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Pieces on display range from simple design exercises to intensely personal expressions and ambitious political statements.

Theater critic Barry Willis made the trek through Mount Tamalpais State Park and Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre to experience the Marin tradition for another year.

Beauty and astonishment await visitors to “The Art of the Book” at Mill Valley’s Seager Gray Gallery through May 30.Artists have been repurposing objects for other than their intended use going as far back as 1917, when Marcel Duchamp submitted a urinal (“Fountain”) as sculpture for a high-level exhibit in New York. That incident was […]

Tradition gets upended in several ways in the classic musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” running at the Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley through May 26. A spectacular directorial debut for Rebecca  Gilbert, Throckmorton’s double-cast, mostly student production is near Broadway quality. It’s a delightful continuation of a series of “youth production” shows, including “A Chorus […]

This time last year, Ross Valley Players brought tears of joy to our collective eyes with a brilliant production of Karen Zacarias’ “Native Gardens.”Directed by Mary Ann Rodgers, the slyly incisive comedy won a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle award for the 2023 season. Rodgers and Ross Valley Players are back at it […]

One man’s travails run the gamut from lighthearted romantic comedy to protracted family psychodrama in “Torch Song” at Marin Theatre through June 2.Directed by Evren Odcikin, it’s an adaptation of Harvey Fierstein’s acclaimed 1982 play “Torch Song Trilogy.” The revised two-act production stars the versatile and appealing Dean Linnard as Arnold Beckoff, a lonely and […]

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — A Clinton Township resident who owns a gas station in Detroit has been charged with possessing over 40 kilograms of fentanyl.

A Detroit gas station owner was charged this week with numerous federal charges after more than 90 pounds of fentanyl were found at his stash house, authorities said.

On Friday's News Hit: - Despite pushback, layoffs are coming to the Ann Arbor Public Schools district in an attempt to balance a $25 million budget deficit. - When police found twin sisters who had run away from home, they were with a 30-year-old man with a criminal background. - Gusts of 45-50 mph are possible today as rain continues to fall.

A gas station owner in Detroit is facing myriad federal charges after over 90 lbs of fentanyl were discovered inside his stash house, officials said.