Downtown San Rafael’s inaugural Pizza Month starts Wednesday and runs through July 31.  

Hosted by the Downtown San Rafael Business Improvement District, the monthlong event features seven participating restaurants offering exclusive specials to Pizza Punch Card holders, including a drawing for a $50 gift card and coupons, and a vote in the Pizza Month Fan Favorite Awards. 

Visitors who collect initials from all seven pizzerias earn an additional contest entry. 

Participating restaurants include Amici’s East Coast Pizzeria, Fratm Pizzeria, Hot Italian, Red Rooster Brick Oven, Oliver’s Wood Fired Pizza, Extreme Pizza and Sapori Ristorante. 

Additional information, including Pizza Punch Cards, restaurant specials and voting details, is available at DowntownSanRafael.org. 

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.