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A Savory Secret About Petaluma Pie Company

by careysweet2 months ago in Food.1 Comment

A Savory Secret About Petaluma Pie Company Just the phone number tells you you’re in for something delicious. To reach Petaluma Pie Company, dial 707-766-6743 (7-MMM-PIE). The confection shop in Historic Downtown Petaluma is best known for its sweet pies, such as classic apple, banana cream, pumpkin, and unique recipes like tangy-luscious butterscotch cream, or a brilliant, spicy-sweet pear ginger {…}

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High Atop a Mountain, Your Private Wedding Awaits

by careysweet2 months ago in Weddings.0 Comments

Marilyn Ambra has heard all kinds of challenging requests as owner of Marilyn Ambra Party Consultants, Inc., a Northern California wedding and event design, planning, and management company. One of her favorites comes from wedding clients requiring ultimate privacy for their celebrations. Sonoma County is one of her best go-to solutions, she says, with so much to explore over a {…}

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Best Laid Plans For Fresh Eggs This Spring

by careysweet2 months ago in Insiders Guide.0 Comments

My pet chickens – Chick and Dee – just laid their first eggs after their winter hiatus. The first time I heard that tell-tale, thundering “squaaaaw-yawk” from their nesting box, I knew it was official: Spring is here. While across the nation, the idea of keeping chickens in urban backyards has become something of a fad, for hundreds of years, {…}

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Petaluma’s Viva Cocolat Hosts Decadent Drag Photo Show

by TravelAndrew4 months ago in GLBT.0 Comments

Lynn Wong, owner of downtown Petaluma’s Viva Cocolat (110 Petaluma Blvd. N, 707-778-9888), takes a creative approach to operating her sunny chocolate shop and cafe. Each month, she features the products of a different artisan chocolatier, and the walls of establishment are always hung with works for sale by talented artists. The shop’s current art exhibit is “When Life is {…}

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New owners, same great grub at Roy’s Chicago Doggery

by careysweet5 months ago in Food.1 Comment

That sound of howling you heard from the Petaluma Livestock Auction Yard a while back? Happily, no, it was not an animal going to its demise. It was customers showing up at Roy’s Chicago Doggery and discovering that their beloved diner has new owners. Wait. Before you wail, too, nothing is changing. We will all continue to get the same {…}

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Sonoma County Artisans Attract Santa

by careysweet5 months ago in Insiders Guide.0 Comments

Where Santa Shops in Sonoma County Ugly sweaters. Stale, waxy chocolate oranges. Weird dancing plastic reindeer. We’ve all got our own horrific visions of the worst holiday gift ever. But this year, it will be different. Our friends and family will shop at Sonoma County’s many wonderful craft fairs. They will purchase us the most precious handmade presents, from fluffy {…}

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Petaluma show features pivotal examples of postwar modernism

by DavidTempleton6 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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Get Your Gourd On with Great Pumpkins

by careysweet7 months ago in Insiders Guide.0 Comments

Anyone driving on Stony Point Road between Petaluma and Santa Rosa these days sees pumpkins. The brilliant orange orbs fill fields, signs beckon towards side roads brimming with more pumpkins, and roadside stands are popping up, selling, yep, pumpkins. ’Tis the season for baking pies, roasting seeds, making pumpkin smoothies, and carving gourds into ghoulish shapes for Halloween. Here are {…}

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Food Bar is New Petaluma Salad Bar

by careysweet9 months ago in Food.0 Comments

If you’ve got something for salads, then Food Bar has something for you. The new shop focuses on the green stuff, and all the goodies to top it with it, and it opens this Monday August 29 in downtown Petaluma. You’ll recognize the owners’ names – they’re Joseph and Lori Shea, who also own Blu American Eatery and Sugo Trattoria, {…}

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Petaluma vendor helps green backyard furniture one chair at a time

by mjv9 months ago in Green.0 Comments

So what if by the time you read this, the summer will be more than half over. That doesn’t mean you aren’t in the market for a great deal on durable backyard furniture that happens to be eco-friendly, too. This is where Green Frog Outdoor Furniture comes in. The Petaluma-based vendor specializes in products made from a variety of recycled {…}