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Since 1950, Healdsburg has celebrated Memorial Day weekend with a country fair to support its youth in agriculture via Future Farmers of America and 4-H clubs. There’s a twilight parade, a barn dance, hot dogs and hamburgers, livestock exhibits, judging and auction. It’s a centerpiece...

Hopland is happening. Downtown tasting rooms welcome walk-ins and boast affordable fees, and are happy to share their wines with anyone they have the capacity to serve. Low Tasting Fees Tasting fees at downtown Hopland tasting rooms range from $5 to $25, with most ranging between $5...

Raven Players Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Raven Theater continues through July 16, various dates and times. With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, the play is a reimagining of the biblical story of Joseph and his brethren. Visit raventheater.org...

The Healdsburg Museum’s Day of the Dead bilingual exhibition celebrates the holiday with an ofrenda (altar), art and traditional clothing from around Mexico. The exhibition is now open and runs through Sunday, Nov. 10, 11am to 4pm. Free admission. This and other events listed in our weekly calendar...

Summer vacation for young adults has many meanings. Their

All of Guillermo Del Toro’s movies (i.e. Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy), are lush, intensely sensual imaginings filled with scenes of dreamlike wonder. In The Shape of Water, sexuality finally takes center stage, and since Del Toro is the writer/director, the sexuality is like nothing ever seen before. The sexy female is an unlikely candidate named Elisa Espisito (Sally Hawkins), a mute, mousey, and orphaned Baltimore cleaning lady who mops up blood in a top-secret laboratory. The sexy male is even more unlikely. He is “The Asset” (Doug Jones), an amphibious Creature From the Black Lagoon-stye humanoid stolen by the American military as “research” from the Amazon River.