“The Drowsy Chaperone,” the Tony Award-winning musical within a comedy, has settled in for a month-long run at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theater through Sunday, Aug. 17.

Experience one of Shakespeare’s early comedies as he takes you to the Kingdom of Navarre where the temptation of women conquers an oath of scholarship, and all ends in love and romance — but not marriage.

The Wine Country Film Festival begins tonight in Sonoma County where an international array of films will be shown through July 27. July 31 through Aug. 3, the Festival will be showing films in Napa County. Below is a listing of films that will be shown in Napa County. Unless otherwise noted, tickets are $10 general and $8 senior, student. For further information and to find out about otherfilms being screened in Sonoma, call the festival at 935-3456, e-mail wcfilmfest@aol.com or visit www.wcff.us.

Timba is the Cuban counterpart of salsa music, evolving independently of the development of salsa in the United States and Puerto Rico. This Cuban export has incorporated several different styles and genres, including classical music, Latin jazz, disco, funk and hip-hop.

Festival del Sole ended its third season in wine country with a bang Sunday afternoon.

If someone offered you $1, would you take it?  What about $10? $100? $1000? Too good to be true? Here’s the catch: If you walk away with the money, you’ll have to live with yourself knowing that you’re walking away with someone else’s life savings. Still worth it? 

Lucky Stars, an evening of food, wine, entertainment and prizes, will benefit Lincoln Theater Napa Valley on Sunday.

A gifted instrumentalist, talented composer and clear-cut heartthrob, trumpeter Chris Botti returned to wine country Monday night to appease fans who just didn’t get enough of his music when he appeared with the Napa Valley Symphony Orchestra last fall.