Learning House envisions a more holistic approach to education In August of 2020, my youngest started kindergarten—a milestone that, with three older sisters, she’d been looking forward to pretty much […]
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Humor, Horror and Everything In Between Ursa Born Explores the Liminal Possibilities of The Imaginists The first time I saw the Imaginists perform, I was sitting in the shade of
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Two Local Baseball Teams Take to the Field There’s a growing spectacle in Sonoma Wine Country. Healdsburg and Sonoma are teaming with talented collegiate ball players, and some are headed
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From beekeeping to bee stewardship with Apis Arborea As the sun began to set on a sweet spring day in April 2019, so too did my dreams of acquiring a
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Shoe Repair in a Throwaway World According to the Shoe Service Institute of America, which was founded in 1904, there are still some 5,000 people practicing shoe repair across
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Tara Caplan once pissed off a bunch of Aussies over a didgeridoo. Or actually, her alter-ego Eaglesaunce, a faux-spiritual white hippie dude, did. In response to a fake flier on
My best friend’s husband, a home cook with professional culinary skills, has impeccable taste and exacting standards. Every holiday season I effortlessly shop for his wife and son, and toy
Brick and Mortars Worth Leaving Your Couch For Treehorn Books With its towering, floor-to-ceiling shelves of books and intoxicating bibliosmia, this sanctuary is any book-lover’s dream. A downtown Santa Rosa
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The Velvet Bandit Strikes Again! Just two days after her 42nd birthday early in the spring of 2020, The Velvet Bandit pasted her first piece of street art, along the
Drummer Dan Ford Plays at a New Craft. Most people in Sonoma County know Dan Ford as the lanky, quiet, Dave Grohl-resembling drummer with a sly Sagittarius grin who backs
