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Joe’s Featured Wine: Flora Springs Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley 2013
$43.99 at Crush Wine & Spirits in Bryant, Arkansas (AR) 91 points – Wine Enthusiast 88% Cabernet Sauvignon / 7%

Joe’s Wine of the Week: Lyeth Estate Meritage, Sonoma County 2012
Lyeth Estate Meritage Red Wine, Sonoma County, California 2012 $22.99 at Crush Wine & Spirits in Bryant, Arkansas 57% Merlot

A Tennis Legend: An Interview with Adriano Panatta
Adriano Panatta was one of the most talented and dynamic tennis players in the history of the game. In the

The Rome Film Festival Debut 2006
Reporting to you all this week from the press room at the Cinema Festa Internazionale di Roma running from Friday

Margot Fonteyn: Celebrating the Life of the Last Great Ballerina
“A bird of beautiful plumage taking pleasure and exulting in its wings.” — British poet Sacheverell Sitwell’s description of Margot

Locked in Lucca
One weekend in October last year, I decided to visit Lucca. I thought I was long over due to visit

It’s Not Supposed to Snow in Tuscany!
No-no-no-no! This was not in the guidebook. This isn’t supposed to happen in Tuscany, but I kid you not. Snow