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Your holiday shopping can’t get any more local than by supporting the artists and makers who spend their weekends as vendors at holiday craft fairs. Join Head West, a local outdoor retail marketplace in partnership with the Barlow on the second Saturday and Sunday of each month.
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The holidays are coming, and chances are you’ve already started on your shopping for Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa. But there’s always that one person on your list who is just impossible to shop for? What do you get for the person who...
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Machines are also a low-pressure way of tasting wine, says Kerry Thedorf, co-founder of Region. The inviting, light-filled Sonoma-focused tasting room in the Barlow offers both self-serve wine dispensers and traditional counter service. “It’s a convenience to be able to choose what they want when they want,” says Thedorf, who partners with producers including AldenAlli, Kobler Estate Winery, Three Sticks Wines, and Chenoweth Wines. “They’re not pushed to join a wine club, or to do a certain flight or listen to a spiel that maybe they don’t want to listen to.” They keep people coming back with the opportunity to join for $20 a year and access free tastes every week, as well as intimate winemaker events.
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This Holiday season revelers can’t go wrong with a visit to Sebastopol’s cutest shopping center, The Barlow. Everyone loves the Barlow. I mean it; name me one person who’s gone to the Barlow and not had an adorable time. I’m waiting. Fully stocked with local and artisanal products from eco-friendly fashion purveyors, almost everything onsite is produced right here in Northern California.
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From cooking to painting to developing a palate for fine wine, or a new appreciation for music, the extra time spent at home has encouraged many of us to take up a new hobby – or delve deeper into an old one. With the world back open, here are vacation ideas for travelers eager to take their new skills for a test drive out in the real world.
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