It’s been more than two years since two Napa women were stabbed to death in the upstairs bedrooms of a west Napa home, and the court case against accused murderer Eric Copple is beginning to heat up.
The brutal stabbings of Adriane Insogna and Leslie Mazzara, both 26, in the early morning hours of Nov. 1, [...]
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One of the joys of my job is dealing with some of the different businesses in town. Some are small (like new doctors offices), and some are fairly huge (like some wineries). But it’s the unusual ones that really are nice. Case in point is Rob Struven and his Tattoo parlor Garage [...]
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I ran acrossed an article from the New York Times talking about an area in Canada that they considered a Napa of the North. What I have to chuckle at are what people interpretations of Napa is.
Down at Disneyland, Mondavi placed a Winery that actually does feel like something out of Napa… except there [...]
Clouds: Clear Skies
Temperature: 66°F
Wind: N at 28 mph gusting to 35 mph
It looks good until you notice the wind… that’s the current weather info right now (from my sidebar). The wind is so hard right now that it shredded my backyard “gazebo”. It was a canvas topped carport that fit our outdoor glass [...]
SFGate: Food & Dining: Bargain Bites
It’s been 10 years of bargain eating, and man, are we full — of good tips, that is.
When the Chronicle Food and Wine staff published the first Bargain Bites a decade ago, we scoured the Bay Area, looking for great restaurants with entrees costing $10 or less. Now, 10 years [...]
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Downtown’s Popularity Raises Demand on Parking
With a growing list of Zagat-rated restaurants (15), tasting rooms and performing arts venues, it’s no surprise that more people want to spend more time in downtown Napa. The upside of this renaissance is easy to see - more business opportunities, jobs, prospects for increased tax revenues to fund City [...]
Continue reading about Napa’s Redevelopment Agency sounds off
I went to the local Napa Town & Country Fair a lot this last weekend, at least more then normal. I am not into the animals that the Future Farmers of America raise and then show/sell at the fair. But the concerts this year was definately better then previous years. Smashmouth rocked [...]
It’s amazing that it took the local fair for me to go see Smash Mouth in concert. Not really a second string band, I was shocked to find that the local fair actually had a good band.
The Napa Valley Town and Country fair started yesterday, and I went for the first time tonight because [...]
The Male Intellect — an oxymoron
“‘The Male Intellect‘ is a crafty and thought-provoking concoction,” writes the Chicago Tribune about Robert Dubac’s hit one-man show, where the actor/writer ransacks his brain to answer the age-old question, “What do women want?”
Dubac’s performance pinpoints the differences between the sexes and then celebrates them with 90 minutes of non-stop [...]
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A description of Copple’s confession
Thursday, July 13, 2006 1:15 AM PDT
[Napa Valley Register Online]Editor’s note: Napa law enforcement officials say Eric Copple confessed to killing two young women in November 2004. The following is a portion of the transcript from the May 2006 preliminary hearing in the case. The questions are asked by Napa County [...]
