Join the Rio Nido Roadhouse for a Community Potluck Sunday, March 25 from 5-8pm to help support the Pegasus Theater. Due to a set of unfortunate circumstances, they’re having to cancel this month’s production “Murder for Marriage.”
Bring a potluck dish to share like your favorite appetizer, salad, side or dessert, and the Rio Nido Roadhouse will donate part of their proceeds. For more information on Pegasus theater’s financial crisis, read their website here.
Can’t make the potluck? You can donate by sending a check made out to: Pegasus Theater, P.O. Box 2814, Guerneville, CA 95446.
Tapas New Short Play Festival is looking new 10 to 15-minute plays for the sixth annual Tapas at Pegasus Theater Company.
Please send up to two plays to the Tapas committee by May 1, 2012.
Tapas 2012 is scheduled to run five weekends, Sept. 21 through October 21 in Rio Nido. Then it will move to other venues in Sonoma County. For more information or to submit your play, click here.
From 1 – 5pm the Roadhouse will be hosting a Chili Cookoff benefit for Russian River resident Brian Roberts and the American Cancer Society. Enter your chili or enjoy the food while you listen to music by the David Luning Band and Old Jaw Bone. Pick up your entry forms at the RNR or talk to Kim at 707-869-0821. The entry fee is $20.00. If you just want to taste all the chilis along with salad and cornbread, it’s $15 per person, $5 for children, and kids 3 and under free.
After the Chili Cook-off, Brothers of Siren will plays on the enclosed and heated patio, 6-10 pm.
Mark your calendar for the 2012 season of Rio Nido’s own Pegasus Theater. For more information on pricing or to purchase flex tickets for the season, go to pegasustheater.com.
Sylvia, by A.R. Gurney, January 20 – February 12 (Directed by Beulah Vega) Sylvia is a story about a man (Greg) and his dog (Sylvia). When Greg brings Sylvia home, his wife Kate is less than enthused. She’s already raised her children and her children’s dogs. But what does Sylvia have to say about all this? Fortunately you can find out because Sylvia is able to express her own opinions quite clearly and at times profanely.
Marriage is Murder, by Nick Hall, March 16 – April 8 (Directed by Sylvia D. Jones) Murder mystery writers Paul and Polly Butler are now divorced, but the opportunity to turn their literary creation into a movie has them writing together again. As they test out various plots involving a variety of lethal schemes, they find that, like murder, marriage is in the details in this funny, fast-paced play.
Norman, Is That You? by Ron Clark & Sam Brobick, May 11 – June 10 (Directed by John Rowan) Ben’s marriage is in trouble – in fact, his wife has run off to Canada with his brother. Seeking solace, he pays an unannounced visit to his son in NYC and finds him living with another man. It then becomes Ben’s mission to try and straighten out his son. This drama with much comedy is set in the 1970s with costumes, hairstyles and fantastic, familiar music. So come out and shake your groove thing!
Panache, by Don Gordon, July 20 – August 19 (Directed by Jacquelyn Wells) Wikipedia describes panache as a word of French origin that carries the connotation of a flamboyant manner and reckless courage. Characters Kathleen Trafalgar (wealthy, married, society woman) and Harry Baldwin (bad boy, boozer, artist, fry cook) give us a bit of both in this romantic comedy of two opposites.
Tapas: A New Short Play Festival, September 21 – October 21 (Produced by Lois Pearlman) Tapas 2012 is the 6th installment of our annual festival of new short plays by northern California playwrights. Our committee will, once again, select an evening’s worth of short works from the dozens we receive each year. Comedy, tragedy, romance, the personal, the political, the heartfelt and the absurd.
Free Peoples performs tonight at the Rio Nido Roadhouse. They’re an Americana-Rock-Jazz Hybrid. It’s music to take you on a planetary trip to Mars and back. A hip quintet to rock your socks and stir your soul.
Menu: Mac and cheese, German potato salad, spicy turkey and bean chili, chicken wings, green salad, double chocolate brownies and Wallie’s famous rugelach. Suggested donation is $5. The Rainbow Cattle Company is located at 16220 Main St., Guerneville, CA.
The opening show of the 2012 season is the comedy Sylvia, by A. R. Gurney. Sylvia is part lab-part poodle, knows how to speak her mind, and proves Pegasus is really going to the dogs!
Rio Nido tree pickup will be on Thurs Jan 5th for customers of Redwood Empire Disposal. More information can be found on their site. If you’re not a current customer, you can recycle your tree by reading the information below.
For one weekend only, Pegasus Theater Company takes you back to 1948, the glory days of live radio theater, with a musical send-up of Lux Radio Hour’s “Miracle on 34th Street.”
Be part of the “studio audience” for the radio version of this popular holiday film classic. Kris Kringle, Macy’s and Gimbel’s, live sound effects, popular tunes of the 30s and 40s, and Santa Claus on trial — all “broadcast” live from the fabulous Rio Nido Lodge. Reserve your ticket online.
Spend this weekend dancing in Rio Nido at the Roadhouse. Saturday features the SoulShine Blues Band and Sunday D’GIIN takes the stage. Showtimes are at 6pm. For those of you who’ve never heard D’GIIN, check out this performance at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco.
Energy prices are on the rise across the nation. As a result, heating costs will consume an increasingly larger portion of a household’s energy budget. That’s why it’s important to check your home to insure that your heating dollars aren’t being wasted.
When cold weather approaches, use this checklist of simple ways to make your home more comfortable and keep those escalating energy bills at bay.
Check for Leaks
Weatherstripping and caulking is probably the least expensive, simplest, most effective way to cut down on energy waste in the winter. Improperly sealed homes can waste 10 to 15 percent of the homeowner’s heating dollars. Take these steps:
Check around doors and windows for leaks and drafts. Add weather-stripping and caulk any holes you see that allow heat to escape. Make sure doors seal properly.
If your windows leak really badly, consider replacing them with newer, more efficient ones. Keep in mind, however, that replacing windows can be expensive – it could take you quite awhile to recover your costs from the energy savings alone. But new windows also provide other benefits, such as improved appearance and comfort.
Every duct, wire or pipe that penetrates the wall or ceiling or floor has the potential to waste energy. Plumbing vents can be especially bad, since they begin below the floor and go all the way through the roof. Seal them all with caulking or weather-stripping.
Electric wall plugs and switches can allow cold air in. Purchase simple-to-install, pre-cut foam gaskets that fit behind the switch plate and effectively prevent leaks.
Don’t forget to close the damper on your fireplace. Of course the damper needs to be open if a fire is burning; but if the damper is open when you’re not using the fireplace, your chimney functions as a large open window that draws warm air out of the room and creates a draft. Close that damper – it’s an effective energy-saving tip that costs you nothing!
Examine your house’s heating ducts for leaks. Think of your ductwork as huge hoses, bringing hot air instead of water into your house. Mostly out of sight, ducts can leak for years without you knowing it. They can become torn or crushed and flattened. Old duct tape – the worse thing to use to seal ductwork, by the way – will dry up and fall away over time, allowing junctions and splices to open, spilling heated air into your attic or under the house. It’s wasteful. According to field research performed by the California Energy Commission, you can save roughly 10 percent of your heating bill by preventing leaky ducts.
