Pinball lounges, bingo emporiums and other news 🧷🎱

Mar 13, 2025

NEWS (TO US)

Marquee Pinball Lounge. Opening in the (cursed?) spot in Cadet Alley.
God bless these fine folks. We’ll be there opening day.
Napa Bingo Emporium. We have a bingo emporium?!
Apparently this place has been around for a long time… and no one told us. This one is on you, “loyal” readers.
Gingrass Smoked. Smoked fish spot opening next to Milonga on Yahome.
Joining Milonga empanadas and Rancho Gordo beans in “Specialty Food Row.” Unclear if it is a public facing spot or just a nice looking office.
Rutherford Pizza Downtown. Now open in the Frankie’s Deli space.
The Rutherfords and A16 coming for Oenotri and Croccante! It’s on! Here and we thought the Napa Pizza Wars had come to a detente!
Blue Note. Summer Sessions lineup announced!
Grace Jones, Violent Femmes and more.
Mentis. Longstanding mental health nonprofit expands into former Blue Oak middle school space.
It’s cool if I still drop off my kids there, right?
Brick & Mantel. Moving to Main Street.
Finally something in that perennially vacant storefront with the carpeted ramp.

Stella. Glen Ellen Star sister restaurant finally open! (Kenwood)
Wait — Stella means star! I didn’t get it til I typed it!
The Barlow. Hotel plans announced, designs revealed. (Sebastopol)
Wait — Barlow like the Barlow applesauce cannery of 1939!

Former C Casa space in Oxbow to not become another restaurant, but an area with additional “vendor booths”! I love vendor booths!
Reader submitted: Construction is underway on the former Coqueta space in Yountville… anyone know what’s up?
Forthcoming Hestan space across from Compline expected to have a restaurant / food angle.

Fridays: Film series all winter . Valley Swim Club (Sonoma)

Mar 15: Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings. Uptown Theatre, $90+

Mar 19-23: Sonoma Film Fest. Various locations, prices vary

Mar 21-23: 19th Annual California Artisan Cheese Festival. Various locations in Sonoma County, $50+

NEW: Mar 22, 23: Planting Seeds of Change (Wendell Berry-themed film screenings feat. Nick Offerman). Little Saint (Healdsburg), $75, $25

NEW: Mar 24: Sonoma Film Club Screening: Le Samouri. Sebastiani Theatre (Sonoma), $14

NEW: Apr 3: Napa Humane Community Mixer. Materra Cunat Family Vineyards, free (but please RSVP)

Apr 5: Lebanese Luncheon Cooking Class. Yountville Community Center, $120+

Apr 9-13: Songwriters in Paradise. Various locations, $1300+ (ouch)

Apr 24-26: Madeleine Peyroux. Blue Note, $115+

May 9, 10: David Sedaris. $73+

Apr 24-27: Napa Valley StreamFest. Downtown venues in Napa, $250+

Apr 27: Decked Out (Music Festival). The Quarters (Mare Island), free

May 16: Devendra Banhart. Gundlach Bundschu, $70

May 16: Thievery Corporation. Uptown Theatre, $63+

May 17: Art, Sip & Stroll. Yountville, price tbd

Sept 13: MJ Lenderman & The Wind. Gundlach Bundschu, $79

NEW: Nov 16: Screening: Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan with Special Guest William Shatner. Uptown Theater, $145+