Sonoma Botanical Garden’s Sunday Funday series returns this summer, kicking off Sunday, June 22 and then picking back up Sunday, July 13 and finally, Sunday, Aug. 10. Packed with fun for all ages, ...

Translator and educator Nancy Morales didn’t expect a former student’s invitation to join a literary translation project to blossom into a multi-book endeavor. But it did—and over the next several ...

Grief leaves its mark in silence, in questions, and sometimes—in stories. When Susan Swartz died by suicide in 2020, the columnist’s daughter, bestselling ghostwriter Samantha Rose, began writing ...

A brand new organization has just formed in Sonoma County called Petaluma People’s Pride. It is “a grassroots collective working to build intersectional networks that foster connection and center ...

As a result, venues, restaurants and events tend to give the most attention to people who drink. They design extensive menus of craft beers, craft custom cocktails and advertise various flights of ...

One wakes up and scrolls past footage of a protest at Tesla—scroll—a cooking video—scroll—a joke—scroll—and then asks their AI assistant if it’s going to rain. They drive to work listening to a ...

Pride celebrations are nothing new in the North Bay. Dating back to at least the 1960s, LGBTQ+ culture has thrived in Sonoma and Marin counties. As Pride Month approaches, long standing events and ...

That’s the crux of Matt Schatz’s The Burdens, a darkly comic tale now running at The 222 in Healdsburg through June 1. Jane (Lizzie Calogero) and Mordy (Brady Morales-Woolery) are siblings who, like ...

Federal agents arrested Sonoma real estate developer Kenneth W. Mattson, 63, on Thursday following a sweeping indictment alleging a long-running Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of investors—many ...

It’s not often a Monday feels like a Friday night, but such was the magic conjured when LA LOM lit up the Lagunitas Amphitheater on May 26. The Los Angeles League of Musicians—fresh from their ...

Fixing Forests I just visited the redwood country and wilderness forests that stretch from the cool coastal range to snow-topped alpine ridges in the interior mountains in Northern California. Hiking ...

President Joe Biden’s recent disclosure of an aggressive, metastatic prostate cancer diagnosis has cast a somber shadow over the Democratic Party. The cancer, characterized by a high Gleason score of ...