Monthly Archives: April 2013

The Gilroy Downtown Business Association - a group of small business owners who have banded together to promote downtown commerce - is hosting their fifth annual Art & Wine stroll on Saturday, May 4. 

When Robert Egger fell in love with bicycles as a child and made his first two-wheeled, pedal-powered vehicle on his family’s dairy farm in Wisconsin at the age of 5, he didn’t know that as a grownup he would be at the forefront of cycling technology working for one of the world’s largest - and most influential - producers of bicycles and associated parts.

The design of the guitar is iconic: Similar to a good song and familiar to everyone. So when Morgan-Hill based Boulder Creek Guitars introduced in 2006 a new design featuring the hole on the side of the guitar instead of the front, initial reaction from consumers was a little skeptical.

Three brothers have kept a family tradition of producing some of the best tasting wine around on the very same Morgan Hill property where they grew from impressionable young boys to savvy businessmen.

There are laughs to be found on a small side street in the heart of Gilroy, where the Pintello Comedy Theater has brought mirth and merriment to Gilroy for 10 years and counting. Crowded on either side by industrial development, the Grange Hall - as the interwar period building located at 8191 Swanston Lane is formally known - sits back about 50 feet from the street in the shade of a giant Himalayan Cedar tree.

Under the radar in Gilroy is a thriving gourmet food industry, home to all kinds of delicious, locally-made spices, sauces and spreads. In an age where foodies run rampant and shopping like a locavore is the new American ideal, Gilroy is where it’s at. So throw out that old jar of Tabasco and that Walmart brand steak rub and check out these Epicurean delights, sourced and produced in your own backyard.

A special visitor recently traveled to the picturesque Frantoio Grove on the rural outskirts of Gilroy, where local Jeff Martin’s 30-acre lot is quietly producing a rising star in the select world of first-class olive oils.

If you've never been to a meadery, you only have to travel as far as San Martin to try the potent libation sometimes referred to as honey-wine.