A&E

Give the Raven Theater a stage, and it will fill with art—local storytelling and community-driven theater, students from St. John’s and The Healdsburg School, the Raven’s resident children’s program Young at Heart Theatre, Assemblyman Chris Rogers and a musical appearance from Pete Stringfellow. Raven Gala, March 13.

While the Paul Mahder Gallery has held fundraisers in the past, this one focused not on the well-to-do, but rather on those who do without.

Just like the salmonids it celebrates, the Lake Sonoma Steelhead Festival returns to the Mike Brandt Visitors Center at Lake Sonoma for the 19th annual Steelhead Festival.

The arts did not beckon when Ron Nash was a young man—far from it. “I was in trouble mentally in high school. I was angry, angry, angry,” he said. He even got kicked out of school, but his athletic ability—he was a hurdlers champion in track—earned him a scholarship to college.

New exhibit at the Healdsburg Museum on the 1970s... St Vincent at Little Saint... Mardis Gras at St. John the Baptist... and more this week in Healdsburg.

Fair warning that this is the sort of play to which audience members will want to bring tissues. It is not a fluffy play by any means, forcing its audience to listen carefully and think deeply about difficult topics.

Daily listing of events in and around Healdsburg, from the stage to the library.

“This revolution is different—it is a disruption of creativity," said Nolan Gasser. "So now you can actually create a poem, or an image created or a video created or a piece of music created by artificial intelligence, just by a prompt."

There's more than just wining and dining in Healdsburg - there's also theater, with new shows opening on two stages this weekend...

Now that the nominations have been announced, let’s talk about them and what people should try to see before the big show. And once we get closer (the Oscars are March 15 this year), I’ll write my annual piece on what will win versus what should win.