Photo Gallery: Día de Muertos
As many as 6,000 people visited Healdsburg’s Plaza area on Sunday, Oct. 19, to celebrate the 2013 Dia de Muertos festival, presented by Corazon Healdsburg and the City of Healdsburg.
Photographer Rick Tang (ricktangphotography.com) was on hand and took many images of the colorful event,...
The Fishing Report: Who dat?
This past weekend I was vacationing down in southern Louisiana on a music safari and I just have to comment on a few things fishing and not related. First off, “Y’all” need to know, that the folks down “thata way” are just as nice as anywhere I have ever been. In all of the 700 or so miles we traveled, we didn’t come across one person that wasn’t helpful or had anything less than kind to say. Second the food is rich, plentiful and decadent to a fault and if you’re planning a trip down there, I would highly suggest dieting before you go because any thought of self-control at the dining table will be out of the question.
New Year’s Lights Shine on Local Stages
here’s quite the variety of live theater from which to choose to warm our hearts and minds, and to escape the North Bay’s cold winter nights. Harry Duke points out a few shows worth seeing...
Diversity Overtakes Tuesdays in the Plaza
The weekly summer concerts at the downtown Plaza provide an eclectic and unusual line-up of bands to please a wide array of musical interests. Though previous Tuesdays have emphasized the aging boomer crowd (formerly described as “the brie-and-chardonnay crowd”), the bands have become increasingly diverse with the passing years....
Celebrating the Russian River Valley AVA’s 30th Year
The Russian River Valley American Viticultural Area (AVA) is known as one of the most “down to earth” premium winegrowing regions in California.












