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For a town that’s changing so quickly, Healdsburg sure loves tradition. Whether it’s the second annual Merry Healdsburg or the 73rd annual Redwood Empire Invitational Basketball Tournament—or 100 years of Prune Packer baseball at Rec Park—this is a town that values and honors its...

In 2023, North Bay theater companies produced a variety of excellent musicals, including Evil Dead: The Musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Side by Side by Sondheim, Something Rotten!, A Little Night Music, Side by Side by Sondheim, and Tuck Everlasting, which showcased the talent of the younger generation.

Don’t expect dragon parades or a lantern festival at the Healdsburg Plaza this Sunday, Feb. 5.  Instead, a number of nonprofits and community volunteers will be holding a Lunar New Year festival. Drumming, jazz, tai chi and Asian-American street food will be part of...

Fun RunThe annual Healdsburg Turkey Trot kicks off at 8am on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23. Start and finish are at 333 Center St. in front of Healdsburg Running Company. The 5k run supports the Drew Esquivel Memorial Scholarship. Registration $25 adults, $20 under 12,...

For the next month, the Rialto will be home to the 24th annual Jewish Film Festival. The festival, which is put on by Sonoma County’s Jewish Community Center, will be showing films on select days from Oct. 10 to Nov. 12.

After a season of diverse musical performers at Healdsburg’s Tuesday in the Plaza concerts, the city doubled down with a Latino-focused finale, featuring the return of Rocio y Su Sonora, a Ballet Folklorico interlude and free giveaway of shopping bags—bilingual, of course. Rocio La Dama...

When the 101 freeway was finally built to go around the town of Cloverdale instead of through it, a window of opportunity opened to revamp the downtown core.

When I say that shrubs are my new obsession, I’m not talking about the garden variety.  A shrub (of the drinking variety) is a concentrated syrup of sugar, fruit and vinegar that is most often based on apple cider vinegar. These delicious tart little syrups...

Live theater returns to the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center (CPAC) with Elvis Has Left the Building.  It’s a farcical look at what was going on in the Colonel’s office that December of 1970 when Presley went to Washington. Written by mother and son team V....