Help raise money for the 117th annual Rose Parade and Festival, and see a classic film made in Santa Rosa, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 28, at the Roxy 14 Stadium theater in downtown Santa Rosa. The “Support Your Local Parade” fund-raiser features a screening of the 1943 [...]
Sonoma County residents are using to seeing the monumental steel sculptures of Boback Emad. His “Shadows of Eternity,” stands at Thyme Square, 301 S. Cloverdale Blvd. in Cloverdale. His “Whole Some” is a familiar sight at College and Mendocino Avenues in downtown Santa Rosa. This month, French art [...]
Santa Rosa’s Montgomery Village shopping center will celebrate Earth Day with “A Day on the Green,” with an art show, live music by the 7 Zins band and more, from 11 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 16. The art show and sale will feature more than 25 Sonoma [...]
The 6th Street Playhouse announced its 2011-2012 season line-up of four musicals and eight plays. Season tickets for new subscribers will be available May 15, and single tickets for all shows go on sale July 1. The shows, for both the main GK Hardt auditorium and the smaller studio space, [...]
Bob Stanley has been onstage and on camera for much of his long life. Stanley has performed in live theater from Santa Rosa to San Francisco and beyond, and has done some film and commercial work as well. He also performed at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. [...]
Local film fans are talking about a very familiar face featured in the new Farrelly Brothers comedy film, "Hall Pass," which opened nationwide last Friday, Feb. 25. Kristin Carey, former Santa Rosan and Ursuline High School graduate, co-stars as Aunt Meg, characterized as a "cougar" with a taste [...]
"My Name is Rachel Corrie," starring Santa Rosa actress Mandy Cimino in the title role, will be presented Sunday, Feb., 13, at Glaser Center. The performance, directed by Lois Pearlman, is part of a benefit for a Sonoma County organization that supports Palestinian human rights. Corrie, a 23-year-old [...]
Two Sonoma County artists who make art out of cast-off odds and ends -- Chris Blum of Healdsburg and Monty Monty of Santa Rosa -- are featured in a new exhibit at the Napa Valley Museum. "It's Not What It Use to Be: Fresh Art from Found Elements” [...]
In tough economic times, it's common to hear worries about the survival of the arts. And it's true, that sector of society is affected, like every other. But it's also true that art is everywhere, if you look. For example, the whimsical dog paintings of Sonoma County artist [...]
Osprey Orielle Lake, artist, environmental activist and author of "Uprisings from the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature," will talk about her book at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 19, at Copperfield’s Books, 2316 Montgomery Drive Santa Rosa. Lake is the director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, on [...]
What is art? Whether it’s oil on canvas or actors on stage, dancers on their toes or comedians doing stand-up, Press Democrat staff writer Dan Taylor covers the fine and lively arts in Northern California. Meet the people, go behind the scenes and get ahead on what’s coming up.