Napa Insider

Napa's Ever-Changing Restaurant Row

Columnist: Louisa Hufstader
Dec, 2008 Issue

Main Street’s “haunted house” still awaits a tenant, while Pilar restaurant won’t reopen.

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Traveling Near and Far

Columnist: Louisa Hufstader
Nov, 2008 Issue

Having majored in English at what some are pleased to call The World’s Greatest University, I have quite a number of words in my vocabulary. But when called upon to describe the departure of Dey Laboratories from Napa, I can only summon a term I already knew freshman year: It stinks. Redolantly (OK, Dad?).

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New Leadership Brightens Outlook for the Arts

Columnist: Louisa Hufstader
Special Wine Issue, Oct, 2008

With new directors on the job, things are starting to look a little more promising at two Napa Valley arts institutions that, many observers had believed, were preparing to circle the bowl.

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Visitors Boost Bottom Line—But Workers Need Homes

Columnist: Louisa Hufstader
Oct, 2008 Issue

Some Napans like to grumble that the city is approving too many hotel and resort developments. Take care of the locals first, they say, as if it were an either/or proposition.

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