2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (163+ words) Swap-A-Luma, Novato Cemetery Tours and Fantastical Creatures'pacificsun.com Swap-A-Luma, Novato Cemetery Tours and Fantastical Creatures Forget "retail therapy." Take a sustainable turn instead at Swap-A-Luma, Petaluma's community-minded clothing swap that treats fashion less as consumption and more as circulation. Hosted…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (444+ words) Proprietors of BloodRoot Wines, Kelly and Noah Dorrance have been organizing an annual music and wine festival called The Ramble, as a fundraiser benefitting'GIFFORDS, a national organization dedicated to preventing gun violence.' The partnership began as a way to honor…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (713+ words) What we now know as Muir Woods became a national monument in 1908." But scientists believe the oldest coast redwood in Muir Woods is at least 1,200 years old. It has stood through the times of the First People, Sir Francis Drake's…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (433+ words) I like to bring the readers of this column weekly optimism and uplift. But I admit, I do have my misanthropic moods. Glancing over the headlines, I am in one now." Sick of people and their problems, I thought I…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (481+ words) Value Over Replacement is a baseball statistic measuring how much better or worse you are than a hypothetical average player who could replace you. If you already knew that, then Value Over Replacement by Ruben Grijalva, now playing in Ross…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (609+ words) With a road atlas in the passenger seat, Andrew McCarthy bailed from the East Coast and tore across the United States looking for friendship." The resulting book, Who Needs Friends: An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship Across America, documents his…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (377+ words) Alanis Morissette's jagged little pill was released the summer I was 16. To call it part of my life's soundtrack is to understate the importance of that album. So I was intrigued when the Marin Musical Theatre Company announced they would…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (586+ words) Irish Music, Ceramics & Light and Cedars" Neighborly Art Show'pacificsun.com Irish Music, Ceramics & Light and Cedars" Neighborly Art Show Irish traditional music gets a high-octane revival when L'nasa lands at the Sebastopol Community Cultural Center. Formed in 1997 from members of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (354+ words) At a certain point, a town stops being a place and becomes a recommendation of some algorithm or other. One can feel the shift before you can prove it. The coffee shop that once tolerated your loitering now has a…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (391+ words) As a founding member of the Banquets Bar team at Montage Healdsburg, Natalia Faustino was recruited by Little Saint's founding executive bar director, Matt Seigel, in 2023." Faustino jumped over to Little Saint, creating a bar program that highlights seasonality and…...