TechCrunch50 winner RedBeacon: A Google for local services?
The news just came in, via Twitter of course: the TechCrunch50 2009 winner, from a field of 50 start-ups, is RedBeacon. Who? Well, chances are…
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Champagne, France begins “promising” harvest
According to the Champagne Bureau (Washington, DC), 2009 should be another “high quality season” for producers of the famous bubbly from Champagne, France. Although the…
Bing, now with Bam!
With Bing, Microsoft continues to go all out in a middling and perhaps doomed effort to to slow Google. The latest feature added to the…
Announcing the Stark Insider Bay Area Theater & Arts Guide
We’re very pleased to be working with the theater and arts community here in the San Francisco Bay Area. More than ever the arts are…
Stryker Sonoma Winery celebrates Harvest with 7th annual Zinternship
2009 “Zin-N-Out” Theme Pairs Winemaking Education, Zinfandel & Gourmet Burgers (Sonoma County, CA, August 27)— On Saturday September 19th, Stryker Sonoma Winery is giving wine…
Quintessa Grand Tasting
Looking forward to the 2010 event in Walla Walla.
San Jose Sharks finally make deal everyone expected
Talk about anti-climatic. Kind of like the Sharks’ finish to the ’08/09 season, lots of talk and expectations, but ultimately resulting in a rubber chicken…
My second oil painting class with Lee Hartman
Well, I’ve survived my second oil painting class finishing off my first masterpiece. Lee Hartman, the teacher, said she was very proud of the results.…
The Artist Diaries: Episode #1 ‘The Teacher and The Pear’
A new show! Loni is pursuing her dream of becoming an artist. An oil painter to the stars. Or at least our powder room walls.…
Facebook, now more like Twitter with Tagging and Lite interface
Every day it seems Facebook wants to be more like Twitter. But Twitter is content to be just itself… for now. Yesterday, Facebook made two…