Concocting new cocktails

With the title of “Sonoma’s Best Bartender” on the line, local mixologists employ all the tricks of the trade for the 11th annual Sonoma Bar Battle on Saturday November 4, 6 p.m. at the Sonoma Veterans Building. The cocktail throw-down challenges teams to concoct... Continue

When Detroit ruled the world

Nothing quite says ‘Made in America’ like a pre-1973 muscle car. The genre -- along with trucks, hot rods, race cars and vintage rides – will be represented in all its brawny glory at the 6th Annual All American Bad Ass Car Show, Saturday, September... Continue

Transcendence Theatre opens June 19

Transcendence Theatre Company’s "Broadway Under The Stars," a series of award-winning concerts featuring accomplished Broadway and Hollywood performers, returns to Jack London State Park on Friday, June 19. Last year’s season included performers from Broadway hits including “Wicked,” “Les Miserables,” “Gypsy,” “Mary Poppins,” “Mamma Mia”... Continue

Short story

Jordy Neil is the enterprising elf in ‘The Santaland Diaries,” a live comedy written by David Sedaris. Presented by the Sonoma Valley Shakespeare Company, the modern Christmas tale plays dinner shows at Murphy’s Irish Pub on Monday, December 16 and Sunday, December 22, both at... Continue

Project Censored The Movie: Taking a stand against “junk food news”

“Project Censored The Movie,” is a one-hour-long documentary based on Sonoma State University’s sociology course, Project Censored, which examines corporate media’s failure to do its job of informing the public, replacing the truth with infotainment. This film, a six-year labor of love, was born in... Continue

Gilbert brings variety show to TV

Jeff Gilbert, the old-school crooner who specializes in forgotten hits from the ’30’s and’40’s, embraces the newfangled medium of television with an hour-long special on SUN TV Comcast 27 this weekend. “The Jeff Gilbert Show” airs Thursday-Saturday February 28-March 2) at 8 p.m. and Sunday... Continue

Reviving ‘Rocky Horror’

[caption id="attachment_25405" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="The “Rocky” cast during one of the first rehearsals in Andrews Hall. The costumes and make-up will be much different in the actual show. Chris Ripenburg, as Columbia, is at center. Photos by Melania Mahoney"][/caption] A naïve couple trapped in an... Continue

Gentlemen, start your projectors!

When it comes to cars, NASCAR isn’t the only game in town this weekend. Pixar’s “Cars 2,” reuniting Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and his pal Mater the tow truck (Larry the Cable Guy), opens Friday, June 24 at the Sebastiani Theatre. John Lasseter conceived the... Continue

Theater unleashed

“Dogs! It’s the Musical!” returns for three shows this weekend at the Sonoma Community Center. The story follows an angel sent to earth as a dog, who learns the ways of the canine in the dog park, doggie day care and an animal control center. The show’s... Continue

Hitting the high C's

The Sonoma Valley High School Music and Drama Departments go tropical with the classic Rogers & Hammerstein musical “South Pacific” at the school’s Little Theatre. The two weekend run begins Friday night, April 15. The story is drawn from a Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel by James A.... Continue