Unless you've spent the last month or two on another planet or under a big rock, by now you are well aware of the fact that this year is, in fact, the "Year of the Dog" on the Chinese calendar. This event last occurred in 1994 (and before that in 1982, 1970, 1958, 1946 and so on).

The Napa Valley is in for a treat when the Temptations, the Grammy award-winning, quintessential Motown recording group and one of the most successful American singing quintets of all time, appear tomorrow night at 8 p.m. at Yountville's Lincoln Theater.

Last weekend at the Napa Valley Opera House, "The Flying Karamazov Brothers" lit up the stage with their amazing juggling routines, but we in the audience were treated to more -- much more.

A bar stool, a microphone and a can of Diet Pepsi -- that's all Paula Poundstone needs to make an audience laugh until it hurts. Poundstone, one of the country's foremost humorists and stand-up comedians, takes the stage for one show this Saturday night at Yountville's Lincoln Theater.

Sometimes a play looms so large in theater history that it's possible to feel like one knows it, even if one has never actually seen it.

Sultry San Francisco jazz singer Kim Nalley is teaming up with international Hammond B-3 organ legend Rhoda Scott at Copia this weekend.

Boys of the Lough

They're all golden