Healdsburg Happenings: March 5-13
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.
Junior Brown Pulls Up to the Raven
When Junior Brown rolls into Healdsburg on Saturday for his show at the Raven, it will be the first time the performer plays the Raven Theater. That’s a surprise: Like any good ol’ truck driving cowboy, you think he’s been everywhere...
New Beginnings
Healdsburg Center for the Arts is stepping boldly into the future from its new downtown location.
Recent years have been tough. Kathy Birdsong, board president and gallery artist, says, “The Covid shutdown and the fires impacted us negatively—so many changes in when we could be...
New Raven Play ‘Inspired by True Events’
This weekend’s opening marks the culmination of 10 years of research, inspiration and introspection for playwright Francine Schwartz, now 75, along with a lifetime of memories. That decade began in 2014 while she went through family possessions in the family home, cleaning things out because her mother had moved into assisted living...
Petaluma director brings horror to national cinemas
While the film makes a few minor rookie mistakes with its script—making too many things literal that could have been understood on a purely instinctual level—'Backrooms' is an astonishingly assured and tonally immaculate first feature by such a young filmmaker.
Healdsburg opens up to Guelaguetza
The beat of pounding feet, the jangle of spurs and the snap of whips marked the dances of Oaxaca in the Healdsburg Plaza last Sunday. The southern Mexican state is home to some 16 cultural groups and two major native languages. Over the centuries an annual gathering to share their common interests grew, becoming known as a Guelaguetza
Are all Wes Anderson films alike? Not quite
Wes Anderson is a genius, and whether or not one appreciates his highly mannered and idiosyncratic style is mercifully subjective. And his singular vision is one that I guarantee will be studied a hundred years from now alongside Jacques Tati, Ingmar Bergman and Jean-Luc Godard.
Veterans Day Breakfast Planned for Friday, Nov. 11
Veterans from all branches of the service and all conflicts are invited to a special breakfast honoring their service on Veterans Day.
The Rotary Club of Healdsburg Sunrise and the Sotoyome Post 111 of the American Legion are co-hosting the event on Friday, Nov. 11...
At home or at the fair: the pies have it
If there's nothing as American as apple pie, then there's likely















