Restaurant week, Fran Lebowitz, and other happenings 👓🚬
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NEWS (TO US)
All the latest scoops
Napa Valley. RESTAURANT WEEK!
Allow us to present a list of all the great deals created by folks far more diligent than us.
Valley. Chinese-American menu all January
Yum.
City of Napa. Compost bins are going green
But you're still not allowed to put dog poop in them, okay?
Special Announcement:
We don't have time for more news this week because there are so many freaking events to tell you about, just scroll down!
COMING IN HOT
Events and happenings
Jan 19: Manifestation x Meditation with Tessa Mini. Studio Be, $45
Jan 19-28: Napa Valley Restaurant Week. Various locations, $20+
Jan 20: Late Night with DJ Jerry Ross. Morimoto Asia, free
Jan 20: The Craftyard Pop-Up. The Garden, free
Jan 20: The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher Film Screening. CIA Copia, $10+
Jan 20: Lunar New Year Celebration with Lion Dance. First Street, Napa, free
Jan 20-Feb 18: Napa Lighted Arts Festival. Downtown Napa, free
Jan 23: Art in the Third Dimension (3 class series). Nimbus Arts, $85
Jan 23: A Slovakian and Hungarian Dinner Party. Stoop Supper Club, $150
Jan 26: Glow Pickleball. Yountville Parks and Rec, $25
Jan 27: Paint Brunch Benefit for Immigration Institute of the Bay Area. La Cheve, $35
Jan 28: Dos' Bar Pop-up Film Screening. Sebastiani Theatre, $20
Jan 30: Salty Magazine x PRESS Guest Chef Dinner feat. Marcus Jernmark of Habitué Los Angeles and Jenner Tomaska of Esmé Chicago. PRESS, $295+
Feb 5: Teach Truth Book Club: The 1619 Project. Napa Bookmine, free
Feb 8: An Evening with Fran Leibowitz. Copperfield Books (Santa Rosa), $39+
Feb 8-10: 24 Hours in Mexico City with Guest Chef Diego Isunza Kahlo. Compline, $125+
Feb 9: Lia Ices. Sebastiani Theatre (Sonoma), $35
Feb 9: Flow & Mixer. Yoga West, TBD
Feb 10: Valentine's Thai Massage Workshop. Yoga West, $60+
Advance Notice
Feb 13, 14: Boss Burlesque Babes. Starling, $40
May 19: Waxahatchee with Good Morning. Gundlach Bundschu, $62+
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ODE TO THE LIBRARY: 10 UNEXPECTED REASONS YOU NEED A LIBRARY CARD
We love the library. They give you things for FREE! And the more you use the free stuff, the more funding they get – and the better the free things get! It doesn't even make sense!
The Napa County Library is truly next level. We were walking around the library this week, as we are wont to do, and we were blown blown away by their offerings. And yet, many folks in the Valley Villager circle – good, well-intentioned people – have never set foot inside this glorious place.
We aim to change that. Here is just a small sample of the things you should know about our library.
You can borrow a CA State Park pass.
As previously reported by VV.
You can borrow a HUMAN BEING.
"Each book in our Human Library is a real person who is available to answer your questions about their unique perspective and life experiences."
Is this even legal?! Library don't care!
It's a gallery for local art.
Each year, five artists are featured for two months a piece. And you could be next.
You can get free access to streaming services.
Like Hoopla and Kanopy, which feature TV shows, movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks... on and on!
You can learn Dungeons and Dragons.
We don't even play D&D, it just makes us happy that someone does.
It celebrates "banned books."
You know what isn't banned? Light snacks! That's right, they are catering this thing!
It screens movies!
On January 24th, the library is screening 1996's Star Trek: First Contact. Why this movie? Why now? Because Library does NOT play by the rules.
It has a Memory Lab.
With cool gear for digitizing your old home movies and floppy discs.
You can borrow not just books, music and movies, but THINGS.
We're talking cameras, Kindles, projectors, speakers, cookie cutters (!?), puzzles, microscopes, musical instruments (a steel drum!), and a lot more.
You can get a free subscription to the Calm meditation app.
Which I am gonna need because I'm starting to get pretty mad that you're not already at the Library!