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The Arts in Sonoma County

Liz Jahren and David Templeton in the final scene of "Pinky." Photo by Eric Chazankin.

‘Pinky’ Wows Audiences in Sebastopol Venue

by secretlocal2 months ago in Art.0 Comments

Young love can be brutal. This is the premise of “Pinky,” now playing at Main Stage West in Sebastopol. The play is written by journalist/playwright David Templeton (“Wretch Like Me” and inside-sonoma.com arts blogger) and is directed by Sheri Lee Miller (6th street Playhouse’s “Death of a Salesman,” Cinnabar Theater’s “Crimes of the Heart”). David also stars in play with {…}

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Christmas Gets Weird on Sonoma County Stages

by DavidTempleton5 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

by DavidTempleton5 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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Special Pricing for Artisano at Vintners Inn/John Ash & Co. Nov. 19

by careysweet6 months ago in Art.0 Comments

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 {…}

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Raven Theater hosts ‘Dancing with the Stars’

by DavidTempleton6 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

by DavidTempleton6 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

by DavidTempleton7 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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2nd annual Sonoma County Glass Pumpkin Patch to Open

by JenJones7 months ago in Art.0 Comments

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 {…}

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Real Pirates Hit the Motherlode in Petaluma

by DavidTempleton8 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

by DavidTempleton8 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 {…}