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Named for a Marin Town Nobody Can Find
The world is a better place if everyone sings. Now open in Novato. After more than a decade teaching singers in San Francisco, Songbird Studios has opened their fourth Bay Area location at Vintage Oaks in Novato. It’s a voice-only studio, and lessons are in the styles people actually want to sing: pop, rock, musical theater and more. There are showcases and choirs too (the Songbird City Choir has sung the National Anthem for the SF Giants two seasons running).
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Goguette Bread Opens Hidden Wine Bar in Santa Rosa
Open the door to Bistroquette de Goguette, and you step through a magic portal into a neighborhood wine bar in Paris. Not just any wine bar, but the place where owner Najine Shariat spent countless unhurried evenings with her family, sometimes falling asleep on a bench with her three sisters while their parents sipped wine and nibbled on bread and cheese.
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Petaluma Raley’s Pharmacy Closing In December Ahead Of Store Shutdown
Petaluma is set to lose another pharmacy next month as the local Raley’s store prepares for a complete closure by early 2027. According to the Press Democrat, a state notice confirms the grocery store’s pharmacy will shut down by December 16th, ahead of the full store closure between January and February. The shutdown will impact roughly 40 employees, though some union workers may have options to transfer to other locations.
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Glen Ellen's Rare Asian Maples Hit Peak Color, With Walks Through Mid-November
Fall color is peaking right now among the rare Asian maples at Sonoma Botanical Garden in Glen Ellen, where more than 50 wild-origin maple species are turning shades of red, orange, yellow and purple along the hillsides off Highway 12. The garden, open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 12841 Highway 12, has built its reputation around a maple collection that few institutions on the West Coast can match.
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Remember Skitzo’s green-slime antics on ‘The Jerry Springer Show’? The band is back in Petaluma
When Lance Ozanix unleashed Skitzo on Sonoma County in 1981, the Bay Area thrash metal scene was gaining speed. But the band, led by Ozanix, had ambitions beyond playing faster and louder. From the start, Skitzo embraced a theatrical strain of heavy metal, building a reputation for outrageous stage shows, shifting lineups and a frontman whose signature trick — projectile-vomiting bright green slime — became part of the band’s underground legend.
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Rollicking Louisiana crawfish boils have arrived in the East Bay. Here’s where to find one before the year ends
When Marin-County native Aaron Salit first visited New Orleans 12 years ago, he was deep in the bustle and grind of the fine dining restaurant world. As someone who has always enjoyed live music and food, the city’s crawfish boil culture drew him in instantly. Before he knew it, he was returning year after year to attend boils, eventually making crawfish boils a birthday tradition of his own, bringing friends and family together for the same communal experience he had come to love in Louisiana.
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Jumpin' Johnny Sansone Brings Louisiana Blues to Petaluma for Honduran Clinic
Jumpin' Johnny Sansone, the saxophone-and-accordion-wielding bluesman out of New Orleans, is heading back to Petaluma for a fully seated show at the Mystic Theatre on Sunday, November 22, 2026. The concert at 23 N. Petaluma Blvd. doubles as a benefit for the Petaluma-based nonprofit Global Healing, with proceeds going toward the Roatán Volunteer Pediatric Clinic on the Honduran island of Roatán, where public health services are scarce.
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Sonoma Botanical Garden Offers Unique Autumn Leaf-Peeping Experience
The maple collection at Sonoma Botanical Garden in Glen Ellen offers visitors a unique and rare glimpse of autumn hues, making it an ideal spot for leaf-peeping on a sunny, crisp fall day. The garden, founded almost 40 years ago, boasts more than 50 species of wild-origin Asian maples. As...
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Born 85 Years Ago Today in California, the Rhythm Guitarist Who Co-Founded One of Rock’s Biggest Bands With His Younger Brother
On this day (November 9) in 1941, Thomas Richard Fogerty was born in Berkeley, California. Alongside younger brother John Fogerty, Tom played rhythm guitar and occasionally sang background vocals for the groundbreaking swamp-rock outfit Creedence Clearwater Revival. However, escalating tensions between the siblings led to Tom Fogerty’s exit from the...