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CHEESE MATTERS Attending Wine Spectator’s California Wine Experience, in New York was a trip I would totally recommend. The plethora of world-class wines to explore was mind blowing. I was able to spend quality time with wine royalty Agustin Huneeus Jr. and Jim Sweeney, while sipping their heavenly Quintessa. And yes, I [...]
Google won hands down when it comes to Americans watching videos online. Stats showed that Internet users in the U.S. watched 12.7 billion online videos in November, a 34% increase from a year ago. Numbers studied by market researcher ComScore hailed a huge ‘thank you’ to YouTube when Google sites earned top billing with nearly [...]
Home Away From Home For Oscar Stars During Oscar Week, The Peninsula Beverly Hills is booked solid with nominees and presenters, studio heads and A-list producers, its majestic tree-shaded porte cochere choc-o-block with Rolls, Bentleys and Mercedes. No wonder. An AAA Five Diamond rated hotel for 15 consecutive years, The Peninsula Beverly Hills provides the [...]
Banning indoor smoking is paying off. In Pueblo, Colorado, heart attack hospitalizations fell after a law passed banning smoking in public and workplaces, says the Center for Disease Control; 399 heart attack hospitalizations occurred 18 months prior to the smoke ban law and 237 in the 18-month period after the ban. Areas near, but not [...]
A sign outside a Hong Kong club reads, “Young, fresh Hong Kong girls; White clean Malaysian girls; Beijing women; Luxurious Ghost Girls from Russia.” About 65% of those trafficked are for the purpose of sexual exploitation, unable to escape for fear of being killed or their families being killed. They often develop ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ where [...]
An Israeli air strike carrying out a series of attacks at night killed Abu Zakaria al-Jamal, a senior Hamas commander of the armed wing of Hamas. In yet another strike it bombed the house of top Hamas operative Imad Akel and reports state that the Israeli military heard secondary blasts in the house, indicating weapons [...]
DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY AT BHUSD Beverly Hills Unified School District’s Board of Education approved a pilot program for the Debbie Allen Dance Academy to come to the School District through funding from the Beverly Hills Education Foundation. The program came out of conversation between BHEF CEO Devorah Hankin and Ms. Allen over her [...]
Changing the World One Gallon at a Time By Anne Korin & R. James Woolsey Turning Oil into Salt We must become independent—not just of imported oil, but of oil itself. A determined pack has begun to race its engines and to try to shoulder us off the road toward energy independence. [...]
Oil or no oil? That’s the question many car owners and most filmgoers asked themselves before they watched the documentary—FUEL. Afterwards however, there was no question in anyone’s mind the next step in our eco-evolution. In fact, at the packed FUEL screening at the Go Green Expo actors/environmentalists Peter Fonda and Mariel Hemmingway swore [...]
