Sausalito celebrated one year of free First Wednesday al fresco concerts on September 7 with a performance by West Coast Cool Jazz. The mercury was nudging 90 when the 8-piece band kicked off a 90-minute set, but a crowd still gathered at Cascais Plaza. According to NPR, the West Coast...
Sausalito’s semi-annual City Wide Yard Sale will take place on Saturday, October 8 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Admission is free. The event will feature more than eighty seller booths at the MLK parking lot at 610 Coloma Street. Seller booths are now on sale to residents and non-residents...
Thanks to a partnership with Performing Stars of Marin City, the Parks and Recreation Department has added three September dates to its 2022 schedule of free Jazz and Blues by the Bay concerts in Gabrielson Park. Because of the shorter days in September, the Friday evening shows will begin at...
On April 6 we ran an announcement that the Sausalito Art Festival would resume in late summer, scaled down to accommodate 4,500 visitors over three days. But, stuff happens, and last week the Art Festival Foundation stated: “unfortunately, Marinship Park, the traditional home of the Festival, is still not available...
Five minutes before the July 8 Jazz and Blues by the Bay concert was due to start at Gabrielson Park, the organizers learned that the scheduled act couldn’t make it. Sound man John Mork decided to see if waterfront rock legend Joe Tate could fill in but, had to call...
It’s almost 4th of July, time to reboot the Humming Toadfish Kazoo Band for the Sausalito parade. We’ve got the truck, the boombox, the CD full of Greatest Kazoo Hits, the decorations, and the costumes. All we need now is enthusiastic marching kazooers. No experience (or talent) is necessary. No...
In a recent Marin IJ op-ed piece, an ex-Sausalito mayor described the city’s working waterfront as “the financial golden goose.” To reinforce that description, she added: “This industrial and maritime area diversifies Sausalito’s economy away from tourism and continued to function at full capacity during the pandemic. It generates 75%...
Saturday, May 14, was a beautiful evening for a night with the mayors. Yes, “mayors” plural. Christine Templin was the winning bidder for a dinner with the mayor of Sausalito at the Sausalito Floating Homes Virtual Gala and Tour last June. Ed Lopez and I were honored to host Chris,...
Would you like to help resurrect the Humming Toadfish Marching Kazoo Band for Sausalito’s 4th of July Parade? This band has been a long-time feature of the parade and won Best Overall Entry in 2009. The band needs a Director; the Director recruits kazoo players, selects the playlist of appropriate...
In an April 4 Zoom meeting of the Parks & Recreation Commission, Louis Briones, chair of the Sausalito Art Festival Foundation, announced plans to present a smaller, simpler and less expensive version of the festival later this year. Instead of the usual 50,000 attendees, the Foundation anticipates welcoming 4,500 people...