FOOD & DRINK
California Inmates Get the Chance to Become Composers Through Nonprofit's Program 'Music for the Future'
The nonprofit Project: Music Heals Us has developed a program called “Music for the Future," which offers incarcerated individuals an opportunity to tap into their musical sides. The goal is to give the inmates hope.
Tommy Smothers remembered at celebration of life in Santa Rosa
Friends and loved ones shared laughs and tears at the Friedman Event Center in Santa Rosa Sunday afternoon to celebrate the life of Tommy Smothers, the late comedian, musician, yo-yo master and beloved member of the famed Smothers Brothers comedy duo. Smothers, who was considered the Sonoma Valley’s most famous...
ASUC passes Right to Rescue resolution as student animal rights activist awaits trial
The ASUC Senate passed a resolution Wednesday in support of the decriminalization of animal rescue as UC Berkeley student activist Zoe Rosenberg is facing criminal charges for the removal of chickens from Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry. The resolution draws from California Penal Code Section 597(b) and the passage of Proposition...
AAPI winemakers, chefs bring taste of home to food & wine fest
Chinese workers helped build California’s oldest winery in Sonoma County, Buena Vista. They also built the roads, cleared the land and planted and harvested the grapes in the mid-1800s that paved the way for the Napa and Sonoma County wine region. Today wineries such as Shunyi Cellars from proprietor...
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