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Multi-faceted nonprofit organization seeks sponsors. GO HERE FOR INFO. Performing Stars, the nonprofit arts organization in Marin City that has supported more than 3,000 children in its 30-year history, was founded by Felecia Gaston, at top right. Courtesy images. Felecia Gaston, founder of the Performing Stars nonprofit organization in Marin City that has lifted up…

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Sunday evening collaboration between Throckmorton Theatre and Mill Valley Chamber draws rave reviews – and inquisitive kiddos. Scenes from the Sunday evening performances of SF Opera Orchestra musicians affiliated with the Throckmorton Theatre as part of the Miller Ave. street closure each weekend. Courtesy images. ​For Beni Shinohara, the joy of performing outside alongside her…

Rev. Moose, executive director of National Independent Venue Association, at left, is joined by LCD Soundsystem front man James Murphy and Senator Chuck Schumer at a press conference announcing support for bipartisan legislation aimed at providing relief to independent live venues, promoters and festivals. Courtesy image. The COVID-19 crisis has been devastating, to varying degrees, for…

Karen Olson, owner of Juice Girl, whose restaurant participates in the Great Plates Program. Over the course of the COVID-19 crisis in Marin, there have been no shortage of innovative programs to both feed frontlines workers and the elderly while also generating some much-needed revenue for local restaurants. Since March, that has included Feed the Frontlines…

Joan Baez’s portrait of her sister, Mimi Farina. Courtesy image. Three years after Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray landed the first solo painting exhibit from legendary singer-songwriter and activist Joan Baez with “Mischief Makers” a series of acrylic paintings of some of the most famous “risk-taking revolutionaries” at their Seager Gray Gallery at 108 Throckmorton Avenue, the trio are collaborating again. This time Baez, the…

Because Marin has among the highest testing rates in the state, local case rates are adjusted downward, which places Marin among counties that may move into the less restrictive “red” tier starting September 8, a move that could set the stage for some indoor dining. The Shavery Barbershop and Revery Salon on East Blithedale Ave. Mill…

Modify owner Juli Lippire. The COVID-19 crisis has been hard on all of us, but Mill Valley’s seniors have been particularly vulnerable during these past six months. Fortunately, residents of The Redwoods, Mill Valley’s community of seniors, have had the support of a stalwart, dedicated staff and an array of volunteers, both internal and from throughout…

Street takeovers will also occur over Labor Day Weekend on Monday, Sept. 7. For five straight weekends, Mill Valley residents and guests have made clear that their appetite for al fresco dining and shopping options is robust and passionate. They’ve turned out in droves for the #MillerTakeover, a Slow Streets-styled, weekend-long closure of Miller Avenue between Throckmorton…

Just about every local youth sports organization has been scrambling since March to figure out what programming to roll out in Mill Valley given the ever-fluid health and safety protocols  during the COVID-19 crisis. After a successful series of summer camps, Dave Fromer Soccer is unveiling its 4th Annual Fall Soccer Program​. Fall 5 v 5 Soccer is a…

Pickleweed Park & Albert J. Boro Community Center in the Canal district of San Rafael. On the heels of disturbing COVID-19 trends in July and early August, Marin’s coronavirus metrics are largely heading in the right direction, and County of Marin officials indicated this week hopefulness about eventually getting off the state’s watch list. Marin’s…

Longtime Marin coffee business bought the highest coffee farm in Central America along with Boot Coffee in 2008. As Equator Coffees founders Helen Russell and Brooke McDonnell have worked feverishly to steer their business through the COVID-19 crisis, they’ve also had their heads and hearts far afield – to Finca Sophia, the coffee farm they’ve co-owned with Willem…