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Show Page B4 Thursday, October 41, 1982 The Newspaper IQmball intern works on second career grtww..- October Specials Monday thru Thursday Rent a VCR and 2 Movies $10.95 Members $8.9$ New In Store! Jane Fonda's Workout Tape VHS&BETA Fri., Sat. & Sun. Rent 4 movies for the price of 31 Open Mem. thru Thurs. 9- V) a.m. -7:30p.m., Fri.&Sat., 9:00 a.m. -9:00 p.m., Sunday, 12 noon to 6 p.m. 205i Prospector Ave. behind the Grub Steak Restaurant and State Liquor Store. When she lived in Chicago, Kay Dougherty taught an inner-city English class. The students, she recalled, were "one-third black, one-third Latino, and one-third off the boat from Poland." It was the kind of class, she said, where English is taught as a foreign language. "We did 'West Side Story' instead of 'Romeo and Juliet'," she said. After that, anything else would be anticlimactic. But Kay seems happy in a new career, journalism. She's a public relations intern this fall at the Kimball Art Center. Kay has lived in Utah for 15 months. Her husband came to Salt Lake as a career move, but there were other reasons. "He likes skiing and backpacking, and so do I," she said. (She also has the chance now to learn downhill skiing, she said.) She went through career counseling this year at the University of Utah, and her three top interests were public administration, law, and journalism. No more teaching for her. "A few people wondered, 'What's the matter with you, lady?'" she said. "But most have been sympathetic." After taking a basic reporting re-porting course this summer, she applied for the Kimball intern job. She's interested in public relations, she said, because a job in that field will allow her to stay closer to home. Utah is slower paced than her old Chicago home. It's outdoors, Chicago is indoors, she said. Both places have their virtues. There are just different things happening, she said. Kay came out of the same inner-city Polish neighbor hood that fostered columnist Mike Royko, her favorite writer. For the last nine years, however, she lived in the suburb of Bolingbrook with her husband and two children. She is a political animal. "I was set to run for school board before we moved," Kay recalled. She takes an activist attitude toward the growing Sandy community where she now lives. Her pipe-dream, she said, would be to start a newspaper there, to stop what she calls an apathy problem. "There's no sense of communication. com-munication. It took me five phone calls around town to find what voting district I was in," she said. From Sandy to the University Univer-sity to Park City, Kay Dougherty may be new to Utah, but her activities already span the map. F A R R E LL R. CQLLETT premier Utah artist in oils and watercolors r 1. '... '" is .," . J Point, Counterpoint STAN ROBERTS Raku ceramics Open weekdays except Mondays 10 to 6 p.m. Sundays 12 to 6 p.m. 614 Main Street 3rd Floor Park City, Utah 649-6624 Exhibits run through October 31 oto tOUDU Saliva Sisters to appear at Big Band Night i I I J' :'"'' '''s1 I The 1940s return to the Kimball Art Center with the Joe Muscolino Big Band on Big Band Night, Friday, Oct. 15. The eight-piece Joe Muscolino Musco-lino Big Band, featuring Rebecca Terry, will play many Glenn Miller numbers, other 40s classics and its own big-band renditions of current cur-rent tunes. The Saliva Sisters will also appear. The trio mimics the Andrew Sisters and other famous female vocalists. The group was last seen in Park City at the Park City Art Festival. The Arthur Murray Dance Studios will give a dance demonstration to be followed by a swing dance contest. First prize will be airline tickets and a week's lodging in Acapulco donated by Western Airlines and Marriott Mar-riott Hotels. Second prize is a champagne weekend at the Salt Lake City Hilton. Third prize is a dinner for two at Park City Claimjumper, compliments of Lloyd Stevens. The music begins at 8 p.m. ; the dance contest will be held at 11:30 p.m. Admission is $5 for Kimball Art Center members, $7 for nonmembers. The entry fee for the dance contest is $5 per person. Light hors d'oeuvres will be provided. Set ups and beer will be available. Space is limited, so reservations should be made well in advance. For information, call 649-8882. Don't be caught unprepared JUDY M. KIMBALL HANLEY Agent No. 202 Silver King Bank Bldg. Park City, Utah 84060 Bus. 649-8656, Res. 649-7607 AUTO FIRE LIFE COMMERCIAL k 32 5 m (.' ilt f,f inw m m mi ; iff, m A . v . , 4 inmii ' iiniiiniiiirt iiwi i 'fliir i i i Silver King Inn Condominiums, opening this fall, Phase I, 44 units, 28 remain available avail-able for sale. Studio, 671 square feet; one bedroom, 993 square feet; two bedroom, bed-room, 1314 square feet; and penthouse units, 2258 square feet. Furnished units. inquire: ranc uty Land Lo., BUl-b4y-JbUU. rv, r: i j LAND COMFftNY "Not only will it be a treat to have Joe Muscolino's Big Band in conjunction with the Utah Rural Arts Consortium, it will be an added pleasure to have the nightclub atmosphere atmos-phere and to be able to dance to all that great music," said Raye Ringholz, Big Band Night committee chairwoman. The committee was responsible re-sponsible for acquiring sponsorships spon-sorships to underwrite all the expenses of Big Band Night. All admissions will go toward the Kimball Art Center, according to Ringholz. Ring-holz. The committee also arranged for the dance demonstration and the donation dona-tion of the dance contest prizes. The Big Band Night committee includes Jill Johnson, Lisa Warr, Ruby Robinson, Marge Sowards, JoAnn Krajeski and Sandra Sharp. Because the Utah Rural Art Consortium is one of the event's sponsors, the Joe Muscolino Big Band will also perform for the Treasure Mountain Middle School on Friday from 1:45 until 2:30 p.m. Kay Dougherty Book Fair to benefit Egyptian Book lovers' alert: this Friday and Saturday the Egyptian Theatre in cooperation with Dolly's and Sam Weller bookstores will host the first annual Egyptian Book Fair. With hundreds of titles to choose from, there will be books for every age and interest. Hardback best-seller titles will be combined with paperback self-help books as part of the huge selection of new books for sale. There will be special "coffee table" art books, Wild West books and of course, glossy theatre books. If you are in need of a new menu, there will be plenty of cookbooks to choose from, including T.T. Tillie's own local cookbook. There will be a series of new, choose-your-own-adventure books, for children along with the past Newberry winners for youth. New parents and parents of teenagers will find an entire en-tire section of the best new and old titles in parenting books. Those who fancy craftier titles will find a number num-ber of new books on crafts to make at home. There will even be a selection of inspirational books. The Book Fair is being presented as a joint effort with Dolly's Bookstore and Sam Weller's Bookstore. It will run for two days, from noon until 7 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Twenty percent of the purchase price of any of these books will be donated to the Egyptian Theatre. , . ,. . ,, , . .. WijmpTjggg by Rick Lanman Creative marketing As wine tastes mature, new advertising trends appear and new markets are created. Although foreign wines have recently entered the competition, domestic wines have traditionally led the way where creative and occasionally deceptive advertising adver-tising is concerned. Many producers have crossed into expanding markets in an attempt to create a new image. One such example is Almaden, whose Charles Lefranc label specializes in premium varietal wines. The October issue of Gourmet magazine features a two-page spread by Almaden headlining the Charles Lefranc wine. Charles Lefranc was among Almaden's founders, and it would seem only fitting that his name represent what the winery considers to be their very best wines. What is perhaps most interesting about the Gourmet ad is that the Almaden name appears absolutely nowhere in it. If one were unfamiliar with the domestic wine industry, the name Almaden would never enter the mind. The giant winery can hardly be blamed for taking this approach, as wine connoisseurs have frequently spoken ill of the Almaden wines, this writer included. While some critics have been ruthless toward Almaden, our comments have more often suggested that Almaden makes good, but uninteresting wines. I often receive letters from Faith Greaves, Almaden's director of Public Relations, scolding me for my various criticisms of her wine. She's obviously good at her job, she watches all the wine writers like a hawk, seeking truth and justice for what she knows is a good product. Recently she passed on a note concerning Andy Blue, the San Francisco Chronicle wine columnist. In his Sept. 1 column he wrote, "Almaden is California's most misunderstood misunder-stood winery." Faith observed that his comment put all her problems in a nutshell. She followed up by saying, "Makes my job hard as hell." Well, we admire her tenacity and agree that the Charles Lefranc wines have come into some unfair criticism. We recently tasted three Lefranc wines including the Cabernet Sauvignon, Johannis-berg Johannis-berg Riesling and the Pinot St. George. Of the three, I was the most pleased with the Cabernet Sauvignon, particularly for value. Almaden has used 10 percent Cabernet here with no merlot to soften. A balanced wine, there was no overoaking and we could see where the wine might stand another year of aging. Still, this would not be a wine to cellar and we recommend drinking within five years for the '78. Many other reviewers have been less kind to the Cabernet Sauvignon, but I find good value in a large, fruity Cabernet that sells for $10 here in Utah. My earlier criticism that the wine was no better than others priced below it still stands. San Martin, Parducci, Zaca Mesa and Pedroncelli all produce a Cabernet as good as the Lefranc and all sell for under $8 a bottle. Nonetheless, this criticism can be leveled equally against Stag's Leap or Jordan Valley. I had the most trouble with the Johannisberg Riesling, which other reviewers re-viewers have found to be excellent. At its price range of $6 to $9 it should compete with a Rhine or Mosel Kabinett, maybe even a spatlese, which it emulates. Comparison is difficult here as the better spatlese and auslese are normally more expensive. I found the Lefranc Riesling too acidic, though wonderfully fruity. The color was gorgeous and the sugar content just right, a surprise considering the acidity problem. It also was not as full of body as a Mosel, though perhaps closer to a Rhine. I am not an expert on Burgundies, so my fellow tasters tipped the Pinot Noir and found it well developed and evenly balanced. Once again, they favored the European wines to the Pinot St. George, but considering the price, were impressed. In general we would score the Lefranc wines we tasted as an eight on a ten scale. Considering price, the rating goes up, though a bargain hunter would know many other alternatives. Eventually perhaps the advertising will help ease the image problem. We certainly hope so, as the product is very good, perhaps in time excellent. A second advertisement that caught our eye belongs to a Bordeau winery that has produced wine for years. Chateau Leoville Las Cases is the first ranked winery we know of to agressively advertise in this country. Its ad also appears in the October, 1982 issue of Gourmet. The ad reads, "Chateau Leoville Las Cases is one of the great growths, classified (cru-classe)." Featuring a reasonable price of roughly $10 a bottle in the east, this attempt to crack the U.S. market may leave many novice wine drinkers puzzled. Is this a great Chateau wine? Sort of. Leoville-Las-Cases, like the other Leoville wines, is a second growth or (Second Cru). The 1855 classification placed the wine with the top 20 of the Haut-Medoc region, and that designation certainly put it in the big time. Yet Leoville Las Cases has had to make a comeback. The wine was very poor in the early '50s but through extensive replanting, it has once again excelled. The 1978 vintage is an excellent one and worth buying for the right price. That price may be a problem, however, as the wine sells for anywhere between $10 and $20 a bottle depending upon geography, with prices in the west higher. |