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The City Council made an honorary proclamation of California Native American Day at their Sept. 19 meeting, but the local culture scene is taking it further—recognizing three Indigenous poets over the next two months with readings and conversation from the stage at The 222.  “Indigenous...

After pizza was more or less invented in Naples as a sauced-up flatbread, it took the globe by storm when American G.I.’s returned from World War II, bringing a fondness for pizza that led to a Cambrian explosion of different forms we know now. These include traditional Neapolitan styles, thin crust in New York, Detroit squares, sheet pans and deep-dish variants in Chicago, to name a few. You can find them all in California... and then some.

Twilight Parade: floats, spirited community groups and festive performers. The annual parade, from 6-8pm, kicks off the annual Healdsburg Future Farmers Country Fair that runs through Saturday, May 24.

It had been three years, or as the whisper throughout the crowd put it more exactly, 1,072 days, since the Healdsburg Hounds Varsity football team had won a game. But last Friday night, in front of the jam-packed home grandstands, the Hounds ended that losing streak with a 35-21 win over the neighboring Cloverdale Eagles...

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.

A Feb. 27, a fire erupted at the former Wicked Slush business on Healdsburg Avenue that did considerable damage to the structure—for almost 50 years the location of canoe rental businesses and, more recently, the Wicked Slush ice cream café.

Healdsburg history was remade this week as the long-standing location of Healdsburg Lumber Company closed and a new 43,000-square-foot complex of home improvement services opened less than a mile to the south, toward Highway 101. “Healdsburg Lumber has been at that facility since 1875 or...

When it comes to the band’s fondness for British rock, Cummings recalls how he and guitarist/co-writer Randy Bachman were glued to their radios as kids growing up in Winnipeg, Canada. They soon went on to form Guess Who, a stable of hard rock radio in 1970.

If you’re into Formula One and racing movies, it’s absurdly entertaining watching Pitt and Idris doing what appears to be a lot of their own driving. At the end of the day, when movies hit all the stereotypical sport movie beats, it can be comforting...

Sept. 12, 9:07am - The RP on Lorraine Court said his vehicle was “rummaged through” during the night of Sept. 11. The suspect stole a bag with a rainbow on it which was filled with baby supplies. The RP wanted to press charges. An officer spoke with the RP and asked him to come to the police department to see if law enforcement could identify the suspect.