🥾 85 miles to the coast, and 🍦 Screamin' Mimi's takes Cotati

Happy Monday, September is just about here and we have a long-weekend coming up! Let's get ready.

In this week's Signal:

The Camino de Sonoma runs 85 miles from the mission to the coast. The route is a six-stage walk from the Sonoma mission out to Fort Ross, built and maintained by trail volunteers. You can hike it in one push, or in pieces. One of the volunteers, a retired Sonoma State kinesiology professor, talks about the hill he thought would finish him. Sonoma Magazine

Kent Porter photographs the sky after the news day ends. If you’ve lived in the area for very long, you’ve seen Kent’s work. The Press Democrat's longtime photographer shoots the night sky as a counterweight to covering fires and floods, and says he waits until everyone else has gone home. It is the same eye you have seen on the front page for years, pointed up instead of out. Sonoma Magazine

Zone Zero clears the first five feet around your house. California's new defensible-space standard requires property owners in high-risk zones to remove or sharply reduce anything flammable within five feet of a structure, which means the planter box, the woodpile, and the shrub against the siding. It reaches nearly 46,300 buildings across Sonoma, Napa and Lake counties in CAL FIRE territory alone, plus thousands more inside city limits; new construction has to comply immediately, while existing homes get a phase-in. KSRO

Now open: Screamin' Mimi's Ice Cream — Our local legend is expanding! After more than 30 years in Sebastopol, owner Maraline "Mimi" Olson has bought a 4,000-square-foot building in Cotati for a second shop, with a kitchen big enough to eventually make all of it in one place. (KSRO)

🍎 Ross Street Weekday Food Trucks
Monday–Friday, 11 am–2 pm
Ross Street
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🎶 Pro Jam – Steve Freund at The California
The Chicago blues guitarist has played on more than 50 albums, Koko Taylor's Grammy winner among them.
Monday, 6–9 pm
The California Theatre, Santa Rosa
Cost: $17–$20 · See more →

🧺 Sonoma Tuesday Night Market
Tuesday, 5 pm
Sonoma Plaza, Sonoma
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🥾 Taco Tuesday Bike Ride
Through the JC and McDonald Avenue, a stop in Courthouse Square, then the taco trucks at Mitote.
Tuesday, 5:30 pm
SRJC parking lot, 550 Silva Ave, Santa Rosa
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🎶 Peacetown Summer Concert Series featuring Sol Horizon
Second to last Wednesday of the season.
Wednesday, 5–8 pm
Ives Park, Sebastopol
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🎶 Wines & Sunsets at Paradise
Wednesday, 5:30–8 pm
Paradise Ridge Winery, Santa Rosa
Cost: $15 · See more →

🎶 Wednesday Night Big Band Jazz at The Big Easy
Seventeen pieces, four decades in.
Wednesday, 7 pm
The Big Easy, Petaluma
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🎨 First Thursdays Art Walk Sonoma
Storefronts, tasting rooms and galleries open around the square.
Thursday, 5–7:30 pm
Arts Guild of Sonoma, 140 E. Napa Street, Sonoma
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🎨 Jorgensen Watercolors & Painted Feather Art
Chris Jorgensen set out in 1903 to paint the California missions.
Thursday, 5–7 pm
Sonoma State Historic Park, 20 E Spain St., Sonoma
Free · See more →

🧺 Summer Nights: Live Music and Outdoor Market
Thursday, 5–8 pm
Vintners Square, 1301 Cleveland Ave, Santa Rosa
Free · See more →

🎭 Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific at 6th Street Playhouse
Thursday, 2 pm
6th Street Playhouse G.K. Hardt Theatre, Santa Rosa
Cost: $33–$56.95 · See more →

🎶 Vinny and The Shouts! DEBUT at the Penngrove Pub
Thursday, 7 pm
Penngrove Pub, Penngrove
Cost: $12.51 · See more →

🎶 Mismiths at The Big Easy
UK crooning meets New Jersey horror punk.
Thursday, 7:30 pm
The Big Easy, Petaluma
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Look for the full weekend rundown Thursday.

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— Ben, writing from Santa Rosa