Arts & Entertainment

Ring Thing, Seeing What We Want

As Charles Bukowski wrote in his novel Barfly, “It’s not that I don’t like people. I just feel better when they’re not around.” But Bukowski was a bar customer, not a bartender. And we bartenders feel exactly the opposite. The two women sitting in front of me were fairly well gussied...

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Lucky Penny has opened an all-female version of 'Godspell,' the 1971 musical adaptation of the Book of Matthew.

Lessons: Book of Matthew Musical in Napa

Mar 17, 2026

These days, it has become common to throw Bible verses at each other like poisoned javelins. That is not necessarily...

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For festival artistic director Carl Spence, assembling the program is less a sprint than a year-long pilgrimage through the global film circuit.

Scene: the 29th Annual Sonoma International Film Fest

Mar 17, 2026

Every spring, a curious transformation overtakes the otherwise tranquil wine country burg of Sonoma. Restaurants buzz, wine flows, and the...

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After a couple of rabble-rousing, politically-bent productions, Petaluma’s Mercury Theater shifts to British comedy with their production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives.

Irreconcilable Differences: Noël Coward ‘Comedy’ at Mercury Theater

Mar 10, 2026

After a couple of rabble-rousing, politically-bent productions, Petaluma’s Mercury Theater shifts to British comedy with their production of Noël...

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The most performed French play is Marc Camoletti’s Boeing Boeing, and the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts program has a production running through March 8.

Grounded: ’60s French Farce ‘Boeing Boeing’ at SRJC

Mar 3, 2026

For centuries, France has produced such famous playwrights as Molière, Beaumarchais, Rostand, Sartre and Ionesco and such plays as...

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If one takes a gander at the social media pages for Sonoma County-based band Dirty Cello, they will see a pretty crazy moment that just happened to be captured on video.

‘By The Seat of our Pants,’ Dirty Cello Releases New Album at HopMonk

Mar 3, 2026

If one takes a gander at the social media pages for Sonoma County-based band Dirty Cello, they will see...

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Emotional Oasis: Oliver Laxe’s ‘Sirat’ opens in Bay Area

Mar 2, 2026

There are films that entertain, films that distract and films that politely flatter one’s intelligence. And then there are...

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Musical Artist Rodney Crowell Brings Tour to Napa

Feb 27, 2026

Musical artist Rodney Crowell realized long ago that rather than become a star, he wanted to become exactly what...

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