New Year’s Eve Restaurants Serve It Up
Chances are the house is decorated with red and blue lights, the tree is festooned with collectible ornaments, all the bespoke presents are wrapped and family plans for the Christmas weekend are already in place.
But what about New Year’s Eve? It’s only a week...
THE FISHING REPORT: Salmon season opens this weekend – by Hunt Conrad
Season openers are always a great source of optimism but there is no greater fishing opener than the ocean salmon season. This year’s ocean salmon season opener is being met with higher than normal expectations because of the tremendously high projection by the Pacific Fisheries Management Council for the amount of Salmon that are swimming in our oceans. This was based on the higher than normal jack (juvenile salmon) returns to the rivers last fall. Many in the know are cautiously optimistic because their projections have been known to be wildly inaccurate. But to most, any good news is welcome especially regarding the health of our fisheries and is cause for optimism.
Ask Dr. Shiroko: Grieving
Mary’s son died in Afghanistan a few years ago. Not much later she developed a painful ovarian cyst. She did not want to have surgery. When she came into my office, she was skeptical about the possibility of her son’s death and her cyst being related.
Healdsburg Happenings
New Stage
The 222 is beginning a live-theater series with “Chapatti,” a play by Christian O’Reilly, to run from June 1 to June 11 (various times). It features Ashland veterans Michael Elich and Robin Goodrin-Nordli in a two-person drama at the Paul Mahder Gallery, 222...
Healdsburg Happenings, Sept. 19
Some smokin’ island music settles in for the autumnal equinox at the Elephant in the Room this weekend. Pazifico adds hip-hop and rock to the rolling beat on Friday, Sept. 20, 8pm, $10. The next night Junior Toots & the Fiya Squad Band lay down the legendary vibe...
Mexican hero becomes a family legend
Local drama takes another step forward with the next play at the Raven, "Who Will Dance with Pancho Villa?" But the production, which opens on Jan. 22 for an eight-performance run, is hardly new. Gabriel Fraire and his brother John wrote it over 30 years ago and it had its first off-Broadway performance in New York in 1994.







