The Shows Must Go On
Fall is usually marked by the local theater community with a series of ambitious announcements heralding the shows each company plans to produce for their new season.
COVID continues to be a factor as companies optimistically make plans while struggling to fill casts and schedule...
Healdsburg Happenings, Feb. 29
The Fry Quartet performs Friday night, March 1, at The 222, following their Feb. 29 climate crisis film Rising Tide at 7pm.
Friday night lights burning brighter than ever
On any given Friday night during the fall, millions of people
AVFest Delivers 10 Days of Films
The ninth annual AVFest will return to northern Sonoma County Friday, April 28 through Sunday, May 7, bringing 10 days of indie film screenings with wine country flavor to Cloverdale and Healdsburg, promises AVFilm.
Opening in Cloverdale, AVFest kicks off with a block party on...
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,...
Vital Living: Pleasure versus happiness
At the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco last Tuesday, I chaired a program on Food Addiction. The panel included doctors, clinicians, and scientists from all over the country and Canada. It was an incredible event and everyone learned so much; the physical elements of food addiction such as dopamine release, (ah, pleasure…) the correlation of fats/salt and sugar to food addiction, and certainly the psychology behind food addiction were so interesting. Then there are policy implications by acknowledging food addiction as ‘real’ –a program in itself.