Posts Tagged ‘wine’
Jolly Ol’ Weekend
Friday night Nick & I headed over to House of Shields to see our friends Dean & Laura play a Haiti benefit gig with their band Tracing Figures. The bar itself is a piece of charming San Francisco history in that it is rumored that President Warren G. Harding died in this speakeasy and was [...]
Redesigning a Wine Label
Last night I googled myself for the first time in maybe three years. The last time I had done this there were maybe thirty links for Sara Khwaja (or Sarah Khawaja) and only one other person I could find with my exact name. This time there were over 160,000 links and tons of Sara Khwajas. [...]
Eadweard Muybridge & Wine Labels
I am a big fan of Eadweard Muybridge. He pioneered capturing motion through photography and was thereby able to capture dancers and animals in a way no one had done before. So when I saw a feature on The Dieline for the new wine label for Puntiapart Wine, I was shocked that his name was [...]
Sunday Supper
Nick and I had a tapas-esque dinner last night where we experimented with cooking new things and trying out new methods of cooking as well. We loaded up at Whole Foods on fresh vegetables, scallops, steak and cheese then perused a variety of cookbooks for ideas. Maybe it was the unusually spotless kitchen or the [...]
Weekend in Portland, Oregon: A Guide
Nick and I paid our first visit to Portland, Oregon earlier this month where we had an incredible time exploring the city, the wine county and breathing the fresh green air. We are big fans of the Pacific Northwest and when we saw a travel deal on Orbitz for direct flights from LA and hotel [...]