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Jul 22, 2025

The Hall of Flowers, Show Designer Greg Duncan

For those who haven’t been to the Sonoma County Fair, The Hall is in fact a hanger, measuring a massive 180 feet by 350 feet by 35 feet.  The Hall was built during the war to house the mighty Boeing B-17 “flying fortress”—that heavily armored long-range bomber, whose distant thunder...
Jun 17, 2025

Fast and Slow, Jennifer York and Joe Ruffatto of Bamboo Sourcery

For sheer speed of growth, bamboo, that terrestrial family of jointed and woody grasses, takes the silver, seconded in...
Jun 10, 2025

Princess for a Day, Queen for a Lifetime

Esperanza Rico and Estrellita Rico of The Princess Boutique in Santa Rosa offer their clients cradle to grave service—or...
Jun 3, 2025

Chenoa the Spectacular, Wardrobe Stylist and Costume Designer

Thirty minutes into our interview, I had scrawled three pages of notes but still no story through-line. If you try...
May 27, 2025

Lord’s Work with Sister Sparkle Plenty of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

For the “expiation of stigmatic guilt”—these solemn words, spoken as a vow, are repeated each time a sister of Perpetual...
May 20, 2025

Community Centered, Vanessa Rognlien of Sonoma

Four sure weeks after Sonoma Trash Fashion 15 (the Bohemian’s April 15 cover story, “Trash into Treasure”; see link...
May 13, 2025

Transience and Oneness, Sessei Meg Levie of Green Gulch Zen Center

The road that took me to the Green Dragon Temple was as convoluted and as linear as the pilgrim’s...
May 6, 2025

Dept. of Art, Creative Sonoma’s Tara Thomson

There’s a pattern—most every town and county in the North Bay has an “arts council”—a non-profit art agency-advocate.  These plucky...
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