A review of Vintage High Schools phenomenal production of West Side Story.

A tasting and lunch at Cakebread Cellars, a Napa Valley institution.

My friend, a card carrying member of the NRA, refused to see this show. He missed out.

The stigma of mental illness is removed by participants in Napa Valley College’s show “This Is My Brave.”

In Carla Lucero’s Opera “Juana” about Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz, unworthy men put to death a worth woman.

Review of She Kills Monsters at American Canyon High School.

There is no better breakfast in Napa than C Casa’s huevos rancheros at the Oxbow Public Market.

Nurses and doctors in psychiatric wards are only as compassionate as they are trained to be, and only as generous as the resources they are given. And in both cases, America is impoverished.

Jennifer King’s Emily Dickinson in Napa Valley College’s “The Belle of Amherst” is sensational.

Jennifer King is Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst

Cider is made from apples, but perry is made from pears.

Waiting in the bar at the St. Regis in San Francisco. Martini is necessary.

What drama class can teach us that STEM cannot.