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September 15, 2025

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A Literary Laureate Reflects

Big Easy ‘Errors’ at West Plaza Park

Bohemian drama critic Harry Duke contributed this review. North Bay fans of Shakespeare “under the sun” have at least four options this summer, including two—count ’em—two different productions of Twelfth Night going up in Marin.  Sonoma County’s entry in this summer Shakespeare “fest” is The Comedy of...

Tsunami Triggers Jazz Response

When a 9.1 earthquake shook the ocean floor off the east coast of Japan on March 22, 2011, it was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the area. The massive “megathrust” earthquake triggered enormous tsunami waves that raced six miles inland and reached...

Hanna Winery

has launched a new VIP tasting program at its Alexander Valley

The Buzz Box

Power Breakfast

The Fishing Report: Dead or dying

I recently returned from my annual migration up to the Lower Klamath River.  Much like the salmon themselves I have been returning to the river year after year despite the gauntlet of obstacles placed in my way. Whether it was the downturn in the economy or family pressures to stay home, I always managed at least a few days on the river every September.

Motherhood by the numbers

In the 18 years it takes to bring a newborn to adulthood, Mom,

Bishop Brings Good-Time Blues Back to Town

The blues is many things—nothing but a bad dream, the devil’s music, a good man feeling bad and “the weirdest music I ever heard,” according to WC Handy. But the blues can also be a good time, and that’s the path that Elvin Bishop has...

That Texas Feeling…

Jess Williamson finds comfort as the outsider and strength in the “other” on Time Ain’t Accidental, an often brutally poignant chronicle of the healing miles between rejection and renewal. Less a “pandemic” album, more an awakening, Williamson navigates the crumbling structure of a relationship and...

Wineries donate $$ to food bank

The Sonoma County Wineries Foundation has donated $40,000 to the
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