Local Boy Makes Movie: ‘War of the Wills’
Maybe not everybody has dreams of making a movie when they grow up, but George Dondero sure did.
Now, 40 years after he used to watch second-run films at the old Aven Theater on North Street, today known as the Raven—films like Enter the Dragon,...
Peruse the past during the Sonoma County Archive Crawl
The West County Museum will be participating in a county-wide event named Archive Crawl on Saturday, Oct. 5 from 1 to 4 p.m. This is a rare and unusual, behind-the-scenes look at our museum.
Gentrification Onstage at the Raven
The roots of racism run deep in the American housing market. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry addressed it in 1959 with A Raisin in the Sun, the first play written by an African-American woman performed on Broadway and the first to have an African-American director.
Playwright Bruce...
Wine and Swine Make for a Fine Time
The essential Healdsburg event to see and be seen at this season was undoubtedly the 16th
annual celebration of Pigs & Pinot, which feted hundreds with its unique porcine pairings.
Hosted by chef and Healdsburg local Charlie Palmer at the Hotel Healdsburg and Dry Creek Kitchen,...
Healdsburg Happenings, March 14
The annual celebration of food and wine begins Friday, March 15, at 6:30pm at Hotel Healdsburg with Taste of Pigs & Pinot. These and other events listed in Healdsburg Happenings.
Screenings: Elysium
Good science fiction movies owe a great deal to their predecessors. For example, H.G. Wells created the “dying Earth” genre for humankind’s future in his classic novel The Time Machine way back in 1895. In Wells’ vision of a future Earth, mankind had evolved into the elegant, surface-dwelling Eloi and the prole-like, underground-living Morlocks.
Arts & Entertainment
Multicultural Center takes shape at Abel de Luna
Bursts of color explode from every corner and every angle of the newly repainted Abel de Luna Community Center on the north side of town. Fuchsia, sunflower, marigold, plum and chrysanthemum abut and juxtapose with one another on the many outside walls and columns, as two muralists work on their own visions of Healdsburg.
