Summer baseball league race all but over
To no one’s surprise, the Healdsburg Prune Packers begin the last full week of PEL (Pacific Empire League) play on Wednesday with an unassailable 5.5 game lead over two second-place teams, their 20 wins against only three losses demonstrating their dominance. With only three or four games left for each team, a different pennant winner is impossible.
Healdsburg Happenings, July 25 – Aug. 1
Guelaguetza: Enjoy traditional dances from all eight regions of Oaxaca, performed by folkloric and Indigenous groups, with live music throughout the day. Sunday, July 27, 10am-6pm.
Songs, spicy food and wine at SIP Healdsburg
Patrick Davis, writer of a number of successful songs for other artists, organizes the SIP series. He founded the SIP series in the Bahamas in 2013; it's their fourth appearance in Healdsburg, now underway.
Swamp sisters in Southern Gothic play
Reviewer Harry Duke last spent time with The Sugar Bean Sisters eight years ago at a production by the Spreckels Theatre Company in Rohnert Park. His general reaction at the time was that it was a very strange show. If anything, now it's stranger.
Healdsburg Happenings, July 17-25
'Holes,' an early Shia LaBeouf movie from 2003 about a mysterious desert camp for delinquents, should make for an entertaining PG family night at the Healdsburg Plaza. With Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight and Henry Winkler, directed by Andrew Davis ('The Fugitive'). Bring blankets, low chairs and snacks. Free, opens at 7pm, movie after 8pm.
Beck’s surprise appearance in Healdsburg next month
Beck, one of pop music's most influential artists, will drop by Healdsburg's Little Saint on Sunday, Aug. 10 — the solo performance following a high-profile appearance at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 8.
4th of July Kids Parade: A Gallery of Winners
Always a cheerleader for Healdsburg, Sen. Mike McGuire was an energetic highlight of the Fourth of July celebration in the Plaza, introducing the winners of the Kids Parade...
‘Narcan Squad’ makes antidote available to all
On Wednesdays for the past few weeks, a band of lifesavers has walked the streets of Healdsburg, popping into shops and talking to owners and store managers about Narcan. Two retired physicians, David Anderson and Walter Maack, join Jeff McGee, the police department’s Social Services team member, and sometimes other members of the Harm Reduction Coalition.
‘Breathtaking kineticism’ carries new auto racing movie
If you’re into Formula One and racing movies, it’s absurdly entertaining watching Pitt and Idris doing what appears to be a lot of their own driving. At the end of the day, when movies hit all the stereotypical sport movie beats, it can be comforting...
Police Log, June 23 – 29
9:38pm A woman on Powell Avenue near the laundromat screamed at people and asked for marijuana and beer. An officer contacted the woman and she agreed to quiet down.