In the fall of 2020, during the reign of deep Covid, I worked in-person as a frontline behavioral healthcare counselor at a residential complex for adults with serious mental illness. It was a strange ...

‘More Fun Than Bowling’ delivers strikes and spares By Daedalus Howell YES, IT WOULD be poor form to reveal the nature of actor Dodds Delzell’s groundbreaking entrance in More Fun Than Bowling, now ...

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In other matters, studies suggest playing Mozart’s music to plants has a positive effect on their growth. At Petaluma’s Lagunitas Brewing Company, they’re playing music to beer. Albeit, their approach ...

The Artifacts: Diggin’ those grooves–Karen and Steven Tamborski, and Dorian Irving. For Arts’ Sake The 2nd annual Indy Awards, celebrating the spirit of the local arts community Edited by Patrick ...

Jessica Vega’s connection to Sonoma CAN’s Head Start began in childhood. Her mother, Maricruz Reynoso, worked at CAN and knew how critical preschool was to childhood development. Years later, Jessica ...

Federal agents arrested Sonoma real estate developer Kenneth W. Mattson, 63, on Thursday following a sweeping indictment alleging a long-running Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of investors—many ...

Sit up Straight Michael Amsler General’s Son: Executive chef Joseph Vitale Jr. serves up stylish, succulent elegance at the General’s Daughter. The General’s Daughter gets our attention By Paula ...

Erotic Art Show returns to Soundscape Gallery By Bill English THE JAPANESE call it the moment of clouds and rain–the point of human climax. Normally, it’s an intimate span of time shared only by ...

Rebecca Pennington loves seeing the transformations of her hot yoga and pilates students. The owner of Energize Hot Yoga Santa Rosa for 14 years, she’s seen participants’ strength, posture, muscle ...

Even after decades practicing personal injury law, Neal Kuvara still enjoys helping injured people. He calls it “solving cases,” and it typically begins with a one-on-one conversation. “I try to talk ...

Grief leaves its mark in silence, in questions, and sometimes—in stories. When Susan Swartz died by suicide in 2020, the columnist’s daughter, bestselling ghostwriter Samantha Rose, began writing ...