For a hometown boy, Santa Rosa actor Tim Kniffin, a graduate of both Santa Rosa High School and Sonoma State University, isn't home much.Always a busy performer in Sonoma County, Kniffin (at left in photo) won a breakthrough role last fall in Gore Vidal's political drama, "The Best Man," at [...]

One of the best-known venue names in Northern California visual arts has changed.First opened for public guided tours in 1977, Rene di Rosa's 210-acre art has been known ever since by a slightly unwieldy monicker: di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature.The new name is a bit simpler: di Rosa."We discovered [...]

For how many years have you been meaning to go through those old letters in the attic? The Sonoma County Museum is about to give you a good reason to do it now."Next year is the 25th anniversary of the museum and it's also the 100th anniversary of the post [...]

We've all gotten used to it by now. You're walking through Railroad Square and Charlie Brown, dressed as conductor, throws you a wave. Pull in at the dentist's office, and there's Snoopy grinning you, with braces on.Out-of-towners still look twice, but locals have to stop and think about it. And [...]