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here’s quite the variety of live theater from which to choose to warm our hearts and minds, and to escape the North Bay’s cold winter nights. Harry Duke points out a few shows worth seeing...

“Vroom! Toys on the Go,” this year’s holiday exhibition at Healdsburg Museum, features toy vehicles collected by the late Steve Castelli and a model train display from Wayne Padd. Continues only through Jan. 19 and definitely worth a visit, Wednesdays through Sundays, 11am to 4pm. 221 Matheson St.

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From its casting to its settings to its all-important musical choices, James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown is an electrifying, irresistibly engaging portrait of one of America’s unique originals, Bob Dylan. Covering the years from Dylan’s 1961 arrival in New York City from Minnesota to the time just before his serious 1966 motorcycle accident, the film depicts the artist’s life and times in sumptuous detail...

City of Healdsburg offices reopen for business on Monday, Jan. 6, including a City Council meeting that night that will include the second “public hearing” of the transition to district elections. 6pm, 401 Grant St. and online at healdsburg.gov/zoom.

Join a community candle lighting on Thursday, Dec. 26, organized by the new organization Jewish Healdsburg. Gather in the Plaza beginning at 5pm for the lighting of the second candle of the menorah at 5:30pm. The Hanukkah celebration will continue until 7pm at Acorn Café... This and other events this week and net in our 'Holiday Happenings' calendar...

“Toys on the Go” is the theme of the holiday exhibition at Healdsburg Museum, featuring toy vehicles and a model train display. Plus musical talent, holiday activities and more to do in Healdsburg, the little town that does...

Now widely known as The Harlem Nutcracker, it was one of several suites Ellington and Strayhorn wrote for Columbia, as well as film scores and other work. “One of the things that he and Columbia Records talked about was him and Billy Strayhorn doing a sort of Nutcracker Suite” just in time for the Christmas 1960 record-selling season, Marcus Shelby said.

Annual fundraiser for Healdsburg Rotary Club to fund scholarship programs for Healdsburg High School students: an “all you can eat” crab dinner, a silent auction and a live auction MC’d by local personalities. Villa Chanticleer, Dec. 14, plus more events this week.

Steve Castelli, a model car enthusiast and drag racer, had a toy vehicle collection that was legendary; with the assistance of his daughter, Tina Castelli, the Healdsburg Museum assembled these mechanical wonders, "a tribute not only to Steve, but to forward motion itself.”