Corazón Brings Los Lobos Back to Town
Corazón Healdsburg, the 7-year-old community services nonprofit, called on some old friends to help kick off Hispanic Heritage Month. Once called “just another band from East L.A.,” four-time Grammy Award-winning Los Lobos will return to the Raven Theater on Oct. 1 to celebrate their...
‘Merry Healdsburg’ Warms Up City Celebration
Healdsburg is pulling out all the stops for this year’s Holiday Weekend, which kicks off with the Lighting of the Tree on Friday night, Dec. 2, at 6:30. Crews have been decorating the tree all week with lights and ornaments, and it will culminate...
Riverkeeper Head Recalls Local Icon, Activist Marty Griffin
Environmental pioneer and Westside Road winemaker Dr. Martin Griffin died this week at his home in Belvedere, Marin County. He was 103 years old. One of his proteges, Don McEnhill of Russian Riverkeeper, tells of the impact Griffin had on his life.
Healdsburg ‘Experience’ Returns for 2nd Year
A robust four days of special wine tastings and pairing seminars, bespoke lunches and dinners, cooking demonstrations, cocktail parties and a live outdoor concert at Rodney Strong Vineyards shines a glamorous light on Healdsburg this weekend, the second year of the Healdsburg Food &...
Storm KOs tree, Power Line on Reed Court
It has been called a lot of things: the Pineapple Express, Atmospheric Rivers, a Cyclone Bomb and the Open Storm Door. Whether or not Healdsburg residents need to come up with their own name for it, there’s every indication the January Storms of ’22...
‘Blood Harmony’ on the Winery Stage
The sister duo of Rebecca and Megan Lovell, who make up the band Larkin Poe, have been nothing if not prolific during their career, releasing six full-length studio albums and five EPs, while guesting on a variety of releases by other artists over the...
BloodRoot Ramble: Concert With a Cause
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...
Best of Food and Drink 2024
Best Coastal Cuvée of Wine & Vibe
For locals who just want a good glass of wine—minus tourist crowds and party vibe—Marine Layer Wines might be the spot. It won this year's Best Tasting Room category in Healdsburg, and that's saying something. This isn’t just...
Now more than ever, Sonoma County youth are struggling with mental health
As more and more youth experience negative mental health impacts fueled by years of natural disasters and a pandemic, local school counselors and mental health experts are seeing an uptick in requests by adolescents for social-emotional support.
“We see students experiencing social-emotional effects due to...
Prayers for Peace and Community
By Christian Kallen
Candlelight illuminated the faces of some 75 people under the Plaza gazebo roof an hour after sundown on Saturday, Nov. 11. The human circle was not just present to enact the ritual of Havdalah, to begin a new week at the conclusion...
Arts & Entertainment
From tragedy to farce on local stages
This coming weekend sees three shows hit the floorboards, with another in the wings. From Cloverdale to Windsor, and back to Healdsburg.






















