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...continued from p.2 Friends Jeff and Heather McGuire post-dinner at The Bistro, looking quite happy after thirteen years. (Congrats, you guys, it was really great to see you. Come up and visit soon!)
Jennifer Webb-Shabestari watched the kids for a couple hours at Bacara. (Thanks so much, great to meet you Jennifer!)
My wife threw me a damned surprise party. And it was genuinely surprising. It was also a blast. (I certainly had a blast, anyway, as everyone in attendance likely knows.) Not only were there lots of good friends old and new, there were lights strung up and hay bales all over our rustic yard. There was terrific food; Wendi had brought in Mike Escobar and the gang at California Wood Fired Catering (805.722.9792) to supply revelers with delicious artisan pizzas cooked right in the oven they towed into the yard. Mike brought in super fresh local ingredients – well, all except for the Italian flour they
use to make that magically light and crispy thin crust – and a few basil plants and other herbs straight from the garden. The pizzas are built to cook quickly in that mobile oven of pleasure, so they are constantly coming out fresh and delicious, topped with quality cheese and meat products that will blow your mind. But there was more than wonderful wood fired pizza being passed around. There were a couple kegs of Figueroa Mountain Hoppy Poppy and Davy Brown Ale. There was booze. There was wine. Etcetera. And, of course, there was music. I’ve written about The Kinsella Brothers Band before – I went to a great party last year up at El Cap for Austin and Nicole Herlihy’s seventh anniversary where they rocked the house all night (come to think
of it, I wrote about way back in Vol. 1, Issue 2… damn, we’ve been doing this a long time, Tim) – but feel the need to mention them again. If you don’t know these guys, go out and see them. (Every Friday at 10pm at the James Joyce, for example, and bring Brian a Jameson from me.) They are bad ass rock and roll musicians who play your favorite tunes in their own unbelievably cool way with style and some intensity, and we are lucky to have them in town. Brian Kinsella (vocals etc.), Rob Crocker (lead guitar and sax) and Matt Grover (aka Skippy, drums) played a sold out backyard dance party at my place and everybody loved them. Period. ...continued p.28
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Foley Wine Tasting Room Assistant manager Lila Brown was not only charming but super knowledgeable about Foley wine holdings. (Let’s talk about that tasting group soon, Lila, thanks again.)