In September, owner Adam Kovacs started servicing all makes of German cars at his Sonoma location on Highway 12. It’s his response to the 30-to-40-percent decline in car sales in the last few months. “I don’t believe in retail,” he said, and has reduced the... Continue
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Alex Leader, glassblower. Dancing to the Klezmer band, the Red Hot Chachkas. Jewish Music & Art Festival Photos by Windsor Green Congregation Shir Shalom hosted the first ever Sonoma Jewish Music & Art Festival on Sunday, Oct. 19, in the outdoor area of the Congregation,... Continue
Years ago, when I was an aspiring wine nerd, I went to a food-and-wine conference in Italy, and in the course of interviewing a winemaker from the Piedmont, home of Barolo, Barbaresco, Barbera, and other serious red wines, I asked about white wines. What was... Continue
Every Oct. 31, Americans join together to try to scare the daylights out of one another. This can be accomplished by turning your normally welcoming home into a forbidden haunted house and your precious landscaping into a spooky graveyard. On Halloween, trick-or-treaters expect more than... Continue
For award-winning poet and writer Juanita J. Martin, the term “UniverSoul” is more than a pun – it’s a philosophy. Martin is the host of “Poetry Jam: UniverSoul,” a monthly reading and performance series conducted at Springs-based Barking Dog Roasters. The next jam is Saturday, Nov.... Continue
Battle of the Bartenders One of the judges in the first heat eyes his cocktail created by Blue Moon Saloon. Photo by Ryan Lely. More than a dozen local restaurants and bars participated in the Friday, Oct. 10, Battle of the Bartenders at the Sonoma... Continue
Continuing its “Chapel Concert Series” of Latin-themed musical selections, the Sonoma/Petaluma State Historic Park Association presents the sonorous vocal stylings of Ramana Vieira as she interprets traditional Portuguese fado ballads. The song form, developed in 19th-century Portugal, takes its name from the Portuguese term for... Continue
The soil. The vines. The growers. The weather. It takes all four to create exceptional grapes, but some vineyards have these qualities in spades. They’re the superstars of the wine world, with the kind of name recognition usually reserved for actors and sports heroes. Connoisseurs... Continue
With the Charles Schwab Cup Championship only two weeks away, the top 30 money winners on the PGA Champions Tour will be heading to Sonoma Golf Club to play for the biggest championship of the year. The Sun will be profiling all 30 players who... Continue
At a quarter-century and counting, the venerated Witchie Poo Halloween Extravaganza returns to the Sebastiani Theatre with “Poosical, the Musical.” The annual Halloween-themed music, magic, comedy and dance revue features a cavalcade of characters and satiric renditions of popular musicals. Among the numbers are “Dream... Continue