More information can be found at including a downloadable PDF map of wineries and contact information.īut if you want to squeeze in a wine tasting adventure with friends without making an entire day commitment and travel two hours one way to do so- or pair it with other activities such as guests are now doing that visit Great Wolf Lodge - Delicato is an option that’s just a short drive away. There are more than enough wineries in the Lodi area per se that can make a day excursion with friends to make repeat visits to the northern end of San Joaquin County doable with a different option each time. Altogether, San Joaquin County has nearly 90 wineries with the vast majority in the Lodi area.

Wines & Roses in Lodi is a comparably affordable getaway with elegant rooms, top-notch space, fine food and wines plus it is next door to the Lodi Wine & Visitor Center. New episodes every Thursday, from Symphony Space. Selected Shorts connects you to the world with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater, and comedy. The site itself has a lot more to offer, from music and film to theatre and dance.What San Joaquin County doesn’t share with the Napa Valley is a reputation as a tourist Mecca with $300 spa treatments and $250 mud baths and top-tier dining although Ernie’s Fine Dining and Spirits in Manteca is impressive enough it draws clientele from San Francisco while Lodi’s wineries can hold their own for wine tasting. Description Our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time. It opens up a whole new world of literature, and the readers have a unique way of bringing the stories and characters to life. It’s called PRI: Selected Shorts Podcast. Luckily for you and me, the Selected Shorts audio programmes are available online as podcasts. The show is hosted by Isaiah Sheffer, the Founding Artistic Director of Symphony Space, a renowned performing arts center on Broadway. The readings, made at New York’s Symphony Space and on tour around the US, are recorded live and broadcast on public radio stations. The folks at Symphony Space invite actors from stage, screen and television to read classic and new short fiction. Here’s a site that takes a novel take on short stories. It’s not about the length of the story, but about the reading experience – you can move into different creative worlds in a shorter space of time. I am always drawn to how writers are able to take a single plot or incident and fashion it into a storyline with a few characters, and to the necessity of resolving a conflict within a given space of dramatic structure. Selected Shorts is an event at New Yorks Symphony Space on the Upper West Side, in which screen and stage actors read classic and new short fiction before a live audience.

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