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March 15, 2026

THE BUZZZ BOX Conjectures, Etceteras

Martin Luther King's birthday

Screenings

The Way, Way Back

Sweetest little fair in the county

The Gravenstein Apple Fair, sponsored by Sonoma County Farm

Todd Snider Back in the ’Burg

Todd Snider is pretty much who, and what, he says he is: an alright guy. He’s a bit shaggy, his wardrobe does not appear well thought out, and for years he performed barefoot on stage, with his dog, Cowboy Jim, napping a few feet...

Healdsburg Center for the Arts has found a new home

After 20 years at the same quaint location at 130 Plaza St., the Healdsburg Center for the Arts (HCA) will be taking up new digs at 334 Center St. — the current home of Plaza Paints — and will reopen this fall.

Vital Living: Pleasure versus happiness

At the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco last Tuesday, I chaired a program on Food Addiction. The panel included doctors, clinicians, and scientists from all over the country and Canada. It was an incredible event and everyone learned so much; the physical elements of food addiction such as dopamine release, (ah, pleasure…) the correlation of fats/salt and sugar to food addiction, and certainly the psychology behind food addiction were so interesting. Then there are policy implications by acknowledging food addiction as ‘real’ –a program in itself.  

Healdsburg Happenings, Oct. 16-24

Protestors at the Healdsburg Roundabout
Second major march against the Trump administration’s trespass of constitutional powers, on Saturday Oct. 18 from 11am to 1pm. Location is the same as the June 14 demonstration, from the Roundabout south to the Hwy 101 intersection. And more events this week in Healdsburg...

Firehouse pancakes

Playin’ That Devil Music: Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’

Michael B. Jordan in 'Sinners'
Words like “visionary,” “electrifying,” “exhilarating,” “transcendent” and “breathtaking” get thrown around with abandon (by myself included) to describe much lesser films than Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. So I will try not to be overly precious in relating to you how special this movie is.

SCREENINGS

Because Sirius, the “dog star” is prominent in the heavens
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