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Poet and/the Bench Hosts Workshop / Unbound!, an Exquisite & Wild Floral Workshop With Floral Designer & Stylist Tiffany Blaylock and Poet and/the Bench’s Uncommon Ceramicist Ian Hazard-Bill! July 27: 5-7pm

Each participant will be styling using one of Ian’s vases, made especially for this workshop and which you will take home with your floral creation. Tiffany will provide 2 separate demonstrations of arrangements concepts. Modern Sculptural and Wild Garden. Learn how to use mechanics, tools and other floral instruments; how to prepare flowers and cutting of leaves and stems; choose flowers from bunches Tiffany selected at the flower mart to make 1 vase arrangement and 1 hand held arrangement for transport; Light bites and drinks graciously served by Paseo Bistro.

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SFGATE Unveils Winners of the Best of Bay Area 2025 and, Not Surprisingly, Mill Valley Got Some Love Once Again

To no surprise on our part, Mill Valley businesses and nonprofits were successful in capturing awards across a variety of business types, a particularly massive achievement considering the fact that SFGate’s Best of Bay Area included the entire Bay Area in its purview:Ā “A reader-driven popularity contest with more than 150 categories accepting nominees, per Editor in Chief’s Grant Marek.

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SF Chronicle: Why Martin Scorsese — and you — Should Get Back to Watching Movies in Theaters (Despite Netflix, there are Still Plenty of Reasons to See Films on the Big Screen)

Famed director Martin ScorseseĀ made news last monthĀ when he explained to film critic PeterĀ Travers why he no longer went to see movies in a theater. Citing audience cellphone use, incessant talking and generally restive behavior that often drowns out dialogue, the director of ā€œTaxi Driver,ā€ ā€œRaging Bullā€ and ā€œGoodfellasā€ told Travers he’d had enough. Of course, big screens in the U.S. were in big trouble long before Scorsese’s admission. The pandemic only turbo-charged the pre-COVID trend away from theaters in favor of home-based entertainment media. In the first half of 2020,Ā Netflix added more than 26 million subscribers. So when shuttered theaters reopened, audiences — specifically American audiences — did not rush back in droves.

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Mill Valley Is Laden With Incredible Sushi & Izakaya Restaurants, and the Latest Arrival Is Ready for the Spotlight!!

Experience a truly unique and authentic dining journey with us, where we serve homemade traditional Japanese cuisine. Our menu features exquisite charcoal-grilled skewers and is crafted to satisfy the most discerning palates. Committed to unparalleled quality, we use only the freshest ingredients, including specially harvested seaweed, house-made sauces, and our signature warm sushi rice. Our menu, continually updated and handcrafted by Japanese chef Yasuo Shigeyoshi and his experienced team, reflects over 30 years of culinary expertise and inspiration from Japan. Join us and savor the finest seasonal and local ingredients in every bite.

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Gov. Newsom Slashes $11.5 Million for Performing Arts Fund, Devastating Bay Area Organizations

Newsom’s revision isn’t final, though; the legislature makes its own amendments before passing a budget on June 15. In the meantime, SFBATCO and other performing arts companies are urging their followers to write their representatives, the state budget committee and the governor’s office, with Dance Mission inviting allies to a letter-writing and phone-banking potluck at its Mission District facility at 3316 24th St. starting at noon on Saturday, May 17. The move comes nearly two weeks after theaters, circuses, music groups and more across the region and the country received ā€œletters of terminationā€ regarding their promised grants from theĀ National Endowment for the Arts.Ā 

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