An Offer With Teeth: Snorkel With Sharks, San Diego
And now for something completely different…. For four days (July 31, August 6, 14 & 27), the Birch Aquarum at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego County, California, is…
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Desert Bloom: 20th Annual Burning Man, Nevada
For one week a year, a gathering of free-thinkers, punks, carpenters, artists, pyromaniacs and evironmentalists escape their respective rat races and trek 350 miles from S.F. to an empty Nevada…
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Space, The Final Frontier for Sir Richard Branson
From Tech Digest: Creating world-class Virgin Airlines gave Sir Richard Branson his first breath of rarefied air. Now, he’s announced a step towards commercial space travel by launching The Spaceship…
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Leather Weather: Electronic Clothing
From The Cool Hunter Gadgets page: Cherish your cell phone? Idolize your iPod? Love your Blackberry or Treo smartphone? Want to protect your PDA? Then dress them up with this…
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The US & UK’s Hottest Spa: Bliss World
On their beautifully designed Website, BlissWorld boldly says “Anything less would be stress.” Now in San Francisco (W Hotel), New York (Soho, Lex & 49th, plus 57th Street), and London,…
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Some Books for the Summer
Here’s a list of book picks by Dr. Vino, guaranteed to expand our wine radar and have some fun in the process… via Dr. Vino
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Recline, Dine & Wine: The Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa
I spent my childhood summers in the town of Sonoma, long before it became a world-class wine growing area. Even then, the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa was a…
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Getting Stoned: Lava Sledding on Hawaii
If surfing the waves isn’t enough of a thrill, try “he’e holua,” or Hawaiian Lava Sledding. This 2,000-year-old tradition started with barreling down grassy slopes on tea leaves and banana…
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Côtes de Castillon – Another Bordeaux
Here is some juicy information on a not so widely known appelation from Bordeaux. Usually a marriage of Merlot and Cabernet Franc this wine is produced in a slightly warmer…