Hey yo, Healdsburg! It’s me again, your girl Simone — here to lay down the local calendar for you, like I do each week. Looks like we’ve got some tight plans for the picking through end of June. Including but not limited to…
An elaborate love-themed film festival in Healdsburg, with starlight screenings and concerts and even a block party
Two separate standup comedy shows this Friday night — one in town, and one in the sticks
The final week of trippy “Edge Esmeralda” techie talks
A chance to try the food at Healdsburg’s future Chinese food place (I hear the orange chicken slaps)
Enough country music concerts to keep your boots scuffed and your heart full
And so many more ways to squeeze the juice out of these hot summer days and nights 🧃
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AIR OVER HEALDSBURG
The fog overhead was delightfully thick this morning. I took the opportunity to have some fun haunting the misty woods outside Healdsburg in my nightclothes, a la “Wuthering Heights”… (Photo: Holly Wilson)
My tiger lily seized the morning to ham it up a little, too, with a fresh bloom in the fog! (Photo: Simone Wilson)
And now, voilà — some brilliant afternoon sunshine over Healdsburg. (Photo: Simone Wilson)
ON THE CALENDAR
Tuesday, June 23
Prescribed burn at Foothill Regional Park east of Windsor (all day)
Third annual Edge Esmeralda popup village at Healdsburg hotels and other venues, for “people building a brighter future” (daily thru Jun 27)
Movie showings this week and next at True West Cinemas: “Stop! That! Train!”, a campy disaster film starring drag queen Ru Paul; “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg’s new alien movie; “Power Ballad,” a feel-good musical comedy from “Once” director John Carney; “Tuner,” a crime thriller with Dustin Hoffman; “Airplane,” the classic 1980 comedy with Leslie Nielsen; and more (daily, 11am-11pm)
Lots to choose from at our local cinema right now. Not to mention all the romance films screening for True West’s “Film Festival of Love” this week… keep scrolling for the deets on that. (Image: True West Film Center via Facebook)
Aikido classes for kids aged 5-15 at the Healdsburg Community Center (twice weekly thru Jul 7, Tue & Thu, 3-5pm)
Taco Tuesday at the Dry Creek General Store & Bar, with live music on the porch and yours truly bartending (weekly, 4-6pm)
MeiMei Foods, the new Chinese restaurant coming to Healdsburg, hosts popup food preview at Lo & Behold (5-8pm)
Sean Quan and Jenny Phan, the couple behind Forestville’s burned-down Bazaar Sonoma restaurant, just announced they’ll soon be opening a new Chinese food spot in Healdsburg. “Yes, the rumors are true!” they wrote in a recent newsletter to fans. “We’re working on a Chinese food court in the former Quail & Condor location on Healdsburg Avenue, named MeiMei Foods, or ‘Little Sister’ Foods. As we build out the space, we’re going on tour around town with soft opening popups. Our next stop is our friends at Lo & Behold, so come by on Tuesday to preview some dishes we’re working on for MeiMei!“ And the folks at Lo & Behold say: “Take out available too for music on the plaza.” (Image: Lo & Behold via Facebook)
City of Healdsburg’s Planning Commission holds regular meeting at City Hall: Agenda includes request from Duke’s Spirited Cocktails to play louder “indoor amplified music, including DJ programming” at the bar (bimonthly, second and fourth Tue, 6pm)
Healdsburg Prune Packers, our baseball team in the summertime collegiate leagues, plays home game vs. the Lincoln Potters from the Sacramento suburbs (6pm)
“Canon Book Group” meeting at the Healdsburg Library: Discuss “Ask the Dust” by John Fante (monthly, second Tue, 6-7:30pm)
City of Healdsburg hosts “Tuesdays in the Plaza” free outdoor concert series: Shawn Jones Band plays rootsy blues-rock from the gazebo (6-8pm)
Healdsburg photographer Tenay Macmillan got this stunning shot of Rocio “La Dama de la Cumbia” y Su Sonora playing “Tuesdays in the Plaza” a couple weeks back. (BTW, I also just noticed that Rocio shared a video on YouTube of her touring Healdsburg’s Abel de Luna Community Center while she was in town!) Tenay the photographer says of Rocio and her band: “They were amazing. Rocio is so magnetic whenever she performs here. Everyone was dancing, laughing, smiling… even puppies grooved.” See more of Tenay’s pics from the show below — including one for the pups. (Photos: Tenay Creative)
No image has ever captured the joy of music in the plaza quite like this dancing puppy portrait from Tuesday, June 9. Thank you for your eye, Tenay! (Photo: Tenay Creative)
Cloverdale chapter of American Legion hosts ballroom dance classes at the Cloverdale Veterans Memorial Building (twice monthly, second and fourth Tue, 6:30-8pm)
Wednesday, June 24
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