Klezmatics return to Healdsburg for the Holidays
Topo, in Fiddler on the Roof, was a Klezmer musician, “schlepping his way from shtetl to shtetl… a distinctive image of pre-war Jewish life in the Ashkenazi communities of Eastern Europe,” according to worldmusic.net.
Goings on in the ’Burg
Gold Medal Gala: Wilson Artisan Wines celebrates their 118 gold medals from the recent International Wine Competition in San Francisco, at Coyote Sonoma, on Friday, Feb. 10, 6:30pm. Owners Ken and Diane Wilson (she’s also chief winemaker), as well as others from the 11-winery...
‘macbitches’ delivers on its promise
Few plays telegraph the plot dynamics and setting as clearly in their title as 'macbitches.' We know it’s got to be a cutting play about theater people vying for a key role in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, probably college-age—a sort of 'Mean Girls' in the drama department.
Healdsburg Happenings, June 22
Healdsburg Jazz
25th annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival continues with events through Sunday, June 25. Tickets and information at healdsburgjazz.org.
Collegiate Baseball
Prune Packers baseball continues its 2023 season with home games this week against the Alameda Anchors (June 23), West Coast Kings (June 24) and Walnut Creek...
Things to do in Healdsburg, June 18-24
The popular History Talks programs from the Healdsburg Museum return for the summer to the Plaza Gazebo, Saturday mornings from 10-11:30am until Aug. 29. The first talk is about 1976, with interviews with former mayor Jerry Eddinger, businessman Eric Drew and winemaker Dennis Hill, plus bandleader Lew Sbrana.
Healdsburg Happenings, Feb. 6 – 15
Feb. 8: The longrunning, ever-surprising Lake Sonoma Steelhead Festival returns to the Congressman Don Clauson Fish Hatchery at the head of Dry Creek Valley. This free event attracts up to 10,000 people to the visitors center, for natural history education, live music, arts and crafts, and fishing-themed games. From 10am to 4pm...
Toxic masculinity defines ‘Macbeth’
"Macbeth stomped about the stage more concerned with his manly swagger than any of the events taking place in the play. If his desire was to make Macbeth a raging, petulant symbol of toxic masculinity, then Witthaus was quite effective. I hope this was the intention," says critic Caitlin Strom-Martin
WOW Wine Festival Celebrates Wine, Food & Culture
Anyone who has lived close to the ocean knows how its wildness and beauty gets into your bones and how its influence extends into the environment. The spirit of the sea penetrates everything in its path – and for the adventurous lot of winegrowers who farm the rugged West Sonoma Coast, that spirit will be celebrated at the West of West (WOW) Wine Festival on August 2-4 in Sebastopol.
Arts & Entertainment
Multicultural Center takes shape at Abel de Luna
Bursts of color explode from every corner and every angle of the newly repainted Abel de Luna Community Center on the north side of town. Fuchsia, sunflower, marigold, plum and chrysanthemum abut and juxtapose with one another on the many outside walls and columns, as two muralists work on their own visions of Healdsburg.
