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March 17, 2026

The Music of Shakespeare on Sept. 19

“Here we sit and let the sounds of music creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night become the touches of sweet harmony.”

‘Butterflies are Free’ Takes CPAC stage

One may recognize Leonard Gershe’s Butterflies are Free, written and set in 1969, from the film adaptation starring Goldie Hawn. The Cloverdale Performing Arts Center (CPAC) stages its production of Butterflies running through July 31. Loosely inspired by the early life of blind Harvard-educated lawyer...

Summer’s school of hard rock

'School of Rock' on stage
Andrew Lloyd Webber bought the stage rights to the 2003 Richard Linklater/Mike White film starring Jack Black and joined with playwright Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey!) and lyricist Glen Slater (The Little Mermaid) to bring the tale of Dewey Finn’s transformation of a group of prep school students into rock stars to Broadway as a musical. It's now at the Raven Theater in Healdsburg.

Golden spoils

GE-Free leaders talk about crops

The Sierra Club will host one of its environmental forums on

The Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation Ag Trust

will host a retirement party for longtime SRJC Ag instructor Jim

Living with Grace

The holiday season is a good time to reflect on the graces in our lives. I have a birthday in November, as does one of my brothers; my youngest daughter was born on December 4, and many friends are November-December babies. I live in a warm, garden-friendly area of California, and I travel to the sunny Texas deserts in the winter. I am relatively healthy and have a full family and a loving husband and friends. So yes, I feel blessed and content and I like to use this time to think about what I can do to maintain these gifts, but also to ponder what more I can do to pay back a society that has given me so much.

Healdsburg Happenings, Sept. 28

Design Dialog“Holding Sustainable Development Accountable” is the title of the Thursday, Sept. 28, discussion at CraftWork. Architects of Silver Oak, Harmon House and Enso Village interact, with refreshments. 445 Center St., 5:30pm. Joni SituationKate Foley-Beining performs songs of Joni Mitchell with Christian Foley-Beining on guitar,...

Christmas music like it used to be, with swing

Now widely known as “The Harlem Nutcracker,” Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn wrote it for Columbia Records, along with film scores and other work. It was met with a sensational reception

Tuesdays in the Plaza

Terri Odabi performs on June 28 with the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra.
The city’s Parks and Recreation Department was finally able to release the schedule for the popular Tuesdays in the Plaza series, which began May 31 and will run through the summer until Aug. 30, from 6 to 8pm. This is the only time of...
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