Valentine's Day is for love, regardless of who or what you love. Benicia restaurants offer many choices and special menus to celebrate this romantic holiday. Once you make your restaurant selection, you have only to choose your menu items and…
What does writing have to do with chocolate, you ask? And what does Valentine's Day have to do with one of our favorite treats? It's not a coincidence that many millennial authors have replaced alcohol with chocolate as their go…
Benician citizens were indeed lucky when Venticello’s Ristorante Italiano opened its doors in 2004, serving homemade pasta dishes, superb Italian specialties like saltimbocca, salmon verde, and fruitti di mare, and delightful dessert creations including tiramisu, crème brulee, and a surprisingly…
After the excesses of the holidays become apparent in our waistlines and our general lack of vigor, many people with a sigh and a shrug, reluctantly start on diets. ‘Tis the season to turn over a new leaf, make changes…
Benicia Chef, Julie Tan, joins the ranks of Chef Julia Child in receiving a medal rarer than a Three Star Michelin award, The Careme Medal. Chef Dame Julie Tan received the prestigious Chef Careme award given by the American Culinary…
It’s January, the kids are back in school, your mother in law has been shipped back to Florida, and you're back to your usual 7:30 AM commute. You’ve made a promise to yourself to try that new kick-boxing class. …
This popular event offers a special traditional tea, costumed elves and Teddy himself. Storytelling is done by Dickens dressed former Mayor Jerry Hayes, Christmas carols are sung and a special visitor from the North Pole round out the festive activities.…
“Feminizing Permanence” features forty historical and contemporary artworks by forty women artists from the Museum’s permanent collection. The recontextualized artworks explore a wide range of themes while collectively speaking to the underrepresentation of women artists in the permanent collections of museums across the country. The exhibition recognizes the contributions of women in the arts and their shared journey toward parity.
Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art (MoA) is an educational, nonprofit resource that acts on the belief that art illuminates our lives and creates a more humane world. The Museum offers free admissions and programs to all and is open to the public, Wednesday-Sunday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The Museum is closed the week of Easter, April 8-12, 2020.
As an art form, the American political poster through time has conveyed messages to millions of voters through the skillful use of visual communication. Explore rarely seen posters created in the last 168 years that showcase a variety of styles, design trends, and printing technology. “Sign of the Times” is a program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art (MoA) is an educational, nonprofit resource that acts on the belief that art illuminates our lives and creates a more humane world. The Museum offers free admissions and programs to all and is open to the public, Wednesday-Sunday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The Museum is closed the week of Easter, April 8 through 12, 2020.
Each plant has a story to tell. Each plant is not just a bundle of striving molecules like us, but a set of ideas-made-flesh, a library in bloom. In the exhibit The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography, Artist-in-Residence Becky Jaffe pairs her photographs of the UC Botanical Garden with books on ecology, evolutionary biology, and ethnobotany in a visual ode to Nature’s spellbinding storytelling. Join us for this special talk by the artist held in the Garden’s historic Julia Morgan Hall.
