THE FISHING REPORT: Salmon season opens this weekend – by Hunt Conrad
Season openers are always a great source of optimism but there is no greater fishing opener than the ocean salmon season. This year’s ocean salmon season opener is being met with higher than normal expectations because of the tremendously high projection by the Pacific Fisheries Management Council for the amount of Salmon that are swimming in our oceans. This was based on the higher than normal jack (juvenile salmon) returns to the rivers last fall. Many in the know are cautiously optimistic because their projections have been known to be wildly inaccurate. But to most, any good news is welcome especially regarding the health of our fisheries and is cause for optimism.
Rockabilly ‘Rev’ Plays the Psychobilly Hits
Rev. Horton Heat's music has been labeled psychobilly, alt-rock and latter-wave rockabilly, and he’s well versed in not only some of the same ground the Stray Cats trod, but also old-school country and blues.
Screenings: The Day I Saw Your Heart
Well, not your heart exactly. You see, “The Day I Saw Your Heart” is the title of a complicated family dramedy that screens next Thursday as part of the Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival. Presented by the Jewish Community Center of Sonoma County, the Film Fest spent a decade at the Rialto’s old home on Summerfield Road in Santa Rosa, and set up temporarily at the 6th Street playhouse, but since Ky Boyd’s Rialto Cinemas has finally moved to Sebastopol, the Jewish Film Festival once again has a permanent home.
Sonoma County hosts its first ever all Black artists, Black-curated exhibition
The Museum of Sonoma County opened a new show June 25. Collective Arising: The Insistence of Black Bay Area Artists will run through Nov. 27.
The show is co-curated by Ashara Ekundayo and Lucia Olubunmi R. Momoh, and features work from 11 different artists, all...









