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Despite being hemmed in by the inability to gather audiences and experience the power of theater in person due to the slowly-receding COVID-19 crisis, the Marin Theatre Company continues to innovate.  MTC’s latest is Brilliant Mind, a co-production with Storykrapht, a partnership between multi-talented actress and writer Denmo Ibrahim and Marti Wigder Grimminck to reimagine theater in the…

West Coast Wine • Cheese owner Chris Wanner and his wife Lindsey. Courtesy images. Sometimes it takes a catastrophic event to rethink everything, to realize that a crisis has carved out an unexpected, bountiful new lane that reshapes the successful business you’ve built. The devastation wrought by the COVID-19 crisis has certainly provided that realization for…

Clockwise from top left, Lindsey Tenaglia, Luke Osborne, Natalie Nong and Fiona McDermott have received MVFAF scholarships and will have their art showcased at the 2021 MVFAF on Sept. 18-19. Courtesy images. On the heels of a 15-plus month avalanche of major event cancellations and virtual replacements, we just got word that the 64th Mill Valley…

“Mill Valley Story Walk” will begin and end at the library itself, with plenty of fun planned for up and down Miller Ave. The Mill Valley Library Foundation has long established itself as a powerhouse organization in support of one of Mill Valley’s treasures: the Mill Valley Public Library. It has done so in myriad ways,…

Marin’s move to the Yellow Tier today will likely be brief as we go ‘Beyond the Blueprint’ on June 15. Stuck on pause in the orange tier within the statewide Blueprint for a Safer Economy framework since March 24, Marin is now able to move to the less restrictive yellow tier as of June 1, Marin County Public Health Officer…

A post from longtime Mill Valley resident Bob Emrich, owner of Bob’s Tree Service: “I started a tree business in Mill Valley three-plus years ago, and I have never looked back. It has been a great experience, and the best part is the people I meet in this cool town of ours. One of them…

Special 2021 Memorial Day Parade video will GO LIVE HERE at 10am on Monday, May 31st. Here it is:  Scenes from the 2019 Mill Valley Memorial Day Parade. Photos by Suz Lipman and Daniel Patrick. To the Mill Valley Community, While we’re sure everyone is disappointed because there will be no parade this year, The…

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…

Mill Valley, July 2020. In a conversation earlier this month with Marin leaders and experts in the hospitality industry, urban designer John Bela made the case for shared spaces like parklets and street closures as “physical elements of community that act as a conduit to bring people together and build social capital through recurring interactions.”  When dozens of cities converted…

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…