Diversity & Equity
Mill Valley’s Multi-Hyphenate: Once Around Owner Takes on New Role at Throckmorton Theatre
“This theater is knee deep in creative souls and people and projects. My role is to kind of tease out of these wonderfully creative people and identify projects they want to do and then go raise the money for them to bring it to fruition. It’s also much more exciting for people who want to give.”
Read MoreCurated News You Can Use, From Mill Valley, Marin, the Bay Area & Beyond – Week of Jan. 10
We’d argue that we’re one of the best sources of news and information in Marin, a communications pipeline that directly connects to the broader 94941 and Bay Area via maps, magazines and the Enjoy Milll Valley Blog. Among those benefits is a weekly curation of headlines (see below) from near and far within the Chamber’s weekly Friday Flash newsletter.
Read MoreThese New CA Laws Went Into Effect on Jan. 1 – Here Are Some That Might Affect You
It’s easy to get lost in the avalanche of new legislation, so here’s a curated list of new laws of import to Mill Valley residents and businesses. For starters, Newsom signed a trio of pieces that allow restaurants and bars to expand outdoor and parklet service and alcohol sales, and to continue selling to-go alcoholic beverages.
Read MoreA Mill Valley Year in Review: Joy, Pain, Sunshine…What Else? (Lately), Plenty of Much-Needed Rain
As we near the third year of an absolutely relentless, seemingly never-ending and ever-changing global pandemic, it can be difficult to take it all in, to view 2021 with a macro-level perspective, particularly as we are currently awash in the incredibly transmissible Omicron variant. Here’s as good a starting point as any: holy sh** vaccines are an absolute wonder!
Read MorePoet and/the Bench Hosts ‘Sip and Shop for a Cause’ – Dec. 16
Jeffrey Levin and Bonnie Powers, owners of the five-year-old Poet and/the Bench lifestyle store and jewelry atelier space, are hosting a ‘Sip and Shop for a Cause’ on Dec. 16, 5:30-7pm to support Youth in Arts.
Read MoreEquator Coffees’ Co-Founder Helen Russell Honored at 2021 Women of Industry Celebration
The cavalcade of kudos continued this month when Russell was honored at the San Rafael Chamber’s 2021 Women of Industry Celebration, which honors “exceptional women in business in Marin County.”
Read MoreThrice As Nice: Chabad Mill Valley Hosts Trio of Hanukkah Celebrations – Dec. 1 at Brooklyn, Dec. 2 in Tiburon and at the Enjoy Mill Valley on Dec. 5
Chabad Mill Valley’s celebration of the season kicks off Wed., Dec. 1 at 5:30pm at its Brooklyn space, followed one day later with a grand menorah lighting in downtown Tiburon at 5:30pm. They cap it off with a lighting of the first-ever ice-sculpted menorah at Winterfest at 4:30pm.
Read MoreFrustrated by a Deluge of State Legislation, City Officials Resolve to Pull Every Lever Possible to Meet Its Housing Goals
City officials have made it clear that they are dead serious about pulling every lever possible to create the conditions that would significantly expand on the city’s approximately 6,670 current housing units and support the amount of additional housing for which they’re on the hook, according to ABAG.
Read MoreGreta McLain Talks About Bringing Communities Together Through Art at Virtual OAC Event – Dec. 15
At a free, virtual Outdoor Art Club event on Wednesday, Dec. 15 at 1pm via Zoom, Greta McLain will talk about how she designs public spaces to enrich positive energy and celebrate the people, histories, challenges, and richness that exist in surrounding communities, expressing the narrative of a neighborhood from the point of view of the people who live there.
Read MoreMarin County Supervisors Approve Plans to Build 10 studio Apartments and 11 Airbnb-Style Extended-Stay Rooms Near Manzanita Park & Ride Lot
The project calls for the construction of a two-story building with 10 studio apartments and 11 studio extended-stay hotel rooms at 150 Shoreline Hwy., near the flood-prone Manzanita Park & Ride lot within the flood zone.
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