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Joe’s Featured Wine: Vina Robles Syrée Cuvée, Paso Robles, California 2007
$38.99 at Crush Wine & Spirits in Arkansas (AR) 92 points – Wine Enthusiast 79% Syrah / 21% Petite Sirah

Joe’s Featured Wine: Imagery Estate Winery Pinot Noir, California 2018
$15.99 at Crush Wine & Spirits in Bryant, Arkansas (AR) 92 points – Tasting Panel Almost entirely Pinot Noir with

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

Carol Channing 1921-2019
With the passing this week of a legend of the theater stage, Carol Channing, at the age of 97, a

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

Carnevale in Venice 2003
This year I decided to visit Venice with some friends during Carnival, known as Carnevale di Venezia. I stayed at

The Pursuit and Quagmire of Obtaining an Italian Drivers License
Probably the most convoluted and annoying Italian bureaucratic headache I’ve experienced so far was the process of obtaining my Italian