R&B icon launches wine brand

Saturday update The “lowdown” on Boz Scaggs these days has as much to do with wine as it does with music.

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Welcome to the beginning of the new cultural arts season. The arts community has gotten a good jump-start with superb shows already up and new ones on the horizon.

24 Hours: Alister Davis

Alister Davis is the owner-operator of Plantarama, the wholesale nursery and garden centre he established 43 years ago. The business covers about eight hectares of land and employs seven staff.

Top Picks: Home show in town

Explore new ideas in home remodeling, landscaping and garden care at the three-day California State Home & Garden Show, opening Friday at the Sacramento Convention Center.

As summer fades, garden work shifts to planning for next spring

Starting a flower garden, I've discovered, is hard work. There's the tilling and the composting and the planting and the mulching and the weeding and the pruning and the watering and the warding off of deer, woodchuck, moles, beetles and mildew.