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, ...

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 ...

Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside is an odd play. It’s about people who may or may not exist and things that may or may not have happened. It’s a story being told about a story being told about a story ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amber Turpin: How did you get into this work? Charles Bililies: I’ve been on a long and windy road with restaurants and hospitality for more than half my life now.From delis, to line cooking in chain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...