When A'Roma Roasters opened 20 years ago, coffee houses weren't nearly as common as they are now. At least, not in Santa Rosa. And certainly not in Railroad Square. Kay and Dayna Irvine, founders and owners, will celebrate two decades at their cafe, live music venue and popular [...]
The Teen Ensemble of the Imaginsts Theatre Collective, headquartered in Santa Rosa's A Street arts district, has created a new play titled "The Dream Boat," opening at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 13. Set aboard a cruise ship bound for Hawaii, the play features mystery, mayhem and missing persons, not to [...]
“Art,” a French farce about modern art, opens at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 7, in the Studio Theatre at Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse. Written by Yasmina Reza and translated by Christopher Hampton, the play is about three friends who quarrel when one of them pays a fortune [...]
For the past two Christmas seasons, actor David Yen has played cranky Crumpet the Elf in a one-man show based on author David Sedaris' humorous memoir about working as a Santa's elf at Macy's. The show has played at various Sonoma County venues during that time. This year, [...]
Devotees of authentic traditional Japanese music won't want to miss "Silk and Bamboo: The Winter Concert," at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 12, at the Uribe Studios Backstreet Gallery, 461 Sebastopol Ave., in Santa Rosa’s A Street arts district. The program will include the centuries-old, rarely performed, story songs [...]
Santa Rosa sculptor Boback Emad likes to do things in a big way, and Monday, Oct. 25, is a big day for him. The City of Cloverdale will dedicate Emad's large steel sculpture, “Shadows of Eternity,” at a celebration running from 4 to 6 p.m. at Thyme Square, [...]
The Glaser Center in Santa Rosa will present actress, playwright and performance artist Sherry Glaser in her solo show, "Oh My Goddess," at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 15-16. Subtitled "A One-Woman Comedy of Biblical Proportions," the show casts Glaser as two characters: Ma, "God's better half," [...]
Some people love it, and some don't, but nobody ignores 'Cyclisk,' the 60-foot-high obelisk made of recycled bicycles and installed last August on Santa Rosa Avenue, at South A Street. The City of Santa Rosa’s Art in Public Places Committee plans a dedication ceremony, and celebration honoring the [...]
Juan Carlos of Santa Rosa will be one of five stand-up comedians performing Saturday, Sept. 25, at the legendary Purple Onion nightclub in San Francisco. Carlos, 31, moved to Sonoma County from Mexico with his parents when he was 9, and went on to attend Elsie Allen High [...]
Here's an event you might call sketchy, but in this case, that's a good thing. Well over a dozen cartoonists will converge on the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Schulz's "Peanuts" comic strip with a sketch-a-thon from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, [...]
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.