The Sonoma County Brewpubs Hopping With Fun and Games
One night it’s cornhole and trivia, the next it's bingo and pinball. Here are some daily fun happenings at local breweries.
Author: John Beck
The Sonoma County Professionals Making a Splash in the Beer Scene
From an artist adding visual flair to beer cans to a certified cicerone providing education to beer lovers, here are the locals making their mark on Sonoma County's brewery culture.
For a Timber Cove Couple, Art Is the Tie That Binds
On a remote property above Timber Cove, a painter couple creates abstract art while bound together — a technique they call freeing and primal.
Upcoming Sonoma County Performance Highlights Joy as Resistance
Performing their first ever Bay Area show at the Green Music Center in March, a dance troupe stages the road-tested “joyUS justUS,” a defiantly celebratory work.
Did You Know Sonoma County Has Its Very Own Ghost Town?
The "town" is a long-forgotten cluster of cabins, most of them built in the 1800s, and a creaky train trestle along the narrow Sonoma Creek in the middle of nowhere.
Rescued Farm Animals Find New Home in West Santa Rosa
Rescued goats, pigs and chicken settle down on a Santa Rosa ranch to live the good life.
Truck Lust in Sonoma County: 10 Perfect Pickups
In celebration of Sonoma County's beloved pickup trucks, here's our "50 Shades of Rust."
Monte Rio Fire Captain Steve Baxman Has Seen It All
Steve Baxman makes friends the hard way. “I still have people stop me on the street and thank me for something I’ve done,” he says. As a member of the Monte Rio volunteer fire department for the past 45 years, Baxman has rescued so many people he can’t remember them all. “But I’ll say, ‘Give me […]
Piecing Together the History of Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery
A few hours past dawn in the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, John Dennison stood beneath a cluster of oak trees with the rest of the Tombstone Trio — fellow retirees Scott Minnis and Henry Katz — as they surveyed the site of their latest graveyard excavation. “You can hardly describe what it feels like when […]
Our Hero of the Valley Fire
Profile on Press Democrat Photographer Kent Porter When the New York Times used the word “heroic” to describe The Press Democrat’s coverage of the Valley fire in Lake County, it was talking in large part about photographer Kent Porter. The Santa Rosa newspaper’s master of disaster photography for 28 years, Porter has covered floods, mudslides, […]