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Reviewer Harry Duke last spent time with The Sugar Bean Sisters eight years ago at a production by the Spreckels Theatre Company in Rohnert Park. His general reaction at the time was that it was a very strange show. If anything, now it's stranger.

Devon Zuegel, founder and president of Esmeralda Land Company, and Michael Yarne, its director of development, stood before an often skeptical audience of close to 300 at the Cloverdale Veterans Memorial Building on Feb. 5 to explain, and defend once again, their ambitious plans for a “Chautauqua of the West” on former logging, Masonite and gravel mining property in Cloverdale.

As the months roll by, the Healdsburg Library Modernization Project continues along its steady path. Week by week, the contractors complete one task after another, bringing us closer to the reopening of the 139 Piper St. library we all know and love.

The grumbling attained legal emphasis  just after Christmas, when on Dec. 26 Healdsburg attorney Jon Eisenberg filed a letter with the city that raised a number of alleged Brown Act violations during the lead-up to the Measure O vote in November, violations he clearly is prepared to take to court. He then raises concerns about the Dec. 16 City Council meeting itself, suggesting that additional Brown Act violations took place in that process as well...

The Healdsburg City Council took a brief break from weightier business last week—new in-lieu fees, the Eel-Russian River project—to decide something more symbolic: the city’s first official plant.

The City’s annual seasonal celebration, Merry Healdsburg, includes the Lighting of the Tree and a night market at the Plaza. Ride in a horse-drawn carriage, dance to live holiday music, cheer for Santa’s grand arrival...

The latest production of the Raven Players is not from the established canon of small-town theater sources. It has not one playwright but several—nine to be exact—and it’s presented not on one night but over two, with each one-act play a little over an...

The 222, the newest and some might say most sophisticated performance venue in the North Bay, is about to begin its fourth year of programming with a National Endowment for the Arts-supported premiere performance of “Misterioso,” an exploration of the music of Thelonious Monk...

The father of a high school senior writes, "My child’s mother and I were promptly notified by HHS Principal Tait Danhausen that our child would not be allowed to walk for the graduation ceremony as a consequence of their actions. Walking for graduation is a privilege that signifies a major milestone in any child’s life. Needless to say, friends, family members and community members who know my child were devastated and mortified by the horrible choice my child made."

Early on the morning of the longest day of the year, June 21, residents of Cloverdale noticed an unusual  police escort for some runners winding through town. An hour and a half later, at 8:30am, they reached Healdsburg, where they were also granted an...