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 ...

Ashley Kennedy (left) and Nic Moore star in ‘The Sound Inside’ at Left Edge in Santa Rosa. Photo by Dana Hunt Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside is an odd play. It’s about people who may or may not exist ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tradition When you think about it, Donald Trump fits right in. The practice of widespread public lying as standard U.S. government practice goes back at least to the Civil War, accelerated around the ...

For the “expiation of stigmatic guilt”—these solemn words, spoken as a vow, are repeated each time a sister of Perpetual Indulgence dons her veil. Their clicking heels and pancake makeup and profuse ...

Amber Turpin: How did you get into this work? Charles Bililies: I’ve been on a long and windy road with restaurants and hospitality for more than half my life now.From delis, to line cooking in chain ...

Jessica Vega’s connection to Sonoma CAN’s Head Start began in childhood. Her mother, Maricruz Reynoso, worked at CAN and knew how critical preschool was to childhood development. Years later, Jessica ...

Rebecca Pennington loves seeing the transformations of her hot yoga and pilates students. The owner of Energize Hot Yoga Santa Rosa for 14 years, she’s seen participants’ strength, posture, muscle ...