Archive for March, 2008

Agritourism grows more than wineries (The Southern Illinoisan)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Southern Illinois’ agrarian landscape was once covered in a patchwork of family farms tilling the land for row crops, opening pasture for roaming livestock, planting rolling hills with orchards and propping up a vegetable stand at the farm gate.

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Clarke Area Arts Council seeks board members (Osceola Sentinel-Tribune)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

The Clarke Area Arts Council will meet April 8, at 5:30 p.m. at Southern Hills Winery to nominate members for the Board of Directors. CAAC members are encouraged to attend.

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Cincinnati International Wine Festival This Weekend (The Kentucky Post)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

The festival runs through Saturday and will showcase 135 wineries while offering 600 different wines for tasting.

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Brooklyn, The Borough: The Kings of Beer (The New York Observer)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

It seems like every time you turn the corner these days you run into yet another new bar. This is especially true in the gentrified neighborhoods of Brooklyn and very much so in Prospect Heights. Time Out New York recently ran a page-long charticle on the heavy bar presence on Vanderbilt Avenue, the go-to strip for ProHo nightlife. The eight-block avenue boasts restaurants, cafes and …

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A New Breed of Car Museum Comes to Europe (TheStreet.com)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Daimler Benz and BMW have opened hip, exciting, new museums dedicated to the automobile.

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NY’s brewers push for equal status with wineries (WCAX-TV Vermont)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Associated Press - March 28, 2008 9:45 AM ET ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - New York’s breweries are lobbying lawmakers in Albany to get equal status with the state’s thriving wine industry.

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Lodi Wine Show kicks off today; wine cellar will be raffled off (Lodi News-Sentinel)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Each spring, the scent of Lodi’s surrounding vineyards carries on the breeze, reminding people across the city that this is a wine town. And each year, the Lodi Spring Wine Show allows attendees get to sample the best that Lodi’s wineries have to offer.

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Hundreds of police stage north London raids (Guardian Unlimited)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Crackdown on Blackstock Road came as Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy visited nearby Arsenal stadium yesterday

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STAFF EDIT: Trading food for ‘bucks (The Daily Free Press)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

It seems like just another American urban legend until it happens on your block — a classmate or friend tells how those ubiquitous Starbucks cafes opened right across the street from each other, severely cutting down on locals’ options.

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Temecula Wine and Music Festival Announces Stellar Lineup May 3-4, 2008 (All About Jazz)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Come and enjoy world class music and a unique wine tasting experience from Temecula’s award-winning wineries at the Temecula Wine and Music Festival from May 3-4, 2008 at the Vail Lake Resort in Temecula, California.

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