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In The Florida Project, writer /director/editor Sean Baker takes us to a place most of us would only get stuck in if we took the wrong exit on a trip to Walt Disney World. It is a neighborhood of huge, bright orange juice stands, cheap Disney knock-offs sold beneath the spreading arms of a garish plaster wizard, gun shops that advertise “shoot real machine guns,” discount gas stations, abandoned condominium projects, and a couple of super-cheap motels ironically-named Magic Castle and Future Land. Both places are inhabited by people who wish they were somewhere else, but are still glad to have a place to sleep, clean sheets and towels, and a swimming pool. Many residents are “semi-permanent” meaning that they have to move out of their rooms for one night every month so the motels won’t lose their licenses.

New exhibit at the Healdsburg Museum on the 1970s... St Vincent at Little Saint... Mardis Gras at St. John the Baptist... and more this week in Healdsburg.

Little Saint on North Street offers weekly appearances of singer-songwriters percolating just under the Hot 100, on Thursdays. Tonight, Sept. 12, hear Santa Clara Valley troubadour Margo Cilker. This and more A&E calendar news here ...

Healdsburg Museum: Wayne Padd’s model train on display through Jan. 8, along with “Stories Behind the Structures,” a local architecture exhibit. Open 11am-4pm, Wednesdays through Sundays.  Good Morning Healdsburg: The Healdsburg Chamber holds a public meeting at 8am on the first Thursday of every month...