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Eileen Fisher, at left, and the interior of her Mill Valley store at 149 Throckmorton Avenue. ​For more than three decades, sustainability has been among the goals of businesses across an array of industries, particularly among those businesses looking to reduce the impact their manufacturing process has on the environment.And while legions of businesses have…

The Mill Valley Lumber Yard is readying a pre-Valentine’s Day event that promises offers and discounts, new products, refreshments, Valentine’s-themed activities and much more from each of the retailers at the 129 Miller Ave. hub. The “Love Is in the Air” event is set for Saturday, February 8th, 10-5pm.  Here’s what you can expect: Ambatalia and…

Photo © Michael Puff. Fine Art Nude Photography Workshop. Throughout 2019, aspiring photographers from all over the age spectrum took subject-specific classes and workshops at The Image Flow, the Miller Avenue-based creative hub and photography center. Those workshops ran the gamut from Photography Basics to a hands-on Tintype Workshop. Now the folks at The Image Flow are…

The Redwoods, under a rainbow. Courtesy image. There are dozens of Mill Valley businesses that have been certified under the California Green Business Network, including stalwarts like Acqua Hotel, Sage Educators, Goodman Building Supply, Bank of Marin, Body Kinetics, Grilly’s, Mill Valley Car Wash, the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center, Mill Valley Inn, Mill Valley Market, Mountain Home Inn, Proof Lab and WIGT Printing, among others.…

A scene from Zio Zeigler and co-director Tania Raymond’s “Bad Art,” which screens Mill Valley native Zio Ziegler returned home from college nearly a decade ago with a whirlwind of energy, opening his Art Sempre pop-up art and clothing shop and showcasing his burgeoning artistic style with murals all over town, from the Throckmorton Theatre and Proof Lab to Tam Bikes and even turning…

A scene from “Peter Pan 65th Anniversary Signature Collection.” Having tackled The Wizard of Oz, Annie, Sound of Music and High School Musical over the past four years, the Mill Valley Middle School’s Cabaret explores the world of Peter Pan, the wildly successful theatrical adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s 1902 book about the free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never…

​When former San Francisco Chronicle reporter Meredith May was a young child, she moved with her mother and younger brother from Rhode Island to Carmel Valley to stay with their grandparents “as their mother descended into depression,” according to the Chronicle.  The years that followed, during which May grew extremely close with E. Franklin Peace, an eccentric…

Mill Valley Philharmonic closed out its 2018-19 season in May at Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church. Courtesy image. The Mill Valley Philharmonic continues its blockbuster season-long 20th anniversary celebration on Sunday, March 15 with a Gala Concert at the Mill Valley Community Center featuring artistic director Dana Sadava and SF Conservatory of Music faculty member and renowned cellist Jean-Michel Fonteneau.…

Photo by Kevin Berne. With Noura, which runs through Feb. 9, Marin Theatre Company has once again cooked up a thought-provoking production laced with issues like identity crisis, motherhood, marriage and the fragile architecture of what we call home. For Noura and her family, a Christmas celebration at their home in New York City begins as…

​Equator Coffees is no stranger to plaudits, but co-founder Helen Russell says they’re over the moon about their latest honor: a 2020 Good Food Award, one of less than two dozen doled out in the coffee division, which had more than 250 entries across the United States.  Equator won for its submission of Hacienda La…

To hear Ed Hardy tell it, when he was growing up in the 1950s, most kids his age dreamt of growing up to be firemen or jet pilots – there weren’t even astronauts yet. But Hardy had the wild idea of becoming a tattoo artist, seeing skin art as his calling in the mystical images…

Wink Optics owner Quynh and her family. Courtesy image. Wink Optics at 70 Throckmorton Ave. in Mill Valley. There’s no shortage of business owners in Mill Valley for whom their current professional pursuit is a second or even third chapter. Many of them put their careers on pause to raise their children and then dipped…