Plan your own Alcatraz escape with California Living

California Living® invites you to Escape to Alcatraz with Angel Island Ferry.

California Living ® host Aprilanne Hurley invites you to plan your own Alcatraz escape and take a step back in time to learn what California life was like on Alcatraz Island with the following California Living ® “Insider’s Guide to Alcatraz Tours.” An important thing to keep in mind when …

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California Living insider’s guide to living the California life

California Living® with TV series creator & host Aprilanne Hurley celebrates 10 years on Broadcast TV delivering the Insider's Guide to Living The California Life.™

California Living ® is all about Living The California Life ™ and the relaxed California lifestyle.  From the sunny shores of Southern California, to the vast beauty and foodie empire of Northern California, California Living ® host Aprilanne Hurley will show you why “It’s just more fun…living in California.” California Living …

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Valley Fire shows ‘Preparedness’ is integral part of California Living

California Living® host Aprilanne Hurley is on-location in Tiburon, California.

With the Valley Fire currently ravaging through several counties of California, California Living ® host Aprilanne Hurley encourages you to “Be Prepared” during September 2015 – National Disaster Preparedness Month. Now is the time to get your Preparedness Plan in place at home and at work. Since the launch of …

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Valley Fire shows ‘Preparedness’ is integral part of California Living

California Living® host Aprilanne Hurley is on-location in Tiburon, California.

October 2014 marks CALIFORNIA LIVING® host and Party Girl Diet author Aprilanne Hurley’s 24th anniversary moving to California. Originally from the East Coast, Hurley admits she is “absolutely smitten with everything about living in California,” offering, “everyday feels like a vacation day here – from the mild climate, to the beautiful terrain, to that relaxed “California Lifestyle” which is what CALIFORNIA LIVING® is all about.”

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CA Living TV dishes ‘California Wine Month’ food and wine

California Living® host Aprilanne Hurley shares secrets to great food and wine pairings..

California Living host Aprilanne Hurley’s mission to uncover the best food and wine pairing secrets brought her on-location with Winery Chef Jeffrey Starr at the Trinchero Family Estates Sutter Home Inn located in beautiful Napa Valley, Calif. The wine and food pairing secrets discovered, as well as the easy entertaining tips we scored are inspiring nuggets for both aspiring home chefs and busy people who want to entertain but don’t often have the time it takes to make it all happen with everything else they have going on.

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‘The Birds’ School House open for tours Labor Day Weekend

CALIFORNIA LIVING™ host Aprilanne Hurley invites you to "Make it a CALIFORNIA LIVING™ "Make it a Birds Weekend" with her "Hitchcock Birds Movie Scene Tour Special."

CALIFORNIA LIVING™ host Aprilanne Hurley invites you to “Make it a Birds Weekend” with her “Hitchcock Birds Movie Scene Tour Special.”

Calling all Hitchcock “Birds” Movie Buffs:  CALIFORNIA LIVING ® host Aprilanne Hurley invites you to tour Potter School House in Bodega, California – the infamous “School House” in Hitchcock’s 1960’s thriller “The Birds” Labor Day Weekend on Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

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Catch California Living® with host Aprilanne Hurley on ION Television Tuesday & Thursday mornings.Watch California Living® “Birds Movie Scene Tour” Travel Special Thursday, September 3, 2015 on ION Television.

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CALIFORNIA LIVING® sets the stage for a “Birds Weekend” in beautiful Bodega Bay, California, in CALIFORNIA LIVING’s “Birds Movie Scene Tour” Travel Special airing on ION Television.

Viewers are in for a unique entertainment treat jam packed with Birds Movie history, trivia, and thrills when they tune-in for the CALIFORNIA LIVING™ “Insider’s Guide” to the major filming sites in Alfred Hitchcock’s famous 1960’s thriller “The Birds” located in the unique town of Bodega, and coastal areas of Bodega Bay, California.

INSIDE LOOK TV’ LLC is pleased to air its CALIFORNIA LIVING® “Birds Movie Scene Tour” Travel Special this season with ION Television in the San Francisco and Sacramento markets. Designed to inform as well as entertain, this unique CALIFORNIA LIVING® Travel Special will provide viewers with:

    • The ‘inside look” at ALL of the major filming locations of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960’s thriller “The Birds,” including Inn at the Tides in Bodega Bay, Potter School House and St. Teresa’s Church in Bodega, California, Mitch’s Ranch site…and more.

    • An overview of the unique inland town of Bodega – home to Potter School and St. Teresa’s Church, one of the most famous Bird’s movie filming sites.

    • Fun “Birds” movie trivia in this CALIFORNIA LIVING™ Destination Bodega Bay, Calif.

    • California Living® spotlights a fabulous getaway at the Bodega Bay Lodge & Spa on the beautiful Sonoma Coast.

      California Living® spotlights a fabulous getaway at the Bodega Bay Lodge & Spa on the beautiful Sonoma Coast.

      The CALIFORNIA LIVING™ Insider’s Guide on “Where to Stay & Play” in Bodega Bay, Calif. with the inside look at The Bodega Bay Lodge & Spa – the #1 lodging choice in Bodega Bay, California:


INSIDE LOOK TV, LLC & CALIFORNIA LIVING® extend a special thank you to the Bodega Bay Lodge & Spa and The Bodega Bay Area Chamber of Commerce (BBACC) and chamber president, Sissy Blanchard. log on to: VisitBodegaBayCA.com – your #1 OFFICIAL resource for information on Bodega Bay lodging, businesses, and events.

Tune in, TiVO it – just don’t miss this CALIFORNIA LIVING® “Hitchcock Birds Movie Scene Tour” Travel Special to “find out why it’s just more fun…living in California.”

Keep the party going...while you lose the weight with Aprilanne Hurley's Party Girl Diet book available on Amazon.com.

Keep the party going…while you lose the weight with
Aprilanne Hurley’s Party Girl Diet book available on Amazon.com.

California Living® with series creator and host Aprilanne Hurley is an Inside Look TV, LLC Media Production sponsored in part by Hurley’s best seller The Party Girl Diet, the revolutionary California lifestyle inspired life plan that lets you “keep the party going…while you lose the weight.” Check out great Party Girl Diet recipes and quick workouts @ PartyGirlDiet.com.

California Living’s ‘California Wine Month’ insider’s guide

California Living® Spotlights "California Wine Month"

Love California food and wine?  California Living ® host Aprilanne Hurley dishes the insider’s guide to an entire month of California food & wine in celebration of “California Wine Month” during September, 2015…and beyond. That’s right.  “California Wine Month” organizers and the Wine Institute have made it easier than ever to …

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California Living airs inside look at PlumpJack Winery ‘story’

John Conover, General Manager of PlumpJack Winery with Aprilanne Hurley, host of California Living®
Partner and General Manager of PlumpJack Winery John Conover and Aprilanne Hurley, host of California Living® discuss screw cap vs. cork closures for high-end wine.

California Living® celebrates “California Wine Month” with the inside look at our “best of” TV episodes featuring California wineries and California food & wine pairing.

This Week on California Living®:  As the Wine Industry debates over Screw Cap verses Cork closures…California Living® host Aprilanne Hurley gets an Inside Look at the compelling reasons why PlumpJack Winery made the bold move to  offer screw cap closures on their high end wine.

There’s a great story behind every California Living® TV episode. This is PlumpJack Winery’s story…

California Living® with host Aprilanne Hurley was a new “California lifestyle” TV show at the time we filmed on location at PlumpJack Winery in Napa Valley, California.

We appreciated PlumpJack Group invitation to go behind the scenes and into their world of wine. We also knew our viewers would really enjoy an inside look at the PlumpJack wine tasting experience, after all…

California-Living-Aprilanne-Hurley-Plumpjack-WineryPlumpJack Winery’s cabernet had recently been named the “World’s #1 Cab.”

PlumpJack Winery pioneers screw cap closures on high end wine.

Catch California Living® with host Aprilanne Hurley on ION Television Tuesday & Thursday mornings.Watch this “Best of” episode of CALIFORNIA LIVING® on ION Television Tuesday, September, 2015 in the San Francisco and Sacramento markets.

In this show, PlumpJack Winery partner and GM John Conover tells the story of how PlumpJack got it’s unique name.  We also hear what PlumpJack Winery founders  Gavin Newsom and Gordon Getty bring to the table, and get their take on why they went for screw cap closures on their high end wine.

PlumpJack Wine Pairing with BBQ on California Living®

PlumpJack Wine Pairing with BBQ on California Living® with host Aprilanne Hurley

This CALIFORNIA LIVING® PlumpJack Winery Food & Wine Special also features:

Fast forward to 2015.  As CALIFORNIA LIIVNG® celebrates 10 years on broadcast television, we extend a note of appreciation to PlumpJack Group for giving us the opportunity to “tell their story.”   The content featured in our PlumpJack Winery TV special remains as entertaining and evergreen as the day we filmed it.

Yes, PlumpJack Winemaker Tony Biagi has moved on.  Yet, if we’ve learned anything over the last 10 years – it’s that “things change.”

Today, winemaker Aaron Miller and his team continue on to earn PlumpJack wine high critical acclaim.

For the PlumpJack Group, “change” has been a good thing.  In addition to managing growth in their “lifestyle” focused restaurant and resort property offerings, PlumpJack Group’s portfolio now includes 2 additional Napa Valley wineries:

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Odette Winery, Napa Valley, Califonia

 

Odette Winery located in the Stags Leap District along Silverado Trail, Napa Valley, California.

NEW EVENTS!  Click here for info. on Odette Estate’s 6/19/2015 Winemaker Dinner Event and 6/20/2015 Opening Celebration!

 

PlumpJack Group's Cade Winery

Cade Winery, ST. Helena, California

CADE Winery located on Howell Mountain, St. Helena, California.  Napa Valley’s first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certified estate winery.

 

 

Special thanks to the PlumpJack Group for inviting our CALIFORNIA LIVING® TV team and viewers behind the scenes to experience exceptional wine tasting, wine making…and the essence of living the #PlumpJackLife.

Pour a glass of wine, sit back, relax and watch the entire CALIFORNIA LIVING® PlumpJack Winery Special on-demand below…

California Living: Carneros Inn on list of ‘Top Hotels’ for Wine Harvest

CALIFORNIA LIVING® host and Party Girl Diet™ author Aprilanne Hurley on location at the Carneros Inn & Span, Napa Valley, California

Carneros Inn and Spa, Napa Valley, California, on list of “Top Hotels” for California Wine Harvest by California Living® Host Aprilanne Hurley and the Robb Report. When CALIFORNIA LIVING® creator and host Aprilanne Hurley set her sights on producing a travel special on the Carneros Inn & Spa, she knew …

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Harvard, Purdue research links drinking wine and weight loss

California Living® host & Party Girl Diet™ author Aprilanne Hurley in Napa Valley, California.

Yes!  #WineLovers…it’s time to celebrate! California Living® and Party Girl Diet™ author Aprilanne Hurley are excited to share research findings linking drinking wine and weight loss from Harvard School of Public Health, Purdue University and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. A Harvard School of Public Health study of more than …

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