Nice local purveyor item on way in: bite size soup and salad - roasted red onion bisque and blue cheese-walnut-artisan lettuce sheaf. Produce from Tanimura & Antle, recipe from Spreckels neighbor Contemporary Catering's Don and Cheryl Ferch.

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Entryway to cooking demo pavilion equipped with traditional flair: Lexus RX 450h Hybrid and Skybar multiple bottle wine dispenser.

Inside a translucent tent I text this: Foodies know howta get downa.

Opening night 'after party' requires a ticket and includes sit-down Lexus driving simulators. And DJ beneath globular chandelier.

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Rob Baker of Me and the Hound distributing slow smoked majesty at 14 with Memphis barbecue sauce.

Decent day for gourmet golf.

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Fuel for chef-and sponsor golf tournament. Foie gras breakfast potatoes (next to truffles eggs).

How Pebble Beach Food & Wine 2010 begins. Patron extra virgin Bloody Marias. And Irony wines. And lobster crossaint sandwiches by Intercontinental's Jerry Regester.

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Great way to wrap a week saturated in music: fancy fretwork from Peninsula product Roland Curtis of French Miami. I don't think all the magnitude of this much good live music in 72 hours will sink in for a few days. Rock steady.

Street Sweeper Social Club was a nice highlight of SXSW, between Rage vet Tom Morrelo's solo and covers of "Mama Said Knock You Out" and the Slumdog Millionaire hit by MIA. "It's more than a band," said Boots Riley (left, late of Oakland's The Coup). "It's a social club."

French Miami heat - big girders of synth sounds sparked by nimble guitar and fiery power punk chorus - pullin people off the street.

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Much-adored Stubb's barbecue...here's the bbq chopped beef. Plain great.

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Stamina and then some: Noon on Sunday and French Miami is readying for another show, maybe their 5th or 6th. Pacific Grove native/exhibitionist on guitar. For a show at Blue Fin a week ago he played at length in briefs.

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Sixth looks a little bit different today. "Here's the hard part, cleaning up," says one worker, his grinning hospitality somehow still intact. "Have a good one."

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Poster and record bazaar part of the proceedings at conference center, where folks like Smokey Robinson and DJ Spooky have spoken.

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Charger Charger.

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Cali "string metal" rockers Judgement Day are doing several shows this week. They haven't visited Monterey since Live's demise but hopefully will be after hearing word of Blue Fin's rebirth.

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Two adventures in movement, captured on video: a runner-powered rickshaw and an I'm-not-sure-who's-steering-thing.

More Sixth Street senses (?).

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Hard Times from right here in the capital. Having a hard time myself loving all this live loveliness enough.

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