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November 8, 2025

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.  

Several local grocery stores

have joined a global movement to protect the world's fisheries

A very sweet Fair

Crafts Faire moves

The Christmas Crafts Faire is moving to Sebastopol, after 23

A few Wine & Food events

Fieldstone Winery will present a free jazz

Oscar Nominated Shorts

It’s been over a decade since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) decided it was a wise (and popular) move to bundle the Oscar-nominated shorts together and release them in theaters just before the gold statuettes are awarded. All three of the 2018 collections are being screened locally.

Hunger Awareness Day is June 3

Members of local government, the media, business and non-profits

A few Wine & Food events

In the mood to celebrate the romance of Valentine's Day

BloodRoot Ramble: Concert With a Cause

Kelly & Noah Dorrance
Healdsburg is where you find airy and coastal-feeling tasting rooms and quaint vineyards spanning the slopes of Sonoma County. In contrast, The Ramble is a sexy, loud and grungy indie-rock music festival with bold orangey-red colorways and skull motifs throughout the marketing. The two shouldn’t mix, but they do at the Ramble...
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