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Dec 2, 2025
Healing Music: Ivan Neville Brings New Orleans to the North Bay
By the time Ivan Neville rolls into Sebastopol on Dec. 7, then glides over the hill into Mill Valley on Dec. 8, the man...
Nov 25, 2025
Gratitude With Attitude, Being Thankful Despite It All
The world is held together with duct tape and denial. The oceans are warming; billionaires are trying to colonize Mars; and half the country...
Nov 18, 2025
Sublime Mediocrity: Art is Where Ambition and Limitation Often Meet
Some artists carry the cultural burden of their genius and mounting legacy. Ahem—not I.
Having run through Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ first four stages of grief as...
Oct 21, 2025
Altars of Art: Petaluma’s El DÃa de los Muertos Celebration Turns 25
Petaluma’s annual El DÃa de los Muertos celebration turns 25 this year—a quarter-century of transforming the city into a glowing constellation of memory, art...
Oct 14, 2025
A Future Imperfect: It Gets Better … Probably
There are two quotes that describe my feelings on the future.
The first comes courtesy of The Amazing Criswell’s dead-eyed introduction in filmmaker Ed Wood’s...
Oct 14, 2025
Critter Carnival, a Paws-itively Perfect Day in Sonoma
It’s that time of year again when Sonoma’s most adorable citizens take center stage—some furry, some feathered, all indubitably fabulous.
Pets Lifeline’s Critter Carnival returns...
Oct 1, 2025
When Peace Crashed
Peace came dressed like a census taker
clipboard in hand, mild mannered
asking who still lives here
and in what condition.
It smelled of sunscreen and burnt coffee
and...
Sep 9, 2025
Support Local Arts, Save a Nation
There’s a reason authoritarian types go after the arts first. Fragile, underfunded, subjective as hell—it’s easier to remove the arts rather than reckon with...
