Images The idea, hatched somewhere in the recesses of Knitting Factory founder Michael Dorf's mind after he made his own barrel of wine, seems simple enough: Create a space at the vortex where wine and music meet. There's more overlap than you might think.

Last night at a party in its SoHo loft, the Huffington Post's sister site 23/6 brought in President-Elect Barack Obama in style. Dorm-room style, but, hey, that's a style. The only thing missing was the bong water (though the occasional whiff of marijuana floated over the crowd).

Sending back a steak is simple. If it's burned, send it back. "I ordered rare, and this resembles something that should be stitched to the bottom of a wingtip." Send it back. Simple. But what about wine?

In these tough economic times, it seems that any news story (no matter what it's about) begins with the phrase "In these tough economic times." It started with vacation and travel pieces. "Paying more at the pump" became a prerequisite for any story about family summer vacations. became a prerequisite for any story about family summer vacations. Now. since the credit crisis, just about anything is fare game.

It can't all be sipping Bellinis at Nello with skeletal social X-rays who look like a sprig of frisee will send them straight to the vomitorium. There are some enticing options for red-meat eaters out East, too. Everyone has ideas about what makes a good burger. Here are ours.

Lucy Browne's on Varick ( flipped from Steak Frites) officially opens today after an opening party last night that rechristened the "wholesome American" restaurant born of that Francophile factory (on Bastille Day, no less). And the early word is ... confusion. It's got an oyster Po' Boy, so it's New Orleans grub, right?

Let's recap: A black president-elect, a caribou-cooking loose cannon female governor seemingly marshaling her reserves for 2012, a potential Clinton cabinet appointment (the better half) or 2012 run, and a nation seemingly obsessed with the fact that its first lady-elect chose to wear a dress with a splash of red on election night.

When some people see cars stuck in rushing water at the intersection of Highways 121 and 12 in Schellville after a heavy rain, they simply roll their eyes.

Later this month, the first of four new advanced “atmospheric river observatories” will be installed on the Sonoma Coast and should begin collecting data that will give agencies up...

If you’ve ever seen the short work a flock of turkeys can make of a row of grapes, you’d have no question why their “gobble-gobble” noises have become onomatopoetically...

Over the last week, skittish grape growers have expressed the same mix of joy and trepidation you might expect from any parents with an early arrival. The first signs of bud break last week heralded an early start to the 2013 grapegrowing season in Sonoma Valley. In some places in Carneros, the buds on early ripening varieties such as chardonnay swelled and leafy green shoots began unfurling as much as even a week before that.

Chances are you’ve seen plenty of smiles on the faces of grape growers all season long. To hear those who have been tending vines for decades in the Sonoma Valley tell it, this year has...

Many officials have nearly drowned in area water issues in the past, but not Krishna Kumar. If there’s one thing that people in Sonoma Valley agree on about the Valley of the Moon Water...