Christmas Dinner Wine Tasting
And Sale
30% 0r more off every bottle in stock
Wine sale ends on 1-1-10


Happy Holidays to all of our friends out there. We want to make sure everyone has a good bottle of wine on thier table for Christmas Dinner this Year. So we have extended our wine sale and put together a special wine tasting to pair up with your Christmas fare.
Wine Tasting for Wednesday 12-23
Rancho Sisquoc- 2007 Sylvaner Santa Barbara
Originally discovered in Austria, Sylvaner is the French name for this eastern European variety known in Germany as Silvaner. Within France's Alsace Region, it was until recently, the most widely planted grape varietal. Although not nearly as perfumed or sweet as Riesling or Gewurztraminer, the other key varietals grown in the Alsace Region, this wonderful wine exhibits luscious pear and fig flavors with an aromatic nose.
Rancho Sisquoc Sylvaner is blended with 15% Riesling and is a delightfully clean and crisp wine with a lingering sweetness of spice and mineral. If you have never heard of Sylvaner before, it is probably because Rancho Sisquoc is currently the only winery in California producing this unique wine.
Open the bottle and enjoy a glass, then refrigerate the rest of the bottle, occasionally sampling it to experience how the fruits come to life as the wine oxidizes over 24 to 48 hours. $16 Bottle

Foxglove- 2008 Chardonnay Central Coast
91 points and the top scored wine in Robert Parker's Wine Advocate "Fifty Super Domestic Wine Values:" "The sensational 2008 Chardonnay Central Coast, which is fermented and aged completely in stainless steel with no malolactic fermentation, is a 30,000-cuvee of fabulous Chardonnay. Loads of tropical fruit, honeysuckle, and orange blossom notes fill the olfactory sense, as does the luscious medium-bodied texture on the palate. The wine is buttressed by crisp underlying acidity, and the result is a fresh, naked expression of Chardonnay that is top-flight. Drink it over the next year or so. These are absolutely spectacular bargains from the very high-quality Varner Winery in the Santa Cruz Mountains. They are true winners.". It sees no malolactic fermentation or oak, allowing the wine's mineral streak to shine through. Unbelievably good at this or any price! $19 Bottle

Cambria-2006 Julias Vineyard Pinot Noir
Get this while it lasts, one on the best deals we have seen in the past year.
This is the best Pinot Noir at this price on the market. Easily. It's picture-perfect cool climate, absolutely dry and silky, with complex flavors of cherries, Mandarin orange, cola, pomegranates, licorice and cinnamon spice, made even richer by smoky oak. Just lovely, and gets even better as it breathes in the glass."
93 Points Wine Enthusiast

$21 Bottle

Limerick Lane -2005 Collins Vineyard Russian River
Zinfandel makes up 90% of Limerick Lane's production, which gives this winery plenty of practice at creating great wine vintage after vintage. The 2005 Limerick Lane "Collins Vineyard" Zinfandel exemplifies that. A ruby-hued wine, the Collins balances raspberry and current fruit with oaky sweetness like a gymnast. Rich without being overwhelming, this juicy wine has a kick of white and black pepper spice on the finish and it's remarkably food-friendly.
$25 Bottle


We at DBA want to thank all of our firends out thier for your support and patronage over the past year. We have some exiting events coming up over the next two weeks and we hope to see all of you to celebrate the coming of the new year. Best wishes and happy holiays to all.

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POMONA NOW: Pomona Christmas Parade will go on rain or shine
Experts say El Ni o will bring us a wet winter, spring
Gallery marks 10 years in Pomona Arts Colony

Rain or shine, the Pomona Christmas Parade will make its way this morning through the city's downtown.
The parade will begin at Second and Gibbs streets, travel west on Second, turn south on Park Avenue and conclude at Eighth Street and Park.

The following street closures will be in effect from 9:30 a.m. to noon.

- Mission Boulevard between White and Garey avenues.

- Garey Avenue from Mission to Monterey Avenue.

- Second Street between Gibbs Street and Park.

- Park from Second to Eighth.

monica.rodriguez@inlandnewspapers.com

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PEDERSEN projects opens on December 12th with FROM THE CITY – introducing local artist Tyoni Aragon and featuring internationally recognized artists Shepard Fairey, Robert Cottingham, Jeff Brouws and others.

Open house / reception is in conjunction with Pomona’s Second Saturday Art Walk from 6 – 10:00pm. Catered by SAFFRON Fine Dining and Catering

Where to Park

Happiest of Holidays from
Pomona Heritage

As the holidays approach, we at Pomona Heritage want to wish all of you the best of the season and hope that your New Year is bright.

Calling All Volunteers


Help Needed for

On Saturday, Dec. 12, the city of Pomona Community Services Department will be holding its Pomona Holiday at the Plaza
12:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Civic Center Plaza, 505 South Garey Avenue.
Loads of activities and family fun.

We are co-sponsoring a booth with our sister organization, the Historical Society of the Pomona Valley and need a few sturdy souls to help children build small booklets of some of the historical figures of Pomona. You can help kids, learn some Pomona history, and have a good time. Please email president@pomonaheritage.org if you have some time to help.

Thank you!


Pomona Christmas Parade,
Saturday, Dec. 12

Its been over 40 years since the parade marched down Second Street, but now it's back. This year's parade promises to be full of fun and excitement with bands, floats, horses, drill teams, classic cars, low riders, service groups, businesses, and more. The theme this year
is "The Colors of Christmas". The Grand Marshal(s) are students from Village Academy High School who met with President Obama last fall.

Pomona Heritage will be represented along with floats and units from Fairplex, Historical Society, Pomona's Art Colony, Pomona's Opera Company, Freinds of the Pomona Fox, a Gospel Choir, Cal Poly, the Vietnamese Community, local churches, Pomona's Cultural Arts Commission, just to name a few. Of course Santa Claus will be there, this year he's bringing Mrs. Claus with him.

We thank Robert Rodarte for volunteering his antique automobile and hope that all of you will line Second Street to help cheer us on at the parade.

$5,000 In Preservation Grants Awarded
At Annual Dinner

The annual Christmas Progressive Dinner saw the awarding of $5,000 in grants to 8 deserving projects. This year's grant receipients were:

Eric Shen who received $2,500, the largest cash prize given
Brent & Megan Jones who received $750
Janet Singleton who received $750
Denise Rawlings who received $500
Jeremy Busacca and emily Acevedo who received $200
Debb Huffey, Karen Escobedo, and Beatrice Savida who each received $100.
Congratulations to all the grant recipients. Pomona Heritage is proud to have been able to help you, in some small way, to preserve your great old homes.

The Pomona Heritage Grant Program is open to anyone in the city of Pomona and awards grants for restoration/preservation projects on homes at least 55 years old. Applications for next year's grant program will be available starting in April, 2010 at the Restoration Workshop.

And thank you to everyone who joined us in our annual holiday celebration!

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Council looking at permit
Angelo's Pizzeria accused of ignoring deal
Monica Rodriguez, Staff Writer for the Daily Bulletin

POMONA - Angelo's Pizzeria will be the subject of an evidentiary hearing next month.
The City Council this week decided to schedule the hearing for 5 p.m. Jan. 25 in City Hall after receiving a staff report that the establishment's owner has failed to meet a number of requirements he agreed to abide by in October.

After listening to witnesses for the city and for the business owner, the council will decide if it should modify, suspend or revoke Angelo's modified conditional-use permit.

City representatives and Jason Abboud, the owner of the business at 135 E. Second St., reached a deal in October on a modified conditional-use permit.

The council approved the permit on Oct. 19. Council members also decided to revisit the matter this month, 60 days after the modified permit was approved.

Abboud had 11 requirements to meet within time spans as short as five days and as long as 30 days, the staff report said.

Among the requirements the report says he has not complied with are:

Signing and submitting a certificate of compliance that says he understands the conditions of approval set in the modified permit.

Apply for an entertainment permit, which must be renewed annually. The application must include seating arrangements and floor plans.

Upgrading lighting at the front and rear entrances.

Meeting with police monthly.

As of Monday night, Abboud had complied with one requirement, said
Mark Lazzaretto, the city's community development director.
Abboud had 15 days to remove a stage and obtain a permit for another the city allowed to remain. Lazzaretto said that permit was taken out Monday - about a month late.

Roger Jon Diamond, Abboud's lawyer as of Monday, said Tuesday he is seeking to have two conditions set in October reversed.

The conditions are "the most onerous," Diamond said.

One calls for prohibiting admission to people under age 21 after 10 p.m.

The other condition Diamond seeks to have reversed is the hour of closing. Angelo's must close at 2 a.m., but others establishments are allowed to remain open until 4 a.m.

"They set a hearing but we also want a hearing," Diamond said.

People ages 18 to 20 should be able to go to Angelo's, Diamond said.

"It's really a terrible situation," Diamond said, adding that such regulations impose a huge burden on his client.

"We have to see why the city is putting the screws" to Abboud, Diamond said. "We're talking about a legitimate business, an Italian pizzeria."

Diamond said his client has run his business responsibly and that allegations of disturbances are out of place because they didn't occur at Angelo's.

The city can only object to one thing, he said.

"The only quibble is he pulled permits late," Diamond said.

But that's not how city officials see it.

Angelo's began drawing the city's attention after it was granted a conditional-use permit in 2007 to serve alcohol and have entertainment.

As time passed, the business drew complaints that it was attracting crowds that exceeded its capacity and that there were fights that required the response of more than a dozen police officers.

Pomona representatives brought the city's concerns to Abboud's attention this year. Negotiations to address the matters started in June.

The staff report said the restaurant no longer has a nightclub environment.

Abboud said at the meeting that the conditions he is required to work under are making it hard for him to draw customers and have cost him tens of thousands of dollars.

Councilwoman Paula Lantz, who made the motion to proceed with a hearing, said Tuesday she did so based on the list of requirements Abboud has not met.

"That to me is symptomatic of the problems we have had over the last year or two," she said.

It took a year and a half of pressing the security concerns before Abboud made changes, Lantz said.

Now he is not complying with other requirements he agreed to, even though he was given the time and reminded he had to comply, she said.

"The idea was, if we give him a couple of months he'll come around," she said. "I'm not sure he's interested in coming around."

Instead the message that is coming across is that Abboud has no desire to comply with the agreement and is demonstrating "disregard and disrespect for the rules he has agreed to abide by," Lantz said.

Parade, and former grand marshal, return
David Allen, Staff Writer for the Daily Bulletin

MY CHOICE as the grand marshal of the 2007 Pomona Christmas Parade was so momentous, the parade had to take 2008 off to recover.
Either that or my selection doomed the parade. In 2008, in any event, there was no event. The Jaycees, the longtime sponsors, were barely functioning and couldn't raise the dough.

But the parade returns Saturday for its 61st edition in its 62 years of life.

And for the first time since the 1970s, the parade will occur downtown, where it began in 1948, rather than on East Holt Avenue.

Holt is nice and wide, but my feeling is it's too wide for a good parade, besides its, um, aesthetic issues. For some, though, the parade has always been on Holt.

"We've had resistance from the status quo," admitted Larry Egan. He heads the Downtown Pomona Owner's Association, the business improvement group sponsoring the parade.

The route through downtown will have its challenges because Second Street is a mere 24 feet wide, but Egan says the parade will make up in ambiance what it loses in maneuverability.

Downtown is looking forward to its closeup.

"There are people in this city who haven't been downtown since Buffum's was here," Egan said, referring to the store that closed in 1991. "We want to show off how safe the downtown is, how vibrant it's becoming. This is a great public relations tool for us."

Beginning at 10 a.m., the parade will trundle west on Second Street from Gibbs Street
to Park Avenue, head south on Park to Eighth Street and then east to the Civic Center, where more holiday festivities are planned until 4 p.m.
That evening brings the monthly Art Walk, more downtown fun, at the nearly 40 galleries.

As of Monday, the parade had 105 entries, more than in 2007, and will feature more than 1,700 people: marching bands, service clubs, veterans, Boy and Girl Scouts, vintage cars, floats, martial arts studios, Mr. and Mrs. Claus, even an opera troupe.

To break any lingering jinx, you'll also find a certain newspaper columnist in the parade.

There was talk of making me grand marshal again, but apparently the parallels with 2007 were too frightening. No point in thumbing our noses at the parade gods.

Kibitzing, I suggested the Village Academy students and their teacher, whose video persuaded President Barack Obama to visit Pomona. They'll be grand marshal.

But I'm in parade. As of Monday, I'm entry No. 53.

"You're just ahead of Richard Martinez" - superintendent of Pomona Unified - "and just behind the Pomona Steelers Cheer Squad," Egan informed me. "But that could change."

If you see me, wave.

EXHIBIT SCHEDULE 2010

JANUARY 9TH – 30TH Opening Reception Jan. 9, 6pm to 10pm

The New Traditionalists

Athena Hahn, Gina Stepaniuk, Joy McAllister, Leslie Brown, Susan Joseph, Yolanda Gonzalez

(front gallery)

In Front of the Real Thing

Collaboration with The Pomona College Museum of Art

(Joan Weldon Gallery)

*Grand Re-opening of the dA Gift Store



FEBRUARY 13TH – 27th Opening Reception Feb. 13, 6pm to 10pm

Simply Wed

Group art show, open call for artists



MARCH 13TH – 27th Opening Reception March 13, 6pm to 10pm

Community

Group art show curated by Sally Egan

(front gallery)

Rich Caughman

March 13th to 27th

(Joan Weldon Gallery)



APRIL 10th – 24th Opening Reception April 10, 6pm to 10pm

The Leak of Contemporary Artists II

CGU Student Show

(front gallery)

*In April the Joan Weldon Gallery will open as a multi-purpose space, for classes, workshops, community art projects, performance art, etc.



MAY 8TH – 29TH Opening Reception May 8, 6pm to 10pm

Emerging Artists III

PUSD Students (front gallery)

*Promona II

EXHIBIT SCHEDULE 2010

JANUARY 9TH – 30TH Opening Reception Jan. 9, 6pm to 10pm

The New Traditionalists

Athena Hahn, Gina Stepaniuk, Joy McAllister, Leslie Brown, Susan Joseph, Yolanda Gonzalez

(front gallery)

In Front of the Real Thing

Collaboration with The Pomona College Museum of Art

(Joan Weldon Gallery)

*Grand Re-opening of the dA Gift Store



FEBRUARY 13TH – 27th Opening Reception Feb. 13, 6pm to 10pm

Simply Wed

Group art show, open call for artists



MARCH 13TH – 27th Opening Reception March 13, 6pm to 10pm

Community

Group art show curated by Sally Egan

(front gallery)

Rich Caughman

March 13th to 27th

(Joan Weldon Gallery)



APRIL 10th – 24th Opening Reception April 10, 6pm to 10pm

The Leak of Contemporary Artists II

CGU Student Show

(front gallery)

*In April the Joan Weldon Gallery will open as a multi-purpose space, for classes, workshops, community art projects, performance art, etc.



MAY 8TH – 29TH Opening Reception May 8, 6pm to 10pm

Emerging Artists III

PUSD Students (front gallery)

*Promona II

Good Day for Pictures

Under the Tree

The blue Core Gallery
558 W. 2nd Street.
Pomona ca.

Come eat drink and be merry and buy some art see you there.