The New Orleans-style sounds of Brasshoppers drifted to the tree tops in Lyman Park last week, youngsters kicked up their heels and adults picnicked, chatted, sipped wine and enjoyed the summer evening and the season’s first Musical Picnic in the Park.
The Thursday evening series, held from 6 to 8 p.m. — cosponsored by the St. Helena Chamber of Commerce, local businesses and individuals — continue July 9 with The B Stars and their take on honky-tonk, hillbilly swing, and country and western. Curt Yagi & The People Standing Behind Me, which earned the Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Singer/Songwriter award, performs July 23. Heriberto Gonzalez is “Tito” of Tito y su Son de Cuba, the Aug. 6 performer who plays “El Son,” music made familiar to North American audiences by the Buena Vista Social Club. [Full Story]
As supporters and opponents debate the St. Helena School Board’s decision to hire Robert Haley without a search or its decision to give retirement packages to Allan Gordon and Jim Zoll, it’s important that debaters remember to be civil.
The Napa Valley Museum’s executive director, casual in a yellow striped shirt and black jeans with a heavy-duty key chain tucked into a front pocket, is just as likely to be painting gallery walls as he is working through a pile of paperwork and correspondence in his downstairs’ office, known by staff as “the bunker.”
St. Helena High 1972 graduate and Napa resident Arty “Party” Reyes has always considered himself close to his Upvalley roots, and now people in the northern part of the Napa Valley can see his levity-filled program.
Reyes is the host of the NAPA (Newest Arty Party Adventure) Show on Channel 28. [Full Story]