Spinning, jumping and whirling a set of silver nunchucks, Kayla Goldberg kicked her way into becoming Miss Napa County 2007.  

The Neil Sedaka Pops Concert with the Napa Valley Symphony, originally scheduled for Feb. 24, has been rescheduled to May 26, due to a medical emergency for Sedaka. Tickets for the Feb. 24 concert will be honored at the May 26 concert. If you cannot attend on the rescheduled date, contact the Napa Valley Symphony as soon as possible to indicate if you would like a tax receipt for your donation or a refund. The symphony can be reached at 226-8742 or  www.napavalleysymphony.org.

Eva Etzioni-Halevy’s own life is the stuff of novels, but she prefers to set her fiction in the ancient, legendary times of the Bible.

Lady Harriet is blessed with everything usually considered desirable  — youth, beauty, intelligence, charm, wealth and position. Living under the placid rule of Queen Anne in an era of relative peace and prosperity (for the lucky few), why is she unhappy? Why the ennui, melancholy, discontent and restlessness? What is the missing ingredient?

Love — what can’t it do? In Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man,” the tender passion thaws a spinster, reforms a swindler and conjures that marvelous marching band — all to the tune of unforgettable melodies.

Olivia Voss sits in a dark corner, facing the evening’s audience; she flashes a Crest-white smile at the bar, then turning her attention to the dining room she announces her next song. Acoustic guitar in tune she begins:

In the last five years, donors and funders in Napa County have invested close to $150 million dollars in the arts — without an overarching plan. The result? 

WEST HOLLYWOOD — The Police announced their first tour in decades Monday at a rehearsal at the Whisky a Go-Go as a throng of fans crowded near the legendary Sunset Strip nightclub.

If you walked into the Napa Valley Opera House Saturday night pondering weighty matters such as the collapse of Western civilization, you quickly lost your moribund mindset. That’s because for its third visit to the Opera House, San Francisco’s resident musical troupe, the Lamplighters, chose one of the most popular and delightful operettas of all time, Frank Lehar’s “The Merry Widow.”    

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, comes a bouquet of classical and romantic gems with a lollipop finale. Flutists Sir James and Lady Jeanne Galway headlined the latest in the current season’s subscription series presented by the Napa Valley Symphony.