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Kix Brooks, other stars entertain crowd at 113th Monte Rio Variety Show
West Sonoma County’s Monte Rio Variety Show was a little bit country and a little bit rock ‘n’ roll Thursday evening, as emcee country music star Kix Brooks led a star-studded lineup in the 113th iteration of the show. More than 1,900 people packed their lawn chairs into the Monte Rio Amphitheater and enthusiastically watched performers including folk star Livingston Taylor (brother of James ...
Pink Floyd tribute ‘Pete’ Floyd Plays Rio Nido Roadhouse
Sonoma/Marin exports and purveyors of the Pink Floyd sound, Pete Floyd, have been playing all around these parts lately and have proven themselves a veritable headliner. Fronted by vocalist/guitarist Pete Delaney and the ambidextrous Pete Hale, this is one tribute that delivers on all fronts. Although only active for a...
Circus of Flowers at Sonoma County Fair features a giant giraffe, humongous hippo
Santa Rosa A big tent of flowers at the fair The Hall of Flowers has been transformed into a fanciful and fragrant Cirque des Fleurs for the Sonoma County Fair opening on Thursday. Visitors will behold a high-diving hippo, a 30 foot tall two-headed giraffe ringmaster and a tightrope cycling clown set amid a riot of colorful flowers tightly packed into eight professionally designed display ...
Leader of Graton Rancheria Speaks Out Further Against Proposed Koi Nation Casino and Resort Near Windsor
Greg Sarris, leader of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria that owns Graton Casino, is taking a more aggressive stance against the proposed Koi Nation gambling resort just 15 miles away on Shiloh Road. The Koi Nation with ancestral land in Clearlake is proposing a casino that would rival Graton, at least in size, and Sarris is arguing that it would be in Graton territory. Koi leaders Darin and Dino Beltran, who are brothers, say that their tribe’s history is marked by a forced diaspora, and that Koi families have lived in Sonoma County for several generations.
Santa Rosa hot sauce entrepreneur celebrates the end of his reality TV journey
An exciting and sometimes bumpy reality show ride came to an end Wednesday night for a Santa Rosa hot sauce entrepreneur vying for a $250,000 prize during the two episode season finale of “Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars.” Andrew Whiting, the founder of Hot Drops, and about 150 friends, family members and fans — some sporting black T-shirts emblazoned with “Team Andrew” on the back in bold white ...
For more than 50 years, fuchsia has been a favorite of Sebastopol gardener
Carlyss Van Ness remembers the first one. She spotted it at a nursery near Freestone - a flowering plant so pretty it simply had to come home with her. That was 1970. She has babied that plant for more than 50 years and it still has an honored spot in her own secret garden. Over the decades 150 to 200 other fuchsias have since joined the first one on the same Sebastopol property where she ...
Food truck set to transform school lunch experience at Windsor’s Cali Calmecac
Food trucks are a popular go-to for lunch on the go. Come this school year, middle school students at Windsor’s Cali Calmecac Language Academy will get to enjoy the action, too, with the arrival of a new food truck on campus. Called the Cruisin’ Cafe, the food truck aims to get more seventh and eighth grade students to eat lunch during school, says Windsor Unified School District’s Director of ...
Glass Mural for Harmon Guest House
A nationally recognized artist will soon install a one-of-a-kind mural on the high glass wall of the Harmon Guest House in downtown Healdsburg, its imagery based in part on a series of painting workshops that gave amateur artists free rein to create what they wanted. “I didn’t want to be...
Local Snacks from Marin for Back-to-School
Back-to-school time is around the corner, and the annual search for healthy, local snacks commences once again. Comet Corn, based in Santa Rosa, was founded by partners Sherry and Jeff Phillips, who proudly call themselves The Popcorn People. They source fresh kernels each month which are popped in organic sunflower oil and topped with homemade seasoning blends. Their Hippie Dust flavor is a best-seller, and they offer other tantalizing options like Maple Syrup and Coconut Curry. You can find Comet Corn at local health food stores such as Good Earth and Mill Valley Market.
An Interview with Alex Ehret of Ehret Family Winery
In 2024 I met Alex Ehret over an email and subsequent phone calls. Didn’t have the opportunity to meet him in person until last week. He arranged to meet as I was driving to the coast and could stop by. What a great treat hearing the family history, viewing the expansive vineyards and gaining a comprehensive understanding of their operation as well as meeting Alex in person.
Sebastopol show gives peek at rarely seen works by greats including Willem de Kooning, Wayne Thiebaud
During our long and mostly hot summer, the Sebastopol Center for the Arts has been generating some heat of its own, with its current exhibit, “Reverberations,” which opened June 21 and runs through Aug. 10. A curated display of 58 rarely seen works of art from the homes of private collectors and Bay Area institutions, “Reverberations 3: A Visual Conversation,” matches most of the pieces of art ...
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