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Mill Valley Music shop owner Gary Scheuenstuhl’s past 15-plus months have been about adaptation to conditions beyond his control. But there have also been pandemic-fueled enhancements: more people stuck at home, ready to dog into their music collection and, most importantly, ready to expand on those collections. On June 12th and July 17th, Scheuenstuhl will have a chance to…

The CineArts Sequoia Theatre. Photo by Kirke Wrench. Debbie Reynolds said it best: “I’m a sucker for a good movie.” On the heels of a brutally long stoppage since the first shelter-in-place order in March, with an incredibly brief reopening in summer 2020, the CineArts Sequoia movie theater, which opened as a single screen theater in February 1929,…

Since his arrival in Mill Valley in 1974, Larry “the Hat” Lautzker, purveyor of hip apparel, producer of an array of live concerts as well as some of the 94941’s most cherished events, including the Mill Valley Memorial Day Parade and the Community Block Party for more than 15 years, has been a force of nature…

After more than a year in which we haven’t been able to gather together to revel in the power of the arts, we won’t be able to toast the creators and supporters of that art, as the organizers of the Milley Awards, Mill Valley’s annual celebration of the community’s vast  creative achievement and distinguished accomplishments in the…

Marin’s likely move to the Yellow Tier on June 1 will likely be brief as we move ‘Beyond the Blueprint’ on June 15. A packed house at the Sweetwater Music Hall in 2019. Six weeks after Marin County Public Health Officer Dr. Matt Willis told the Board of Supervisors that Marin could move into the…

A quick glance at any of the trash bins around Mill Valley reveals an abundance of one particular source of waste: single-use coffee cups. A pair of local leaders, Ambatalia owner Molly de Vries and Susan Lopes of the Mill Valley Chamber, have partnered with UPSTREAM, which sparks innovative solutions to plastic pollution by helping businesses and…

For parents, students and teachers, the return to in-person learning in April served as a reminder of the inherent power of gathering children together, safely, to grow across a variety of subjects and mediums. Kiddo!, the organization largely responsible for funding arts education teachers and specialists as well as supplies for all art, music,  curriculum-integrated…

Mill Valley Public Safety Building at 1 Hamilton Drive. Possible site location outlined in yellow. 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…

Marin County’s move into the least restrictive yellow tier remains on pause.  Marin County Public Health Officer Dr. Matt Willis told the Board of Supervisors this week that Marin continues to lead the state in vaccination rates – 82 percent of eligible residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine – the flip side of…

Tam High’s mountain bike club teams, as participants in a high school club sport, have long existed outside the Marin County Athletic League (MCAL). They compete in the NorCal High School Cycling League, which was founded in 2001, and are school-sponsored. That longstanding relationship snowballed into a kerfuffle over the past week when questions arose late last week…