Thotty McNaughty started her adult dance career as a curious student at Bastet Dance Fitness, a school for sensual dance ...

Found Poets, an org that presents live poetry performances, offers something stubbornly analog: real voices from real people ...

"Peter & Alice' is a show not to be missed. This script is so tight and these actors are so earnest that one might leave with ...

Aficionados of musical theater classics will appreciate Cinnabar Theater’s production of Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady.

Indivisible Sonoma County's protests happen because people show up at meetings and say, “I have an idea”—and they take the ...

Author Cincinnatus Hibbard undertakes to define love and how it addresses the problems of modernity and the present political crisis.

More than 300 California poets and writers will gather at the state capitol for 'A Courage of Poets,' a remembrance of those killed by ICE.

The new documentary film, 'Tight & Nerdy,' is not about Weird Al Yankovic or burlesque, but a remarkable hybrid of both.

FEAR This image from last June’s confrontation with riot police in Los Angeles underscores our contributor’s argument that fear itself is the most reliable barometer of a democracy’s health. As ...

Photo by Pete Geniella Mike Geniella, former reporter for the Press Democrat, moved to Ukiah in 1985, where he began covering the timber beat. Before his retirement in 2008, he wrote about everything ...

Longtime locals remember it all too well. In February of 1986, the storm would just not stop, dropping 24 inches of rain over a 10-day period. The overflowing Russian River reached a record high water ...

The theater business is a treacherous, ugly mud pit where love is desecrated and money rules all—and especially in Santa Rosa, where the Tocchinis, the Coddings and the Duggans have owned or operated ...