Rebecca Pennington loves seeing the transformations of her hot yoga and pilates students. The owner of Energize Hot Yoga Santa Rosa for 14 years, she’s seen participants’ strength, posture, muscle ...

Jessica Vega’s connection to Sonoma CAN’s Head Start began in childhood. Her mother, Maricruz Reynoso, worked at CAN and knew how critical preschool was to childhood development. Years later, Jessica ...

Rebecca Pennington loves seeing the transformations of her hot yoga and pilates students. The owner of Energize Hot Yoga Santa Rosa for 14 years, she’s seen participants’ strength, posture, muscle ...

Even after decades practicing personal injury law, Neal Kuvara still enjoys helping injured people. He calls it “solving cases,” and it typically begins with a one-on-one conversation. “I try to talk ...

It might be surprising to learn that a driving impetus behind Sonoma County wine venture Patz & Hall Winery bloomed in Santa Cruz in the late 1970s. Founder and owner James Hall was a UCSC slug back ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I think you’re ready to establish new ways of nourishing and protecting what’s valuable to you. Your natural assertiveness will be useful in setting boundaries and securing ...

Fixing Forests I just visited the redwood country and wilderness forests that stretch from the cool coastal range to snow-topped alpine ridges in the interior mountains in Northern California. Hiking ...

Un-Happys With regard to the Happys, I suggest a more fitting band name: the Vandals. Their so-called “marketing efforts” are amateurish and unprofessional, if not pathetic. They post their inept, ...

Shakespeare has become almost an entrance exam for the American theater community, but it nearly wasn’t this way. In Shakespeare’s time, publishing scripts simply wasn’t the normal practice. How we ...

San Rafael What’s Up, ‘Buttercup?’ Marin Shakespeare Company is mounting Buttercup, a new play by J.D. Murphy, inspired by Guy de Maupassant’s 1880 short story, Boule de Suif. This irreverent and ...

Check out the winners of the 2025 North Bay Pet Photo Contest in this photo gallery! Best Service Dog, Best Puppy and more.

CHANGE AGENT Zachary Kushel leads Marin Sonoma Impact Ventures, our community’s first regional venture capital fund. Photo courtesy of Zachary Kushel. As a semi-retired startup guy myself, I was ...