-
Bien Nacido, elite California vineyard
Washington Post
Nicholas Miller seemed reluctant to extol the virtues of Bien Nacido Vineyards as he drove me around the property his family has farmed for four decades in California's northern Santa Barbara County. I was there to write about...
-
Cooking fries? Cleaning hospitals? Executives reflect on their first job
CNN
Decades before becoming president of McDonald's USA, Jan Fields cooked French fries at one of the fast-food franchise's restaurants.Her recollections of being a McDonald's crew worker in 1977 were hardly glamorous. Fields was a 22-year-old mother on a...
-
Madonna, Warhol Flop, Heroin Death Color Basquiat Documentary
Bloomberg
July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Even before Jean-Michel Basquiat died of a heroin overdose at 27, his friends began selling the paintings he’d given them, cashing in on his meteoritic success. “Jean-Michel was really upset with that,” said Tamra...
-
New Sarah Palin book cover revealed
USA Today
The cover photo for Sarah Palin's new book is a portrait in red, white, blue and gray. The Alaska ex-governor and former Republican vice presidential candidate is photographed in close-up, wearing a gray sweater and American flag pin,...
-
Spirits preview of products is most promising
Washington Post
NEW ORLEANS -- There is something about Tales of the Cocktail, the huge spirits industry conference that has been held here every July for eight years, that leads one to make epic pronouncements about booze. Take, for instance,...
-
Engineering grad returns to Mexico, now waits to become legal
CNN
Oscar Vazquez will likely read this story. He has the internet. He has a television, too. Then, he'll go off to work at a car parts factory.He buries himself in work in this small Mexican town to keep...
-
Bo Derek of ’Bolero,’ Dubai Ruler Honored for Protecting Horses
Bloomberg
July 29 (Bloomberg) -- When Bo Derek rode a horse in the 1984 movie “Bolero” without the encumbrance of clothing, some viewers may not have realized the extent of her equine attachment. “I was born horse-crazy like so...
-
'World of Tomorrow': A fair but not high-flying history
USA Today
In Twilight at the World of Tomorrow, James Mauro probes political, personal, societal and financial factors that meshed and sometimes collided to create New York's 1939 World's Fair. But the subtitle, Genius, Madness, Murder and the 1939 World's...
-
Boyfriend is moving to town -- I'm scared
CNN
Dear Wendy:I'm 28 and my boyfriend is 27 and he and I were dating for about 1 and a ½ years when I decided to move across the country. It was something I'd always wanted to do before...
Fluent News
Lifestyle
For faster browsing and content offline, download the Fluent News App