“Alice in Wonderland,” a ballet based on Lewis Carroll’s classic story and performed by the Royal Ballet of London, will be screened at 1 p.m. Sunday (June 30) and 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (July 2) at the Summerfield Cinemas, 551 Summerfield Road, Santa Rosa. The production, adapted by internationally [...]
The Wells Fargo Center for the Arts has announced three additional shows to be presented in the newly renovated Ruth Finley Person Theater during the center's 2013-14 season. The new shows include the Beach Boys on Sept. 7, Natalie Cole on Nov. 24 and Engelbert Humperdinck on Feb. [...]
The main auditorium at Santa Rosa’s Wells Fargo Center for the Arts is just a shell of its former self at the moment, but it’ll look a lot better by mid-August. The center’s 1,600-seat Ruth Finley Person Theater closed in May for a $2.8 million renovation, and will [...]
You hardly ever hear good old songs like “The Sheik of Araby,” “Blues in the Bottle” or “The Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me” anymore. And when’s the last time you heard a kazoo solo? But with the Jim Kweskin Jug Band out on its 50th reunion [...]
Healdsburg Jazz presents Oliver Lake, poet, painter and and musician, in two performances, and 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts. Lake will play flute and saxophone solos and recite his poetry. His artwork is part of the current exhibit at [...]
You may not think of Jack London, author of “The Call of the Wild” and “White Fang” as a jock, but he had plenty to say about athletic endeavor. And Richard ‘Doc’ Stull, of the Humboldt University Health and Physical Education, has plenty to say about that. Stull, [...]
Here’s a different kind of Solstice celebration. The Angel Island Conservancy plans its first “Angels on the Water” sunset cruise on San Francisco Bay, aboard the Angel Island-Tiburon Ferry, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 20. Passengers will board at 6 p.m. at the Tiburon Dock. The [...]
“Miles Davis: The Art Of Cool,” an exhibit of more than 35 pieces of original artwork by the famed jazz trumpeter, opens Saturday, June 8, and runs through July 28 at the Napa Valley Museum in Yountville. The exhibition was inspired by “Miles Davis: The Collected Artwork,” a [...]
Tickets go sale at 11 a.m. Friday, June 7, for two October shows at Marin Center in San Rafael: Singer and slide guitarist Bonnie Raitt will perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 9 at the center, followed by Oct. 24 by the Moody Blues. Tickets cost [...]
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.