Archive for March, 2007
A California Winemaker’s Dinner

Featuring high-end vintners and star chefs that include the nation’s finest, the wildly popular “A Culinary Evening with the California Winemasters” fuses superlative wines and haute cuisine to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
By Layla Revis
From Food to Philanthropy
Who would have imagined that the delectable art of pairing fine wines and five-star cuisine would, eighteen years later, bring over fourteen million dollars to a worthy cause and increase the lifespan of those diagnosed with a terminal disease?
It’s a wonder any one would ever say that one man or woman couldn’t make a difference.
“This was an opportunity to see the fruits of our labor and the chance to really make a difference,” Barbara Balik, Director of Special Giving at Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, explains. She’s referring to one of the most prestigious events for chefs and winemakers in the country, “A Culinary Evening with the California Winemasters”.
<Art Stars: MATTEO and Ron Burkhardt
Art and Living has uncovered an exciting new arena that blends art and architecture. Two of America’s hottest new art stars — MATTEO, a startling “tech sculptor” who has created his own genre of art he calls “video sculpture,” and avant-garde artist RON BURKHARDT, the founder of Notism — are lending their innovation and aesthetics to this amazing new hybrid world, a return to the ambitions of high craft and total integration of art, architecture and design of the highly influential Bauhaus
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