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Events for November
From 11/01/2010 to 11/02/2010
Feng Shui Style with Billy Yamaguchi - November 2010
Billy Yamaguchi will be speaking and available for private appointments on November 1 and November 2.
As president and co-owner of Yamaguchi Enterprises, Billy Yamaguchi has developed a series of salons that offer unsurpassed services in luxurious settings. With California locations in Ventura, La Quinta Resort & Spa in La Quinta, La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, the new Four Seasons in Westlake Village, Rancho Las Palmas in Rancho Mirage, and the Del Coronado Hotel in Coronado Island, the salons truly exemplify the holistic principles that guide his vision of beauty. More than ten years ago, Billy began his study of Feng Shui and a quest to wed this philosophy to his training in the Western tradition of hair design. He soon discovered there was no existing method of integrating these disciplines and he devoted himself to combining the elements into an entirely innovative approach to beauty and harmony. He was the first to adapt Feng Shui techniques and products to the Beauty Industry.
From 11/12/2010 to 11/13/2010
Wine and Song with Hilary Hight Daw
Join us in November for French and Italian Wine and Song with special guest singer Hillary Hight Daw!
Friday June 4
Italian Wine and Song with Special Guest: Hillary Hight DawLearn the personal empowerment that comes from finding and releasing your true speaking/singing voice. Everyone has a powerful, beautiful voice just waiting to be released. Vocal performer and teacher Hillary Hight Daw guides this low-pressure, fun introduction into the joys and health benefits of vocal expression.
Saturday, June 5
French Wine and Song with Special Guest: Hillary Hight DawSinger and actress Hillary Hight Daw has performed in opera, theater, commercials, television and film. She was Professor of Voice at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta for over fifteen years, lived and worked in New York for five years and has recently relocated to San Francisco, where she is Visiting Scholar in Voice and Opera at San Francisco State University. Her recent appearances range from the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to an appearance on the hit television show Law and Order, SVU. Her solo CD, Americans in Paris, is available nationally. Having found her self when she found her voice, Hillary now specializes in helping others do the same.
From 11/15/2010 to 11/21/2010
The Culinary Experience: November 2010
Learn the secrets of preparing and enjoying deliciously healthy food and take part of the Lake Austin Spa Resort experience home with you! November's special guest chefs are Johnny Vee and Grace Young (pictured).
Monday, November, 15
Special Guest Chef: Johnny VeeChef John “Johnny Vee” Vollertsen is director and creator of the Las Cosas Cooking School in Santa Fe and Las Cruces, New Mexico. John’s career in the hospitality industry has taken him from New York, through Sydney, Australia, and finally Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has taught cooking for over 15 years and enjoys a second career in food writing as a regular columnist for Local Flavor Magazine and as Dining & Food Editor for The Santa Fean magazine.
John also hosts a Food Radio talk show called “Bits and Bites with Johnny Vee” on 1260 AM-KTRC. He regularly participates in food events around the country including a recent stint at the Palm Springs Modernism Week where he presented a seminar called, “Those Fabulous Foods of the 50’s and 60’s”. His first cookbook “Cooking with Johnny Vee” was published by Gibbs Smith Publishing in 2008.
Saturday, November 20
Special Guest Chef from New York City: Grace YoungGrace Young is the author of Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge to be published May 2010. Young’s cookbooks, including The Breath of a Wok, have won numerous awards. Young's first book, The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen, won the IACP International Cookbook Award. It was an IACP Julia Child First Cookbook Finalist and a James Beard International Cookbook Finalist.
Young has been featured in The New York Times, All Things Considered, and on CBS Sunday Morning. She is a consulting editor for Saveur magazine and her work has appeared in Saveur, Bon Appétit, and Food & Wine. She has lectured at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, New York University, Culinary Institute of America Greystone, and the French Culinary Institute in New York City. For 17 years, Young was the Test Kitchen Director and Director of Food Photography for over forty cookbooks published by Time-Life Books before launching her career as an author.
11/27/2010
For the Love of Books Club: Book Lover's Chat with Spike Gillespie
Join us each month for a wine and cheese book chat as we host great guest authors in a lively discussion about all things literary and not so literary. Authors and guests have fun discussing the writing process, exchanging titles, sharing informal book reviews and debating about wireless reading devices!Saturday, November 27
Book Lover’s Chat with Guest Author: Spike Gillespie
Book clubs took off back when Oprah started putting her stamp of approval on favorite selections. Whether you belong to a club or just are passionate about reading on your own, come celebrate books with local author Spike Gillespie. Spike will share thoughts on favorite reads, discuss new ways of
reading - from Kindles to audiobooks - and offer true confessions about some delicious, less-than-literary offerings (vampire romances, anyone?).
