Healdsburg Happenings, July 3-11
Independence Day begins in Healdsburg at 10am with the traditional Kids Parade and Duck Dash, live music and activities for all including games, races and music. More fun later this week with our Healdsburg events calendar.
Raven goes retro with ‘Home, I’m Darling’
Playwright Laura Wade’s "Home, I'm Honey" considers what happens to a contemporary young married couple when they embark on a lifestyle change that revolves around immersion into the world of 1950s Britain. See the Raven Players work it out on stage until May 25...
Seizing plastic from trees County eyes restricting single use bags
A white plastic bag decorates a bare willow branch where I live beside the Russian River. On sunny winter mornings the plastic stands out as an odd white smear against a background of green redwoods and dormant grey willows.
Calendar: March 19-27
Humorist David Nihill returns to the Raven on Sunday, where last year he built a connection with the local audience as he developed his Irish-American act. Plus times, dates and addresses of other upcoming events...
Lady Bird
Opening with Joan Didion’s quote: “Anyone who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.” writer/director Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age movie, Lady Bird, proves that the universality of high school angst can be fresh, alive and exciting. The title is the self-chosen nick-name of a Sacramento teen (2-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan) attending an all girls Catholic high school in 2002. As her overly critical mother (2-time Emmy and Tony Award-winner Laurie Metcalf) keeps reminding her, they can’t really afford the private school tuition, but are forced to because her older brother, Miguel (Jordan Rodrigues), “saw a knifing right in front of him” at the public school.
