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December 13, 2025

Short Film Fest Returns with ‘Best Of’ Program

Still from film 'Angst'
Tthis isn’t just the “Best of” the 2024 festival, it includes films from the past 10 years of festivals. “Next week includes all winning films from the four festivals we have produced,” said Pamela Demorest, who co-founded the Festival with husband Kirk Demorest.

Christmas Culinary Celebrations

Rotary Crab Fest, 2024
Don’t look now, but it’s almost Christmas. It may be too late to come up with the perfect celebration, but maybe not—several area restaurants have created special menus and events for the last big holiday of the year. Start off early on Christmas Eve with...

Agave Brings More Than Mole to the Table

Agave Restaurant in Healdsburg has reopened with a new 250-year-old redwood bar, a new mole menu, and a renewed focus on Oaxacan flavors and personal service.

Gridiron Greyhounds get All League attention

Max Morris, All League Special Teams player of the year
The judges selected senior Max Morris to the top tier as “Specialist of the Year,” based on his standout performance as kickoff receiver, as well as tight end and defensive linebacker.

‘Fugitive’ on the loose with high school pranks

Healdsburg High School sign
An incident reported on the evening of Sept. 5 by the Healdsburg Police Department in their weekly media bulletin may have been related to a game of “Fugitive,” played by high school students in the neighborhoods between the Community Center and Badger Park. “In short, students chase each other around town and ‘shoot’ each other with a variety of devices including Airsoft guns and Orbeez pellets,” wrote the Principal.

Healdsburg on the hunt for an official plant (or two)

douglas iris
While all the nominated plants are found in the area, Healdsburg Garden Club did limit its list to native plants, though some are widely found outside Healdsburg’s city limits. The proposal included four flowers: the Douglas iris, the yellow mariposa lily, scarlet fritillary and blue-eyed grass, the once ubiquitous California native grape, and the familiar oak trees of the region.

Healdsburg Happenings, March 7

Benefits, performances, movies, work parties and public meetings in Healdsburg from now until St. Patrick's Day.

Summer’s school of hard rock

'School of Rock' on stage
Andrew Lloyd Webber bought the stage rights to the 2003 Richard Linklater/Mike White film starring Jack Black and joined with playwright Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey!) and lyricist Glen Slater (The Little Mermaid) to bring the tale of Dewey Finn’s transformation of a group of prep school students into rock stars to Broadway as a musical. It's now at the Raven Theater in Healdsburg.

Healdsburg Happenings, July 25 – Aug. 1

Guelaguetza: Enjoy traditional dances from all eight regions of Oaxaca, performed by folkloric and Indigenous groups, with live music throughout the day. Sunday, July 27, 10am-6pm.

Klezmatics return to Healdsburg for the Holidays

The Klezmatics
Topo, in Fiddler on the Roof, was a Klezmer musician, “schlepping his way from shtetl to shtetl… a distinctive image of pre-war Jewish life in the Ashkenazi communities of Eastern Europe,” according to worldmusic.net.
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Healdsburg Bar & Grill

Latest HBG ‘refresh’ features Charlie Palmer recipes

Danya Richter, who has co-owned the Healdsburg Bar and Grill since 2000, has a new general partner and celebrity chef Charlie Palmer onboard to direct the kitchen at locals favorite HBG.