Tam High Students March Down Miracle Mile to Celebrate Cesar Chavez’s 1970 March to Support Striking IJ Typographers

Tam High Students March Down Miracle Mile to Celebrate Cesar Chavez’s 1970 March to Support Striking IJ Typographers

The 1970 march. Photo by Dewey Livingston. Sometimes activism inspires art. In the case of 65 students in Tam High’s Social and Environmental Justice Action program, that art is subsequently sparking activism. During the 2021 Mill Valley Film Festival, CFI...
The Indispensable – and Now Digital – Mill Valley Community Map Has Arrived

The Indispensable – and Now Digital – Mill Valley Community Map Has Arrived

Mill Valley is chock full of amazing businesses, nonprofits, restaurants, retail shops and myriad service businesses. But we’re regularly reminded by our neighbors, colleagues and friends that even longtime locals aren’t aware of the endless array of...
City Puts 2022 RSVP Parking Stickers on Sale

City Puts 2022 RSVP Parking Stickers on Sale

At the dawn of the pandemic and for many months after, the City of Mill Valley’s Resident Shopper Vehicle Permit (RSVP) program, which allows residents of Mill Valley and nearby towns to park for free at a metered space as a way to promote downtown businesses, was...
A Mill Valley Year in Review: Joy, Pain, Sunshine…What Else? (Lately), Plenty of Much-Needed Rain

A Mill Valley Year in Review: Joy, Pain, Sunshine…What Else? (Lately), Plenty of Much-Needed Rain

(DOD Photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Carlos M. Vazquez II) 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,...
Wes Anderson’s Hilariously Quirky ‘The French Dispatch’ Caps 44th Mill Valley Film Festival

Wes Anderson’s Hilariously Quirky ‘The French Dispatch’ Caps 44th Mill Valley Film Festival

With the hilariously quirky, triptych-styled closing night film of “The French Dispatch,” the Mill Valley Film Festival closed out its44th edition Sunday night, capping 11 days of films, panels, parties, and musical performances at the annual autumn...
Suzanne Joe Kai’s “Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres” Doc Captures Journalist’s Career Chronicling Rock Gods and a Life of Familial Devotion

Suzanne Joe Kai’s “Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres” Doc Captures Journalist’s Career Chronicling Rock Gods and a Life of Familial Devotion

The man whose words put some of the greatest names in the history of recorded music on the map is getting the star treatment at the 44th Mill Valley Film Festival.  Ben Fong-Torres, a multi-talented journalist and longtime Bay Area media figure, is the subject of...