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Schmooze. A Yiddish word meaning a good talker, a tummler, a kibitzer. Any way you use it, being a good schmoozer is the stock........

As I understand it, to be nimble is to be able to think swiftly, to change on a dime, and to be flexible to circumstance. As a media relations consultant......

Recently, I’ve been seeing a spate of winery job listings, such as this one: “DIRECTOR OF EXPERIENCE”. I’ve got experience. I think I qualify for this job.......

Visceral thoughts about the new Monopoly, Napa Valley edition:.......

We want the funk. We need the funk. We gotta have the funk. Parliament Funkadelic knew all about the funk, and so did Ben Harper when he gave us everybody’s got ‘em.......

The Modesto bar and restaurant where Fred Franzia hung out I was told, was crowded with drinkers and diners. Franzia was not among........

First, they came for the news racks on the street, most filled with penny-shoppers and porn papers. Most of us ignore them. But they’re first amendment documents.......

Thank goodness this doesn’t happen very much any longer, but it used to be the first question every prospective PR client would ask was......

Item: Dave Chappelle Gets Grumpy About Napa Noise Ordinance, Insists On Going Past Curfew Twice at Blue Note Jazz Fest........

Along about now, alums of UC Davis – the Harvard of the wine industry – are having a cow. The reference, admittedly way too easy as you’ll see, goes to the geniuses at the school......

A family member asked me recently regarding my clients, “What if you don’t like their wine?” Meaning.....

“Clarksburg (which I like a lot) is the undoubted ground zero (AVA) for Chenin Blanc in California, if not the U.S. if not North America........