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FILMMAKER ERICA MILSOM HONORED FOR ‘LOOP’ SHORT By Christian Kallen
AVFilm of Cloverdale will present its inaugural Impact Award to “celebrate the future of film” to Erica Milsom, a San Francisco animator whose career with Pixar produced several award-winning films. Among them is the computer-animated short, Loop, the story of two kids adrift on a lake—one of them autistic, the other talkative—and their efforts to communicate so they can rescue themselves from their predicament. Milsom will receive the 2022 Impact Award on Saturday, Oct. 22, in an awards’ presentation at Rodney Strong Vineyards in Healdsburg, from 4 to 8pm. Her groundbreaking nine-minute film, Loop, along with others in the SparkShorts series, is available on Disney+. As documentary director at Pixar, Milsom created hundreds of films about the creative process for the Inside Pixar video series. In 2022, she left this role to found her own animation studio, the results of which are eagerly awaited. She directed her first feature in 2014, Snow Day, which IMDB describes as a “documentary film about life, death, and skiing that follows a group of senior citizens on their weekly ski trip in the Colorado Rockies.” Milsom screened the film to an AVFilm audience in 2016 and conducted a Q and A with local students. Since then, Milsom has continued to support AVFilm's educational work and help connect the local nonprofit ➝ Making ‘Impact’, 4
SURREAL Healdsburg realtor James Ramirez gives a thumbs-up for artist JM Knudsen's new mural of Frida Kahlo, with a colorful hat of wine grapes, at 970 Healdsburg Ave.
‘Muerto Frida’ unfolds on Healdsburg Ave. MURALIST CELEBRATES LARGER-THANLIFE ARTIST FRIDA KAHLO By Christian Kallen
Murals have become a popular means of public artistic expression, from big city to small town. Locally, the fivepanel historical mural at Healdsburg High’s Smith Robinson Gym dates from 30 years ago, while the recent Monarch Project mural on Alley Three off Center Street was created this spring. These
and other murals illustrate the heritage and history of Healdsburg and the wine country. Murals at 970 Healdsburg Ave. are not so different—though they are not downtown or on a civic building, but painted on a residential lot on the walls of occupied apartments. Both, however, push forward on the region’s Mexican heritage with images of iconoclastic 20th century artist Frida Kahlo. The mural facing Healdsburg Avenue is a larger-than-life portrait of the artist as a wine muse—her signature hat
The mural facing Healdsburg Avenue is a larger-than-life portrait of the artist as a wine muse— her signature hat is made of purple wine grapes instead of her usual bright flowers.
is made of purple wine grapes instead of her usual bright flowers. Farther back on the property,
Kahlo is having a glass of wine in her Mexico City kitchen, but here she's represented as a skeleton,
STEAKHOUSE MARINATING ON PLAZA STREET? CHANGE IN THE AIR, CONSTRUCTION ABOUNDS AS RESTAURANTS PLAY REVOLVER By Christian Kallen Photo courtesy of Goring & Straja
FUTURE Architects' rendering of the projected restaurant at 113 Plaza St.,
formerly the Seasons of the Vineyard tasting room, expected to open in 2023.
The roof has been razed and the walls have come down on the narrow business space at 113 Plaza St., next door to Duke’s. Though the applicant, builder and owner won’t answer directly, the restaurant is widely presumed to become a steakhouse; the big Texas Lone
in celebration of Dia de los Muertos. ➝ ‘Muerto Frida’ 2
Star motif in building plans does little to challenge that presumption. For years known as Seasons of the Vineyard, the gift shop and Ferrari-Carano tasting room gave the Dry Creek Valley estate winery a toehold in busy downtown Healdsburg. But Don Carano passed away in 2017, and in early 2020 Rhonda Carano sold the business to local entrepreneur Bill Foley, who added the stately winery and garden to his expanding portfolio. Six months later, Foley purchased the downtown gift shop, but shortly thereafter the pandemic shuttered the business. Now the location is gutted back to its beams and girders, brick walls exposed and the ceiling lifted, from the front wall to the back of the ➝ Steakhouse, 4