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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.

“The Musical Bridge” is an AI music installation provided by Magical Bridge Foundation, known for its award-winning intergenerational playgrounds, as a way to bring awareness and support for the Badger Park project.

Goings on in and around Healdsburg this week and next Community Look at Ukraine Local ophthalmologist and eye-care missionary Dr. Gary Barth has started a weekly open house series in the Media Room at his office. These informal gatherings are an opportunity to hear firsthand reflections from...