The Case to #ShopMV: NY Times’ Wirecutter Says Shopping Local Returns 3x More Money to the Local Economy

The Case to #ShopMV: NY Times’ Wirecutter Says Shopping Local Returns 3x More Money to the Local Economy

We’ve been making the case to #ShopMV in this space for years, reminding our neighbors that when you eat, shop or use a local service, you are investing in our local economy. Business taxes fuel our increasingly challenged city budgets. Local business...
Music Heals International Tees Up 8th Annual Benefit at Sweetwater Music Hall – Nov. 23

Music Heals International Tees Up 8th Annual Benefit at Sweetwater Music Hall – Nov. 23

©Jay Blakesberg Sara Wasserman’s Music Heals International has done it again. The organization, which brings music and musicians to the children of Haiti and globally “to inspire achievement, resiliency, and creativity,” has long had a knack for gathering world class...
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...
City’s Extension of Outdoor Biz Program + Delta Surge + ‘Late Summer’ = Al Fresco Everything in Mill Valley

City’s Extension of Outdoor Biz Program + Delta Surge + ‘Late Summer’ = Al Fresco Everything in Mill Valley

Scenes from outdoor dining, Concerts on the Plaza, Comedy in the Plaza (Sept. 22), Movies in the Park (Sept. 17 & Oct. 8) and the Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival (Sept. 18-19). Photos by Bruce Forrester and Jim Welte.  The COVID-19 crisis continues to make clear...