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Entertainment

Main Street Station This is the great place to look for live entertainment any night of the week. The owner, Suzi Feehery, has an ear for jazz and singers and books the best talent in and out of the area. For a small cover fee (usually $3-5) you can spend the evening with the likes [...]

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Give Thanks for Wine

We celebrated Thanksgiving with our daughter’s extended family of winemakers. It was as good as we thought it would be with a wide array of delicious food including a couple deep-fried turkeys to go with the traditional oven roasted bird. It was a grey, fall day in the Green Valley appellation. Not unusual for a [...]

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mustard in vineyard

Sonoma Wine Country Dreaming

In Healdsburg, the real estate dreamers have wine on their mind. Folks wander in off the streets after a long day of wine tasting, great food, beautiful weather, and gorgeous scenery. They ask about ten acres in the country suitable for a vineyard and their dream home. Most of the last decade we would have [...]

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Monte Rio

It was beautiful driving weather today, so I thought I’d check out some fixers along Highway 116 and the Bodega Highway. Northwood Golf Club is a beautiful spot for a little recreation, but I didn’t have time for nine holes, let alone eighteen, so I just stopped to admire the redwood shaded grass for a [...]

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Occidental

I headed up to Occidental where I needed to get pictures of some of the Italian style family restaurants for an article Wild Jane is writing on the main sonoma.net site. I made sure to get photos of both the Union Hotel and the classic Howard’s Cafe two blocks up the street. The Union Hotel [...]

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Arrigoni's Cafe

My brother Ned builds guitars and was in the area for the Healdsburg guitar show yesterday. I was going to be in Santa Rosa looking at a nice Victorian fixer later, so it made sense to meet downtown. I was looking for an excuse to try a breakfast place in Santa Rosa that was new [...]

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