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The winery opens this week in downtown Healdsburg.

Sonoma Valley Pride is inviting the community to celebrate a cult classic in true over-the-top style! On Saturday, November 8, at 8:00 PM, the historic Sebastiani Theatre will host a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in honor of the film’s 50th anniversary. The night promises outrageous fun...

The Wine – “Wine is bottled poetry” – Robert Louis Stevenson. Admittedly not being a big fan of Zinfandel, I was turned around after enjoying this delicious wine! My earlier experiences of Zinfandel were of the “fruit-bomb” characteristics and since then have shied away when given a chance to taste Zinfandels.

The inaugural Full Moons Festival, a celebration of pan-Asian culture, happened yesterday. It was mobbed, but not unpleasantly so. (See our preview article on the event here.) Here are few pics from the event:

The 2025 Youth Resiliency Summit, sponsored by Solano County Office of Education in partnership with the Solano Youth Coalition, Napa County Friday Night Live and Solano County Public Health, invites high school students in Solano and Napa Counties to join a day of inspiration, growth, and community action. The free...

Same Plan? Different Plan? How/When Will This Ever End?. With illustrated display panels circling the perimeter of the Altimira Middle School gymnasium, clots of friends in deep conversation, and a crowd cresting at least 100, the scene of a long-anticipated scoping session to gather public comment on a revised...

This is Part 2 of a two-part article. You can read Part 1 here. Friends Erin Hillmer and Jen Koelemeijer opened Gather, a new store devoted to practical arts in downtown Sebastopol, in April. Their website describes Gather as “A place for makers, doers, and lifelong learners.”

Frank Family Vineyards sits at the quiet end of Larkmead Lane in northern Napa Valley, where tall oaks frame a patchwork of vines and the Mayacamas rise blue in the distance. The tasting room is situated in a restored Craftsman house adjacent to a century-old stone winery—originally built in the 1880s as Larkmead...

Sonoma Valley residents Kaeti Bailie and her daughter Allyson Etherington recently swam together in the 37th International Bosphorus Cross Continental Swim in Istanbul, Turkey. The Bosphorus is a 30 kilometer strait that divides Istanbul and joins the Sea of Marmara with the Black Sea. This year, over 3,000 swimmers...

Wine lovers raised nearly $1 million dollars for local charities during the annual Sonoma County Wine Celebration and live auction. That’s down from last year’s $1.6 million total, but not unexpected since organizers cut the number of live lots by half from 2024 in an effort to energize and expedite the proceedings....