I confess. Much to my family’s chagrin, I drink wine from a box. That’s why the morning I spent in Doc’s Wine Shop in downtown Hayward was an epiphany, a door opened to an alien world—one filled with the light of knowledge: wine customs I didn’t know, wine facts totally new to me, and grape names and regions I’d never heard of. The charming, articulate, and encyclopedic purveyor of this vinculture was Castro Valley resident Darren Guillaume, a certified sommelier, trai

As the children filed into the auditorium, arranging themselves on the floor, the excitement built and built. More kids means more noise—the steps, the chatter, the teacher directions—and as the room filled, the buzz grew louder until at last, with everyone seated, the Principal, Rafael Flores Jr., took the stage, picked up a microphone, and spoke. Silence fell over the large room as he introduced what all awaited—the 2013 Lunar New Year Celebration of Hayward’s Schaefer Par