Performing Stars produces plays with kids in the starring roles.
Sep 9, 2025

Performing Stars Celebrates 35 Years of Helping Kids Get Ahead

Felecia Gaston founded Performing Stars 35 years ago, driven to fulfill a single goal: Give low-income little girls in Marin City free ballet lessons. However, the nonprofit’s origin story has its roots in 1960s rural Georgia. Gaston, just...
Eureka Day, by Bay Area and Tony-winning playwright Jonathan Spector, is currently running at Mill Valley’s Marin Theatre through Sept. 21.
Sep 9, 2025

Schooled on Stage: Tony-Winning ‘Eureka Day’ at Marin Theatre

Ever thought to oneself, “Huh, I wish that I could see all the people from the last PTA meeting in a play.” Well, as long as one lives in the Bay Area, their wish has been granted....
Aug 12, 2025

Video Killed the Newsletter Star

When I was a kid in the ’70s and ’80s, they told us, “You can be anything you want.” Thus empowered, Sesame Street’s Big Bird decided to be a firefighter. Failure ensued. Later in the same episode, a...
Sep 9, 2025

Free Will Astrology, Sept. 10-16

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I can’t speak the Quechua language, which is Indigenous to the Andes Mountains. But I have lifted one of their...
Winemaker Arnaud Weyrich manages the Roederer Estate, a winery in Philo, California.Roederer Estate, a winery in Philo
Following his 1993 graduation from Montpellier’s esteemed Ecole Supérieure d’Oenologie with a master of science in viticulture and enology, Arnaud Weyrich launched his professional journey as...
Olive Oil from Amphora Nueva
Of the delightful shops that line San Anselmo’s charming downtown strip, family-owned Amphora Nueva stands out for its specialty: a dazzling selection of on-tap olive oils...
Mapmaker Politicians have long abused district maps to cling to power. In Texas, lines were redrawn, not through a fair election process, but through manipulation. That’s gerrymandering,...
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