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Krista Sheldon Featured at Carefree Fine Art & Wine Festival From the official press release: Krista Sheldon?s career started in the textile industry, but after ten years she decided she was ready to explore new avenues in the art industry and began painting. She creates original works on canvas, using a variety of paints including acrylics, oils and watercolors, among others. Her pieces often incorporate multiple layering of media creating depth and dimension that are unique to her work. She also uses special techniques to accomplish an aged-by-time ef
Aplicaciones imprescindibles para Linux: Internet Continuando con la serie de aplicaciones imprescindibles para Linux, seguimos hoy con las dedicadas a Internet: Mensajería instantánea: Dentro de esta categoría tenemos excelentes programas para elegir. Por un lado, para podernos conectar a la red MSN tenemos tanto emesene como aMSN. Por contra, si nos conectamos a varias redes el elegido sería sin duda Pidgin. Este último permite conectarse a multitud de redes, siendo las más conocidas la red MSN, Yahoo, GTalk, e ICQ. Correo electrónico: Si
Carefree Fine Art and Wine Festival I'm loadin' up the trailer and headed down to the 'Sun Valley' this weekend. I love the location of the Carefree Fine Art & Wine Festival. The names of all the streets in Carefree are so fun -- Ho Hum Rd, Easy Street, Lazy Lane, Rambling Rd., Peaceful Place, Meander Way, Horizon Drive, Rocking Chair Rd. . . makes me want to live there! The Thunderbird Artists Art Festivals are some of the nicest art festivals out there. You can always count on seeing top notch fine art from all over the
Linux is straightforward. I have switched to gOS from Ubuntu about a month ago, and I am extremely happy with the eye candy. It looks just like mac, and the color schemes are all so good, that I do not thing think that I would ever get back to ubuntu again. Well, gOS is based on ubuntu. I am still using the soul of Ubuntu, suing the same repositories and i9nstalling the same debian packages made for ubuntu. Only the eye candy is different to throw some maxim lighting over it. Well, I have been having one big problem. I
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eurovision: a history of crime a few years ago, the bbc stopped trying to make eurovision cool. thank god. now we can start enjoying it again. they?ve streamlined the voting which is quite annoying and has contributed to a decline in my ability to count to 20 in every european language and to verbalise the words ?united kingdom? in 25 different languages. they used to spend about four hours trying to connect by cb radio to gruff foreign presenters floating somewhere off the coast of depressing old finland, and that was h
100 aplicaciones imprescindibles para Ubuntu Esta es el primer post que hago acerca de Linux y en especial de Ubuntu? esta lista me llegó a mi correo hacer varios días de parte de José Hernandez al cual le doy todo el mérito de esta entrada. Está copiada tal cual me la ha enviado? a él? muchas gracias por tan espectacular aporte. P.D. He visto el mismo post en una página llamada www.Alejandrox.com, realmente no se quien es el autor de este post, debido a que me llegó a mi correo, perode todas formas doy crédito también a esta w
Low end fortified wine tasting As you may or may not know, there are a wide variety of low-end fortified wines available in the Charlottesville area. While none are locally produced, they all pack a particularly interesting wallop and are quite distinct in their own way. I managed to convince 6 Cvillains to be brave enough to help me evaluate them and determine which is the best. Here are the results. I went shopping on Friday afternoon and hit two convenience stores to get the goods. At the Shell station on Preston I pick
Drinkin? Outta Paper Black people love drinking out of paper - like paperbags and paper cups. Back in the day, old black men would get together out front of the building. They would get some folding chairs and sit outside all day in front of the building laughing, talking, gossiping and sipping out of papercups. Sometimes they would sit in a car and do this. We used to call it, ?the party car?. Sometimes they played dominoes, checkers, or cards on overturned garbage cans. If you sip out of a paperbag, noone will
My faith has been restored. In Texas. In Italian Wine. In Italian wine in Texas. In Restaurants in Texas. And in the whole chasing after windmill exercise that we do when we attempt to bring the Word of Wine to the outer edges of civilization. I finally got my groove on, and in Marfa, Texas, no less. Word to Sancho: Flyover country has been secured and made safe.
There?s something about the simplicity of the desert that cuts right to the essential. Maybe it?s the access to ingredients. Or perhaps it is just that once you strip it down to what you really need, you really don?t need all that much. When you?re staring at yourself in the mirage and you are forced to look at whatever you can manage to make from your memory and your imagination, then one is compelled to stare down the demons and make sense of it. Here in Marfa, they call it A.R.T.
My background in the arts didn?t have me getting all wiggly and wobbly as we spent some free time strolling among the buildings at the Chinati Foundation. There is something about the way an artist can challenge you to look at your own doodlings in life and ask you if what you have been doing these past 20 years has any more relevance than what he has put up on these walls.
In that sense, the art on those walls forced me to think about these things. And with the unsolicited quiet of the desert, the lack of distraction, this created an unavoidable encounter with my ?inner? Marfa Lights.
Cochineal (no web site, don?t Google it, you wont find one) was a perfect launching into the future of food in Texas. Not cutting edge, no not-that-in-your-face. More like simple ingredients without towers, truffle oil or turpitude. Take it or leave it.
We met Chef Paul Peterson, of the Gage Hotel in Marathon, at Cochineal. He and his wife had managed to get a night off and left offspring with family in Alpine, half way between Marfa and Marathon. Paul is one of those chefs that, if you dropped him in Austin or Park Slope, would easily transition toward the top of the scene. Easy going and mellow, with an edge. Kind of like a Chianti from Querciabella. In fact, we opened a few bottles that night, thanks to Cochineal owners Tom Rapp and Toshi Sakihara. Eventually they sat down with us as we worked late into the night. Among other things, we had a Carbonara that anyone, anywhere, would be proud of.
Walking out into an early autumn night in the desert, stars are jamming the skies; rush hour in Rome is light by comparison.
Maybe we should start a Chianti Foundation. Because of the interest in Italian wine in this little west Texas town. It would fit right-tight into the matrix of Marfa.
A new day, and we find ourselves in front of Chef Maiya Keck of Maiya?s. While we were talking about wine, I was thinking, ?She really likes Italians.? The restaurant is Italian inspired and along with a perfectly delicious looking high ceiling dining room straight out of the WPA, I couldn?t wait to come back in the evening.
In the meantime she sent us across the street to the Food Shark, a mobile food stand at the farmers market. It seemed everyone in town was heading for the Food Shark, as scads of young people were working their way through the interesting menu.
As I was cogitating what I would order, a woman stepped up to get her to go order. When I heard her voice I said to myself, ?That is the voice of Isabella Rossellini.? I then looked to her and made eye contact. Were those the eyes of Isabella Rossellini? It wouldn?t be out of the question that someone like her would be here, seeing as this was the week for the Marfa annual Open House. I looked her over and she seemed to resemble Isabella from one of the scenes of Blue Velvet. I would encounter her later in the day, when perhaps that little mystery would be solved.
The falafel at the Food Shark was one hellatiously good lunch choice. It reminded me of DoBi?s endless search for Fish Tacos, though the Falafel Forage might be a little more difficult in these parts.
A block away was the Pizza Foundation, Maiya?s sister, Saarin, runs it. Thin pizza, not over worked. I asked Ronnie the pizzaiolo how it was to make pizza at this elevation (appx 4800) and he explained that he had gotten the recipe down to deal with the elevation, the heat and the dry conditions. He did.
That evening we had a wine tasting/ reception at the old bus station , home of Shelly and Harry Hudson. Shelly?s son, Jules, runs a neat little place in Dallas, Nonna. The family has the good taste gene in spades.
We set up the wines, Italian and otherwise. As the folks rambled into the tasting we were able to talk to folks a little more in depth. Isabella came up to me and we had a little talk about opera. She was from Germany: not Isabella. Or was she in some kind of character for the evening. I?ve seen too many David Lynch films.
One lady, Virginia Lebermann, who has all kinds of things going on in Marfa, was in the process of building a new venue for art and music with a lounge attached. ?How would you like to curate the wine selection?? she asked. We set a time to visit the next day. Curate a wine list, they never asked me to do that in Dallas or Houston.
That evening, after the reception, we headed over to Maiya?s to meet a client for dinner. We walked into a warm room with enormous ceilings; the place was inviting and hopping. Plenty of the young folks from the arts foundations were settling in at the bar, just like NY, LA or Firenze. In this little old west Texas desert town. All very Rod Serling-like.
Maiya sent out plates of food; grilled radicchio, tartlettes, frisée, plates of pasta, profiteroles, and dense chocolate tortes. And we brought out wine after wine to taste with the client and Maiya. They liked us, they really liked us. I wasn?t in New Orleans or Napa, where I do get treated like I actually know something about Italian wine. I wasn?t in Dallas or Houston, where I have to often deal with a lowest common denominator routine. We were in Marfa, Texas, and they got it, from Kerner to Taurasi to Brachetto.
Next morning we met up with Virginia Lebermann to look over the new Thunderbird Lounge. Fire pits and adobe, tongue-and-groove and sharp, clean lines. They want me to curate the wine selection here? Let?s give it to them, see just how far we can push the envelope with Vermentino.
After all, we don?t come here looking for some worn out windmills. We came out to see what was in store for us in the future, here in flyover country. In a bright, stark, clear-cut way, we were shown what might be in store for us. If we keep our eyes, and our minds, open.
In the words of Bobby Z, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wine blows."
After a few days in the rarified air of Marfa, Texas, I have had a few moments to do a little navel gazing. Take this one or leave it, as it applies to you. Or doesn?t. That being said, don?t we all have, at one time or another, moments where we look around our environment and notice the world that we have landed in and ask ourselves if this is what we intended to do?
Mind you, this isn?t a crisis post. I?m not telegraphing back to home base that I won?t be returning. Well, maybe a part of me won?t ever be back. But every time I get on the wine trail a part of me is left behind and a newer segment grows in its place.
One of the fascinating aspects of being in Marfa during the run up to the Chinati Foundation annual hoe-down, is this congregating of intellectual and artistic energy that appears to have broken away from the bubble of the everyday reality we all seem to get trapped in. The Dow drops to 8500? Where is the wine for the governor?s dinner? 159,000 jobs lost? An installation for an artist is previewing in the desert today. The G7 is meeting in emergency session with the IMF? Artist Eugene Binder on the main street is moving his three vintage Porsche Speedsters out of his gallery so he can make room for the folks coming to town.
After a visit to a handful of accounts ( El Cheapo, Pizza Foundation and the Thunderbird Lounge) we headed out to Alpine, Marathon and Midland. In Marfa I had been invited to ?curate? a wine list for one of the local patrons, who also are big wine fans. They are also looking at a property in Montalcino to invest in, land and a winery. The wine trail winds and turns and points towards many destinations.
This week I had a Carbonara that folks anywhere would be proud of. Pizza that merited a second piece. Restaurants like Cochineal and Maiya's, with a passion for food and wine. And saw a love for Italian wine from the artists and intellectuals of a small west Texas town that I could only wish larger urban areas would aspire to. Go figure.
Maybe it is something about the confluence of a zone that attracts art and intellect that also is amenable to things Italian? I know this to be the case all over Italy, maybe Marfa is a vortex that squeezes a drop of Italy onto the canvas and exposes the native energy to the ancient? Or maybe I am just a kook?
Lesson learned this week: Do what you love, even if you don?t sometimes know why you do it or even what it is.
Repeat as needed. Repeat as needed. Repeat as needed.
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My faith has been restored. In Texas. In Italian Wine. In Italian wine in Texas. In Restaurants in Texas. And in the whole chasing after windmill exercise that we do when we attempt to bring the Word of Wine to the outer edges of civilization. I finally got my groove on, and in Marfa, Texas, no less. Word to Sancho: Flyover country has been secured and made safe.
My background in the arts didn?t have me getting all wiggly and wobbly as we spent some free time strolling among the buildings at the 
Cochineal 
We met 
A new day, and we find ourselves in front of Chef Maiya Keck of 
As I was cogitating what I would order, a woman stepped up to get her to go order. When I heard her voice I said to myself, ?That is the voice of Isabella Rossellini.? I then looked to her and made eye contact. Were those the eyes of Isabella Rossellini? It wouldn?t be out of the question that someone like her would be here, seeing as this was the week for the Marfa annual Open House. I looked her over and she seemed to resemble Isabella from one of the scenes of Blue Velvet. I would encounter her later in the day, when perhaps that little mystery would be solved.
The falafel at the Food Shark was one hellatiously good lunch choice. It reminded me of 
A block away was the 
We set up the wines, Italian and otherwise. As the folks rambled into the tasting we were able to talk to folks a little more in depth. Isabella came up to me and we had a little talk about opera. She was from Germany: not Isabella. Or was she in some kind of character for the evening. I?ve seen too many David Lynch films.
One lady, Virginia Lebermann, who has 
Next morning we met up with Virginia Lebermann to look over the new 
After all, we don?t come here looking for some worn out windmills. We came out to see what was in store for us in the future, here in flyover country. In a bright, stark, clear-cut way, we were shown what might be in store for us. If we keep our eyes, and our minds, open.
After a few days in the rarified air of Marfa, Texas, I have had a few moments to do a little navel gazing. Take this one or leave it, as it applies to you. Or doesn?t. That being said, don?t we all have, at one time or another, moments where we look around our environment and notice the world that we have landed in and ask ourselves if this is what we intended to do? 
Mind you, this isn?t a crisis post. I?m not telegraphing back to home base that I won?t be returning. Well, maybe a part of me won?t ever be back. But every time I get on the wine trail a part of me is left behind and a newer segment grows in its place.
One of the fascinating aspects of being in Marfa during the run up to the 
This week I had a Carbonara that folks anywhere would be proud of. Pizza that merited a second piece. Restaurants like Cochineal and 
Maybe it is something about the confluence of a zone that attracts art and intellect that also is amenable to things Italian? I know this to be the case all over Italy, maybe Marfa is a vortex that squeezes a drop of Italy onto the canvas and exposes the native energy to the ancient? Or maybe I am just a kook?