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Sep 2, 2025
Sebastopol Porchfest: Popular Music Event Moves to Ives Park
The city of Napa has a Porchfest, and our neighbors to the southeast in Benicia have one too. The...
Jul 15, 2025
Summer Score, Music Season in Napa Valley Hits a High Note
One would be forgiven if their first association with Napa Valley is wine—it’s everywhere—but so is music, continuing a...
May 27, 2025
Loud and Proud, Pride Month Events Abound in North Bay
Pride celebrations are nothing new in the North Bay.
Dating back to at least the 1960s, LGBTQ+ culture has thrived...
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May 13, 2025
Luma Love, Four Reasons to be Obsessed with Petaluma
There are many reasons to be obsessed with Petaluma—rolling hills, a haunted downtown, all the chickens—but my favorites are...
Apr 22, 2025
Day at the Bay: Hitchcock, Hospitality & the Sonoma Coast
Thanks to wine industry conjunctive labeling laws, talking about the “Sonoma Coast” requires some semantic gymnastics—we’re not discussing the...
Apr 15, 2025
Stoned Zone. Can a Cannabis Lounge Quell Anxiety?
If one can remember anything about cannabis, it’s often the first time—and the last time—one imbibed it.
Everything else is...
Apr 1, 2025
Interior Hectoring: Design for the End Times
So, I missed the Sonoma/North Bay Home Expo this past weekend.
Even though I was on the hook for a...
