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››LETTERS Good manners gone to the dogs!

I love dogs, I have had them all my life.

But I do not put them in my purse, take them in stores, hide them in the movies or tie them to food tables.

I exited Woodlands Pet Food in Strawberry, a large pet store, across a narrow street from a cafe with some tables basically on the sidewalk. An aggressive breed of dog, tied to a table, lunged at me as I walked by, nearly unseating its owner.

She flew into a rage, with 40 or so people watching, and ordered me “to go away... just go away...get out of here!” Where did this sense of entitlement come from, where did good judgment and respect for others morph into an assumption this behavior is tolerated? An owner in need of training.

Carol Butler, San Rafael

I’ll give you my business license when you peel it from my cold, dead hands...

I am responding to Susan’s letter from Novato [“NRA Is a Personal Assault on Our Intelligence,” Jan. 4]. While we all agree fully that the problem of gun violence is urgent, I think that some of her suggestions may contain some oversights which, to note, are very common nationwide, and I believe they need to be addressed. For example, to suggest that “Congress...shut [gun] shows down entirely” is to suggest that Congress has control over our private business endeavors in ways that are over-reaching and freedom-constricting. Imagine if Congress says, “Hey Buddy X, close your doors,” or “Friend Y, you may stay in business.”

Well, that’s a scary amount of power. Why do we Americans underscore and even beg for such political power over us, the people?

Yeiks! A dangerous precedent, if you ask me.

I don’t own a gun, I hate gun shows and guns themselves, but I think American freedom demands that the right for businesses to exist is fundamental in a free country. Further, it has been pointed out that the Nazis might not have killed 6 million people if the Jews had been armed. I agree with Susan completely, that to require background checks prior to purchasing a gun, regardless of the setting (shows or private shops alike), is key to our protection. Wise move.

Blanton Webster band. Mr. J should also be honored for his series of black cowboy movies. Please write to Obama, Boxer, Feinstein, Huffman, and anybody else with clout to make this the year of Herb Jeffries.

If you are a doubter, you can hear “Flamingo” on YouTube and see the Bronze Buckaroo movies online, too.

age and definitely not Jewish, I find truth, beauty, and dignity in her writing. Anyone who can admit, for example, to consuming “Irish Cream like it is chocolate milk” in a public forum cannot be anything but a delight to be with and anyone, such as Seth, who cannot remember dating her 15 years ago must indeed be a jerk. Nikki, bella donna, keep it going.

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Skip Corsini, San Rafael

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Sophia Lee, Novato

Since when has taxpayer money been used to support nonprofits?!

Regarding the grand jury report on the Board of Supervisors’ “community service funds,” as long as the supervisors have the balls to spend taxpayer money on their “pet projects” and “nonprofits” (through their slush fund)...I’ll be withholding my very modest donation checks to these very same nonprofits. If there’s a separation of church and state, why isn’t there a separation of taxpayer money and nonprofits?

Donations should be made to nonprofits and charities by the people who want to fund them, not at the discretion of the supervisors with taxpayer money.

Marcia Blackman, San Rafael

‘Flamingo’ doubters don’t have leg to stand on!

This year marks the centennial for Herb Jeffries, who is still alive and should be honored for his recording of “Flamingo” with Duke Ellington’s most excellent

Jeffries played crooning cowpoke Bob Blake in 1939’s ‘The Bronze Buckaroo,’ which brought to the western genre two things sorely missing from mainstream Hollywood horse operas: African Americans and ventriloquism. Check it out on YouTube.

Angel with dirty facelift After reading about the “million dollar plan” for Angel Island, I had to wonder if anyone asked the question: “why?”

This is being sold as an “upgrade” and is supported by the nonprofit Angel Island Conservancy. Of 20 contributors listed on the Conservancy’s website, half are companies engaged in recreation directly or indirectly (such as catering). The new plan includes dozens of projects aimed at attracting more people to the island, as well as building a million dollar “orientation hub.” We should not be increasing the human footprint on the island, we should instead be removing buildings and restoring the natural habitat. On the other hand, if the reason for having parks is to have recreation and make money, then perhaps we should build a couple of 100-room hotels on the island, an airport and a mall to increase visitor pleasure and revenue.

Amy Brees, superintendent of Angel Island State Park, notes that Denali National Park in Alaska and Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona both have “millions of visitors per year,” and that the Angel Island group “would love to get there someday.” Angel Island only attracted 165,000 last year, the idea that it would see millions is a horror, not a goal.

Niccolo Caldararo, Fairfax

I am grateful to Jonathan Frieman— who contested his carpool violation [“on the grounds that the corporation documents in his car constituted a second passenger”] because he has opened the door.

Now, at last, I can say that I want to marry Google. I Love Google! Of course, Google will have to declare a gender. I...probably wouldn’t want to break California law and enter into a same-sex marriage...so Google would have to come out of the closet and state a gender, male or female. Although, transgender fluidity might work: Google changing gender to suit each life situation...would that make me bi-sexual?

Always progressive, Ruth Mendoza, Novato

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t worked so well for so long. Ten years ago, when I signed onto the federal Do Not Call List, all those irritating telemarketing calls stopped, cold. No more interrupted dinners to listen to a sales spiel. No more hopes raised when the phone rang—only to have them dashed. If people called to pitch their “products” they were breaking the law, and telemarketers seemed to take that law seriously. A regulation that worked and worked well.

No longer, of course. Now I’m getting at least one “robocall” every day, and that’s apparently getting off easy. The number of these calls has exploded; some people report getting dozens a week. As the Federal Trade Commission said in a recent news release: “Current technology still allows shady telemarketers to cheaply autodial thousands of phone calls every minute and display false or misleading caller ID information. Among these are the famously annoying calls from ‘Rachel From Cardholder Services.’”

The FTC is holding a contest asking for ideas from the public about how to solve the problem. First prize is $50,000 for the “best technical solution as part of the ongoing fight against illegal calls,” and the

deadline for entry is Jan. 17. Clearly they’re looking for some sort of software or coding or application or something that will do the trick. Entries will be judged on three criteria: “Does it work? (50 percent); Is it easy to use? (25 percent); Can it be rolled out? (25 percent).” But there is a solution with absolutely no technical know-how required that will easily score 100 percent: sanctimony.

The usual advice for how to deal with robocalls is to simply not answer the phone.

Alas, this method does nothing to stem the tide of calls, and one still has wasted time finding the phone and then looking at the incoming number. And I’ve not answered some important calls thinking they were telemarketers, and some of those robocalls still go through to my voice mail and leave messages there. Aggravating.

But there are actual people behind those calls—and how often in a bourgeois life does one have a chance to chat with a criminal while he is committing a crime?

So, if I have the time and can spare the minutes on my plan, I answer the phone.

When I get a human being on the line I’m friendly as all get out, and ask what the name of their company is and where they’re calling from and what their name is. (Sometimes they’re so startled by these simple questions they just hang up; 10 >

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Marin is stamping out cigarettes, says Lung Association When it comes to curbing cigarette use—Marin is truly smoking! On Jan. 16, the American Lung Association released its annual city-by-city grades on how effectively towns control tobacco use. The county of Marin and the city of San Rafael were among only eight jurisdictions in California to receive A grades.

Towns and counties in all 50 states were graded based on four tobacco-control criteria: prevention spending, smoke-free air, cigarette taxes and cessation coverage.

Larkspur and Novato received B’s for the second year in a row, while Mill Valley and Sausalito filtered themselves out of last year’s F-grade ash heap to bring in B grades this time around. Tiburon, Ross and Fairfax wafted by with C’s.

Several of the A’s and B’s of Marin municipalities have passed smoking-control ordinances in recent years—the stiffest in San Rafael, which, beginning in October, will ban smoking in apartments, condos and communal outdoor areas such as restaurant patios, bus stops and parks. The county of Marin has similar smoking regulations.

Not all local towns are breathing easy, though—San Anselmo brought home a D and Corte Madera and Belvedere were given F’s.

All in all, California is doing a poor job at curbing smoking, according to the ALA. “Once a national leader in tobacco control policies, California’s efforts are now lagging,” wrote Lung Association officials in a statement that accompanied the results. “The state has not increased its cigarette tax since 1999 and now ranks 33rd in the country at 87 cents per pack, compared to the U.S. average of $1.48 per pack.”

Adding insult to lung injury, the ALA says, “States including Texas, Oklahoma, and Montana now have higher tobacco taxes than California.”

DA makes gun owners an offer they couldn’t refuse... No, the government isn’t coming for your guns—but it sure is happy to buy some of them back from willing weapons owners in an effort to make Marin a little safer. And Marin turns out to be ready, willing and able.

On Jan. 15 Marin residents—as well as folks from San Francisco, Contra Costa and Sonoma counties—had the chance to surrender, with no questions asked, working semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles to the tune of $200 for each firearm and $100 for any other category of operable firearm. It was an offer Marin gun possessors couldn’t refuse—so many people came to turn in their guns that the buyback locations ran out of cold, hard cash and had to issue vouchers.

The program was put together by the office of Marin County District Attorney Ed Berberian in the wake of last month’s Sandy Hook shooting tragedy.

Berberian says such a program is a “small step” that lets the average person feel he or she has the ability to help in the wake of such a tragic event.

“I personally believe we are a society with too many guns simply sitting in garages, closets, drawers and who knows where else,” says Berberian. “Our community has seen these weapons appear in our neighborhoods and streets. Let’s take a step to reduce the total number of these weapons. Let’s have a day where we go to our local police agencies across the county and turn in these guns.”

Gun owners were invited to sell their weapons at the Novato Police Department (909 Machin Ave.); the San Rafael Police Department (1400 Fifth Ave.); the Central Marin 10 > Police Authority (250 Doherty Dr., Larkspur); St. Andrew’s Church (101 Donahue in

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That someone is Jon Stewart and the Marin County Kumbaya Patrol...

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Howard Rachelson welcomes you to live team trivia contests on Wednesdays at 7:30pm at the Broken Drum in San Rafael. If you have an intriguing question, send it along (including the answer, and your name and hometown) to howard1@triviacafe.com.

VFunny man Jon Stewart gave Marin a nod in his opening monologue on The Daily Show last week. “Finally everyone from the NRA to the Marin County Kumbaya Patrol is ready to talk about gun violence. Although to be fair, the Kumbaya Patrol has been ready for quite some time now,” he quipped. (Watch the clip at www.thedailyshow.com.) We appreciate being the butt of a joke about our peaceful lifestyle being light years ahead of the NRA’s ridiculous position on guns.

To prove our commitment to nonviolence, our fine citizens turned in 827 guns at Marin’s first gun buyback earlier this week.

The program was so successful that the coordinators ran out of cash and began issuing vouchers. Thanks to the heroes who turned in their guns.

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WAnna witnessed an odd sight as she dined at the Plant Organic Cafe in Strawberry Village. A woman tethered her dog to a post outside, attached a muzzle to the pet’s face and left it unattended on the sidewalk as she went inside the cafe. When an unsuspecting lady walked by with a tiny dog, the muzzled mutt attacked the pooch. Fortunately, no injuries were sustained. The Zero went outside, talked to the victim and gave her money for the cup of coffee that spilled during the commotion. Shockingly, the Zero re-entered the restaurant, allowing her menacing animal to pounce upon another dog a few minutes later. Zero, don’t leave your aggressive dog unattended. People like you ruin privileges for responsible folks with friendly pups.

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which, as of this writing, has more than 600 “likes.” Ladwig invited a few of his friends to serve as administrators, and now they find themselves, quite unexpectedly, fielding media requests and acting as standard-bearers for a nascent social media movement.

Ladwig labels himself and his pals “progressively minded,” but says MCKP isn’t about any single issue or political persuasion.

Recent posts on the page include a quote from the band TV on the Radio (“love is the province of the brave”), a plug for WildCare animal rescue and a clip of Bob Marley singIf Stewart brings his AK-15 to one of Marin’s gun buyback stations on Sept. 21, he’ll walk away with a cool $200, no ing “The Sun Is Shining.” Basically, nothing questions asked. to dissuade the notion that Marinites party blissfully on the leftern fringe. t’s been 10 years since President George “We take the jokes in stride and hope our H.W. Bush lambasted Marin’s “misfellow Marinites can do the same,” Ladguided hot-tubbers,” but our fair county wig wrote in a Facebook reply to the Sun. remains a go-to metaphor for woo-woo lib“There are few places in the world that have eralism. Just ask Jon Stewart, so many intelligent, affluent, who, on a recent episode of innovative and genuinely The Daily Show, opined that charitable people as Marin.” all Americans are finally ready At the same time, Ladwig to talk about gun control— added, Marinites’ wealth and “everyone from the NRA to insulation “can have a dulling the Marin County Kumbaya effect on their ability to empaPatrol.” (“Although,” Stewart thize with the daily struggles added, “to be fair, the Kumfaced by [other] people.” baya Patrol has been ready for “Like all communities we quite some time now.”) have our good, bad and indifIt didn’t take long for ferent,” he continued. “We Marinites to get in on the joke. just seem to get a little more ‘Kumbaya,’ which means ‘come The day after Stewart’s re- by here,’ originated as a Negro attention.” marks, Fairfax’s Iron Springs spiritual in the 1930s; it came to Ladwig says he has no Brewery issued a tongue-in- symbolize the emerging counterspecific plans for the MCKP cheek offer of free french fries culture movement when Joan page, but hopes it can serve as to any card-carrying member Baez recorded her famous version a forum for “celebrating and in 1962. of the Kumbaya Patrol. That laughing over Marin’s accominspired Adam Ladwig, a San plishments and our more silly stereotypes Rafael accountant, to create an official Marin while also carrying on the real efforts made County Kumbaya Patrol Facebook page. by many in the county to make the world a What began as an attempt to score free better place.” fries quickly grew into something bigger. As Full-throated idealism meets blushing the page amassed an ever-increasing number self-awareness—sounds like Marin to us. < of members, Ladwig started a second page,

1. Approximately 1 million Asian immigrants entered 5a the U.S. between 1910 and 1940 at what immigration station in Marin County, sometimes called the Ellis Island of the West?

2. What negatively charged particles are responsible for the flow of electricity?

3. What state, America’s 35th, was separated from another state during the U.S. Civil War? 4. What three Best Picture nominees for this year’s Academy Award have oneword titles?

5. Pictured, right: Famous logos: Name the company 5c 5b or product.

6. What four sensational baseball players, tainted by suspicion of steroid use, were recently denied entry into baseball’s Hall of Fame?

7. “Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived” describes the fate of whom?

8. You would visit what building, in what city, to see where the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776?

9. White keys on a piano are made with a thin coating of ivory (or substitute) over what kind of wood? Black keys are made from what kind of wood?

10. For what important reason did David Letterman send his mother to Norway in February 1994?

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< 8 For a bad time, call… sometimes they can’t even think of a first name to tell me, which betrays a tragic lack of imagination.) I then tell them that they’re in violation of the Do Not Call List and will be reported. This usually gets the responses: that I’m not on their do not call list (a total scam), or that I have to “renew” my Do-Not-Call status every year (totally untrue), or that by pressing “1” I’ve agreed to accept their call (more complete BS).

This is where the sanctimony starts to really kick in. “Wow,” I say. “So you break the law, then lie to people, then you try to take money from them. You’re just a liar and a crook.” If they’re still on the line this makes them really angry, especially if I use a completely reasonable, holier-than-thou voice. Given a chance, I try to say: “I know jobs are hard to find, but you might want to re-think your life choices here.”

I often don’t get that chance, because they’re yelling at me. (At least the men are; the women tend to hang up quickly.) One man screamed “Liar, liar” and then hung up before he could get to the really devastating “pants on fire” part. Last week a man with a pronounced Eastern European accent, who said he was calling from Orlando (the caller ID was from Maryland) said, “You are crook! You should pay your bills! Pay your bills!” before he slammed the phone down. It’s a little insight into the stories they tell themselves about their victims.

The point is that I’ve not only upset them, I’ve wasted their time. The Darwinism effect of only having their robocalls

answered by people who are vulnerable to their scams is counteracted, at least a little.

If they have to spend more time dealing with the sanctimonious they lose money and have way less fun.

So let’s put Marin County’s well-known reputation for social progress to work to solve this pesky problem. Imagine if enough people in the 415 and 707 area codes wasted their time and tried to earnestly convert them—robocall telemarketer scammers might avoid the entire Bay Area—and peace and harmony would reign again.

And if the whole country tried a little sanctimony with telemarketers? So easy, quick and amusing, in a weird sort of way.

Federal Trade Commission, you can send the $50,000 to me care of the Pacific Sun. Or call—I’ll answer the phone. < Give Julie a call at 415/485-6700.

Make sure ‘Rachel from Cardholder Services’ regrets violating the Do Not Call list.

< 8 Newsgrams Marin City); and the Point Reyes sheriff’s substation, (101 Fourth St., Point Reyes Station).

Due to popular demand, a second surrender date is scheduled for Mondya, Jan. 21, from 11am to 8pm at the San Rafael Police Department and the Mill Valley Police Department (1 Hamilton Dr.).

Marin County Supervisor Kate Sears issued a press statement this week expressing her “whole-hearted” support for the gun buy-back program.

“Now is the time to make our communities safer by removing weapons that can easily fall into the wrong hands or be misused accidentally,” said Sears. “At one level, this is all about guns—access to guns and the ever-increasing firepower of guns. It is also about our values.”

For info, contact the DA at 415/747-2241.

In computer lawsuit, county settles for less The county of Marin and Deloitte Consulting announced a settlement last week over the remaining litigation from the county’s $35 million suit over the implementation of its notoriously botched financial-management system six years ago.

The supposedly state-of-the-art computer system resulted in a series of accounting problems and financial-management errors.

The county originally alleged that Deloitte Consulting had used insufficiently skilled workers in a rush job to install an untested financial system; much of that charge was dismissed last year by a U.S. District Court.

The remaining dispute involved the scope of work that Deloitte Consulting had been contracted to perform; in this week’s settlement the county agreed to receive a rebate of $3,875,000 from the computer consultants out of the $11 million in fees paid to Deloitte for its work while the system was being implemented from 2005 to 2007.

In all, the county has spent about $5 million in legal fees on the case.

In addition to the computer-system suit settlement, the county also dropped its remaining fraud claim and its allegations of “improper influence” of former county auditor Ernest Culver who managed the project. “While the county remains concerned about the activities of its former employee, evidence uncovered after the complaint was filed revealed that Deloitte Consulting did not improperly influence the employee,” county officials said via a press statement.

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FRIDAY, JAN. 18 The Descent A good

idea for attractive young women: Don’t go into any cave that has looming background music. (2005) IFC. 8pm.

Hobo with a Shotgun Wasn’t this part of the NRA’s school security proposal? (2011) TMC. 10pm.

The Bucket List Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play a pair of cancer-stricken codgers who set out to complete a to-do list before they die. Nicholson’s list includes “buying all existing copies of Wolf and burning them.” (2007) TBS. 10pm.

using the Internet to network with other serial killers. So if one of your Facebook friends needs more shovels and bleach for a Farmville plot, you might want to alert authorities. Fox. 9pm.

TUESDAY, JAN. 22 The Road Warrior In a dusty desert world where gasoline is paid for in blood, desperate factions battle to secure a prized petroleum cache. But it’s not the MidS AT U R DAY, J A N. 19 dle East. (1981) AMC. 6pm.

Hawaii Five-0 When a talk The Beaver A depressed radio host is killed, investoymaker becomes tigators not only have to unhinged and begins find a suspect, they have to communicating through a record replacement spots beaver puppet. It sounds promoting Sleep Number like an awesome addition mattresses and the Shane to traditional therapy and Company. CBS. 9pm. maybe a fun twist for the Ghost Rider: Spirit of 2016 presidential debates.

Vengeance Something to (2011) TMC. 9:35pm. watch while you wait for Secrets of a Trophy Wife Nicolas Cage’s next outing in the role: “Ghost Rider: While he’s at it, Nicholson may want It’s a reality show and there are actually several “trophy” Spirit of I’ll Do Anything for to add ‘Man Trouble’ to his bucket wives. Maybe one or two a Paycheck.” (2012) Starz. list... Friday at 10. of them have secrets that 9pm. don’t involve Pilates and Botox. TLC. 10pm.

Blades of Glory Banned from the ice, two The Tonight Show This makes it official: male figure skaters exploit a loophole that Dana Carvey is still famous-ish. NBC. allows them to skate as a pair. When you 11:35pm. reach a certain density of sequins, does gender even matter? (2007) ABC. 9pm.

SUNDAY, JAN. 20 Finding Bigfoot

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 23 Hannah Montana: The Movie Worried that stardom has

Examining footage from the early ‘60s that places Bigfoot in Dealey Plaza loitering outside the Book Depository. Animal Planet. 7pm.

Biggest Loser Marathon When they’re showing a solid four hours on a January evening, they’re trying to tell you something. NBC. 7pm.

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gone to her head, Hannah’s father takes her back to his hometown to re-acquaint her with country values. We’re guessing these are the country values that don’t involve cheap beer, spitting tobacco, NASCAR and the NRA. (2009) Disney Channel. 8:30pm.

NOVA A report on drones and whether we should be saying “Drones don’t kill people. People kill people and luckily very few people have drones because they’re dangerous and it’d be stupid to let everybody have one.”

KQED. 9pm.

Meatball Paradise We heard it was on top of spaghetti, all covered in cheese. And then someMichael Madsen gives an earful in ‘Reser- thing went wrong. Travel voir Dogs,’ Thursday at 9.

Channel. 11pm.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Capt. Jack Sparrow is back, this time hunting for the fountain of youth with Penelope Cruz, who, from what we can tell, already found it. (2011) Starz. 7pm.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams’ book is brought to the screen but with a warning to male viewers that frequent recitations of dialogue and references to plot elements can quickly turn it into “The Hitchhikers Guide to Never Getting a Second Date.” (2005) IFC. 7:15pm.

The Bachelor This is the third week, which traditionally means three of the women are given the choice of a rose, a Nordstrom shopping spree or getting their dignity back. ABC. 8pm.

The Following This new series centers on the hunt for an escaped serial killer who is

THURSDAY, JAN. 24 Project Runway They’re introducing the new contestants tonight. It’s time to start your “who’ll cry first?” betting pool. Lifetime. 8pm.

There’s Something About Mary Ben Stiller plays a lonely guy who hires a private detective to locate a girl he had a crush on in high school in the film that taught us that stalking isn’t just personally rewarding. It’s darn funny! (1998) AMC. 8pm.

Reservoir Dogs Male bonding goes awry.

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Not out of the water yet...

As the feds denied the oyster farm lease, lengthy extensions were granted to Point Reyes ranchlands— so why are some farm supporters still bleating mad?

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n Nov. 29, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the National Park Service would not renew the Drakes Bay Oyster Company’s lease at Drakes Estero in the Point Reyes National Seashore, which was set to expire Nov. 30.

It was the much-anticipated ruling on an issue that has divided the West Marin community for years.

“I have directed the National Park Service to allow the permit for the Drakes Bay Oyster Company to expire at the end of its current term and to return the Drakes Estero to the state of wilderness that Congress designated for it in 1976,” said Salazar in the public decision. “I believe it is the right decision for Point Reyes National Seashore and for future generations who will enjoy this treasured landscape.”

That decision, however, has not marked the end of the debate raging in West Marin, but has only fueled larger fears pitting the National Park Service against local ranchers.

“Getting rid of the oyster farm is just part one,” says Phyllis Faber, co-founder of the Marin Agricultural Land Trust and a former nine-year member of the California Coastal Commission. Faber is not the only person who believes that a collection of smaller issues, combined with the oyster farm eviction, demonstrates an aim to make ranching unviable for the historic dairy ranches that are also within national parkland

on the Point Reyes Peninsula. Those workers’ families who live on the propranches operate via leases with the Naerty and tearing out 19 million oysters. tional Park Service, which are renewed (State law regulates the transportation every 10 years. of live oysters.)

“The park is on a mission to put While debate has raged over the last these guys out of business,” says Faber, few years about the environmental a Mill Valley resident. impact of the oysters in Drakes Estero, The oyster farm, which sits on the Salazar’s decision primarily referred edge of Drakes Estero, has been in to the legal requirements that nonoperation since the 1930s, but became recreational commercial operations be part of the Point Reyes National Seabanned from federal wilderness areas. shore upon the park’s creation in 1972.

In 1976, Congress designated The park issued a 40-year lease for the Drakes Estero and about 33,000 acres land to what was then Johnson’s Oyster in the Point Reyes National Seashore Farm; in 2004, with seven years left on as wilderness and potential wilderthe lease, the Johnson family sold the ness areas. In national wilderness areas oyster operation to Kevin and Nancy there cannot be commercial operaLunny, who also own a cattle ranch tions, except for those that enhance the nearby. The lease they purchased was wilderness experience for visitors, such set to expire in 2012, but Kevin Lunny as tour companies, says Amy Trainer, has said they have operated under the executive director of the Environmenunderstanding that the lease would be tal Action Committee of West Marin. renewed under the renewal clause.

“The oyster company doesn’t fit into The Lunnys filed a lawsuit fighting those well-defined uses,” says Trainer. the decision to let the lease expire Trainer and a number of other and a motion for a preliminary environmental groups have filed injunction to allow them to continue a motion of intervention against operations until the lawsuit is settled. the Lunny lawsuit, which would in in es The injunction will be heard in essence make them a co-defencourt on Jan. 25. dant along with the National “We believe that the Park Service. “We’re trying by decision by the secretary was to represent the public Kelly unlawful,” says Kevin Lunny. interest,” she says.

O'Mara As it stands now, the oyster O O O O farm must be out by March 15,, THE OYSTER COMPANY’S dee d which Lunny said would include buildings and houses on shore are demolishing the houses of the 30

within what the national seashore has designated as the “pastoral zone.” All the other ranches in the park are also within the pastoral zone, which has been designated for commercial activities such as ranching. But, where the oysters actually are grown and live, in the water in the outer part of the estero, is within the designated potential wilderness area.

Trainer and other supporters of Salazar’s decision have argued that the intention of the 1976 act was always to turn the potential wilderness into a fully designated wilderness area after the private lease expired. If a commercial operation was allowed to continue in an area set aside to become wilderness, it would set a bad legal precedent for other national parks, says Trainer.

“Congress heeded the call of the public [at that time],” says Trainer, as to the creation of the wilderness designation. It is the only marine wilderness area on the West Coast outside of Alaska.

Lunny argues that the law was misinterpreted because a clause gives the federal government the power to ignore other laws and allow the farm to continue operation.

Lunny also argues that the oyster farm, in fact, does enhance the experience for visitors, a notion Faber agrees with. They argue that the oysters help clean the water, that the plastic debris they clean up is left over from the 122> JANUARY 18 - JANUARY 24, 2013 PACIFIC SUN 11

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< 11 Not out of the water yet previous farm owners, that they provide education and tours to kids, that it’s a popular spot for visitors and that the harbor seals are left undisturbed (except, possibly, by recreational kayakers).

“We just happen to be the stewards today,” said Lunny. “This is a Marin County tradition.”

Although multiple reports were developed by scientists on both sides, the environmental impact statement, required by federal law, was supposed to take into account community comments and create a definitive answer on most of those environmental questions. However, say Lunny supporters, it only became available about a week before Salazar made his decision, around the same time he visited Point Reyes on Nov. 21. Under federal law, environmental impact reports have to be filed with the EPA and made public for a 30-day comment period.

Salazar said, in his decision, that he’s allowed to bypass the federal law requiring the environmental impact statement under the same clause that Lunny cites as proof that the federal government could bypass the congressional wilderness designation. This, too, is a complaint in the Lunny lawsuit.

And there are other issues that aren’t articulated in the lawsuit, says Lunny.

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THOUGH LUNNY SAYS he doesn’t want to speak for all the ranchers, he feels that a number of smaller issues are making ranchers feel as though the park is attempting to drive them out.

The park, for example, reintroduced herds of tule elk to Tomales Point in 1978 (the elk had been hunted to depletion in the area by the beginning of the 20th century). In 1998, further conservation efforts by park officials led to moving 28 elk to the area south of Limantour Beach.

The elk now, say some ranchers, are grazing on many of the ranches around Limantour, taking the feed and water the cows would otherwise eat and, in some instances, requiring the ranchers to bring in outside feed, which can cause them to lose their organic certification.

The park has said that, under federal law, it needs a new management plan for the elk, which would require an expensive environmental impact report. Without the money to develop that plan, there’s simply not much it can do.

“The elk are in the process of chasing out several of the ranchers,” says Faber.

Another issue, says Lunny, is that the park has started sand dune restoration, removing non-native plants from the dunes. However, those plants were originally planted by the park to keep the sand in place and without them, sand has blown into the ranches, covering water ponds and fences, which allows the cows to get out.

These are all smaller issues, he acknowledges, and the ranchers want to work with the park, but it starts to add up.

Faber suspects—and she says she was told this by a former park official—that closing down the oyster farm is just the first step. Next, she says, environmental groups will target cow manure run-off to shut down the ranches.

Current park superintendent Cicely Muldoon has said before, however, that the park has a long history of working with the ranches and has no intention of driving them out.

“That’s not even close to a goal,” echoes Trainer.

In fact, in light of these concerns, Salazar directed the park to extend the ranch leases from 10 years to 20 years.

But when the leases were extended from five to 10 years in 2007, concerned ranchers point out, that came with a stipulation from the park that a capital improvement project is required for the longer period of the lease.

Lunny says that Salazar has also agreed to meet with the ranchers’ association to discuss some of the issues they’re facing— an important step.

“Ranching operations have a long and important history on the Point Reyes Peninsula and will be continued at Point Reyes National Seashore,” said Salazar in his decision.

With the ranches in the national park accounting for 22-23 percent of agriculture in the area, many in West Marin are hoping he means it; those ranches, they say, are the backbone of the agricultural infrastructure of the county.

Still, Faber isn’t convinced.

“The park is threatening all of Marin’s agriculture,” she insists.

But, it doesn’t have to be that way, says Lunny.

“There were decades of a great relationship with the [Point Reyes National] Seashore,” he says. “We wish we could get back to that.” < Email Kelly at kellydomara@gmail.com.

›› MUSiC

SFJazz lays down roots Groundbreaking nonprofit breaks ground—SFJazz Center grand opens Jan. 21

Hicks will offer something resembling songs at his upcoming 142 Throckmorton revue.

by G re g Cahill

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fter years of planning, and funded by more than $55 million in donations, the new home of SFJazz is finally ready to open its doors. “The point of the project is that it’s not about any individual, or even any city—it’s a whole community, a whole art form coming together to do something where the sum total is so much larger than any of us,” said SFJazz trustee and novelist Robert Mailer Anderson, a fifth generation Marin native who has spearheaded the fundraising campaign for the new concert hall and education facility, the only all-jazz venue of its type on the West Coast.

On Jan. 21 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day), Anderson and other dignitaries will be on hand at the ribbon-cutting ceremony dedicating the concert hall at the corner of Franklin and Fell, in San Francisco’s culture gulch.

Two nights later, comedian, actor and jazz enthusiast Bill Cosby will host the sold-out opening-night all-star concert featuring McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Esperanza Spalding, Joshua Redman, Joe Lovano, Bobby Hutcherson, Mary Stallings, John Handy, Pete Escovedo and Eric Reed. Also appearing

The SF Jazz Center, ‘where the sum total is so much larger than any of us,’ according to trustee Robert Mailer Anderson.

that night are the SFJAZZ Collective, and the new SFJAZZ Center resident artistic directors: violinist Regina Carter, guitarist Bill Frisell, pianist Jason Moran, percussionist John Santos and saxophonist Miguel Zenón, among other special guests.

Upcoming weeklong programs will feature singer Tony Bennett, guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Dave Holland, percussionist Zakir Hussain, the Afro-Cuban All-Stars, banjo wiz Bela Fleck, songs of the Weimar Republic

(with Ute Lemper) and a showcase of such Bay Area artists as Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers.

The hall also will provide educational programs for students at the Marin School of the Arts and elsewhere.

For the past 30 years, the nonprofit SFJazz organization has hosted its acclaimed annual jazz series at a patchwork of churches and concert halls throughout San Francisco. The center’s opening marks a new chapter in a rich

tradition of jazz in the city that has included the musical influence of such Beat poets as Jack Kerouac. In the 1940s and ’50s, jazz was an integral part of the scene in the Fillmore District, which was known as the Harlem of the West. From 1949 until 1963, the Tenderloin hosted the Black Hawk nightclub, which featured Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and others. Billie Holiday dropped in for her last West Coast show, as did Dave Brubeck and a host of other jazz greats. Johnny Mathis got his start there.

Tickets to all upcoming SF Jazz concerts are $50, $100 and $150.

Learn more about the concert schedule at sfjazz.org.

Random notes: The recently opened Hopmonk Tavern in Novato is getting into a heavy blues groove Saturday, Jan. 19, with heavyweight blues guitarist Coco Montoya, a former axeslinger with the late legend Albert “the Iceman” Collins and British bandleader John Mayall (who knows a thing or two about guitarists: his bands have featured Eric Clapton, Peter Green of the original Fleetwood Mac, and Mick Taylor of the Stones). Doors open at 8:30pm. Tickets are $17 advance; $20 at the door.

Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks will premiere what the eclectic Mill Valley musician is calling “a revue of lingual lyrical loquaciousness with a propensity toward levity in the form of song,” Friday, Jan. 25, at 8pm, at 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley. Tickets are $25-$35.

In another blast from Marin’s past, the Hoodoo Rhythm Devils, a staple during the ’80s at the long defunct Uncle Charlie’s in Corte Madera, will regroup Sunday, Jan. 27, at 8pm, at the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley. The group is fronted by the gritty R&B singer Glenn Walters, who from 1986 to 1990 also held down the vocal duties for the popular Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra. Tickets are $20. < Hum a few bars to Greg at gcahill51@gmail.com.

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his month really is “the winter of our discontent.” Everyone I know has one virus or another, or knows someone who does, or is just getting over one. I am among the unlucky and the task of writing a food feature has never been quite so daunting.

I’ve been giving lots of thought, though, to how we deal with sustenance during these attacks. At first we feel so awful there’s no way we want to even think about eating. Lucky people have helpmates who tend to their needs; others of us fend for ourselves. We lie abed wishing someone would just come in and take care of everything. We try to keep hydrated and warm (or cool, when there’s fever), sad souls sipping juice, water, herbal tea. We close our eyes and imagine just what would make us feel better, please us. This is when we resemble petulant children, going back to childhood for memories of comfort food in its truest meaning.

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crackers lined up beside it, and a dish towel to use as a napkin for this meal in bed. Depending on the kind of flu, later there might be cream of tomato soup and half a toasted cheese sandwich (not grilled), and ginger ale.

My all-time knock-down-drag-out favorite treatment came when my grandmother would get wind of my malady and appear at our house with a cut-glass bowl of her homemade boiled custard—crème Anglaise—sippable, cold and sweet. She considered this invalid food and I was her willing invalid.

An informal survey of Facebook friends turned up some intriguing and personal takes on childhood comforts. Joe Seta and Jude Lutge, both now living in Mendocino County, had two of the most appealing, he with his Italian favorite, pastina (tiniest bits of pasta, ethnic baby food) with butter and Parmesan, and Jude’s “Toast and tea with a spoon of raspberry preserves stirred in.”

Elizabeth Parker in Texas agreed, “Toast, yes! (with butter and strawberry preserves for me, please).” Two nominations were for tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, and perhaps the biggest surprise came from Lauren Sayer in Virginia: “Pop Tarts, Tang, Coca-Cola, pb&fluff...like any child of the ’70s.” Forbidden foods for the fallen.

Nowadays I proceed from water crackers to toast to rice and broth. Last week instead of rice, I craved grits. As the regimen grew it included a scrambled egg, a baked potato, then very plain chicken (thank God for organic birds off the rotisserie!). I slowly returned to the land of the living.

Not quite lively enough yet to start delving into exciting new cuisine, I decided that the best subject to cover is simple, salubrious foods that are delicious, easy to make, good for bodies that need to make a gradual trip back. They’re great wintertime food even when we’re hale and hearty.

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This first recipe stars one of my dependable basics, an organic russet baked potato.

If it seems odd to print instructions for such a no-brainer, please take a look. Judith Jones, the eminent gifted editor for such cookbook heroes as Julia Child and James Beard (among many others), wrote a beautiful volume after becoming a widow, The Pleasures of Cooking for One. This is a favorite, well worth learning. If you’re sickly, eat your potato plain or with butter or beneficial yogurt. Of course the recipe can be multiplied. I use my reliable toaster oven to finish the baking.

Stuffed Baked Potato There is something about a baked potato that is so comforting that many of us eating alone enjoy making a meal of it. You can

Feed a cold, starve a fever—or is it the other way around? According to straightdope.com it’s neither. Ignore the old wives’ tale; most doctors suggest that those under the weather should simply eat their usual amount.

enhance it with whatever seems appealing— a generous dollop or two of sour cream or yogurt or butter, some chopped scallions, a few tasty mushrooms, and/or a bit of leftover green vegetable. Some like a melty cheese or a strong accent, such as anchovy and olives, and if you happen to have some leftover ratatouille or fried eggplant and peppers, they marry well with the mealy roasted Idaho. Also, bacon, ham or a bit of cracklings will add a meat accent, if you want that.

Since a large potato takes about an hour to bake in the oven, a good way of hurrying it along is to microwave it on high for 7 minutes, then put it into a 400-degree oven to crisp for about 10 minutes. When it is tender—pierce with the point of a knife to make sure—slit the top open, squeeze the hot potato to open it up and spoon as much stuffing as you like into it. The filling should be at room temperature.

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When you are fortunate enough to have someone preparing food for you during a bout of flu, ask for this nourishing soup. It’s from Abruzzi, where people who live in the mountainous region know something about winter’s chill.

Minestra di Riso e Sedano Rice and Celery in Chicken Broth Serves 6 to 8

2 tablespoons olive oil 2 ounces pancetta or bacon, finely chopped 1 medium onion, cut into 1/2-inch dice 4 medium ribs celery, thinly sliced Salt 2 tablespoons tomato puree 8 cups canned low-sodium chicken broth 1 cup rice, preferable Arborio 3/4 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley

Heat the oil in a large soup pot over medium heat. Add pancetta and sauté until it is lightly browned, about 5 minutes.

Add the onion, celery and a pinch of salt, and sauté until the onion begins to turn golden, about 5 minutes. Stir frequently. Add the tomato puree and the broth. Increase the

‘heat to high and bring to a boil.

Add the rice, then reduce the heat to a very slow but steady simmer. Cover and cook until the rice is al dente, about 15 minutes.

Serve in warmed bowls, each serving sprinkled liberally with the grated cheese and parsley.—Adapted from a recipe by Joe Famulare, who credits Ristorante Tre Marin in L’Aquila, Italy

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Once it’s time for a bit more seasoning and substance, a lentil soup is ideal—especially one with warming spices and healthful lemon.

Try this one from Melissa Clark.

Red Lentil Soup with Lemon Serves 4

3 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for drizzling 1 large onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 tablespoon tomato paste 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, or more to taste 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper Large pinch of ground chile powder or cayenne pepper, or more to taste 4 cups chicken or vegetable broth 2 cups water 1 cup red lentils, picked over and rinsed 1 large carrot, peeled and diced Juice of half a lemon, or more to taste 3 tablespoons chopped cilantro

Heat the oil in a large pot over high heat until hot and shimmering. Add the onion and garlic and sauté until golden, about 4 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste, cumin, salt, black pepper and chile powder and sauté for 2 minutes. Add the broth, water, lentils and carrot and bring to a simmer, then partially cover the pot and turn the heat to mediumlow. Simmer until the lentils are soft, about 30 minutes. Taste and add salt if necessary.

Using an immersion or regular blender or a food processor, puree half the soup, then return it to the pot; don’t over-puree it, the soup should be somewhat chunky. Reheat the soup if necessary, then stir in the lemon juice and cilantro. Serve drizzled with olive oil and dusted lightly with chile powder if desired. < Contact Pat at patfusco@sonic.net.

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CHASE AWAY THE BLAHS Settle in for a warming winter dinner at Poggio in Sausalito during chef Peter McNeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual celebration of bollito misto (an assortment of long-simmered meats with an array of sauces). These are served tableside, meats carved to order on an imported Italian cart (Monday-Wednesday until the end of March). Add even more comfort with McNeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ribillito: twice-cooked minestrone thick with beans. Reservations: 415/332-7771...Once a local seasonal tradition in these parts, bounteous crab feeds are now few and far between. Discover old time fun at the YMCA Crab Feed & Silent Auction (Jan. 19, 5-9pm). For $45 per person, the menu includes all-you-can-eat crab plus jambalaya, with a no-host bar. At the Youth Zone, kids can gobble pizza snacks and enjoy crafts or watch a movie, $15 per child.

This takes place at San Rafael Community Center, 618 B Street. Information: Nick Stone, 415/446-2178...Up for an excursion? Winter Wineland, sponsored by Wine Road of Northern Sonoma, arrives Jan. 19-20 in the Alexander, Dry Creek and Russian River valleys with rare tastings, tours, food and chances to absorb the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history. An advance ticket is $45 ($35 for Sunday only), $5 for designated drivers or $55/$45 on the dates. Schedule and details: www.wineroad.com or 800/723-6336.

ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GOOD FOODS WEEK The first national award program to recognize businesses for environmental and social responsibilities in addition to taste criteria, Good Food Awards has brought conscience to competition. This weekend the 2013 winners will come from all over the country to be acknowledged and to introduce their products in a public marketplace at San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ferry Building (Jan. 19, 9am-2pm). Among them will be three hometown heroes: Mill Valley Beerworks (Four Brothers Ale), Barinaga Ranch (Txiki sheep cheese) and Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Co. (Bay Blue cheese). Visitors can check out nine categories of foods from five regions of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;think Gruyere cheese from Georgia, pickled garlic scapes from Massachusetts, chocolate from Hawaii made from coconut milk, caramel, ginger and triple cacao. A Beer & Spirits Garden will be showcasing righteous booze ($15 admission).

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Check out www.visitmarin.org...San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dine About Town runs through Jan. 31 with an easy-to-remember system: $18.95 for a 2-3-course lunch and $36.95 for a 3-course dinner. Participating restaurants: www.dineabouttown.com. Restrictions apply, reservations are appreciated.

YOU BE THE JUDGE Loving Spoonfuls: Marinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Soup and Dessert â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and Appetizer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Challenge is coming up Jan. 26 (noon-3pm), when local professional chefs and amateur cooks compete with imaginative treats. Everyone at this spoon-fed afternoon event gets to vote along with a panel of judges.

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y interest in Mary Pickford and her tively in its business long after her retirement remarkable achievements in the film from acting. industry began in the early 1990s. I These highlights of Pickford’s career were was in college, majoring in women’s studies seldom noted, let alone detailed, in many of with a focus on cinema and history. Pickford, the film histories I read in college. And, when Hollywood’s first movie star and a supremely I turned to feminist film scholarship for more powerful figure in the industry, seemed a information, I found little enthusiasm for the fascinating research subject. star. Though feminist writers acknowledged In 1909, Pickford, a 16-year-old stage ac- her renowned business sense, they countered tress, began making one-reel shorts for di- with often scathing critiques of her movies rector D.W. Griffith at the Biograph studios. and her onscreen persona. Her signature charShe quickly captivated moviegoers with her acter was believed to be a saccharine little girl natural performance style and undisputable who appeared in a series of retrograde stories. charm. Meanwhile, the early 1910s saw the ad- Their verdict on Pickford was of a woman vent of feature film and the rise of Hollywood, who made a career (and a fortune) playing which became the center of regressive characters in an era movie production. In 1914, of female progress. This was Pickford dominated both— harsh and terribly wrong.

COMING SOON when two of her star vehicles, Pickford appeared in Film historian Christel Hearts Adrift and Tess of the more than 200 films between Schmidt will introduce Storm Country, became block1909 and 1933. Until the late a 35mm restoration of buster hits. Her fame skyrock1990s, only a handful of these Sparrows Jan. 31 at eted to unprecedented levels titles were readily available 7pm at the Rafael Film Center and, following and the actress came to symto modern audiences. One the show, will sign bolize what the movies—still movie, the 1926 feature Sparcopies of Mary Pickford: thought to be second-class enrows, was available to me for Queen of the Movies. tertainment—could be: beauresearch. It was a revelation. tiful, lucrative and important.

In Sparrows, Pickford Two years later, at age 24, does play a character much Pickford signed a landmark contract that younger than her actual age, but one who is made national headlines and stunned indus- almost a woman. And, yes, she is good, kind try insiders. She received a breathtaking week- and loving. These are admirable traits in any ly salary of $10,000 (at the time, the median era, but in Sparrows they provide balance annual income in America was $750), making to the harsh Dickensian world she lives in. her one of the country’s richest women. More More important, and striking after what I startling, at least to the movie had read, the character is colony, the actress was given also heroic and strong. The her own production company, young woman is a fighter, the Pickford Film Corporanever afraid to do battle tion, though she did not gain even against forces much complete creative control over greater than herself. her work. Then, in 1918, when The divide between what her contract expired, Pickford others had written about topped herself by accepting an Pickford and what I saw in offer from a rival studio that Sparrows led me on a 15gave her even more money and year journey that has ended total freedom as a producer. in my book, Mary Pickford: Her position was unmatched Queen of the Movies. The by any woman in Hollywood. essays flesh out the details of Still, Pickford was rattled the star’s life and career, and by rumors that movie studios The American Film Institute placed the gorgeous illustrations Pickford, shown here in ‘Sparrows,’ at were planning to rein in star 24th in its list of greatest female stars allow the reader to experience salaries and curb their influ- of all time.

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Radio Flyer was not only filmed in Novato, but actually sets its story in the sprawling suburb, circa the early 1970s. The film depicts the strange plan of two brothers to escape an abusive stepfather by transforming their red wagon into a flying machine.

In this shot, single mom Mary (Lorraine Bracco) and the boys arrive for the first time in Novato, with curious neighborhood kids in tow. Their house is in the Rafael Village area along Ignacio Boulevard, a strip long used to house military families whose parents served across the highway at Hamilton Air Force Base. The larger community surrounding the Rafael Village neighborhood is known as Ignacio—named for Ignacio Pacheco, who was granted the land in the 1840s by the Mexican government. Prior to that, the land was home to a pair of Coast Miwok tribes—the Puyuku and the Shotokmocha— whose villages were just to the south.—Jason Walsh

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Director Nicholas Jarecki surely had the Richard Gere of Internal Affairs in mind when he cast the star to play a billionaire hedge fund manager on the cusp of greatness and disaster in ARBITRAGE. Although the corrupt cop of the former is a much lowerrent version of New York financier Robert Miller, a would-be Bernie Madoff on the deal of his life, Gere’s talent for playing Gere plays a Wall Street billionaire with—surprise!—a swerving moral the twin registers of com- compass. petence and sleaze electrifies both films. The script, written by Jarecki, finds Miller in a high-stakes game of liar’s poker with his investors, moving millions around to get his balance sheet looking good in anticipation of selling the company. But the effects of his lavish lifestyle have taken him on a sharp left turn, and Miller is now embroiled in a whole new kind of ugly, ducking calls from homicide investigator Tim Roth, putting off a visit to the hospital to have his wounds looked at, even shining on his suspicious CFO daughter (Brit Marling). One thing is clear: Until his angel buyer signs on the line, every moment is frozen. Susan Sarandon co-stars as a society wife with her own gift for turning the Miller empire when it suits her.—Richard Gould

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‘Troublemaker’ a playful imp, until third-act meltdown...

Movie summaries by Matthew Stafford

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ike its lead character, Bradley Boatright, serves as a protective shield against the Berkeley Rep’s Thrust Stage produc- formal discourse of their adult masters. tion of Dan LeFranc’s Troublemaker Their speech is littered with softened versuffers from an identity crisis. For Bradley, sions of “grown-up” epithets—the most it’s the question of how he can fulfill the re- popular being “freakin,” which is repeated sponsibility to protect his mother, which he so often that if you removed half of them believes fell on his shoulders when his father the play would probably be shortened by 15 died while saving them from the effects of a minutes. Neologisms are tossed freely about car accident. For Berkeley Rep, it’s the ques- and many standard English words are either tion of how to deal with a script that begins abbreviated or acquire a different meaning. as a quirkily original, ofFor those who dabble in ten hilarious satire of the Twitter, the verbal landworld as seen through the scape will undoubtedly be eyes of an angst-ridden familiar.

12-year-old “tween,” but In the company of his ends with one of those best (and only) buddy, uncomfortably melodraMikey Minkle (Chad matic summing-up scenes Goodridge), and female familiar to viewers of daygroupie Lorette Beretta time TV family dramas.

(Jeanna Phillips), Bradley While neither dilemsets out on a journey to ma is ever fully resolved, French Canada, which the first two of Troublehe hopes will save him maker’s three acts are a from reform school and highly entertaining justihelp him understand who fication of LeFranc’s subhe is. Along the way the title, “The Freakin’ Kick-A threesome have some adAdventures of Bradley ventures, including an enBoatright.” In an approach counter with a homeless that recalls J.D. Salinger’s pirate (or so he appears portrait of Holden Caul- Mikey, Lorette and Bradley set out to find from the stuffed parrot field in Catcher in the Rye, themselves, and Canada, in Berkeley Rep’s attached to his shoulder) LeFranc invites the au- latest. and the blossoming of a dience to live inside his brief romance between protagonist’s head as he struggles against an Bradley and Lorette. The trek can’t have adult-dominated environment that seems been too long, however, because with the both crazy and threatening. help of brutal Sturgis Drang (Danny Scheie) Challenges lie in every direction: A poor and his tracker hounds he’s soon captured. boy living on the wrong side of the tracks Until this point, Troublemaker has been in an unnamed Rhode Island town, Brad- an amiable coming-of-age saga, with plenty ley (Gabriel King) is tormented by a callous of laughs generated by the comic inventiveschoolmate, Jake Miller (Robbie Tann), who, ness of director Lila Neugebauer and her backed by a pair of sycophantic bullies (Matt talented cast. The shtick does become a bit Bradley and Ben Mehl), is not only physi- overblown at times, but there is plenty of cally abusive but taunts him playful fun to compensate. with the suggestion that his Then we arrive at Act III NOW PLAYING rich father is having an afand the bright colors sudTroublemaker runs fair with Bradley’s mother denly turn a leaden gray. through Feb. 3 at the (Jennifer Regan). There Without going into detail Berkeley Repertory are also truancy problems except to lament a resoluTheatre Thrust Stage, 2025 that lead to clashes with the tion that has mother and Addison St., Berkeley. school principal (Thomas son reconciling by mutuInformation: 510/547-2949 Jay Ryan), fierce arguments ally declaring themselves or berkeleyrep.org. at home when his mother a-holes, I can only say that objects to his deteriorating I find it hard to understand behavior and episodes of how a script that was comacting out with the child welfare authorities missioned by BRT and worked on for more who try to intervene. than a year by accomplished professionals Although these issues sound serious, for could have been brought to a formal openthe first two acts LeFranc treats them in a ing burdened by such a lame ending. This is lighthearted, cartoonish style. His tweens an identity crisis in spades. < live in a kind of alternative universe that Contact Charles Brousse at cbrousse@juno.com.

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Isabelle Huppert as Eve and Jean-Louis Trintignant as Georges in ‘Amour’ opening Friday at the Rafael O Amour (2:05) Critically acclaimed French drama stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva as an elderly Parisian couple battling the realities of old age.

O Argo (2:00) Ben Affleck directs and stars in the true-life story of the Iran hostage crisis and an unbelievable covert operation to rescue six American prisoners.

O Broken City (1:49) One-man vigilante squad Mark Wahlberg takes on corrupt New York City mayor Russell Crowe in a this-time-it’s-personal rampage of vengeance and redemption.

O Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (1:31) Enter the weird and wonderful world of the mesmerizing aerial dance troupe through the wonders of 3D technology.

O Django Unchained (2:45) Quentin Tarantino über-Western about a slaveturned-bounty hunter (Jamie Foxx), his still-enslaved wife (Kerry Washington) and the plantation owner (Leo DiCaprio) who stands in their way.

O Gangster Squad (1:53) The LAPD’s very own Untouchables take on Mickey Cohen, mob boss of 1940s Los Angeles; Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Emma Stone star.

O The Guilt Trip (1:36) La Streisand is back as an overbearing mama who teaches nebbish son Seth Rogen what life’s all about on a cross-country road trip.

O Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (1:28) Scarred by the near-death gingerbreadhouse experience of their youth, the sibs grow up to be vengeance-seeking bounty hunters in form-fitting leather outfits.

O A Haunted House (1:26) Marlon Wayans horror parody about a possessed young bride whose inner demons are interfering with her husband’s sex life; Cedric the Entertainer costars.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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(2:46) Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Balin, Smaug and others return to the big screen;

major must-see for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien or facial hair.

O The Impossible (1:43) A vacationing family learns the true meaning of courage and compassion when they’re caught up in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor star.

O The Intouchables (1:52) True tale of the bond that developed between a disabled French aristocrat and his caretaker, a black Muslim ex-con.

O Jack Reacher (2:10) Lee Child’s enigmatic shamus comes to the big screen in the person of Tom Cruise; Werner Herzog costars!

O The Last Stand (1:46) Our former guv is back, this time as a small-town sheriff pursuing a notorious drug kingpin.

O Life of Pi (2:05) Ang Lee’s adaptation of the Yann Martel novel about an Indian teenager’s challenging odyssey: navigating across the Pacific in a life raft with a hyena, an orangutan and a Bengal tiger.

O Lincoln (2:29) High-pedigree look at the 16th president’s four tumultuous years in office features a screenplay by Tony Kushner and stars Daniel Day-Lewis under the direction of Steven Spielberg.

O Mama (1:40) Jessica Chastain stars as the foster mom of two abducted children who may be possessed by more than posttrauma stress.

O The Master (2:17) Dazzling if overstated Paul Thomas Anderson drama about the Kane-like founder of a Scientology-ish religious sect; Philip Seymour Hoffman stars.

The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Sturada

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(3:20) Mezzo soprano extraordinaire Joyce DiDonato stars in Donizetti’s epic bioopera of Mary, Queen of Scots.

The Metropolitan Opera: Les Troyens

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(5:45) Catch Berlioz’s Trojan War epic live from New York in dazzling big-screen high definition.

O Les Miserables (2:38) All-star adaptation

of the Victor Hugo musical extravaganza stars Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Russell Crowe as Javert and Anne Hathaway as the lovely Fantine.

O Parental Guidance (1:36) Comedy ensues when groovy 20th century couple Bette Midler and Billy Crystal find themselves babysitting their nerdy, entitled 21st century grandkids.

O Promised Land (1:46) Gus Van Sant directs Dave Eggers’ story about two corporate hotshots out of their element in a small town; Matt Damon and Hal Holbrook star.

O The Rabbi’s Cat (1:29) Dazzling 3D animated excursion into the colors and sounds of 1930s French-colonial Algeria.

N New Movies This Week NAmour (PG-13)

Rafael: Fri, Mon 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 Sat-Sun 1, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 Tue-Thu 6:30, 9:15

Argo (R)

Fairfax: 12:50, 6:45 Larkspur Landing: Fri 5, 7:45, 10:35 Sat-Mon 11:30, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:35 Tue-Thu 7:15, 10:15 Northgate: 1:35, 4:35, 7:40, 10:25

NBroken City (R)

Northgate: 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (PG)

Northgate: 3D showtime at 1:50

Django Unchained (R)

Fairfax: 12:40, 4:05, 7:50 Larkspur Landing: Fri 7, 10:30 SatMon 11:40, 3:20, 7, 10:30 Tue-Thu 6:30, 10 Regency: Fri, Sun-Tue 12:15, 4, 7:55 Sequoia: Fri-Sat 3:25, 7, 10 Sun 11:45, 3:25, 7 Mon, Tue, Thu 4, 7:30 Wed 2:30

Gangster Squad (R)

Fairfax: Fri-Sun 12:30, 4:25, 7, 9:40 Mon-Thu 12:30, 4:25, 7 Larkspur Landing: Fri 5:15, 8, 10:40 Sat-Mon 11:45, 2:30, 5:15, 8, 10:40 Tue-Thu 7, 9:45 Northgate: 11:55, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25

The Guilt Trip (PG-13)

Northgate: 5, 7:35, 10

NHansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (R)

Rowland: Thu 10pm

A Haunted House (R)

Northgate: 12:35, 3, 5:25, 8, 10:25 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:25, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45

The Hobbit: An Unexpected J ourney (PG)

Northgate: 12:20; 3D showtimes at 4:15, 8:10

The Impossible (PG-13)

Lark: Fri 5:15, 8 Sat 2:30, 5:15, 8 Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7 Mon-Thu 4:15, 7 Regency: Fri, Sun-Tue 11:30, 2:20, 5, 7:50 Sequoia: Fri 4:50, 7:30, 10:30 Sat 11:25, 2, 4:45, 7:20, 10:30 Sun 11:25, 2, 4:45, 7:20 Mon, Tue, Thu 4:20, 7:05 Wed 4:20

Riff Trax Live: “Manos” The Hands of Fate (2:00) The interplanetary wiseasses

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of Mystery Science Theater 3000 aim their verbal stilettos at what is often considered the worst film ever made.

O Rise of the Guardians (1:37) Fantastical family-friendly fare about a group of ultra-powerful good guys who team up to protect the planet’s children from a marauding evil spirit.

O Rust and Bone (2:02) Marion Cotillard stars as a water-park animal trainer who forms a relationship with a Belgian bouncer raising a young son.

O Silver Linings Playbook (2:02) David O. Russell comedy about a down-and-outer’s attempts to rebuild his life after losing his wife and his job and moving in with his parents; Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro and Jennifer Lawrence star.

O This Is 40 (2:14) Judd Apatow’s “Knocked Up” sequel finds Pete and Debbie dealing

Cary Grant classes up the Côte d’Azur in ‘To Catch a Thief,’ playing Wednesday at the Regency and Sequoia.

with the realities of married bliss; Leslie Mann, Paul Rudd and Albert Brooks star.

O To Catch a Thief (1:46) Gorgeous Hitchcock comedy-thriller about a retired jewel thief (Cary Grant), a wealthy tourist (Grace Kelly) and their cat-and-mouse romance on the French Riviera.

O Wreck-It Ralph (1:38) Disney flick about a disgruntled video-game villain who wants to be the good guy for a change and hops from arcade game to arcade game to establish his heroic cred.

O Zero Dark Thirty (2:37) Kathryn Bigelow’s brutal docudrama about an elite team of ops and agents and their decadelong hunt for Osama bin Laden. <

Marion Cotillard in ‘Rust and Bone,’ opening Friday at the Regency.

The Intouchables (R)

Rafael: Fri, Mon 3:35, 6 Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:35, 6 Tue-Thu 6

Jack Reacher (PG-13)

Northgate: 4:20, 7:15, 10:10

NThe Last Stand (R)

Northgate: 11:30, 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 9:55 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35

Life of Pi (PG)

Fairfax: Fri-Sun 3:50, 9:30 Mon-Thu 3:50 Marin: Fri, Sun 12:30; 3D showtimes at 3:55, 7:15, 10:10 Sat 3:55; 3D showtimes at 7:15, 10:10 Mon, Tue, Thu 4:30; 3D showtime at 7:20 Northgate: 12:55; 3D showtimes at 4, 7:05, 10:20

Lincoln (PG-13)

Fairfax: 12:35, 3:55, 7:15 Playhouse: 4:25, 7:40 Sat-Mon 1:10, 4:25, 7:40 Regency: Fri 11:45, 3:10, 7, 10:15 Sun-Tue 11:45, 3:10, 7

NMama (PG-13)

Northgate: 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20

The Master (R)

Rafael: 8:20

NThe Metropolitan Opera: Maria Sturada

Lark: Sat 9:55am Marin: Sat 9:55am Regency: Sat 9:55am Sequoia: Sat 9:55am

(Not Rated)

Showtimes can change after we go to press. Please call theater to confirm schedules.

CinéArts at Marin 101 Caledonia St., Sausalito • 331-0255 CinéArts at Sequoia 25 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley • 388-4862 Cinema 41 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera • 924-6505 Fairfax 9 Broadway, Fairfax • 453-5444 Lark 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur • 924-5111 Larkspur Landing 500 Larkspur Landing Cir., Larkspur • 461-4849 Northgate 7000 Northgate Dr., San Rafael • 800-326-3264 Playhouse 40 Main St., Tiburon • 435-1234 Rafael Film Center 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael • 454-1222 Regency 80 Smith Ranch Rd., Terra Linda • 479-5050 Rowland 44 Rowland Way, Novato • 800-326-3264

The Metropolitan Opera: Les Troyens (Not Rated)

Marin: Wed 6:30 Regency: Wed 6:30 Sequoia: Wed 6:30

Les Miserables (PG-13)

Larkspur Landing: Fri 7:15, 10:40 Sat-Mon 12:15, 3:45, 7:15, 10:40 Tue-Thu 6:45, 10:10 Northgate: 12:05, 3:45, 7:20 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12:25, 3:50, 7:15, 10:40

Parental Guidance (PG)

Northgate: 1:25, 4:05, 6:55, 9:40

Promised Land (R)

Northgate: 11:40, 2:30, 5:05, 7:55, 10:30

NThe Rabbi’s Cat (Not Rated)

Rafael: Fri, Mon 4:30, 6:45, 8:45 Sat-Sun 2:30, 4:30, 6:45, 8:45 Tue-Thu 6:45, 8:45

RiffTrax Live: “Manos” The Hand (Not Rated)

Regency: Thu 7:30

Rise of the Guardians (PG)

Northgate: 11:50, 4:40; 3D showtime at 2:15

NRust and Bone (R)

Regency: Fri 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Sun-Tue 1:25, 4:20, 7:15

Silver Linings Playbook (R)

Fairfax: Fri-Sun 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:35 Mon-Thu 1:10, 4, 6:50 Marin: Fri, Sun 1, 4:10, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 10:15, 1, 4:10, 7:30, 10:10 Mon, Tue, Thu 4:45, 7:30 Northgate: 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:25, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30

This Is 40 (R)

Northgate: 7:10, 10:15

NTo Catch a Thief (Not Rated)

Regency: Wed 2, 7 Sequoia: Wed 2, 7

Wreck-It Ralph (PG)

Northgate: 11:35, 2:25

Zero Dark Thirty (R)

Cinema: Fri-Wed 11:45, 3:20, 7, 10:30 Fairfax: 1, 4:15, 7:30 Marin: Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:40, 7, 10:20 Mon, Tue, Thu 4:15, 7:40 Playhouse: 4:15, 7:30 Sat-Mon 1, 4:15, 7:30 Regency: Fri 12:05, 1:55, 3:50, 5:40, 7:30, 9:20 Sun-Tue 12:05, 1:55, 3:50, 5:40, 7:30 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:40, 7, 10:20

JANUARY 18 – JANUARY 24, 2013 PACIFIC SUN 21

SUNDiAL Highlights from our online community calendar— great things to do this week in Marin

Check out our Online Community Calendar for more listings, spanning more weeks, with more event information »pacificsun.com/sundial

Live music 01/18: The Acacia Collective Jam band.

9:30pm. $8. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 464-7420. www.perisbar.com.

01/18: Curtis Lawson R&B, soul, rock, country. 9pm. $10. Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Drive, Sausalito. 331-2899. www.sausalitoseahorse.com.

01/18: Dgiin 9:30pm. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. www.sleepingladyfairfax.com

01/18: Doc Kraft Dance Band With Special Guest Johnny Z Swing, Latin, country, reggae, rock, zydeco. 8:30pm. $5. Fort Baker Presidio Yacht Club, Fort Baker Road, Sausalito.

601-7858. www.dockraft.com.

01/18: Dore Coller and Bermudagrass Americana, bluegrass, reggae. Join Dore, Willow, Dan, Ned, Paul and David as they return to the front room for the first time this year. 8pm. No cover. Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio. 662-2219. www.ranchonicasio.com.

01/18-19: Furthur 7:30pm. Fri.-Sat. Sold out shows. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera, Mill Valley. 388-3850. www.sweetwatermusichall.com.

01/18: J-Stalin Rap. 10pm. $15. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091. www.19broadway.com.

01/18: Michael Pinkham’s Jazz Jam 9pm.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon, 41 Wharf Road, Bolinas. 868-1311. www.smileyssaloon.com.

01/18-23: Terrapin Family Band 9pm Fri.-Sat.; 3pm Sun.; 8:30pm Wed. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael.

524-2773. www.terrapincrossroads.net 01/19: Breaking Bread With members of Vinyl and Monophonics. 9:30pm. $8. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.

464-7420. www.perisbar.com.

01/19: Freddy Clarke and Wobbly World Jazz, funk, world music. 9pm. $10. Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito.

331-2899. www.sausalitoseahorse.com.

BEST BET Keep the dream alive What better way to honor the memory of the late Martin Luther King Jr. than to get out and give back to the communities in which we live? There are many ways to honor Dr. King every day—volunteering at a local nonprofit like MarinLink or Homeward Bound of Marin, working to protect our ecosystems, being kind to strangers (regardless of what they look like) or donating funds to the organizations that do this work. This week, two local organizations are hosting ‘In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends’—MLK events that should be celebrated.

First, Marin County Human Rights Commission celebrates with its 31st annual MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. HUMANITARIAN AWARDS, honoring several local individuals and their selfless contributions to the world of human and civil rights here in Marin. Along with an awards ceremony, the event includes dinner, a no-host bar and entertainment.

Thursday, Jan. 24, at 5:30pm (dinner at 6:30pm) at Four Points Sheraton, 1010 Northgate Dr., San Rafael. $15-$45. Visit www.marinhrc.org for tickets.

Next, the Marin Osher JCC hosts its LEGACY BALL, which raises funds for the many scholarship programs it sponsors to ensure accessibility to programs at the center. The festivities include live entertainment, a silent auction and raffle and childcare for a low fee. Saturday, Jan. 26, at 7pm, Osher Marin JCC, 200 N. San Pedro Rd., San Rafael. Ticket pricing starts at $100. Visit www.marinjcc.org for more information.—Dani Burlison 22 PACIFIC SUN JANUARY 18 - JANUARY 24, 2013

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01/19: Johnny Vegas and the High Rollers Rock. Fight leukemia fundraiser. 9pm. $20 donation. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax.

459-1091. www.19broadway.com.

01/19: Kyle Alden 9:30pm. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. www.sleepingladyfairfax.com

01/19: The 7th Sons Rock and Roll Dance Party Rock. With Jake Baker, Eugene Huggins, Mark Banning, Kurt Huget and Kim Carrigg. 8:30pm. $8. Presidio Yacht Club, Travis Marina, Fort Baker, Sausalito. 847-2670. www.The7thSons.com.

01/19: The Tickets Band “Air Tight Alibi” tour. Locally grown rock and roll. 8:30pm. $10.

Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio.

662-2219. www.ranchonicasio.com.

01/19: Tommy Igoe Big Band Musicians from Santana, the Doobie Brothers, Boz Scaggs and Tower of Power are featured. 8pm. $25.

142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600.

142throckmortontheatre.org.

01/19: Wasted Noise 9pm. Smiley’s Schooner Saloon, 41 Wharf Road, Bolinas.

868-1311. www.smileyssaloon.com.

01/20: Keep the Dream Alive: Celebrate Martin Luther King’s Life Live gospel music jam. Reception with Debbie Sweeney and Christy Michaels and guest speaker Lewis Brown Griggs. 7:30pm. $20. Unity in Marin, 600 Palm Dr., Novato. 475-5000. www.unityinmarin.org.

01/20: Lady ‘D’ sings jazz and soul classics Standards with Alex Markels, guitar and Jack Prendergast, bass. 6pm. No cover. Panama Hotel, 4 Bayview St, San Rafael. 497-2462. www.panamahotel.com.

01/20: Ray Obiedo & the Urban Latin Jazz Project 6:30-10pm. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. www.sleepingladyfairfax.com 01/20: Sanchez 9pm. $20-25. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091. www.19broadway.com.

01/20: Spark and Whisper Folk duo. 4pm.

No cover. Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio. 662-2219. www.ranchonicasio.com.

01/20: Sunday Salsa with Julio Bravo Salsa. 5pm. $10. Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. 331-2899. www.sausalitoseahorse.com.

01/20: The Jammists 9:30pm. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 464-7420. www.perisbar.com.

01/22: Core-Tuesday With Danny Uzilevsky, guitar/vocals. 9pm. No cover. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091. www.19broadway.com.

01/22: Gravel Spreaders Bluegrass 9:30pm.

Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax.

464-7420. www.perisbar.com.

01/22: Lorin Rowan Solo acoustic guitar and vocals. 7pm. No cover, dinner encouraged.

Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. 457-3993. www.panamahotel.com.

01/23: Inner Riddim Reggae Sky- opens.

9pm. No cover. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091. www.19broadway.com.

01/23: Michael on Fire Americana. 8pm. $17.

Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera, Mill Valley. 388-3850. www.sweetwatermusichall.com.

01/23: Stages of Sleep Brainy rock.

9:30pm. Free. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 464-7420. www.perisbar.com.

01/24: Danny Click and Friends 9pm. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. www.sleepingladyfairfax.com 01/24: Mark’s Jamm Sammich Jam rock with local musicians. 9:30pm. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 464-7420. www.perisbar.com.

01/24-26: Ramble, God Street Wine With Phil Lesh, John Kadlecik and Jeff Chimenti. 7pm. $65. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael. 524-2773. www.terrapincrossroads.net

01/24: Rushad Eggleston and Lily Henley Mystical cello wizardry; singer/fiddler double bill. 8pm. $16. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera, Mill Valley. 388-3850. www.sweetwatermusichall.com.

01/24: The Demetria Trio Afro-Cuban Latin jazz. 8pm. No cover. Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito.

331-2899. www.sausalitoseahorse.com.

01/24: Wendy DeWitt and Kirk Harwood Boogie Woogie, jazz. 7pm. No cover, dinner encouraged. Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. 457-3993. www.panamahotel.com.

01/25: Beso Negro and This Old Earthquake Double trouble. 8:30pm. $10-12. Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio.

662-2219. www.ranchonicasio.com.

01/25: Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks “I Feel Like Singin!” Singer-songwriter, jazz, folk and country. 8pm. $25. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley.

383-9600. www.142throckmortontheatre.org.

01/25: Fenton Coltfoot and the Right Time Funk, reggae, rock. Pure cane opens.

9pm. $10. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway, Fairfax.

459-1091. www.19broadway.com.

01/25: The Gravel Spreaders Bluegrass.

9pm. Smiley’s Schooner Saloon, 41 Wharf Road, Bolinas. 868-1311. www.smileyssaloon.com.

01/25: Ooh! ‘It’s Friday Night!’ Local, original music. With special guest Andalusia Rose.

10pm. No cover. Fourth Street Tavern, 711 Fourth St., San Rafael. 454-4044.

01/25: Rusty Evans’ Ring of Fire Johnny Cash tribute, rockabilly, rock. 9:30pm. $8.

Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.

464-7420. www.perisbar.com.

01/25: Sunday Salsa with Edgardo and Candela Salsa. 9pm. $10. Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito.

331-2899. www.sausalitoseahorse.com.

01/25: The 7th Sons Rock. 6:30pm. No cover. The Taste of Rome, 1000 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 847-2670. www.taste-of-rome.com.

01/25: The Taters With Curtis Lawson.

auditions for their spring 2013 dance concert at 6pm Jan. 18 and at noon Jan. 19 in the new Dance Center. Dancers needed with experience in ballet, modern, jazz, musical theatre or hip hop. 6pm. Free. College of Marin Performing Arts Theatre Building Room 92, Corner of Sir Francis Drake Blvd and Laurel Ave., Kentfield.

485-9460. www.marin.edu/performingarts.

9pm. $10. Sausalito Seahorse Supper Club, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. 331-2899. www.sausalitoseahorse.com.

01/25: Tim Flannery Americana at its best, played by an American sports legend who is also a talented musician. 8pm. $23. Sweetwater, 19 Corte Madera, Mill Valley. 388-3850. www.sweetwatermusichall.com.

01/25: Wonderbread 5 9:30pm. Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 842 Fourth St., San Rafael. 226-0262. www.georgesnightclub.com.

01/25: Yes! Benefit Show 9:30pm. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax.

485-1182. www.sleepingladyfairfax.com

ied group exhibition. 11101 Hwy. One, Pt. Reyes Station. 663-1347. www.galleryrouteone.org

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Through 01/31: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Made up Stories from an Imagined Pastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Exhibition of new paint-

01/18-01/25: Super Scene Fast paced, theater competition featuring six directors creating unique, improvised stories. 8pm. $1720. Bayfront Theater, B350 Fort Mason Center, S.F. 474-6776. www.improv.org.

Theater 01/18: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Real Americansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Written and performed by Dan Hoyle. 8pm. $25. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600. www.142throckmortontheatre.org.

01/24: Stapleton Theatre Company Auditions â&#x20AC;&#x153;Honk!â&#x20AC;? general auditions at 6:30pm Jan.24 and Jan. 28 (pick one).

Callbacks on Jan. 31. Performances at The Playhouse May 3-12. Stapleton School of the Performing Arts, 118 Greenfield Ave., San Anselmo. 454-5759. www.stapletonschool.org.

Through 02/17: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Pack of Liesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hugh Whitemoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play based on a true story about espionage during the Cold War. See website for schedule. $10-26. Barn Theatre, MAGC, 30 Sir Francis Drake, Ross. 456-9555. www.rossvalleyplayers.com.

Concerts 01/18: Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir 8pm. $20-25. Sebastopol Community Cultural Center, 390 Morris St., Sebastopol. 707-823-1511. www.seb.org.

01/20 and 22: Marin Symphony: Romantic Passions The first program of the New Year in the symphonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 60th Season.

With Nigel Armstrong, violin. Alasdair Neale conducts works by Bruchâ&#x20AC;&#x161; Glinka and Tchaikovsky. Pre-concert talks begins one hour before performance time on both days and is free for ticket holders. 3pm. Jan 20; 7:30pm Jan. 22. $10-70. Marin Veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Memorial Auditorium, 10 Ave. of the Flags, San Rafael.

479-8100. www.marinsymphony.org.

01/20: Throckmorton Chamber Players Inspired evening with works by Mozart, Schumann and Granados. Featuring Elizabeth Prior, viola; Natalie Parker, clarinet; Joe Bloom, piano and Helene Zindarsian, soprano. 7:30pm. $20. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600. www.142throckmortontheatre.org.

Art Through 02/03:â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Out of the Blueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Annual jur-

ings by Inez Storer. Full color catalog with essay

by Maria Porges available. 6pm. Free. Seager Gray Gallery, 23 Sunnyside Ave., Mill Valley.

384-8288. www.seagergray.com.

Through 02/05: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Works on Waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Group exhibition of thirty artists who explore the aesthetics and politics of water, including water consumption, quality, scarcity, pollution and reclamation. Marin Community Foundation, 5 Hamilton Landing #200, Novato. 464-2527. www.marincf.org.

Through 02/07: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Passages: From Representational to Abstractâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Marin Society of Artists, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross.

454-9561. www.marinsocietyofartists.org.

Through 02/09: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Manifestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; M. GermĂĄn Herrera, photographs. Smith Anderson North, 20 Greenfield Ave., San Anselmo. 455-9733. www.smithandersonnorth.com

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SPARK & WHISPER Jan 20 Northern Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Premier Folk Duo

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Kids Events

Readings

01/18: ‘Agent Cody Banks 2 5:30-7:30pm.

01/18: Narada Michael Walden In “Whit-

$10, includes film, popcorn and pizza. Belvedere Tiburon Library,1501 Tiburon Blvd., Tiburon. 789-2662. www.bel-tib-lib.org

ney Houston: The Voice, the Music, the Inspiration,” producer Walden shares his intimate stories of their time together, drawing a portrait of a smart, funny, compassionate woman. 7pm.

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

01/19: Barbara Hubbard The author presents her new novel “Beyond Bitterroot.” 4pm.

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

01/19: Mark Maynard Maynard presents “Grind,” a collection of short stories centered around Reno. 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com.

01/18: Sing-Along with Sara Sonnet For ages 0-4. 10:30am. Free. San Rafael Public Library,1400 Fifth Ave., San Rafael. 485-3322 01/19: Aaron Ableman Join Ableman and friends as they present a musical storytelling experience in conjunction with his children’s book “Pacha’s Pajamas.” 1pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera.

927-0960. www.bookpassage.com.

01/19: Kids Origami Workshop Marco Carbullido from Kent Middle School and Grace Lightner, from Tamalpais High School will give origami instruction. For ages 8 and older, please. 2pm. Free. Corte Madera Library, 707 Meadowsweet Dr., Corte Madera.

924-6382. www.marinlibrary.org.

01/19: Rebecah Freeling: Puppetry for Preschoolers Freeling is a master storyteller, experienced early childhood educator, and parent coach. Her stories, both original and drawn from the folk and fairy tale traditions from around the world, are enhanced by handmade table puppets and simple marionettes. 11am.

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

01/21: Nature for Kids: Mt Burdell Take a winter walk at this beautiful preserve looking for cold weather critters. If the group feels adventurous, they might head up to Hidden Lake to spy newts and frogs. No animals (except service animals) please. Rain may cancel. If questionable weather, call 893-9527 on the morning of the walk. 10am. Free. Mt. Burdell Open Space, San Andreas Dr., Novato.

893-9508. www.marincountyparks.org.

01/23: Storytime with Ballerina Sierra Glasheen 11am. Free. Corte Madera Library, 707 Meadowsweet, Corte Madera. 924-4844. www.marinlibrary.org.

01/21: SoVoSo “From the Soul to the Voice to the Song .” A capella ensemble. 11am and 12:30pm. Bay Area Discovery Museum, 557 McReynolds Road, Sausalito. 339-3900. www.badm.org.

Outdoors 01/19: Winter Bird Walk Led by sanctuary manager Kerry Wilcox. View and learn about the waterfowl, shorebirds and songbirds that visit the Sanctuary. Beginner and advanced birders of all ages welcome. 8:30-10:30am. $7.

Richardson Bay Audubon Center, 376 Greenwood Beach Road, Tiburon. 388-2524. www.richardsonbay.audubon.org 01/23: White Hill Hike Aim for lunch at the summit, but make the 1,000 foot ascent at a pace that will allow plenty of time to look for mushrooms, birds, and other wildlife along the way. This walk is for adults. No animals (except service animals) please. Heavy rain may cancel.

If questionable weather, call 893-9527 on the morning of the walk. 10am. Free. White Hill Preserve, Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax.

893-9508. www.marincountyparks.org.

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01/21: Coffee and Sustainability: Panel Discussion Join moderator Hanna Neuschwander; Christopher Bacon, environmental professor at Santa Clara University and James Freeman, founder of Blue Bottle Coffee Co., for a discussion about future and sustainability of the coffee bean. Followed by a book signing and reception with refreshments. 6pm. $5 donation. Port Authority Board Room, 1 Ferry Building, S.F. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com.

01/22: Tracy Kidder “Good Prose”explores three major nonfiction forms: narratives, essays and memoirs. Co-authors Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems can get solved. 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com.

01/23: Cooks with Books: Joanne Weir The James Beard award-winning chef, demystifies cooking techniques and gives the home chef recipes for main courses. Written as the companion cookbook to her new TV show, “Joanne Weir’s Cooking Confidence,” it will put the mojo back into your kitchen. 6:30pm. $110 per person, $170 per couple. Left Bank, 507 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 926-0960. www.bookpassage.com.

01/23: Oliver Burkeman Burkeman discusses “The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking.” 7pm.

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

01/24: Clayborne Carson The author presents his memoir, “Martin’s Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.” 7pm.

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

01/25: Thien Pham The author discusses his novel, “Sumo.” 6pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com.

Community Events (Misc.)

01/18: Book Passage Wine Tasting Come and celebrate the new year with some new wines to taste. Enjoy tasting, a glass, paired treats and oenophile company. 5pm. $12. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera.

927-0960. www.bookpassage.com.

01/18: Rama Jyoti Vernon: ‘Resolving Conflicts in our Lives using the Yoga Sutras’ The peace prize recipient’s Center for International Dialogue is invited to war-torn

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Happy 30th birthday, BOLINAS MUSEUM! To celebrate three decades at that lovably eccentric corner of the Marin coast, the museum hosts a new exhibit in the history room:“Mapping the Land” features maps of Marin throughout the last 100-plus years.

The museum also features the work of the late sculptor Carl Dern—who was well-known for his gorgeous furniture and chandeliers—”Sacred Grove,” photography by Michael Starkman and Maya Whitner’s “Conceptual Motion.” A preview event, focusing on the life and The works of Carl Dern will be on display this month as the Bolinas Museum celebrates its 30th anniversary. works of Carl Dern, gets things started at 2pm, with the exhibit opening immediately after. Saturday, Jan. 19, 2-5pm at Bolinas Museum, 48 Wharf Rd., Bolinas. As with all of the museum’s events, this exhibit is free. www.bolinasmuseum.org.—Dani Burlison

areas around the world to help parties reach peaceful resolution to their conflicts. Fluent in Sanskrit and trained by yoga masters starting with BKS Iyengar and Sri Aurobindo, her process for resolving conflict is rooted in Yoga Sutras. 6pm. $30. Stress Management Center of Marin, 1165 Magnolia Ave, Larkpsur.

461-2288. www.smcmarin.com.

01/18: The Holotope: Discover where Science, Art and the Sacred Meet Computer generated geometric artwork. Sound and music are integrated into the experience which can allow people to commune with higher dimensions of self through resonance alignment. 7pm. $20. Academy of Intuition Medicine, 2400 Bridgeway, Suite 290, Saulsalito.

381-1010. www.intuitionmedicine.com.

01/19: Bay Area Environmental Education Resource Fair Check out the latest programs and dynamic workshops from over 70 bay area environmental organizations. There will be a variety of opportunites for people interested in wildlife, ecology, adventure and environmental education. 10am. $8-12, under 6 free. Marin Center Exhibit Hall, 10 Ave. of the Flags, San Rafael. 473-3778. www.baeerfair.org.

01/19: Spiritual Dimensions of Yoga With Rama Jyoti Vernon. Learn about an approach to using the breath as a way to open the spine to enhance asana and enliven your day to day. 1:30pm. $45-55. Unity in Marin, 600 Palm Dr., Novato. 461-7553. www.unityinmarin.org.

01/19: Virginia Simpson-Magruder: Express Yourself: The Art of Altered Books Come discover the art of altering books and journals. Through easy techniques and a rainbow of art supplies, take a used book and transform it into your own object d’art.

Materials included. 1pm. $50. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com.

01/19: Wantology: Finding Out What You Really Want with Jean Slatter Slatter is a traditional naturopath and life coach. She is author of “Hiring the Heavens.” 1:30pm. $5 donation ASD members, $7 non-members.

Corte Madera Town Center, 770 Tamalpias Dr. Adm. Bldg. 2nd floor, Corte Madera. 564-6419.

01/20: Rug Info Workshop Learn a bit of rug history, basic repair and maintenance, damage prevention, about rugs as art, appraisal and value. 2pm.Free. Shahin Rug Gallery, 831 Fourth St., San Rafael. 457-7847. www.shahinruggallery.

01/20: Green Sangha Marin Chapter Retreat President of Sustainable San Rafael, Bill Carney, will reflect on sustaining personal creativity while cultivating change within the community. 10am.Free. Please call for directions. Private location, San Anselmo.

(510) 532-6574. www.greensangha.org.

01/22: SIR Branch 47 Luncheon Program Michael Pritchard will be the speaker for the Sons in Retirement, Branch 47 program. He began his career as a standup comedian and also has been a juvenile counselor in the area of violence prevention. 11:30am. $23, includes lunch and talk. Marin Country Club, 500 Country Club Dr., Novato. 457-4576.

01/22: So You Want to Start a Business: Business Planning Workshop Focus on financial projections, marketing and strategic plans to get off to a great start or take your existing business to the next level. First of a three part series. 6pm. $20. Venture Greenhouse, 30 Castro Ave. San Rafael.

(707) 595-0060.

01/23: Digital Camera Basics Learn about basic functions of your digital camera. Explore exposure settings, metering, auto focus, use of flash, file size and type. Please bring your camera and manual to the class. Advance registration required. 6pm. Corte Madera Town Center Community Room, 770 Tamalpais Dr. Ste. 201, Corte Madera. 927-1938. www.rei.com/outdoorschool.

01/24: Rea Franjetic: Galapagos, Peru, & Bolivia Discover the best ways to access Darwin’s ecological find; Peru’s Machu Picchu, the Incan treasures, the beauty of the Andes and lesser traveled Bolivia. 6:30pm. $25. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera.

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by Lynda Ray

Week of January 17- January 23, 2013

ARIES (March 20 - April 19) Ready for a crowd? There’s a striking emphasis on groups, friendship and humanitarian causes this week. Sorry, independent one.

Going off as a solo adventurer is not in the stars. Align yourself with all living beings on the planet. (Remember, until we colonize Mars, we’re all sharing the same bit of intergalactic real estate.) Go on then, tune into the collective unconscious. Carl Jung would be so proud.

TAURUS (April 20 - May 19) Your reputation is in the spotlight for the next month. For better or worse, the changes you’ve made in your professional life are being acknowledged. Whether you made positive changes or ill-advised ones will determine if you’ve helped or hindered your career in the last year. Expect assistance from your ruler (charming Venus) in the success-oriented sign of Capricorn.

Just think of it as your own personal planetary PR firm.

GEMINI (May 20 - June 20) Dig out the passport. You are raring to go somewhere. Second best is hooking up with someone from a faraway land. Third best, but still satisfying, is broadening your horizons via higher education. If you’re not in the mood for any of the above, something is wrong.

A forged birth certificate perhaps? Or, more likely, you’re still in denial that an astrological forecast could possibly have any validity in your logic-ruled life...

CANCER (June 21 - July 21) A plethora of activity in the highly impersonal sign of Aquarius may make you just a bit touchy. The emphasis on “rational” thinking seems to be uncomfortably different from your intuitive thought processes. Well, don’t worry. You don’t have to fight them, or join them.

In the current atmosphere of Aquarian tolerance, it would be politically incorrect for anyone to criticize your “irrational” behavior patterns. Although, they may be secretly recorded for YouTube...

LEO (July 22 - Aug. 22) Even the strongest and most competitive of you may be overwhelmed by the planetary opposition this week. No matter what your beliefs or desires, they would seem to be the antitheses of current popular opinions. This is one of those times when swallowing your pride could be the answer. You’ll find it more productive to compromise. No one is asking you to give up your throne. But, in the current climate of universal sibling-hood, you might want to offer to share it...

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 21) There’s a big planetary pileup that focuses on your job this week.

But, don’t think in terms of a routine workweek. Look for projects that can show off your creative side. Use your brilliant combination of wit, intelligence and innovative talents to help you excel at something completely different. Your after-hours schedule should include a new style of exercise, something that inspires and excites you. Martial arts may be good, unless there is the potential for a more exciting type of physical activity...

LIBRA (Sept. 22 - Oct. 22) Express yourself. That’s the big message coming to you this week.

Whether it’s through art, words, music or dancing on rooftops, you are encouraged to reveal (and revel in) your talents. Your ruler (Venus) occupies the ambitious sign of Capricorn, causing you to look at your skills with a more pragmatic eye—like “how can I use them for fame and fortune?” Hmm. The fortune may be challenging, but, depending upon which rooftop you’re dancing, the fame is a possibility.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) Are you moving, redecorating or renovating your home? Ideas for changing your residence could be dominating your thoughts. In fact, your remodeling ideas are likely to be quite good. You should either start pounding or hire someone who can follow your instructions. Or you may be focusing on your family instead. No, you can’t renovate your family, but you might be able to change the way you think about them. Go ahead. Give it a try. What can it hurt?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 20) You do love impressing people with your store of facts. You seem to know a little bit about nearly everything. But right now you need to be reminded to listen. Communication is supposed to be a two-way street. At the moment, you’re inclined to want to show off your ideas without regard for anyone else’s. You wouldn’t have that reservoir of information if it weren’t for the multitude of other minds that contributed to it. Here. Let me help you down off of that high horse.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 21 - Jan. 18) For you, the accumulation of money is more a symbol of success than an actual goal in and of itself. Nevertheless, you’re not naive about the power it holds. This week you focus on creative avenues for obtaining financial security. You can step outside the box without losing your footing or your reputation for practicality. Mountain goats are quite sure-footed, you know. Keep your eyes looking up and your feet will take care of the rest.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 19 - Feb. 17) Birthday 2013, which begins Saturday, is certainly a fascinating one.

Excitement, inspiration and curiosity are the primary elements influencing your personality house.

Your upcoming year offers opportunities for intuitive insights, enlightening visions and enhanced intelligence. For those of you who find some of the above a bit too cosmic, refer to your psychic experiences as scientific hunches. Labels won’t turn off the flow. Whether you think it comes from your mind, your heart or interplanetary space rays, it still works.

PISCES (Feb. 18 - March 19) You are quite the escape artist when you want to be. And this week, you probably want to get away from it all. Or at least away from mundane reality. Your dream life is vivid and exciting and your waking hours are spent in a state of fantasy. That’s great—providing you don’t have to operate heavy, medium or light machinery; perform surgery or dentistry; fill out forms for your bank, the IRS or your upcoming audition for American Idol.

Ah, yes, your fantasies, hard at work. < Email Lynda Ray at cosmicclues@gmail.com or check out her website at http://lyndarayastrology.com/Lynda_Ray_Astrology/Starstream_Forecast.htm 26 PACIFIC SUN JANUARY 18 - JANUARY 24, 2013

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 130997 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as LE GARAGE, 85 LIBERTY SHIP WAY STE 109, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: OLINO INC., 85 LIBERTY SHIP WAY STE 109, SAUSALITO, CA 94965. 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 DECEMBER 18, 2012.

(Publication Dates: DECEMBER 28, 2012; JANUARY 4, 11, 18, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2012130996 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as FAST FOOD FRANCAIS, 85 LIBERTY SHIP WAY STE 109, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: BOS GROUP INC., 85 LIBERTY SHIP WAY STE 109, SAUSALITO, CA 94965. This business is being conducted

by A CORPORATION. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on DECEMBER 18, 2001. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on DECEMBER 18, 2012.

(Publication Dates: DECEMBER 28, 2012; JANUARY 4, 11, 18, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 130977 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as DIGITAL SOLUTIONS PLUS; DESIGN SOLUTIONS PLUS, 4302 REDWOOD HIGHWAY SUITE 300B, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: MEHJAR ESMAILI, 137 LAURELWOOD DR., NOVATO, CA 94949; CLIFFORD HILLMAN, 137 LAURELWOOD DR., NOVATO, CA 94949. This business is being conducted by A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on JANUARY 1, 2001. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on DECEMBER 14, 2012. (Publication Dates: DECEMBER 28, 2012; JANUARY 4, 11, 18, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 130986 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as HJ FRIEDMAN CO; THE ANTIQUE JEWELER, 775 E. BLITHEDALE AVE. SUITE 110, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: HANK FRIEDMAN, PO BOX 297, MILL VALLEY, CA 94942. 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 DECEMBER 17, 2012.

(Publication Dates: DECEMBER 28, 2012; JANUARY 4, 11, 18, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131018 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as TIBURON MASSAGE, 2477 SPANISH TRAIL RD., TIBURON, CA 94920: MARGARET A LEVINE, 2477 SPANISH TRAIL RD., TIBURON, CA 94920.

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 DECEMBER 21, 2012. (Publication Dates: DECEMBER 28, 2012; JANUARY 4, 11, 18, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 130994 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as NEWFANGLED PRODUCTS, 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 began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on DECEMBER 17, 2012. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on DECEMBER 18, 2012. (Publication Dates: DECEMBER 28, 2012; JANUARY 4, 11, 18, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 130875 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as BENTLY ENTERPRISES, 240 STOCKTON ST. 8TH FLOOR,

SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108: BENTLY PRESSURIZED BEARING COMPANY, 1711 ORBIT WAY, MINDEN, NV 89423.

This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. 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 NOVEMBER 29, 2012. (Publication Dates: DECEMBER 28, 2012; JANUARY 4, 11, 18, 2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2012130847 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as MICHAEL HEACOCK ARCHITECT INC; MICHAEL HEACOCK ARCHITECTS, 203 E. BLITHEDALE SUITE E, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: MICHAEL HEACOCK ARCHITECT INC, 203 E. BLITHEDALE SUITE E, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. This business is being conducted

by A CORPORATION. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on NOVEMBER 26, 2012. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on NOVEMBER 26, 2012.

(Publication Dates: DECEMBER 28, 2012; JANUARY 4, 11, 18, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2012131004 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as AFFINITY ERICSON, 27 MILBRAE AVE., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: RICHARD H. CHILDERS, 27 MILBRAE AVE., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on DECEMBER 19, 2012.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on DECEMBER 19, 2012. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2012131014 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as SOYSTERS, 30 WILLOW WAY, TOMALES, CA 94971: VICTORIA HANSON, 30 WILLOW WAY, TOMALES, CA 94971.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on DECEMBER 13, 2012. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on DECEMBER 20, 2012. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 304428 The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of a fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder's Office.

Fictitious Business name(s): KIM SPA, 716 4TH ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. Filed in Marin County on: DECEMBER 26, 2012.

Under File No: 2011126283. Registrant’s Name(s): XI LIAN RUAN, 3486 DAVIS ST., OAKLAND, CA 94601. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on DECEMBER 26, 2012.

(Publication Dates: JANUARY 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 304430 The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of a fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder's Office.

Fictitious Business name(s): SAILPLANE DESIGN; NIFHA, 4 FRIAR TUCK LANE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. Filed in Marin County on: FEBRUARY 8, 2010. Under File No: 123203. Registrant’s Name(s): SV SITUM INC., 4 FRIAR TUCK LANE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on DECEMBER 28, 2012.

(Publication Dates: JANUARY 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 130918 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as WHY COMPLY, 200 SO. ST. #4, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: STACY BEZYACK, 200 SO. ST. #4, 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 ClerkRecorder of Marin County on DECEMBER 5, 2012. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131041 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as CTG CONSULTING SERVICES, 23 BAYVIEW DR., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: SYLVIA GILL CHILDRENSWEAR COLLECTIONS, 860 EIGHTH ST. #240, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. 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 DECEMBER 28, 2012.

(Publication Dates: JANUARY 4, 11, 18, 25, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 31028 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as CARPE DIEM FAMILY AUTO, 580 IRWIN ST. #7, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: CARPE DIEM FAMILY AUTO, 580 IRWIN ST. #7, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903. 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 DECEMBER 26, 2012.

(Publication Dates: DECEMBER 21, 28, 2012; JANUARY 4, 11, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2012131053 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as INFINITE ABUNDANCE, 153 PARK ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: KRISTIN MORRISON, 153 PARK 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 JANUARY 2, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on DECEMBER 28, 2012.

(Publication Dates: JANUARY 11, 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 130992 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as CALDERON TRUCKING, 35 ROSS ST. #1, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: ALEX CALDERON, 35 ROSS ST. #1, 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 DECEMBER 18, 2012.

(Publication Dates: JANUARY 11, 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131045 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as ALTERNATIVE MOTHERS GROUP, 40 SALVATORE DR., NOVATO, CA 94949: ALTERNATIVE MOTHERS GROUP, 40 SALVATORE 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 DECEMBER 28, 2012. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 11, 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131112 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as REVIVE RX, 932 ALTURAS WAY, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: MARCUS R FILLY, 554 MONTFORD AVE., MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. 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 JANUARY 4, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 11, 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 13112 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as H. KOCH AND SONS, 15 KOCH ROAD, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925: MAURICE J. KOCH, 5050 BUSINESS

CENTER DR. SUITE 108 PMB 396, FAIRFIELD, CA 94534; JOSEPHINE MOSK, 5050 BUSINESS CENTER DR. SUITE 108 PMB 396, FAIRFIELD, CA 94534; PAMELA CONNICK, 5050 BUSINESS CENTER DR. SUITE 108 PMB 396, FAIRFIELD, CA 94534; SANDRA DEDINA, 5050 BUSINESS CENTER DR. SUITE 108 PMB 396, FAIRFIELD, CA 94534; MICHAEL ABEL, 5050 BUSINESS CENTER DR. SUITE 108 PMB 396, FAIRFIELD, CA 94534; H. DAVID ABEL, 5050 BUSINESS CENTER DR. SUITE 108 PMB 396, FAIRFIELD, CA 94534. This business is being conducted by A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on JULY 1, 1904. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JANUARY 7, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 11, 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131144 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as PA'S MEXICAN – FILIPINO CUISINE, 916 B ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: LUCILA GUILLEN, 111 MARINA BLVD., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901; CARLOS SOLIS, 875 BISELL ST., RICHMOND, CA 94801. This business is being conducted

by CO-PARTNERS. 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 JANUARY 9, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131048 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as FLOWER SPA, 716 A 4TH ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: JOSEPH GU, 2615 13TH AVE., OAKLAND, CA 94606.

This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on JANUARY 1, 2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on DECEMBER 28, 2012. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131131 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as CITY BUILDERS, 1537 4TH ST. #174, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MAX C WILLIAMS, 1537 4TH ST. #174, 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 N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JANUARY 8, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131146 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as SACRED SITE-SEEING TOURS AND TRAVEL, 5580 LA JOLLA BLVD. #396, LA JOLLA, CA 92037: SILVIA BARATTA, 5580 LA JOLLA BLVD. #396, LA JOLLA, CA 92037. 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 JANUARY 9, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131166 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as THE GREEN RESEARCH GROUP, 39 FORBES AVE., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: MIKE GREEN, 39 FORBES AVE., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960; JOAN GREEN, 39 FORBES AVE., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. This business is being conducted

by A HUSBAND & WIFE. 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 JANUARY 10, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8,2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013131190 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as FOURTH WAY, 46 MT. MUIR CT., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: JEFFREY BERLIN, 46 MT. MUIR CT., 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 DECEMBER 27, 2012. This statement

was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JANUARY 14, 2013.

(Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131056 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as BRANFORD VENTURES; YELLOW FERRY HARBOR, 10B YELLOW FERRY HARBOR, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: CHRISTOPHER TELLIS, 10B YELLOW FERRY HARBOR, SAUSALITO, CA 94965.

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 DECEMBER 28, 2012. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131209 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as SKG, 18 GLEN AVE., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: SUSAN G KLAUSNER, PO BOX 3204, SAN RAFAEL, CA 949123204. 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 JANUARY 15, 2013. (Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131147 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as HEAVENLY SKIN & BODY CARE, 1368 LINCOLN AVE. SUITE 205, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: ROSAVEL JOZO DIAZ, 1114 LINCOLN AVE. APT B, 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 SEPTEMBER 3, 2012. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on JANUARY 9, 2013.

(Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 131055 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business as BRIAN POWELL & ASSOCIATES, 10 H ST., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: BRIAN W. POWELL, 10 H ST., 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 DECEMBER 28, 2012.

(Publication Dates: JANUARY 11, 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 2013)

ALL OTHER LEGALS ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1205354. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner YVONNE CAMERON filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: YVONNE CAMERON to GABRIELLE LEBLANC; BRANDON PIERRE ROSS TO BRANDON PIERRE LEBLANC. 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: FEBRUARY 19, 2013 9:00 AM, Dept. L, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 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: NOVEMBER 30, 2012 /s/ LYNN DURYEE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (Publication Dates: DECEMBER 28, 2012; JANUARY 4, 11, 18, 2013 ) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY

OF MARIN. No. CIV 1300025. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JOHN HUYNH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: JOHN HUYNH to ALAN K WONG; QUAN H HUYNH TO JULIE H WONG; BRANNON HUYNH TO BRANDON WONG; BAILEY HUYNH TO BAILEY WONG; BIANCA HUYNH TO BIANCA WONG. 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: MARCH 5, 2013 8:30 AM, Dept.

B, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. 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: JANUARY 3, 2013 /s/ ROY O CHERNUS, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (Publication Dates: JANUARY 11, 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 2013) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BARBARA KECK. Case No. PR-1300154. To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of BARBARA KECK. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: GAIL HARRISON in the Superior Court of California, County of MARIN. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that GAIL HARRISON 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: FEBRAUARY 11, 2013 at 8:30AM. 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 94903. 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: JOAN C RODMAN, 1629 FIFTH AVE., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. (415) 2590593. Publication Dates: JANUARY 18, 25; FEBRUARY 1, 8, 2013)

››ADViCE GODDESS®

by Amy Alkon

Q:

Why are women so worked up about hearing “those three little words,” and why must they turn them into such a minefield? If a man says “I love you” too soon, he gets dumped because he’s a clingy, needy Nice Guy. If he waits too long, he gets dumped as a suspected commitment-phobe.

Even when a man operates without any calculation—freely and happily telling a woman he loves her—he runs the risk of some cutting or insulting response from her or no response at all. (I have gotten tripped up by timing this wrong a number of times.) Methinks there’s a bit of selfloathing to the women who pull this baloney.—Expressing Myself

A:

“I love you,” said right away, suggests that you have great admiration for a woman’s unique and special qualities, such as being female human, and willing to return your calls.

Early on in dating, should you find yourself brimming with emotion and unable to hold back, “I love bacon!” is a safer thing to blurt out. When somebody says that, even on the first or second date, nobody suspects he’s just hoping to use bacon to patch some gaping emotional void. This is probably why, no matter how soon or how fiercely you express your love for bacon, bacon will never respond by running away. To be fair, bacon also lacks feet.

The “I love you” a woman does want to hear is the one that’s shorthand for “I’d like to be the one who’s there for you when you can’t quite get the Velcro to close on your adult diaper”—or that at least indicates a desire to point the relationship in that direction and see how it goes. This is not a conclusion you hop to in a handful of dates. It comes out of feeling that who the woman is resonates with who you are and what you care most about, and takes seeing her less-than-lovable sides and deciding that the downsides aren’t big and hairy enough to cancel out the upsides.

As for your stumbles in the “three little words” zone, if you’ve told a woman you love her and gotten an “insulting” response, could it be because you scribbled it on a dollar bill and tucked it into her G-string? Being into a woman isn’t enough.

First, she has to be together enough to be open to being loved. And, yes, there actually has to be a relationship between you—one developed enough and mutual enough that even if her response to “I love you” isn’t “I love you, too,” at least it won’t be “Sorry...have we met?”

Q:

My girlfriend of two years is the bomb but is becoming a little needy. We live together and both have office jobs, and I’m cool not talking to her until I get home, but she’ll text me several times a day. If I don’t respond, she texts me a sad face or some statement about how busy I must be. If I’m hanging with friends in the evening, she gets upset if I don’t call her at least once. I really love her but feel indulging her need for more contact will only cause her to be more demanding.

—Tugged On

A:

Affection is not a gateway drug. Texting your girlfriend a few extra “luv u babe”s or “thinkn of u”s during the workweek isn’t the first step to carrying her everywhere with you in a giant Baby Bjorn. It might even help her stop treating that device in your pocket like an “Angry Birds”-enabled wireless leash. Consider “the dependency paradox,” researcher Dr. Brooke C. Feeney’s finding that, in a committed relationship, the more people felt they could count on their partner to be responsive to their calls for comforting and support, the more autonomous and self-sufficient they would be.

Ask your girlfriend to try a month-long experiment in managing your mismatched need for closeness: You’ll commit to giving her more frequent verbal reassurance that you love her and are there for her and to dashing off a few sweet texts to her at slow points during your workday. She, in turn, needs to respect some boundaries, meaning not going all funeralface when you don’t respond to every workday text and not expecting to hear from you when you’re out with your friends unless you end the evening in a ditch or in jail. After 30 days, take stock. I’m guessing you’ll find your girlfriend feeling—and acting—much less like the sort of woman who’s about two unreturned texts from sobbing to a packed restaurant, “He’s decided to take a break from the relationship!” (Translation: “He’s in the men’s room.”) < © Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. www.advicegoddess.com. Got a problem? Email AdviceAmy@aol.com or write to Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave. #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405.

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