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Word/Art Month culminates with a reading by former California Poet Laureate David Gioia on Friday, April 24, at The 222. Gioia, also the former head of the National Endowment for the Arts, will be joined by two other state poets laureate, Denise Low of Kansas and and former Colorado Poet Laureate David Mason.

While Healdsburg is hoping to become Bourdeaux, Geyserville is looking more at Calgary for its model. ping demonstrations, stagecoaches through downtown, custom hat and boot branding, and live country music all day, added to food, wine and whiskey tasting from four local restaurants and six wineries.

“Modern Mississippi music.” If you ask singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Luther Dickinson to define what the North Mississippi Allstars (NMA) create, that’s the answer he’ll give. It’s the path he and his brother Cody have been traveling down ever since NMA dropped their 2000 debut, Shake Hands with Shorty, and one the band members will share when they hit the LBC stage on May 9.

The excitement and sense of discovery that a good film brings to its audience is doubly alive in the short film format. The genre is defined by the industry as 40 minutes or under including credits, and a selection of the best from last year's Healdsburg Short Film Festival is this weekend.

The proprietors of BloodRoot Wines, Kelly and Noah Dorrance, have been organizing an annual music and wine festival called The Ramble as a fundraiser benefitting  GIFFORDS, a national organization dedicated to preventing gun violence.

Two hapless, small-time crooks hit the roads of South Carolina in search of their next “big” score in T-Bone n Weasel. John Klein’s comedy is the latest theatrical presentation at The 222 in Healdsburg and concludes its short run with three performances through April 5.

Various nondenominational events this weekend include the Rotary Club’s annual Easter Egg Scramble on Saturday at the Fitch Mountain School (565 Sanns Lane) at 9am. Easter Egg Hunts at local wineries include Dry Creek Vineyard (Saturday, 10am), Francis Coppola Winery (Saturday, 11am), and others...

“There are usually some fun surprises for us in the line-up of our ‘Audience Favorites’ program,” said co-founder Pamela Demorest. “Some films resonate more with our audience than they did with our celebrity jury, and we always want our guests to feel like a vital part of the process.”

Friday: Opening night of a two-week run of the three-actor play T-Bone N Weasel by Jon Klein, featuring Aldo Billingslea. Set in the South Carolina of decades past, it will be staged Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at 7pm, Sunday matinees at 2pm at The 222.

Humorist David Nihill returns to the Raven on Sunday, where last year he built a connection with the local audience as he developed his Irish-American act. Plus times, dates and addresses of other upcoming events...