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The theatrical treatments of two great American novels come alive on North Bay stages with mixed results in productions running through May 19.

6^th Street Playhouse is presenting Christopher Sergel’s adaptation

This week on Mouthful – Todd Knoll, executive chef of Jordan Winery, talks about harvest lunches, Halloween parties, making salt from seawater and more.

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Tom West of Sebastopol’s Wine Emporium visits Mouthful in this archive show from March 2014.

Host: Michele Anna Jordan.

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‘Tis the time for “Best of …” lists, so in the spirit of my illustrious predecessor and with a nod to the substantial differences in mounting a musical versus a play,

It’s said that musicals are the bread and butter of community theatre, so here’s a list of the North Bay productions I toasted this past year. Here are my top torn

Chronic Catastrophe is a four-episode podcast about the impacts of cumulative climate change-induced disasters on our minds, bodies and spirits. Ultimately, we ask the question: Is it worth the risk to our mental and physical health, and to our psyches, to continue to live in a place where disaster is unrelenting? Over the past four years, Sonoma County has seen a 100-year flood, a historic drought and six major wildfires that have killed 114 people, destroyed more than 18,000 buildings, caused more than half the county to evacuate their homes, and subjected us to months of bad air days and routine power shut-offs.

Firefighters miraculously saved Healdsburg and Windsor fromthe Kincade Fire. While they are always there to help prevent the loss of life,who is there to protect them?

Several state billscould help improve firefighters’ mental health.

California’s fire season is becoming longer and moredevastating. This is taking a toll on firefighters’ health. In yesterday’sNorth Bay Report, we

Transcendence Theatre Company’s Broadway Under the Stars
Jack London State Historic Park
2019 Season

This award-winning series of Broadway-inspired concerts and performances in Sonoma’s Wine Country features incredible talent from the

Transcendence’s Broadway Holiday Spectacular
Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
December 6 – 8, 2019
Napa Valley Performing Arts

A very special episode of Mouthful: this week, as Traverso’s market celebrates what would have been Rico Traverso’s hundredth birthday, Mouthful joins in, with a rebroadcast of a 1998 interview with

A very special episode of Mouthful: this week, as Traverso’s market celebrates what would have been Rico Traverso’s hundredth birthday, Mouthful joins in, with a rebroadcast of a 1998 interview with

Book Launch: Julianne Skai Arbor “TreeGirl – Intimate Encounters with Wild Nature”
Occidental Center for the Arts
Sunday, January 15th, 2017 @ 12:00pm

In her new book, TreeGirl: Intimate Encounters with

Book Launch: Julianne Skai Arbor “TreeGirl – Intimate Encounters with Wild Nature”
Occidental Center for the Arts
Sunday, January 15th, 2017 @ 12:00pm

In her new book, TreeGirl: Intimate Encounters with

Trinidad Escobar and Maia Kobabe are two talented artists and writers with MA degrees in “Comics” from the California College of Arts, who create distinctively different comic books and graphic novels.

The road to bringing a movie theater back to Healdsburg started over a decade ago.

Helen’s Crusade – Trula M. Calle’s Book Launch
Occidental Center for the Arts
Sunday, October 13, 2019 @ 3:00 pm

Twelve schools in Sonoma County have submitted applications for waivers to start in-person learning. County Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mase is reviewing the waivers and expects to have a determination by the end of the week.  KRCB’s Adia White reports.

 

 

 

Twisted Christmas Live!
Spreckels Performing Arts Center
Sunday, December 9th, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

David Templeton’s Twisted Christmas Live! Is back again… And weirder than ever.

Enjoy an evening of offbeat

On this final week of this last month of the decade, webring you two favorite conversations of this past year. Both

Two Lions Band
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
Friday, May 5th, 2017 @ 7:30pm

Once Upon a time… The Two Lions band was created to showcase the music of Mitchel Slade.

The pain of losing a loved one doesn’t ever go away. It justchanges and becomes a part of daily

I don’t know anyone who attends theatre to reinforce their belief that life is simply a series of travails to be endured until the sweet release of death, but if you’re

Up Street Music Patrons
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Up Street Music Patrons is a California

If your taste in musicals runs to the light, bouncy, and life-affirming, you might want to take a pass on

Urinetown: The Musical
Spreckels Theater Company
February 14 – March 1, 2020

In response

Ustad Shaffaat Khan & East Meets West
Paul Mahder Gallery
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 @ 7:30 pm

Brave New Music will present the world-renowned Indian classical musician Ustad Shafaat Khan at

History, culture, and strong women are at the core of the two novels: The History Makers by Val Bodurtha and The Ballet Lover by Barbara Baer. You’ll want to remember these

For Valentine’s Day, Mouthful presents poems and stories that explore the intersection of the heart, the kitchen and the vineyard along with a couple of special treats to delight your inner

For Valentine’s Day, Mouthful presents poems and stories that explore the intersection of the heart, the kitchen and the vineyard along with a couple of special treats to delight your inner

Valley of the Moon Music Festival
Hanna Center Auditorium
July 14th – 29th, 2018

Vienna in Transition: From the Enlightenment to the Dawn of Modernism.

Valley of the Moon

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Raven Players Healdsburg
April 19^th – May 5^th, 2019

Middle-aged siblings Vanya and

Verity Military & Veterans Services
Ongoing Services in Sonoma County

Verity offers free, confidential services for survivors of military sexual trauma (MST) who are residents of Sonoma County.

MST is a

Poetry Camp Among The Sculptures
Paradise Ridge Winery
Friday, June 23rd, 2017 @ 9:30am – 2:00pm

Voigt Family Sculpture Foundations presents “Poetry Camp Among the Sculptures”. This camp is for students

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Adam Parks of Victorian Farmstead talks about grass-fed meat,
pastured eggs and chickens and more. Mary Moore-Campagna fills in for Michele, who is stuck in Angwin.

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Adam Parks talks about the history and future of Sebastopol’s Victorian Farmstead, his family’s long-time Christmas Tree Farm that now offers pastured eggs and chicken, grass-fed lamb, pork and beef, signature

Vieux Farka Touré
Live Music Lantern
Sunday, April 30th, 2017 @ 7:00pm

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear the world renown African guitarist, Vieux Farka Touré and his band

Crack open a bottle of wine for Valentine’s Day today. Localgrape growers, faced with declining production, will thank you.

David Cook, who manages vineyards for a number of localproducers, was

Vintner’s Chamber Orchestra
Schroeder Hall – Sonoma State University
Friday, February 16th, 2018 @ 7:30

Vintner’s Chamber Orchestra Preview Concert.

Please join us for an evening of exquisite music for string

Vintner’s Chamber Orchestra
Concert at Buena Vista Winery
May 12th, 2018 @ 6:00 pm

An enchanted evening featuring Vintner’s Chamber Orchestra, located in our outside Fountain Courtyard (weather permitting), otherwise the