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The Tuesday Night on the Plaza music series is over for the year, but that doesn’t mean all the guitars and drums have been put away until next May. In fact, September is shaping up to be a pretty busy month for musical diversion—if...

Where to sip unique, obscure and rarely planted Italian grape varieties in Sonoma County? Arneis, Biancollella, Cortese, Fiano, Freisa, Favorita, Grignolino… If you haven’t heard of some (or any) of these grapes, you aren’t alone. These are just a few of the unique, obscure or rarely...

It’s been five years since Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley last took the stage in Healdsburg. That changes this Saturday, Aug. 27, when Steven Kent brings them back to town with his Cash & King show on the Raven stage.  Okay, so it’s not really...

Fall is usually marked by the local theater community with a series of ambitious announcements heralding the shows each company plans to produce for their new season. COVID continues to be a factor as companies optimistically make plans while struggling to fill casts and schedule...

Leave it to Jessica Felix to slip in a Brazilian jazz mini-festival this year after all. Saturday night, Aug. 20, the guitar duo Romero Lubambo and Chico Pinheiro perform at 7pm. The next night they play at a champagne reception and double-bill concert, with...

Healdsburg is a town with history on every streetcorner, and sometimes halfway down the block too. The new exhibit at the Healdsburg Museum, “Stories Behind the Structures," makes that point through the historic architecture still found throughout the city – representing the full deck...

Paul Simon’s plaintive lyrics and doleful delivery on his Graceland album made Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo an international sensation.  The group contributed to three tracks on the album, including “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” and “Homeless,” about being displaced by natural...

Steven David Martin has been the artistic director of Healdsburg’s Raven Players for nine years now. He “cut his theatrical teeth” on Shakespeare with his first professional job at the California Shakespeare Festival and has worked as both an actor and director with the...

The world’s most popular playwright brings another show to Healdsburg this month—a four-week run of Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare.  The comedy is one of several of Shakespeare’s that includes gender-shifting characters, which adds both to the comedy and the modernity of the play. The...

One may recognize Leonard Gershe’s Butterflies are Free, written and set in 1969, from the film adaptation starring Goldie Hawn. The Cloverdale Performing Arts Center (CPAC) stages its production of Butterflies running through July 31. Loosely inspired by the early life of blind Harvard-educated lawyer...