Bonnie Carroll's Life Bites

We hope you continue to enjoy your visits to great hotels, restaurants, and travel destinations that appear in our monthly online magazine. Our profile this month is the Renaissance Zurich Tower, a very now centrally located hotel with amazing amenities and true Swiss charms. Special thanks to AWC-SB for honoring me with the Member of the Year Award in December. The celebration was held at Uncorked in Santa Barbara. See story in TinselTown Tidbits. For membership information visit www.awcsb.org.

The Kirk Douglas Awards held at Ritz-Carlton Bacara Resort & Spa, where Martin Scorsese was presented the Excellence in Film award story appeared in last months Tinsel Town Tidbits. Don't miss the Golden Globes being presented on January 5th in Hollywood. For the list of nominees and additional information visit www.goldenglobes.com or Tinsel Town Tidbits in LBN. Look for great GG party bites and sips to enoy at home. The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will begin on January 15-25 , with an amazing lineup of films and celebrity appearances. Visit www.sbiff.org for details or ticket purchase.

Oscars are around the corner, and this year includes a lineup of amazing films, glitzy events, and awards to be presented that are magical. The stars will be out at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and Bonnie Carroll's Life Bites News will be there getting you all the fun and fantastic details. Hope you enjoy our annual Life Bites News "Best of 2019" list below, and we warmly congratulate those being honored – in our opinion you're the best!

We have some great features on travel, new food items, health news in our health minded section along with chef/restaurant updates and recipes. Look for news on the 2019 TasteTV Awards at www.tastetv.com. The awards ceremony will be held in LA in January. Our BookBites section has details on the special new releases, including Michelle Obama's best seller. Look for details on LA Times Travel Show in upcoming LBN issues.

Please join me in praying for our troops fighting in foreign lands, and for all our men and women who serve our great country. Prayer works . . . pray for world peace.

January 1 is the birthday of my late mother Rosaleen Joyce and January 19 the birthday of my late cousin (who was like a sister to me) Joyce Stein Justin - I miss them so much, and will be thinking of them often during this month.

Bonnie Carroll's Life Bites News will be celebrating its 15th birthday in January. We thank you so much for your support and hope you keep coming back. For advertising information please contact us at writebc@aol.com.