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In the five years since Mill Valley resident Grace Kraaijvanger opened The Hivery, the female-fueled “co-working space and inspiration lab” has been an inclusive force of nature at 38 Miller Avenue. Two years ago, Kraaijvanger expanded the business to San Francisco, opening a second location at the Fort Mason Center for the Arts + Culture. And then the pandemic hit, and Kraaijvanger,…

Fez, a music- & meditation-inspired men’s clothing and home goods shop from Chris Kelley and Carolina Boutique owner Eli Loftus, made it clear when it opened in October 2020 that it had designs on being much more than a retail space. They’re launching that effort on July 8th with “Beyond the Narrow Life: A Guide…

Council tells to staff to proceed with a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to solicit interest from the Affordable Housing Development community and allocate Housing Trust Funds to further study the site just north of the Public Safety Building. The potential site of a workforce housing development at 1 Hamilton Drive. The Mill Valley City Council…

Ready for a comeback. Save for a short-lived Summer Pop-Up Tiki Bar for food and beverage takeout in June 2020, and the more recent construction of its newly covered outdoor patio, the Sweetwater Music Hall has been the sound of silence for the duration of the pandemic. ​But after a painful, largely music-free 15-plus months at Mill Valley’s venerable…

KNBR’s Murph & Mac (aka Brian Murphy and Paul McCaffrey) return as the day’s emcees along with KPFA’s “Dead to the World” radio host Tim Lynch and DJ Andy Cabic of Vetiver. Tix on sale June 25. Counter clockwise from top left. Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Father John Misty, Cha Wa, the Allah-Las and Teal Collins. Few artistic mediums have deeper…

The sloth-like development project at 500 Miller Avenue. Just a few minutes after the Mill Valley City Council unanimously agreed Monday night to further study the possibility of building a multi-unit affordable housing development on city-owned land on Hamilton Drive, it pivoted to push back on the Association of Bay Area Governments’ (ABAG) regional housing methodology for…

Mill Valley Auto Repair owner Paul Haddad, at left, and his team. When you ask Mill Valley Auto Repair owner Paul Haddad how he’s established a reputation for honesty, transparency and candor over the 27-year life of his shop in Tam Junction, he literally just points to his customers in the shop, waiting for their cars. “Talk…

Pastor Luke and his family. Courtesy image. Mt. Tam United Methodist Church Pastor Kim Smith, who helped steer her congregation through the tumult of the pandemic with programs like “At Home & Together,” a move to virtual gatherings via Zoom and Facebook Live, has decided to retire after 11 years at the church. On Sunday, July 11th, parishioners…

Scenes from the 2021 Juneteenth Festival in Marin City. From the spirituals honoring elders and ancestors at the outset to the inimitable smell of barbecue and a full afternoon of incredible music, Marin City hosted a moving, exciting, fifth annual Juneteenth Festival at Rocky Graham Park Saturday, right on the heels of President Joe Biden signing a bill…

UPDATE 6.17.21: As expected, Cal/OSHA regulators decided Thursday to allow fully vaccinated workers to take off their masks while at the workplace, conforming with California’s general state guidelines that took effect on June 15. The newly revised guidelines now align with the California Department of Public Health, which ended most mask rules for people who are…