At Fritz, what's old is new again. The winery is buried underground, dug into a remote hillside on the Cloverdale edge of Dry Creek Valley. When it was built in 1979, America's energy crisis had just hit and subterranean architecture was the height of fashion...

The company opened its 2009-10 season with a program celebrating renovations to its long-imperfect home.

Of the 66 works offered in an Impressionist and modern art sale at Sotheby’s on Wednesday, only 10 failed to sell. The auction house sold $181.7 million worth of art.

Mr. Na’ope’s mastery of the hula — the flowing, pantomimic dance of Hawaii — and its lilting chants made him a last link between an ancient ritual and modern entertainment.

Mr. Ayala was an eminent Spanish novelist whose work explored societies in which there is much despotism and little benevolence.