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Mill Valley City Manager Alan Piombo and Arts & Recreation Director Sean McGrew. After a 16-month stint as the Interim Arts & Recreation Director for the City of Mill Valley, Sean McGrew officially had the ‘interim” tag removed from his title at the June 7th City Council meeting. City Manager Alan Piombo announced that McGrew, who took…

With its 16th annual The Art of the Book exhibit in May, the Seager Gray Gallery continued one of its renowned exhibitions built around creative mediums. And this month, its 8th Material Matters exhibit does the same, unveiling an array of work that focuses on artists who interact with their materials in original ways, often pushing the boundaries of what their medium…

Have you ever found yourself looking at a building downtown, admired its architecture and wondered what it looked like in the past? What businesses were there before? Mapping Mill Valley History is a new project that invites you to tour familiar streets and buildings and see how they have evolved over the years. It’s a collaboration…

At center photographer Suz Lipman, with her husband Lippy (Michael Lipman) at the 2019 MV Memorial Day Parade, with her photos at left and right. Courtesy images. Mill Valley photographer Suz Lipman is set to unveil “American Stories,” a solo online exhibit, at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts from June 16 to July 30. The exhibit considers the…

Mill Valley artist Naomi Tamura’s “Letters to Muir Beach #1 Mixed Media.” The O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, which celebrated its 50th anniversary two years ago, is ready to open its doors after a painful 15-plus months of closed doors and virtual everything. The center is set to unveil a new exhibition juried by Mill Valley’s Natasha Boas, an international, independent…

The proposed site is indicated by the yellow line. In a year-plus in which the Mill Valley City Council has sought to tackle a wide range of major issues like police reform and the lack of affordable housing in the community, council members have hinted at their frustration at the limitations they face to make a significant dent…

Scenes from The Image Flow, at center and top right. Courtesy images, When Mill Valley photographer Stuart Schwartz decided to make the leap and open his multi-faceted photography business, he did so at a particularly fraught economic moment, just as the global financial crisis was spiraling in July 2008. But despite operating on a “gut feeling” that Mill Valley…

Over the years, Marin Magazine‘s Best of the County issue has highlighted the best our community has to offer, from where to eat to beauty to outdoor activities. They’re doing things a bit differently this year, opening up voting entirely to readers and expanding the scope of to include the wider Bay Area. For each category, they’re…

The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program, long delayed in its launch after it was included in the $900 billion stimulus passed by Congress in December 2020 (yes, you read that right) as the Save Our Stages Act, has had a bumpy rollout to say the least. The program is designed to provide $16 billion in dedicated funding for beleaguered live music, theater…

For the past 15-plus months, the word “event” has incited a similar reaction to the name Voldemort, as the idea of gathering together in any-sized group, for any reason, was verboten. That’s changing this month, and Makers Market‘s regular series of Open Air Artisan Faires at the Mill Valley Lumber Yard will be among the first to return to the…