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››LETTERS Endorsements: One more for the road

In our May 16 election issue, we inadvertently left off our write-up on Measure B—the proposal to allow the Agricultural Institute of Marin to create a permanent home for the farmers market at the Civic Center. Here’s what the AI wants to do: Put up a market canopy to shield the outdoor stalls from the elements, and build a 30,000-square-feet-maximum indoor market building for foodies to indulge their locavore love. It sounds like a pretty ambitious farmers market, but they’re not asking for any taxpayer contributions to the effort—they just need voter approval to launch the project on the hallowed Frank Lloyd Wright-designed grounds. We love farmers markets—though we’d love them even more if they were price-adjusted to allow lower-income families to benefit from the healthful grub—and we don’t see any viable reason not to vote for Measure B. We recommend: Yes on Measure B.

Oopsie doopsie, I made a whoopsie!

I was one of several candidates for the Assembly two years ago. I endorsed Marc Levine in the general election because I foolishly resented Michael Allen being “superimposed” on Marin by the assembly leadership, although he reflected my issues near perfectly.

My mistake.

Marc Levine went on to represent Big Agriculture and Big Oil and turned out to be a bad match for the people of Marin and Sonoma.

Conservatives might cheer Levine’s corporate clients, but fracking and shipping Northern California water to huge corporate farms in Central California are not truly conservative positions: They are the hopes of a greedy few.

I am voting for Diana Conti because we need a state Legislature that really cares about the needs of California’s people, not an

extension of the U.S. Congress, which openly disdains working people and downright hates the poor.

Alex Easton-Brown, Lagunitas

Hong Kong phooey

I understand that in Cantonese “ho” means “good” and “mm-ho” means “not good;” and the question “ho, mm-ho?” is used to inquire whether a particular dish is tasty or not. “Ho, mm-ho?” “Good, not good?” Black or white, one or the other.

Dr. Harte [“The Needle and the Damage Done,” April 11] says vaccines are “mm-ho!”

Vaccines bad. Dr. Waldman gets off topic and responds [“We Adhere to the ‘Step on the Crack’ Method of Spinal Manipulation,” May 16], “Chiropractic mm-ho!” Chiropractic bad.

The two, to the probable embarrassment of their friends and relatives, then proceed to have a playground fight about who went to the more prestigious school, who has tenure, and who could pass whose test. I say, “mmho!” Tossing around credentials and questioning backgrounds and qualifications ... phooey!

(No, that is English, not Cantonese.)

Dr. Harte’s belief about vaccines is clear and that is fine. Dr. Waldman’s articulation of his beliefs about vaccines (beliefs I share incidentally) is seriously compromised by the food fight he seems to enjoy having with Dr. Harte. I suppose it could make for good theater, two obviously intelligent and welleducated men bickering like children in a public forum. Maybe not.

By the way, I would like to mention that in addition to vaccines I also believe in the efficacy of chiropractic. “Ho-ho!”

Bert Pankler, Greenbrae

Love is never having to say: ‘You’re slurring ...’

What might one call an attractive adult female resident of Marin County who does not have a boyfriend?

One might call her wise, independent and selective.

If this doesn’t convince Marinites they’re being soaked with barium and ‘small plastic balls’ then nothing will ...

What might one call an attractive adult female resident of Shasta County who does not have a boyfriend?

One might call her sober.

Skip Corsini, Shasta

Why is the ‘Sun’ ignoring 14-year-old commute statistics?!

Where did Peter Seidman get the idea that 60 percent of those working in Marin reside outside the county [“No Vacancy,” May 16]?

Well, it turns out the League of Women Voters and the Marin Workforce Housing Trust have been pushing this factoid and the Pacific Sun has repeated it, now more than once.

The only problem is that it’s not true. Not even close. For example, the census counts where people live and work (through 2000) and the American Community Survey (ACS) estimates the flows. Both data sets are readily available on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s website and both report a little over one-third of Marin’s workforce resides outside the county. The Transportation Authority of Marin knows this data, as it reports in its “Measure A Fact Sheet” that 62 percent of Marin’s workforce lives in Marin.

Hopefully, you’ll post a correction and realize in the future that the League of Women Voters and the housing advocates have a political agenda and are misrepresenting the data, even after being informed that their claims are in error.

Mike Arnold, Novato

Good news: public transit up; bad news: being slowly poisoned by own government ...

Nice to hear folks are using the sensible ferry for travel [“Public Transportation Is Cool Again, Marin,” May 9]. However, look at both of your shots of the city and the ferry.

Look at the sky. There are chemtrails in both pix. I am so sick of hearing about climate Sorry, Shasta County bachelors, she’s taken.

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change when this big elephant in the sky goes unspoken of. We think we are out in good air, but what is dropping out of those tanker planes each day over Marin can kill us slowly: aluminum, barium, strontium and apparently small plastic balls of who knows what inside.

We have been subjected to this aerial invasion for 10 years. No one will talk about it, no brave reporters have been willing to risk what is apparently very threatening from our government. If spraying poisons over the world (chemtrails are in the skies of every NATO country in the world) is so good for our climate, why is it forbidden to talk about it?

Now that we officially know the deception of our government and the assorted cohorts who have even tapped the international cables to spy on us, why should we accept this silence? Many more people now look up and know this is happening. One day there will be a critical mass that will rise and scream NO. I hope I live to see that day. For your information: look up geoengineeringwatch.com. And look up often. You can see for yourself the large tanker planes delivering their out-ofcontrol toxins. Ah, that the Sun would be so bold!

Lynn Scott, Marin Editor’s note: Thanks for writing, Lynn!

There are few things we cherish more than when readers key us on to a hot story that has somehow fallen under our journalistic radar. This, however, is not one of those times. While we don’t necessarily buy into the chemtrail theory, we are among the few media outlets to have covered it in depth. Try a pacificsun.com or google search for Jacob Shafer’s January 2012 chemtrail cover story, “Sprayed and Confused.” And, remember folks, watch the skies.

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On the rise One thing Marinites can’t keep at bay is the rising sea level

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t’s incontrovertible now. The waters are rising, and the latest research coming from NASA shows that sea-level rise may be higher than anticipated.

Crafting action plans to deal with rising waters is a complicated task. The logistics and expense associated with putting the plans into practice are enough to cause heartburn. Dealing with sea-level rise in the coming century will be one of the biggest challenges the Bay Area has ever faced.

The recent NASA report has alerted the world that a collapse of glaciers in the Amundsen Sea region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is irreversible. NASA scientists say that the melting of the six glaciers will not stop as warming ocean temperatures contribute to a cascade collapse. The collapse could result in adding four feet to a rising sea level. That would be in addition to previously estimated sea-level rise.

In 2009, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) issued a report titled “Living with a Rising Bay: Vulnerability and Adaption in San Francisco Bay and on its Shoreline.” The report, which relied on scientific research rather than anecdote, estimated that the San Francisco Bay water could rise between 11 and 18 inches by mid-century and between 23 and 55 inches by 2100.

How long it will take for the Antarctic ice to melt is still an unanswered question.

Estimates vary widely. One estimate pegs the timeline at 200 years, and another at

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800 years. A long time, to be sure. But the uncertainty in the timeline could swing sooner. Scientists just don’t know how fast the event will proceed because the research is so new and so sketchy—at least for now.

The upshot of the NASA report is simple: It seems to be worse than we thought. That assessment is at the heart of a national climate assessment the federal government released recently. The message in that report is as stark as it is simple: The effects of climate change (sea-level rise being one) are happening now and call for planning and action now.

BCDC and other agencies have created sea-level rise maps to show the effects that rising water will have on the bay shoreline.

The maps of Marin along the bay should underscore for Marin residents the need to take sea-level rise as a serious planning challenge. They show that even with a 16-inch sea-level rise, shoreline areas from Sausalito to Novato will be inundated unless some action plan to hold back the water is enacted. Downtown San Rafael, for instance, now is just a few handfuls of inches above the water during especially high tides. Downtown Sausalito is the same. The ocean shoreline in western Marin also is in danger. And anyone who has been unable to park in the Manzanita park-and-ride lot because it’s flooded knows that sea-level rise is a reality.

The frequency of king tide inundation and rising waters pushed by more

Board of Supes to pause, refresh anti-soda campaign Coke adds life, they used to say. But it also adds obesity and diabetes, according to studies—and Marin supes are set to become the “un-cola” of county boards.

The Marin County Board of Supervisors this week was expected to approve a resolution proclaiming a “soda-free summer” in Marin, a second round, as it were, to last year’s “Rethink Your Drink” publicity effort to urge residents to refrain from drinking unhealthy soda for the summer.

According to county health statistics, 47 percent of Marinites are either overweight or obese, and with heart disease being the leading cause of preventable death in the county, no one wants those liters of Dew to “dew” you in.

The American Medical Association reports that sugary drinks are the number one source of added sugar in the American diet, and adults who drink more than one soda a day are 27 percent more likely to be overweight or obese. A Women’s Health Study reported last year that women who consume sweetened drinks daily—particularly African-American women—are more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes. The health effects of soft drinks are especially pronounced in lower-income communities, where sodas are more heavily marketed. Last year, Contra Costa, Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara and San Francisco counties joined Marin in the “Rethink Your Drink” campaign.—Jason Walsh Fairfax library temporarily closes for renovation What’s on your summer reading list, Marin? Whatever novels you plan to get lost in during the midst of Marin’s summer heat, you better stop by the Fairfax library now and borrow them!

The Fairfax branch of the Marin County Free Library will be temporarily closed starting Friday, June 6. The location is slated for a mini renovation with aesthetic upgrades and improved services at its core.

The library will be closed twice over the summer season from June 6-9 and, a longer stint, from Aug. 4-16. The goal is to renovate the children’s area, the magazine section and the lobby, officials say. The magazine area will be relocated, leaving a larger space for additional children’s books, magazines, displays and seating. With a 20 percent contingency added, the cost of the renovation is $631,245. Funding comes from Measure A, initially passed in 2010, and the Friends of the Fairfax Library.

The majority of the remodel will take place during the latter half of the library’s closure from Aug. 4-16, but the staff hopes to tackle the children’s section first—just in time for summer reading.

“Because our library is so heavily used by children and families, we want to increase the space devoted to children’s services,” Margaret Miles, branch manager says.

If you’re a bookworm don’t fret—the Marin County Bookmobile will be in the library parking lot on Saturday, June 7, from 10am-6pm. Books on hold will be available for pickup, along with a small collection of new books and DVDs. Due dates for materials due June 7 and 9 will be extended to June 12. Books may be returned while the library is closed at the bookdrop to the right of the front doors.

For more information about the closure and the remodel, call 453-8151.—Stephanie Powell College of Marin receives large anonymous donation College of Marin’s education just got a little richer.

An anonymous challenge grant of $200,000, dubbed the Haddie Academic Scholarship Fund, via the Marin Community Foundation, will fund academic scholarships for eligible students over the next two years, according to officials. The donation will also support lifelong learning for older students through COM’s Community Education Emeritus College Program.

The donor created the Haddie Academic Scholarship Fund as a way of inviting other donors to support student academic scholarships at COM. And the donation has more than great timing; according to the college’s Financial Aid Office, the current class of students has the greatest need for financial assistance in the college’s 88-year-old history.

“We are very grateful to our anonymous donor for their very generous gift to our students and we hope that others in our community will help us meet the challenge,” Dr. David Wain Coon, superintendent/president at COM says. “Our students have been particularly hardhit by the economic turmoil in recent years and these funds couldn’t have come at a better time.”

In the past six years, financial aid applications have more than doubled. COM reported 2,037 applications for the 2006/2007 academic year and 5,053 for 2012/2013. The Haddie Academic Scholarship Fund will offer eligible students more than three times the amount of other scholarships, at $1,000 per student, currently offered at the campus. Previously the College of Marin Foundation awarded about $300 per student.

“The Haddie Academic Scholarship Fund is potentially a real game-changer for our students,” Coon says. “Not only will they receive larger awards, but as many as 100 students will receive the awards over the next two years.”

The Haddie Academic Scholarship Fund scholarships will be administered through the College of Marin Enrollment Services and Financial Aid Offices. The application deadline is July 15 for students planning to enroll in the fall 2014 semester. Donations to the Haddie Academic Scholarship Fund can be made through the College of Marin Advancement Office.

For more information visit www.marin.edu/advancement or call Cathy Summa-Wolfe at 415/485-9528.—SP

frequent and stronger storms is a reality for which the Bay Area must plan. BCDC took up the challenge with a pilot project in the East Bay called “Adaptation to Rising Tides” (ART) in the Emeryville corridor. The idea focused on creating mitigations and adaptations that would suit the area. That’s the kind of subregional and local planning needed all along the shoreline, says Laura Tam, the sustainable development policy director at the nonprofit organization SPUR. The San Francisco-based organization was founded in 1910 and is dedicated to developing “independent and holistic” approaches related to community planning, disaster planning, economic development, good government, housing, regional planning, sustainable development and transportation.

Tam was around when the San Francisco Bay Plan was amended to include the effects of sea-level rise. The Bay Plan was first created and adopted at BCDC in 1968 and sent to the California Legislature and governor in 1969.

In 2011 BCDC approved an amendment to the plan that included the estimates and consequences of sea-level rise on the bay.

Maps included in the amendment showed the serious potential for flooding along the shoreline and ideas got mentioned about possible mitigation measures, including a retreat or at least a partial retreat, from rising water. Business interests pushed back against the amendment. They said the consequences of the document would mean a restriction on development along the bay and a stifling of business, not to mention an intrusion into the area of private property rights. The pushback gave a foretaste of what is likely to be an ongoing debate as the Bay Area continues to wrestle with sea-level rise.

“We were involved in [crafting the Bay Plan amendment],” Tam says. “It was very tricky.” But Tam says things may have changed in the last few years as climate change and sea-level rise have moved from the speculative to the real. “I would hope that everybody who would be affected by sea-level rise is more sophisticated today than they were.” She says the process of creating the amended Bay Plan was a learning opportunity for the entire Bay Area.

Tam says it may have been a mistake to come out and publish maps showing potential specific flood areas so early in the process of creating strategies to meet the challenge of sea-level rise. A better strategy may have been to begin with a general approach rather than creating the maps with specific properties—a strategy that galvanized the pushback from the business community.

A host of pilot projects, including some in Marin, surfaced to study possible methods of adapting to a rising sea level.

Marin Supervisor Kate Sears proposed a pilot project for southern Marin that would be similar to the one BCDC started

in the East Bay—with some adjustments.

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Tam also says the first step in a move to fashion adaptation strategies is collecting information about vulnerabilities and using the data to fashion many pilot projects along the bay shoreline. Each project would aim to create adaptation measures for a specific area. No one measure will work in all areas.

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Striking a chord Mill Valley Philharmonic brings music to Marin’s ears

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s most successful entrepreneurs conductor was a dream I didn’t know I had.”

Cohen decided that the best approach do these days, you create your own job when you can’t find one was to study privately, which led her to the orchestra director at that fits. Laurie Cohen the San Francisco Comfounded Mill Valley munity Music Center.

Philharmonic (MVP) NOW PLAYING Within six months, her 14 years ago and hasn’t The Mill Valley Philharmonic next instructor, Urs Leonlooked back. Cohen performances are Friday, May 30, hardt Steiner, appointed played music from a at 8pm and Saturday, May 31, at her assistant conductor. very early age, but it 4pm at the Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore “Walking through the wasn’t until she beAvenue, Mill Valley. On Sunday, door into the orchestra gan exploring a change June 1, the performance is at room was like walking of careers (in her late 3:30pm at the Church of St. Raphael, into a world of magic,” 40s), from psychothera1104 Fifth Ave., San Rafael. Seating she said. Cohen’s pist to high school music is on a walk-in basis. Everyone is instructor held her feet teacher, that she discovwelcome to these free concerts. to the fire by having her ered conducting.

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said. Cohen remained Steiner’s assistant for three years. She also seized every opportunity to study in conducting workshops, both in the U.S. and abroad.

Cohen’s conducting debut with the San Francisco Community Music Center Orchestra took place at the old San Francisco Conservatory of Music at 19th Avenue and Ortega Street. “I went to the hall when it was empty several times so that I could practice the protocol of getting on and off the stage, acknowledging the musicians, the audience—and doing everything in the right order,” Cohen said. “That’s no small feat!”

Cohen’s first teacher told her that it would take reading 60 scores thoroughly before she could begin to understand them.

“Reading a score is like reading a map,” Cohen said. “The geography is the instrumentation, the harmony, rhythm, melody and the score markings. You are constantly discovering what the composer means.”

Growing up, Cohen never had an interest in studying history. “But once I began to study history through the lens of music,” she said, “I became absorbed in it. Before MVP played Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, I spent the summer with a German dictionary, translating Mahler’s old-fashioned German into English to better understand his work.”

Programming a concert series is one of Cohen’s favorite jobs. She is drawn to thematic programming, which goes hand-in-hand with one popular aspect of all of MVP’s performances—talking with audiences about the music and including orchestral demonstration, which “brings the audiences closer to the music.”

The upcoming program, “Cathedral and Temple,” which was inspired by music associated with a variety of spiritual practices, does just that. “I started out listening to Respighi’s Church Windows, a piece that is not often played,” Cohen said. “The four movements are associated with scenes from the Bible, as depicted in stained-glass windows.”

Laurie Cohen, founder of the Mill Valley Philharmonic.

The other pieces include Ernest Bloch’s In Memoriam (Bloch was a part-time Mill Valley resident, and there is a memorial for him next to the stream behind Mill Valley Market) and Felix Mendelssohn’s St. Paul Overture, Op.36, which the composer conducted in Leipzig’s St. Paul’s Church. Mill Valley Philharmonic also commissioned a world premiere by Alexis Alrich, entitled Bell and Drum Tower.

“This composition was inspired by the Bell and Drum Towers in Beijing, which were built in the 13th century during the reign of Kublai Khan,” Cohen said. “Gulou, the drum tower, and Zhonglou, the bell tower, functioned as musical instruments and as timepieces. They were central to official timekeeping in China during the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.”

Mill Valley Philharmonic has grown from a handful of volunteer musicians to a 60-person orchestra. MVP plays three free programs a year, each one consisting of three concerts. Most of the musicians have day jobs, ranging from housecleaning to astrophysics. “We have one paid employee and an all-volunteer working board,” Cohen said.

“Support comes from foundations, businesses and private donations. We have endowed chairs, and for $500 patrons can name a chair in honor of someone they love.” Y Play second chair to Joanne at letters@pacificsun.com.

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adaptation measures localities are looking at around the bay. Sears says the agency is ready to adopt that role. But, she cautions, before Marin moves to create a countywide adaptation strategy, it’s important “to wait a little bit, so we can get moving on this first pilot project” in southern Marin. The counties and Marin cities could replicate the pilot project and start developing a comprehensive plan that knits together different adaptation methods that create an overall strategy for the county.

One thing will not be open for debate at BCDC, Sears says. The water is rising.

But, she adds, “Everything is changing faster than we anticipated. We’ve had conversations at BCDC lately about the variation in the estimates.” Given the variation, “We know the sea level will rise by at least three feet, so BCDC is saying let’s start planning for what we can do to address that increase.”

While localities can identify local vulnerabilities and propose adaptations at the start of the process to deal with sea-level rise, eventually it will take that regional outlook to develop a comprehensive plan for the bay. That prospect could trigger paralysis. Anti-regional government residents could rise in the kind of indignation currently seen whenever a mention of Plan Bay Area is even whispered.

“In the long run,” Tam says, “I would not be surprised if we have a regional conversation about additional powers [related to mitigation and adaptation] given to [BCDC] to help think about making sure the solutions we put on the shoreline are regionally the best choice for the best place for the most people.” Y Contact the writer at peter@pseidman.com.

Howard Rachelson invites you to upcoming team trivia contests: at the Best Lil’ Porkhouse in Corte Madera on Tuesday, May 27, from 7-9pm and at the Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael on Tuesday, June 3, from 6:30-8:30pm. Both free with prizes. Have a great question? Send it in and if we use it, we’ll give you credit. Email Howard at howard1@triviacafe.com or visit www.triviacafe.com. ▲ In Marin, librarians aren’t just well-read, they’re heroic crime fighters. A team of librarians conducted research, catalogued evidence and helped police catch a man passing counterfeit currency.

Daniel Han Shi allegedly used bogus bills at several Marin libraries, claiming he needed change for a $20 to use the copy machine. His plot to swindle the Marin City branch was thwarted

by Assistant Librarian Etienne Douglas, a former bank clerk, who immediately spotted the phony money. This might have closed the book on the case, but the perp had the audacity to continue the scam. The librarians exchanged e-mails and when Shi hit the Fairfax branch, the writing was on the wall.

Librarian Margaret Miles phoned police and the suspect was arrested. End of story.

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▼ For the second consecutive week, our zero is a woman driving an SUV in the Safeway parking lot on Miller in Mill Valley. Different women. Same bad behavior. This week, a middle-aged woman with dark hair backed out of a spot and hit Annette’s small Toyota. The motorists exited their vehicles. The Volvo SUV wasn’t damaged, but both drivers’ side doors of the sedan were crumpled.

Annette, an easy-going Sausalito houseboat resident, suggested they exchange info. The other woman jumped into her SUV and drove away, while her passenger ducked down in his seat. Stunned, Annette didn’t get the license plate number and Safeway has no cameras in the lot. If you know this zero, contact the Mill Valley Police at 415/389-4100.— Nikki Silverstein

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local vulnerabilities. “Of course,” Tam says, “we will need an overall strategy eventually. But to do that now is premature. Now there are many efforts underway offering opportunities for people to learn about topics and projects that [just a few years ago] were not there.”

Tam says she’s “much more optimistic” than she was “a couple of years ago. We’re fortunate in the Bay Area to not be having a conversation about whether climate change exists. We’re having a conversation about what we should do to prepare.”

Sears notes that climate change and sealevel rise have been called slow-moving emergencies, a description that makes it harder to galvanize a response from the public. The county could take action now, she adds, by incorporating climate change and sea-level rise into its planning processes in county departments. BCDC already requires permit applications to include an analysis of sea-level rise.

Sears says she’s talking with county departments about “opportunities for funding pilot projects.” When will Marin—and the rest of the Bay Area—move from drafting plans and proposing pilot projects to actually taking comprehensive action?

The longer it takes to move, the more expensive the price tag. “There’s no specific timetable for projects [in Marin],” Sears says, “but we are heading in that direction.” She also says that adaption measures and administrative strategies that take into account the cross-jurisdiction nature of the challenge are in the cards. (If you prevent water from entering Corte Madera Creek, for instance, how does that adaptation affect the shoreline to the north and the south?)

BCDC is the likely agency to become a repository of all the action plans and

1a. Recall elections are very rare: Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California in Nov. 2003 after what sitting governor was recalled by the voters?

1b. When did Arnold’s term of office terminate?

1c. Why is Arnold sometimes called the “Governator”?

2. What two-word, eight-letter name describes the gyrating maneuver that a swimmer makes at the end of a lap, to swiftly reverse directions?

3. A loquacious person really enjoys doing what?

1c.

4. Some of the finest quality sweaters are made from cashmere wool, produced by what animal?

5a. Give the 10-letter name of the controversial oil pipeline planned from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

5b. What particular underground materials will be transferred through the pipeline?

6. The names of the 39th and 40th U.S. states (both admitted to the Union on Nov. 2, 1889) have exactly nine letters in common. What are these states?

7. In an upcoming movie remake, Quvenzhane Wallis, the 10-year-old star of Beasts of the Southern Wild, will play the title role, Cameron Diaz will be the main antagonist and Jamie Foxx will be the wealthy benefactor, in the musical remake of what 1924 comic strip and 1982 movie musical?

8. What kind of snake, up to 20 feet in length, kills its prey by 7. coiling around it and suffocating it?

9. At a baseball game at Cubs Park (now Wrigley Field) on Aug. 25, 1922, the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies set an all-time record for runs scored in a single game by two teams. How many was it?

10a. The adult human brain weighs about how many pounds?

10b. The primary contributor to the brain’s energy is what molecular compound, made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen?

BONUS QUESTION: A city in the American south is named for the world’s largest city, with about 30,000 inhabitants, around 3100 BC. What is it?

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Marin Shakespeare Company celebrates its 25th year

Sister M. Samuel Conlan of Dominican University carried a lot of clout and a passion for Shakespeare. After she t was the year President Ronald Reagan left office; Madonna’s “Like a advocated on the behalf of theatergoers and hams around the county and Prayer” reigned the airways; Gersecured permission and funds, it was many began demolishing the Berlin decided that the Forest Meadows AmWall; Rain Man won best picture at the Oscars; and the Loma Prieta earthquake phitheatre would be built specifically for the use of the Marin Shakespeare Festishook the Bay Area. val on Dominican University’s campus.

When you think of 1989, your initial Unfortunately for Shakespeare lovers thought might not land on Shakespeare. in Marin, the show did not go on. The But the landscape of Marin’s arts and theater sat unused, and the Shakespeare culture scene was about to change with scene was left unmoved and untouched the founding of the Marin Shakespeare until 1989. Enter Lesley and Rob—a pair Company and, in large part, it’s thanks of Shakespeare enthusiasts, to say the to a casting agent and a nun. least—invited to Marin to establish the Shakespeare in Marin was by no Marin Shakespeare Company. means a novice concept, and 1989 “We settled in Marin in September marked his return. The Marin Shakeknowing that the speare Company main effort would (MSC), founded be raising enough NOW CELEBRATING

by Robert and The Marin Shakespeare Company is celebratmoney,” Robert CurLesley Curing its 25th season with a gala—”Much Ado About Somerier, artistic director rier, stemmed thing,” on Saturday, May 31, from 6:30-9:30pm. The event at MSC says. “A little from a desire will be held at the Edgehill Mansion, located at Dominican more than a month to re-establish University in San Rafael. The event is open to the public. later we had the 1989 the Marin earthquake.”

Shakespeare “Everyone told Festival of the us we should forget trying to do a show 60s. The original festival, founded by in 1990,” Currier adds. “People were renowned casting agent, playwright and answering the call of the Red Cross for director Ann Brebner and her former relief money because of the earthquake. husband John, was produced outdoors We felt we’d have to present a producin a theatre at the Ross Art and Gartion in the summer of 1990 or get on den Center—now the Marin Art and with our lives.”

Garden Center—and lasted six seasons The Curriers held fundraising events from 1961 to 1967. (Robert Currier every month and by early 1990, sumsays of his predecessor, “She looked at mer performance dates were set for the me in 1989 and said, ‘Yes. I intuit you company’s first production: As You Like will bring back Marin Shakespeare.’” He It. The company, now celebrating its adds, “She has special powers.”) And in 25th year, is still led by the duo and they what turned out to be the year of its last season, Dominican University ironically are just as passionate about the seminal thespian as they were a quarter of a set the stage for the festival’s future.

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“When you think of “There have been tremendous techclassic literature, you nical advances,” Robert Currier says. think it’s going to be “Today we can audition actors via Skype dry,” Lesley Currier, and YouTube submissions, so we can founding managing cast actors from across the nation and director says. “But around the world. In 2013, we cast one it’s gaudy, moving, of our lead actresses for A Comedy of Erexciting, full of music, rors after she auditioned on Skype all the dancing and stories. way from Austin, Texas.”

It’s easy for people who “We used to have to use reel-to-reel don’t know Shaketapes for sound effects,” Currier adds. speare to think it’s “Then we went to CDs. Today everygoing to be boring and thing is digital, which is much easier it’s easy for people who and foolproof. But, we still have to build have only read Shakeour stage every year, put up light towers speare to think it will be and lights and run cables; build frontboring. But the actors of-house and the dressing rooms.” bring the characters to As for what hasn’t changed over life.”

MSC’s 25-year stretch, the Curriers are This summer the quick to comment about the company’s company brings forth an loyal cast—this year’s As You Like It has anthology of seasoned an actor cast from the original producplays; the first a nod to tion 25 years ago—and the challenges the year of the company’s of performing outside. The cast has inception with the proendured more than just unpredictable duction of As You Like It. Following suit, weather over the years. Blackouts, bee Romeo and Juliet and An Ideal Husband stings, poison oak, fires and wild animal are slated to hit the grassy- and rockcameos have kept performances capriladen knolls of the Forest Meadows Am- cious and without a doubt attentionphitheatre. And thanks to a gift from an grabbing. anonymous donor, audiences can attend What has remained unswerving is the any performance of As You Like It this MSC’s sweeping impact on the comseason under the guise of “Pay As You munity. The company’s reach offers Like It.” In part to thank the community more than a summer-filled season with for its support and in part to celebrate Shakespeare; it offers year-round educathe MSC’s 25th anniversary, theatergotion programs in the county. Programs ers are encouraged to see a classic for run the gamut from intern opportunities whatever they can afford. Donations for college-level students to Shakespeare of any amount toward tickets will be at San Quentin. The company’s public accepted at the door for performances education program currently serves from Saturday, July 5, through Sunday, more than 1,800 students at elemenAug. 10. tary schools around the county. Lesley In the company’s 25 years, it has done Currier adds that Shakespeare can be 24 different Shakespeare plays out of interesting and engaging for all ages. the approximately 38 total. The Curri“You’re doing a kid a disservice if ers are working their way through the you’re making him read it off a page,” last 14 plays, but recognize that “2014 Robert Currier adds. in America is not 1588 in London,” and And so the pair continues to bring the acknowledge that some of the remainplays to playgrounds, prison and schools ing plays will be more difficult to adapt. throughout the county.

This season’s lineup may have some “What a perfect year to share Shakeof Shakespeare’s most speare with infamous plays scheduled, everyone in As You Like It opens Saturday, July 12, our commubut MSC hasn’t done a at 8pm (premiers begin July 5.) A special 25th Silver nity,” Robert production of Romeo Season Celebration, including a dessert buffet, and Juliet for nearly nine Currier says. champagne toasts and special entertainment, beyears. Robert Currier says, “Our generous gins at 6:30pm prior to the performance. For tickets in honor of the company’s [donor] is chalor more information about future productions call anniversary, they wanted lenging Marin 499-4488 or visit marinshakespeare.org. to produce shows that apShakespeare to pealed to a wide-ranging see how many audience. But just because people we can the average Joe can quote a soliloquy entice to enjoy As You Like It under the or two from Romeo and Juliet doesn’t stars this summer. We hope all of our mean the company and its terra firma supporters will help us spread the word can’t evolve. The festival foreground was about this amazing birthday gift, celrecently renovated and a state-of-theebrating our 25th year and Shakespeare’s art microphone system was installed 450th birthday.” Y that will increase actors’ voices 10-15 Tell Stephanie if you like it at spowell@pacificsun.com.

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ounded by stunning oceanic views and various protected spaces of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Sausalito has made its way to the top of Marinites’ lists when they think picturesque. The town’s summer festivities live up to its charming reputation with fests rooted in tastings, cookoffs, live music, food, art and wine.

Grab a glass of wine and walk down memory lane to celebrate the Sausalito Art Festival’s 62nd year. More than 260 artists from all over the nation are slated to show their best during the “American Icon”-themed event. Local purveyors, nonprofits and volunteers are just around each and every

bend serving up gourmet foods and premium wines. The festival kicks off the weekend on Saturday, Aug. 30, and runs through Monday, Sept. 1. If you stumble upon a must-have original favorite, fret not—a framing booth is available on site for instant gratification and redecorating needs. If an artistic eye isn’t your strong suit, the event is complete with three stages with live music to give you an excuse to cruise the exhibit.

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Eager to eat, drink, shop and dance but got your kids attached to your hips? The Caledonia Street Festival is here for you—and the whole family! Running down Caledonia Street, one of the town’s most lively veins, is a fest full of art, live music and street performers and complete with a children’s area filled with activities for the little ones. Three performers are set to serenade: Matt Jaffe and the Distractions, Firewheel and Dredgetown will all carry a tune throughout the town. Join the community and celebrate a grouping of Sausalito’s most eclectic art, music and shops.

Caledonia Street Festival Sunday, May 25, from 11am-5pm between Johnston and Bee streets. Free.

Info: 289-4152 or caledoniastreetfestival.com.

Enjoy the coastal breeze and shady tents while you peruse offerings at the Caledonia Street Festival. n Sausalito Art Festival Saturday-Monday,

n Fourth of July Thursday, July 4, parade

Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 10am-5pm, Marinship Park.

Call 332-3555 or visit sausalitoartfestival.org for entertainment lineup, admission prices and further info. n Farmer’s Market Sundays, 10am-2pm

starts at 10am, live music starts at 12pm and the Fireworks Extravaganza is from 6:30-9:30pm in Gabrielson Park. Free. Info: 289-4100 or ci.sausalito.ca.us. n Floating Homes Tour Saturday, Sept.

at Dunphy Park, year-round. Free. Info: ci.sausalito.ca.us. n Jazz & Blues By the Bay Fridays, May 30-

20, 11am-4pm. $40. Info: 332-1916 or floatinghomes.org. n Chili Cook-Off Satuday, Sept. 27, 11am-

Aug. 22, 6:30-8pm in Gabrielson Park. Free.

(Reserved tables available at $50/night.) Info: 289-4152 or jazzandbluesbythebay.com.

4pm in Dunphy Park. Info: 289-4152 or ci.sausalito.ca.us.

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6-9pm through Sept. in downtown San Rafael, Fourth St. Info: 492-8007 or sanrafaelmarket.org.

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gather ingredients and loosen up to live music. And take your time enjoying individual booths; there’s no need to hit every single option before the day’s end—this farmer’s market is a year-round affair, taking place every Sunday.

What’s better than watching the sunset disappear into a hazy ocean blue? Sipping a cocktail and enjoying an earful of jazz while enjoying said view. Luckily for Marinites, Sausalito offers Jazz & Blues by the Bay on Friday nights at Gabrielson Park. Sponsored by multiple Marin-based organizations and businesses, this weekend festivity allows for some performances by musical greats and views to be grateful for.

Want to go all out for Independence Day? Start and finish in Sausalito with the town’s Fourth of July Festivities. The morning starts with a parade beginning downtown and ending at Dunphy Park, where you can settle in and enjoy familyfriendly games, dancing, food, drinks,

tug-of-war and the traditional egg toss, of course. Spend your afternoon under Sausalito’s sun and after the sun sets, park yourselves on the grass to enjoy a showstopping firework show.

Get a sneak peek at more than a dozen of Sausalito architectural greats with the Floating Homes Tour. Many of the homes date back to the 20th century, and if you’ve already taken a tour, round two might be even better. Many of the homes change décor and docents will be available on-board to answer any lingering questions. The tour is also paired with local artists, photographers, authors, musicians and craftspeople.

Think you’re hot stuff? Prove it at Sausalito’s 36th annual Chili Cook-Off. Savory aromas will fill Dunphy Park when some of the county’s chili bigwigs get together for the ultimate cook-off. Don’t stop by just to taste; do your part and cast a vote for the winning chili. Y

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eaching from the secluded hilly regions of Lucas Valley all the way down through urban Wolfe Grade, is one of Marin’s most-varied parcels: San Rafael. Whether you’re seeking a hike, live music, a look at local art or decadent sustenance, this town’s got it all.

Since April, Marinites have had the opportunity for their taste buds to be tantalized with downtown San Rafael’s Farmer’s Market. The market strives to appeal to nearly all of Marinites’ senses with live music, eclectic artwork, shows to gaze at and a community of locals to chat up. The farmer's market goes through Sept. and commandeers Fourth Street with an abundance of fun, games, grilling and fresh snacks for foodies.

Stroll by on Thursdays from 6-9pm.

Second Friday Art Walk, anchored

by Art Works Downtown, gives Marinites something to pencil in on the second Friday of upcoming months!

Sip wine and cruise through galleries and art studios along linking venues on Fourth Street. Stroll through some of San Rafael’s most renowned storefronts for another purpose and take in local artwork from featured artists. Consider it an artsier way to see downtown.

For many, Memorial Day is more than an excuse for an extra day off—it’s a day of remembrance for those who lost their lives serving the armed forces.

And in Marin, the Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium lives up to its greater purpose with the annual Memorial Day Event at the Marin Civic Center.

The remembrance ceremony starts at 9am, moves out to the memorial statue and eventually makes its way down to a reception in the foyer for veterans. This yearly ceremony serves as a small way the community can show respect to our servicemen and women.

If it’s the first weekend of June, it’s a fair assumption that Marinites are headed down to the Marin Home and Garden Expo. The event does more than just nurture the community’s inner designer; it provides live music and entertainment. The expo is complete with how-to seminars, demos and workshops and a glorious selection of garden goods. Embrace your innovative eyes and hit the fairgrounds for a new perspective on homey goods.

Gear up and groove down to San Rafael’s Music in the Park. Friday nights have never sounded so good with various musical guests taking over the

n S econd Friday Art Walk Second Friday of

every month from 5-8pm. Various locations, downtown San Rafael. Free. Info: 492-8119.

nM emorial Day Event Monday, May 26, at

9am. Marin Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium, 10 Avenue of the Flags. Free. Info: 473-6397.

nM arin Home and Garden Expo May 31-June

1, from 10am-6pm. Marin County Civic Center, 10 Avenue of the Flags. $10. Info: 388-0151.

nM usic in the Park Fridays, June 27-Aug. 22,

Creek Rd. Free. Info: 479-0775 or marinwood.org. n Marin County Fair Wednesday through

Sunday, July 2-6, from 11am-11pm. Marin County Fairgrounds, 10 Avenue of the Flags. Info: 499-6400 or marinfair.org.

n Marin Shakespeare Festival "As You Like It"

opens Saturday, July 12. Forest Meadows Ampitheatre, Dominican university, 50 Acacia Ave. Info: 499-4488 or marinshakespeare.org. n S an Rafael Twilight Criterium Saturday, July 26, from 2:30-9pm. Downtown San Rafael.

Free. Info: srtwilight.com. n San Rafael Food and Wine Festival Saturday,

Aug. 9, from 1-5pm. Location and admission price TBD. Info: 800/310-6563.

from 6-8pm. Marinwood Park, 775 Miller

Marinwood Park. Pull up a lawn chair and rest up with live music and snacks through August.

Dustoff your walking shoes and sunscreen—it’s the summer’s main event: the Marin County Fair! This year’s lineup includes musical likings from none other than Huey Lewis and the News, The Wailers and La Santa Cecilia. With a theme like “The World’s Happiest Fair on Earth,” how can you not have fun? You can expect the usual suspects to grace the fair, which offers mouthwatering cakes, live performances, exhibitions and eclectic vendors.

What happens when school’s out for the summer at Dominican University?

The Marin Shakespeare Festival! The company’s lineup includes a few classics this year as a celebration of its 25th anniversary: As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet and An Ideal Husband are all set to take the stage at the Forest Meadow Ampitheatre.

Now in its 17th year, the San Rafael Twilight Criterium will sweep the streets of downtown San Rafael on Saturday, July 26. The event is the county’s most highly attended cycling event and brings a cool breeze to onlookers on a sunny summer day, thanks to the cyclists shooting down the downtown circuit. The event, originally rooted in bicycling, has expanded and offers a San Rafael Twilight Expo—complete with beer, food and vendors—located in the heart of all the action.

For food lovers and wine drinkers in Marin, the San Rafael Food and Wine Festival is a must-stop on your festival checklist. The festival, in its 8th year, offers a wide selection of wines from local winemakers and food from purveyors local and afar. The fest is a great excuse to wine-taste and avoid the drive to and from Napa. Say cheers and cheese to the daytime festival and enjoy some live music while you’re at it. Y

Lights, music, action!

Summertime fun is unavoidable with this year’s Summer Nights at the JCC lineup.

Dine on delicious food and sip extravagant cocktails while you soak in musical greatness from some of this summer’s acts. The concerts are set outside and offer a variety of musical styles—from Pacific Island Night to Gypsy Rock. This year’s musical guests are Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, Hapa, Diego’s Umbrella, The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit and Blame Sally. The event is family-friendly and perfect for parking a blanket under the stars.

Summer Nights at JCC is held on Saturdays, July 12, through Aug. 9, at 7pm. Swig Field, Osher Marin Jewish Community Center, 200 N. San Pedro Rd. Info: 444-8088 or marinjcc.org.

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hen most people think of West Marin, they tend to ruminate on tie-dye. But the area offers much more than a hippie vibe. In fact, West Marin is a diverse community, and its profusion of summer festivals prove just that.

While you never need an excuse to visit Point Reyes, you’ll have plenty of reasons to enjoy the pastoral setting this summer. Kick off the first weekend of June at the Western Weekend and Parade. Now in its 65th year of celebrating Marin’s ranching roots, the Point Reyes Station event features 4-H exhibits, livestock, barn dances, music, local homecoming queens and an eclectic cowboy parade.

Enjoy two more grand experiences in July at West Marin’s coast: the first at the Big Time Festival on Saturday, July 19. Kule Loklo, a Coast Miwok Cultural Exhibit, is the spot for this traditional Native American trade festival.

There you will see demonstrators exhibit their skills in basketry, flint knapping, clamshell bead-making and dance.

The second: the annual Far West Fest on Saturday, July 26. Pull out your tie-dye, bring your own beer glass—it’s the green thing to do—and let the “Good Times for the Greater Good” groove you at Love Field while you support Marin Youth programs and community radio station, KWMR. Head back to Point Reyes later in the summer to show off your artistic flair at the free

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On Saturday, June 21, say “hola” to the Mexican Art Festival in San Geronimo.

This fest—with its lively Mexican music and dance performances that feature kids from Lagunitas and Nicasio schools—is considered to be one of the best bilingual events in Marin. Enjoy the serenades while you learn how to make your own tortillas and speak Spanish (the fest provides a Spanish vocabulary cheat sheet for novices.)

Mexican Art Festival Saturday, June 21, noon-5pm. San Geronimo Valley Community Center, 6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Geronimo. Free. Info: 488-8888.

Sand Sculpture Contest. Prizes are awarded each year in several categories.

Other locales in West Marin will be jumping this summer, too. Fairfax will host its annual weekend-long party, the Fairfax Festival.

Returning for its 37th year, the fest kicks off at 8pm on Friday, June 13, with Family Film Night in the Central Ball Field. On Saturday, June 14, the town will host a parade led by Grand Marshal Phyllis Gould (aka Rosie the Riveter). The parade will begin at the Fairfax Theater, wind down Bolinas Road and end at Bolinas Park, where festival-goers can enjoy live local and global music on three stages.

West Marin residents celebrate the Fourth of July in a variety of ways— from watching parades to hosting barbecues to shooting off fireworks and playing tug-of-war. If showing off your brawn is your thing, head to the shores of Bolinas Lagoon for the annual Fourth of July Tug-of-War contest.

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Two warm summer days full of handcrafted art, regional wines, gourmet food and live music?! No wonder the Novato Chamber of Commerce attracts thousands from around the bay to its annual Novato Festival of Art, Wine and Music, now in its 31st year. While the adults are spoiled with more than 50 wine varietals, the kids are also allsmiles in an area that includes an art project tent and a petting zoo. Don’t get too carried away before making it to the music stage, where you’ll hear n Novato Festival of Art, Wine and

everything from Joni Mitchell covers to funk-rock to “old timey, new timey, good timey, California bluegrass.”

Historic downtown Novato is bustling from May to October on Tuesdays from 4-7pm, when the Novato Farmers Market offers locally grown, organic produce, local favorites from Flour Chylde Bakery and fun for kids that includes jumping houses and pony rides.

A Marin County tradition for more than 40 years, the Marin Greek Festival—held Memorial Day weekend—will have you eating, dancing, chanting and even learning how to cook. Spanakopita, lamb shank and baklava are just a few of the authentic dishes you’ll be able to savor while tapping your feet to lively Greek music by The Mythos

11am-10pm. Nativity of Christ Greek Orthodox Christian Church, 1110 Highland Music Saturday-Sunday June 14-15, Grant Drive, Novato. nativityofchrist.org.

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In support of and gratitude for the hard work and commitment of local businesses, Novato has themed this year’s popular Fourth of July Parade—held on Grant Avenue on Independence Day—”Salute to Novato Business.” So don’t forget— when caught up in the excitement of watching more than 200 entries in a pageant that includes festive floats, bands and classic cars—to high-five any business owners you spot. Also worthy of attention: the contingent of vintage military vehicles from the Joe Garbarino World War II Military Vehicle Museum, making this production one of the biggest in the Bay Area.

Fourth of July Parade, Friday, July 4, 10am, Grant Avenue between Reichert and Seventh Ave. Free. novatoparade.com.

Band and folk dancing by the Minoan Dancers.

For the teens and young adults of Marin who love being on stage—and for all those who appreciate exciting, professional-quality live drama—summer is a dream at Marin Summer Theater. The award-winning nonprofit theater company guides students between the ages of 13 and 23 in three fully-staged productions: Cryano de Bergerac (love and comedy set in 1640 Paris), RENT (artists struggling to survive in New York’s Lower East Side) and Anything Goes (classical musical theater set aboard an ocean liner).

With judging categories that include “Best Muscle Car” and “Best Rat Rod,” the 18th annual Nostalgia Days Rod and Kustom Car Show is sure to be a sight to behold. On Friday, Aug. 29, vintage hot rods will cruise down Novato’s main drag, and the following night they’ll be on display as bands play, raffles are drawn and awards are announced. A second parade of the shiny cars will take place Saturday evening, and special guests include The American Graffiti Tribute Team. Y

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Start your summer off right with a full belly at the ever-popular Taste of Town Center, Saturday, May 24, from noon until 2pm. Indulge in free tasty treats from Pig in a Pickle, The Counter Custom Burger, Il Fornaio, Pacific Catch, Lappert’s Ice Cream and others. Listen to live music and keep the kids occupied with face painting while you make your rounds.

Don’t miss a beat with your summer celebration: head over to Magnolia Avenue for the 25th annual Larkspur Flower and Food Festival, Sunday, May 25. The Larkspur Community Association hopes you feel the flower power as you muse over flower-related crafts, sample local gourmet and specialty foods, and rock out to music from bands like Doc Kraft and Reckless in Vegas.

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Marin Country Mart Friday Night Jazz Concerts are Friday nights from 6-9pm, beginning June 23. 2257 Larkspur Landing, Larkpsur. Info: marincountrymart.com.

Community Foundation—returns on June 15 with a great lineup of music, from rock to jazz to soul—guaranteed to please all ages and musical tastes.

Bring your flags, blankets and pride to this year’s Corte Madera-Larkspur 4th of July Parade & Festival. The old-fashioned parade begins at 10:30am at Redwood High School, winds through the two towns, and ends at Corte Madera’s Town Center. Catch the McIntosh Pipe Band on the march, and then hang around Town Park for live music, hotdogs, ice cream and, of course, carnival games.

If you want a break from summer’s sunshine, head inside for Lark Theater’s Summer Opera Encore Series. Grab a seat and watch the “Best of the Met” productions live on a big screen in high definition.

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The 33rd annual Mill Valley Market Wine, Beer & Gourmet Food Tasting will have you wondering why anyone would ever dream of living anywhere but California. Bringing together the best of what the Golden State has to offer, the event presents goodies from 60 premium wineries, 30 food purveyors and 15 breweries. Not to be missed by foodies and craft beer lovers. Y

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The works of Ernest Bloch, Felix Mendelssohn, Alexis Alrich and Ottorino Respighi will soar gloriously through San Rafael’s Church of St. Raphael and Mill Valley’s Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church.

Legendary dancer and choreographer Anna Halprin and the Planetary Dance Association invite you to the 34th annual Planetary Dance, an all-day ritual of healing and community renewal. Bringing people of all ages and abilities together in a call for peace, the Sunday, June 1 “Remember the Children”-themed event begins with a 5:45am sunrise ceremony atop Mt. Tam, followed by the group ritual and a potluck celebration.

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The summer entertainment in San Anselmo really gets rolling at the end of June.

The first event to put on your calendar is the Chamber of Commerce’s San Anselmo Art & Wine Festival the weekend of June 21. This lively event shuts down San Anselmo Avenue and offers festivalgoers arts and crafts, music and, of course, wine.

The “A Taste of San Anselmo” Dinner Under the Stars event is Saturday, Aug. 23.

Presented by the Chamber of Commerce and in support of Imagination Park, town dignitaries and locals share a meal and dance in celebration of the vitality and wide-open skies of San Anselmo.

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Beatles in the Park. Saturday, July 12, from 6-9pm; $15 adults/ $5 kids 12 and under.

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Picnics on the Plaza (Friday nights) to starry Film Night in the Park (Friday and Saturday nights) to the San Anselmo Arts Commission’s Music in the Park (five Sundays in August) to the carnival-like Country Fair Day & Parade. All festivities are family-friendly and offer some of Marin’s most beloved homegrown pastimes: food, music and fairs.

This summer Ross will offer an especially good time for eventgoers at its stunning Marin Art and Garden Center (MAGC). On Thursdays beginning June 26, pop by MAGC for its annual Summer Concert Series. Sit back, soak in the surroundings and enjoy the free music and dinner from one of Ross Valley’s local haunts. MAGC is also the place to watch the Ross Valley Players. This July, RVP will be running a production of Wendy Wasserstein’s Old Money, directed by Kim Bromley. The popular show proves that there is nothing really new about old money.

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There are plenty of opportunities to car-gaze, star-gaze, dance your heart out and pretend you’re a sailor, all without leaving the confines of one of Marin’s most picturesque and quaint locales.

Ever wanted to Enjoy live music and views of Tiburon’s coast from Angel Island LIVE. prove to Dad that you can catch a bigger, snacks and inspiration from nature provided heavier fish faster than him? Tell him to meet free of charge. you at the fishing pier in Paradise Beach Hop on a ferry and get away from it all at Park on Saturday, June 14, for the Father’s Angel Island LIVE, afternoon and weekend Day Weekend Fishing Derby. Thanks to the music at Angel Island Cantina—“the most California Department of Fish and Wildlife, a happening place in the Bay Area this sumlimited number of fishing poles and bait will mer.” The lineup includes everything from be provided on a first-come, first-serve basis, bayou bop to vintage pop, and stress levels and prizes will be awarded. Just remember plummet with every pitcher of mimosa. Y to take it easy on poor ol’ Dad; it’s his special weekend.

This one will make you want to hop ship The main drag for a life at sea. Members of the Corinthian Yacht Club are proud to show off their sailSpeaking of traditions, Friday Nights on boats to the public on Sunday, June 29, for Main is about as beloved as they come. the annual Wooden Boat Show. The sole Designed for mingling with family and fundraising event for the Master Mariners friends, this inviting event shuts down Benevolent Foundation, the show will feature Main Street on the last Friday of the model boat-building for mini sailors and live month (through September) to make way music. for food booths, art and live music. Friday, Celebrate the art and function of pre-1971 May 30, will be a fun way to kick this one classic automobiles this June at the free Tibuoff, as Tiburon turns the big 5-0! Express ron Classic Car Show. Ask the car owners your birthday wishes under fireworks at questions, take photos or just daydream about nightfall, and dance in the streets until jumping in one of the Jaguars or Mustangs your heart’s content. and cruising down the California coast.

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with Santana, playing congas, timbales and bongs, elevating their art form and sometimes seeming to levitate from the stage during their dynamic percussion solos.

The brothers left Santana in 1972 to form the 14-piece Azteca, a Latin-rock and jazzfusion band that recorded two albums during its brief tenure.

Of that short-lived bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debut album, music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine opined: â&#x20AC;&#x153;It envisions a world without borders and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to resist even when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not always well articulated.â&#x20AC;?

The Escovedos would go on to other projects and to spawn Pete Escovedo and special guests lay down the beat at the Fenix on Friday, May 30. a musical dynasty that includes y fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first instrument in Peteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter Sheila E., who has recorded school was the saxophone,â&#x20AC;? Zina and toured with Prince, Ringo Starr and Ann Escovedo wrote of her father, others.

Latin music legend Pete Escovedo, on the During his career, the 78-year-old Pete, familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take long to disa master of the timbales, has gone on to cover that this was definitely not his calling. perform with Latin percussion king Ernesto He decided to try another Antonio â&#x20AC;&#x153;Titoâ&#x20AC;? Puente, pianists instrument: bongos. The Cal Tjader and Herbert first bongo set was made Jeffrey â&#x20AC;&#x153;Herbieâ&#x20AC;? Hancock, NOW PLAYING out of coffee cans and Stephen Stills, Latin pop Mambo Caribeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;featuring tape, and he painted it star Gloria Estefan, and Pete Escovedo, Peter Michael himself. big-band leader Woodrow Escovedo and guitarist and â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was determined Charles â&#x20AC;&#x153;Woodyâ&#x20AC;? Herman, composer Ray Obiedoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;perto play.â&#x20AC;? to name a few. form Friday, May 30, at 8pm, at the Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San And play he did.

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While his contribution he released eight albums as isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always fully noted, a bandleader on the Fantasy as a touring member of and Concord Music Group the Santana Band and beyond, Pete Escojazz labels, including the 2012 Live from vedoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who performs Friday, May 30, with Stern Grove, and appeared on the popular Mambo Caribe at the Fenix supper club in PBS TV show Austin City Limits. downtown San Rafaelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;was highly influenAs a member of the E Family band, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tial in popularizing Latin rock, pop and jazz also recorded with his daughter Sheila E. and in the 1970s. his other children: Juan, Peter Michael and While Carlos Santanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impressive and Zina. incendiary fretwork is the most obvious comLast month, family members Pete, Peter ponent of the talent-laden, original Santana Michael and Juan joined forces to contribute Band, it was those percolating, pulsing Latin percussion to a track on the newly released El beats, laid down by an ace percussion section, Chicano album Signature (featuring songs by that really fueled the group on record and on Cream songwriter Pete Brown). stage. On record, Michael Carabello and Jose This week, local jazz fans will have a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chepitoâ&#x20AC;? Areas, especially, provided most chance to hear Escovedo in an intimate setof the percussion for those first few Santana ting.

Band albums ... with assistance from Peteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The love affair between Pete Escovedo and late brother, Coke Escovedo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no way the world of percussion took off like wildfire,â&#x20AC;? to express our appreciation for the constant the L.A. Times once noted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and is still burnfeeling of inspiration brought to us by Coke ing ...â&#x20AC;? Y Escovedo,â&#x20AC;? the acknowledgement reads on Light Gregâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fire at gcahill51@gmail.com. the liner notes of the Santana III album.

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“Baseball used to have a lot more “Well, there have been Americannicknames than they do now, which is Indian players,” he replies, “but no Asianprobably a good thing. They weren’t Indian players. Not yet, anyway.” always the most sensitive nicknames. If Fost is the author of two books you were Native American, you were most about the Giants, includlikely nicknamed “Chief ” ing the just-released The or something,” Fost says.

NOW SIGNING Giants Baseball Experience: “If someone was from A Year-by-Year Chronicle Dan Fost will be signing the country, they got the copies of The Giants Basefrom New York to San Frannickname “Rube.” There ball Experience on Friday, cisco. If there is a detail are a lot of players with June 6, from 11:30amabout the history of the Githose kinds of names in 1:30pm, at Costco, in Vinants that Fost cannot pull Giants history. The Giants tage Oaks Center, Novato. out of his own memory, also had a player, a pitcher, then its probably available who was deaf. His name in his book. This afternoon, was Luther Taylor, and his Fost and I have met up to watch the new nickname was ‘Dummy.’”

Disney sports drama Million Dollar Arm, “There’s a picture of him here,” Fost about a real-life effort to recruit baseball adds, pulling out a copy of his over-sized players in India, through a reality TV show “coffee-table” book and flipping to page called Million Dollar Arm. The program 16. “That’s probably how baseball develactually did end up in the recruitment of oped some of the signs catchers use in two minor league players, Rinku Singh and communicating with the pitcher, because Dinesh Patel, who were signed for a time by of Luther ‘Dummy’ Taylor.” the Pittsburgh Pirates.

In Million Dollar Arm, John Hamm “Jim Thorpe,” Fost says, naming the (Mad Men) plays real-life sports agent J.B. legendary Olympic athlete and partBernstein, who was apparently a bit of an time football, basketball and baseball asshole until making the acquaintance of player. Thorpe was part American-Indian, the teenage Singh and Patel. In the movie, growing up in the Sak and Fox Nation in Bernstein’s a driven, selfish, sarcastic, bull-

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“I read about those guys in Sports Illustrated a few years ago,” Fost mentions.

“I don’t really know anything about J.B. Bernstein, as to whether he was really like that, or if he was really down on his luck and all out of money, but he really did cook up this crazy plan to go to India and these baseball tryouts. And they did do a reality TV show, and they did bring these two guys over to the states, and both of them really did sign with the Pirates. So that part is true.

“But a lot of the rest of it ...” he says with a laugh. “There was the stench of inauthenticity to a lot of the way this movie played out. And a surprising lack of any actual baseball playing.”

“Yes! In a baseball movie,” I remark, “you expect to see at least one scene where somebody actually plays the game. But this was all about pitching practice and getting ready for professional baseball tryouts, more than it was about baseball. It wasn’t even clear that these guys even liked baseball.”

“There was a quote in the Sports Illustrated article,” Fost says, “where they talk to Coach Tom House, from USC—the Bill Paxton character in the movie. He said that what was great about training these guys was that they didn’t know anything about baseball, so they hadn’t picked up any bad baseball habits yet.

“He didn’t have to ‘unteach’ them anything,” he continues, “which is what usually happens when he gets a kids who played Little League and high school baseball for years. Most players come to House with their minds all cluttered up with bad advice from other coaches, from parents, from everywhere.”

And in Million Dollar Arm, the kids from India arrive pretty much uncluttered in every way, except for their underlying fear of letting down Bernstein, the coaches and their own families back home. Few baseball movies have been as focused on the psychology of “choking,” of being so afraid and self-doubting you can’t just relax and throw the ball.

Because of that focus, Million Dollar Arm is both excitingly fresh and original, but also strangely uncomfortable, and with the icing-on-the-cake of all that patented sports movie schmaltz, it’s also hard to resist.

“I have to admit, it made me cry here and there,” I confess.

“You too?” Fost laughs.

“So,” I ask Fost, “how long do you think it will be ’til events like Million Dollar Arm produce a major league player from India?”

“Well, we’re already seeing things like the World Baseball Classic,” Fost muses.

“I was in Paris last summer, and I saw a guy with a World Baseball Classic cap on, and I said something to him, ’cause I knew the World Baseball Classic had just played in San Francisco. So I asked him if he’d gone to the classic in San Francisco, and it turns out he’s from Australia, and his son is in the minor leagues for the Twins. So, there are more and more players from all over the world showing up in the Major Leagues, and in the farm systems and Triple A teams. Even watching the Little League championships, we see teams from all over the world. But I don’t really know if there’s ever been a Little League team from India.

“So I can’t guess when there will be an Indian Major Leaguer,” Fost concludes, “But ... who knows? If they put any kind of effort into it, I think that within the decade they could do it. Like the movie says, ‘It might be improbable, but hey, anything is possible.’” Y Play ball with David at talkpix@earthlink.net.

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f your family is lacking in the dysfunc- children in a particularly horrible way; tion department and you feel you’ve their older son, Henry, disappeared after been missing out on the drama, look a protest bombing during the Vietnam no further than the stage at the Marin War (the play takes place in 2004). This Art and Garden Center. Jon Robin Baitz’s political act is horrifying to his parents Other Desert Cities—a 2012 finalist for and is the elephant in the room when the Pulitzer prize for drama—explores a the family gathers. At Christmas, their fractured family, living as exiles in a Calidaughter Brooke (Jennifer Gregory) comes fornia desert town. home with a loaded NOW PLAYING In the Ross Valley gift—a memoir about Other Desert Cities runs through SunPlayers’ production, the family and their day, June 15, at the Barn Theatre, Marin Lyman Wyeth (Dick culpability in Henry’s Art & Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Martin) is a welldeath. The question Blvd., Ross. For more information call known actor who has of literary rights for 456-9555 or visit rossvalleyplayers.com. given up Hollywood Brooke— “It’s my for a lush retirement life and I have a right in Palm Springs. His wife, Polly (Ellen to write it”—versus the family’s right to Brooks), who wrote screenplays with her privacy, becomes the major theme of the sister, Silda (Kristine Ann Lowry), fits right play. Silda is firmly in Brooke’s corner, into this country club Republican enclave. although you might wonder if her support Both sisters use alcohol, pills and emotion- is just another blow in her ongoing war ally purging verbal battles to combat their with Polly. Trip (Peter Warden), a TV proboredom. ducer (his successful game show is called We learn early on that there is another Jury of Your Peers), tries, and fails, to keep reason why they are living in a desert city. his Hollywood cool. Since all are clever, Polly and Lyman lost one of their three intelligent and articulate, the laughs come

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Director Phoebe Moyer keeps the action flowing at a brisk pace in intimate and confessional scenes between Brooke and her brother, her aunt and her parents, and the chaos that comes when all are on stage together. Brooks and Lowry are marvelous as still-sparring sisters who no longer write together but keep their wicked dialogue going. Brooks’ Polly is not likeable—she’s a distant and damaging mother—but her pain is palpable in moments of stillness and when she and Lyman share knowledgeable looks that go over the heads of their children.

Martin, who came into the production two weeks before the opening, reveals a world of pain that exists under the calm and reasonable Lyman. Lowry’s Silda gets laughs as she falls into the living room with a, “You see what happens when you don’t drink!” But she is every inch a recovering alcoholic who knows she must depend on the kindness of a sister she hates.

Gregory and Warden, as the alienated middle-aged children, come off as teenagers (something that happens when you go home again), and sometimes Gregory’s gestures and flailing and near hysteria— funny as they are—take away from the serious questions she is raising. Warden’s Trip has a sly humor, knowing he is only home for the holidays and doesn’t have to get involved, but he, too, falls into the chasm created by Henry’s death.

Ron Krempetz creates an elegant contemporary set with abstract paintings and a window that has a constant burning sun glowing just outside the entrance. Michael Berg’s costumes are properly glittery for Polly, flowing and flowery for Silda, and casual for Brooke and Trip, while Lyman

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Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 Rowland: Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:55, 7:10, 10:25 kAnita (Not Rated) Lark: Fri, Wed 1 Sun 3:30 kBack to the Future (PG) Regency: Sun 2 Wed 2, 7 Belle (PG) Rafael: Fri 4, 6:30, 8:45 Sat-Mon 1:45, 4, 6:30, 8:45 Tue-Thu 6:30, 8:45 kBlended (PG-13) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 Sun-Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:45 Larkspur Landing: Fri-Mon 7:15, 10 Tue-Thu 6:45, 9:30 Marin: Fri 4:15, 7, 9:45 Sat 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45 Sun-Mon 1:30, 4:15, 7 Tue-Thu 4:15, 7 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:35, 12, 1:30, 3, 4:30, 6, 7:30, 9, 10:20 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:10, 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 1:10, 6:55 Chef (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:20, 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Sun-Thu 11:20, 2:05, 4:50, 7:40 kChinese Puzzle (R) Regency: Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sun-Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 Divergent (PG-13) Northgate: Fri-Wed 9:45 Fading Gigolo (R) Larkspur Landing: Fri 6:45 Sat-Mon 11:15 Tue-Thu 7 Regency: Fri-Sat 11:45, 2:15, 4:35, 7, 9:25 Sun-Tue, Thu 11:45, 2:15, 4:35, 7 Wed 11:40, 4:40 kFed Up (PG) Regency: Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Sun-Thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50 The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (NR) Rafael: Sat-Mon 2 Godzilla (PG-13) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Sun-Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:15 Larkspur Landing: Fri 9:40; 3D showtime at 6:30 Sat-Mon 3:30, 9:40; 3D showtimes at 12:30, 6:30 Tue-Thu 9:20; 3D showtime at 6:30 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:30, 2:20, 3:30, 5:10, 7:55, 8:55; 3D showtimes at 10:30, 12:35, 1:20, 4:05, 6:05, 7, 9:50 Playhouse: Fri 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 1, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 Sun 1, 4:15, 7:10 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7 Thu 4:15 Rowland: Fri-Wed 10:45, 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:30; 3D showtimes at 12:15, 3:10, 6, 9 Sequoia: Fri 4 10; 3D showtime at 7 Sat 4, 10; 3D showtimes at 1, 7 Sun-Mon 4; 3D showtimes at 1, 7 Tue-Wed 4; 3D showtime at 7 The Grand Budapest Hotel (R) Lark: 8:30 daily Marin: Fri 4:45, 7:30, 8:55 Sat 2, 4:45, 7:30, 9:55 Sun-Mon 2, 4:45, 7:30 Tue-Thu 4:45, 7:30 Regency: Fri-Sat, Mon-Thu 2:10, 7:20 Sun 7:20 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:40, 4:20, 10:05 kIda (PG-13) Rafael: Fri 4:15, 6:15, 8:15 Sat-Mon 2:15, 4:15, 6:15, 8:15 Tue-Thu 6:15, 8:15 kThe Immigrant (R) Marin: Fri 4:30, 7:15, 10 Sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10 Sun-Mon 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 Tue-Thu 4:30, 7:15 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (PG) Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:35, 5:05, 7:20 The Lunchbox (PG) Lark: Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 6 Mon 3:30 kMaleficent (PG) Fairfax: Thu 7 Northgate: Thu 7, 9:30; 3D showtimes at 8, 10:30 Playhouse: Thu 7 Rowland: Thu 7:30, 9:55; 3D showtimes at 7, 9:25 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 1:10, 4, 7:05, 9:40 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4, 7:05 Thu 1:10, 4 Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:15, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30 Playhouse: Fri 4, 6:45, 9:20 Sat 12:45, 4, 6:45, 9:20 Sun 12:45, 4, 6:45 Mon-Wed 4, 6:45 Thu 4 Rowland: Fri-Wed 10:30, 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 kA Million Ways to Die in the West (R) Fairfax: Thu 8 Northgate: Thu 8 Playhouse: Thu 8 Neighbors (R) Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12, 2:35, 4:50, 7:10, 9:45 Sun-Wed 12, 2:35, 4:50, 7:10 Thu 12, 2:35, 4:50 Larkspur Landing: Fri 7, 9:30 Sat-Mon 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 Tue-Thu 7:15, 9:35 Northgate: Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Rowland: Fri-Wed 10:05, 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 kNOW: In the Wings on a World Stage (NR) Lark: Fri, Thu 3:30 Sat 1:15 Tue 6 The Other Woman (PG-13) Larkspur Landing: Fri 9:20 Sat-Mon 1:30, 4:05, 6:45 Tue-Thu 9:15 Regency: FriSat 11:55, 4:55, 9:50 Sun-Thu 11:55, 4:55 Palo Alto (R) Rafael: Fri-Mon 4:30, 6:45, 9 Tue-Wed 6:45, 9 Thu 9 Rio 2 (G) Northgate: Fri-Wed 11:10, 1:40, 4:15, 7:05, 9:40 Tim’s Vermeer (PG-13) Lark: Sat 3:45 Mon, Tue, Thu 1:15 Le Week-End (R) Lark: Sun 1 Mon 6 Tue-Wed 3:30 kWords and Pictures (PG-13) Regency: Fri-Sat 11:15, 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:15 Sun-Thu 11:15, 1:55, 4:40, 7:25 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG-13) Cinema: Fri-Wed 3:50, 10:10; 3D showtimes 12:40, 7 Fairfax: Fri-Sat 12:10, 3:30, 6:40, 9:35; 3D showtimes at 1:20, 4:20, 7:45 Sun-Thu 12:10, 3:30, 6:40; 3D showtimes at 1:20, 4:20, 7:45 Northgate: Fri-Wed 10:50, 1:50, 4:50, 6:30, 8, 9:35; 3D showtimes at 11:35, 12:20, 1:05, 2:40, 3:25, 4:10, 5:45, 7:15, 8:50, 10:15 Playhouse: Fri 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 Mon-Thu 3:30, 6:30 Rowland: Fri-Wed 11:30, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30; 3D showtimes at 10, 1, 4, 7, 10 Sequoia: Fri 4:25, 10:30; 3D showtime at 7:30 Sat 4:25, 10:30; 3D showtimes at 1:20, 7:30 Sun-Mon 4:25; 3D showtimes at 1:20, 7:30 Tue-Wed 4:25; 3D showtime at 7:30

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Live music 05/23: Black Uhuhru Reggae. Ancient Mystic opens. 9pm. $30-32. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 388-1100. swmh.com.

05/23: The Doc Kraft Dance Band Rock, zydeco. 8:30pm. $10. Seahorse Bar, 305 Harbor Dr. Gate 5 , Sausalito. 601-7858. dockraft.com.

05/23: Groovin with the Phillip Percy Pack Jazz. With Marco Casasola, piano. 6:30pm.

No cover. Rickey’s Restaurant , 250 Entrada Dr., Novato. 244-2665. rickeysrestaurant.com.

05/23: Jazzitude 9:30pm. $10. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

05/23: John Mayall 8pm. $40-50. City Winery at Napa Valley Opera House, 130 Main St., Napa. 707/260-1600. citywinery.com.

05/23: Kelly Peterson Band Folk, rock.

5pm. Free. Peri’s Silver Dollar Patio, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. perisbar.com.

05/23: La Gente With La Mandanga. 9pm. $10. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax.

459-1091. 19broadway.com.

05/23: Ojo De Buey and Manicato Reggae/ Afro Caribbean, latin fusion. 9pm. $10.

George’s Nightclub, 842 Fourth St., San Rafael.

578-2707. georgesnightclub.com..

05/23-24: Phil and Friends 8pm. $79.

Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael. 524-2773. terrapincrossroads.net.

05/23: Pop Rocks Pop. 9pm. $12-15. Hopmonk Tavern, 224 Vintage Way, Novato.

497-2448. hopmonk.com 05/23: Rusty Evans’ Ring of Fire Rockabilly. 9:30pm. $8. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.459-9910. perisbar.com.

05/23: Soul Power: Tower of Power Tribute 8pm. $15. Fenix, 919 Fourth St, San Rafael.

813-5600. fenixlive.com.

05/24: The 85s 80s dance rock. 9pm. $10.

Hopmonk Tavern, 224 Vintage Way, Novato.

497-2448. hopmonk.com 05/24: John Nameth 8pm. $15-18. Fenix, 919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com.

05/24: Louie Culture with Bobby Tenna

Reggae. 9pm. $12-15. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 459-1091. 19broadway.com.

05/24: Miracle Mule Swampy tonk. 8:30pm. $10. Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio. 662-2219. ranchonicasio.com

05/24: Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes Crusade opens. 9pm. $27-32. Sweet-

water Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 388-1100. swmh.com.

05/24: Sara Laine and Friends Rock, soul, Americana. With Mark Karan, Robert Powell, Susie Davis, Andius Jent, Ed Berman, special guests. 9:30pm. $15. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

05/24: Slim Jenkins Swing jazz. 9:30pm. $8.

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

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LA GENTE (Reggae, Hip-Hop, Salsa, Rock) LA MANDANGA (Flamenco fusion)

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SOL DOC & THE OPTIMYSTICS

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STACKS (Jazz – 5pm)

Sun May

JAY “BUCKARRO” BONET (Rockabilly/blues – 9pm)

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CHRIS PERRY’S TIME MACHINE (Rock)

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Those who know nothing about the Oscar-winning 2013 documentary SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN, and anyone willing to skip blurbs like this and gamble 12 bucks on a film completely unaware, should rush to iTunes and download one of the most riveting and twist-turning music doc to come along in years. The spoilers: The folk singer Sixto Rodriguez burst onto the Detroit musical scene in the early 70s with some of the most soulful ballads you’ve never heard—generously sampled throughout the film, epic in their sweep and beauty. But inexplicably his career went nowhere. Always a drifter, Rodriguez fell off the map after A still of the elusive Rodriguez in ‘Searching For Sugar Man.’ several record flops and the loss of his label. Ignored in the U.S., he vanished back into obscurity, end of tale ... except in apartheid South Africa, where bootleg copies of his albums began to spur a fervid musical counterculture of protest that many credit for hastening the breakup of racist Afrikaner stranglehold on the country. Rodriguez was bigger than Elvis or the Stones there, but unlike most pop icons his millions of fans knew absolutely zero about him—only what could be gleaned from the sleeve lyrics, and the knowledge that he had shot himself dead—or set himself on fire—on stage at a concert. Enter two South African journalists determined to get to the bottom of the elusive Rodriguez story. The result will blow you away.—Richard Gould

SALSA NIGHT WITH LATIDO FEATURING EDGARDO CAMBON

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STEPHANIE KEYS BAND (Rock)

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ZIGABOO MODELISTE AND THE

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Gene Washington & The Ironsides (Soul) 9pm | $15 - $20

CHROME JOHNSON

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Open Mic Every Monday w/Derek Smith

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Outdoor Dining 7 Days a Week

DIN N E R & A SHOW Fri

May 23

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WITH HIS FAVORITE “BROADS”

8:00 / No Cover MIRACLE MULE May 24 Swampy Tonk 8:30 Sat

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 05/24: Sol Doc and the Optymystics

05/25: Ned Endless and the Allniters

9pm. $10. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 459-1091. 19broadway.com.

Original rock. 5pm. No cover. 2am Club, 380 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. 497-2448.

05/25: Ryan Schaeffer and Ian Mcardle Jazz standards, pop. 6pm. No cover. Panama Hotel, 4 Bayview St,. San Rafael. panamahotel.com.

05/24: Stellamara with Zoe Jakes, Colleena Shakti and Kristen Sague

Electro-acoustic world music ensemble. 8pm. $22.50-27.50 Showcase Theater, Marin Center, 10 Ave. of the Flags, San Rafael. 473-6800. marincenter.org.

05/25: The Blues Broads Barbecue on the lawn show. 4pm. $20-25. Rancho Nicasio, 1 OldRancheria Road, Nicasio. 662-2219. ranchonicasio.com 05/25: Jay “Buckaroo” Bonet Rock, blues.

9pm-midnight. Ealier; Judy Hall Trio (jazz) 4-7pm; Stacks (jazz), 5-8pm. No cover. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax.

459-1091. 19broadway.com.

05/25: Joan Osborne 8pm. $30-40. City Winery at Napa Valley Opera House, 130 Main St., Napa. 707-260-1600. citywinery.com.

05/25: Junk Parlor Gypsy jazz, blues. 8pm.

No cover. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 459-1091. 19broadway.com.

BBQS ON THE LAWN! Gates at 3, 4 MAY 25 THE BLUES BROADS Music at MAY 26 A BEATLE-Q WITH THE SUN KINGS Fri

May 30

05/26: Open Mic with Austin DeLone

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7:30pm. No cover. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 388-1100. swmh.com.

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05/26: Open Mic with Derek Smith

8:30pm. Free. 19 Broadway Night Club, 17 Broadway, Fairfax. 459-1091. 19broadway.com.

05/26: Open Mic with Simon Costa

8:30pm. Free. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

05/26: Peri’s Open Mic with Billy D

Electric open mic. 9pm. No cover. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 459-9910. perisbar.com.

05/26: The Sun Kings Barbecue on the lawn show. 4pm. $15-18. Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio. 662-2219. ranchonicasio.com

FORD BLUES BAND

WITH PATRICK FORD AND VOLKER STRIFLER 8:00

Tour Kickoff

FROBECK May 31 Original Funk, R&B and Rock 8:30 TERRY HAGGERTY AND Jun 1 M OBY GRAPE’S JERRY MILLER

Classic Songs/ Hot Guitars 7:00

MAURICE TANI’S Jun 7 77 EL DEORA Sat

WITH PAM BRANDON Genre-Bending 8:30

FATHER’S DAY Gates aatt34, BBQ ON THE LAWN! Music Sun T C OMMY ASTRO AND THE Jun 15 PAINKILLERS SPECIAL GUESTS KEITH CROSSAN AND NANCY WRIGHT Reservations Advised

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On the Town Square, Nicasio www.ranchonicasio.com May 23 - May 29, 2014 Pacific Sun 29 LISA RANCHO NICASIO NBB 1421 JAM

Fri 5/23 • Doors 8:00pm • ADV $30 / DOS $32 Jamaican Reggae Legends

Black Uhuru

Sat 5/24 • Doors 8:00pm • ADV $27 / DOS $32

Rich Robinson

From The Black Crowes

Tue 5/27 • Doors 7:00pm • ADV $35 / DOS $37

Lukas Nelson & POTR

and From ALO - Lebo & Friends

Thu 5/29 • Doors 7:00pm • ADV $15 / DOS $17

Marble Party CD Release Party

With: Tracy Blackman with Jimmy Dillon

Fri 5/30 • Doors 8:00pm • ADV $22 / DOS $24

Wild Child - A Live Re-Creation of a 1960s Doors Concert

Mon 6/2 • Doors 7:00pm • ADV $14 / DOS $17

Jason Crosby's 40th Birthday Bash feat. Dan Lebowitz (ALO), Stu Allen (Mars Hotel/JGB), Reed Mathis (Tea Leaf Green), Shana Morrison and Surprise Guests!

Fri 6/6 • Doors 8pm • ADV $30 / DOS $34

The Tubes with Michael Lee Firkins www.sweetwatermusichall.com 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley Café 388-1700 | Box Office 388-3850

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McNear’s Dining House Brunch, Lunch, Dinner • BBQ, Pasta, Steak, Desserts

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Sat 5/24 • 7:30pm doors • 21+ • Pink Floyd Tribute Band

AN EVENING WITH HOUSE OF FLOYD Thu 5/29 • 7:30pm doors • 21+ • Bluegrass

BROTHERS COMATOSE THE CRUX

Fri 5/30 • 7pm doors • 21+ • Rockabilly/Country

REVEREND HORTON HEAT

OLD MAN MARKLEY • PIÑATA PROTEST Thu 6/5 • 7:30 pm doors • 21+ • Rock

YOUNG DUBLINERS FAMILIAR LOOKING STRANGERS

SAT 6/7 • 7pm doors • 21+ • Americana/Indie/Rock

HIGHWAY POETS & DAVID LUNING BOOTLEG HONEYS

Fri 6/13 • 8:30pm doors • 21+ • 1980s Cover Band

AN EVENING WITH TAINTED LOVE 23 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma (707) 765-2121 purchase tix online now! mystictheatre.com 30 Pacific Sun May 23 - May 29, 2014

05/27: Chris Perry and the Time Machine Rock. 9pm. No cover. 19 Broad-

05/30: Jessie Brewster, Mickelson, Brad Brooks Folk, rock. 9pm. $10. Hopmonk

way, 17 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 459-1091.

19broadway.com.

05/27: James Moseley Jazz, blues, r&b.

7pm. No cover. Panama Hotel, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. panamahotel.com.

Tavern, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 497-2448. hopmonk.com

05/27: Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real Rasing funds for children’s music educa-

tion in Haiti. 8pm. $35-37. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 388-1100. swmh.com.

05/28: Bear’s Belly Original folk Americana trio. 9pm. Free. Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway Blvd , Fairfax.sleepingladyfairfax.com.

05/28: Down Low Duo Jazz, r&b. 7pm. No cover. Panama Hotel, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. panamahotel.com.

05/28: Dynamo Jones Rock. 9pm. No cover. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. perisbar.com.

05/28: Johnny Mathis 8pm. $75-150. Marin Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium, 10 Ave., of the Flags, San Rafael. 473-6800. marincenter.org.

05/28: Open Mic with Dennis Haneda 7pm.

No cover. All ages. HopMonk Novato, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 892-6200. hopmonk.com/novato.

05/28: Rusty Evans and the Ring of Fire

8pm. No cover. Iron Springs Brewery, Center Blvd., Fairfax. 485-1005. ironspringspub.com.

05/28: Salsa Night with Latido Featuring Edward Cambon. 9pm. $10. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 459-1091.

19broadway.com.

05/29: Deborah Winters Jazz. 7pm. No cover. Panama Hotel, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. panamahotel.com.

05/29: Dog Gone Blues Band Blues. 7pm. $5. Presidio Yacht Club, Travis Marina, Ft. Baker, Sausalito. 601-3333. presidioycgmail.com.

05/29: Erin and the Project 8pm. $10.

Fenix Supper Club, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael.

813-5600. fenixlive.com.

05/29: King and Ace Acoustic duo. 9pm. No cover. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

05/29 Marble Party with Jimmy Dillon and Tracy Blackman CD release party. 8pm.

$15-17. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 388-1100. swmh.com.

05/29: Mark Ribot: The Kid Guitar accompaniment for Charlie Chaplin silent film.

7:30pm. $25-45. SF Jazz, 201 Franklin St., S.F. 866-920-5299. sfjazz.org.

05/29: Peppino D’Agostino with Jeff Campitelli Guitar; drums. 8pm $21-35. 142

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

05/29: Stephany Keys Band Rock. 9pm.

No cover. 19 Broadway, 17 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 459-1091. 19broadway.com.

05/29: The Pickups Rock. No cover. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. perisbar.com.

05/30: Ceramic Dog with Mark Ribot, Shahzad Ismaily, Ches Smith Rock/jazz.

7:30pm. $25-40. SF Jazz, 201 Franklin St., S.F. 866/920-5299. sfjazz.org.

05/30: Danny Click Rock, blues and Americana. 9:30pm. $10. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

05/30: The Ford Blues Band 8pm. $10-12.

Rancho Nicasio, 1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio.

662-2219. ranchonicasio.com 05/30: Hot Buttered Rum 8:30pm. $20. Ages 16 and older. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael. 524-2773. terrapincrossroads.net.

05/30: Mambo Caribe with Pete Escovedo, Peter Michael Escovedo and Ray Obiedo 8pm. $20. Fenix, 919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com.

05/30: Mitch Polzak 8:30pm. No cover. Best Lil’ Porkhouse Corte Madera, 60 Madera Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-7427. bestlilporkhouse.com.

05/30: Sir Francis Drake HS Jazz Band with Wayne Wallace, Murray Low, Michael Spiro Jazz. 7pm. $5-15. Drake High

Little Theater, 327 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Anselmo. tamdistrict.org.

05/30: Soul Mechanix Soul, jazz. 9:30pm. $8. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. perisbar.com.

05/30: Wild Child Doors tribute concert with Dave Brock. 9pm. $22-24. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley.

388-1100. swmh.com.

05/30: Zigaboo Modeliste and the New Aakesstra Gene Washington and the Iron-

sides open. Funk, rock. 9pm. $15-20.19 Broadway, 17 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 459-1091.

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05/31: Chrome Johnson Country rock, Americana. 9pm. $10.19 Broadway, 17 Broadway Blvd., Fairfax. 459-1091. 19broadway.com.

05/31: Los Cubanos Postizos with Mark Ribot, Anthony Coleman, Brad Jones, Horacio Hernandez, E.J. Rodriguez, David Hidalgo 7:30pm. $25-45. SF Jazz, 201 Franklin St., S.F. 866/920-5299. sfjazz.org.

Comedy 05/24: Dylan Brody “Dylan Goes Electric.”

Wordsmith, comedy. 8pm. $20-30. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600. 142throckmortontheatre.org.

05/27: Tuesday Night Comedy with Mark Pitta and Friends Established head-

liners and up and coming comics drop by and work on new material. $16-26. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600. throckmortontheatre.org.

05/28: Tracy Morgan “Turn it Funny.” 8pm. $48. Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, Lyon St., S.F. 800-745-3000. palaceoffinearts.org 05/29: Mort Sahl: Social Satire Thoughtful, provocative insightful humor comedy and engaging conversation. 7pm. Free. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600. 142throckmortontheatre.org.

Theater 05/23: ‘Director’s Cut!’ Improvised theatre.

Six improv directors battle. 8pm. $17- 20. Bayfront Theater , B350 Fort Mason Center, S.F. 474-6776. improv.org.

Concerts 05/23-25: S.F. Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas conducts works by Schubert, Dvorak, Grieg, Prokofiev. Yuja Wang, piano. 8pm Fri.Sat.; 2pm Sun. Davies Symphony Hall, 201Van Ness Ave., S.F. sfsymphony.org 05/24: Concert by the Bay Vocal recital.

Art songs, opera and Broadway musicals al fresco. Jou-Lu Hung, soprano; Mengni Tang, piano. Works by Handel, Mozart, Donizetti,

Rossini, Chaminade, Herbert, and Gershwin.

With Carmen Lemoine, flute; Rolfe Dauz, baritone. 3pm. $20. Sausalito Presbyterian Church, 112 Bulkley Ave., Sausalito. luluhung.com.

05/24: Sacred and Secular: St. Petersburg Men’s Ensemble Leonard Kohler, piano, composition; A cappella quartet. 5pm. No cover. St Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church, 967 5th St., Novato. 897-6578. stfrancisnovato.org.

05/24: Tejendra Narayan Majumdar and Swapan Chaudhuri Sarode and tabla.

Indian Classical Music. 7:30pm. $15-20. The Ali Akbar College of Music, 215 West End Ave., San Rafael. aacm.org 05/25: Marin Mens Chorus “Rockin and Rollin.” 3pm. $10, under 12 free. Showcase Theater, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael. 461-1661. marincenter.org.

05/28: Noontime Concerts: Farrallon

Works by Bach, Block, Telemann. Noon. Free. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600. throckmortontheatre.org.

05/30-06/01: Mill Valley Philharmonic

“Cathedral and Temple.” Works by Mendelssohn, Bloch, Alexis Alrich, Respighi. 8pm May 30 and 4pm May 31 at Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Ave., Mill Valley. 3:30pm June 1 at Church of St. Raphael, 1104 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael.

383-0930. millvalleyphilharmonic.org.

05/30: Songs of the Soul Festival “Cosmology and Spirituality: the Universe and the Human Being.” Sacred music and poetry festival. 7pm. $20-95. Mill Valley Community Center, 180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley.

472-6959. ias.org/festival.

Dance 05/24: Love2Dance “Dancing the Dream.”

4pm. $18-24. Marin Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium, 10 Ave., of the Flags, San Rafael.

473-6800. marincenter.org.

Art 05/25-06/08: Inspired by Books Group exhibition. Love Rockit; Deborah Parma and Brian Glenn perform live acoustic folk rock 3-5pm May 25. 3pm. No cover. Art by the Bay Weekend Gallery, 18856 Hwy. 1, Marshall.

663-1006. artbythebayweekendgallery.com.

Through 05/24: 5th Annual Altered Book Show Exhibition showcases the work

of 150 Bay Area artists who re-imagine books through collage, sculpture, hand sewn books.

Gallery Open Wed - Fri 11-4pm and Sat - Sun 11-5pm. Free. Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, 500 Palm Dr, Novato. 506-0137. marinmoca.org.

Through 05/30: Tam High AP Drawing and Painting Exhibition Celebrate the tal-

ents of Tam High’s honors drawing and painting students. Exhibition features stenciled watercolors of endangered animals. Free. Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 389-4292, ext. 3. millvalleylibrary.org.

Through 06/01: Art and Remembrance: Fabric of Survival (Part 1) 40 years after

the Holocaust, Esther Nisenthal Krinitz chose a unique way to retell her childhood memories of pre-war Poland and incredible story of survival: through embroidery. Free. Osher Marin Jewish Community Center, 200 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael. 444-8080 . marinjcc.org/remembrance.

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05/23: Not Afraid of the Dark Hike Join Rangers Felicity Hartnett and Mike Warner for an evening hike through the preserve. Best suited for ages 12+ and adults who can hike at a moderate pace. Dress in layers, wear good hiking shoes, and bring water. Flashlights or headlamps required. High fire danger may cause cancellation. 7:30pm. Free. Mt. Burdell Open Space, San Andreas Drive, Novato.

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Film 05/27: Historical Filmed Lecture Series Produced by the Marin County Historical Society (now Marin History Museum), this project was spearheaded by the late historian Lionel Ashcroft, who also served as narrator. 35mm slides were prepared, projected, and the photos professionally video-taped as Lionel read the script. 7:30pm. $10. Elks Lodge, 1312 Mission Ave, San Rafael. 454-8538. marinhistory.org.

Outdoors 05/24: Marinship Walking Tour Walk back in time—guided tour of Sausalito’s Historic Marinship. This was a major WWII shipyard which had a significant role in winning the war and influencing social changes in Marin County. Come and learn about the history, the extraordinary Marinship workers, and the spirit of this era. 10am.

Free. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 332-3871. spn.usace.army.mil/Missions/ Recreation/BayModelVisitorCenter.aspx.

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05/23-24: Seals & Slippers: Sleep under the Stars Camp out under the stars in the

Marin Headlands. With after hour activities, dinner, followed by the opportunity to observe the animal patients, bedtime snack, familyfriendly movie, tent camping in the courtyard, breakfast and a hike around Rodeo Lagoon. $65-85. Marine Mammal Center, 2000 Bunker Road, Ft. Cronkhite Sausalito. 289-7330. marinemammalcenter.org/education.

05/26: Nature for Kids at Bahia Hike along an open oak woodland at the edge of the San Pablo Bay wetlands. Bring lunch. No pets (except service animals) please. Heavy rain may cancel. 10am. Free. Meet at the Bahia trailhead, Bahia Dr., Novato. 893-9508. marincountyparks.org.

05/30: Family Movie Night Family movie, popcorn. Movie begins 15 minutes after sunset. No animals (except service animals) please.

Rain will cancel. 8pm. Free. Stafford Lake Park, 3549 Novato Blvd., Novato. 897-0618. marincountyparks.org.

05/30: Ken Baker In conversation with Joyce Maynard. Special for Teens. “How I Got Skinny, Famous, and Fell Madly in Love.” 6:30pm.

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

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LEFT COAST CHAMBER ENSEMBLE: LEFT COAST SUMMER READING Take a hike on Mt. Burdell in Novato and see what all the chirps are about.

05/25: Birds at Mount Burdell Bird activity should be at its peak: Some species will be working overtime to satisfy their hungry broods, some will be tending newly fledged young and a few will even be tending new nests. Walk is for ages 15 and up. No pets (except service animals) please. High fire danger may cancel. 9am. Free. Mount Burdell Open Space, San Andreas Dr., Novato. 893-9508. marincountyparks.org.

05/23-26: Memorial Weekend Tennis Championships Mens, Womens and Mixed

Tennis Doubles Competition. Wine tastings, pro exhibitions beer, lunch, raffle. $32.50.

Marin Tennis Club, 925 Belle Ave., San Rafael.

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05/28: Living with Mountain Lions Lecture The mountain lion, native to Marin

County, is one of the largest cats found in North America. Join Chief Park Ranger Rob Ruiz and members of the Felidae Conservation Fund to discuss the habits and natural history of the mountain lion. 7pm. Free. Marinwood Community Center, 775 Miller Creek Road, San Rafael. 354-5655. felidaefund.org.

05/28: Rare Plants of the Tiburon Peninsula The late season bloom on this ridge

includes one of the rarest and most unusual plants in the world, the Tiburon mariposa lily.

Look for this and other flowers as well as butterflies, birds and other wildlife. After lunch, drive over to Old Saint Hilary’s Preserve to see the Tiburon jewel flower and a number of other late blooming flowers. Walk is for ages 15 and up. No pets (except service animals) please. High fire danger may cancel 9am.Free.

Ring Mountain Open Space, Meet at the gate at the end of Taylor Road, Tiburon. 893-9508. marincountyparks.org.

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Classic and contemporary chamber music by composers Robert Schumann, Thomas Ades, Leos Janacek, Eric Zivian and Mike Pelo. This concert will be a feasts of colors and styles.

Readings 05/23: Joshua Ferris 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

05/24: Philippe Petit “Creativity: The Perfect Crime.” 4pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

05/25: Poetry and Prose @ The Mine Anne Robinson and Roy Mash. Open to all ages. 3pm.

Free. Mine Gallery, 1820 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax. 755-4472. gallerymine.com.

05/27: Tom Barbash “Stay Up with Me.” 7pm. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

05/28: Joseph Boyden “The Orenda.” 7pm.

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

05/28: Josh Cooley “Movies R Fun!: A Collection of Cinematic Classics for the Pre(Film) School Cinephile.” 6pm. Free. Book Passage at the Ferry Building, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco. 927-0960. bookpassage.com.

05/29: John Lescroart From N.Y. Times bestselling author comes “The Keeper.” 7pm.

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

05/29: SF Opera Preview/Lecture: Showboat Sponsored by Marin Chapter of

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Villa Marin, 100 Thorndale Dr., San Rafael.

457-1118. sfopera.com/opera-guild.

05/30: Elizabeth Van Ingen “Kismet: From the Joy of Romance to the Agony of Alzheimer’s.”

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05/23: The Monks of Gaden Shartse Dokhang Monastery The monks have launched

a year long U.S. compassion tour to offer cultural and arts performances, teachings, consultations.

8pm. $15. Open Secret Bookstore, 923 C St., San Rafael. 457-4191. opensecretbookstore.com/events.

05/24: Africa: Through the Lens of Empowerment Benefit for Daraja Academy.

Wear your favorite African safari shirts, Kenyan kangas or cape buffalo hats. 8pm. $15, no one turned away. Open Secret Bookstore, 923 C St., San Rafael. 457-4191. opensecretbookstore.com/ events.

05/24: Project Pink Dance to Raise Funds for Breast Cancer Research Come

Join us for a “Wild Night of Pink Party Fun” as we raise funds for the Avon Walk for breast cancer. Kid’s Dance from 6-8pm. Adults only 8pm- midnight. Cash bar. Space limited to the first 250 people. Pink costumes encouraged but not required. 6pm. $10-20. American Legion Hall and Bar, 500 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 624-5276. savemarinboobies.com.

05/24: Cindy Sheehan Running for Governor to end poverty in California. Her goals include decrease in prison populations, increase funding for schools and publicly financed healthcare, reduced fees for public universities; less use of fossil fuels. 6:30pm.

Free. Community Media Center of Marin, 819 A St., San Rafael. 235-9187. cindy2014.org.

05/24: The Taste of Town Center This year will feature many of the center’s restaurants and food merchants who’ll be offering up samples of treats. For kids there will be face painting and balloons. Noon. Free. Town Center Corte Madera, 100 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera. 924-2961. shoptowncenter.com.

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05/27: Tuesday Trivia Night Enjoy delicious BBQ and a full bar while you test your knowledge. 7pm. Free. Best Lil’ Porkhouse Corte Madera, 60 Madera Blvd., Corte Madera.

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05/28: Drake Terrace Health Fair Interactive Health Fair in celebration of National Senior Health and Fitness Day. Health professionals willprovide activities, treats and information on fitness, nutrition and overall wellness. 2pm. Free. Drake Terrace Senior Living Community, 275 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael. 491-1935. lifeatdraketerrace.com. ✹

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TAURUS (April 20 - May 20) The new moon on May 28 brings new projects, Taurus! You’re still getting familiar with your new setup; don’t be reluctant to get comfortable. You’re in it for the long haul and whatever intentions you set now will last six months. Be careful what you manifest: Endless blind dates and enamored suitors are only flattering for a few weeks tops.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20) Head to the beach, Gemini! It’s Memorial Day Weekend and you could use a little relaxing. The new moon in your sign on May 28 is packing serious change. Before you pack your bags and set out on your new adventure, take a mini vacation and rest up. But go easy on your BBQ getaway. No one wants to start a new job smelling like an onion graveyard and sweating Coors Light.

CANCER (June 21 - July 22) One path may be ending, Cancer, but another one is waiting for you to blaze. Your heart may feel heavy on May 25, but don’t get stuck in a rut. One of your guiding heroes will step forward to pick up the pieces and motivate a successful, fresh start in a new direction. And no, this isn’t an excuse to cancel tango lessons with your wife. You’re stuck on that path.

LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22) Leo, usually your willingness to share everything from what you ate yesterday for lunch to the last time you showered is really endearing. Unfortunately, you’re going to have to put a cork in it this week. On May 26, don’t be an oversharer. You’re ready to mingle and your presence will be required at a few events, but you need to hang onto a little bit of intrigue.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) It’s time to commit, Virgo! Change your Facebook relationship status on May 27, and give your relationship the respect it deserves. You’re yearning to make things more official, so don’t be surprised if you’re feeling like you want your partner’s ring finger to shine bright like a diamond. Slow down; you two have your whole lives to cuddle up and do each other’s laundry.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) You made it happen, Libra! You’re going on vacation! And if you aren’t leaving town, your mind is certainly leaving the workplace on May 29. You’re overdue for some philosophical thinking and Mai Tais on the beach. After all, no one enjoys an ice-cooled alcoholic beverage and a discussion on metaphysics more than you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) Do you smell that in the air, Scorpio? Well, you should. Your sense of smell should be out of this world, considering that you’re pregnant. OK, maybe you’re not pregnant, but you’re giving new life to something on May 25. You can count on a big change with a partner.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) You need to recharge, Sagittarius. You’ve been busy giving and not getting much back in return. Take a look at all of your relationships on May 24. Your new beau may be a looker, but he or she is full of red flags. Have you had to pick your love interest up every time you two plan a rendezvous and pick up the tab? All hope isn’t completely lost; just try to add a little balance before it’s too late.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) Not only are you in great shape thanks to your house of fitness, Capricorn, but you’re in great shape at work! A promotion is on its way! A new assignment lands on your desk on May 29 and your hard work will not go unnoticed by the corporate ringleaders. Tackle every project like it’s your last, and say hello to your new work situation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) Love is in the air and (most likely) already in your apartment, Aquarius. You’re overdue for a change-up in your daily routine and this could be just the added spice that holds you over. Take your time and approach the relationship with as much patience as you can. Although you’ll be tempted to make an extra set of keys on May 25, it’s probably best to make sure your new beau at least knows your birthday and full name beforehand.

PISCES (Feb. 19 - March 20) Head home, Pisces! When was the last time you spent quality time with your parents? Take the time to stroll down memory lane on May 27. Sure, you’re busy and your creative nature has landed you more than a fair share of projects, but that doesn’t stop mom and dad from baking homemade meatloaf and worrying about your health.

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RELATIONSHIP CHALLENGES? Tired of endless relationship or marital challenges? Or single and sick of spending weekends and holidays alone? Join coed Intimacy Group, Single's Group or Women's Group to explore what’s blocking you from fulfillment in your relationships and life. Weekly, ongoing groups or 9-week groups starting the week of June 2, 2014 - Mon, Tues, or Thurs evening. Space limited. Also, Individual and Couples sessions.

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A Safe, successful MOTHERLESS DAUGHTERS SUPPORT GROUP meets every other Tuesday evening in San Anselmo for women who have lost their mothers in childhood, adolescence or adulthood through death, separation, illness, or estrangement.

In a supportive environment, women address and explore relevant issues in their lives, current and past, including the many consequence of mother loss. The group provides opportunities for healing and integrating the loss, gaining self-empowerment, and learning successful coping strategies. Facilitated & developed since 1997 by Colleen Russell, LMFT (MFC29249), CGP (41715), whose mother’s death in adolescence was a pivotal event in her life. Individual, Couple, and Family Sessions also available. Contact Colleen:crussellmft@earthlink.net or 415-785-3513.

Personal Fitness Training with Michael Lopez Michael Lopez, locally renowned owner of Body Image Fitness Training, is finally accepting new clients. Whether you're trying to stay fit, recover from an injury, pursue a more advanced program, or just getting into fitness for the first time, Michael will help educate, motive and provide the emotional support necessary to develop a new healthier and fitter you. With over 25 year of experience as a Health and Fitness coach, Michael offers Tailored fitness programs at Five Point Fitness or in the privacy of your own home.

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Fictitious Name Statement

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134536 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. TENACITY 10, 1585 62ND STREET, SUITE #8713, EMERYVILLE, CA 94608.

BEARLAX, 1585 62ND STREET, SUITE #8713, EMERYVILLE, CA 94608: SHERRY SPORTS, LLC, 1585 62ND STREET, SUITE #8713, EMERYVILLE, CA 94608. This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant has been transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein since August 26, 2007.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 4, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 2, 9, 16, 23, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134562 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business CHI 4 CHILDREN, 2313 5TH AVENUE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MARIAN BRANDENBURG, 2313 5TH AVENUE, SAN

RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 9, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 2, 9, 16, 23, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134629 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business GLAMOROUS NAILS AND SPA, 631 SAN ANSELMO AVE., SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: GLAMOROUS NAILS AND SPA INC., 1127 REDWOOD BLVD., NOVATO, CA 94947. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant is renewing with changes, transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 24, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 2, 9, 16, 23, 2014)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134327 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business EQUINE INSIGHT, 700 E. STREET SUITE 205, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: JUDITH WESTON-THOMPSON LICENCED MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION, 700 E. STREET SUITE 205, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant has been transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on March 12, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 2, 9, 16, 23, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134659 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. VISION IMPAIRED OF MARIN, 930 TAMALPAIS AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: BLIND AND VISION IMPAIRED OF MARIN INC., 930 TAMALPAIS AVE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted

by A CORPORATION. Registrant has not yet

begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on April 29, 2014.

(Publication Dates: May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014134699 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. YOGA WELL INSTITUTE, 1 SHELLEY DR. APT D, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. YOGA AS THERAPY NORTH AMERICA (YATNA), 1 SHELLEY DR. APT D, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: NEWELL C BOSSART, 1 SHELLEY DR. APT D, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has been transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein since April 15, 2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 2, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134703 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. AMARILLO COMPANY, 39 VARDA LANDING ROAD, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: MARTHA PARADA, 39 VARDA LANDING ROAD, SAUSALITO, CA 94965. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 5, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134704 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business AMPP CONSULTING, 94 BIRCH AVE, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925: OPTIMATE NETWORKS INC., 94 BIRCH AVE, CORTE MADERA, CA 94925. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant has not yet began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 5, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134622 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business ART’S AUTO REPAIR, 2400 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930: ARTHUR JOHN RAMIREZ, 2400 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD, FARIFAX, CA 94930. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant expired more than 40 days ago and is renewing, transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on April 22, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014134707 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business BELIEVE LIFE COACH, 1710 LINCOLN AVE, APT #5, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: YENNY C. NIETO, 1710 LINCOLN AVE, APT #5, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has been transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein since May 5, 2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 5, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134733 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. CHINA EXPRESS, 1543 SOUTH NOVATO BLVD., NOVATO, CA 94947: WIN LI, INC., 1543 SOUTH NOVATO BLVD., NOVATO, CA 94947. This business is being conducted

by A CORPORATION. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 7, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 16, 23, 30; June 6, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014134720 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. ALLIE AND ME, 434 GREENWOOD BEACH ROAD, TIBURON, CA 94920: GABRIELE PFAUDER-FEDERAL, 434 GREENWOOD BEACH ROAD, TIBURON, CA 94920. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has been transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein since January 1, 2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 6, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 16, 23, 30; June 6, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134820 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. HOUSE CALLS, 2100 4TH STREET, #190, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: JOHN ORDWAY, 500 SAN FRANCISCO BLVD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960. This business is being

conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant is renewing with changes, transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 19, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 23, 30; June 6, 13, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134825 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. BIO SAUSALITO, 2633 BRIDGEWAY, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: CREPE O CHOCOLAT CORPORATION. This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 19, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 23, 30; June 6, 13, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134812 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. KELLY MOVING, 734 A STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: RYAN LEILANI GREENE, 269 DRAKE AVE, SAUSALITO, CA 94965. This business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on May 16, 2014.

(Publication Dates: May 23, 30; June 6, 13, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014134777 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. MOGO MARKETING AND MEDIA, 14 CRYSTAL CREEK DRIVE, LARKSPUR, CA 94939. MOGO INTERACTIVE, 14 CRYSTAL CREEK DRIVE, LARKSPUR, CA 94939.

MOGOARTS MARKETING, 14 CRYSTAL CREEK DRIVE, LARKSPUR, CA 94939: MOGO MARKETING AND MEDIA, INC., 14 CRYSTAL CREEK DRIVE, LARKSPUR, CA 94939.

This business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant has been transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein since January 1, 2007. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 13, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 23, 30; June 6, 13, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134783 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. MIRACLE HANDS HOMECARE, 1564 LINCOLN AVE., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: VASEVA KAMAKOREWA, 1564 LINCOLN AVE., SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 14, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 23, 30; June 6, 13, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134787 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. BOHO LOUNGE, 9 FRANCIS STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: TANYA RISTAU, 9 FRANCIS STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on May 14, 2014.

(Publication Dates: May 23, 30; June 6, 13, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014134794 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. SECURITYTRADEIDEAS, 47 FERDINAND WAY, NOVATO, CA 94949: NASREEN AMINIFARD, 47 FERDINAND WAY, NOVATO, CA 94949. This business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has been transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein since January, 1, 2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 14, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 23, 30; June 6, 13, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014134741 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. RIDGE CAPITAL FUNDING, 1299 FOURTH STREET, SUITE 502, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: RIDGE CAPITAL CA LLC, 1299 FOURTH STREET, SUITE 502, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMANY. Registrant has been transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein since April 17, 2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 8, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 23, 30; June 6, 13, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134716 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. O REILLY AUTO PARTS #3552,

812 FRANCISCO BLVD WEST, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: O REILLY AUTO INTERPRISES, LLC, 233 S. PATTERSON, SPRINGFIELD, MO 65801. This business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on May 6, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 23, 30; June 6, 13, 2014) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 134778 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business. U-TOP-IT, 245 SAN ANSELMO AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: SOHILA SUZIE SENEHI, 145 KADEN DRIVE, NOVATO, CA 94947. This business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on May 13, 2014.

(Publication Dates: May 23, 30; June 6, 13, 2014)

Other Notices

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1401570. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner RONG XU filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: RONG XU to FIONA RONG XU. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: JUNE 16, 2014, 9:00 AM, Dept.

E, Room E, 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: APRIL 28, 2014 /s/ PAUL M. HAAKENSON, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (Publication Dates: May 2, 9, 16, 23, 2014) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1401516. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ROSA MARIA HERNANDEZ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: JOSHUA MOSES MAZARIEGOS HERNANDEZ to JOSHUA MOSES HERNANDEZ. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: JUNE 6, 2014, 9:00 AM, Dept.

E, Room E, 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: APRIL 22, 2014 /s/ PAUL M. HAAKENSON, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (Publication Dates: May 2, 9, 16, 23, 2014) ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1401649. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner PAUL BRUCE BARLOW filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PAUL BRUCE BARLOW to BRUCE BARLOW. 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 hear-

ing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: JUNE 23, 2014, 9:00 AM, Dept. L, Room 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: MAY 1, 2014 /s/ PAUL M. HAAKENSON, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (Publication Dates: May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2014) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ARTHUR J. ENGELBRECHT AKA ARTHUR JOSEPH ENGELBRECHT. Case No. PR-1401620. To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ARTHUR J. ENGELBRECHT AKA ARTHUR JOSEPH ENGELBRECHT. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: ARTHUR J. ENGELBRECHT, JR. AND JANET E. ENGELBRECHT in the Superior Court of California, County of MARIN. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ARTHUR J. ENGELBRECHT, JR. AND JANET E. ENGELBRECHT 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: JUNE 16, 2014 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 Room 113, 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: ROSAMONDE MCNICHOL, ESQ., 846 BROADWAY, SONOMA, CA 95476. (707) 996-4505. (Publication Dates: MAY 9, 16, 23, 2014) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 304555 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): GABY AND GATSBY, 434 GREENWOOD BEACH ROAD, TIBURON, CA 94920. Filed in Marin County on: JANUARY 29, 2014. Under File No: 2014133991.

Registrant’s Name(s): GABRIELE PFAUDERFEDERAL, 434 GREENWOOD BEACH ROAD, TIBURON, CA 94920. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on MAY 6, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 16, 23, 30; June 6, 2014) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 304554 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): CHINA EXPRESS, 1543 SOUTH NOVATO BLVD., NOVATO, CA 94947. Filed in Marin County on: FEBRUARY 3, 2010. Under File No: 123155. Registrant’s Name(s): XIAO YUAN PANG, 2340 PONAHUE AVE, SANTA ROSA, CA 95401. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on APRIL 20, 2014. (Publication Dates: May 16, 23, 30; June 6, 2014) SUMMONS Family Law (CITACION Derecho Familiar): Case Number (Numero De Caso): FL 1401546. NOTICE TO RESPONDENT (Aviso Al Demandado): HOPE CELESTE VOGEL YOU ARE BEING SUED (LO ESTAN DEMANDANDO). PETITIONER’S NAME IS (Nombre Del Demandante): SCOTT MICHAEL JOHNSTON. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this SUMMONS and PETITION are served on you to file a RESPONSE at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your RESPONSE on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you can not pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), or by contacting your local county bar association. Tiene 30 días corridos después de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citación y Petición para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL-120 ó FL-123) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante. Una carta o llamada telefónica no basta para protegerlo. Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar órdenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte también le puede ordenar que pague manutención, y honorarios y costos legales. Para asesoramiento legal, pongase en contacto de inmediato con un abogado. Puede obtener información para encontrar un abogado en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio web de los Servicios Legales de California (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org) o poniéndose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado. NOTICE: The restraining orders on page 2 are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. These orders are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them. (AVISO: Las órdenes de restricción que figuran en la página 2 valen para ambos cónyuges o pareja de hecho hasta que se despida la petición, se emita un fallo o la corte dé otras órdenes.

Cualquier autoridad de la ley que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas órdenes puede hacerlas acatar en cualquier lugar de California.) NOTE: If a judgment or support order is entered, the court may order you to pay all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for yourself or for the other party. If this happens, the party ordered to pay fees shall be given notice and an opportunity to request a hearing to set aside the order to pay waived court fees. AVISO: Si se emite un fallo u orden de manutención, la corte puede ordenar que usted pague parte de, o todas las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente exentas a petición de usted o de la otra parte. Si esto ocurre, la parte ordenada a pagar estas cuotas debe recibir aviso y la oportunidad de solicitar una audiencia para anular la orden de pagar las cuotas exentas. 1. The name and address of the court are (El nombre y dirección de la corte son): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN, 3501 Civic Center Drive, Post Office Box 4988, San Rafael, CA 94903. 2. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: (El nombre, dirección y número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son): SCOTT MICHAEL JOHNSTON, 146 ATHERTON AVE, NOVATO, CA 94945, (415) 882-7105. Date (Fecha): April 25, 2014.

Clerk, by (Secretario, por) Kim Turner, D. Taylor, Deputy (Asistente). NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served (AVISO A LA PERSONA QUE RECIBIÓ LA ENTREGA: Esta entrega se realiza)as an individual (a usted como individuo). (Publication Dates: May 23, 30; June 6, 13, 2014) SUMMONS (CITACION Derecho Familiar): Case Number (Numero De Caso): CIV1303196.

NOTICE TO DEFENDENTS (Aviso Leslie Claire Al Demandado):

Roberts, AKA Leslie Claire Galiano, and Does 1 through 50, inclusive.

YOU ARE BEING SUED (LO ESTAN DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE) BY PLAINTIFF: Provident Credit Union.

NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days.

Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this SUMMONS and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form.

If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal service program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Service Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by vontacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of 10, 000 or more in a civil case. The court’s Lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. !AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decider en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presenter una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en format legal correcto se desea que procesen se caso en la corte. Es possible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca da leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corteque le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisites legales. Es recommendable que llama a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remission a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es possible que cumpla con los requisites para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendoes en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de 10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte entes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. 1. The name and address of the court are (El nombre y dirección de la corte son): SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN, 3501 Civic Center Drive, Post Office Box 4988, Room 113, San Rafael, CA 94903. 2. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: (El nombre, dirección y número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado,es):Reily D. Wilkinson(Bar# 250086), Scheer Law Group, LLP 155 N.Redwood Drive, Suite 100, San Rafael, CA 94903. Date (Fecha): July 30, 2013. Clerk, by (Secretario, por) J. CHEN, KIM TURNER Deputy (Asistente). NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served (AVISO A LA PERSONA QUE RECIBIÓ LA ENTREGA: Esta entrega se realiza).

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There’s this girl in my social circle I’d wanted to ask out for a while. Two months ago, I finally got up the nerve, but she politely declined, saying she wasn’t “ready to date yet” after her last relationship. Since then, she’s started dating some other guy, and their pictures are all over Facebook. I unfollowed her from my News Feed, but I still see her with this guy in friends’ photos.

Would it be completely petty to unfriend her? I feel like that would make me look even more jilted and bitter. And I still have to see her at parties and stuff.—Grim Facebook is complicated. Sure, there are privacy settings and other controls, but these tend to be more porous than the U.S.-Mexican border. In fact, there’s only one surefire way to avoid seeing somebody in your News Feed, and that’s covering your computer screen with duct tape.

Unfortunately, this won’t help you at parties or the supermarket, since you can only unfriend somebody; you can’t unexist them. Well, not without the possibility of life in prison. But take a step back. You’re feeling “jilted and bitter”? A woman you asked out left you in limbo; she didn’t make a run for it while you were standing together at the altar. She also didn’t wrong you by saying she wasn’t “ready to date yet.” Maybe that was the truth at the time; maybe she won’t be ready to date you ever. A person you ask out doesn’t owe you complete honesty—well, except on whether they’ll open the door and come out when you swing by on Friday night or stockpile weapons and barricade themselves in their house.

Chances are, you wouldn’t be so Mr. Resentypants if you hadn’t pined after this girl for eons and “finally” asked her out. Turning her into a months-long project for your ego made getting a “yes” from her way too important. You probably did this because you’re rejection-avoidant. This isn’t to say the rest of us are all, “Yay, rejection. More, please.” But that sort of attitude—constantly flipping the bird at your fears and taking social risks—is how you get okay enough with rejection to live your life like you’ll be dead soon instead of like you’re dead now.

Getting comfortable in Rejectionville is easier if your self-worth comes from the inside. This is something you may need to work toward. But even if you can’t immediately stop seeing every rejection as confirmation of your loserhood, you can at least stop acting as if you do. Just reinterpret each rejection as a sign to go after the next woman. (Acknowledge disappointment, lick wounds, move on.) Before long, you should be bouncing back surprisingly fast. You should also find yourself reserving your scorn for the truly deserving, like if you ask a woman whether she’d like to have a drink sometime and her response is, “Sure I would. Here’s my address. Leave a bottle of chilled white wine on my doorstep, ring the bell and run.”

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I’m a 23-year-old woman who’s clueless about how to flirt with a stranger.

I’m not really good at small talk, and sometimes I’ll see a cute guy at the coffeehouse and wonder later whether I could have sent some signals his way. All my boyfriends have started as friends, so I never really learned this stuff.—Clueless Flirting isn’t the only way to get a stranger to stop for you—but it tends to be more socially acceptable than shooting a tranquilizer dart into their neck.

Flirting from across a coffee shop is an expert-level maneuver and requires time you may not have if a guy is just running in for a latte. Behavioral science researchers find that it generally takes repeated instances (say, three) of a woman making eye contact with a man and then looking away for him to go, “Wait—who, me?”

A better bet is moseying over while the guy is at the coffee fixings bar or sitting down at the table next to his and casually saying something. You don’t need to be good at small talk—just small questions. Ask about something. Anything. His antique watch. His haircut. Where the whole milk ran off to. And then, instead of trying to sell him on you, keep asking him about himself. (When you keep a conversation focused on another person, they’re more likely to warm up to you.)

Don’t worry if you come off a little nervous or awkward. If a guy’s into you, it won’t matter. Even if he isn’t, he’ll probably be pleasantly surprised by your interest, as men who are not movie stars are rarely approached by women who aren’t begging for drug money or out on the street after gnawing through their bed restraints. Y

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