Climate Fest Brings Earth Day Home
Earth Day dates back to April 22, 1970 when Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson proposed a nationwide environmental “teach-in” to bring awareness to the threats that unbridled development held for the limited resources of the planet.
More than 50 years later, the need for environmental education...
The Shape of Water
All of Guillermo Del Toro’s movies (i.e. Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy), are lush, intensely sensual imaginings filled with scenes of dreamlike wonder. In The Shape of Water, sexuality finally takes center stage, and since Del Toro is the writer/director, the sexuality is like nothing ever seen before. The sexy female is an unlikely candidate named Elisa Espisito (Sally Hawkins), a mute, mousey, and orphaned Baltimore cleaning lady who mops up blood in a top-secret laboratory. The sexy male is even more unlikely. He is “The Asset” (Doug Jones), an amphibious Creature From the Black Lagoon-stye humanoid stolen by the American military as “research” from the Amazon River.
How Democracies Die: A conversation with Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky
Don’t miss a special evening with Occidental native, Daniel Ziblatt, currently Harvard Professor of Government and co-author of the best seller “How Democracies Die,” at Occidental Center for the Arts on Friday, May 18 at 7 p.m. (THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.) This enlightening (and frightening) new book examines the ways democracies die at the hands, not of generals, but of elected leaders. The authors outline several key ways this happens, drawing from global examples, then show how those same processes are at work in our own country.
The second annual Blue & White Ball, “Cruise to the Tropics,”
will be held Saturday evening, Feb. 25 from 5:30 until 11:30
Healdsburg Happenings, April 25
More than 30 wineries will participate in the 33rd annual Passport to Dry Creek taste-around, the Community Chorus appears this weekend, Brazilian jazz at the Hotel Healdsburg and other events upcoming nearby.
Don’t Let the Music Stop
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...