Community - Arts and Entertainment

In support of music

By YOVANNA BIEBERICH, ARGUS-COURIER STAFF

Wednesday January 7, 2009 12:03 pm

Mix together some funk, soul, jazz and blues with passionate Janis Joplin-style vocals and you get Lydia Pense & Cold Blood, a veteran Bay Area band coming to Petaluma on Jan. 17 to perform for the Petaluma High School Music Program’s fourth annual benefit concert.
Laughter in support of young people

By YOVANNA BIEBERICH, ARGUS-COURIER STAFF

Thursday January 1, 2009 3:00 am

Comedian Michael Pritchard has spent much of his life devoted to his two passions: helping troubled youth and making people laugh.
Live New Year's Eve

Thursday January 1, 2009 3:00 am

Check out our video of the scene in Petaluma and at other Sonoma County clubs on New Year's Eve.
The Buzz

Thursday January 1, 2009 3:00 am

Despite recent restaurant closings (Vino Grigio, Café Bella, Star of India), there always seems to be one more ready to open.

The morning after
No morning quite like the one that hammers in the New Year calls out as achingly for a Bloody Mary.
It's budget bubbly season
Don't let the high cost of sparklers put a damper on your holiday cheer.
Video

Friday night at the Black Cat
The Trailer Park Rangers blend country, rock, jazz and pop.
Bluegrass on Saturday morning
The Hicktones bring the high, lonesome sound of bluegrass music to a local café.
One night with Tsunami Bomb
The late popular pop-punk band rises at the Phoenix for a benefit night performance.
Artifacts in studio, playing live
The Artifacts are finally recording their first CD. Also, catch them in person on Jan. 17.

How they pick the winners
It's the season for movie awards shows. How do these shows pick their contenders and the winners?
Movies risk Oscar ghetto
Industry builds wall between popular hits and an 'art society' elite.
'Button' turns time around
Technically stunning movie falls short of greatness with the impersonal Brad Pitt.
Unsettling look at Nixon
Substantive and entertaining, "Frost/Nixon" is director Ron Howard's finest film.