I sat spellbound. The man across the table was relating how he had wrangled his way into a detention center where he suspected torture was being committed. He convinced the guard to leave the room, ...

Followers of the North Bay music scene have undoubtedly heard of young upstart guitarist Bella Rayne. Following an article in Guitar World magazine and a shoutout by one of her heroes, Susan Tedeschi, ...

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 ...

This is Bay Area Burger Week (June 18-29), providing a time to reflect, respect and perfect our experience of the once humble hamburger. The concept of a protein patty betwixt sides of a sliced bun ...

Drake's Drum, the latest foray into historical surrealism by Sebastopol playwrights Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller, is the kind of show my teenage daughter calls "a brain play." Crammed with ideas ...

That’s the crux of Matt Schatz’s The Burdens, a darkly comic tale now running at The 222 in Healdsburg through June 1. Jane (Lizzie Calogero) and Mordy (Brady Morales-Woolery) are siblings who, like ...

For the “expiation of stigmatic guilt”—these solemn words, spoken as a vow, are repeated each time a sister of Perpetual Indulgence dons her veil. Their clicking heels and pancake makeup and profuse ...

Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside is an odd play. It’s about people who may or may not exist and things that may or may not have happened. It’s a story being told about a story being told about a story ...

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 ...

Pride celebrations are nothing new in the North Bay. Dating back to at least the 1960s, LGBTQ+ culture has thrived in Sonoma and Marin counties. As Pride Month approaches, long standing events and ...

Tradition When you think about it, Donald Trump fits right in. The practice of widespread public lying as standard U.S. government practice goes back at least to the Civil War, accelerated around the ...

Amber Turpin: How did you get into this work? Charles Bililies: I’ve been on a long and windy road with restaurants and hospitality for more than half my life now.From delis, to line cooking in chain ...