Published September 1, 2005

Final weekend: Kate Kennedy’s local and hilarious Avalon Players perform Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors” at Gundlach-Bundschu Winery Friday-Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Bring your own picnic, blankets, lawn chairs, warm clothes, and purchase wine in the tasting room. This is a new great venue for Avalon Players, offered by the Bundschu family. Tickets: $20 adults, $12 seniors and children.

Center of the Universe Café, a once-monthly event at the Sonoma Community Center offers dinner cooked by gourmet home chef Mayor Larry Barnett and an open mike for reading poetry or anything else with art by guest Sammy Hayashi. Center of the Universe was created by Sonoma City Council member and former Mayor Ken Brown, who is also general manager of the Community Center. Call Ken at (707) 938-4626, Ext. 2 for more info.

Jack London Bookstore in Glen Ellen holds one of the most complete selections of work by the internationally best-selling author, long run by the Jack London Foundation and members. Across from Jack London Village at 14300 Arnold Drive, Glen Ellen. (707) 996-2888.

Arts Guild of Sonoma honors member artists Joan Shepherd and Sharon Sittloh with a reception Friday, 6:00-8:00 p.m,. in conjunction with September’s East Napa Street Block Party. East Napa Street restaurants offer food samples on the sidewalk, local bands play music, and merchants offer sidewalk sales on a warm Sonoma evening.

Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Alliance’s Sonoma Valley Harvest Wine Auction. Hot tickets include Friday’s “An Evening with Phantom of the Opera star Franc D’Ambrosio “($50-$100), and “A Day in the Vineyards” at retired Judge Pat Herron’s Barricia Vineyards with Joel Peterson of Ravenswood and Chef Sheana Davis ($75); Saturday’s Vintners and Growers California Cowboy picnic at Cline Cellars ($45), and winemakers’ dinners ($160); and The Main Event (auction), a riotous ‘30s-‘50s Hollywood garb event with winemakers making outright fools of themselves($250). www.sonomavalleywine.com