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›› LETTERS Rack and ruin I’m writing regarding Nikki Silverstein’s “Zero” to the Civic Center for taking down artist Sylvia Cossich-Goodman’s painting of a semi-nude woman [“Hero & Zero,” April 15]. You’ve heard this story before. Your breasts have heard this The controversial image. story before. Our county offices, our local artists’ yearly exhibit. One employee among our quarter-million souls could not bear to be assaulted every day by the twin breasts of a woman painted in happy, slapdash strokes, not nude as the daily newspaper described her—she’s wearing a three-or-four-stroke bikini bottom—and so the county administrator or the director of human resources (I forget which of that pair of artfully named worthies) felt the county should not, could not condone a “hostile workplace environment.” The painting was condemned, nipples banished to the artist’s garage. So, friends, I beg you, in the interest of the public weal: suppress your breasts’ hostility, the assault of all-too-forward nipples.

Support a cleavage of the private from the common good.

Bill Noble,San Anselmo

The body magnetic Read Annie Spiegelman’s story on the people behind Marin’s non-pesticide pestmanagement policies. Glad they are doing the good work. However, I have only recently learned about what the military and large

corporations are doing to our sky. Check CaliforniaSkyWatch or just go to Chemtrails. cc. We are being covered with “dusting” from military and private jets that stream aluminum and barium salt out of their wings.

They have already changed our climate. Mr. Garcia, president of the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), brags that they will control the climate worldwide by 2025. I wish this were a paranoid dream, but the information is readily available from very legitimate sources. Our lovely Marin is losing its blue skies and trees, and I for one will have my young grandchild tested for metal in her body.

I wish you would do a piece about this manmade disaster beginning to happen.

Lynn Scott,Forest Knolls

They say the best offense is a good Derringer Regarding Ronnie Cohen’s article on Marin’s gun culture [“A Girl and a Gun,” March 11], I’ve got a message for the NRA: You are the “National RIFLE Association.”

Does the National Raffle You are not the NaAssociation know these tional Handgun, Auto/ guys have hijacked Semi-automatic Weaptheir acronym?! ons, nor even Bullet Association.

When the Second Amendment was penned, the most deadly “arms” our forefathers knew of and authored to protect the “right to bear” were pretty much muskets and swords. They couldn’t have dreamed of Uzis or multi-firing munitions, or nuclear weaponry. Rifles are great for hunting, thinning herds, target practice/

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TOP POSTINGS THIS WEEK Nude ascending The naked painting can come back, say county officials. After defrocking an abstract nude painting from Civic Center walls last week, it was county officials who were left fee...

Marin has too many fogies How old does this county have to get? I’m 44 and I can’t go into any restaurant, bar, coffee shop or market without getting stuck in line behind someone my grandpa’s age who can’t seem to work the credit card scanner or remember...

Suspicious encounter in San Anselmo 11-year-old reports ‘soft spoken’ approach from stranger on Monday Read the full story here posted Tuesday, April 19, 20...

Your soapbox is waiting at ›› pacificsun.com competition, skeet shooting and protecting one’s self, kin, home and property. Rifles are defensive and sporting tools.

Handguns, especially auto/semi-automatic weapons (even when they resemble rifles), are offensive weapons. Their only purposes are war, murder and mayhem. Our police only sport handguns for their defense and convenience, as rifles are bulky and difficult to activate while their charges often easily wield hand weapons (largely because the NRA insists on protecting their “right” to bear them).

It’s a matter of degree. A private citizen may not possess a nuclear weapon, a land-toanywhere launching device (or its ammunition), a hand-grenade, or, without permits, any other major explosive.

Please, NRA, continue your good efforts to help people defend themselves; also apply your great influence protecting us from being offended by the growing number of thugs who, much due to your influence, can easily obtain small concealable arms for their illicit activities.

The “right to bear arms” is about defense, while the ability to acquire weaponry is about offense. Please distinguish between the two.

Remember, your cause is about defense, not about aiding and abetting criminality.

Name withheld by request,Woodacre

CCA: Community Caffeine Aggregation Now that Gov. Brown has committed to a program of renewable energy, maybe we can deep-six the Marin Energy Bureaucracy, with its high-paid executives and no local source of actual energy besides coffee.

DavidWeinstock,Fairfax

Not in my back rail yard It’s unfortunate the electorate of Marin was not made fully aware by the pro-SMART campaign of “transit oriented development” included in Measure “Q.” Our efforts to educate the electorate on the massive developments included around SMART stations could not gain support from our elected officials to inform their constituents. Al Boro, Charles McGlashan and Steve Kinsey pushed hard for SMART but never let on as to affordable and Transit Oriented Development housing designated for these stations. Susan Adams sat on the fence while

TODs were being debated with no input.

Now we are saddled with legislation from the state and support from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and ABAG that will guarantee thousands of additional units be built within a half mile of these stations.

Marin is getting exactly what the pro-SMART electorate voted for, and probably with no bike routes. We said all along this was not about a train, but was about developers getting new development in Marin and bypassing the county process to do so. The biking community and the conservation community of the Marin have been duped.

Ron Ford,SantaVenetia

Someone was late to his court appearance...

Thanks to Don Speich for the interesting article on the troubled Marin County family court [“Divorced From Reality?” April 1] and the troubling [executive officer of Marin Superior Court] Kim Turner. I, too, Say, didn’t Captain have an issue with Her M sing ‘Last Train to Highness. I’d like her to Clarksville’? explain and address the court’s policy of not posting all cases on the fancy and expensive electronic bulletin board. I address it by surreptitiously and anonymously posting the following notice under the electronic case calendar board whenever I have occasion to visit the courts floor of the Civic Center. I hope other readers will join me in this effort.

Captain M,Marin

Captain M’s notice: “Please be advised that we have an unannounced policy of not listing all scheduled cases on this electronic bulletin board. You may look for your assigned courtroom on the bulletin board by the elevators, or by going courtroom to courtroom, or by asking one of the guys at the metal detector for help. Hopefully, this delay will not cause you to have your case dismissed for your non-appearance. Just be thankful we are not running an airport.

—Marin Superior Court”

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All roads lead to home Housing and transportation—the yin and yang of county planning

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hen the state Legislature passed two bills aimed at improving the environment, it seemed a laudable goal but a bit abstract for many.

Well, the abstract is becoming reality as Marin and the rest of the state look at how those goals influence long-range planning.

The first key piece of legislation, AB 32, became law in 2006. It mandates a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020—a 30 percent decrease. The bill also calls for a reduction to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. The mechanisms to achieve those reductions are wide ranging. One vision includes a scenario in which counties, cities and towns would, among other things, promote efficient energy use, encourage workforce housing and push for improved public transit.

In 2008, the Legislature took AB 32 one step further down the road to regional planning: SB 375 is part of the Sustainable Communities Strategy. It seeks to coordinate land use and transportation planning.

The law requires cities and counties to develop “sustainable strategies.” It pushes for integrating nonmotorized transportation, public transit, walking and transit-oriented development into local agencies’ longrange plans. “Improved planning means cleaner cities, less time stuck in your car and healthier, more sustainable communi-

ties,” said California Air Resources Board chairwoman Mary D. Nichols in a press release explaining SB 375 last autumn.

“Cities that choose to develop Sustainable Communities plans that meet these targets have an advantage when it comes to attracting the kinds of vibrant, healthy development that people want.”

But it also riles those who stand staunchly for local control over regional planning.

To help meet greenhouse-gas-reduction mandates, the air board adopted targets for reducing emissions from passenger vehicles in metropolitan planning areas in the state. In the Bay Area, that’s the purview of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC). The air board is calling for a 7 percent reduction in emissions from passenger vehicles by 2020 and a 15 percent reduction by 2035. Meeting those targets can help a planning organization qualify for funds.

Communities now consider housing and transportation as two key pieces of the same puzzle. Whatever happens to one affects the other. The ruckus over affordable housing in Novato may be a precursor to what’s in store when cities and counties start grappling with a planning process that now ties transportation to housing.

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›› NEWSGRAMS ‘Sun’ tops in ‘lifestyles,’‘A&E coverage For 48 years, our loyal readers and writers have helped make the Pacific Sun Marin’s No. 1 newspaper for lifestyles and entertainment coverage—and the California Newspaper Publishers Association agrees! Only, the CNPA says we’re not only tops in Marin—but in all of California.

On April 16 at the Wilshire Grand hotel in Los Angeles, the CNPA honored the Sun with three first-place awards in its 2011 Better Newspapers statewide competition. Competing against all weeklies in California, the Sun was tops in both the Lifestyles Coverage category and the Arts and Entertainment category. We also received first place in the CNPA’s inaugural video category, for weeklies of circulations between 16,000 and 25,000, for our “Reeling in the Years: A Brief History of Marin,” which ran in conjunction with our Sept.

24 “Cornerstones” issue, a salute to a selection of Marin’s most longstanding businesses.

(Check it out this week at www.pacificsun.com.)

Congratulations, Pacific Sun! Kay Ryan ‘an iconoclast’ says Pulitzers Former U.S. poet laureate Kay Ryan can now add “Pulitzer Prize-winner” to her resume—as the Fairfax resident earned the 2011 prize for poetry for The Best of It: New and Selected Poems. In honoring Ryan with the award, the Pulitzer committee lauded her for “a body of work spanning 45 years, witty, rebellious and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind.”

Nude ascending The naked painting can come back, say county officials.

After defrocking an abstract nude painting from Civic Center walls last week, it was county officials who were left feeling exposed—exposed to legal ramifications for possibly infringing upon the First Amendment rights of San Rafael artist Sylvia Cossich-Goodman.

The artist’s semi-nude “Model in the Sun” had been part of a Marin Arts Council exhibit at the Civic Center—or it was until a female employee complained and county officials stripped it from the exhibit, citing their responsibility to keep Marin’s center of county governance from becoming a “hostile work environment” for any employee. After reports about the painting’s removal last week in the Pacific Sun and other local papers, the story went viral—eventually eliciting the ire of the National Coalition Against Censorship, which, together with the First Amendment Project out of Oakland, sent a letter to the county in order to, as spokesman Michael O’Neil put it,“show them the error of their ways.”

Among the NCAC’s objections was the argument that a single temporary painting could create a hostile work environment.“Even if you don’t like paintings of naked people it still is not, and cannot be perceived as, the kind of systemic, repeated behavior that creates a hostile work environment and therefore sexual harassment,” says O’Neil. As for free speech violations, O’Neil points out that “As a public space opened to exhibiting artwork, Marin Civic Center has First Amendment obligations to refrain from censoring work based on personal views. The courts say public officials can’t pull strings to get rid of artwork that they personally don’t like. That includes art featuring naked people. That even includes art featuring naked people in a venue where children might see it. The children will be fine. Really.” 10 >

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From the Sun vaults, April 24 - 30, 1981

City Slicker Grace Slick was building Mill Valley on rock ’n’ roll...

30 years ago

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“I know it’s too late now, but I wish I could go back in time and start all over somehow— and get it right from the start”—Jefferson Starship, “Find Your Way Back,” 1981

she thinks drugs are great.” Period. That’s the kind of stuff that makes me crazy. I don’t care and my friends don’t care, but my parents have heart attacks every time that kind of stuff comes out. I mean they in fact have heart attacks and go to hospitals.

Grace Slick was trying to get it right 30 years ago this week.

Do your parents call you when they Three years after uncontrollable binge read that? drinking got her kicked out of the band she No, they don’t call me at all. They’re very helped make famous, the first lady of psy- sweet about it, but it really drives them bats. chedelic rock had exchanged the surrealistic They’re 70 and 73, respectively, and they do pillows of stardom for creature comforts in not understand this generation or anything Marin. Following her departure from Jeffer- about it. son Starship and a stint in rehab, Slick withdrew to her Mill Valley home where she spent Concerts these days are like exorcisms. her time reading, sobering up and trying to It seems that kids don’t use drugs to live a normal life open up, but to with husband Skip get vacant and Johnson and 10stupid. year-old daughter I was reading a China. magazine the other When Pacific Sun day with an article writer Joseph Territo on TV evangelist caught up with her Billy Graham who for an early mornsaid something ing interview this like when people week in 1981, Slick get sick very often was on the verge of a or take drugs it’s a career comeback— desire for heaven, she’d recently been which is an interestbrought back ing concept. I don’t aboard the Starship necessarily agree and sang harmony Slick, with husband Skip and daughter China, at the Mill with it, but he said on “Find Your Way Valley McDonald’s, 1981. they’re going to the Back,” the band’s biggest hit since the Jefferson nothingness that death is. He said everybody Airplane days. wants heaven, and getting ill or even get“Surfing on the slipping away edge of ting cancer is a desire to die. The desire for ‘now’ seems to be her forte and, like anyone oblivion is an interesting concept. I rememwho tries it, she has been able to both excel ber when the Starship did concerts in around and make a fool out of herself,” began Territo. ’75 and Quaalude pervaded the general “But the big picture looks terrific—Grace marketplace. For a while it was alcohol and Slick is cool.” cocaine, which made everybody “up” to the Here are the highlights of the interview: point of being nuts. I was talking to my husband last night about how people are starting It’s 7am. Do you always conduct interto realize that drugs are not necessarily just views this early? recreational, but the whole deal. Everybody I get up around 5 every morning, basiI know except my 70-year-old parents and cally so I can read. My husband has all these my 10-year-old daughter uses some chemical animals—a parrot, two cockatiels, eight that puts them somewhere they want to be. finches. And there’s the television set, a child, dishwashers. I get up at 5 just so I can read in It seems like in the music scene drug peace. use isn’t like it was 15 years ago.

Fifteen years ago there seemed to be, for I understand you were angry with the about three years in the ’60s, a naive sort of Chronicle for quoting you out of context. hope and a blandness about the government.

Taking things out of context is beautiful I think you have to be on your toes now, and for the journalist, and it makes the interviebeing drugged up is not a way of being on wee look like a moron. And this gal from the your toes.

Chronicle did it. The one that mainly appalled me was “Since you don’t do drugs, does that A lot of people classify things by demean that you’re down on drugs now?” and I cade, like you’re supposed to be the ‘60s. said, “No, I think drugs are great. If it weren’t But you’ve made a record in 1981—are for penicillin and valium...” The way it came you an ‘80s person as well? out was, “Grace has stopped drinking but I think everybody is pigeonholed at one

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1. Pictured, right: What popular TV series, which ran from 1996-2001, was set in San Francisco and starred Don Johnson and Cheech Marin?

2. Those fireflies (or lightning bugs) that glide through the summer night air are all males, females, or both?

3. If a right-handed golfer hits a slice, the ball curves off course in which direction?

4. The word democracy comes from the Greek words demos and kratos, which mean what?

5. Pictured, below: Dressage and jumping are two events in this activity with a 13-letter name.

6. Which singer/actress/TV star, recently named the world’s most beautiful woman by People magazine, said that being beautiful is part of her job?

7. What technical improvement in the field of communications did AT&T introduce in 1963?

8. Pictured, right: The company that produces this hi-tech automobile is named for the Serbian-born physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop the radio as well as the electric motor.

9. Which are there more of in the United States: people or house pets?

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point or another, even if they do better, worse or nothing later on. Bing Crosby sang for 89,000 years and the guy is known for being a nice Catholic boy with a large family who sings “White Christmas” and did a little bit of humor with Bob Hope.

But he was also in jail three times for being drunk and disorderly. At the time the Hollywood machinery kept that down, but now it’s popular to print that first... so it depends on the time you’re working in.

Jefferson Airplane, Starship and Grateful Dead came along when there was a massive cultural attention to change, so we’re noted more for that. That’s all right.

What is it about the music business that puts people through the wringer?

You put yourself through the wringer.

It’s not the music business. I thought it was.

I wanted to blame it on everything. “Oh well, it’s the Starship, they’re playing AOR [album-oriented rock] music. Oh well, the record business is falling apart. Oh well this, oh well everything’s awful.” And I was going around blaming everything but me.

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Does the music scene seem formatted? It seems like every kid who plays rock just gets a black Les Paul and wants to bend the high strings and grimace.

I enjoy all of that stuff. I liked KISS. I also liked the Mutants stomping around on dead fish. I like the English Beat. I like Barbra Streisand. You can’t say Barbra Streisand is no good because she doesn’t sing hip lyrics. That’s not what she’s trying to do. She’s not trying to revolutionize the government; she’s trying to sing a good love song, and she does it well. Kenny Rogers isn’t trying to be Pigpen from the Grateful Dead; he’s trying to be Kenny Rogers and he does that well.

When you’re home in Mill Valley do you turn it off?

Sure, I do pretty much what everybody else does. I’ll be with my daughter or my husband, or watch television, or read, or play the piano, or whatever. The only thing that’s probably apart from the rest of it is being in a rock and roll band. < APRIL 22 - APRIL 28, 2011 PACIFIC SUN 9

< 8 All roads lead to home communities is moving forward under the mandate of SB 375. The regional plan ultimately sets priorities and funding possibilities for transportation projects in each region of the state. The planning process at the Transportation Authority of Marin (TAM) and the MTC has been molded to the new state mandate, says county Supervisor Steve Kinsey, who chairs the TAM board and serves on the board at MTC. “We have identified 10 performance measures, and we are going to be evaluating project proposals through this screen of 10 measures.” In a community workshop last month, TAM listened to ideas from residents about what they would like to see in the update of a Regional Transportation Plan, which is refreshed every four years and envisions what the transportation future should hold through 2040.

TAM is considering the community input as well as its own deliberations in creating a list of transportation priorities the agency will submit to the MTC next month. MTC will then mull over the list and come up with a set of priorities that will go back to TAM for consideration.

Those lists are for local projects that must compete for funding on a regional level. The 10 new performance measures Kinsey mentions refer to the new view of transportation projects as mandated by SB 375. In addition to looking at the project specifics, TAM and MTC must also consider climate protection and adequate housing.

“It’s an interesting discussion and a healthy one,” says Kinsey. “The [regional plan] will be different because it’s really focusing on the goals of the sustainable communities strategy through SB 375.” Reducing congestion and vehicle-miles traveled will be priorities in the project selection process, along with emissions reduction.

“I think alternative-transportation projects will rank higher,” Kinsey adds, “so the bike-ped folks around here will like that.

The transit folks should be pleased. The highway folks should be a little bit nervous.”

Kinsey points to how forging a strong connection between transportation and housing in the new planning process will transform the regional plan—and the type of projects that rank high on the to-do list.

“I’ve been saying at the MTC over the last three months, that the [Regional Transportation Plan] is not going to be a transportation plan, it’s going to be a housing plan.”

That’s because the new Sustainable Communities Strategy requires that the numbers of new housing units needed in an area must be part of a housing-needs assessment as well as the transportation plan.

“The initial calculation is that the Bay Area is coming up 900,000 units short over the next planning period,” says Kinsey. “Sixty percent of that housing needs to be in the affordable category.” Of the total number of units needed, only about 10,000 are in Marin. But considering the affordable housing flap in Novato recently, 10 PACIFIC SUN APRIL 22 - APRIL 28, 2011

which mirrors other communities grappling with state housing mandates, the new Sustainable Communities Strategy will do little to calm the concerns of those who fight for more local control.

While the new rules affect MTC on the transportation side, on the housing side, the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) will create a plan that draws a correlation between housing and transportation; virtually no one expects the next round of determining housing-needs will be easy in this more complicated process than the one currently debated in Novato and other towns in Marin.

Most of Marin’s transportation funds come from state and federal programs.

MTC sets funding priorities based on the regional plan criteria, which now include the sustainable communities idea. And Marin has two additional sources of transportation funds: about $20 million a year from the half-cent Measure A sales tax and about $2 million from a vehicle registration fee.

When TAM set out to gather public input, its process ensured contributions from minority and disadvantaged communities sometimes left out of planning decisions. Trudy Totty, a consultant who works on outreach programs, helped set up a method to encourage participation from a wide range of interested residents.

“I wanted to have outreach to as many people as possible. We did it in a very grassroots way.” That strategy included working phone banks, distributing fliers at transit centers, using online resources and “social media stuff.” The effort worked.

The workshop last month was well attended. “We did it more the nonprofit way rather than the corporate way, which is more standard in government,” says Totty.

Kinsey says the turnout at the workshop was impressive. “There were about 100 people, and it was the most multicultural event I have seen in a while in Marin, partly because MTC and TAM both contracted with Grassroots Leadership Network to reach out. They did a good job.” Kinsey says the feds are “making a special effort to make sure” that transit agencies and sales tax authorities are seeking participation from disadvantaged communities in their jurisdictions when conducting outreach programs. TAM’s outreach program for the Regional Transportation Plan “illustrate[s] that we made every effort to offer accessibility to the process.”

The community input gathered at the workshop included some unique visions.

The owner of a new electric-bicycle store in Novato, for example, suggested that electric bikes be included in a proposal to promote electric vehicles. Workshop participants not surprisingly said they would like to see more public transportation.

“Public transit will be important in this round of the Regional Transportation Plan update,” says Susan Adams, Marin supervisor and vice president on the ABAG board, “especially because operating funds are

drying up. There seem to be plenty of ways for us to get capital funds to buy buses and build stops and those kinds of things, but there are very limited funds for actually getting the operators to drive your bus around for you.” The ability to buy buses means a lot less when there’s no money to run them.

“If you’re building sustainable communities and transit-oriented development, there’s an assumption that you’re actually going to have a public system of transportation that works, that’s efficient.” The difference between the goal and the financial reality doesn’t always meet in the middle.

Adams notes that Marin Transit has posted some impressive numbers. The county’s public-transit provider “has demonstrated huge leaps of growth with not a lot of growth in revenue.” Before Measure A passed in 2004, Marin Transit tallied about 1.5 million rides per year. (Some of the money raised through the measure goes to public transit.) “We’re about 3.2 million rides per year now,” says Adams.

And that number represents trips that mostly begin and end within the county.

The harsh reality of public transit, however, is that all rides require subsidies, no matter what system. And the Marin County Transit District is looking at increasing costs and a declining commitment from the state and the feds to fund pubic transportation. It means Marin Transit might have to dip into emergency reserves in a time of increasing ridership.

The financial picture will be the topic of a public meeting May 16 at the Civic Center.

It’s not unusual for regional planning goals to bump into local control issues— as evidenced in Novato over setting the housing needs for the city. It’s also seen in an idea at MTC to consolidate numerous transit agencies in the area. “There’s an idea that New York, Seattle, Boston, Portland, all have one transit agency for the whole metropolitan area and we have 21,” says Kinsey. “The fear of the small [agencies] in particular was that there’s going to be some effort to collapse everybody into a single agency or a few agencies.” Considering political reality, that’s not likely to happen in the near future. But, adds Kinsey, “We may be looking at how to get more efficiency out of the gaps and overlaps” in the current transit infrastructure in the Bay Area.

Adams maintains her caution that in the midst of talk about regional planning, the county should guard against losing funds for its projects. “The concern is that we will have a set pot of money, and if MTC and TAM decide that they are going to allocate funds from our county’s program to support other programs [such as backstopping the shortfall for SMART], what doesn’t get done then? The county has 420 miles of roads, and we need hundreds of millions of dollars worth of repairs and upgrades to fix our infrastructure.” And that just covers county roads. < Contact the writer at peter@pseidman.com.

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< 8 Newsgrams County officials said their initial instinct was to lean in the direction of employee workplace rights, but after all the press and talk of constitutional violations they’re now leaning the other way, according to Mona Miyasato, chief assistant county administrator.

“After further research, we’ve requested the Marin Arts Council contact the artist to reinstall the painting,” says Miyasato, who made the initial call to remove the painting.“I am very sorry for any negative effect it has had on the particular artist or art lovers in Marin.”

Deputy County Counsel Renee Brewer describes respecting employees’ rights with First Amendment freedoms of expression as a balancing act.

“Upon further review, and in balancing these rights,” says Brewer,“the county of Marin has offered to restore Ms. Sylvia Cossich-Goodman’s painting to the exhibition.”

Boat capsizes outside San Quentin San Quentin tower guards found themselves scouring the grounds outside the prison walls Wednesday night after sighting two adults collapsed on the shoreline at around 1am. According to the Marin County Sheriff’s office, a man and woman in their 40s from Larkspur had washed ashore after their 14-foot motorboat capsized sometime after leaving a dock on Corte Madera Creek at around 10pm. The man had fallen into the bay without a life jacket near San Quentin Point while trying to restart the vessel’s failing engine; the boat capsized as he tried to reboard. The man was unconscious when paramedics arrived at the scene; he was pronounced dead at Marin General Hospital a short while later. Officials said he suffered from hypothermia and cardiac arrest.

The woman, who was wearing a life jacket, was treated by hospital staff for exposure.

Deputies believe alcohol was involved in the accident. Names of the victims have not been released. The Sheriff-Coroner’s office plans to conduct an autopsy.

Novato Democrats ‘stand up’ in affordable housing debate The current debate in Novato over how and where to increase the city’s affordable housing element has thus far focused on issues of aesthetics, NIMBYism, overcrowding and real-orperceived fears of crime. But now it’s getting political. The Novato Democratic Club has officially entered the affordable housing conversation—throwing its support behind a new group called Stand Up for Neighborly Novato, which formed in February with a mis-

sion, according to group members, to shift what has become a heated debate into a more â&#x20AC;&#x153;fact-based, respectful community dialogue.â&#x20AC;?

Now, Novatoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official local branch of the California Democratic Party says it has â&#x20AC;&#x153;voted overwhelminglyâ&#x20AC;? to stand behind Stand Up. Suzanne Brown Crow, the NDCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president, says Stand Upâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work aligns itself with traditional Democratic values on an environmental level, as well as one of social equality.â&#x20AC;&#x153;We hope the result is more reasonably priced housing options for Novato residents and workers,â&#x20AC;? said Brown Crow via a statement to the press.

Novatoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;housing elementâ&#x20AC;? of its General Plan must be submitted to the state this year. According to state requirements, the city must include 313 units of extremely low- to low-income housing in the plan. Stand Up co-founder Annan Paterson says the group supports letting city planners conduct their research, collect data and come up with a planâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;meanwhile, Stand Up members are on an information campaign throughout the city, introducing residents to folks who live in affordable units and, as Paterson told the Sun last month, â&#x20AC;&#x153;to counter some of the scare tactics and wedge politics that are going on.â&#x20AC;?

The group says that Novato already has several examples of affordable housing units that have successfully met state guidelines and â&#x20AC;&#x153;reflect Novatoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s characterâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;among them are Meadow Park, the Villas at Hamilton, Mackey Terrace and the Next Key. More information at www.neighborlynovato.com.

RV Sanitary to consider boosting rates, staff The Ross Valley Sanitary District is doing its share to curb the unemployment rate, as district General Manager Brett Richards is floating a plan to hire 11 new permanent employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;bringing the total number of employees at RVSD up to 49. The district already this year has added eight pipe workers, an accountant and an administrative assistant. And if the district board approves the hirings, customers may face an 80 percent, on average, rate increase to help pay for the new bloodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about $400 a year for Ross Valley residents, and about $600 a year for Larkspur customers.

At a time when many county agencies are tightening their belts, and even downsizing staff, RVSD says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taking an aggressive approach to replacing nearly 200 miles of outdated, decades-old pipes. The move is an attempt to stave off costly sewage leaks, such as the pair of sewage spills in December that poured out about 3 million gallons of untreated sewage in Kentfield and Greenbrae.

The proposal comes at a time when many county officialsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and a 2010 Marin grand jury reportâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are calling for consolidation of Marinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s numerous agencies, not expansion.

The Ross Valley Sanitary District has been criticized by some for being the lone holdout in a proposal to consolidate with San Rafael and Corte Madera. Meanwhile, the district continues to rack up legal feesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it recently settled a lawsuit to the tune of $4.75 million to bring an end to a dispute over land in East Larkspur; and it currently has a suit pending against a South Bay construction firm stemming from the December spills.

The district board next meets April 20 at 6:45pm at 750 College Ave. in Kentfield.

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W The National Park Service recently extended the comment period about dog walking in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The new deadline is May 30, 2011. That gives dog companions an extra six weeks to demonstrate courteous behavior in parks, at the beaches and on the trails.

With spring upon us and wildďŹ&#x201A;owers in bloom, GGNRA is full of people, poochesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and poop. Come on, dog companions, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rally. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let folks complain about us. Bag your canineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s waste and dispose of it properly. Dog-walkers, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not exempt. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re tired of watching you leave piles of poop discharged by the 10 dogs you just let off leash. It sure would be a shame if a few Zeros ruined it for everyone. GGNRA accepts comments online at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Nikki Silverstein

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V Some folks think the royal wedding is the big news this week, but we think Kay Ryan winning the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for poetry trumps all other fanfare. Ryan, a Fairfax resident, teaches at the College of Marin and was the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010. The Pulitzer Prize for poetry, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, is for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. Ryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, was cited by the board as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a body of work spanning 45 years, witty, rebellious and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind.â&#x20AC;? Bravo, kudos, mazel tov and congratulations to Marinite and Pulitzer Prize-winner Kay Ryan.

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pring is seal-pupping season in the Bay Area: first harbor will ask a series of questions ranging from the look of its seals in April, followed by elephant seals and sea lions in eyes (gummy, dry?) to whether or not there is a visible enMay. This means your chances of stumbling across a tiny, tanglement around it. And if it seems necessary, the rescuchubby sea baby with big, sad ers will come out to investigate eyes are far greater than usual. Of the well-being of the animal

by Jor d an Rose nfe l d course, it’s human nature to see a and possibly take it back to the helpless creature and want to rescue it, but the Marine Mam- center. “We don’t want to remove the pup if mom is just mal Center has an important message and campaign for con- around the bend,” says Oswald. cerned civilians out to “help” these babies: “Leave Seals Be.” Located near Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands, the Jim Oswald, communications manager for the center, Marine Mammal Center has been rescuing marine mammals says that what most people think is helpful may actually be since 1975 along a 600-mile swath of coastline from Mendoharmful, even fatal to these young pups. “Harbor seals are cino to San Luis Obispo counties. And while the experts there basically nursing for the first four to six weeks of life. During discourage citizens from touching the animals, Oswald says that time they don’t swim or go into the water. The two are they do rely on the public to give them the heads-up when pretty much bonded; it has to be extreme for that harbor seal animals are in distress. And citizens can join the volunteer mom to leave that pup. Sometimes something happens to rescue unit. In fact, this year to thank the public, they’re giving mom—she got washed away by a rogue wave or spooked by a away “good citizen” bumper stickers that say “I helped save a person. What we recommend to the public is that you call us seal” and 10 percent off items in their gift shop. to report an animal you think is in distress.” Harbor seals are It was concerned citizens, after all, who called in a particuyour typical sleek seal with the feline whiskers and almond larly unsettling case of “human intervention” against a sea eyes. Often speckled or spotted, gray to tan, these are the lion. On Dec. 8 last year a handful of beachcombers discovbarking, boisterous ones you’re most likely to encounter in ered a wounded sea lion on Swede’s Beach, a sandy parcel the warm sand of Bolinas Lagoon. just past the south end of Bridgeway in Sausalito. Rescuers No matter how charmed you are by their exceptionally from the Marine Mammal Center were dispatched. Since sweet babies, resist the temptation to touch. Instead, wisely it was nighttime, it wasn’t until the next morning that they call the Marine Mammal Center; a mammal-rescue expert realized the sea lion’s right eye had been blown out from a

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gunshot. Their best guess is that a fisherman shot him to keep him away from his catch. “His left eye was still intact, but didn’t appear to be functioning correctly,” says Oswald. Silent Knight (so named due to his unusual quiet dignity in the face of his painful ordeal) did not regain his sight, and could not be released back into the wild even after his rehabilitation.

The Marine Mammal Center is in negotiation now with the San Francisco Zoo, which is hoping to create a special exhibit for Silent Knight to live in.

Oswald says that nearly 13 percent of the animals rescued in 2010 were injured as a result of human intervention, a category that ranges from downright abuse and harassment of an animal to injuries related to ocean trash entanglement, fishing hooks, boat strikes or effects of oil and tar spills.

Being bad stewards of the environment and its creatures is especially unhelpful when things are already tough enough out there for seals of all kinds, says Oswald. Sea lions, for instance, are always struggling to find food. In 2009, 75 percent of the 1,700 rescued marine mammals were sea lions, mostly pups, which went out to forage for food upon weaning, but couldn’t find any. And this is a breed of seal that is opportunistic and will eat whatever fish it can find. “There were huge numbers of these animals, skin and bone, coming into the center, just horrible to see,” says Oswald.

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While the sea lion numbers have risen Schramm echoes this concern, pointing again, this year the Marine Mammal Center out the very real effects of climate change. is seeing a disturbing trend in elephant seal “Our oceans are changing. Ocean acidificapups. “They’re the skinniest they’ve been tion is going up.” She describes gray whales since 1999,” Oswald says. “The vets have from the Gulf of Alaska making their way combed records and shown that the mean down to the Farallon Islands, and even weight [in 1999] was roughly 37 kilograms. Pacifica, in search of food, where they are also This year the mean is 35 kilograms.” At in danger of ship strikes and other human inpresent they don’t know the cause, but are terference. Her suggestions for helping the 71 studying the pups, since data collection is a percent of our planet that is water: “We can crucial part of their mission. maintain a much smaller carbon footprint.

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GOING GREEN March of the penguin researcher Marin City man waddles winter away at the coldest place on earth!

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hile many Northern Californians hands-on research of everyone’s favorite dodge the wet, gray skies of the aquatic bird, Ainley works tirelessly to inform winter months by heading south the public of the need to protect the world’s for warm and sunny beaches, Marin City’s last pristine and untouched body of water, David Ainley goes a step further—all the the Ross Sea. With climate change the culprit way to Antarctica. in so many of the extreme fluctuations in the And he’s not counting air miles—he’s earth’s natural environment, some of Ainley’s counting penguins. discoveries may come as a surprise.

Conducting research for the past 14 Climate change has made a well-docuwinters on Adelie penguins in the remote mented impact on the melting of polar sea Ross Sea region of this frigid ice contiice—not to mention erasing the seaside nent, Ainley spends three months per reproductive grounds of several species of sea year in the Antarctic—which he insists turtles and plaguing the health of the ocean’s is no colder than Tahoe in the winter— coral reefs. But in the South Seas there is counting, observing and basking in the another deadly threat. cuteness of the area’s 200,000-plus pen“It’s not just about climate change anyguins, in hopes of making sense of major more,” says Ainley “It is about humans trashchanges in their population. ing the oceans.”

According to Ainley, the populations The trashing Ainley refers to, specifically, of Adelie penguins have increased in size is the unprecedented amount of overfishing at several of the flightless bird’s colonies, conducted in the region. “Fishing has had a while hundreds of miles away the populahuge impact,” he says. “Industrial fishing in tion of Emperor penguins—made famous the ocean is like destroying a rainforest.” rs in the 2005 documentary March of the The vast majority of the funding dollars Penguins—is on the decline. The team of for Ainley’s team has been earmarked for d nearly two dozen researchers—funded research focusing on climate change—and by the National Science Foundation—is so most of the information and scientific determined to pinpoint whether these data collected about changing ecosystemss penguins are thriving as a result of better and wildlife habitats in Antarctica is stud-t, reproductive success, increased survival ied in its relation to global warming. But, rates or the warmer temperatures the says Ainley, little attention is given to thee region sees because of climate change. consequences of species depletion in ourr n Ironically, studies suggest the flight- oceans. With the planet’s growing human dle, less birds may be among the planet’s few population, resources continue to dwindle, cts beneficiaries of the which in turn affects infamous hole in the planet’s health. the ozone. Almost “We can wave our universally viewed arms around and as the negative conblame everything on sequence of high climate change,” says levels of greenhouse Ainley. “It is so much gases, the strong, more complex than cold winds that result that.” from the hole have In 1996, New helped preserve ice in Zealand sent massive the region. fishing vessels to seek “The Ross Sea is the out and catch countonly place on earth that less Chilean sea bass, ice is actually increasor Toothfish as they ing,” says a thoughtful are often called. In adand articulate Ainley dition, fisheries from seated across from me Japan sent crews to at the kitchen table of capture minke whales, his Marin City condo. which have been on “Having that extra ice the International actually makes it easiUnion for Conservaer for penguins during Adelie penguins were ‘discovered’ in 1840 by French tion of Nature’s enbreeding season.” dangered/threatened explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville, who named them In addition to his list for over a decade. after his wife.

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Ainley is particularly interested in figuring out why Adelie penguins are thriving, at a time when similar species appear to be on the decline.

“All of the whales have been removed—from South America to the Antarctic and the Indian Ocean, too,” says Ainley. “The Ross Sea is the last place with an existing food web.”

In 2002 Ainley began writing reports to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) about the exploitation of the Antarctic sea life. “It has taken forever to understand how marine ecosystems work.

This is our last chance,” he says of his attempts to protect the Ross Sea. Pressure on the commission has helped turn the tide to designate the Ross

the loss and pollution of local sea-life habitats that has motivated Ainley to preserve the ecosystems of Antarctica.

“I remember catching salmon and rock fish at Stinson Beach in the ‘70s,” says Ainley, now in his 60s. “Now there aren’t any.”

Ainley points out the impact on the local fishing industry, while being careful to note that it is not the local fishermen who are responsible for the shrinking salmon population—it’s the loss of breeding ground habitats. One can simply look at the rotting fishing boats rocking on the

Sea as a marine reserve. Yet waves from Overfishing of the predatory Chilean sea overfishing overfi shing the area’s only predatory Bodega Bay to Newbass is seriously fish continues to threaten the fragile ecoport Beach to see how disrupting the vital food system of the Ross Sea. “People [in Marin] chain in the Ross Sea. the fishing industry has been still eat Chilean sea bass because they have affected. “Once the breeding a lot of money,” says Ainley. “They think the habitats are gone, it’s all over,” says Ainley. high cost makes it taste better but what they Still, despite being the last untouched place don’t understand is that they are destroying on earth, the story of the Ross Sea is not all an entire ecosystem.” doom and gloom. With one major superThe 250-pound, 6-foot-long Chilean sea market retailer, Safeway, recently announcing bass is to the Antarctic what sharks are to the a company-wide boycott on selling Antarctic rest of the world’s oceans. A major part of a Chilean sea bass, Ainley’s reports are grabcomplex web of an ocean’s food chain, preda- bing the attention of concerned individuals tors are necessary in maintaining healthy and businesses that are slowly starting to populations of other fish—thus keeping the make preservation a priority. swimming circle of life in balance.

“The tragedy of the Ross Sea is that it is Ainley’s interest in protecting the sea is not the last edge of the Garden of Eden,” says Ainley. “As humans spread from Africa, they strictly limited to the preservation of Adelie depleted everything. The Ross Sea is what penguins and Chilean sea bass that reside remains. It would be nice to have some place around some far-away icy island. As a researcher for the Point Reyes Bird Observatory on earth that is left the way it was found.” < back in the 1970s, Ainley helped establish the Fish with Dani at dburlison@pacificsun.com.

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he unassuming man sporting long white hair, a white beard and a single dangling earring looks like a younger, hipper version of Moses on the Mount. He is Jonathan Stern, a marine biologist widely recognized as the world’s leading researcher of minke whales.

Studying minke whales for more than 30 years has placed Stern in some interesting positions. He’s intentionally put himself in the middle of the international whaling debate and unintentionally found himself in the ocean surrounded by dozens of dogfish sharks. Through it all, he remains committed to collecting data about the minke, the most abundant and most hunted whale in the world.

When Stern was 8 years old, his seafaring father worked on a ship that collided with a whale. Seeing local news coverage of the giant luxury liner disabled by a single mammal, his fascination with whales set in. Stern read everything he could about the animals; however, at the time, most information was based on the killing of whales, such as the number of barrels of oil produced from a carcass.

Homegrown in Marin, Stern graduated from Terra Linda High School in 1973.

At College of Marin, he took a marine biology class from Al Molina, a popular teacher who greatly influenced him. Prior to his class with Molina, he didn’t realize that studying whales was a viable career option.

Currently a biology professor at San Francisco State University, Stern has

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When did you start working with marine wildlife?

I volunteered at the Marine Mammal Center when it first opened in 1975. They had no money. There was only one truck and it belonged to the director. I once took a sea lion in the back of my car to a vet in Berkeley.

Was that an eventful trip?

It was unusual. I put a tarp in back of my Audi Fox and put the sea lion in. He was a juvenile, about the size of a big dog.

I remember he was very curious and not aggressive. I rolled all the windows down, because it didn’t smell good. When we stopped at a light, the sea lion sort of sat up, put his front flippers on the door and leaned his head out. The woman in the next car looks at the sea lion and looks over at me. “That’s the ugliest dog I’ve ever seen,” she said.

How did you go from chauffeuring sea lions to studying minke whales?

I started working with the Northeast Pacific Minke Whale Project in the San Juan Islands in 1980. Before that, no one was studying minkes without killing them first.

People said we couldn’t do it. I found that to be a challenge. It’s been more than 30 years and I’m still with the project. In 2007, we expanded the project to include the Bay Area.

The small and speedy minke can often be a tough find for Stern.

served as conservation chair for the national board of directors for the American Cetacean Society, co-authored the book Minke Whales, and been featured in National Geographic magazine. When he’s not in his boat searching for minke whales in the waters around Marin, he’s probably strumming his guitar at home in his Terra Linda Eichler.

Why did people think you couldn’t study the minke whale in its natural habitat?

Minkes are the smallest and fastest baleen whales. They change direction all the time.

We call them slinky, dinky minke. They’ll surface once and you won’t see them again.

They don’t have a very visible blow. Minkes make lousy things to look for in the ocean.

Is that why we frequently hear about blue whales and humpbacks, but not so much about minkes?

That’s part of it. I think we hear about endangered species more. We have three times as many humpMinke’s best friend. backs as minkes off our coast, two times as many blue whales and more fin whales. Those baleen whales are endangered, but the minke isn’t. Minkes just don’t have as good a press agent as the other whales. Consider a local population of a few dozen whales. If there’s an ecological disaster, oil spill, toxins—it could wipe out the whole population.

How many minkes are off our coast?

About a couple of dozen. You can see them from shore, at Limantour Beach, Chimney Rock in Point Reyes, Muir Beach.

Minkes are whales of the continental shelf and they tend to shy away from deep water.

Why do we have so few here?

There may be only 600 minkes off the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington combined, with less than a thousand in the entire Northeast Pacific. I think, although the Bay Area has some of the most productive waters, the minkes have to compete with seals, sea lions, birds and humpbacks for their food.

experienced and used to looking for it.

Are there days where you can’t find a minke whale?

You never know until you go out and look. I spend a ton of time on the ocean and see nothing, but I’m never bored.

If I’m by myself, I take notes about sea conditions, birds feeding. There’s always a sense of anticipation. You might see a great white or leatherback turtle. Or, you might see something that no one has ever seen before.

What kind of boat do you use?

It’s a 22-foot boat named the Eleanor M., after the woman who started the Northeast Pacific Minke Whale Project. Small, fast motorboats are required to study minke whales. Humpbacks, you use a big boat.

Do you have to chase down the minkes?

I’ve followed them as they swam fast away. I went at the top speed of the boat, 35 knots, and I couldn’t catch up with them.

One day, I tried to guess where this whale was going to surface. I turned the motor off and he finally surfaced about two feet from the boat. We both were startled. I screamed and he swam off. I’ve gotten good at predicting where they’re going to be.

Some whales I can’t figure out at all. Whale behaviors change due to feeding.

There aren’t many minkes here and Once you find them, what do you do? they’re small and fast. How do you find First, we position the boat so we can get them? a photograph for idenI know what to look tification. Also, there’s a for. There are places disturbance where the MORE ON MINKES where the minkes have a whale surfaced. That’s tendency to hang out. But, called a footprint. We To learn more about Dr. that doesn’t mean you put the boat on the Jonathan Stern’s research, find don’t look in new places. footprint and take a out how to report a minke You can sometimes smell GPS reading. We know whale sighting or donate to the them before you see them. exactly where the whale Bay Area Minke Whale Project, It smells like overcooked was and we can track visit http://ggcetacean.org. broccoli. Stinky minke. patterns of movement.

Jane Goodall talked about Then we pull back and “watching an animal with let the whale do what 1,000-hour eyes.” You start understandhe’s going to do. We want to observe it ing the animal. Bird watchers are the same naturally in its habitat.

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Super Summer Adventure Camp in San Anselmo is gearing up for another fun summer of field trips, swim lessons, art, science, and yoga activities and lots more. Our experienced staff will once again put on a summer that your child will not soon forget!

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Join Marinwood Recreation for a summer of adventure! Our highly trained staff will make this a summer to remember, We offer traditional day camps as well as not-so-traditional camps. Ten sessions run June 13-Aug. 19, 9am-3pm for ages 3-14. Extended care available 7:30am-6pm. Not-so-traditional camps include basketball, mini sports, mountain biking, art, nature, theater, jazz, jewelry, sewing, science, computer art, CIT, GIT and more!

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Camp Soulajule at Walker Creek Ranch A program of the Marin County Office of Education, Mary Jane Burke, Marin County Superintendent of Schools.

After over 40 years of serving children in the Marin County Outdoor School and developing a deep understanding of the incredible transformation that can occur when kids learn and grow in a new and caring environment, away from the familiar surroundings of home and family, Walker Creek Ranch is very excited to offer the Camp Soulajule summer camp program. Located in the heart of West Marin, the Ranch is blessed with 1,741 acres of rolling grassy hills, bay forests, and a four acre swimming pond. We offer a wide variety of fun and exciting adventure and art-based activities for children ages 8-12.

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While the sales may be enticing, I have an even better solution to stretching that dollar: consignment-store shopping.

You may think of a consignment store as a dusty secondhand store where your aged auntiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; clothing went to rest.

Time for a reality check. Consignment shops are one of the best places to ďŹ nd a true deal. The clothing there is usually worn but, only slightly worn, leaving it in reusable condition.

For instance, that beautiful green cashmere sweater you love at the department store costs $150. At a consignment store a similar sweater from last season in a slightly different shade of green will cost anywhere from $48-$60. With that steep savings, you could be adding new spring items to your closet without feeling the pinch.

To point out the amazing savings youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll encounter, I visited a pair of local consignment shops in search of great deals. First stop was Sax in San Anselmo.

This boutique may be small in size but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s huge on designer

fashions. With such a limited area to work with, owner Jen Hansen is very selective in her inventory, guaranteeing you get the ďŹ nest. Right as you walk in youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll immediately see a wall of shoes to die for with designer names youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re familiar with: Manolo Blahnik, Stuart Weitzman and Robert Clergerie to name a few. My eye caught a particular pair of shoes designed by Calleen Cordero. I had never heard of the name before so I asked Hansen about them. She told me they were from a designer in Los Angeles who handcrafts all her shoes, purses and accessories. The leather was beautiful and the studded detail is deďŹ nitely â&#x20AC;&#x153;inâ&#x20AC;? right now. These shoes retail for $400 and Sax has them priced at $110, and they hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ever been worn!

Above the shoes youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see a gorgeous selection of handbags, perfect for the person who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stomach retail handbag prices in department stores. A tapestry Gucci bag was begging to be handled.

Though this bag was a bit too eccentric for me, I was curious about the cost. The original retail was $1,425 and the Sax price was $425â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a savings of $1,000!

Another great deal to discover is in the jeans department. Jeans can be so expensive, so let someone else pay the original retail price. I found a cute pair of Current/Elliott skinny jeans priced at $85, a bit less expensive than the retail price of $220, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re this seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cut! Pair those jeans with a gorgeous cashmere Vince sweater (retail $240) available here for $75 and you have a complete outďŹ t for less than it would cost for just one of those items if paying retail.

Another steal was a summery Robert Rodri-

guez dress with the price tags still on (retail $1,030) priced at $350. So if you are looking for the latest boutique fashions and want to ďŹ nd exceptional deals, this is the place you should be visiting regularlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;new inventory gets put out every day, so donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss out!

The other consignment store I visited was What Poppy Wants on Magnolia in Larkspur.

As you walk into this store you might feel as though youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re stepping into the closet of someone who saved everything she wore through every decade of her life.

From faux fur jackets to vintage beaded tops, boas and boots galore, this is the place to ďŹ nd something that will not only steal the show, it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have been seen on anyone else. Are you a lover of vintage? Come on down!

Entering, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be greeted by a serious collection of cowboy boots.

Whether you prefer yours in chocolate brown, caramel, turquoise or pink, this shop has the boot for you. A nice pair of cowboy boots can cost anywhere from $300 and upward, but here youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ďŹ nd them priced around $80.

Once I got past the boots I spotted a gorgeous vintage black-and-pink lace dress with beaded detail. This dress would make you think back to the days when you liked dressing up like a princess or perhaps imagined being a passenger on the Titanic (one of the survivors, no doubt).

In another corner of the store was a group of alligators... shoes and purses, that is.

With all the savings and the great ďŹ nds on barely worn clothing, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost a crime not to shop at consignment stores. The only downside is that you might fall in love with a dress or a shoe thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not your size. You need the self-control to

rememberâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;when buying new or usedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that just because you love it, if it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t also ďŹ t properly, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best to leave it for someone else.

After shopping in these stores you may be inspired to go home, cull the gently worn clothes that are in your own closet and march down to a consignment store and resell them. Most consignment stores work in the same way.

You can bring your clothing to the store (call ahead, as some stores only take clothing on certain days or by appointment) and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll look through your items and decide which items they think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to sell. Stores usually take current piecesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;fashions from within the last two to three years that are in great conditionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or vintage if thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s their specialty.

They then display the clothing in the store for two to three months.

Once your items have been sold theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll pay you 50 percent of what it was sold for.

If you do some consignment store investigating, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll soon discover the ones you like best.

Then itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to you to become a regular. My signature handbag, the one I wear the most, came from a consignment store. I probably would have bought it at full price had I seen it in a regular store, but it was all the sweeter to ďŹ nd it at a fraction of the cost. Just remember though, all sales are ďŹ nal. So shop these stores when you have the luxury of time and can hunt until you ďŹ nd something you love. < Brenda Kinsel is a fashion and image consultant based in Marin. Check out her website at www. brendakinsel.com.

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very Wednesday night we have to remember to put the milk bottles out on the porch. About 9 or 10pm we hear the loud â&#x20AC;&#x153;vroomâ&#x20AC;? of the milkmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s truck as it pulls in the driveway.

With headlamp in place, he comes up on the porch and deposits a crate of full milk bottles, taking away the empties when he leaves. The glass bottles clink in a way that reminds me of my childhood.

Back then, my family also had a front porch. It was like a little room, with a door that closed and glass windows on three sides. There was a built-in cabinet hanging on one wall with several compartments.

The large compartment held all our mittens and hats for the cold winters in New Jersey and the small compartment was where the milkman put our milk twice a week. That milkman came at 4 in the morning. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what kind of truck he drove but I know it was a truck of some sort because he ran over the wheel of my bike one time and bent it permanently.

The milk had a cap of cream under the foil lid and my siblings and I would ďŹ ght for who would get the creamy portion on their cereal in the morning.

For the most part, milkmen went the way of rotary phone and dinosaurs, descending into extinction. However, in my adult life Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve really needed a milkman. My family drinks lots of milk and we were always running out of it at the most inconvenient times. I found myself going to the store often during the week just to get milk and ending up with way more than that, thereby spending money unnecessarily.

Friends told me about the Marin Sonoma Milkman, aka Ron La Mariana.

Affectionately called Mr. Moo, he delivers fresh milk (and many other goodies) to porches in Sonoma and Marin, bringing back a bit of bygone days. The milk is some of the best aroundâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Straus Family Creameryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organic cow juice.

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Marin ranks 15th out of 43 California counties in milk production, both organic and conventional. There are approximately 27 dairies in Marin and, though this hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been a good year proďŹ tability-wise for local creameries, their heritage is long and strong.

Now that I have a more consistent, fresh and wholesome milk supply, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been playing around with some recipes. The pork dish is based on the classic preparation from Bologna. The loin is a tricky cut to cook because it can easily become dry, but braising it in milk renders the meat succulent and tender. The milkshake is a great way to showcase the fresh strawberries that are popping up in markets right now.

We are so lucky to have organic milk produced by family farms right here in Marin, and have our own milkman named Mr. Moo to bring it home.

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ous. Humans can’t put the ocean back in Does your research require you to get balance. in the water with the minkes?

I was in the water with dwarf minkes in What about International Whaling the Southern Hemisphere—in their feed- Commission (IWC) regulations protecting ground on the Great Barrier Reef. There ing minkes? were about 20 together. They were very interThere are a couple of stocks [small popuested. Some came up and stared at me. I tried lations in isolated places along the coast] of getting in the water with a minke in the San minke whales off Japan. One is small, 6,000 Juan Islands. First time I did it, unbemaybe, and they’re very near shore. The knownst to me, there Japanese agreed to were dogfish sharks hunt only the more around the boat. Secabundant offshore ond time, the minke stock, the whales whale raced off and more than five the boat driver folmiles out. lowed it. It was cold International Task Force on Whaling study this year and gray outside and An Do they honor reports that whalers killed 1,296 minkes in 2010; more than I was in the water 300 of which experienced ‘long-suffering deaths.’ the agreement? alone, watching the If you’re out research vessel get smaller in the distance. trying to kill a whale and you see a whale five miles from shore, you’re going to kill it.

Were the dogfish sharks there to You can’t tell which stock it’s from. Whales prey on minke whales? don’t read books. They don’t know they’re No. Sharks, even great whites, don’t prey supposed to stay within five miles of shore. on minke whales. The only predators here Extinction starts by killing off a population. are killer whales and parasites. In Japan, Norway, Iceland, it’s whalers. Minkes are Have you been involved with the IWC? the most hunted whale in the world.

I’ve attended meetings as a representative of the American Cetacean Society. The What do you think of Whale Wars, the IWC regulates whaling, but scientists aren’t television show about the conservaallowed to talk at the meeting or talk to tion group trying to stop the Japanese scientists from other countries. We have whalers? to submit our letters to the U.S. delegation The bottom line is they and they decide whether stopped the Japanese from to include our comments.

A WHALE TALE whaling this past season.

My first meeting, I didn’t Dr. Stern presents“There’s No Personally, I don’t agree know the protocol. I Such Thing as a Minke Whale” with harassment of a ship spoke with a Japanese at the Bay Model in Sausalito at sea. I was brought up by scientist whose studies of Thursday, April 28, at 7pm. a ship captain and that’s minke whales are based Admission is free. For more piracy. The Sea Shepherd on killing them. We talked information, please visit http:// crew says they’ll give up about whale ecology and www.acs-sfbay.org/. their lives, but the Japaideas we had, but not nese whalers haven’t. about whaling issues.

He’s pro-whaling and I’m Do you think the Japanese will stop anti-whaling, but it was nice to talk to him whaling? about minkes. I think we should talk.

I think they’ll find a different way to whale. The recent earthquake affected What’s your prognosis for the minke them. A couple of large whaling ships were whale survival? beached in the tsunami and one of the This data suggests that minkes are processing plants was ruined. Who knows victims of broader issues such as overfishwhat will happen with the radiation levels ing by humans, climate change, pollution, off Japan? habitat destruction and ocean acidification. If you take out a top predator like the Since the minke is the most abunminke, it’s not clear what the effect will dant whale, are the Japanese whaling be. But, it’s been shown time after time, all efforts hurting the population? the other organisms are affected and not I’m concerned. The Japanese have said, in a good way. The minke whales play a “Minke whales threaten the nutritional role in our local systems and that’s why we security of nations, because they eat too continue to study them. < much fish. We have to kill them to restore Have a whale of a time with Nikki at nikki_silverstein@yahoo.com. the balance to the ocean.” That’s a direct quote. The idea that we can manage the Swim over to ocean, in the face of climate change and ›› pacificsun.com natural variabilities, is naive and danger-

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few weeks ago I wrote a column about a man who was calling my home and knew my name. After the article ran, three women contacted me to share that they had also received phone calls from “David,” a man with a British accent claiming to be a photographer in town to do a shoot for Manolo Blahnik. His conversations degenerate from there, the gist of which indicates he has a foot fetish.

It seems David’s a frequent dialer. Perverse, though not diverse, he used the same shtick with all of us. Whatever works, I guess.

A few troubling questions repeatedly surfaced in the e-mails between the other women and me. How did he find us? Why did he choose us? Who is he? We attempted to determine if we had anything in common.

A bank, gym or dog walker? Nothing clicked.

If there are four, there are more. My thoughts became preoccupied with ways to uncover his identity. (Clearly, I have too much time on my hands.) Last week, I entered a few of the keywords used by David into Google. Nothing. I added a few significant phrases, and voila, a site pops up where women are writing about his freaky phone calls. I read each comment carefully. Oh yeah, this is definitely the guy.

Surprisingly, David sometimes neglects to block his number, allowing at least one woman to see it on her caller ID. This is too easy.

Could I actually have his phone number?

I pull up whitepages.com, click the reverse directory and enter the 10 digits. A man belongs to the number, only his name isn’t David and his last name is rather unusual.

(To keep it simple, I’ll still refer to him as David.) I enter his name and city of residence into Google and get a hit. More than a dozen years ago, he provided a quote in a newspaper article indicating he’s a car salesman in San Francisco. Figures.

I’ve never been in that San Francisco dealership; however, I write copy for a few auto dealers. Maybe David now works for one of my clients. A few keystrokes provide the answer.

He sells cars at a Marin dealership that I used to work with. The dealer’s website displays his photo, which I scrutinize. Though I don’t recall meeting him, this can’t be mere coincidence. I call an acquaintance in the sales department there and confirm that David is indeed British and our paths crossed during my tenure. Gotcha.

I reach out to the three women and find

that only one has a connection to the dealership. Well, I haven’t answered all our questions, but I aim to. I’m going for a test drive.

My girlfriend Melissa, a former model, seems like the right person to accompany me.

She has very nice feet. I explain our mission and she agrees to follow me into battle. The dealer’s receptionist confirms that David is working today.

Wearing our most flattering strappy sandals to show off our fresh pedicures, Melissa and I walk onto the lot. Within seconds, a salesman approaches us. Not him. Apparently, our pervert is helping someone else, so we say we’ll wait—as long as it takes.

To occupy our time, Melissa and I review our strategy. My name is now Julia, I wear huge sunglasses and I speak with the Southern accent I worked so hard to overcome years ago. If we have to show a driver’s license, it will be Melissa’s. David will have plenty of time to learn who I am once we get him on a test drive.

Anticipation builds.

We’ll toy with him before busting him. We practice while waiting.

“Your voice sounds familiar,” Melissa says.

“This car is so luxurious,” I declare. “I feel like I should be wearing Manolo Blahniks.”

“Have you noticed all these bugs crawling around?” asks Melissa. “Shall I squash them?”

Oh, how he’ll squirm. Then we’ll tell him we know who he is. Just thinking about his discomfort makes me feel better. I am taking control. Hearing my phone ring would no longer be cause for anxiety.

Finally, David greets us. He’s handsome, much better looking than his photo. I recognize his voice immediately, yet it’s difficult to reconcile the twisted caller with this mild man in front of me. His smile is soft and nice.

Honestly, he’s charming.

While he goes inside to fetch some keys, Melissa and I agree we never expected him to be nice. When David returns, we make an excuse and leave without a test drive.

Hours later, we kick ourselves for acting wimpy. We kind of understand David now.

Confronting someone in person is difficult.

Hiding behind the phone is easy.

We plan to go back, only this time we’ll swig some liquid courage first. Nah, maybe we’ll just call him. < Email nikki_silverstein@yahoo.com

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Fairfax gets fingered Fingerstyle ax-man Goldenberg brings calluses to the Sleeping Lady

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uitar aficionados know Mark at the Sleeping Lady in Fairfax.

Goldenberg as a gifted sideAlso appearing that night will be solo man and session player who has fingerstyle guitarist Teja Gerken, who contributed tasty licks to recordings and hosts these showcases on the second concerts by Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt Wednesday of each month, Texas blues and Linda Ronstadt, among others. guitarist Danny Click and slide guitarist But Goldenberg has another side. His Steve James. solo fingerstyle acoustic guitar playing “This booking came together by way has drawn rave reviews: “The strength of of Mark sending me a Facebook message [his eponymous solo acoustic] album lies asking whether he could play my series in the depth of musical pallets found on sometime,” says Gerken, a senior editor at this elegant, reflective and introspective the Marin-based Acoustic Guitar publishjourney,” the Minor 7th opined. “Golding group, who started the local guitar enberg plays with the graceful virtuosity showcase nearly four years ago. “We’ve of Michael Hedges, Egberto Gismonti met a few times over the years, but we’ve and Pat Metheny. The recording quality never played together. I told him that it is also pristine allowing was a pretty casual gig the natural warmth and and it turns out that he richness of the instruhas family in the area.

COMING SOON ment to emerge.”

He said he doesn’t get to The Acoustic Guitar Showcase Marin audiences will play solo guitar to an apget a rare opportunity preciative audience very Wednesday, May 11, from 9 to 11:30pm at the Sleepto catch the L.A.-based often, so he really wanted ing Lady, 23 Broadway Ave., Goldenberg in action to come up.”

Fairfax. 415/485-1182. when he performs at an Presenting Goldenberg acoustic guitar showcase in Marin isn’t Gerken’s

Teja Gerken’s Acoustic Guitar Showcase reverberates monthly at the Sleeping Lady.

first booking coup. The talented Germanborn guitarist, who has hosted a similar showcase at the Bazaar Cafe in San Francisco over the past decade, has hosted several high-profile players including Henry Kaiser, a longtime collaborator of Celtic-rock guitar god Richard Thompson. But Gerken’s also showcased the talents of such local players as Todd Boston, Matthew Montfort (of Ancient Future) and Doug Adamz, as well as such Bay

Area players as Adam Traum (son of Bob Dylan sideman Happy Traum), Patrick Landeza, Steve Baughman, Giacomo Fiore, Mokai and Alexis Harte, among others.

“I began looking for a place to host a guitar night shortly after I moved to Marin [from San Francisco] about four years ago,” says Gerken, a Fairfax resident. “I really like having an outlet to present acoustic guitar players in a comfortable setting.

I like helping other players out with a gig, but it’s also really nice when players who may not otherwise know each other end up creating an evening of really diverse music. Some of the players I book are total professionals, while others don’t perform much, so every month is different.

“The focus is on instrumental fingerstyle guitar, but it’s not limited to that,” he adds. “The only thing for certain is that each night is going to feature really great guitar playing in an intimate environment.”

Random Notes: Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir and special guests will join the Marin Symphony Saturday, May 7, for a once-in-a-lifetime benefit concert that’s being billed as First Fusion. During the two-part concert, Weir will sit in with the Marin Symphony Orchestra, under music director Alasdair Neale, as they re-invent some of the Dead’s most popular songs, rearranged by Weir and noted composerarranger Giancarlo Aquilanti. The second

Friend of the divertimento, May 7.

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Paul Walker and Vin Diesel go Brazilian in ‘Fast Five,’ showing Thursday at midnight at the Cinema and the Northgate.

O The Adjustment Bureau (1:39) Senate candidate Matt Damon defies fate to hook up with a hot ballerina…much to Fate’s potentially lethal disapproval.

O African Cats (1:29) Anthropomorphic Disney documentary looks at the lives and loves of some cuddly savanna-bred lions and cheetahs.

O American Graffiti (1:50) George Lucas’s best flick follows a group of listless teens on a night of cruising and bonding; Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Harrison Ford and Suzanne Somers star.

O Arthur (1:49) Remake of the Dudley Moore hit comedy stars Russell Brand as the tippling zillionaire and Helen Mirren as his valet, Hobson.

O Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 (1:42) Ayn Rand’s libertarian epic hits the big screen with Taylor Schilling as anti-collectivist free marketeer Dagny (thrill to the name) Taggart.

O Bill Cunningham New York (1:26) Loving portrait of the New York Times’ octogenarian fashion photographer, pop anthropologist and all-around man about town.

O The Conspirator (2:03) Robert Redford directs the true story of Mary Surratt, the lone woman accused of conspiring to assassinate Abraham Lincoln; Robin Wright stars.

O Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules (1:36) Greg Huffley is back and wimpier than ever, especially when bullying big brother Rodrick is on the warpath.

O Fast Five (2:10) The fossil fuel-burnin’ desperadoes are back and facing certain death in sexy Rio de Janeiro; Vin Diesel and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson costar, of course.

O Hairspray Sing-Along (1:57) Untether your tonsils and follow the bouncing ball at this interactive screening of John Waters’ retropostmodern teen-prom musical extravaganza.

O Hanna (1:51) The teenage daughter of an ex-CIA assassin takes up the family business, heading across Europe in search of an elusive target.

O Hop (1:30) Facing the prospect of following in his father’s footsteps, the Easter Bunny’s teenage son hippity hops it to Hollywood to join a rock band.

O I Am (1:18) Documentary follows Hollywood moviemaker Tom Shadyac as he searches for meaning after a life-altering experience.

O In a Better World (1:58) Drama about the passions and emotions that threaten two dovetailing families in a Danish village and an African refugee camp.

O Insidious (1:42) Typical American family moves into typical American home complete with typical American bloodthirsty poltergeist.

O Jane Eyre Adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s novel about a young woman’s infatuation with a brooding squire stars Mia Wasikowska as Jane.

O Limitless (1:45) Failed author Bradley Cooper pops a new wonder drug to coke up his talents and before he knows it he’s a whiz at trigonometry, linguistics, seduction and the stock market…and attracting the attention of cops, gangsters and Robert De Niro.

O The Lincoln Lawyer (1:59) Crime thriller stars Matthew McConaughey as a bottomdrawer ambulance chaser who gets more than he bargained for when he takes on the case of a wealthy playboy accused of murder.

O Memphis Broadway Musical (2:45) Straight from New York’s Shubert Theater it’s the SRO hit musical in big-screen high definition.

O The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio (3:25) Diva extraordinaire Renee Fleming stars in Strauss’s tuneful meditation on life, art and the nature of music.

O The Metropolitan Opera: Le Comte Ory (3:20) Rossini’s witty, tuneful tale of love, deceit and more love is presented live from New York in big-screen high definition.

O Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (1:00) Award-winning 1980 documentary follows the charismatic investigative reporter as he blows the lid off the lingering health hazards of Cold War-era nuclear testing; cinematography by Haskell Wexler.

O Potiche (1:43) Catherine Deneuve stars as a trophy wife who takes over her ailing husband’s business and embarks on an affair with union leader Gerard Depardieu to boot.

O Rio the Movie (1:36) A Minnesota macaw flies down to Rio to hook up with a comely Carioca and gets mixed up with kidnappers instead.

O Scream 4 (1:43) Neve Campbell returns to now-bucolic Woodsboro only to find Ghostface in a nostalgic mood as well.

O Soul Surfer (1:46) True story of a Hawaiian surfer girl who overcomes a debilitating shark attack to rise to the top of her craft.

O Source Code (1:33) Government agent Jake Gyllenhaal takes over the body of a man on a bomb-rigged commuter train in the hopes of preventing the deaths of thousands.

O Trust (1:37) Drama about an Internet stalker, his teenage victim and her vengeful, obsessive dad; Clive Owen and Catherine Keener costar.

O Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family (1:45) The rambunctious old grandma is back and doing her damnedest to whip her dysfunctional family into shape.

O Water for Elephants (2:00) Sara Gruen’s novel about a Depression-strapped veterinarian who runs off and joins the circus becomes a romantic tete-a-tete for Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon.

O Win Win (1:46) A down-on-his-luck high school wrestling coach hopes to strike it rich at the betting window when he recruits a talented ringer; Paul Giamatti stars.

O Your Highness (1:42) Swords and dragons spoof about two mismatched brothers embarking on their first mishap-laden quest; James Franco and Natalie Portman star. <

›› MOViE TiMES The Adjustment Bureau (PG-13) ++1/2 Century Northgate 15: Fri-Sun 12:10, 5:25, 10:25 N African Cats (G) Century Larkspur Landing: Fri 5:15, 7:35, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12, 2:35, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50 Mon-Thu 6:45, 9:10 Century Northgate 15: Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:30 Fairfax 5 Theatres: Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:30, 4:40, 6:50, 9 Sun-Thu 12:20, 2:30, 4:40, 6:50 N American Graffiti (PG) Rafael Film Center: Thu 7:30 (a benefit for Marin Charitable) Arthur (2011) (PG-13) +1/2 Century Northgate 15: Fri-Sun 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20 Century Rowland Plaza: 11:50, 2:25, 5, 7:35, 10:15 Fairfax 5 Theatres: Fri-Sat 7:05, 9:40 Sun-Thu 7:05 Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 (PG-13) Century Regency 6: Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Sun-Tue, Thu 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45 Wed 12:15, 2:40 CinéArts at Marin: Fri 4:30, 7:25, 9:55 Sat 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:25, 9:55 Sun 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:25 Mon-Thu 5:30, 8 Bill Cunningham New York (Not Rated) Lark Theater: Fri-Sun 4 Mon-Tue 5:30 Wed 2 Thu 3:30, 5:30 The Conspirator (PG-13) Century Regency 6: Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:05, 7, 9:55 Mon-Thu 1:10, 4:05, 7 CinéArts at Sequoia: Fri 4:15, 7, 9:45 Sat 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45 Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7 Thu 4:15 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (PG) ++1/2 Century Northgate 15: Fri-Sun 12:20, 3, 5:30 N Fast Five (PG-13) Century Cinema: Thu 11:59pm Century Northgate 15: Thu 11:59pm N Hairspray Sing-Along (PG) Rafael Film Center: Wed 7 (a benefit for the Mountain Play) Hanna (PG-13) Century Regency 6: Fri, Sun 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10 Sat 4:35, 7:20, 10 MonWed 11:05, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20 Thu 11:05, 1:50, 4:35 Century Rowland Plaza: 11:40, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 CinéArts at Sequoia: Fri 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Sat 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Sun 2:20, 4:55, 7:30 Mon-Tue 4:55, 7:30 Thu 4:20, 7

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Hop (PG) Century Northgate 15: Fri-Sun 11:35, 1:50, 4:20, 6:55, 9:15 Fairfax 5 Theatres: 12:20, 2:35, 4:50 I Am (Not Rated) Rafael Film Center: 8:45 Sat-Sun 2, 8:45 In a Better World (R) CinéArts at Marin: Fri 4:15, 7:15, 10 Sat 10:45, 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10 Sun 10:45, 1:30, 4:15, 7:15 MonWed 4:30, 7:20 Thu 4:30 Insidious (PG-13) Century Northgate 15: Fri-Sun 8, 10:30 Jane Eyre (2011) (PG-13) +++1/2 Century Northgate 15: Fri-Sun 1:05, 4, 6:50, 9:40 CinéArts at Marin: Fri-Sat 4, 7, 9:50 Sun 1:15, 4, 7 Mon, Tue, Thu 5, 7:40 Limitless (PG-13) Century Northgate 15: Fri-Sun 2:40, 7:55 The Lincoln Lawyer (R) Century Northgate 15: Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Lark Theater: Fri-Sat 6, 8:30 Sun 6 Mon, Tue, Thu 7:30 Wed 4 N Memphis Broadway Musical (Not Rated) Century Regency 6: Thu 7:30 CinéArts at Marin: Thu 7:30 CinéArts at Sequoia: Thu 7:30 N The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio (Not Rated) Century Regency 6: Sat 10am CinéArts at Marin: Sat 10am CinéArts at Sequoia: Sat 10am Lark Theater: Sat 10am Sun 11am Wed 6:30 The Metropolitan Opera: Le Comte Ory (Not Rated) Century Regency 6: Wed 6:30 CinéArts at Marin: Wed 6:30 CinéArts at Sequoia: Wed 6:30 N Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (Not Rated) Rafael Film Center: Mon 7:15 (Saul Landau and Norman Solomon in person) Potiche (Not Rated) Rafael Film Center: Fri-Sun 4:15, 6:30 TueThu 6:30 Rio (PG) ++ Century Larkspur Landing: Fri 5, 7:25, 10:05 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:15, 5, 7:25, 10:05 MonThu 6:30, 9:15 Century Northgate 15: Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:10, 5:40, 8:05; 3D showtimes at 11:30, 1:55, 4:25, 7, 9:20 Century Rowland Plaza: 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; 3D showtimes at 12:55, 3:30, 6:15, 8:45 Fairfax 5 Theatres: Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Sun-Thu 12:10,

2:30, 4:50, 7:10 Tiburon Playhouse 3: Fri 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 Sat 1:45, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 Sun 1:45, 4:30, 6:50 Mon-Thu 4:30, 6:50 Scream 4 (R) Century Larkspur Landing: Fri 5:20, 8, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:25, 5:20, 8, 10:30 MonThu 6:50, 9:25 Century Northgate 15: Fri-Sun 11:45, 1:15, 2:25, 3:50, 5:15, 6:25, 7:50, 9, 10:30 Century Rowland Plaza: 11:55, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Soul Surfer (PG) Century Northgate 15: Fri-Sun 11:40, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Century Rowland Plaza: 12:05, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 Source Code (PG-13) Century Larkspur Landing: Fri 5:30, 7:50, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:30, 7:50, 10:20 Mon-Thu 7, 9:30 Century Northgate 15: Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 7:35, 10 Fairfax 5 Theatres: Fri-Sat 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:35 Sun-Thu 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15 Tiburon Playhouse 3: Fri 4:15, 6:30, 9 Sat 1:30, 4:15, 6:30, 9 Sun 1:30, 4:15, 6:30 Mon-Thu 4:15, 6:30 N Trust (R) Rafael Film Center: Fri 4:30, 6:45, 9 Sat-Sun 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9 Mon 6:45 Tue-Thu 6:45, 9 N Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family (PG-13) Century Northgate 15: Fri-Sun 12, 2:30, 5:05, 7:45, 10:15 Century Rowland Plaza: 12, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 N Water for Elephants (PG-13) Century Cinema: Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10 Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:10 Century Regency 6: Fri-Sun 11:45, 1:15, 2:45, 4:15, 5:45, 7:15, 8:45, 10:15 Mon-Thu 11:45, 1:15, 2:45, 4:15, 5:45, 7:15 Century Rowland Plaza: 1, 4, 7, 10 Fairfax 5 Theatres: Fri-Sat 1:15, 4, 6:40, 9:25 Sun-Thu 1:15, 4, 6:40 Tiburon Playhouse 3: Fri 4, 6:40, 9:20 Sat 1:15, 4, 6:40, 9:20 Sun 1:15, 4, 6:40 Mon-Thu 4, 6:40 Win Win (R) +++ Century Regency 6: Fri-Sun 11:30, 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Thu 11:30, 2:15, 4:50, 7:30 Your Highness (R) ++ Century Northgate 15: Fri-Sun 11:50, 2:15, 4:45, 7:30, 9:55

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Please call theater to confirm schedules.

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Saoirse Ronan stalks her prey in ‘Hanna.’

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Live music 04/22: The 85s ’80s music. 9:30pm. Peri's, 29 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-9910. www.perisbar.com

04/22: Danny Click Americana, blues. 9pm. $5. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax.

485-1182. www.sleepingladyfairfax.com 04/22: Jason King Band Rancho Debut.

Blues. 8pm. No cover. Rancho Nicasio, Nicasio.

662-2219.

04/22: Lauralee Brown and Company Jazz. 7-10pm. Saylor’s Restaurant & Bar, 2009 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 332-1512. www.saylorsrestaurantandbar.com 04/22: Pride and Joy Pop/soul. 9:30pm. $17.

19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 516-1028. www.19broadway.com

04/22: The Memorials,Vintage City,Points North Alt-folk, rock. 9pm. $10-15. George’s Nightclub, 842 Fourth St., San Rafael. 226-0262. www.georgesnightclub.com 04/22: Tina Marzell Jazz vocalist. With Alex Markels, guitar; Betsy Stern, bass. 8-10:30pm. No cover. Max’s Cafe, 60 Madera Blvd., Corte Madera. 497-2462. www.maxsworld.com/home.html 04/23: Alice DiMicele Trio 8pm. $15-20. Featuring Damien Erskine and Jeff Pevar. 6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Geronimo. 488-8888. www.sgvcc.org.

04/23: Jezebel Original rock/jazz. 7-10pm.

Saylor’s Restaurant & Bar, 2009 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 332-1512. www.saylorsrestaurantandbar.com

04/23: Melvin Seals and the JGB Band Jam legends. 9pm. $25-40. Palm Ballrooom, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael. 389-5072. www.murphyproductions.com

04/23: Mystery Dance: Bonnie Hayes, Tim Eschliman Erik Schramm Kevin Hayes New quartet playing a mixture of rock/dance tunes 9pm. $10. Presidio Yacht Club at Travis Marina, ,Fort Baker, Sausalito. www.presiyachtclub.org 04/23: Samuka Brazilian. 8pm. Sausalito Seahorse, 305 Harbor, Gate 5, Sausalito. 331-2899. www.sausalitoseahorse.com 04/23: Spark and Whisper 9:30pm. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. www.sleepingladyfairfax.com

04/23: Susan Werner, Natalia Zuckerman Witty and clever multi-instrumental singer/ songwriter. Americana. 8pm. $24-27. Dance Palace Community Center, Pt. Reyes Station.

663-1075. www.dancepalace.org

04/23: The Kingdom Travelers Easter Eve Gospel Show With special guests. 8:30pm. $15-20. Rancho Nicasio, Nicasio. 662-2219. www.ranchonicasio.com

Melvin Seals spreads the jams April 23 at the Palm Ballroom in San Rafael.

04/23: The Monophonics, Olive and the Dirty Martinis Old school soul, funk. 9pm.

04/26: Lorin Rowan Solo acoustic guitar and

Fairfax. 485-1182. www.sleepingladyfairfax.com

vocals. 7-10pm. Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. 415-457-3993. www. panamahotel.com 004/27: Tengo Tango 8pm. Sausalito Seahorse, 305 Harbor, Gate 5, Sausalito. 331-2899. www.sausalitoseahorse.com 04/27: Savannah Blue 8pm. Iron Springs Pub and Restaurant, 765 Center Blvd., Fairfax.

485-1005. www.ironspringspub.com 04/28: Darren Nelson and Friends Americana. 9pm. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway,

04/28: EmK Solo acoustic guitar. 7-10pm. No

$10-15. George’s Nightclub, 842 Fourth St., San Rafael. 226-0262. www.georgesnightclub.com 04/23: Vagabond Opera Gypsy rock cabaret.

With Mark Growden and belly dancing. 8pmmidnight. $12-15. Hopmonk Tavern, 230 Petaluma, Sebastopol . (707) 829-7300. www.hopmonk.com

BEST BET The future of blenders is in Marinwood!

For those not busily cleaning creeks and picking up discarded rubbish in parks this Earth Day (because, like good citizens, you’ve already done that, right?), the Marinwood Community Farmers Market is your best bet for a fantastically fun, multipurpose visit. Celebrating its first big year slinging locally grown, organic edibles, the market is hosting an EARTH DAY FESTIVAL to make it official.

With live music from San Francisco’s all lady, ukulele-playing trio the Paper Dolls The Paper Dolls would be wise to avoid the ‘papermaking blender’ at this weekend’s event. strumming and strutting their self-proclaimed raggedy glam stuff, your market experience is sure to be lively and unique—to say the least. Also gracing eardrums at the festival are Marin’s own Miracle Mule and the Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District Non-Marching Band. On hand, too: Miller Creek School’s Bicycle Powered Paper Making Blender. How cool is that? The festivities begin at 9am, Saturday, April 23. Marinwood Community Farmers Market 101 Marinwood Ave., San Rafael. Free. 415/419-6331—Dani Burlison

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cover; dinner encouraged, Panama Hotel & Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. 457-3993. www.panamahotel.com 04/29: Duke and the Boys Country. 9pm Smiley's Saloon, 41 Wharf Road, Bolinas.

868-1311. www.smileyssaloon.com 04/29: Los Pinguos Latin rhythms, performed with Spanish guitars, a Cuban Tres, Peruvian cajón and vocals. 8pm. $20-30. 142 Throckmorton Theatre , Mill Valley. 383-

It’ll be all hands on board when Susan Werner comes to the Dance Palace this Saturday.

BEST BET Gardens of delight Visit more than 20 gardens throughout Marin Saturday, May 14, at the fifth annual ECO FRIENDLY GARDEN TOUR. From 10am to 4pm, homeowners and landscape professionals will be on-site throughout the tour to eagerly show off gardening practices that protect local creeks and the bay. Learn about smart controllers, gray-water systems, rainwater management, pesticide-free landscapes, urban chickens, deer-resistant and drought-tolerant plants, lawn replacement and more. Tickets are $10. For more information and to register, go to www.mcstoppp.org or call 800/838-3006.—Annie Spiegelman 9600. www.142throckmortontheatre.org 04/29: Moonalice Jam rock. 9:30pm. $14.19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 516-1028. www.19broadway.com

04/29: Mwanza Furaha & The Professionals With Jef Labes, piano/vocals; Si Perkoff, piano; Wayne Colyer, saxophone; Michael J. Ilnicki, drums; Julie Egger, violin; Kurt Huget, guitar. 6:30-9:30pm. Embassy Suites, 101 McInnis Pkwy. , San Rafael. 4195739. www.mwanzafuraha.com 04/29: New Rising Sons Rancho debut.

With Boudeeka 8:30pm. $10 . Rancho Nicasio, Nicasio. 662-2219. www.ranchonicasio.com

04/29: Paul Robinson and Al Chan Acoustic favorites. 7-10pm. Saylor’s Restaurant & Bar, 2009 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 3321512. www.saylorsrestaurantandbar.com

Rafael. 226-0262. www.georgesnightclub.com 04/29: Tom Finch Group Jazz. 9:30pm. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. www.sleepingladyfairfax.com 04/29: Olive and the Dirty Martinis Old school soul, funk. 8pm. Sausalito Seahorse, 305 Harbor, Gate 5, Sausalito. 331-2899. www.sausalitoseahorse.com Tuesdays: Noel Jewkes Jazz. 8pm. Sausalito Seahorse, 305 Harbor, Gate 5, Sausalito.

331-2899. www.sausalitoseahorse.com

Concerts 04/23: Golden Harp of Joel Andrews Healing harp music. 7-9:15pm. $20-30. The Spiritual Healing Center, 260 E. Blithedale Ave., Mill Valley. 381-4465. www.thespiritualhealingcenter.org

04/29: The Fundamentals, David M’ore Band Soul. Blues/rock. 9pm. $10-15.

04/23: Sacred Harp and Tibetan Bells

George’s Nightclub, 842 Fourth St., San

Diana Stork, harp; Karma Moffett, bells. Sacred

ViDEO Behold a spirit Author-philosopher Alan Watts has charmed three generations of listeners into deeper understandings of themselves with his unique blend of humor, scholarship and enthusiasm for the byways of Eastern thought. The late-’60s hippies who sat in on his Sausalito houseboat talks gave way in the ‘80s and ‘90s to legions of earnest young men (many in science) who grew up on the Pacifica rebroadcasts Alan Watts, right, with publisher Steve McNamara and coland appreciated Watts’ earthy umnist Dr. Hip, at a Pacific Sun beach party in Stinson, 1969. spiritualism, with its canny and rigorous awareness of the limits of Western thought. Now, thanks to YouTube, there’s A Conversation With Myself, a 30-minute tea and talk filmed on the verdant slopes of Mt. Tamalpais in 1971—and what a showcase it is for Watts’ amazing gift of gab. Finally, Internet fame has brought him the worldwide audience he deserves.

As director David Grieve pans the camera languorously over miles of rolling oat fields and oak-blanketed hillside, Watts’ emotion is palpable: “It’s astonishing... all this, only 20 or 30 minutes from the heart of San Francisco.” His call for a new environmentalism based on a real-world understanding of our connectedness to nature, delivered in that mellifluous Brit voice, could not be more timely. Converts, cultists and the similarly inclined are encouraged to visit alanwattspodcast. com, run by his son Mark, for archived talks.—Richard Gould

chant, world music. 7:30-10pm. $10-20. The NeXus, 1414 Harbour Way South #1010, Ford Point Marina District , Richmond. (510) 5483326. www.thenexus.ticketbud.com/harpbells 04/27: Fath Chamber Players Chamber works by Mozart, Brahms, Weber, Dvorak, Bartok. 7:30pm. $10-20. 142 Throckmorton Theatre , Mill Valley. 383-9600. www.142throckmortontheatre.org

04/27: SingersMarin Wings of Song and Just Voices with the Hanns Eisler Chor of Berlin “Joint Choir Spring Concert.” 7:30pm. $18-20. Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore, Mill Valley. 383-3712. www.singersmarin.org 04/28: Carb and Swarthy Guitar/violin duo performing traditional celtic songs. 8:30-11pm.

No cover. Hopmonk Tavern, 691 Broadway, Sonoma. www.hopmonk.com

04/29: Marin Girls Chorus Spring Concert “Spring Forth Into Song.” Season celebration with the Fresco, Giocoso, Arioso and Bel Canto choirs. 7-8:45pm. $10-20. College of Marin, Main Theatre, 835 College Ave., Kentfield.

827-7335. www.marinchorus.org

Through 05/02: Winifred Baker Chorale All are welcome to sing Faure’s “Requieum” and Schubert’s “Mass in E Flat” with the chorale.

Rehearsals are every Tuesday evening. Performances on April 29 and May 2. 6:30-9:30pm. $30, for music. Angelico Hall, Dominican University, 50 Acacia, San Rafael. 485-3579. www.duwbc.org

Theater/Auditions 04/23: ‘Seagull’ Ryan Rilette directs this absurdist comedy by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. 2-4pm. $15-53.

Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. 388-5208. www.marintheatre.org Through 04/24: ‘Fuddy Meers’ Ryan Rilette directs this absurdist comedy by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. See website for show time details. $15-53. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley.

388-5208. www.marintheatre.org Through 05/01: ‘Crazy for You’ Youth production of the Gershwin musical which chronicles the adventures of stage-struck Bobby Child in the Nevada mining town of Deadrock.

7:30pm. $12. The Playhouse in San Anselmo, 27 Kensington Rd, San Anselmo. 453-0199. www.marilynizdebskiproductions.com Through 05/08: Spring 2011 Fringe of Marin Festival For its 27th season, new Bay

04/27: Comedy Wednesday with Huck Flynn, Dave Deluca and Friends “The Rock & Roll Comedian.” 8pm. $10-15. George’s Nightclub, 842 Fourth St., San Rafael. 226-0262. www.georgesnightclub.com

Art 04/22-27: ‘Americans Abroad: Copley to Cassatt’ From Colonial times to the early 20th century, the lure of Europe proved irresistible to American painters. Kerrin Meis explores their experiences & discusses the cultural milieu in which they worked. 3:30-5:30pm. $30. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.

927-0960. www.bookpassage.com 04/23-06/05: ‘His Bolinas Life’ Arthur Okamura, paintings. Troy Paiva, photographs.

Barbara Ravizza, painted collages and prints.

Opening reception 3-5pm April 23. Free. Bolinas Museum, 48 Wharf Road, Bolinas. 868-0330. www.bolinasmuseum.org 04/29-06/17: ‘Art and Pleasure’ Susan Danis, assemblage art. Livia Stein, paintings.

Receptions 5-8pm on May 13 and June 10. 10am5pm. Free Art Works Downtown, 1337 Fourth St., San Rafael. 451-8119. www.artworksdowntown.org Through 04/28: Christopher Olsen Oils on canvas. Tues. -Fri. 11am-5pm. None. Rock Hill Gallery, Community Congregational Church, 145 Rock Hill Dr., Tiburon. 935-9108. www.ccctiburon.org

Through 04/29: ‘In Honor of Earth Day Everyday’ Alicia Retes, Painting, featherwork, photography. Art from Hawaii,Panama,Australia.

Free. San Geronimo Valley Community Center, 6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Geronimo.

488-8888 . www.sgvcc.org Through 04/29: Sunila Bajracharya Recent paintings and fiber sculpture. 10am-5pm. Free.

San Geronimo Valley Community Center, 6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Geronimo. 488-8888 . www.sgvcc.org Through 04/30: ‘Points of Arrival’ Milla Ruane, mixed media paintings. Free. Noci Gelateria& Gallery, 17 East Blithedale, Mill Valley.

388-2423.

Through 04/30: ‘Season of Water’ The mutability of water is the theme for a series of 2011 Outreach exhibitions on the theme of water by 45 Bay Area Artists curated by Claudia Chapline & Etta Deikman. 9am-4pm. Free. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 3323871. www.spn.usace.army.mil/bmvc/index.html

Area short one-acts and solos will be performed to vie for Bay Area Theatre Critics Jury Award.

Shows on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm; Sundays at 2pm. $5-8. Meadowlands Hall, Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave., San Rafael.

673-3131 . www.fringe of marin.com

Through 04/30: ‘Treasures from the Vault’

Through 05/15: ‘Dogs! It’s the Musical!’

Through 04/30: Marin Society of Artists Spring Rental Show Exhibit of artworks avail-

Silver Moon Theatre presents a musical story of the Day Dogs, the pampered pets, and the Night Dogs, homeless strays. Performance dates are 8pm April 23 and 29-30, May 1, 6,-8 and 13-15. $20. Andrews Hall, SCC, 276 East Napa St., Sonoma. (707) 548-6587. www.silvermoontheatre.org

Comedy 04/28: 'Dinosaurs of Improv: Improvised Mayhen and Hilarity' With Diane Amos, Dick Bright, Michael Bossier, Bill Bonham, Jim Cranna, Debi Durst, Judi Nihei, Chris Pray Dan Spencer. 8pm. $18-20. 142 Throckmorton Theatre , Mill Valley. 383-9600. www.142throckmortontheatre.org

Exhibition celebrating the Museum’s 75 years of collecting and caring for artifacts from the local community. 11am-4pm. Free. Marin History Museum, 1125 B St., San Rafael. 454-8538. www.marinhistory.org able for rental. 11am-4pm. Free. Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross.

454-9561. www.marinsocietyofartists.org.

Through 04/30: Tuesday Painters at Fairfax Library Landscape and still life paintings in oil and acrylic. 10am-6pm. Free. Fairfax Library, 2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax. 453-8151. www.marinlibrary.org Through 05/02: ‘Land and Light’ Kay Carlson, oils on canvas. Monday-Tuesday 7am-3pm; Wednesday-Sunday 8am-10pm. Free. Two Bird Cafe, Anthony Miceli Gallery, 625 San Geronimo Valley Dr., San Geronimo.

488-0105. www.twobirdcafe.com

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Mystery Dance solves all your rhythm conundrums April 23 at the Presidio Yacht Club.

Street in San Rafael. Visit www.downtownsanrafael.org for application. Fourth St., Between C & D, San Rafael. 720-5591. www.downtownsanrafael.org/ Through 05/04: Tim Weldon Paintings.

Gallery Bergelli, 483 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur.

945-9454. www.bergelli.com

Through 05/21: Altered Book Show/ Silent Auction More than 100 Bay Area artists give new life to old, discarded books. Books become sculpture, jewelry, collage, and more!

Wed-Sun, 11-4. Free. Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, 500 Palm Dr., Novato. 506-0137. www.marinmoca.org

Through 05/25: Gallery Route Exhibitions â&#x20AC;&#x153;Life Is Tricky.â&#x20AC;? Vickisa, new works. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Far From Home.â&#x20AC;? Shane Weare, paintings. Zea Morvitz, new works. 11am-5pm. Free. Gallery Route One , 11101 Highway One , Point Reyes. 663-1347. www.galleryrouteone.org

Through 05/28: Falkirkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2011 Annual Juried Exhibition Marin and Bay Area artists in all media. Juried by Virginia Breier. Free.

Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave., San Rafael. 485-3328. www.falkirkculturalcenter.org

Through 05/30: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;California Landscapesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Robbie Collins, paintings. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.robertwcollins.com

Through 06/26: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dance, Music and Flowersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Marin Society of Artists juried exhibit of MSA members. 11am-4pm. Marin Society of Artists, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross.

454-9561. www.marinsocietyofartists.org

Through 07/08: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Beautiful Botanicalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Paintings by Master Artists of the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society. 8am-7pm. Free. Marin Cancer Institute, 1350 So. Eliseo Dr., Greenbrae.

461-9000.

Talks/Lectures 04/22: 'Global Trends Every Consultant Needs to Know' Charlie Rose style interview with Louis Patler about how you can use todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top business trends to gain a competitive advantage. 7:30-10am. $35-40. McInnis Park Golf Center Restaurant, 350 Smith Ranch Road, San Rafael. www.BACNetwork.com

04/25: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Pulp Fashion: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgraveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Legion of Honor docent will discuss and introduce this unique collection of trompe lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oeil gowns. 7-9pm. Free. Mill Valley Library, 375 Throckmorton, Mill Valley.

389-4292, x203. www.millvalleylibrary.org

04/27: 'Cancer - How It Affects You and Your Family' Sandy Schindler, LCSW, will present an informative, interactive discussion of the profound impact of a cancer diagnosis on the family. Refeshments. Call to reserve. 5:30-7pm.

Free. Marin Cancer Institute, 1350 South Eliseo Dr., Greenbrae. 925-7787.

04/27: Tamalpais Valley Speaker Series â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hygienic Catastrophe Averted & Nedââ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Snapshotsâ&#x20AC;?. Speaker Richard Torney presents an illustrated discussion about how the 1906 S.F. earthquake propelled Chief Sanitary Officer George Henry Torney to action to prevent the outbreak of disease. 7pm. Free. Tamalpais Valley Community Center, 203 Marin Ave., Mill Valley.

388-6393. www.tcsd.us

04/28: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Minke Whales: Baleen of Deathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Part of the S.F. American Cetacean Society Speaker Series.There is no such thing as a minke whale. From behavior to genetics, variability is the name of their game. Presentation covers topics ranging from minke whales as our neighbors in local marine ecosystems to their status as the most heavily hunted whale species. 7-9:30pm.

Free. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 332-3871. www.spn.usace.army.mil/ bmvc/index.html

Readings 04/22: Earth Day Celebration Jean Shinoda Bolen and Isabel Allende discuss Bolenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new work â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like a Tree: How Trees, Women and Tree People Can Save the Planet.â&#x20AC;? The publisher will donate a tree for every book sold. 6pm. $50 , includes small plate appetizers, wine and an autographed copy of the book Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960 ext. 1. www.bookpassage.com 04/22: Steven Levy Levy presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives.â&#x20AC;? 1pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com

One Marinâ&#x20AC;? Closing Celebration. Verghese In conversation with Michael Krasny. 7pm. Free.

Dominican University, Angelico Hall, San Rafael.

927-0960. www.bookpassage.com 04/27: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon The author discusses â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Dressmaker of Khair Khana.â&#x20AC;? This is the true story of an unlikely entrepreneur who mobilized her community under the nose of the Taliban. 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.

927-0960. www.bookpassage.com

04/29: Kelly Coyne and Eric Knutzen Coyne and Knutzen present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World.â&#x20AC;? 7pm.

Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com

Film Events Celebrate Marin Charitableâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 50th with a screening of a pretty good ďŹ&#x201A;ick directed by San Anselmo resident George Lucas.

04/23: Ace Remas â&#x20AC;&#x153;Local Author Day.â&#x20AC;? Remas presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;From the Back Porch.â&#x20AC;? For nearly four years, Ace & Marsha Remas produced the weekly Twin Cities Times for the towns of Corte Madera and Larkspur. Noon. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com 04/23: Ethel Rohan â&#x20AC;&#x153;Local Author Day.â&#x20AC;?

Rohan discusses his story collection, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cut Through the Bone.â&#x20AC;? 4pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com 04/23: Jason Goodwin Edgar prize winning author talks about his novel â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evil Eye.â&#x20AC;? 7pm. Free.

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com 04/23: Lynn Ponton â&#x20AC;&#x153;Local Author Day.â&#x20AC;?

Ponton talks about â&#x20AC;&#x153;MĂŠtis: Mixed Blood Stories.â&#x20AC;? The MĂŠtis are the descendants of Cree and Assiniboine women who joined with French and Scottish men in the heart of Canada. 2pm. Free.

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com 04/23: Sandra Brannan â&#x20AC;&#x153;Local Author Day.â&#x20AC;?

The author discusses her suspense novel â&#x20AC;&#x153;In The Belly of Jonah.â&#x20AC;? 6pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com 04/23: Terri Glass â&#x20AC;&#x153;Local Author Day.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Song of Yes.â&#x20AC;? Glass presents nature poetry. A former biologist, she now serves as Program Director of California Poets in the Schools. 3pm.

Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com 04/23: Thomas Roberts â&#x20AC;&#x153;Local Author Day.â&#x20AC;?

Roberts presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bay.â&#x20AC;? 5pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.

927-0960. www.bookpassage.com 04/23: Wayne Street â&#x20AC;&#x153;Local Author Day.â&#x20AC;? The author discusses his memoir â&#x20AC;&#x153;Game, Set, Life: My Match with Crohnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Cancer.â&#x20AC;? 2pm. Free.

Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com 04/25: Joyce Carol Oates National Book Award winner discusses â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Widowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Story: A Memoir.â&#x20AC;? Oates unveils a poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of her husband of 46 years. 7pm. Free, but preferred seating with book purchase Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com 04/26: MariNaomi â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0-22.â&#x20AC;? 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com 04/27: Abraham Verghese â&#x20AC;&#x153;One Book

04/25: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Nuclear Power: Back From The Brinkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang.â&#x20AC;?

Filmmaker Saul Landau will present a special screening of his award winning 1980 documentary and participate in a discussion with author and activist Norman Solomon. 7:15pm. $10.25.

Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael. 454-1222. www.cafilm.org 04/27: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hairsprayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Sing-Along Hosted by Jan Wahl. Benefiting Mountain Play Association In anticipation of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production of Hairspray, Mountain Play will present an interactive â&#x20AC;&#x153;sing-alongâ&#x20AC;? screening. 7pm. $20 screening/ sing-along. $40 includes private reception Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael,.

454-1222. www.cafilm.org

04/28: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;American Graffitiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Benefit Screening Celebrate Marin Charitableâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 50th year with a screening of director George Lucasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; witty and resonant mosaic of friends â&#x20AC;&#x153;coming of ageâ&#x20AC;? after high school. 7:30pm. $15 film only; $50 includes private reception Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael,. 454-1222 . www.cafilm.org

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04/23: History of Marinship An in-depth discussion on the history of the Marinship Shipyard built by the Bechtel Corporation at the request of President Roosevelt in March 1942.

Learn about the 93 ships built during WWII. 3-4pm. Free. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 332-3871. www.spn.usace. army.mil/bmvc/index.html 04/23: Marinship Walking Tour Tour Sausalitoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Historic Marinship, WWII shipyard which had a significant role in winning the war and influencing social changes in Marin County.

Come and learn about the history, workers, and spirit. 11am-12:30pm. Free. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 332-3871. www.spn.usace.army.mil/bmvc/index.html 04/26: Brainstormers Pub Trivia Join quizmaster Rick Tosh for a fun and friendly team trivia competition. 8-10pm. Free. Finneganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marin, 877 Grant Ave., Novato. 899-1516. www.finnegansmarin.com 04/27: Novato Theater â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sneak Peakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Fundraiser An evening of wine, desserts and live entertainment with magician Jay Alexander. All proceeds will support the renovation efforts of the Novato Theater on Grant Ave. 7- pm. $20 before 4/25, $25 at door, $10 students 12-18, under 12 free Novato City Council Chambers, 901 Sherman Ave., Novato. 837-8015. www.novatotheater.net 04/29-05/01: Gem Faire Fri. Noon-6pm, Sat. 10-6, Sun. 10-5. Fine jewelry, gems, beads, crystals, minerals & much more at the lowest prices.

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Kid Stuff 04/22: Earth Day With Insect Discovery Lab Celebrate Earth Day with giant rainforest insects. Make friends with a huge hissing cockroach or hold a giant millipede Find out how these amazing creatures fit into the ecosystem and why we should respect and protect them. For ages 5 and older. Parents and caregivers welcome.

3:30pm. Free. Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 389-4292. www.millvalleylibrary.org.

04/23: Easter Bunny Breakfast Children of all ages will enjoy meeting the Easter Bunny, listening to Music by Lori & RJ, balloon animals from Oliver Twist and Buki The Clown, a delicious breakfast and more. Proceeds benefit the Special Olympics Marin. Due to limited seating, all guests are asked to rsvp. 9-10am. $5. Cheescake Factory, Village at Corte Madera, 1618 Redwood Hwy., Corte Madera. 924-8921.

04/23: Easter Bunny Hop Find colored eggs hidden in participating shops on San Anselmo Ave. then enter drawing to win goody baskets.

Start at Town Hall on the lawn and finish at Felice. Noon-4pm. Free. Downtown , San Anselmo. www.townofsananselmo.org 04/23: Spring Faire Bounce, hop and jump into the season with SRD’s annual Spring Faire. Play carnival games, decorate spring bags, ride the train and bounce in the jump house. The follow the bunny to the candy hunt! This event will go rain or shine. 10am12:30pm. $8. Strawberry Recreation District , 118 East Strawberry Dr., Mill Valley. 383-6494. www.strawberryrec.org/events.html

04/27: El Dia de los Libros/El Dia de los Ninos Join Mariela for bilingual songs and stories for the little ones. For ages 1-6. Caregivers and parents welcome. 3pm. Free. Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 389-4292. www.millvalleylibrary.org.

04/27 Make Japanese Origami Paper Cranes Afteschool craft time for kids in 1st grade and older. 3:30pm Free. San Anselmo Public Library, 110 Tunstead Ave., San Anselmo.

04/28: San Geronimo Valley School Sturdent Poetry Reading First through sixth grades will read their original poetry about their lives, worries, loves and the natural world.

Come meet some future poets. 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.

927-0960. www.bookpassage.com Wednesdays: Fun and Funky Kids Art For kids ages 2-4. Movement, recycled art, stories and

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Outdoors (Hikes & Bikes) 04/22: Lake Lauganitas with Assemblymember Jared Huffman Join in celebrating California Native Plant Week with Jared Huffman who cosponsored the bill. This will be an easy walk suitable for beginning wildflower enthusiasts. 1-4pm. Parking fee. Lake Lagunitas, Fairfax Bolinas Road, Fairfax. www.marin.edu/ cnps/FieldTrips.html 04/23: Fern Foray on Mt. Tamalpias Join botanical expert Phillip Hammond to identify ferns. Start from Bootjack trailhead and hike a medium difficulty trail to Rock Springs. Rain postpones. 11am-4pm. $8 parking fee Bootjack Trailhead, Mt. Tamalpias State Park, Mill Valley. www.marin.edu/cnps/FieldTrips.html 04/23: Mt. Tam Earth Day Event Traipse through the meadows and forests this Earth Day with MMWD Vegetation Ecologist Andrea Williams. En route we will remove invasive bull thistle that competes with our rare native Mt. Tam Thistle. 9am-2pm. Free. Rock Spring Picnic Area, Ridgecrest Blvd & Pantoll Rd, Southwest Marin.

945-1128. www.marinwater.org 04/24: Pancakes in Paradise Enjoy a delicious Pancake Breakfast and the most awesome views in Marin on Easter Sunday. Hike or bike in only. 9am-1pm. $5-11 . West Point Inn, Mt. Tamalpais, Mill Valley CA 94941. 388-9955. www.westpointinn.org

Home and Garden 04/23: Bay-Friendly Gardening “Go Native: Planting for Pollinators.” Attract birds, butterflies and beneficial insects. Learn to diversify your garden by including California native plants that provide food, shelter and nesting places for wildlife. 9 m-noon. Free. Marin Municipal Water District, 220 Nellen Ave., Corte Madera. 945-1521. www.bayfriendlycoalition.org/workshop-reg.php

04/28: Outdoor Art Club’s Garden Tour “Gardens, Art and Architecture XVII.” This year Mill Valley will dazzle guests with five picture perfect gardens full of color and texture. Exact locations are a surprise. Outdoor Art Club, One West Blithedale Ave., Mill Valley. 455-4695. www.gardentourtickets.org/

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(Publication Dates: April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2011126433 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as PK AUDIOVISUAL, 339 BOLINAS RD., FAIRFAX, CA 94930: PAUL KONIKOWSKI, 339 BOLINAS RD., FAIRFAX, CA 94930. This business is being conducted by an individual.

Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on March 23, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126290 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as SUITER FINANCIAL SYSTEMS, 250 BEL MARIN KEYS BLVD. C2, NOVATO, CA 94949: VICKI SUITER, 250 BEL MARIN KEYS BLVD. C2, NOVATO, CA 94949. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on N/A. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on March 09, 2011.

(Publication Dates: April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126467 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as PAULS HOME REPAIR/DESIGN, 1133 THIRD ST., NOVATO, CA 94945: PAUL DOIRON, 1133 THIRD ST., NOVATO, CA 94945. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s)

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ARIES (March 20 - April 19) The ego-boosting Sun has left your sign, just as humble Neptune has entered the sector of your chart ruling the subconscious.

Instead of focusing on how you look on the outside, you are being pulled to look inward—this may be a strange sensation for the proud Ram. We know what a great hunter you are, but don’t let your competitive spirit spoil the Easter egg hunt for the kids.

TAURUS (April 20 - May 19) The flashy Sun in your sign wants you to put on your best party clothes and go have a good time. With your imagination on overdrive, you may have some interesting ideas as to what constitutes “party clothes.” Meantime, you are likely to be uncertain about your life objectives as your ideals shift and change. Though feeling altruistic, you may resist the idea of spending all your time on nonprofit activities—due to (ahem) the lack of profit...

GEMINI (May 20 - June 20) Nebulous Neptune in the career house can certainly bring a bit of vagueness when trying to decide how to proceed with your professional goals.

Should you stay on an old path or forge a new one? Neptune brings a calling to either artistic or healing pursuits. Those of you working in more pragmatic fields (like finance or air traffic control) may be dreaming of a way out. Please limit the dreaming to when you’re not actually on the job...

CANCER (June 21 - July 21) The quest for enlightenment is moving up higher on your list of priorities. Being the most practical of the water signs, you typically wouldn’t think of taking time off work to attend a consciousness-expanding seminar—until now. It is, in fact, a great time to find something or someone to believe in, as long as you can tell the difference between a true mentor and a fraudulent guru.

LEO (July 22 - August 22) The entry of ethereal Neptune into your house of mystery, intimacy and sharing can be fascinating—and confusing. In the next several months your grasp on reality is weak in these areas. Did you really just see the spirit of your dead ancestor in your kitchen or was it a trick of light? Is your lover offering true devotion or deception? Should you really skip the pre-nup agreement or listen to your attorney?

VIRGO (August 23 - September 21) As an earth sign, you are capable of being pragmatic. But when it comes to romantic love, your common sense is often missing in action— especially in the coming months, as Neptune, planet of illusion and delusion, occupies your relationship house. “Too good to be true” should be taken seriously. The playful Sun in your travel house is suggesting a trip ASAP. It’s springtime—if you are going to be a fool for love, it may as well be in Paris.

LIBRA (September 22 - October 22) Your ruler (peaceful Venus) has joined the raucous crowd in the feisty sign of Aries. There is no escaping the high-energy competition that is coming your way. May as well dig out your tennis racket, softball mitt, racing bike and/or skateboard. “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” is likely to be the best response. In other news, your sex life is beginning to heat up. Yet another way to enjoy all that fired up energy...

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21) In these tough times, it is difficult to consider taking a risk with the status quo—be it a regular paycheck or a monthly allotment from a trust fund or the government. However, it would be wrong to completely ignore the innovative ideas you are having. You are encouraged to explore your options for making changes to the way you function on a daily basis. Meanwhile, don’t forget about expressing your creativity. It IS Easter egg painting time.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 - December 20) After years of dealing with the unexpected in your home and family life, unpredictable Uranus finally moved on. Neptune has now moved in. Because Neptune operates in a subtler manner, you probably won’t have, for example, a piece of a satellite drop from the sky into your attic. You may, however, discover your roof has developed a slow leak or find your unemployed cousin has moved into your basement. It’s always something...

CAPRICORN (December 21 - January 18) When Neptune influences the way one thinks, there is no longer a black or white vision of the world. There are many shades of gray— along with a rainbow of other colors, most especially rose. That down-to-earth logic that defines the Capricorn persona is not so much gone as simply watered down. Advice: For the next several months, give your intuition at least as much credit for knowing what to do as your intellect.

AQUARIUS (January 19 - February 17) While fantasizing about being wealthy can be fun, it unfortunately doesn’t translate into fiscal reality. For the next several months, you must try to keep a firm grip on your actual financial situation. What do you really need to spend and what are you spending simply because it feels good? Meanwhile, your mind is moving a mile a minute while trying to reinvent your world. If ever you needed to learn to meditate, it’s now.

PISCES (February 18 - March 19) A bit of tranquility returns to your life as the Sun occupies the sensual sign of Taurus while your ruler (enchanting Neptune) has entered your sign in order to bring, well, if not spiritual salvation, then at least an increase in soothing sensitivity.

Meantime, your imagination is on a four-month high. This likely means the most artistic Easter eggs in town and/or the most unusual bunny costume in the county. Hippity hop hop. < Email Lynda Ray at cosmicclues@gmail.com or check out her website at www.lyndarayastrology.com 38 PACIFIC SUN APRIL 22 – APRIL 28, 2011

listed herein on March 28, 2011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on March 28, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126434 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as WEBSTER TECH WRITERS, 324 EL FAISEN DR., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: DOROTHY J. WEBSTER, 324 EL FAISEN DR., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on March 1, 2011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on March 23, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126443 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as FRANCIS NAILS, 1815 4TH ST. #4, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: XUAN TRANG NGUYEN, 15 SONOMA ST. #B, SAN RAFAEL, 94901. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on March 24, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126451 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as EAGLE SURVEILLANCE, 3665 KERNER BLVD. #C, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: DAVID MARTINS, 3665 KERNER BLVD. #C, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on March 25, 2011.

(Publication Dates: April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126431 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as PACIFIC CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS, 230 ALDER RD., BOLINAS, CA 94924: GREGORY D. SCHANK, 230 ALDER RD., BOLINAS, CA 94924. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on March 23, 2011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on March 23, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126345 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as PARK PLACE SALON, 206 TAMALPAIS DR., CORTE MADERA, CA 94925: TATIANA MARGITA CHASE, 15 MANDERLY RD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901; RENEE KATIE SIMPSON, 215 BOLINAS RD., FAIRFAX, CA 94930. This business is being conducted by a general partnership. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on March 15, 2011.

(Publication Dates: April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2011126423 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as AES ELECTRIC, 1241 ANDERSEN DR., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: ADVANCED ELECTRIC SOLUTIONS INC., 1241 ANDERSEN DR., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.

This business is being conducted by a corpoartion. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on December 23, 2010. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on March 23, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2011126464 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as TECHMARIN, 11 MERRYDALE RD. #11, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: TED POTTER, 11 MERRYDALE RD. #11, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on March 28, 2011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on March 28, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2011126348 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as BIGBUSINESS.COM; BIG BUSINESS, 35 GROVE ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: CHARLES S. HINSDALE, 35 GROVE ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on February 1, 2011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on March 15, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2011)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126340 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as WINCHMATE; RUBICON PROPERTY INSPECTIONS, 110 LOCH LOMOND DR., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: DAVID M. LEITCH, 110 LOCH LOMOND DR., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on March 14, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126446 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as FEDERATED TRUST DEED SERVICES, 16 ANDREAS CIRCLE, NOVATO, CA 94945: TOMMY R. LEE, 16 ANDREAS CIRCLE, NOVATO, CA 94945. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on March 24, 2011.

(Publication Dates: April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2011126518 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as TINY KISSES, 1540 CENTER RD. #161, NOVATO, CA 94947: MAYA WEISSENSEE, 1540 CENTER RD. #161, NOVATO, CA 94947. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on April 4, 2011.

(Publication Dates: April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2011126499 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as THE KARAOKE LOUNGE, 1579 S. NOVATO BLVD. #201, NOVATO, CA 94947: WILLIAM R. DOUGAN, 1579 S. NOVATO BLVD. #201, NOVATO, CA 94947; TALIA M. DOUGAN, 1579 S. NOVATO BLVD. #201, NOVATO, CA 94947. This business is being conducted by a husband & wife. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on April 1, 2011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on March 31, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126521 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as WEST COAST WINGS, 1350 LAS RAPOSAS RD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: CONAN FONTENOT, 1350 LAS RAPOSAS RD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903; CEDRIC ALFORD, 1350 LAS RAPOSAS RD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.

This business is being conducted by a general partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on April 13, 2011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 5, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126576 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as UPPER EVENTS, 224 D STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: WOLMEY DE CASTRO FIGUEIREDO FILHO, 224 D STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901; CARLOS ANDRE PEDERNEIROS DE CASTRO, 224 D STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by a general partnership. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 8, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 15, 22, 29; May 6, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126291 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as FRISCO D, 815 APPLE BERRY ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: DENNIS WILLIAM MARDEN, 815 APPLE BERRY ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on March 8, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 15, 22, 29; May 6, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126565 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as LUTHMAN - ROSS, 140 MARIN VIEW, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: ROBERT ROSS, 140 MARIN VIEW, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on February 17, 2011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 7, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 15, 22, 29; May 6, 2011)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2011126554 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as AES CONSTRUCTION, 4330 REDWOOD HWY, SUITE 100, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: ADVANCED ENGINEERING SALES, INC., 4330 REDWOOD HWY, SUITE 100, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by a corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on February 1, 2010. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 7, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 15, 22, 29; May 6, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126593 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as DOG TROTTERS, 100 GATE SIX RD. APT 18B, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: DON DAVID TOPLIFF, 100 GATE SIX RD. APT 18B, SAUSALITO, CA 94965. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 11, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 22, 29; May 6, 13, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2011126574 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as WAGNER ASSOCIATES, 13 SKYLARK DR. #12, LARKSPUR, CA 94939: ROBIN LYNN WAGNER, 13 SKYLARK DR. #12, LARKSPUR, CA 94939. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on March 21, 2011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 8, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 22, 29; May 6, 13, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126622 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as CHV, INC., 87 OAK GROVE DR., NOVATO, CA 94949: COURTHOUSE VENTURES, INC., 87 OAK GROVE DR., NOVATO, CA 94949.

This business is being conducted by a corporation. Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 13, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 22, 29; May 6, 13, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126505 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as ABRACADABRA WINDOW WIZARD; ABRACADABRA, 116 VENDOLA DR., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: MICHAEL WOLF, 116 VENDOLA DR., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. This business is being conducted by an individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on April 1, 2011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 1, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 22, 29; May 6, 13, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 126616 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as KALA THAI (CATERING THAI FOOD), 351 SAN ANDREAS DR., NOVATO, CA 94945: PATOOMTHIP JINTORN, 26 COWBARN LN. APT 23, NOVATO, CA 94947. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on April 13, 2011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 13, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 22, 29; May 6, 13, 2011) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2011126649 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as JUDGEMENT DAY, 114 WINDSOR AVE., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: JONATHAN BUSH, 114 WINDSOR AVE., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901; ANTON PATZNER, 4554 TOMPKINS AVE., OAKLAND, CA 94619; LEWIS PATZNER, 927 CHABOT CREST, OAKLAND, CA 94618. This business is being conducted by a general partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on March 17, 2011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 19, 2011. (Publication Dates: April 22, 29; May 6, 13, 2011)

997 All Other Legals SUMMONS Family Law (CITACION Derecho Familiar): Case Number (Numero De Caso): FL 085844. NOTICE TO RESPONDENT (Aviso Al Demandado): DONALD BAKER: YOU ARE BEING SUED (LO ESTAN DEMANDANDO).

PETITIONER’S NAME IS (Nombre Del Demandante): BEATRICE GATHARA-BAKER. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this SUMMONS and PETITION are served on you to file a RESPONSE at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your

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Public Notices Continued from Page 38 RESPONSE on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you can not pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. Tiene 30 dð©as corridos después de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citacié n y Peticié n para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL-120 é FL-123) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante. Una carta o llamada telefé nica no basta para protegerlo.

Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar é rdenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte también le puede ordenar que pague manutencié n, y honorarios y costos legales. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacié n, pida al secretario un formulario de exencié n de cuotas. Si desea obtener asesoramiento legal, pé ngase en contacto de inmediato con un abogado. Puede obtener informacié n para encontrar a un abogado en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio web de los Servicios Legales de California (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org) o poniéndose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado. NOTICE: The restraining orders on page 2 are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. These orders are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them. (AVISO: Las é rdenes de restriccié n que figuran en la página 2 valen para ambos cé nyuges o pareja de hecho hasta que se despida la peticié n, se emita un fallo o la corte dé otras é rdenes. Cualquier autoridad de la ley que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas é rdenes puede hacerlas acatar en cualquier lugar de California.) NOTE: If a judgment or support order is entered, the court may order you to pay all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for yourself or for the other party. If this happens, the party ordered to pay fees shall be given notice and an opportunity to request a hearing to set aside the order to pay waived court fees. AVISO: Si se emite un fallo u orden de manutencié n, la corte puede ordenar que usted pague parte de, o todas las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente exentas a peticié n de usted o de la otra parte. Si esto ocurre, la parte ordenada a pagar estas cuotas debe recibir aviso y la oportunidad de solicitar una audiencia para anular la orden de pagar las cuotas exentas. 1. The name and address of the court are (El nombre y direccié n de la corte son): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN, 3501 Civic Center Drive, Post Office Box 4988, San Rafael, CA 949034164. 2. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitionerâ ™s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: (El nombre, direccié n y número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son): BEATRICE GATHARABAKER, PO BOX 424, KENTFIELD, CA 94914, (415)925-1409. Date (Fecha): December 1, 2008. Clerk, by (Secretario, por) Kim Turner, S. Hendryx, Deputy (Asistente). NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served (AVISO A LA PERSONA QUE RECIBIÓ LA ENTREGA: Esta entrega se realiza)as an individual (a usted como individuo). (Pacific Sun: April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011) NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. Date of Filing Application: MARCH 28, 2011. To Whom It May Concern: The Name(s) of Applicant(s) is/ are: JEFFREY ALAN BARNES. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 2130 4TH ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901-2693. Type of license(s) Applied for: 41 â “ ON SALE BEER AND WINE â “ Eating Place. (Pacific Sun: April 8, 15, 22, 2011) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: FRANCES E. CASNER. Case No. PR-1101642. To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of FRANCES E. CASNER. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: JOHN H. CASNER in the Superior Court of California, County of MARIN. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JOHN H. CASNER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to

give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: May 9, 2011 at 8:30 a.m. in Dept: H, Room: H, of the Superior Court of California, Marin County, located at Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in section 9100 of the California Probate Code.

The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: JOHN H. CASNER, 123 Bretano Way, Greenbrae, CA 94904; (415)2652137. (Publication Dates: April 8, 15, 22, 2011) NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. Date of Filing Application: January 19, 2011. To Whom It May Concern: The Name(s) of Applicant(s) is/are: MEDINA FOODS INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 363 3RD ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901-3581. Type of license(s) Applied for: 41 ON SALE BEER AND WINE Eating Place.

(Pacific Sun: April 15, 22, 29, 2011) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1101724. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KATHRYN CORINNE MUDIE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: KATHRYN CORINNE MUDIE to KATHRYN CORINNE MUDIE MCMUDIE. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: May 23, 2011, 8:30 AM, Dept. D04, Room K, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive Rm 113, San Rafael, CA 949134988. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date: April 5, 2011 /s/ Fay D’Opal, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (Pacific Sun: April 15, 22, 29; May 6, 2011) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1101724. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SUSAN ELIZABETH MCDANIEL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: SUSAN ELIZABETH MCDANIEL to SUSAN ELIZABETH MCDANIEL MCMUDIE. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: May 23, 2011, 8:30 AM, Dept. D04, Room K, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive Rm 113, San Rafael, CA 94913-4988. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date: April 5, 2011 /s/ Fay D’Opal, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (Pacific Sun: April 15, 22, 29; May 6, 2011) NOTICE TO CREDITORS: No. PR 1101903 Notice is hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above-named Decedent, LEON BLUM, that all persons having claims

against the Decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court, at 3501 Civic Center Drive, Room 113, San Rafael, CA 94903, and mail or deliver a copy to JACLYN BLUM GUELFI, as Co-Trustee of the LEON BLUM 1999 REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST dated December 3, 1999, of which the Decedent was the Trustor, c/o Law Office of Julia P. Wald, 1108 Fifth Avenue, Suite 202, San Rafael, CA 94901, within the later of four(4) months after the date of the first publication of notice to creditors or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, sixty(60) days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, or you must petition to file a late claim as provided in the Probate Code 19103. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested.(Publication Dates: April 22, 29; May 6, 2011) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1101924. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CATHY JO CHAPMAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: CATHY JO CHAPMAN to CALEN JO CHAPMAN. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: May 26, 2011, 9:00AM, Dept.

L, Room L, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94913. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date: April 14, 2011 /s/ LYNN DURYEE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (Pacific Sun: April 22, 29; May 6, 13, 2011) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME AND GENDER SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. Case No. CIV 1001922.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DAVID JAMES EFFREM GOSMAN has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing petitionerâ ™s name to: DELIA ELIZABETH GOSMAN. Petitioner has also filed a petition for a decree changing petitionerâ ™s gender from male to female and for the issuance of a new birth certificate reflecting the gender and name changes. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING: June 6, 2011, 8:30AM, Dept. K, Room K, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94913-4988. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: Pacific Sun. Date: April 14, 2011. /s/FAYE D’OPAL, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (Pacific Sun: April 22, 29; May 6, 13, 2011) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1101944. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner NESTOR ALEJANDRO CIME ON BEHALF OF NOHELIA CORDOBA CIME filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: NOHELIA CORDOBA CIME to NOHELIA CIME CORDOBA . THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: June 9, 2011, 8:30 AM, Dept. K, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94913-4988. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date: April 14, 2011 /s/ FAYE D’OPAL, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (Pacific Sun: April 22, 29; May 6, 13, 2011)

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Q:

I’ve been married for 10 years. I’m 43, well-educated, financially well-off, and fit. My husband and I are wonderful friends, and I love him dearly. However, for reasons he won’t tell me, he decided eight years ago that he was no longer interested in sex. He says it’s “too much work.” He refuses to discuss it further. Also, for work reasons, we live apart. So, I have taken lovers. My husband doesn’t like this, but I pay all his expenses so he can live his dream life, so he doesn’t complain much. Four years ago, I moved to be with a man I got involved with, but the relationship felt more like a bridge than a destination, so I went back to my husband. Now, I love a man who wants to marry me, but I fear that ALL relationships degrade into roommate situations. I do fantasize that there’s one perfect soulmate for me, and with him, I’ll be able to commit. For now, I guess staying married helps me keep up appearances that I’m stable and normal while I hold on to the fairy tale that marriage is a forever relationship.—Compartmentalizing

A:

I must have missed that fairy tale—the one where the couple get married and go off to live happily ever after in the house with the white picket fence and the 2.5 boyfriends.

Two years into your marriage, your husband took early retirement from sex, deeming it “too much work.” Well, sure, it takes some elbow grease, but it isn’t exactly picking lettuce in the hot sun for $3 an hour. Although he refuses to even discuss this any further, you keep him on staff—as your vice president of The Illusion of Safety and Security.

Keeping him on your payroll allows you to play both sides of the street— married and taken and single and available. Single and available allows you your flingy fun. Still being married allows you to stay in himbo limbo—avoiding anything more emotionally risky or stressful than retreating to your couch to wait for your mythical soulmate to fall into your life like a meteorite. The truth is, there are probably various men who are compatible with you in important ways, but there is no such thing as a soulmate—no one perfect partner whose mere presence in your life will dry up all your problems like a big tube of Clearasil.

No matter how compatible two people are, things will never be as hot long term as they were at the start, but they’re the unhottest for those who think a great relationship will just happen to them. Those are the people who wait until the urge strikes to hug or kiss their partner. Bad idea. Just do it—several times daily. And make a pact that you’ll keep having sex regularly—even when one of you doesn’t totally feel like it. Sex researcher Rosemary Basson found that arousal is “triggerable,” just start making out, and you’ll get turned on and get into it. Ultimately, you have to fill a marriage with loving and sexual acts, and love and sex should continue—assuming you’re with somebody whose idea of sex in marriage isn’t sending his spouse out to bars to score it off somebody else.

Q:

My girlfriend of four years is a wonderful person I still love. And, yes, I messed up and feel terrible about it. She wanted to get married and have children, and I realized I didn’t. She not only dumped me, she’s calling me horrible (and untrue) things, like a liar and a fake—weeks after telling me what a great person I am and how deeply she loves me.—Mud

A:

There’s a good chance your girlfriend spent a substantial part of your four years together waiting for you to pop the question, and not the one that goes “So, did you get all of your stuff out of my place?” Not every woman wants The Royal Wedding and a bunch of babies, but a whole lot do, especially when they’re bumping up against 30, and that shouldn’t be exotic cultural knowledge for any guy. It would’ve been nice if you’d been speedier in figuring out that you weren’t up for the husband thing. But, assuming you didn’t promise you’d marry her while crossing your fingers behind your back, it isn’t like you committed some sort of relationship fraud. Ultimately, it was up to your girlfriend to let you know that the stakes were marriage or bust. You can regret hurting her, but maybe take solace in no longer being with a woman who loves you so deeply and thinks so highly of you that she wants nothing less than to spend the rest of her life with you, you lying fake. <

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