Thu, Apr 27 2006

Time to take the wine off the highway

The May issue of Deb's Monthly Review is finally uploaded. You can reach it at the main page. If you're reading this post after Late May, you can find it in its archived location. The number of festivals seems to peak in May, particularly with the arrival of Memorial Day weekend, which is still considered the official start of tourist and vacation season.

I mentioned last year that the local community of Boulder Creek was having some very serious issues over the wine tasting portion of the Art, Wine and Music Festival. Folks have been routinely wandering up and down State Highway 9, enjoying sips of the vine as they took in the rest of the festival events. They were told to work on a solution, but this year it seems some folks are still not seeing the importance of keeping wine drinkers off the highway. I can't imagine how, with a whole year to plan, such a clever lot of people who put together a wonderful fundraiser like this one would be so stumped as to how to make this work in their favor. The wine tasting area could be dressed with local designer touches, oozing with wonderful live music and maybe even have a celebrity host or two mingling with tasters and even doing the pouring. I happen to know that Boulder Creek is not only a community of artists and winemakers, but a community of high tech specialists who commute to nearby Silicon Valley on a daily basis and know all about turning a bug into a feature. If the portion of organizers who are thinking negatively turn their minds in a slightly different direction, I'm betting they'll be able to make the festival one of the best ever. But they only have about a month to get with the program. It's time to turn the focus from whine to wine.

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