California Wine Country Tours

Ocean Film Festival Returns With Diverse Offerings

Published: March, 2018   "How inappropriate to call this planet Earth,” opined legendary author Arthur C. Clarke, “when it is quite clearly ocean.” For 15 years, the International Ocean Film Festival has been bringing back the focus to the 75 percent of our habitat that is indeed water.   Like a wave-borne United Nations representing […]

Final WTA Board Member Named

Published: May, 2001 The 11th and final member has been named to the San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority Board. Rocco Louis Mancinelli is a Senior Research Scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View The legislation creating the WTA specifies that Mancinelli’s spot be reserved to a trained biologist. A quick review of […]

An Autumn Harvest of Japanese Art

By Paul DuclosPublished: November, 2010    With six remaining performances in November, there’s still time to see, hear, and devour Madame Butterfly. The tragic love story returns in a classic new-to-San Francisco production by Broadway legend Harold Prince (Sweeney Todd, The Phantom of the Opera). Svetla Vassileva sang the title role in October, a young […]