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The Mill Valley Arts Commission‘s First Tuesday Artwalk, a monthly celebration of local art throughout downtown and at venues all over town, is a great way for art lovers to feed their soul by checking out some incredible art. But it has always been a very communal, in-person activity, with spaces like the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, the…

Whether you value local businesses’ incredible contributions to the local tax base or simply fear the loss of your favorite restaurant, retail shop, arts & nonprofit organizations and service providers (hopefully all of the above!), it goes without saying that we want to see all businesses and organizations survive this shelter in place order amidst…

Hearing is set for May 4. There hasn’t been a more visibly vacant commercial space in Mill Valley over the past several years – save for the blank canvas that is the mother of all retaining walls at 500 Miller Ave. – than the former Gira Polli space at 590 East Blithedale and Camino Alto. Bay Area food…

NOTE: Given the ever-changing dynamic for our local restaurants – County officials approved outdoor dining at the very moment City officials finalized a menu of options for businesses to use outdoor space to comply with social distancing requirements amidst the COVID-19 crisis – we’ve created a new post incorporating outdoor dining, takeout and delivery options. GO…

Americans are turning to all sorts of new or reinvigorated pursuits amidst the shelter in place order due to the COVID-19 outbreak, including binge-watching, bread-baking, puzzle-mastering – and even victory gardens. The latter of those has been a boon for Mill Valley garden supply shops like Green Jeans Garden Supply In Strawberry, according to KTVU. ”We have…

Churches and religious organizations of every stripe have been forced in recent weeks to shift their focus to virtual services amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, which celebrated its church building’s 50th anniversary in 2018, has been among those leading the charge. Father Patrick Michaels, the church’s pastor, has been saying a…

Scenes from the 2019 Wine, Beer & Gourmet Food Tasting. Photos by Gary Ferber. The party’s not over – but it is on hold. Organizers of the 39th Annual Mill Valley Wine, Beer and Gourmet Food Tasting, one of Mill Valley’s iconic events and a benefit for Kiddo!, the Mill Valley Schools Community Foundation and the Mill…

The Outdoor Art Club, one of Mill Valley’s oldest and historically important nonprofit organizations, has unveiled its annual list of Outreach Grant recipients, and once again it’s supporting a laundry list of discrete projects within Marin that further the Club’s purposes. The project’s listed below needed to fit with the OAC’s purpose of being “dedicated to the…

What to do when the vast majority of local businesses are deemed non-essential and thus need to be closed or significantly scaled back to comply with the shelter in place order that now extends through May 3? As we have already seen countless times by Mill Valley businesses, the answer Is: create, innovate and leverage…

George Lawson Gallery, one of a pair of acclaimed galleries that moved from San Francisco to Mill Valley in 2019, was set to debut its latest exhibit last month – Johanna Baruch’s—Himma: Selections from the Cosmos Series, a selection of gorgeous paintings that study the heavens – only to have the shelter in place order to combat…