Big Rick's Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack 10 28 23

Live Nation, a concert promoter, plans to provide a $1,500 stipend to all bands playing at their owned and operated clubs, in addition to their performance compensation. They will also eliminate merchandise selling fees, allowing artists to keep 100% of the profits. In other news, there is a popular potato chip salad in New York City, and private chefs are touring with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, focusing on healthy diets. Some California restaurants are imposing a vomit fee for patrons who throw up in the restaurant. Lastly, the Crocker Galleria in San Francisco is struggling with only three tenants and plans for redevelopment in 2025. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack Podcast. You know on Saturdays we play fun music and we feature great information at 993thevine.com. With me, Big Rick Stewart and music from my time at Live 105 and at KFOG. We also mix in some stories that I find kind of interesting whether it's local music or food or tech or just kind of some cool things I think you ought to know about. It's always lots of fun. Fun music and great information happens every Saturday at 993thevine.com and the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack Podcast features great information like this. I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. Hey, I gotta give it up to Live Nation. I saw the story at Billboard. Live Nation should drop merch fees and pay $1,500 stipend to all club acts. And this is called On The Road Again. And they say at Billboard, inspired by the Willie Nelson classic. So what's this all about? All right, well, this is for bands and touring bands and stuff. All acts playing Live Nation owned and operated clubs from headliners to support acts will receive a $1,500 gas and travel stipend per show to all headliners and support acts on top of the nightly performance compensation. Wow, how about that? Now here's another part of the story you may not even realize. You know, you go see your favorite band at a club and there's a little merch table and they got CDs and T-shirts like that. Did you know the nightclub takes a cut of the merchandise sold at the venue? Thank you. You think like, oh, it's $25 for a T-shirt. The band doesn't get $25. They might get, I don't know what, $15 or something. As part of this program, Live Nation says their clubs are no longer charged merchandise selling fees, allowing artists to keep 100% of merchandise profits. So this is all to kind of help out bands and get them on the road and touring and make it better because the price of gasoline and vehicle rentals and paying people and everything has gone up. So they thought, well, we'll help people out and give them a little bit of money and let them keep their merchandise fees. This is really cool. Somebody in the article that works for Live Nation said, I can be their partner on the ground in markets where I operate venues and keep my hands out of their merch money. Yes, I think bands think that's a really good idea and so do I. So good of them for Live Nation. I think locally, I think the Fillmore, maybe some other clubs anyway. This is a good thing. I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack at 99.3thevine.com. Hey, it's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. I'm Big Rick Stewart. How's your Saturday? Going well? You like salads? I know people that love salads. I actually kind of like salads. I think it's kind of healthy and all that good stuff. I also know people who never eat salads ever, but check it out. They eat potato chips. Now, how about this? In New York City, evidently, one of the hottest new things is a potato chip salad. What? And it's all from a place called Stretch Pizza in New York City. And this is from bhg.com, which is Better Homes and Gardens, which is a magazine your parents or grandparents or great-great-grandparents subscribed to back in the day. Anyway, they're online, and bhg.com has a story about this potato chip salad that evidently is like super popular in New York. So they tell you how to make it. You can go to the website for more details, but you can make something similar at home. All right, so real quickly, here's kind of how this works. You get a bunch of greens together, say like two cups of salad greens. Thinly slice a lime. Cut each slice in half to create like a little half moon. You actually fry that in olive oil. That's kind of interesting. Add the lime slices in a single layer. Fry them up, get them nice and brown, take them out and put them on paper towels to drain. Save that olive oil you cooked the limes in and use two tablespoons of that oil to pour over the greens. Top with a cup of sea salt and vinegar potato chips. Oh, those are my favorites. And then finish with the fried lime slices. Sounds pretty delicious. And then have it with a pizza. That sounds delicious as well. I'm gonna try this. What do you think, huh? bhg.com for more info on the potato chip salad that is taking over New York City. I don't know if it's doctor approved or not, but whatever. I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack at 99.3thevine.com. I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. I love this article. It combines two of my favorite things, food and music. It's from abc7ny.com. You can go there and read the rest of this. I'll give you the highlights. Meet the private chefs on tour with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Isn't that cool? All right, first up, Chef Karina Becker, the band's personal and tour chef. She says, I started making chocolate, sold it at a local grocery store in LA, and then my friends and other people, they kind of found out about her and then she got connected to the band. She says, when it comes to each band member, each one has a different specific diet they stick to. When people ask me what you cook, what do they like, or what's your specialty, I often say my specialty is listening. Food is so personal, so there's no blanket statement. What's good for one person is good for everybody, and maybe our food is our first medicine or it's our first poison. Kind of depends on the choices you make, as always, right? Another chef is Tanya Collier, who works with the band throughout the UK on their UK-based touring catering company. It's called Rock Pool. Tanya has worked with many other bands, Florence and the Machine and Pink and more. Tanya explained how far the industry's come in terms of a healthier diet and lifestyle. People now in the rock and roll industry are focusing more on not only what they eat, but their habits. It's all health-driven these days and is more centered on health, whereas 20 years ago, she says, it was definitely not centered on health. That's why rock and rollers stick around a long time. You know, like, back in the day, they'd be hanging around this way, but now they're out there rocking out. It's a really good read, and there's even a recipe for some romesco sauce, and you can find it at abc7ny.com. Pretty cool. Everybody take care of yourselves. I'm Big Rick Stewart, this is the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack at 99.3 Divine. I'm Big Rick Stewart, it's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. I know a lot of people are in the hospitality business around here and work at restaurants and own restaurants and, you know, whatever. Go to restaurants. So I thought this, you know, would appeal to people, even though it is kind of gross. Warning, we have a gross-out factor headed your way. This is from KTLA and KRON, both news people, KTLA and KRON, both news people contribute to this story. Some California restaurants are imposing a vomit fee. Yes, you heard that right. A sign posted at a popular Oakland brunch spot called Kitchen Story warns diners who indulge in any of the restaurant's five varieties of bottomless mimosas, oh, see, there's the problem, to drink responsibly and know your limits. Otherwise, the sign warns that a $50 cleaning fee will be automatically added to the tab of any patron who throws up in a public area of the restaurant. This probably happens more than we think. Unless you work in a restaurant, you probably think this never happens. And if you work in a restaurant, you probably are going, that happens all the time, dude. As reported at SFGate, HomePlate in San Francisco has implemented a similar policy with signs warning of a $50 cleaning fee. And you know, if you do this in an Uber or a Lyft, you get charged more as you should. So these bottomless mimosas could be kind of like, you know, maybe they need to have an asterisk after bottomless mimosas, asterisk, until your server decides that, you know, you've had enough. Then you've hit the bottom, I don't know. Anyway, just thought you'd be interested in this story. Moving right along. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack at 99.3 Divine. I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. Thanks for hanging out with me. I thought a story, and I really don't like these stories, but that's kind of what's happening. San Francisco retail troubles, and this was at a pretty good website called sfstandard.com. Crocker Galleria in downtown San Francisco is down to three tenants. This is a pretty expansive kind of a outdoor mall, for lack of a better word. They say these days Crocker Galleria is three levels, house only three commercial tenants, among them two fast, casual restaurants. Now they say, in fairness, the gallery is scheduled to undergo redevelopment in 2025. Managers have confirmed this with the SF Standard. One Montgomery Tower. So it's right down at the bottom foot of Market Street down there. It's connected to one Montgomery Tower, and the Crocker Galleria was opened in 1982. Back in the 80s, this is where a lot of the bicycle messengers used to kind of hang out down there with their radios waiting for a call to pick something up. Currently, the Galleria's only businesses are La Luna Cupcakes, Julie's Kitchen, and one of the Bay Area's locations for Ladle & Leaf. The pavilion is only open until 5 p.m. six days a week, and both casual restaurants are only open for lunch on the weekdays. So there's not really a whole lot going on, and on weekends, there's like nothing going on. It's right down there by Montgomery Bart, and there's not a lot happening right now at the Crocker Galleria in downtown San Francisco. Hey, I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack at 99.3 Divine. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. I'm Big Rick Stewart. Thanks for hanging out today. Hopefully, you're hanging out, having fun, maybe getting ready for all that Halloween. We got a little Halloween thing coming up later on today in downtown Napa, a little pub crawl. They'll be having some beer. Now, I don't know if they'll be having Tesla beer. What? Tesla beer? It's this new thing. Tesla sometimes comes out with non-automotive products, and everybody goes crazy, especially, you know, the Tesla fans. They gotta collect everything, including the cars, and including the $250 bottle of tequila. That was from a couple years ago. Now, you can get two bottles of beer for $150, and this is called Cyber Beer and a Cyber Stein. So, you get these kind of, they actually look pretty cool, these kind of cool steins and some beer to go with it and more, and it's all from Tesla. You can find information on this electrek.co. That's the news article where I saw this. Each bottle has a gloss black sleeve with a Cyber Beer watermark, and the matte black ceramic beer steins are glazed and fired to a mirror in the form of a cyber truck, which, by the way, I just read got a super delay. It won't be out pretty much anytime soon in mass numbers. So, anyway, you can check this out, and you can get yourself a nice $150 set of two bottles of beer and steins, and look at the Tesla website and check it out. It might already be sold out. I have no idea. Enjoy. I'm Big Rick Stewart. It's the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. Cheers at 99.3 The Vine. Well, those are some stories that I have featured on the Wine Country Saturday Soundtrack. Tune in at 8 a.m. every Saturday at 993thevine.com. I'm Big Rick Stewart. 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