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The Healdsburg Museum continues its newest exhibition, “Trails to Fitch Mountain,” about the human and natural history of our local landmarks, the mountain and the river, until Oct. 13. Plus salsa and bluegrass, theater and farmers markets, surf-rock and more...

Made in Hawaii

Some of us suffer harder than others through our long winter with short days, extra grayness and the absence of the sound of a crack of the bat hitting a baseball.

Holidays have come and gone, need remains

“Wanderlust” is the kind of screwball comedy that used to make censors froth at the mouth and demand boycotts. It is loaded with illegal drugs, casual sex, and nudity—lots of full frontal nudity. But based on the accompanied minors in the audience, many parents consider this R-rated comedy a perfectly acceptable family film.

You may not have noticed it yet, but after a decade-long run,

One of Murphy’s Laws is that you can’t get something clean without getting something else dirty. Depending on how you wash your car, you may be trading a dirty car for a polluted creek because the water that flows into our storm drains does not get treated, it flows directly into our creeks.

In Stronger, Jeff Bauman goes to see the Boston Marathon to impress a girl named Erin, and loses his legs to a terrorist’s bomb. His obnoxious family rushes to the hospital and continues to scream at each other throughout the film. In contrast, Erin’s demeanor is reserved. She dumped Jeff before the race, was wary of meeting him at the finish line, and is challenged by his injury and subsequent double amputation. But she still shows up to be at his bedside and takes a slew of undisguised verbal abuse from Jeff’s alcoholic mother. In addition, two other issues take center stage: the unflinchingly realistic portrayal of Jeff’s recuperation, and the constant pressure exerted by the Boston community to have Jeff be their “poster boy” for the “Boston Strong” mantra.

The Disney animators seem to have gotten their “groove” back with “Frozen,” and the result is an enjoyable holiday film that actually deserves to be labeled a “classic.” The studio expands its Princesses’ franchise with two royals—a Scandinavian blonde named Elsa (voice of Broadway’s Idina Menzel) and her younger, redheaded sister Anna (voice of Kristen Bell). When Elsa’s magical ice-powers go awry (by creating an indoor blizzard and accidentally freezing her sister’s head), the two girls are forced by their parents to grow up separately to keep Anna safe from any other magical mishaps.