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“Isfahan” by Shiva Pakdel. Courtesy image. In the midst of a global pandemic, there certainly has been a dearth of the “meaningful, hopeful and beautiful” in 2020.But for its first exhibit in 2021, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art is ready to shine a light on the amazing art that has been brought forth during these…

Laura Eberhard, medical director of the ICU at Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center, stood at the epicenter of the two polar extremes of COVID-19 crisis news this week. On one hand, the arrival of the first batch of vaccines, reserved for health-care workers, first responders and long-term care facility residents, “is a really historic day”…

Famous4, Margaret O’Leary, Ambatalia, Mike’s Cameras, Jolly King, Pollen + Wool and Poet and/the Bench are among the participating businesses at this holiday shopping experience.  Running behind on your holiday shopping? Want to Shop Local AND do so from the comfort of your couch? We’ve got you covered. Inspired by our friends in Sausalito, the…

The Mill Valley Chamber provides an array of benefits to its members, including education, advocacy, a communications pipeline that directly connects to the broader 94941 via maps, magazines the Enjoy Milll Valley Blog, as well as networking (virtually now and physically when we’re able to be together) and much more. Among those benefits is a…

Throckmorton Theatre, June 2020. Dear Mill Valley Community, We hope you are safe and well as the holidays begin and this challenging year comes to a close. When my husband, Bruce, and I joined the board of the Throckmorton Theatre earlier this year, the world had just changed forever and the theatre had gone dark.…

Like every commercial hub in Mill Valley, the owners of the Strawberry Village shopping center are looking to provide some excitement to their customers within the constraints of, well….you know. To that end, they’ve launched a number of creative contests, campaigns and drives to help those in need. The businesses within Strawberry Village are also serving up an…

In the years since Mill Valley Lumber Yard opened, it’s become a multi-faceted community gathering space and retail and foodie destination. Its spaces span an array of uses, including the much-lauded Watershed Restaurant from Ged Robertson and Kyle Swain, Flour Craft Bakery from Heather Hardcastle and Rick Perko, Stacy King’s Lulu Design Jewelry, Louise Dockstader’s Once Around, Mad Dogs & Englishman, an innovative, creative…

Those were the days: Bob Weir and Michael Franti jam at the Sweetwater Music Hall. Photo by Jay Blakesberg. Regular readers of this space know that while every Mill Valley business has been economically ravaged by the COVID-19 crisis, few have suffered more than the likes of the Sweetwater Music Hall, Throckmorton Theatre and Marin Theatre Company. Each organization has managed…

Piazza D’Angelo owners Luigi Petrone, at left, and Felicia Ferguson, at right. ​In a note Friday to its customers and the larger 94941 community, Piazza D’Angelo owners Luigi Petrone and Felicia Ferguson announced that they were closing their restaurant “until the stay-at-home ordinance is lifted on Jan 4,” “due to the recent spike in COVID-19…

Youth sports organizations that can play outside were among the few who could breathe a sigh of relief after the Bay Area’s pre-emptive iteration on the state’s Stay-at-Home order went into effect Dec. 8. Dave Fromer Soccer was among them. The organization unveiled its Winter Soccer 2021 Program this week, an outdoor program held on a…

California launched its new contact tracing system, CA Notify, on Dec. 10. It’s essentially a smartphone feature you can opt into that will notify you of potential coronavirus exposure by using Bluetooth to detect which phones have been within several feet of one another for a certain amount of time. If someone tests positive, that person…

No need to mince words here: With the month-long Stay-at-Home Order taking effect this week, many of Mill Valley’s most critically important business sectors – restaurants and food-serving businesses, personal service providers like hair and nail salons and fitness facilities, all of whom will be operating at a tiny fraction of their usual business model…