Howard Soon of Sandhill Winery Howard Soon is head winemaker at Sandhill Winery, he’s been since 1997, and has been a pioneer in the Okanagan Valley wine industry for over three decades.
Ewan Currie and the Sheepdogs The Sheepdogs, on record at least, are a rootsy band with some melodic prowess. Live, they are, yes, a different animal.
Food Culture in Hong Kong For all that grand gesturing, Hong Kong is a food city. There are 7 million people living in only 1,100 square kilometres, ensuring someone, somewhere, is hungry, 24-7.
Cover Songs There are many largely undetermined reasons why someone might do a cover song. The most obvious is to show admiration or respect, but there is usually at least a hint thrown in about how important the original version was in the musical history of the covering artist.
The Honourable Ross Fitzpatrick Ross Fitzpatrick, a Canadian senator for the Okanagan-Similkameen, founded CedarCreek Estate Winery in 1986 and saw it to success with a savvy amalgam of business acumen, knowledge of Okanagan agriculture history and confidence that the region could produce, in his words, “pretty good wine”.
Pop, Pop, Pop Music “Pop” might safely be assumed to be an abbreviation of “popular”. Safe, but incorrect, unless you go back as far as the 1920s. The amusing thing is that there were many pearls among the musical swine, and in 2011, there is a fascinating movement, an evolution of what “pop” music is. A funny thing happened on the way to now.
A Music Sampling In this era of a wide and deep range of popular music to listen to, it is good to know, as you hear elements of past times, past sounds, that pop music has always sprung from sources, some more identifiable than others.
Frank Gigliotti and California Cult Classics It is a club, of sorts. California Cult Classics is a full-fledged winemaking facility, complete with oak barrels from France worth $1,400, and some of the rarest, most expensive wine grapes in the world.
Blake and John Bromley of Benefic In the sometimes fevered, always hectic and competitive world of charitable and philanthropic activity, things are not always as they seem.
Daniel Lalonde, Louis Vuitton, and the World of Luxury Brands Daniel Lalonde is a man who knows a thing or two about brands, specifically about luxury brands, and how they work.
