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Reuse and Restore
Sonoma Restorations creates beautiful heirloom pieces from repurposed wood. In a world where furniture is mass-produced and discarded far too easily, it feels good to collect pieces that come with backstories, ready to enhance a new chapter in your story. In the heart of Sonoma County, Sonoma Restorations transforms the history and heritage of wine country into handmade furniture, décor, and…
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Hidden Gems: Gifting Local
Brick Chicks All the Brick-heads in your life need to know about California Brick Chicks. This Lego emporium is tucked into a small building on Main Street in Penngrove. Now entering its third year, Brick Chicks offers an astounding array of new and retired Legos. There really is something for everyone here, and owners…
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Good Gray
A Mother/Daughter Commonplace Shop Bringing Art and Beauty to Everyday Life. photos by Paige Green When Laural Reid was opening her shop back in 2013, she took inspiration from the early 20th century hobby of creating commonplace books. Kind of like the Pinterest of their time, commonplace books were a type of journal used to collect and organize…
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The Best of Both Worlds
An Immigrant Legacy of Entrepreneurship. Surrounded by succulents, snake plants, and philodendrons in her downtown Santa Rosa shop, Ana Prado describes herself as “Con el nopal en la frente,” which translates to “with a cactus on the forehead.” For the founder of a new plant boutique on Courthouse Square, this might seem an apt if…
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Winter Gift Guide
Sonoma County has many wonderful local options for gift giving. The following pages include all the details about some of our favorite things (spoiler, they aren’t all things!) during this season of exchanging gifts—especially for those hard-to-buy-for people. And pro-tip: all of these options are also great as treats for yourself during the post-holiday decompression!…
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Local Makers – From Fog Valley to Liberty Street
Made Local (ML): What’s your background and when did you know you were a writer? Frances Rivetti (FR): My background is in journalism. I was hired by my local newspaper in my senior year of high school in England and trained on the job as a reporter. I attended a three-year program with the UK…
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Make Local – Jeremiah Flynn’s Flashes of Brilliance
Photos by Paige Green Photography Photographer Annie Leibovitz once said, “A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in the moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.” But Jeremiah Flynn’s enigmatic tintype photos prove the contrary. Although technically a moment in time captured, his…
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Make Shopping Guide
by Jess D Taylor One Christmas, when he was a young teen, Mob$ta Myk and his brother got only one present for the two of them, a Boss eight-track mixer. “It was all we needed,” he says with a big smile, taking it down from a shelf. After some begging, his mom, who threw karaoke…
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Keep Your Spin Up
Kent Borowick had never hula hooped in his life until a couple of years ago. The longtime Guerneville resident—who also happens to be the town’s Santa Claus—has now lost pounds and gained friends as he hoops weekly with the Russian River Hoop and Flow, the best reason to head to the Guerneville plaza on Wednesday…
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Making A Scene
What was once a Pontiac dealership, and so many other businesses, is now the home of Santa Rosa’s first downtown community theater. Photos by Paige Green Photography I walked into the new California Theatre last September with high hopes. A friend had invited me to see the musical Fun Home, based on the graphic memoir…