This summer’s Healdsburg Jazz Festival will open June 1 with the Calvin Keyes Organ Quartet and close June 10 with Roy Haynes, Sheila Jordan and Vijay Iyer. For 10 days, the 14th annual celebration of authentic jazz will present stars of national stature at venues scattered around the [...]
This Christmas season, the ugly dogs will have their day. "Worst in Show," an hour-long documentary by two local filmmakers about the annual, wildly popular "World's Ugliest Dog Contest" in Petaluma, comes out Dec. 13, on DVD, released by Breaking Glass Pictures. The film, made by Don Lewis [...]
This year’s Day of the Dead exhibit opens Tuesday, Oct. 4, at the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa, with a public reception set for 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7. Working with local artists and others in the community, the museum presents five decorated altars commemorating the lives of [...]
Raise a stein. Don your lederhosen. The days of beer and polka have arrived, and Oktoberfest celebrations abound , offering food, wine, beer and live music: There are three spirited community events on Oct. 8 alone: Cotati — Noon-6 p.m. La Plaza Park, corner of Old Redwood Highway and West [...]
What happens when the ancient art of poetry ventures out on the Internet? Verse goes viral. About six months ago, Michael Rothenberg, 60, a poet and web site editor who lives in a cabin on a wooded hillside at the edge of Guerneville, had a idea. He wanted [...]
Tapas, as you surely know, is the word for Spanish snacks or appetizers but in local drama, the term has another meaning, too. The Pegasus Theater’s annual Tapas New Short Play Festival runs five weekends, starting with a gala Friday, Aug. 26, featuring tapas (naturally) and champagne. Curtain [...]
Enjoy a daylong free celebration of music and visual arts at the Fine Arts Festival at the Village, running from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 13-14, at Mongomery Village in Santa Rosa. Work by some 35 Sonoma County artists will be on display and [...]
To paraphrase Duke Ellington, it don’t mean thing if it ain’t got strings. That seems to the the spirit behind the Just Strings Music Festival, running noon to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 13-14, at the Hoffman Ranch Picnic Grounds across from Geyser Peak Winery in Geyserville. [...]
How often does one annual festival stage a fund-raiser for another festival in a different town? That is what will happen Thursday, July 28, when the kickoff party for Petaluma’s Rivertown Revival doubles as a benefit for the the Handcar Regatta, to be held Sept. 25 in Santa Rosa’s Railroad [...]
Tickets are on sale for the 25th annual B. R. Cohn Charity Events Fall Music Festival, to be held in September at Cohn’s winery in Glen Ellen. The festival opens at 6 p.m. Sept. 23 with an auction and dinner, featuring TV celebrity chef Guy Fieri of Santa Rosa as [...]
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.