A&E

Three headliners at Elephant in the Room this weekend, starting with the Anthony Collins Band featuring guitarist “Johnny V” Vernazza on Thursday ($20 cover), tribute band Burning Down the House on Friday ($20), and Eric Lindell and the Westside Summer League on Saturday ($45). One could spend the weekend there... Fortunately there’s a bakery, pizza parlor and dispensary nearby.

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.

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...

Healdsburg’s only New Orleans restaurant rolls out the big pots and fires up the music on two successive Fridays, June 14 and June 21, 5:30-9pm. On the menu is a “boil” with Louisiana crawfish, andouille, corn and potatoes, plus grilled meats, creole salad, black-eyed peas and, yes, beignets...

’Tis the season for festive celebrations, grand family feasts—and questions about holiday wine pairing. What’s a great wine for the holidays? Which wine for prime rib? How about dessert? And this time of year, drinking seasonally means drinking bigger. Whether red or white, bigger wines...

Healdsburg Museum The new exhibit at the Healdsburg Museum, “We Are Not Strangers Here: African-American Histories in California and Healdsburg,” opens on Thursday, July 20, at 11am. The museum is located at 221 Matheson St., and open Wednesdays through Sundays from 11am to 4pm. Indie Rock ...

Sebastopol Ballet owners talk about “The Nutcracker”

Debra Granik directed her cinematographer Michael McDonough to open her new film Leave No Trace with National Geographic-style shots of a verdant Oregon rainforest. There, among all the shades of green, we eventually distinguish a hooded-jacket-wearing figure ... no, it is two figures, carefully making their way through the dense undergrowth.