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Dec 9, 2025
Color Me Meh: The Coming ‘Color of the Year’ is, Um, White
Pantone has anointed its 2026 Color of the Year and, in an act of breathtaking caution, selected white. Well, basically white. “Cloud Dancer” is...
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Dec 9, 2025
Quiet Miracles, Local Filmmakers Bring Humanity Into Focus
North Bay filmmakers Vince and Alia Beeton have been quietly making some of the most affecting work in their field—quietly, that is, until the...
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 Día de los Muertos Celebration Turns 25
Petaluma’s annual El Día 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...
