A&E

Local bakers are producing cakes so pretty, it’s almost a shame to eat them. Almost.

Birds, bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects have particular palates.

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.

THS Play Beauty and the Beasts concludes its two-night run from The Healdsburg School (THS), with a cast of 94 students from the local K-8 school. Starts at 7pm at Rio Lindo Adventist Academy, 3200 Rio Lindo Ave. Tickets $20, children $15, at thehealdsburgschool.org/spring-musical. Labor Days The...

The roots of racism run deep in the American housing market. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry addressed it in 1959 with A Raisin in the Sun, the first play written by an African-American woman performed on Broadway and the first to have an African-American director. Playwright Bruce...

Last weekend for the play at the Raven, final weeks for the Barrel Room, Cloverdale's Friday Night Live and the Twilight Parade and Future Farmers Fair this weekend, and more...

Wine enthusiasts are set to scry the future during the first two weekends in March when the Wine Roads organization holds its Barrel Tasting event. For the 35th annual Barrel Tasting, on March 1-3 and 8-10, more than 120 wineries will be opening their doors and welcoming thousands of visitors to try wine straight from the barrel.

“There are usually some fun surprises for us in the line-up of our ‘Audience Favorites’ program,” said co-founder Pamela Demorest. “Some films resonate more with our audience than they did with our celebrity jury, and we always want our guests to feel like a vital part of the process.”