Best Noshes of Outside Lands

Sure it’s a music festival if epic proportions–but here food is just as much the star. Hundreds of eating opportunities, a GastroMagic performance stage pairing entertainment acts with local chefs (Big Freedia and beignets was the standout) plus craft beers, wine and just about anything else u can cram in your maw. Best foods of […]

A Very Big Deal – Organ Master at the Green Music Center

When many people think of organ music, they envision instruments so powerful that they rattle the fillings out of molars: the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium in Atlantic City, N.J., and the thunderous organ in the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, for example. But most aficionados of classical organ music agree that the finest instruments are […]
Five-year-old Dasha Kovina and her mother Anna Kovina smile as they stretch a portion of freshly made mozzarella cheese during "The Secrets of Making Stretched Curd Cheese" class at the Artisan Cheese Festival in Petaluma on March 23, 2013. (Alvin Jornada / The Press Democrat)

Fun Things to Do

Events to look forward to in March and April, 2014.

Amid record water shortfalls and unreliable rains, fear grows that Mother Nature is stealing the California dream. Are there lessons to be drawn from Sonoma’s past? (photos by Kent Porter)

The Great Droughts

Are there lessons to be drawn from Sonoma County’s past?

NYE 2013

Where to celebrate in style for 2013's last hurrah

John and Pat Rich ride along the multi-use trail next to the SMART tracks, between 8th Street and College Avenue in Santa Rosa November 1, 2013. The trail is being extended alongside the tracks, allowing cyclists and walkers to move from Cloverdale to Larkspur. (photo by Christopher Chung)

The Train is Coming

A 71-mile pathway being created parallel to the SMART train tracks will allow walkers and cyclists to move from Cloverdale all the way down to Larkspur.