North Bay Bohemian

The North Bay Bohemian is a complimentary weekly publication that serves the North Bay area of the San Francisco Bay Region in California. It is available in Sonoma and Napa counties. This newspaper started in 1979 as "The Paper," founded by Nick Valentine, a former artist who became a community journalist, and jazz pianist Bob Lucas in the Guerneville area of western Sonoma County. In 1993, it was renamed the Sonoma County Independent when John Boland and James Carroll took ownership. The following year, in 1994, Metro Newspapers, a group that operates three alternative weeklies in the Bay Area, acquired the Independent and transitioned it to a weekly publication.

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A Queer Revolution, Petaluma People’s Pride Launches

1 week ago | bohemian.com | Michael Giotis

A troubling sign of the times has been watching organizations abandon their declarations of BLM and DEI to maintain their privilege in the newly emboldened corporate-government alignment. It’s leaving some lefties wondering, where did the revolution go? Rest assured folks, revolutionary consciousness is making a comeback, and LGBTQIA2S+ are leading the way. A brand new organization has just formed in Sonoma County called Petaluma People’s Pride.
Live at Lagunitas: Season Opener Hits Right Note

1 week ago | bohemian.com | Daedalus Howell

It’s not often a Monday feels like a Friday night, but such was the magic conjured when LA LOM lit up the Lagunitas Amphitheater on May 26. The Los Angeles League of Musicians—fresh from their BottleRock set—delivered a high-energy, genre-spanning performance that turned the sold-out Petaluma venue into a sun-dappled dancefloor beneath the redwoods.
Sonoma Developer Arrested in $28M Ponzi Scheme

2 weeks ago | bohemian.com | Daedalus Howell

Federal agents arrested Sonoma real estate developer Kenneth W. Mattson, 63, on Thursday following a sweeping indictment alleging a long-running Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of investors—many of them retirees—out of tens of millions of dollars. Mattson, former president of the now-defunct LeFever Mattson firm, is charged with seven counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
Sonoma & Napa Counties

2 weeks ago | bohemian.com | Nikki Silverstein

Bombay in the North BayReady to be transported into a world of storytelling and conversation? If yes, then The 222 is the place to be when the internationally bestselling author, Alka Joshi, takes the stage to discuss her latest novel, Six Days in Bombay. Joshi is perhaps best known for the Jaipur Trilogy, which took the world by storm.
Into the Light: Author Samantha Rose’s ‘Giving Up the Ghost’ Event at OCA

2 weeks ago | bohemian.com | Daedalus Howell

Grief leaves its mark in silence, in questions, and sometimes—in stories. When Susan Swartz died by suicide in 2020, the columnist’s daughter, bestselling ghostwriter Samantha Rose, began writing through the pain. The result is Giving Up the Ghost: A Daughter’s Memoir, a book released earlier this year—the fifth anniversary of Swartz’s death. This Sunday, Rose brings the book to Occidental Center for the Arts for an afternoon of readings and conversation.
Unified Field Theories: Life, the Universe and Anguishing

2 weeks ago | bohemian.com | Daedalus Howell

Like many jacks-of-all-trades, I’ve long yearned for a “unified field theory” of my career. I’m not a Renaissance Man in the conventional sense since the scope of my interests is limited to media, meaning-making and occasionally manipulating both for laughs. Call it a controlled burn with occasional fireworks.
Sondheim's ‘Company’ open for Biz at Spreckels

3 weeks ago | bohemian.com | Daedalus Howell

The opening night performance of the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, now running in Rohnert Park through May 18, was my first experience with the classic musical comedy. Company follows Bobby (Andrew J. Smith), an affable, mid-thirties Everyman, as he seeks love, personified here by brassy Marta (sensational vocals by Evvy Carlstrom), gentle Kathy (wistful Bethany Cox), and blunt April (Katie Rain, with gorgeous voice and killer comic timing).
Murals Take Flight, ‘Slough Birds’ arrives at Lynch Creek Trail | Bohemian | Sonoma & Napa Counties

3 weeks ago | bohemian.com | Daedalus Howell

A new flock has arrived in Petaluma, and while it doesn’t fly, it does catch the eye. Artist Jonny Hirschmugl has completed three new murals along the Lynch Creek Trail, each commissioned by the City of Petaluma, and the result is a vivid, expressive infusion of nature into one of the town’s most trafficked greenways. With a ribbon-cutting ceremony set for Wednesday, May 14 at 5:30pm, the public is invited to see Slough Birds up close—and maybe chat with the artist himself.
Viva ‘Freddy Chickan,’ Acclaimed Performer Fred Curchack Performs Benefit for Mercury

3 weeks ago | bohemian.com | Daedalus Howell

For half a century, performer, playwright, and professor Fred Curchack has carved a unique and personal path through the world of theater. He’s created dozens of original shows, toured internationally, embarked upon spiritual odysseys disguised as theater, and theatrical odysseys disguised as spiritual ones.
Mill Valley Music Fest Begins

4 weeks ago | bohemian.com | Daedalus Howell

Saturday, May 10 and Sunday, May 11 is the 3rd Annual Mill Valley Music Festival at Friends Field in, you guessed it, Mill Valley. The festival has become a popular family event featuring an impressive music lineup, a marketplace featuring local handmade crafts, clothing, jewelry and more plus a killer lineup of all kinds of food and drink including wine and beer.