Healdsburg’s Newest Festival: All About Design
For a town of just 12,000 or so, Healdsburg is rife with festivals. Wine festivals. Food festivals. Art festivals. Jazz festivals. Songwriting festivals. Tech festivals. The list grows each year.
And let 2024 be known as the year that the “Design Healdsburg” festival came to...
Postcard From Black Rock City
"I just crawled back to Healdsburg last week from my fourth Burning Man; my Prius is still caked in telltale white dust. Everyone has been asking me what it was like out there. I’ll try my best to explain." Our latest Postcard, this one from Simone Wilson...
Drivers Asked to Turn Off Idling Cars
“Every time I go to Vineyard Plaza in Healdsburg I notice multiple parked vehicles with engines idling. I see people eating lunch, waiting for a pizza order, talking on the phone, listening to the radio while their car pollutes the air and makes noise,” wrote Steve Davy on Nextdoor. Some people have had enough...
North Healdsburg Finds Its Center
Enso Village, a senior living community in Healdsburg, is a Zen-inspired, intentional community that promotes independent living, resident empowerment, inclusivity and sustainability.
4th of July is patriotism with a bang
Once again Healdsburg throws itself wholeheartedly into the 4th of July holiday, starting at 10am with the Fourth of July Kids Parade and Duck Dash in the Healdsburg Plaza. Arrive on bikes, tricycles and wagons adorned with red, white and blue decorations. There will be live music and activities for all.
Parenting the whole child
Have you ever been with your child or grandchild and wondered, “How am I going to get through this day since this child is not listening?”
You start to ask yourself, “Is this ‘Opposite Day?’” since when you say ask them to do one thing...
Return of the Covid Pandemic?
So prevalent if under-reported is this latest Covid surge that CVS Pharmacy ran out of Covid test kits, as did other drug stores. Rite Aid in Healdsburg did manage to keep tests on hand, but the fact that some places did not is pretty clear evidence something’s going around...
Still Healdsburg’s Favorite Holiday
This coming Monday will begin a bit differently for most Healdsburgers, as the dawning hours are celebrated with a parade and a party. That doesn’t usually happen, but March 17 is the date of one of the town’s favorite holidays—St. Patrick’s Day. And with...
Prime Pinots Picked at Pigs & Pinot
Chef Charlie Palmer’s 17th annual weekend celebrating the mutual appeal and attraction of pinot noir and pork, Pigs & Pinot, played to a full house over the weekend of March 15-16 with lunches, dinners, food and wine tasting and other events.
A cast of “Master...
‘Stay Healdsburg’ Awards $70,500 for Local Events
Stay Healdsburg—the hospitality arm of the Chamber of Commerce, funded by a benefit assessment district to promote visits to Healdsburg—announced this month more than $70,000 in sponsorships to 11 local organizations.
Arts & Entertainment
Turning music into magic
“This revolution is different—it is a disruption of creativity," said Nolan Gasser. "So now you can actually create a poem, or an image created or a video created or a piece of music created by artificial intelligence, just by a prompt."






















