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 {…}
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 {…}
Artisano hosted its first culinary gathering in Geyserville in 2009, much to the delight of the several hundred guests that turned out. This year, it’s back Nov. 18-19, in a new home in Santa Rosa, and with a special thank you gift. As a friend of Inside Sonoma, you can save $10 off each admission when ordering advance tickets online {…}
‘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 {…}
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 {…}
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 {…}
Sonoma County is potentially at its most gorgeous in the fall and harvest is under way. It’s time to start planning trips to the pumpkin patch and you won’t find more stunning seasonal décor than at the Sonoma County Glass Pumpkin Patch on Oct. 8 and 9, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. This year’s collection of glass pumpkins will be {…}
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, {…}
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 {…}
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 {…}
