Web 2.0-friendly, behind the scenes style, personable stories, videos among all the media, new...

Home Front: Santa Clara Valley’s World War II Experience explores how San José and Santa Clara Valley was affected, contributed and benefited by World War II. While young men and women left their families to serve their country in far off places, those at home were constantly reminded of...

  San Francisco Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi’s masterwork Otello, opening November 8 with six subsequent performances through December 2 at the War Memorial Opera House. Starring in the title role is South African tenor Johan Botha alongside Bulgarian soprano Zvetelina Vassileva as Desdemona and Italian baritone Marco Vratogna as Iago....

Sure, anyone can choose the top 20 movies of all time, or even whittle it down, begrudgingly, to 10. But how about 3? Put your game face on. Sink or swim. Back's against the wall. This is the definitive, best, absolute classic, uncontested, incredibly great—for eternity—top three movies of all time. But will you...

  On November 7th the Kovarus Cycling Team will be holding a Wine Harvest Extravaganza thru Napa Valley. This event will begin at the Alpha Omega Winery and continue through the Pope Valley in Napa and will end back at the winery in time for a lunch and wine tasting....

The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) presents Manifold, a solo exhibition by postminimalist sculptor and installation artist Theodora Varnay Jones. Manifold will be on view from November 7, 2009 through February 20, 2010. The installation in the ICA's Focus Gallery provides visitors with a unique opportunity to see...