Free Will Astrology, Aug. 12-18
ARIES (March 21-April 19): At the post office, I mischievously plucked a crumpled piece of red paper out of the trash can. I don’t usually do such things, but I sensed some horoscope material was lurking there. It turned out to be a handwritten...
Free Will Astrology, Aug. 5-11
CANCER: If you knew you were going to live to 95 in reasonably good health, what additional careers or adventures might you pursue? Visualize your lifespan stretching out before you like a wide winding road...
Free Will Astrology, July 29 – Aug. 4
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Neurologists say that when you vividly imagine performing an action like shooting a basketball or playing piano, your brain activates many of the same networks it uses in real practice. In other words, mental rehearsal can measurably improve your actual performance. Many athletes use this trick. Do you?
Free Will Astrology, July 22-28
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Authentic love songs are rare. Much of contemporary music leans toward infatuation, sex, heartbreak and fury, while few artists seem interested in singing unabashedly about unique expressions of tenderness and enduring devotion. In the months ahead, Aries, your inner life...
California Sipping: Brucato Spirits’ Sierra Clark
Sierra Clark, cofounder and CEO of Brucato Spirits, lives in San Francisco, but the inspiration behind their original core amaros are all found in Sonoma County.
Her signature amaros (bittersweet, herbal liqueurs traditionally served neat as a digestif or in cocktails) are named for what...
Gallery: Fourth of July 2026
A Gallery of images by Rick Tang from the Juy 4, 2025 Celebration in the Healdsburg Plaza, presented by the City of Healdsburg and Healdsburg Sunrise Rotary.
New director for 50-year-old Wine Road
In what could be termed a generational change, a new executive director of Wine Road of Northern Sonoma County—better known by the short form, Wine Road—was named to take over the 50-year old organization this month. Katie Ambrosi replaces Beth Costa after her 26-year leadership.
Live Voting Comes to Healdsburg’s Pride Month Fashion Show
This article was contributed by Dappradar
What happens when a small-town runway, glowing with handmade banners and rainbow streamers, meets a smartphone in every pocket? In Healdsburg, the answer has been unfolding in real time at the city's Pride Month fashion show, where audiences no...
Twilight Parade, Fair are the real Healdsburg
Things are taking shape for the 77th annual Healdsburg Future Farmers Country Fair, perhaps the most thoroughly Healdsburg event on the calendar. Between the culinary “Experience” of last weekend and the oncoming “Edge” of next month, it’s as if history grabs us by the nape and says, “Pay attention to now!”
Savoring the flavors of the local
“We traveled a lot when I was growing up. I’m an only child, and so that made it feasible.” That broad background in travel came to define Liza Gershman’s journey, although it was as a photographer that she began to build a career,
Arts & Entertainment
The secret screenwriter in our midst
Last week we visited screenwriter Michael Tolkin at his Healdsburg home and, joined by his daughter and caregiver Emma, sat down with a cup of tea and talked movies with him for almost an hour. Soon we were talking about what may be his most successful movie, The Player, in which Tim Robbins is stalked by a failed screenwriter. (Spoiler alert: Robbins ...
