In the fall of 2020, during the reign of deep Covid, I worked in-person as a frontline behavioral healthcare counselor at a residential complex for adults with serious mental illness. It was a strange ...

‘More Fun Than Bowling’ delivers strikes and spares By Daedalus Howell YES, IT WOULD be poor form to reveal the nature of actor Dodds Delzell’s groundbreaking entrance in More Fun Than Bowling, now ...

Poster Kids Kelley and Mouse psychedelic art takes center stage at Petaluma event By Greg Cahill FLASHBACK TO 1967–the waning days of the Summer of Love. America is yet to limp away from its “conflict ...

Kids’ Stuff Porcine power: Josh Charles falls prey to Miss Piggy in Muppets from Space. The Muppets still make magic, but ‘Inspector Gadget’ is charmless By MUPPETS FROM SPACE kicks off with something ...

Your choices for the best comedy club, bookstore, art event, local band and more. Voted as the Best of the North Bay by our readers.

Translator and educator Nancy Morales didn’t expect a former student’s invitation to join a literary translation project to blossom into a multi-book endeavor. But it did—and over the next several ...

Sonoma Botanical Garden’s Sunday Funday series returns this summer, kicking off Sunday, June 22 and then picking back up Sunday, July 13 and finally, Sunday, Aug. 10. Packed with fun for all ages, ...

Grief leaves its mark in silence, in questions, and sometimes—in stories. When Susan Swartz died by suicide in 2020, the columnist’s daughter, bestselling ghostwriter Samantha Rose, began writing ...

That’s the crux of Matt Schatz’s The Burdens, a darkly comic tale now running at The 222 in Healdsburg through June 1. Jane (Lizzie Calogero) and Mordy (Brady Morales-Woolery) are siblings who, like ...

Today, the Republican Party, the very party which grew from the outrage over the wickedness of the Fugitive Slave Act, now seeks to criminalize every aspect of helping a person who has fled a life of ...

A brand new organization has just formed in Sonoma County called Petaluma People’s Pride. It is “a grassroots collective working to build intersectional networks that foster connection and center ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The strongest, most enduring parts of China’s Great Wall were the 5,500 miles built during the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644. One secret to their success was sticky rice, an ...