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Feel Like a Tramp

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] If you feel like a little tramp, consider Charlie Chaplin’s A Dog’s Life, screening as part of a silent triptych of moving pictures presented by the Sonoma Film Institute. As the top dog of the silent era, Chaplin’s depiction of a dog-day afternoon spent with a rescued mutt was the [...]
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Matinee Idyll: Indie Screening in Wine Country

Once upon a time, at some party or other in Hollywood, the host proudly showed off his expansive DVD collection, after claiming to have dumped his books to make space. “DVDs are the new novels,” he crowed proudly, unaware that he had offended not only this particular writer, but nearly everyone within earshot who [...]
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Gary Vaynerchuk: Wine’s Brand Man

Despite the media credentials I was granted, I somehow I managed to miss the Wine Bloggers Conference 08, hosted this October in Sonoma County’s Santa Rosa, California. No worries, the conference’s main attraction was video wine blogger and marketing guru Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibraryTV.com with whom I recently had a chat for FineLife Sonoma Magazine. Vaynerchuk [...]
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Merlove

Pour yourself of glass of your favorite oft-maligned varietal and enjoy this chat with Rudy McClain, producer-director of the pro-merlot documentary Merlove. The podcast was pulled from a recent broadcast of Mornings in Sonoma (KSVY 91.3 FM), which I co-host with Ken Brown (hence all the raucous laughter). They say that wine improves with age [...]
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Apocalypse How

A chat with Daily Show scribe Rob Kutner about his hilarious survival guide Apocalypse How: Turn the End-Times into the Best of Times! [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Visit the official site.
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Alan Rickman gets Bottle Shocked

As part of a new podcast series produced for the Arts Council of Sonoma County, dig on this chat about wine biz flick Bottle Shock with star Alan Rickman. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
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The Name/Fame Game

Neither a celebrity nor a baby, Daedalus Howell nonetheless chats up Neil Street of the Celebrity Baby Names Blog about names, fame and newborns. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
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Spitznagel Tapes Vol. 2

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away – Chicago of the mid-90s – author Eric Spitznagel was involved with a musical adaptation of Star Wars. Long thought lost, a recording of the show has resurfaced. In this episode, of the Daedalus Howell Show, the force is with Spitznagel as he shares highlights [...]
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Close, But No Cigar

The Daedalus Howell Show returns this week with a “close, but no cigar,” premise: Pete Best was the Beatles’ original drummer, but was replaced on the eve of their big break – Sonoma promoter Elizabeth MacDonald speaks about her friend then and now; Actor Perry King discusses his turn in the Class of 1984 (now [...]
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Change

This episode of the Daedalus Howell Show is in large part concerned with notions of “change.” First we discuss the man who put ch-ch-ch-changes in the rock and roll vocabulary — David Bowie, by way of author Dave Thompson’s wonderful new biography “Hallo Spaceboy, the rebirth of David Bowie” now available in bookstores everywhere. My [...]
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