The theater lost a compelling voice when Tony Award-winning, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein died of cancer last year.

In two of the final concerts in their landmark tour, the first family of American folk music appears at the Napa Valley Opera House April 19 and 20.

Napa High School played host Saturday night to the Napa School of Music’s Garage Band 101 concert.

On Friday night at the Lincoln Theater, a remarkable performance played out as Kevin and Cindy Spencer, now entering their 20th professional year of performing magical illusions, took the audience on a journey that will be remembered for a lifetime.

“Cirque de la Symphonie,” an art show and online auction to benefit the Napa Valley Symphony, opened Friday at Jessel Gallery in Napa.

Sonoma Jazz +, now in its third year, will bring crooners Tony Bennett and Harry Connick Jr., rhythm ’n’ blues singers Smokey Robinson and Michael McDonald, crossover country artist Leann Rimes and blues guitarist Robert Cray to the popular Sonoma music festival on Memorial Day weekend.

Hailed by Rolling Stone as “the Queen of Folkabilly,” Nanci Griffith’s folk and country roots have taken her from Austin’s Hole-In-The-Wall bar to Carnegie Hall, Grand Ole Opry and London’s Royal Albert Hall; from an 8-year-old girl in Texas learning to play guitar from a television instructor to a woman of the world, visiting and performing in Vietnam, Cambodia and Kosovo in support of the abolition of landmines.

Buoyed by the artistic success and widespread interest in the inaugural event, producers of the international Festival del Sole have revealed plans and attractions for a second music gala in wine country this summer.

Talk about turning back to our lost past, that miracle was accomplished on Saturday night at the Napa Valley Opera House. Who among us could ever forget the incredible sounds and imagery of Cab Calloway and his hot jazz orchestra of the 1930s and ’40s?

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Charlie Crist is being asked to pardon the late Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, 38 years after he was convicted of exposing himself during a Miami concert.

Now, we would certainly never condone the use of illegal substances. We are a family friendly news service, after all.

NEW YORK — The (film) geek shall inherit the earth.