by mvchamber | Oct 17, 2025 | Arts & Entertainment, Live Music, Mill Valley Music Fest, Sweetwater Music Hall
“The thing we are struggling to overcome and correct is that we are owned by Bob Weir,” Hoppe said with frustration one afternoon last week in a backstage office at the music hall. “It’s not a joke. I get angry sometimes. We still get these snide remarks on Facebook...
by mvchamber | Aug 14, 2025 | Art, Arts & Entertainment, County of Marin, Downtown Mill Valley, Food & Drink, Health & Wellness, Kiddo!, Kids, Mill Valley History, Mill Valley Library, Mill Valley Lumber Yard, Mill Valley Music Fest, Miller Avenue, Milll Valley Chamber, Mount Tamalpais, Parks & Recreation, Philanthropy, Public Restrooms, Restaurants, Sweetwater Music Hall, The Redwoods
By Jim Welte, Mill Valley Chamber Hey there friends, lovers of Mill Valley, live music and those that revel in our amazing community, for a variety of reasons—the current macro economic climate and profound changes in music festival economics, as well as the upcoming...
by mvchamber | May 29, 2025 | 142 Throckmorton, Art, Arts & Entertainment, Kids, Milll Valley Chamber, Outdoor Art Club, Sweetwater Music Hall, Volunteerism
Cuts to public arts funding are now a one-two punch. On Wednesday, May 14, Gov. Gavin Newsom released a budget proposal eliminating the $11.5 million allocated to the state’s small nonprofits arts organizations through the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, or...
by mvchamber | May 21, 2025 | Art, Arts & Entertainment, Business, City Council, City of Mill Valley, Climate, County of Marin, Diversity & Equity, Downtown Mill Valley, Emergency Preparedness, First Tuesday Artwalk, Health & Wellness, Housing, Kiddo!, Kids, Live Music, Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Mill Valley Library, Mill Valley Lumber Yard, Milll Valley Chamber, MV Chamber Biz Buzz, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Restaurants, Shopping, Sweetwater Music Hall, Tam High, Tam Junction, Tam Valley, Tamalpais High, Volunteerism
The Marin Independent Journal has been a beacon of top-notch journalism for decades, and this year has been no different. The organization earned 20 awards — including five first-place honors — in an annual statewide journalism contest. The California News Publishers...
by mvchamber | May 19, 2025 | City of Mill Valley, County of Marin, Depot Plaza, Dipsea Race, Downtown Mill Valley, Food & Drink, Health & Wellness, Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Mill Valley Lumber Yard, Mill Valley Music Fest, Miller Avenue, Mount Tamalpais, Parks & Recreation, Restaurants, Shopping, Sweetwater Music Hall
Let’s get this out of the way at the outset: if you are a lifelong Mount Tam diehard/know-it-all, knowledgable of every nook and cranny of the brilliance that is the Sleeping Lady, the watershed, trails, campgrounds, incredible hiking and biking and historic...
by mvchamber | May 18, 2025 | Art, Arts & Entertainment, City of Mill Valley, Diversity & Equity, Health & Wellness, Housing, Miller Avenue, Milll Valley Chamber, Parks & Recreation, Spirituality, Sweetwater Music Hall, Volunteerism
We can do a great deal to stay “in the joy” by supporting the performing arts as well as the nonprofit social-service organizations that are deeply meaningful to us. As Marin’s own rock star Huey Lewis once said, it is a “win-win” for the artists to get back as much...
