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Live music, film screenings, a youth orchestra and 10-minute plays make this week in Healdsburg different than last. Check it out in our Calendar...

The Ghost Quartet at The 222, Friday through Sunday, promises something more than your usual ghost story. It’s a musical exploration of themes, forms and styles, described as “a song cycle about love, death, and whiskey” by its creator, Dave Malloy. That and other events listed in our weekly Healdsburg Happenings...

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.

The growing, annual Healdsburg Arts Festival took over the Plaza for what organizers believe to be its 10th year last Saturday. An estimated 500-plus people showed up to peruse the 50 booths that artists set up that day to show off and sell their...