I don't know if this qualifies as folk art, but we asked the folk to send us their art, and they did. This one comes from Tim Hayes, longtime Sonoma County actor and purveyor of odd humor, with a very succinct note: "Here is a painting, 'Alien Baby,' [...]
Last week, I shared the story of my late uncle's quirky painting, 'Space Dogs," which has hung on the family room wall in his home for decades. Then I called on all of you to share your own hidden artistic treasures, and the responses starting coming in right [...]
The Narrow Way Stage Company opens the anti-war satire "We Bombed in New Haven" at 8 p.m. Friday, June 11, at the Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Ave. , Santa Rosa. The show, directed by Kevin Bordi, runs through June 27. Admission: $20; $15 for students and seniors; pay what you [...]
A reader called the other day to ask where and when she could hear some live barbershop harmony singing around here. All you have to do is ask. The 28-voice Santa Rosa Redwood Chordsmen will perform twice, at 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, June 19, at the Scottish Rite Masonic [...]
This weekend, the Occidental Community Choir launches its spring concert series, provocatively titled "Naked With Chocolate: Songs of Love and Earthly Delight." The schedule: -- 8 p.m. Friday, May 14, and 3 p.m. Sunday, May 23, at the Occidental Center for the Arts. -- 8 p.m. Saturday, May [...]
Santa Rosa's Phantom Gallery, which moves as needed from one vacant downtown storefront to another, will reopen this week with a new show at a new location. The opening reception for "Cal-ci-fied," a multimedia exhibition of work by Santa Rosa artist and naturalist Anneliese Vobis, runs from 5 to 7 [...]
Sonoma County singer-songwriter Natasha James has been your neighbor since 1986, and you may or may not know her, but she's making a name for herself. She was nominated for country artist of the year for the 20th annual Los Angles Music Awards, an international competition open to [...]
Some teachers leave a lasting impression. That's unquestionably true of retired music teacher Dan Earl, who taught band and chorus during his 28-year tenure at Santa Rosa High School. A group of his former students, some of them now professional performers, will join Earl for the "Music with [...]
The popular "Peanuts on Parade" project returns to Santa Rosa this summer, with 30 four-foot-tall, polyurethane statues of that fabulous fussbudget, Lucy van Pelt, to be decorated by local artists and distributed around town. But this time there will be a little hidden bonus. Woodstock, the fluffy little yellow bird [...]
Santa Rosa artist Mario Uribe is nearly as well known for his love of Japanese art and culture as he is for his own brushwork and public sculptures. Uribe's Backstreet Gallery and the South A Street Arts District invite fellow fans of all things Japanese to his second annual "High [...]
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.