A&E

The excitement and sense of discovery that a good film brings to its audience is doubly alive in the short film format. The genre is defined by the industry as 40 minutes or under including credits, and a selection of the best from last year's Healdsburg Short Film Festival is this weekend.

I’m not really concerned about the world’s end (it’s supposed to arrive next week) but I do worry about the Russian River this time of year. In Guerneville instead of the end of existence we have floods.

“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.

The Raven Players bring live outdoor entertainment to Healdsburg’s Downtown Plaza with their production of Woody Guthrie’s American Song: A Truly American Musical. Peter Glazer’s adaptation of the writings and songs of “America’s premiere folk poet” runs weekends July 1 through July 10. The show,...

Santa Rosa has its Rose Parade, Healdsburg has its 4H/FFA Parade, but Geyserville lays claim to the world’s biggest Lighted Tractor Parade, now in its 14th year (or is it the 15th?). On Saturday, Nov. 25, the small town where Alexander Valley meets Highway...

"White walls reaching for an impossibly high ceiling, a haven that appeared like some Xanadu on the west side of the city square just when we needed to hide. Why we needed to hide is another matter," writes Daedalus Howell about finding a place to slake his dark thirst when he discovered Marine Layer Wines. ..