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The COVID-19 crisis has put the kibosh on so many of our favorite events and creative pursuits in 2020, but the Mill Valley Arts Commission‘s annual Click Off Photography Competition, which sends photographers of all ages and ability throughout Marin County to capture images in one of four categories, will not be one of them. Organizers are readying the Click…

Various vantage points of renderings of Phil Richardson’s proposed project at 575 East Blithedale. Courtesy images. To say that Phil Richardson’s journey to building a multi-faceted development project on his vacant 575 East Blithedale Avenue at Camino Alto lot has been circuitous would be a vast understatement. ​Each time Richardson has gone to City Hall…

Eric Rogers of Wagstaff + Rogers Architects, at middle right, and scenes from the Treehaven home he designed. Courtesy images. Like most of us, Eric Rogers has spent a ton of time focused on the wildfires that are currently raging up and down the West Coast, and have been doing so for the better part of…

From top, the work of Bibby Gignilliat, Sharon Paster and Rachel Davis, all selected for the de Young Open’s juried community art exhibition. Courtesy images. Remember when we could go to museums and galleries to check out amazing art?!? We sure do long for those days. While we wait for that moment to return and…

Should your favorite grocery clerks at Mill Valley Market be able to live in our community if they want to? How about our firefighters, teachers and police officers? If the answer’s yes, how do we go about making that happen? That work – identifying short-, medium- and long-term strategies to make sure that those vital contributors…

One week ago, Marin’s expected reopening of an array of business sectors for the first time since late June was halted by the state of California’s unexpected decision to alter its methodology for calculating key COVID-19 metrics. The controversial move pushed Marin from the red “tier 2” it was slated to move into on Sept. 8 back into the…

Social media activity adds drama to otherwise productive discussion on racial equity. The Mill Valley City Council during its Sept. 8, 2020 meeting. The centerpiece of the Mill Valley City Council’s Sept. 8th meeting was the introduction of a widely praised independent facilitator of the City of Mill Valley’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Task Force. …

Eric Zener and Ken Arciga have launched Shopvine, an app-baed notification system designed to connect shops and their products to customers. Courtesy images. Shopvine in the app store. Email newsletters, Instagram and social media platforms du jour, FaceTime and video chats – these are among the array of ways that Mill Valley retailers have been…

MVFF won’t have a physical presence in Mill Valley for the first time in its history. Images from the first batch of films announce as part of the 43rd Mill Valley Film Festival. Courtesy images. In a year like no other in recent history, the 43rd Mill Valley Film Festival will be unlike any of…

Ayad Akhtar. Marin Theatre Company has long cultivated theatrical talent and relationships far beyond its immediate purview in Mill Valley. ​MTC Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis and his team got another reminder of that fact this week when playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar, whose plays Invisible Hand and The Who & the What wowed audiences in 2016…

Submitted by the Outdoor Art Club and written by Lynda Chittenden with research provided by Melissa Kurtz. Looking at the 1918 image at left of a few Mill Valley residents waiting for the train on Miller Avenue, we imagine their world was similar to ours today. An Influenza pandemic had made it necessary to wear…

Makers Market‘s regular series of outdoor markets at the Mill Valley Lumber Yard returns this weekend as owner Suzy Ekman and her team are continuing to dip their toes back into outdoor, socially distanced gatherings with a “Meet the Artists” event on Saturday, September 12 from 10am-6pm. The event features an array of local artists and makers, with whom attendees…