Running the Wine Country Healthy diversion or aversion therapy?
One recent morning, I found myself signing up for yet another half marathon and briefly pulled up short at the following question: Why are you registering for the Marin Half Marathon?
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.
The All-Too-Brief Run of ‘Asher Lev’
Bohemian drama critic Harry Duke contributed this review.
In the 10-or-so years I’ve been doing theater journalism, I’ve probably seen close to one thousand shows, with about one-third of them being productions of Mamma Mia!—though The Addams Family Musical is rapidly approaching that number.
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Classic Mustangs to Fly at Wings Over Wine Country
A small squadron flies to honor those who served in World War II
Screenings: Beasts of the Southern Wild
In the fairy tales of old, peasants survive in squalor while palaces glitter in the distance; magic is wielded when heroes evolve from unlikely origins; a mercurial Mother Nature is both friend and enemy, and mysterious deadly beasts travel the land.
Screenings: Our critic liked “Stronger”
In Stronger, Jeff Bauman goes to see the Boston Marathon to impress a girl named Erin, and loses his legs to a terrorist’s bomb. His obnoxious family rushes to the hospital and continues to scream at each other throughout the film. In contrast, Erin’s demeanor is reserved. She dumped Jeff before the race, was wary of meeting him at the finish line, and is challenged by his injury and subsequent double amputation. But she still shows up to be at his bedside and takes a slew of undisguised verbal abuse from Jeff’s alcoholic mother. In addition, two other issues take center stage: the unflinchingly realistic portrayal of Jeff’s recuperation, and the constant pressure exerted by the Boston community to have Jeff be their “poster boy” for the “Boston Strong” mantra.
Lyle Lovett can’t escape Texas
“There’s a tendency among Texas musicians to sing about where they’re from and exude a sense of confidence,” Lyle Lovett said in a baritone drawl that’s as dryly understated as his sense of humor. “And I think having a sense of the place where you belong gives any soul on this earth a confidence that allows them to speak up.
