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Celebrate the Holidays in High Style, and With the Kids, Too
Eggnog and strung popcorn are good snacks for decorating the tree, but they hardly make a holiday meal. Here are some tasty alternatives around Sonoma County and, as a plus, the suppers offer special...
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Create a Sonoma County Statement for New Year’s, Win Nifty Prizes
In Spain, wacky New Year’s Eve revelers stop whatever they’re doing before midnight and engage in a mad scramble for grapes. The rule is that everyone must eat 12 grapes, one for each chime of the...
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Find that Beautiful Place for Your Wedding
One of the biggest trends in weddings now (ironically enough) is keeping things small. Couples don’t want to get lost in the crowd; intimate affairs can mean that every guest is a special gift on the...
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New at The Barlow: Three Tenants and Liquid Nitro Ice Cream
With The Barlow slated to celebrate its official grand opening in June, the leasing team for the 220,000-square-foot culinary and art center at Sebastopol Avenue/Highway 12 and Morris Street is keeping...
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No Excuse to Not Indulge in More Patisserie Angelica Cakes
It was only the day after Christmas as I stood in the checkout line at a grocery store, but already, the next holiday was looming large. There, next to the discounted candy canes and specials on New...
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Enhance the Romance by Leaving the Details to a Wedding Planner
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu This is one of Marisa Manna’s favorite quotes, and entirely appropriate for her work as owner...
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Educate and Indulge with Forage for Fungi Weekend at Timber Cove Inn Jan. 4-6
It’s rainy season in the North Bay, which means many of us have mushrooms on our minds. If you see people stomping happily around the woods in the damp, you can bet they’re out there foraging, in...
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Updated Casa del Mar is a Santa Rosa-Sonoran Star
When Casa del Mar opened in Santa Rosa in 2009, it had a big space to fill. The former La Strada Italian Restaurant on the corner of Stony Point and Todd roads was a longstanding institution, but it...
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Women on Wine – Unfiltered Pops the Cork on Iron Horse CEO
It wasn’t too many years ago that a woman running a winery was considered avant-garde. Now, Sonoma County is home to some of the top female names in the country, and Big Bottom Market in Guerneville is...
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Beaudry’s Roadhouse Brings Taste of Home to Sebastopol
While we were all busy stuffing ourselves with holiday home cooking over the last month, a new restaurant in Sebastopol on the edge of Forestville was putting together some delightful home cooking of...
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Restaurant Month, Restaurant Week – It’s Good All the Time with Sonoma County...
It’s not like we ever need an excuse to dine out, but sure, we’ll take one. January is California Restaurant Month. Which means 33 destinations across the state have created special restaurant week or...
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Sonoma County’s Winter Mushrooms Bloom Like, Well, Mushrooms After a Rain
It seems like common sense – never follow a strange man into the woods because he promises you candy. Yet there I was in the heart of winter, tramping happily through the dense trees and underbrush at...
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Twice as Nice with Couples’ Massage
It’s amazing how something involving hot stones, mud, salt, oil, and poking deeply into muscles can be so marvelous. We’re talking massages, of course, and how absurdly joyful and relaxing the...
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Think Outside the Neighborhood for Wedding Shower
One of the nicest traditions of weddings is when a relative or close friend of the bride throws a shower. Even if gifts aren’t part of the event (many modern showers are simply about a joyful...
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New and Improved Santé Coming This Spring
Santé in Sonoma has just closed, but worry not, those signature $215 wine-paired chef’s tasting dinners will return in April, served in a new setting that the restaurant’s spokeswoman promises will...
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