Describing Zipper is pretty much synonymous with describing its owners, Elizabeth Cashour and Steven Saden: fascinating, fun, eclectic and surprising, as well as welcoming, accessible and possessed of an exceptional aesthetic. Fine, but what is the shop? It’s a modern mercantile emporium, according to Cashour... Continue
The new owners of the Pizzeria Capri Ristorante, the Gundeid family, made pizza for parking lot parties after every Dragons home football game this season, a practice started by the former owner, Jacob Begeorges. The pizza tradition has been going on for some 10 years.... Continue
Forrest Lesch-Middelton wants to help fellow potters in the community understand their work – “to look at it critically” – so they’ll continue to develop both their art and their craft. Director of the Ceramic Program at the Sonoma Community Center since May, Lesch-Middelton spends... Continue
I settled myself in the rocker. Seated on the rug in front of me were twenty kindergarteners, most with hands folded in laps, except for the little girl with perfect black braids fiddling with her friend’s long blond hair. Twenty pairs of eyes – cornflower... Continue
Altimira Middle School’s Ana de La Cruz and Frederick Anguiano named Students of the Year for 2007-2
In a statement read in both English and Spanish at the board meeting of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District last Wednesday, teachers praised Ana as exemplifying what it takes to be successful in school and in life and honored “Freddie” as an inspiration to... Continue
Gundlach Bundschu, the oldest family-owned winery in California, has its sights set on its Sesquicentennial Anniversary celebration, with plans to bring wine history and theater together in 2008. The winery and The Marsh Theater Company in San Francisco are collaborating to create a play that... Continue
There’s nothing like baseball to get readers’ juices flowing. In response to my column about the many years that Boyes Springs was the site of spring training for the San Francisco Seals and then the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League, I heard from... Continue
Certain burglars in Sonoma had an easy time of it this week, browsing residential streets for unlocked cars, getting in, finding keys or the remote control garage door openers, and either driving off in the car or, using the remote, getting into the garage, and... Continue
Friends, family and admirers will bid goodbye this week to one of California’s great ladies. Barbara Bundschu, great-granddaughter of Jacob Gundlach, founder of California’s oldest family-owned winery, Gundlach-Bundschu, of Sonoma, and granddaughter of Thomas Geary, a congressman from Santa Rosa from 1890-1895, was an independent... Continue
The driver emerged unscathed, but his 1978 Buick Regal had its front bumper crushed by a Sonoma County Transit bus Wednesday morning at the corner of Broadway and West MacArthur Street. Deputies responding to a call around 11:30 a.m. found the side of the bus... Continue