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Christmas Gets Weird on Sonoma County Stages

5 months ago in Art.0 Comments

Anyone with a family knows how weird things can sometimes get at Christmas. Between Grandpa reciting naughty limericks at the dinner table and Bud and Florence arm-wrestling over whether to watch “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” or “Miracle on 34th Street,” Christmas at home can often seem more like Christmas in Wackyland. The very reason to get out of the {…}

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Petaluma show features pivotal examples of postwar modernism

5 months ago in Art.0 Comments

In the art world, the period between 1945 and 1950 are considered a pivotal moment for modernist artists, particularly in America, where a bold, muscular intensity – and sometimes a spirit of playful freshness – began to emerge, probably a reaction to the end of the Great Depression and the cessation of World War II. As the pain and grief {…}

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Raven Theater hosts ‘Dancing with the Stars’

6 months ago in Art.2 Comments

‘Dancing with the Stars’ puts the ‘Undra’ into Fundraisers Let’s face it. Putting the “fun” into “fundraiser” is not just a regrettable and overused cliché. It’s the obvious goal of most non-profit arts organizations, whenever they have need of a benefit show. I doubt anyone ever says, “You know what we should do? Let’s throw a benefit show that’s really {…}

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Pop Art Masters at Sonoma’s Schulz Museum

6 months ago in Art.0 Comments

There’s a merry little war between the world of fine art (the kind you might find in galleries and museums) and the world of commercial art (the kind you see in magazines and newspapers, sprawled on billboards and on television). Commercial artists and photographers often ask to be taken seriously, as artists, while many fine artists casually employ the word {…}

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Cycle of Life: New show displays bicycles as art and history

7 months ago in Art.0 Comments

They say you never forget how to ride a bicycle – or your first bicycle – but in a new exhibit in Santa Rosa, the Sonoma County Museum is displaying a dazzling assortment of classic two-wheelers you’d have to be at least century old to remember. Titled “Customized: the Art and History of the Bicycle,” the delightfully retro spokes-and-handlebars exhibition {…}

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Nature Comes Alive with outdoor theater in Sonoma County

7 months ago in Insiders Guide.0 Comments

There are few places in California as beautiful in the fall as Sonoma County. Add to that the fact that Sonoma County has more operating theater companies (around 55) than some urban centers, and it’s no surprise that, even with the summer having officially come to an end, there is still plenty of theater happening outdoors – often in unexpected {…}

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Real Pirates Hit the Motherlode in Petaluma

8 months ago in Art.0 Comments

As any good swashbuckler will tell you, the best part of the word “art” is the part that goes “Arrrrrrrrrr!” This weekend – perfectly timed to coincide with International Talk Like a Pirate Day on Monday, Sept. 19 – the Petaluma Museum (www.petalumamuseum.com) unfurls a new exhibit that taps into the current cultural obsession with pirates, both the Caribbean kind, {…}

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Mario Cantone Revisits Roustabout Theater on Sept. 11

8 months ago in Art.0 Comments

It was a Sunday afternoon. Actor Mario Cantone—best known for his recurring role on “Sex and the City”—was driving up Highway 101 when he noted the sign out in front of the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts. The sign announced a production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins,” to be staged in a matinee at 3 that afternoon. Impulsively, Cantone took {…}

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Opening Reception Sept. 2 for ‘Roseland on Canvas’

8 months ago in Art.0 Comments

Local artists capture the vibrancy of a unique Sonoma County community The very notion of painting everyday life in Roseland may seem redundant to any who’ve become familiar with the always-colorful South Santa Rosa community. Mere paint cannot capture the sheer vibrant energy, vivid effervescence and multihued gaudiness of Roseland, from the community garden at Bayer Farm, blooming with urban-agricultural {…}

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Pegasus’ ‘Tapas’ showcase offers something for everybody

8 months ago in Art.0 Comments

It’s nearly fall in Sonoma County, and once again, a delicious-sounding menu of short tasty plays has been ordered up by the theatrical gourmands out at Rio Nido’s Pegaus Theater Company. “Tapas,” an annual offering short original works presented by a fresh, well-seasoned team of North Bay directors and actors, serving up eccentric and entertaining dishes a night. The shows {…}