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Contents

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Features 50 Beyond the Gate The multilayered history of Baker Beach.

52 Fall Fashion Layering up knits, prints, silks and metallics.

98 2018 Private School Guide Resources to help you find the perfect school.

MILAN + SHANNON

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66 The State of the Game Making competitive school sports safer.

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Contents Out & About In Marin 35 Currents Sound Summit, cannabis pipes and more.

42 Q&A Anna Halprin is still dancing.

44 FYI Arts education can empower students.

48 Conversation Meet Marin’s poet laureate.

Destinations 71 Go These ranchers are part of Hawaii’s living history.

85 Calendar A roundup of what to do in Marin and beyond.

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92 Dine An insider’s guide to restaurants and food in the Bay Area.

107 On the Scene Snapshots from events in Marin and San Francisco.

Marin Home 115 Backstory Family drama adds excitment to this purchase and remodel.

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Sausalito Art Festival in Marinship Park

18 Editor’s Note 20 What’s Inside 170 Looking Back

Milan and Shannon and the team went to Baker Beach in San Francisco for this fall’s fashion shoot. Giant mirrors added a sense of drama to the final images.

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Editor’s Note

Travel Bug

In every issue we aim to inspire your wanderlust. This month we introduce you to unique adventures in our 50th state.

There’s a warmth to folks I meet who are from our 50th state.

notice that we dedicate a fair share of our travel pages to the beautiful state of Hawaii. Full disclosure, it’s where I was I born and where my heart belongs.

Besides the healing waters and abundance of Asian-style food, similar to Marin’s, it’s the sense of community I find so special.

There’s a warmth to folks I meet who are from our 50th state. That could stem from what’s called the Aloha Spirit — which is not just a feeling but an actual state law, encoded in the Hawaii Revised Statutes. It says, in part, “The Aloha Spirit is the coordination of mind and heart within each person. It brings each person to the self. Each person must think and emote good feelings to others.” Sort of like the Golden Rule we learned in preschool, only official.

For our “Living History” story this month, I was humbled to be invited, through the Four Seasons Maui’s Unforgettable Experiences, to Piiholo Ranch in upcountry Maui, to have lunch with Peter Baldwin and his lovely bride, Susie, a former Sausalito resident. As we drove up to the ranch stables, I feared my enthusiasm would bubble over and dominate the conversation. It happens.

“Settle down,” I told myself. Deep breath.

“Let him talk; listen, learn; don’t talk over him.” I succeeded for a solid minute, until he happened to mention that he was preparing to speak the next day at a memorial for his longtime friend and famous island cowboy Freddy Rice.

“Morag [Freddy’s daughter] was my best buddy on Puuwaawaa Ranch, where I grew up,” I blurted.

“Morag is now Morag Miranda and our neighbor,” Susie said. “I’ll call her right now.”

And she did. And we connected.

Once Peter realized he also knew and had worked with my grandfather, my composure was

doomed. But eventually I remembered my earlier intentions and listened to Peter’s amazing family tales. His great-grandfather HP Baldwin incorporated Haleakala Ranch in September 1888, and his family has been involved ever since. Peter’s father, Richard, aka “Manduke,” got his unusual nickname as a very young boy dog-paddling across the family swimming pool: “There goes that man, Duke,” an onlooker said, referring to Duke Kahanamoku, a popular Olympic swimmer at the time (and popularizer of the sport of surfing later on).

Peter also told us about his great-greatgrandfather Dwight, a missionary, physician, and all-around doer who, on a hunch, vaccinated as many people as he could on the island of Maui, saving them from succumbing to the impending smallpox epidemic. He continued with the story of how the first automobile on the island was delivered to HP in 1900, but the lack of available gasoline delayed the trial run. And most notably, the story of the handshake in 1919 between HP, his son Sam and the director of National Parks to secure the deal that created Haleakala National Park, now one of the state’s most popular attractions. Today, at Piiholo Ranch, Peter, fluent in Hawaiian, continues the family legacy of stewarding the land. It was an honor to sit and “talk story” at his expansive koa table, which of course had an interesting story too.

Mahalo for letting me indulge in a bit of Hawaii storytelling, I would love to hear from readers about their favorite places to explore.

There are numerous scientific studies extolling the health benefits of travel, and we’ll keep bringing you tales of places that inspire.

Have we neglected your favorite destination?

Let us know. As always, we love hearing your feedback via email or social media.

Mimi Towle, Editor

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What’s Inside

The Marin Catholic Wildcats are leading the charge with state-of-the-art helmets and comprehensive diagnostics before players even hit the field.

Our team lugged all the gear, clothes and two heavy mirrors to two locations on the sand.

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For this month’s fall fashion shoot we took that thought to Baker Beach. Our team lugged all the gear, clothes and two heavy mirrors to two locations on the sand; behind the camera lens, husband-and-wife team Milan and Shannon captured the unique results.

We open that section with a spotlight on Baker Beach itself, from the area’s first settler, John Henry Baker, to the beach’s geography and military past.

In another feature, former Sports Illustrated writer Austin Murphy reveals how Marin school football and other sports teams are handling the much-publicized risk of concussions.

Up front, we highlight what’s happening at this year’s Sound Summit on Mount Tam and speak with renowned dancer Anna Halprin and poet laureate Rebecca Foust. And in an essay, teacher Emilie Rohrbach shares firsthand experience on how creative arts can help instill empathy and a sense of connection in kids.

Hawaii’s generations-old ranching families tell their history in Destinations; many now offer adventure tours and day trips to give visitors a taste of the lifestyle and legacy of tending the land. In a very different part of the world, writer Melanie Haiken roams the Balkans to explore castles, islands, medieval cities and delicious food.

It’s a big issue full of fascinating reads. We hope you enjoy it and meanwhile find some fall clothing inspiration in the bargain — after all, cooler weather is just ahead.

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It’s refreshing to read your evenhanded “Making Waves” (June). Much anti–anchor-out ink is redolent of cosmetic ecology. One thing not mentioned is the lives of spilled boaters, hypothermic windsurfers and exhausted kayakers saved and aided by anchor-outs over the years. Also, stout moorings would reduce eelgrass damage, and these moorings should be widely distributed to mariners. The proportion of area swept by anchor tackle is a small part of the total area of Richardson Bay, though. Furthermore, anchorages should be available to transient yachts, Canadian snowbirds, transpacific sailors and others who enrich our community.

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“The Kids Are All Right” (May) should have been titled the “The Kids Are All Left.” This was another lefty, one-sided, anti-gun screed.

We should support our children’s interest in the issues of our time, but we must help them obtain thoughtful, informed views. The safe spaces and speech codes on campuses demonstrate that we have not taught them about the First Amendment, and the students’ reflexive attitude about guns shows that we have failed to explain the Second Amendment. Instead of celebrating their truancy and leftward indoctrination, we should be keeping them in school and exposing them to all sides of these complex arguments. Maybe someday this generation will recognize that we have a larger cultural problem and a mental illness problem that, if not addressed, will continue to bring tragedy. Weakening the citizenry and thereby empowering the state by taking away guns will not end the violence. Those bent on murder have too many other alternatives.

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Milan + Shannon Rosan, Photographers, “Cozy Up for Fall” (p. 52) What do you enjoy most about beach shoots?

The light and the beauty of your surroundings. Plus, nothing beats creating art while having your feet in the sand.

Where do you draw inspiration from? Being a couple that shoots together, we draw inspiration from each other a lot of the time. When we are shooting we draw inspiration from the fashion, the model and the location itself.

Those three elements can really dictate the tone and mood of the shoot. When not on a shoot, we gain inspiration from travel, fashion magazines and our other fashion photographer friends.

Where has your work appeared before?

Badabaeng, Coy Culture, Last Daze and Disfunkshion.

Kirsten Jones Neff Writer, Private School Guide (p. 98) What was the most interesting thing you learned while researching these stories?

I was struck by the determination local educators have at this moment in time to support our teens’ well-being — their physical health, mental health, and their sense of purpose and efficacy. As always, I bow down to our children’s educators.

Were you involved in any clubs or programs in school? I was a student who tried everything. I didn’t want to just be an athlete, or just a drama geek. I wanted to try everything, know about everything, and have friends from various groups. No wonder I’m a journalist.

Where has your work appeared before? Besides Marin Magazine, my recent work has appeared in Edible Marin & Wine Country, Stanford Magazine, Ms. Magazine, GreatSchools.org and Grown and Flown.

Glenn Harvey Illustrator, “State of the Game” (p. 66) Describe your relationship with football.

I started following the NFL when I was in high school and I’ve always loved its fiercely competitive nature. I’m also now a fantasy football enthusiast and have been playing that for years and years.

What did you enjoy most about this assignment? I really enjoyed working on content I’ve been familiar with and kept up with over the years. Player safety has been a hot topic for a while, and rightfully so. Visually, sports is a great prompt to capture dynamic and exciting moments.

Where has your work appeared before?

I’ve been fortunate enough to work with clients like The New York Times, The Atlantic, ESPN, Vice, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and TED. It’s been cool to be a part of publications I consume on a daily basis.

Austin Murphy Writer, “State of the Game” (p. 66) Did you play football growing up? I played organized football from eighth grade through my sophomore season at Colgate, then switched to rugby and writing for the Maroon. Quitting the game to focus on writing was the right thing to do, although I do miss my football neck.

What was the most challenging part of this assignment? It’s not always clear how and where to strike the right balance when presenting football’s risks and its rewards. Mostly, it was a pleasure speaking with coaches like Mazi Moayed at Marin Catholic, Roy Giorgi at Drake, Novato’s Isreal Jones and Dom DiMare at San Marin.

Where has your work appeared before? I wrote about my little brother Mark in 1983, who would go on to play with Doug Flutie at Boston College, then have a sip of coffee with the Detroit Lions. Starting in ’84, I spent 33 years at Sports Illustrated.

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The scoop on Bay Area events you’ll want to attend [UPCOMING EVENTS] HALLECK CREEK RANCH FUNDRAISER WHEN Sept. 14, 6 p.m. VIP, 6:30 p.m. general WHERE Rancho Nicasio, Nicasio WHY YOU Halleck Creek Ranch is holding SHOULD its 41st annual fundraising GO dinner at the historic Rancho Nicasio Restaurant in Nicasio.

The signature event raises funds to support its programs and includes a VIP reception featuring wine tasting and a selection of local cheeses, as well as dining under the stars with preferred seating for sponsors and VIP guests. Enjoy music by Buck Nickels and Loose Change and both live and silent auctions offering one-of-a-kind items including vacation packages, food, jewelry, wine and art. This year’s special guest and Silver Buckle Honoree is adaptive outdoorsman Enock Glidden.

COST $125 general, $175 VIP FIND OUT 415.662.2488, MORE halleckcreekranch.org

INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL WHEN Sept. 21–23 WHERE Belvedere, Tiburon, S.F. Bay WHY YOU The inaugural Musica Marin SHOULD International Chamber Music Festival GO is a world-class weekend festival that combines the beauty of the local surroundings with the added sensory experience of the finest food and wine.

Bringing together renowned musicians from Europe and the U.S. to perform masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire, the event takes place in exquisite venues in Belvedere-Tiburon. The experience is augmented by cuisine prepared by celebrated chefs paired with the finest local wines, all served up in one of the most picturesque settings in the world. Check the website for time and location information.

COST $20–$200, memberships available FIND OUT 415.424.1456, musicamarinfestival.com MORE

ANGELS BY THE BAY WHEN Oct. 6, 5 p.m.–midnight WHERE Meadow Club, 1001 Bolinas Road, Fairfax WHY YOU The gala, benefiting the Marin Center SHOULD for Independent Living, features GO champagne and martini fountains, hors d’oeuvres and wine tasting from renowned vintners including Peter Paul Wines, Scott Harvey Wines, MacRostie, Viansa, Sean Thackery, Broll Mountain Vineyard, B.R. Cohen, Peterson Winery and Firestone Beer. A gourmet dinner will be perfectly paired with luscious Peter Paul Wines. A tantalizing live auction offers one-of-a-kind experiences and will be emceed by Sen. Mike McGuire.

After dinner, enjoy the famous Telford’s Cigar and Cognac Lounge and dance the night away.

COST $250 FIND OUT 415.297.6587, marincil.org MORE

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The scoop on Bay Area events you’ll want to attend MILL VALLEY FALL ARTS FESTIVAL

REACH FOR THE STARS GALA WHEN Sept. 22, 5:30–10 p.m.

WHEN Sept. 15–16, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

WHERE 1 Locust Avenue, San Rafael

WHERE Old Mill Park, Mill Valley

WHY YOU Step back in time to a SHOULD speakeasy-themed night GO filled with glamour and giving back. With swinging entertainment that satisfies all of the senses, including delectable food and bootleg libations, an enchanting Dominican private estate is the perfect backdrop for the Reach for the Stars gala, benefiting Side by Side. Flappers and swells welcome.

COST $250 FIND OUT sidebysideyouth.org/event MORE /reach-for-the-stars

WHY YOU Enjoy fall, friends, food and art SHOULD under the redwoods at the 62nd GO Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival in Old Mill Park. For two full days, fine arts and crafts are on sale from local and national artists; plus there will be live music, children’s entertainment and art projects. Also, meet special guest botanical artist Kristin Jackob.

COST $12, $8 seniors/students, free under 12 FIND OUT mvfaf.org MORE

WHISTLESTOCK V WHEN Sept. 29, 12:15–5 p.m.

WHERE Marin Center, Fairground Island, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael WHY YOU Whistlestock has become a favorite SHOULD way for caring people in Marin to GO enjoy great music while benefiting Whistlestop’s vital programs and services. This year’s concert features Grammy Award nominee Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio, B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Tommy Castro and the Painkillers, and young rising stars Matt Jaffe and Bella B. They will be performing outdoors under a shaded tent at the fabulous Fairground Island. Come join in for an afternoon of rockin’ blues, food and drinks, dancing and fun.

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SHOP The stylishly revamped Mill Valley Lumber Yard is home to Makers Market, a new shop selling products made by up-and-coming American makers.

Also found are sustainably made products — either reclaimed, recycled, upcycled or produced with ethically sourced materials; makersmarket.us.

New to Tiburon’s Ark Row is Anja Living, a store specializing in outdoor furniture and accessories including high-quality rattan sectionals, sofas and chaise lounges, all made with Sunbrella fabric; anjaliving.com.

E AT AN D DRIN K San Rafael’s Fourth Street welcomes Stones Jamaican Roots and Juice, serving up authentic Jamaican food and juices and smoothies. Ingredients are free of hormones and additives and are organic and local when possible; stonesjamaicanrootsandjuice.com.

Stefano’s Pizza, proudly serving New York–style pizza, is the only solar-powered pizzeria in the United States; it opened its fifth spot in Terra Linda on Las Galinas; stefanossolarpizza.com.

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2 SPACES (Summer/Fall 2018) The fourth volume of our semiannual home design magazine.

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4 “Best of the County: Drinks” (August 2018) Here are the drinks in Marin that stood out, including reader picks.

5 “Heavenly Hikes” (Summer Guide 2018) Six trails that show off Marin’s natural beauty.

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4,000-seat natural serpentine stone amphitheater 1,900 feet above the bay 1936 completed by the Civilian Conservation Corps 51 years since Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Festival $175,000 raised for Mount Tam in concert’s first three years

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Now you can add librarians to the list of things Marin is known for. Sara Jones, director of the Marin County Free Library, won the 2018 Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to Children. The American Library Association presents this national award each year to a library administrator who has shown “exceptional understanding and support” of such services; Jones’ focus is on making sure the library inspires young people to be readers and lifelong learners. Under her leadership, the Marin County Free Library issued more than 9,000 library cards to students and eliminated all overdue fines for children’s and teen materials. She has also been a fierce supporter of integrating 21st-century learning approaches and technologies into the library’s 10 branches, including 3D printing, maker spaces, and augmented and virtual reality. KIER HOLMES

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BY THE NUMBERS so unanimously as Sound Summit. The day-long fete is returning to Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais for its fourth year, presenting an eclectic mix of music in a jaw-dropping setting. Jazz legend Herbie Hancock headlines, with Grace Potter, Nikki Lane, local favorites Con Brio, and special guest Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead sharing the bill. Of course, Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre has an impressive history. Not only has it been hosting the Mountain Play since 1913, but it was also the site of the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Festival during the Summer of Love. Sound Summit happens Saturday, September 8; here are some key numbers about the event and its setting. soundsummit.net KASIA PAWLOWSKA

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Oftentimes people say one thing but mean another, but there are also certain words with conflicting definitions that do this on their own. Named after the two-faced Roman god Janus, these words are also known as contranyms or antagonyms and are their own opposites. A commonly cited example is “cleave,” which can refer to splitting something apart or uniting two things.

COCKTAIL How did this jumble hapCHATTER pen? History provides several answers. Sometimes a word had a specific meaning that become broader over time. It has also happened the other way, where a word that was once broad gained a more specific meaning that resulted in two contradictory definitions. “Oversight” is another good example. It originally referred to watchful supervision, but through an extension of meaning, people started using it to refer to the thing that supervision eliminates. Listed below are a series of Janus words — are you familiar with one we missed? Let us know. K.P. Bolt To secure, or to flee Bound Heading to a destination, or restrained from movement Buckle To connect, or to break or collapse Clip To fasten, or detach Custom A common practice, or a special treatment Dust To add fine particles, or to remove them Fast Quick, or stuck or made stable Fine Excellent, or acceptable or good enough Fix To repair, or to castrate Garnish To furnish, as with food preparation, or to take away, as with wages Handicap An advantage provided to ensure equality, or a disadvantage that prevents equal achievement Hold up To support, or to impede Overlook To supervise, or to neglect Oversight Monitoring, or failing to oversee Rock An immobile mass of stone or figuratively similar phenomenon, or a shaking or unsettling movement or action Screen To present, or to conceal Shop To patronize a business in order to purchase something, or to sell something Transparent Invisible, or obvious Trim To decorate, or to remove excess from Trip A journey, or a stumble

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Lyford’s Tower Today, a small stone tower on Paradise Drive serves as a reminder of the grand plans Lyford once had for the pristine slice of peninsula he owned with his wife, Hilarita Reed. As the sole daughter of John Reed — the original land grantee for the area now known as Rancho Corte Madera del Presidio — Hilarita had an inheritance she shared with Lyford after marrying the San Francisco embalmer in the late 1800s.

While he worked with the dead, Lyford was keenly obsessed with health. He also had lofty ambitions for his wife’s land, envisioning a utopian village he would call “Lyford’s Hygeia” (Hygeia being the Greek goddess of health). There all residents would adhere to a number of rules — all meals must be eaten outside; no house could rest in the shadow of another — conceived by Lyford in the belief they would promote good health.

The tower, along with the Lyfords’ home — which was moved in 1957 and is now better known as Tiburon’s Richardson Bay Audubon Center and Sanctuary — is all that now remains of the doctor’s vision. Originally the tower was accompanied by an arch that stood until 1926, when Marin officials decided to repave some of Tiburon.

“There was no straight road into Tiburon,” David Gotz, Tiburon’s town historian, explains. “You had to go around Paradise Drive to get into Tiburon for a long time. They widened it in 1926, and in widening it, they took down the arch. We don’t know what happened to the stones. Possibly they were just thrown down as riprap along the shore there.

From then on, it was just the tower.”

Unfortunately for Lyford, his efforts to sell parcels of the land as part of his utopian village were unsuccessful. He died in 1906, and when Hilarita passed in 1908, the property was passed down to other direct descendants of the Reeds, including the Boyles (of Mill Valley’s Boyle Park) and the Deffebachs, who Gotz notes “owned most of the center part of the Tiburon peninsula.”

The odd little tower — now emblazoned with a small plaque commemorating its historical significance — still watches over Angel Island today, thanks in part to the foresight of individuals who saw its value was far more than simple stone and mortar.

When Lyford’s descendants sold the property in the late 1950s, Tiburon was still part of unincorporated Marin County. The land’s new owner applied to build three duplexes on the lots, but the Marin County Planning Commission had other ideas. The parties negotiated, agreeing that two triplexes could be built on the adjacent lots if the owner placed a scenic easement on the parcel containing Lyford’s Tower for 25 years.

Tiburon incorporated in 1964, and a few years later, the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society took an active interest in preserving the tower.

“The Landmark Society spruced it up and did a lot of earthquake refitting,” Gotz says. “Finally, in 1976, the Landmark Society — as well as the town historian — did the work to get it designated as a National Historic Landmark.”

Today, curious visitors still find their way to the lone stone structure that offers breathtaking views and a captivating portal into the past. The arch may be gone, but the remnants of Lyford’s utopia — a vision of health and splendor — live on in the city that has risen in its place.

To learn more about Lyford’s Tower, visit landmarkssociety.com. ZACK RUSKIN

DUI CRACKDOWN When it comes to Marin’s drunk drivers, as of this August it’s three strikes and you’re out. The probation department has changed the way it is handling multiple offenders and is now placing those individuals on supervised probation after three infractions, for the first time in Marin County history.

Previously, it took four DUI convictions for an offender to become a felon and prompt a mandatory assignment to a probation officer. As a result of this change to the law, the county’s DUI caseload is expected to increase by about 60 cases per year. “People who are convicted of a third DUI clearly have a problem,” says probation chief Michael Daly. “For public safety purposes, a higher level of supervision is needed. In addition to these folks having to report directly to a probation officer, we will be conducting unannounced probation searches to make sure all court orders are being fulfilled. We will also be monitoring people’s treatment so they don’t continue to be a public safety issue.” In eight of the past nine years, Marin has been deemed the healthiest county in the state, but that honor has been marred by high rates of binge drinking and DUIs. The county’s Public Health Officer, Dr. Matt Willis, adds that it’s not just alcohol that can trigger a DUI conviction — use of cannabis, opioids and sedatives like Xanax can also lead to a DUI charge. marincounty.org K.P.

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Women Making a Difference

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• According to a 2013 Nielsen research paper entitled “Women Control the Purse Strings,” the FleishmanHillard digital marketing agency estimates that women will control two-thirds of the consumer wealth in the U.S. over the next decade and be the beneficiaries of the largest transference of wealth in our country’s history.

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tivity that currently dominates our media, something powerfully good is happening in our country. I think of it as women and millennials gaining greater control of money, thereby increasing their social impact, or in other words: Women + Money + Millennials + Internet = Power + Social Impact.

A tidal wave of wealth has transferred or will soon transfer to women. And women, by all evidence, are inclined to use their resources — including money — to make the world a better place.

Last summer, at a “Make It Better Money, Values, Impact” symposium in Chicago, Melanie Sabelhaus, serial entrepreneur, former deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration and American Red Cross vice-chair, presented additional proof of women’s explosive financial power.

She noted that women now control 60 percent of our nation’s wealth and own 51 percent of the New York Stock Exchange. Even more of this corporate power will flow to them, because of mounting data that demonstrates that corporations with women in the C-suite and on their boards are more successful than their all-male counterparts.

Some other empowering stats include the fact that women now start twice as many new businesses as men. Women of color are starting six times more businesses than their male counterparts. And women under 40 are outpacing men in higher education and the workforce by wider margins every year.

Perhaps the best proof that women are more inclined to maximize good with dollars they spend or invest comes from the philanthropic world. Studies by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy highlight the fact that women give more than men and give more collaboratively and effectively.

“In the top 25 percent of combined income and assets, women give 156 percent more than men,” says

Debra Mesch, MBA, Ph.D., director of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute at the Lilly School. “But also, they give more than men at every age and income level. And younger women give twice as much as younger men.”

Mesch notes that women are especially effective givers because when they adopt a cause to support, they give their heart, emotions, time, talents and connections too. Women dig in to learn more, help more, and ask their friends to pitch in.

I also see this manifest itself in the way women purchase; we will pay more for the experience of helping others. Women prefer to work for and invest in businesses that prioritize serving their communities. This female influence accounts, in part, for the growing importance of corporate social responsibility and for the surge of interest in “impact investing” in for-profit as well as nonprofit areas.

And the really good news for women is that the power of the internet amplifies all these positive trends around women and money. It makes it even easier for people to find resources that align with their values.

And with one click, women can share what they find or care about across their social media platforms.

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• A 2015 Bank of Montreal study showed that women already controlled 51 percent of U.S. wealth and held 52 percent of business management, professional and related positions.

Researchers predicted that by 2020 women will control over two-thirds of the nation’s wealth.

• Women drive 70 to 80 percent of all consumer purchasing through a combination of their buying power and influence. Influence means that even when a woman isn’t paying for something herself, she is often the persuasive element or veto-vote for someone else’s purchase.

• In the U.S., women use social networks more prolifically than men. As of January 2018: 52% of Facebook users are female 68% of Instagram users are female 81% of Pinterest users are female

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Anna Halprin Creator, cancer survivor, author, longtime Kentfield resident and, most notably, experimental dance artist Anna Halprin, 98, has taught dance to thousands of people for roughly 80 years, in both her Kentfield studio and through her Tamalpa Dancer Institute in San Rafael. Her innovative Planetary Dance is performed in KENTFIELD almost 40 countries around the world, and a 2009 documentary, Breath Made Visible, examines her life, work and views on dance’s transformative power. With a spirit fueled by community, inspiration, and a deep love of her art, she shows no signs of hanging up her dance shoes any time soon. BY KIER HOLMES

dance for yourself; you dance for others, for the community as a whole, with the aim of bringing about social change. Moving to a steady musical beat, participants run or walk in a circular pattern. Each step becomes a call for peace.

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to rethink my relationship to dance and explore its connection to healing. Before the illness, I used my life to create art, but afterward I used my art to have an impact on life. My book Returning to Health details how I have used “psychokinetic visualization,” combining dance and drawing in a healing process that grew out of my own experience.

Did you love to dance as a child? I remember at age 5 watching my grandfather praying at shul [synagogue]. He would jump up and down with great energy and joy, throwing his arms into the air as if he were possessed by some higher spirit. With his white hair and long beard he looked like God to me, so I thought God must be a dancer. This experience inspired me to spend my life looking for a dance that would mean as much to me and others as my grandfather’s dance meant to him.

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What is your style of dance? My work has never fit easily into categories of “modern” or “postmodern” or even “contemporary” dance. What interests me is an art that is connected to life, where the social, political, spiritual and aesthetic threads are all interwoven in a real way. My approach is based on somatics — the science of how the body works — so one learns more of a natural form of movement.

Why is dance so powerful for you? Dance has the power to teach, inspire, heal and transform. I’m committed to probing the nature of dance and exploring its impact. It’s exciting to share my love of dance with diverse people, from children to seniors, and in turn be inspired — as happens every Wednesday with my performance lab. When I was stricken with cancer in my early 50s, I discovered the healing potential of dance and shared this with others facing cancer and AIDS.

What is the annual all-day Planetary Dance event? What makes this dance special is not just that all ages and abilities can participate in it. The Planetary Dance is danced for a purpose. You do not

Any other important influences? The creativity of my husband, the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, has been a major influence, as has my teacher Margaret H’Doubler at the University of Wisconsin, who offered a kinesthetic approach to movement that wasn’t based on imitating someone else’s personal [dance] style. For years, I have also learned from the Pomo community, who allowed me to participate in their dances.

Where in Marin inspires and recharges you?

My outdoor dance deck, designed by my husband. It sits in the midst of a redwood forest and is open to the sky. We see birds flying above and sometimes deer walking the paths. m

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What inspired you to use dance as a healing tool for those affected by illness? Getting cancer was enlightenment at gunpoint, pushing me

What was a favorite dance performance you created and why? It’s hard for me to choose just one performance. My upcoming book, Making Dances That Matter, focuses on two dances that have been particularly important to me: Circle the Earth, about my work with AIDS patients, and the Planetary Dance. What interests me is a process for community creativity that my husband [Lawrence Halprin] and I developed, called the RSVP cycles.

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The Big Picture

Research shows the arts help kids be not just creative, but also more empathetic and connected.

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ET’S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS.”

As our middle school head opened the student’s folder, the rest of our middle school faculty got quiet.

We’d convened to strategize how best to help Josh*, a new student who’d been kicked out of another school for “anger management” issues. When the conversation moved to what electives Josh would be taking, she turned to me, the theater teacher: “You want him?”

She knew what my answer would be before I said it: yes. Absolutely yes. Before I moved to California in 1998, I worked as a victim witness advocate in the district attorney’s office in Boston. After two years spent counseling survivors of domestic violence and families of murder victims, I realized I wanted to work with people to reach them at an age where it could really make a difference, through the mediums that meant the most to me when I was growing up. That’s how I became a creative arts teacher.

It is through this lens, of wanting children to feel connected and know their worth, that I now watch news of school violence, be it bullying, suicide or shootings. As an almost 20-year veteran of teaching music and theater to grades preschool through eighth in San Francisco and Marin, I believe creative pursuits can lead a child from isolation to a sense of belonging. Children in arts programs develop empathy, which just might be the necessary element to stop violence and cruelty in our schools.

ISOLATION AS A CAUSE In a nationwide survey released by health insurer Cigna in May 2018, 50 percent of respondents reported feeling lonely always or sometimes; younger people were more lonely and socially isolated than older generations.

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media “may have caused a rise in depression and suicide among American adolescents” — and that people who spend less time looking at screens and more time interacting face to face are less apt to be suicidal or depressed.

Some even see social isolation as a “hallmark indicator of propensities for the type of homicidal psychopathy displayed by mass shooters,” as Steve Kadin and James Statler, who direct San Luis Obispo’s Community Counseling Center, wrote last November in an op-ed piece.

They traced such isolation to influences like “early childhood neglect and abuse and subse-

Americans are exploring that connection: the Minneapolis Institute of Art has used a $750,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to establish the world’s first Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts.

Experts are also seeing other measurable benefits of arts teaching, including “gains in math, reading, cognitive ability, critical thinking and verbal skill,” according to an article on the George Lucas Educational Foundation’s Edutopia website in 2009. Also, National Endowment for the Arts research found that “at-risk students who have access to the arts

If children are growing more isolated and the arts are an avenue for connection, why aren’t we doing more to make creativity part of curricula in schools? quent low self-esteem; environmental factors combined with depression, anxiety and other mental illnesses; family criminal history; and feeling like a ‘stranger in a strange land’ — the loss of a sense of belonging.”

Increasingly, sense of belonging is considered “a human need, just like the need for food and shelter,” as psychologist Karyn Hall wrote in 2014 in Psychology Today. “Feeling that you belong is most important in seeing value in life and in coping with intensely painful emotions.” That’s not the same as craving approval, points out Brené Brown, a University of Houston research professor who has written extensively about the crisis of social disconnection. “Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.”

CONNECTION TO SUCCESS Creativity can lay the groundwork to promote that feeling of belonging, according to other research. A 10-year study by People United, an organization based in the United Kingdom, found that students participating in music, poetry, film, singing, or visual or performing arts showed more empathy, kindness, sense of community and social bonds. Now

show better academic results, better workforce opportunities and more civic engagement.”

And according to Americans for the Arts, “lowincome students who are highly engaged in the arts are twice as likely to graduate from college as their peers with no arts education.”

LOCAL HEROES If children are growing more isolated and the arts are an avenue for connection, why aren’t we doing more to make creativity part of curricula in schools? Even here in California, which used to lead the nation in arts education, Proposition 13, passed in 1978, together with the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, shifted emphasis toward “teaching to the test”— curricula aimed at helping kids score well on standardized tests.

To fill the creativity breach, some Bay Area nonprofits have stepped up. In San Francisco, Michelle Holdt, a longtime theater teacher and arts administrator, founded Arts Ed Matters, to help give today’s youth the regular arts exposure and lessons she had growing up. “If I had to boil down my life’s work into one sentence, it would be that art heals and saves lives,” she says. “[We should be] helping children feel authentically seen, heard and valued, which enables them to feel safe to collaborate and take risks.” Working with

Arts Education Facts from Americans for the Arts 1 A student involved in the arts (theater, music, dance and visual arts) is four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement.

2 Students with high arts participation and low socioeconomic status have a 4 percent dropout rate — five times lower than similar-status peers.

3 Students who take four years of arts and music classes average almost 100 points higher in their SAT scores than students who study arts only half a year or less.

4 Low-income students highly engaged in the arts are twice as likely to graduate from college as their peers with no arts education.

5 Seventy-two percent of business leaders say creativity is the number-one skill they look for when hiring.

6 Ninety-three percent of Americans believe the arts are vital to a well-rounded education.

7 The arts are recognized as a core academic subject under the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and 48 states have adopted standards for learning in the arts.

8 Two-thirds of public school teachers believe the arts are getting crowded out of the school day.

9 Nationwide, 97 percent of elementary schools don’t offer dance and 96 percent don’t offer theater.

10 In 2008, African-American and Hispanic students had less than half as much access to arts classes as their Caucasian peers did.

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Belonging, on the other hand, doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.

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school districts and groups, her organization provides workshops and coaching residencies to train teachers in arts curriculum design and techniques. “Teaching to the test is isolating,” she says. “Children don’t learn by filling in bubbles. They learn by doing and touching and creating and playing — this is what creates engagement and connection.”

In Oakland, Destiny Arts, begun in 1988 as a dance and martial arts program, today also has classes in theater and new media arts, runs two pre-professional dance companies, and serves 2,500 kids at Oakland-area schools (including all West Oakland elementary schools), plus another 500 in after-school programs, summer camps and juvenile halls. All classes, offered free or on a sliding scale, include meditation and a check-in and emphasize a “Warrior Code” of love, respect, care, responsibility, honor and peace. “We believe that kids who are strong in their core and empowered to have control of their bodies are less likely to be violent,” says executive director Archana Nagraj.

Tesfaye Tekelu, a Destiny Arts teaching artist from Ethiopia, thinks that approach has profound power to drive social change. “In my village, it was a community,” he says. “If I made a mistake, any older person would stop and guide me. ... Children need mentors. If we see ourselves as human to human, not system to system, we create a compassionate community,” he adds. “Then we don’t need to be violent to be seen.”

Even in affluent Marin, programs like Youth in Arts still meet a need, particularly in higherrisk Novato and San Rafael districts. Founded in 1970 to address diminishing arts access in public schools, the organization now serves around 7,000 kids at 59 sites and has reached over a million students since it began. Aimed at unlocking creative potential in people of all ages, the program also seats a student on its board. “We provide opportunities to choose a

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different path,” says executive director Miko Lee. “Personal violence and choices like joining a gang are often about finding a family. Our alums speak to having found family here.”

Not long ago I asked my former theater students how learning the performing arts might have affected their lives. “The stability of theater — and really being dedicated to a craft while simultaneously being supported by a community — has saved me countless times from depression and anxiety,” says Sophia, who graduated with an acting degree from Boston University School of Theatre last month. Jake, with a playwriting degree from Tisch School of the Arts, says, “Theater gave me a purpose that saved me from an isolation that, when married with my personal mental health cocktail, can be hard and painful. Without these opportunities, I wouldn’t have been violent, but I certainly would have been more self-hating, alone, and lost.”

And what about Josh? After an angry, and stunning, audition performance, I cast him as Macbeth. As his “behavior issues” persisted in other classes, in mine he used his rage and passion for good. Students who were once intimidated by him came to know and respect him. He made friends. He belonged. His performances were spectacular and showed his teachers and administrators a side of him they might not have seen had they just dismissed him as the “problem kid.” Most important, when he confided in me that he was questioning his sexuality and asked me to help him tell his father, he let it drop that being involved in theater had helped him reach this point. The experience, he explained, had made him feel he mattered — enough to be able to look at something that had been scaring him all along. m

Genuine Therapy

The arts can be good for mental health: in a clinical setting, activities like music, art, drama, dance, movement and writing have been proven to benefit children with social issues, developmental disabilities, ADHD, anxiety, depression and other conditions. To find an expressive arts/creative arts therapist in the Bay Area, contact your health insurance provider or a local mental health clinic, or use the search engine at psychologytoday.com.

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language and narrative as a path to personal empowerment and social justice.

Rebecca Foust

Marin’s poet laureate is expanding the boundaries of the role — and finding some serious talent along the way.

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EBECCA FOUST, M A RIN County’s current poet laureate, has spent a lifetime breaking the mold.

Growing up in the workingclass manufacturing town of Altoona, Pennsylvania, she was first in her family to go to college. After earning scholarships to attend Smith College and Stanford University Law School, she went into private law practice and then, while raising a son who had Asperger’s, became an advocate for children with autism.

After quietly writing unpublished poems in her walk-in closet while she raised her young children, Foust enrolled in the MFA degree program at Warren Wilson College at age 50. She emerged as a poet and over the next decade she published five prize-winning collections; earned fellowships from The Frost Place, MacDowell, Sewanee and West Chester University Poetry Conference; and won kudos including the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the American Literary Review Fiction Award, and the Constance

Rooke Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Foust writes a weekly poetry column for the national magazine Women’s Voices for Change and has served on the Marin Poetry Center Board of Directors since 2008. Her Marin poet laureate title spans from 2017 to 2019.

True to form, Foust breaks the poet mold as well. This is no quietly ruminating bard delivering highfalutin words from the shelter of an idylllic retreat. On the contrary, Foust has used her role more socially, to encourage people who, like her, have had few role models for pursuing a literary life; she’s also promoting poetry as a mode of expression for all. “Poetry is a sacred space — church, a hospital, a hospice bed — offering a safe place for our most private, urgent and otherwise ineffable expressions,” she said in her first public laureate remarks. Her schedule for spreading this message is robust, full of regular appearances in schools, libraries, community workshops, retirement homes, rotary meetings, festivals, the Marin County Fair — anywhere she can endorse the use of

Tell me about your mission as Marin County poet laureate. I got to reinvent this position, as each of the four poet laureates before me has been able to do. I am floored by the support I’ve gotten and the leeway I’ve been given. I’m so grateful for founder Richard Brown and the Marin County Free Library, as the program is administered by and under their auspices. The only way I could envision taking this position and spending this time was if I got to do some good in the world. My poet laureate project is “Poetry as Sanctuary,” which ties in with California’s status as a sanctuary state. Perhaps the most important service poetry can provide now is as a respite from or a way to respond to current political events, and I very much had in mind bringing attention to our immigrant community here in Marin County.

What do the programs you’ve created look like on the ground? I established a partnership with ForWords Literary Lab, a nonprofit in Montecito Plaza in San Rafael, with a mission to use literature to improve the daily lives of underprivileged children. Because of the location, I work primarily with immigrant children from Central and South America, but ForWords serves all underprivileged children.

I do workshops, spend time in the classroom and organize reading opportunities across the county — at Rebound Bookstore, Fairfax Library, the Marin County Fair. Something else I’ve done is organize open mics at our libraries around themes — an open mic on immigration at the Civic Center library, one on peace at the Corte Madera library, and one on gender at the Mill Valley library. Those were mostly very well-attended. I’ve created a Marin County Poet Laureate Facebook page in English and one in Spanish, and I am diligent about taking photos and updating that page.

What are some of the surprising things about your tenure so far? I’ve had a chance to connect with sectors of the community I didn’t even know existed, like the International Society of Sufism, a group who invited me to their festival, or there’s a women’s Rotary Club called the Tuesday Breakfast Club. I’ve had

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the opportunity to connect with communities I didn’t even think to reach out to before because I didn’t know they were there. That’s been a great thing. I give readings in the Bay Area all the time, but what happens is you start seeing the same 30 or 40 people at all the readings. To reach new audiences is a big deal.

How would you say the public responds to poetry these days? If you just look at the numbers, in the 1960s there were maybe 25 or 30 poetry books published per year. Now there are 6,000 to 10,000 poetry books and journals published in the United States each year.

The numbers are just staggering, and growing. And the composition of poets and of the canon has radically changed. Instead of being just white guys, suddenly half the writers are women. The diversity among poets now is just astonishing. Hip-hop and rap, that infusion, and performance poetry, that’s one of the things that grew poetry. Now everyone wants to be a poet, and in the last few years poetry has served a huge political function — more so than since the Vietnam War. All kinds of poetry is dramatically on the rise right now.

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It must be thrilling to watch his rise. Yes, he was my student for many years, starting when he was in high school. Quite frankly, he eclipsed me, so we don’t meet as teacher-student anymore. He has a burning talent, and I was privileged to be the one who got to notice it.

All I did was show him the way. I felt so good to be able to do that because nobody did that for me. I made some huge mistakes, but because I made those mistakes and learned from that I have been able to help Javier and other poets avoid mistakes. Javier’s first book just won the Northern California Book Award, on the day before he was granted a visa because of his tremendous scholarly and creative contributions to our society. This [qualification factor] has never been applied to the arts before, so with this decision he has made new law. Honestly, I am so emotional I can hardly talk about it. m

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Although you can’t swim there, Baker Beach has plenty of other attractions. BY KASIA PAWLOWSKA

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HEN MOST PEOPLE are asked to This photo was taken from Eagle’s Point/El Camino del consider California beaches, Mar toward China Beach/Baker Beach in 1930. rows of towering palm trees, a searing sun and vast expanses of cream-colored sand come to mind — that is to say, Southern California beaches. But what the beaches in the northern part of the state lack in instant recognition, they make up for in history and dramatic appeal. Among these is Baker Beach.

Roughly a half-mile long, Baker Beach begins just south of Golden Gate Point — where the Golden Gate Bridge connects with the peninsula — and extends southward toward the Sea Cliff neighborhood, the Palace of the Legion of Honor and the Sutro Baths. The land the beach is located on was originally settled by John Henry Baker in the 1850s. Back then the 160-acre property was called Golden Gate Milk Ranch. There was no lack of entrepreneurial men in San Francisco during the Gold Rush era, and a couple of them decided to capitalize on the resources at Lobos Creek, a stream that empties onto what is now Baker Beach.

Serpentine Spotlight The city was in the grip of a water shortage, so in 1858 Anthony Chabot and a New Yorker named Outcrops of gray-green serpenJohn Bensley dammed the creek and built a redwood flume that carried the water to Fort Point and tine protrude among the cliffs to modern-day Fort Mason, creating the city’s first permanent water supply. To this day the Presidio between Fort Point and Baker area draws its water from Lobos Creek.

Beach. California’s official state In 1904, when the Presidio was still a U.S. military fort, Battery Chamberlin was built near the rock, serpentine forms when rocks north end of the beach to hold the Army’s new lighter, stronger and more powerful coastal defense deep in the earth’s crust are altered weapons. A six-inch “disappearing gun,” the last of its type remaining on the West Coast, can still be and forced to the surface. It yields viewed today during the first weekend of each month, when demonstrations are conducted and the soils unusually high in magnesium public can visit a small seacoast defense museum. and low in calcium, which spurs That end of the beach also saw a different kind of fire power in later years: from 1986 to 1990 special adaptations among rare plant species. The best views of San it was the original site of Burning Man. As the effigy grew bigger each year, legal limits on Francisco’s serpentine cliffs are from campfire size prompted park police to intervene, and participants compromised by agreeing to the overlooks on Lincoln Boulevard, erect the figure without lighting it. The festival moved to its present home in Black Rock Desert, just north of Baker Beach.

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TIPS AND HIGHLIGHTS ➻A picnic area with tables, grills and restroom facilities is tucked into the cypress grove at the east end of the parking lot. ➻ Baker Beach is one of the Bay Area beaches that can be warm enough for sunbathing and picnicking.

➻ On sunny weekends, be prepared for crowds and parking congestion.

➻ Hikers can pick up the Coastal Trail on the cliffside.

➻ Look for the display of historical military photographs at the Battery Chamberlin museum in the underground cartridge room.

➻ The northernmost end of Baker Beach is popular with clothing-optional sunbathers.

➻ Large waves, undertow and rip currents make the beach unsafe for swimming, but it provides panoramic views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Headlands and Lands End. You can fish or check out the shore life along the beach and rocky water’s edge.

➻ On May 7, 1959, off Baker Beach, in water 15 feet deep, 18-year-old Albert Kogler Jr. was fatally attacked by a great white shark — the only shark attack recorded here.

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The State

Game of the

A look at Marin’s competitive sports leagues and how schools and team leaders are trying to keep players safe.

The Wildcats of Marin Catholic have long been kings of football in the county. Until this year, their crowns have been figurative.

The 2018 Wildcats are rocking state-of-the-art helmets made by a Seattle startup called Vicis. Unlike traditional hard-shell helmets, these chapeaux de-form on impact, “like the bumper on a Prius,” effuses head coach Mazi Moayed. That “give” reduces the acceleration of impact forces that cause brain injury. Alas, with a price tag of $950, they offer little protection against sticker shock.

Not to worry, Wildcats. A deep-pockets donor — an “anonymous benefactor with a real desire to protect our kids,” according to MC president Tim Navone — picked up the tab for the new headgear.

It’s good to be king.

Firm though its grasp may be over the rest of the republic — 17 of the 20 most-watched TV programs in American history have been Super Bowls — football is not king in Marin, which has put more people into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland than the NFL Hall of Fame in Canton. In this county, football is often overshadowed (among prep sports), by hoops, baseball, water polo, mountain biking and, well, futbol.

For those attempting to augur the future of the gridiron game in these parts, the signals are mixed. Novato High nearly shut down its varsity program in 2017, citing insufficient player interest, a year after Branson debuted its eight-person football team, which is going gangbusters.

Marin County Athletic League (MCAL) teams range from remarkable (Marin Catholic has won 60 of its last 61 MCAL games) to the resurgent (Terra Linda went 7–4 in ’17, its first

winning record in five years, and dealt perennial powerhouse San Marin its sole MCAL loss of the season) to those resolved to do better: Drake, Redwood and Tamalpais had two victories apiece last year; Novato and San Rafael, none.

Jared Goff, a 2013 Marin Catholic grad who played in the Pro Bowl last January, may end up being the best of an impressive cohort of Marin athletes and coaches to crack the NFL. Pete Carroll, Redwood class of ’69, coached USC to a pair of national championships in the aughts, then led the Seahawks to victory in Super Bowl XLVII. (He’d have a second ring if Russell Wilson had simply handed the ball to Marshawn Lynch on the goal line in the waning moments of Supe XLIX, but let’s not go there.)

The late Reggie (Stretch) Carolan, a late-’50s Drake product, made it to a pair of Super Bowls for the Chiefs. His

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son Brett, who has a Super Bowl ring to show for his two seasons with the Niners, is one of four San Marin Mustangs to crack NFL rosters, the best-known of whom is Brad Muster (31 touchdowns in seven pro seasons). Novato quarterback Mike Moroski lasted eight NFL seasons, one fewer than wide receiver and Terra Linda alum Stacey Bailey. Natu Tuatagaloa excelled in football, basketball, track and field and boxing at San Rafael before racking up 94 tackles and 15 sacks for a trio of NFL teams.

As another season looms, it feels right to celebrate the county’s gridiron gladiators. It’s a sign of the times that before buckling their chin straps, most of these players will have submitted to comprehensive “baseline” neurological assessments measuring, among other things, their reaction time, capacity for memory and cognitive function. Similar tests are administered after a player has incurred a possible concussion. Those before-and-after results help doctors, trainers and coaches ensure that athletes don’t return to their sport until they’re safe, healthy and ready. a matter of debate that football can take a steep toll on the brains of those who play it. A Journal of American Medicine study published last year revealed that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) had been diagnosed post-mortem in 110 of 111 NFL players. Not long after that study was released, the California Interscholastic Federation revealed that despite an overall increase in high school sports participation over the previous year, participation in football was down by 3.1 percent — this following a decline of 3 percent the previous year.

That attrition is ref lected in some, but not all, of the county’s high school programs.

Whereas MC has 90 young men filling the ranks of its freshman, JV and varsity programs, Drake High second-year head coach Roy Giorgi would be delighted to take the field with a third of that number. The ex–Marine and Drug Enforcement Administration agent is a 1980 Drake grad who spent seven years as an assistant football coach at Oak Ridge High, a football factory on the edge of Folsom Lake.

“We’d get three, four, five thousand people at every game,” he recalls. “So it was an eye-opener, coming back to my old school, seeing a failing program.”

Highly competent, relentlessly upbeat, Giorgi took important steps last season to change the culture of the program for Drake’s team the Pirates. It was still an uphill climb.

The Pirates went 2–7 and finished the season with 17 players.

“I had 10 two-way starters. It was tough.”

The day before he spoke to Marin Magazine, Giorgi had spent an hour with the parents of a student interested in joining the team. Their conversation, recalled the coach, “was all about the concussion issue.” They asked him, “Do you think the risk is worth it?”

How parents and students answer that question will determine the future of football in this county — and, for that matter, this country.

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T H E A L P H A D O G of Marin County football comes off as low-key, easygoing, almost beta.

Asked early in the summer how the Wildcats spring football went, Marin Catholic head coach Mazi Moayed replied that it went quite well, before allowing as how he doesn’t attach quite as much importance to those April and May sessions as some other coaches do. “ We’ve got g uys r u n n i ng t rack , playing baseball, lacrosse, rugby. I think being a multisport athlete is a good thing,” he says.

(NFL personnel people agree with him: 29 of the 32 first-round picks in last May’s draft were multisport athletes in high school.)

His football acumen is spot-on more often than not. Upon his succeeding Ken Peralta as MC’s head coach in 2010, one of Moayed’s

first decisions was to replace his predecessor’s ground-bound “double-wing” offense with a wide-open, pass-happy “run and shoot” attack better suited to the talents of his sophomore quarterback, a 6-foot, 3-inch, 160-pound string bean named Jared Goff. The future Cal Bear and Los Angeles Ram proceeded to throw for 7,687 yards and 93 touchdowns in his three years as a starter at MC. In 2013, Goff became the first true freshman in the history of Cal-Berkeley football to earn the starting quarterback job.

Three years later, having turned around the floundering Golden Bears program, Goff declared for the 2016 NFL Draft. Pro scouts began making their way to Marin Catholic, performing their due diligence. Moayed remembers, in particular, a member of the Rams staff posing this hypothetical: if you were a member of an NFL team that drafted Jared Goff, what would be your greatest concern?

“Well,” Moayed replied, “who the heck’s his offensive coordinator gonna be?”

A trenchant question, it turned out. The Rams plucked Goff with the first overall pick, but the rookie floundered in the uninspired, antiquated of fense f avored by the team’s offensive coordinator, Rob Boras, who did not subscribe to one of Moayed’s maxims: fit your scheme to your personnel, not the other way around. It took until Goff’s second pro season, under wunderkind head coach Sean McVay, for the young quarterback to start shredding defenses. After going 0-7 as a rookie, Goff led his team to the NFC Championship game. His upside is as steep as the “lift hill” on the Giant Dipper, the Santa Cruz roller coaster his father took him on when Jared was 5.

Back in Greenbrae, Goff’s former high school program has plotted a steadier course featuring far more peaks than valleys. Last year MC outscored its five Marin County Athletic League opponents 278–6. (Props to Redwood for mustering that lone touchdown.) Behind the dynamic duo of quarterback Spencer Petras and wideout Peter Brown, the Wildcats made it to the California Interscholastic Federation state championship game before losing to juggernaut Shasta. Despite eight new starters on offense and seven on defense, the Wildcats would be prohibitive favorites to win the league again this year, as they have every season for a decade (in 2014 MC shared the title with Novato and Napa’s JustinSiena). This year, however, that streak will end.

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Those before-and-after results help doctors, trainers and coaches ensure that athletes don’t return to their sport until they’re safe, healthy and ready.

To pick on more opponents their own size, or at least closer to their own size, the Wildcats have beefed up their slate of non-league games. As a result, Marin Catholic will play only five MCAL teams in ’18, relinquishing the title to someone else. That said, the Wildcats will still retain the MCAL’s automatic bid to the North Coast Section playoffs and can be counted on to embark on their customary, deep postseason run.

Co-captain, middle linebacker and West Point commit Cole Truex will call the defensive signals. Keeping blockers off him, while taking on double- and triple-teams himself, will be the run-stuffing, bridge-abutment-like Kamar Sekona, a 6-foot, 4-inch, 295-pound junior whose uncle is the Philadelphia Eagles nose tackle Haloti Ngata. Sekona, who already has an offer from USC, has lived in Southern California and Utah. But his circuitous path brought him — as so often happens with the most talented athletes in the county — to Marin Catholic.

That brings us to the point frequently raised by coaches of the teams the Wildcats regularly rout: unconstrained as they are by the boundaries of a school district, the Wildcats have a huge advantage over their public school opponents.

MC President Tim Navone swats down the notion that the Wildcats “recruit.” The critics, he contends, are using the wrong verb. “The program absolutely attracts certain kinds of kids. If you have a strong passion for football and are blessed enough to have a family that can afford to send you to Marin Catholic, you’ll find a way to be here.”

That self-selecting dynamic is not limited to the Wildcats, he adds, pointing to the stellar water polo program 3.7 miles up Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. Last November, the Drake High boys’ team — featuring seven seniors who will play the sport in college, three of them at Stanford — won the NorCal Division I championship. The Pirates’ dominant boys’ and girls’ polo programs are stocked with athletes developed in the Sleepy Hollow Aquatics (SHAQ), co-founded in 2007 by Mark Anderson and Matt Swanson.

“Nobody says, ‘Oh, Drake recruits,’ ” notes Navone (a f ter proud ly pointing out that

Anderson is a product of Marin Catholic). “Well, the reality is, SHAQ is an amazing program, and people move to San Anselmo to get into it.”

“That’s a great compliment to our program,” says Anderson, who deflects credit to “an excellent group of high-level coaches that kids want to learn from.”

Giorgi, the Pirates second-year football coach, wouldn’t mind seeing some of that buzz rub offon his football program. Upon taking over in ’17, he was Drake’s third coach in three years. All that turnover, explains Drake athletic director Nate Severin, had the effect of sapping morale and depressing interest in the program. “There was no off-season, no continuity.” Under Giorgi, there is.

“I’m tellin’ ya,” the coach exudes, “spring football this year, compared to last year, was night and day.”

Sounding similarly optimistic is first-year Novato Hornets head coach Isreal Jones, who has coached in the area for 20 years, most recently as an assistant at MC. The near-death experience of the Hornets’ program last year came as a shock to Jones, who played high school football at San Marin and is deeply familiar with the strong football tradition at Novato, which won the state’s North Coast Section title in ’06.

While the varsity struggled last season, “We had a very strong frosh-soph program,” he points out, “and that momentum has carried over. These guys have had a taste of winning, and they want to get Novato back to where it belongs.” He’s especially bullish on returning quarterback Jake Dillon, a scrambling, strong-armed Doug Flutie–type with good accuracy and more heart than height.

Just a few miles up Novato Boulevard, the San Marin Mustangs had none of the attrition plaguing their crosstown rivals. Despite being the county’s smallest public high school, San Marin has one of its most robust football programs.

“We’ll have 45 or 50 in our freshman level alone,” says co–head coach Dom DiMare, “which is huge.”

W hat has cha nged, at this traditiona l powerhouse, is the amount of contact during practice. “The last four or five years,” says DiMare, who speaks for thousands of coaches

across the country, is that “we’ve really, really backed off he hitting.”

Like countless other programs, including those in Marin, the Mustangs have implemented the shoulder-tackling techniques promoted by the Seattle Seahawks, who borrowed them from the sport of rugby. The idea is to “take the head out of the game.”

G O OD LUC K W I T H T H AT . Football remains a chaotic, violent sport which, as currently contested, will always entail a fair amount of risk.

“Heads up” and “headless” tackling techniques have been put forth, down through the decades — especially in the wake of public concern over serious injuries and deaths.

“The problem then, and the problem now,” author and football historian Matt Chaney told me two years ago, “is that there’s no way you’re going to remove head contact from a forward-colliding sport. We don’t need a bunch of frigging scientists and researchers to tell us that.”

Despite its inherent risks, counters Moayed, football is “the safest it’s ever been,” thanks to education, raised awareness, baseline testing and concussion protocols.

The Wildcats were early to that party. In 2009, Marin Catholic partnered with neuropsychologist Dr. Eric Freitag, an expert on concussion assessment and care. Freitag’s use of highly sensitive neurocognitive tests to assess concussion recovery are widely used in the NFL and NHL. At Marin Catholic, that baseline testing isn’t just for athletes.

“We highly recommend that every student get tested,” says MC trainer Jamie Waterman, who points out that head injuries aren’t limited to football — “one year, between swimming and water polo, we had three in the pool” — or even to school-sanctioned sports. Nor are those baseline tests used solely to determine when athletes can return to the field.

The first priority, she explains, is using the test to determine “when they’re ready to get back in the classroom.” Post-concussion, “a lot of kids have a hard time integrating back into school.”

Welcome, then, to this brave new world of $950 helmets and neurocognitive testing. As one Drake football dad wisecracks, “We’ve come a long way from ‘Turn your head and cough.’ ” “I’ve been here 18 years and seen so much change,” Waterman agrees. “I wonder where we’re gonna be in another 15 or 20?” m

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HETHER IT’S YOUR first trip to the islands or it’s been too many to count, the chance to “talk story” with members of the state’s pioneer ranching families is a memorable treat not to be missed. Thankfully, a few now open their doors to show visitors this part of Hawaii’s history and their own role and legacy as stewards of the land.

Piiholo Ranch, Maui

Clockwise from left: Piiholo Ranch; Susie and Peter Baldwin; Princeville Ranch cattle; stream crossing at Princeville.

The Baldwin family history and influence in the state date back to the missionary era, when Rev. Dwight Baldwin and wife Charlotte moved to Lahaina town in 1836.

Besides his preacherly duties, Dwight is credited with “saving Maui” during the smallpox epidemic of 1853 by delivering vaccinations via horseback all over the island. The couple’s entrepreneurial son Henry Perrine (HP) Baldwin started the island’s first sugar plantation and, along with a few partners, established 34,000-acre Haleakala Ranch, gateway to Maui’s storied upcountry.

HP’s youngest son, Samuel Alexander Baldwin, managed Haleakala Ranch through a colorful time in Maui’s history, before his own son, Richard “Manduke” Baldwin, known as “cattleman of the century,” took over.

Continuing the family lineage of champion horsemen, Manduke’s son Peter Baldwin worked on the ranch until his retirement, then purchased a picturesque portion of Haleakala, where he now operates Piiholo Ranch.

This virtually untouched slice of history sits alongside a rainforest including native trees and bushes such as acacia koa, known for its prized hardwood; the flowering and honey-producing ohia lehua; the ferns papapalai and kupukupu (used in hula); iholena (banana) and many other culturally significant plants. Learn about ranch history and nearby flora and fauna by booking a paniolo horseback ride; options vary from two hours to a cattle roundup called “Cowboy for a Day.” For extra adventure, arrive on the ranch by helicopter. After riding with Peter through the verdant acreage, guests of Four Seasons Maui have the opportunity to chat with this seventh-generation Hawaiian cowboy over a gourmet lunch prepared by the Four Seasons chef.

IF YOU GO Piiholo Ranch (piiholo.com) offers many visitor experiences, including a one-hour horseback lesson ($125); two-hour horseback rides (from $240, includes snacks and water); waterfall hikes; a three-hour private horseback trip (from $360, includes lunch); and Cowboy for a Day, a twoand-half-hour cattle-herding ride ($360, lunch included, Tuesday and Thursday only). fourseasons.com/maui

Princeville Ranch, Kauai

In 1831, the British consul to the Kingdom of Hawaii leased a portion of what’s now Princeville Ranch from the governor of Kauai to raise cattle. Robert Wyllie, who added the North Shore acreage to his holdings of Hanalei sugarcane

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fields in 1855, later dubbed the property “Princeville Plantation” in honor of a visit by Queen Emma and her young son Albert in 1860. Sadly, the toddler prince died two years later and Wyllie three years after that.

More owners and ventures have followed; since 1994, the 2,500-acre ranch has been leased by members of the Carswell family. Curly and Gale Carswell, who moved there from Oahu in the late 1960s, started offering horseback rides across the property’s emerald pastures to 80-foot Kahiliwai Falls in 1978.

But the family’s ties to Kauai and Princeville Ranch go even deeper: Gale’s great-great-uncle Abner S. Wilcox, the Hilo-born son of missionaries Abner and Lucy Wilcox, owned the ranch from 1895 to 1919. After Gale passed away in May at age 78, her memorial service was held at Grove Farm in Lihue, where her great-aunt Mabel Wilcox once lived.

“My parents were very much old-school Hawaii. They were very much about perpetuating the land and the culture and the family feel,” says Karin Carswell Guest, one of Gale and Curly’s four children. She and husband Jeff anage 150 head of cattle and run Princeville Ranch Adventures, which includes zip line and hiking tours created by her brother David and his wife Denise, as well as ATV and horseback rides.

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is a special place and we need to protect it,” she says.

“Development is inevitable, but as much as possible, we need to try to limit the expansion. Although cattle ranching is not all that profitable, it allows us to keep the land in agriculture and we can also do some eco-adventures for visitors and locals. It’s win-win for the land and the community.”

IF YOU GO Princeville Ranch Adventures (princeville ranch.com) operates daily zip line tours ($139–$159); off-road ATV rides ($129–$328); frequent horseback rides (from $119); waterfall hikes (from $129); and combination adventures including kayaking ($159 adults, $129 children). The Westin Princeville Ocean Resort Villas (from $341, westinprinceville.com) offers guests free shuttles to the check-in office in Princeville.

Ponoholo Ranch, Hawaii Island

Riders and cattle at Ponoholo Ranch.

The story of 11,000-acre Ponoholo Ranch, stretching from high atop Kohala Mountain to the sea, is the story of marriages between some of Hawaii’s most prominent families — and one amicable division of land.

Harry von Holt, the son of a German merchant who arrived in Honolulu in 1851 and an Englishwoman brought to Hawaii as a child, supervised ranching on the Ewa Plain, among other key positions. In 1889, he married Ida Knudsen, the daughter of Valdemar Knudsen, a Norwegian sugarcane plantation owner who had overseen ranchlands on Kauai for Kamehameha IV, and Anne Sinclair, whose Scottish mother had bought the entire island of Niihau in 1864.

In 1928, Harry and Ida von Holt’s son Ronald joined forces with Atherton Richards, scion of the missionary family that later co-founded Castle & Cooke, to purchase the misty slopes and scrubby lowlands of Kahua Ranch.

When Ronald died in 1953, his widow moved her children to Honolulu but bought another home near the ranch, where they would happily spend their vacations riding horses and helping with chores.

“We had a strong attachment to the land here,” explains Harry “Pono” von Holt, 70, who returned to Kahua Ranch as a young adult after years on the mainland. “There was always a thought of coming back and working here.”

In 1980, von Holt and Atherton Richards’ heir, nephew Monty Richards, decided to divide Kahua Ranch in two but still share some operations. Today, von Holt’s daughter Sabrina English is president of Ponoholo Ranch, which bears the Hawaiianized version of his surname; her husband, Chris, manages approximately 5,000 head of cattle, some of which end up as grass-fed beef at Whole Foods.

While her three siblings work elsewhere, “they all have a really good feeling for the property and the lifestyle,” von Holt notes. “I think there is a responsibility, a kuleana, to take care of the property. It’s a resource that they can’t easily duplicate anywhere else.”

IF YOU GO Separately owned Paniolo Adventures (panioloadventures.com) leads a variety of horseback rides across Ponoholo Ranch Monday–Saturday, from an hourlong City Slicker option ($69) to a four-hour

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For Kualoa Ranch president John Morgan, 61, the verdant setting is both office and boyhood home. His missionary forefather, Dr. Gerrit P. Judd, co-founded Punahou School (President Obama’s alma mater) in 1841 and later became a trusted adviser of King Kamehameha III, who sold Judd 622 acres in Kualoa Valley in 1850. The sixth generation of his family to steward the ranch, which includes Kaaawa and Hakipuu valleys, Morgan grew up on land later claimed by the city for Kualoa Park.

In his teen years, Morgan recalls, his labors included “fixing fences, spraying herbicides on pastures, irrigating cornfields, working on the flower farm,” and even doing the books one

summer. Following college classes at Oregon State and the University of Hawaii, Morgan became ranch manager in 1981.

Four years later, realizing there was little income or growth potential in cattle, Morgan says he “jumped headfirst” into a diversified recreation business. Today some 1,500 people at a time might tour the ranch, on everything from ATVs to zip lines, but their relatively small groups quickly disperse in the vast landscape seen in Jurassic Park, Lost and Hawaii Five-O, among other films and TV shows.

“It’s an extremely beautiful property with a big cultural legacy associated with it,” Morgan says. “You put all of those things together and everyone’s experience is ‘Wow, we’re just temporary custodians and we need to do what we can to try to preserve it.’ Luckily we’ve evolved and shepherded a business model that means we can preserve it.”

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Balkans Castles, islands, medieval cities and delicious food define this mother-daughter trip. BY MELANIE HAIKEN

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this tapestry and you’ll notice something very strange,” says the museum guide, pointing to a book-size embroidered panel hanging on the wall and gesturing us to lean in until our noses almost touch the glass. “Do you see how fine the thread is?

This was sewn by the wife of a sailor who was lost at sea for more than 25 years. She wove her own hair into the design — look, you can see it go from brown to gray as the years went by.” As if in answer to our unspoken question, she adds, “Sadly, the legend doesn’t tell us if he ever returned. But I like to think he did.”

It’s one of those eerie moments when a small story seems to embody and encapsulate the history, culture and very essence of a place. In this case, that’s the Bay of Kotor in Montenegro, which has been defined by the sea and a history of conquest since it was a Roman seaport founded sometime before 200 B.C. Even the tiny island we’re standing on, known as Our Lady of the Rocks, is tied to seafaring history. Legend has it OOK CLOSELY AT

that in 1452 a shipwrecked sailor (or two brothers, depending on the storyteller) pulled himself up onto a rocky outcrop and discovered an icon of the Virgin Mary. Vowing to build a chapel to honor his miraculous rescue, he and other grateful mariners began bringing stones back from each safely completed voyage and piling them up to build first the island, then the ethereal blue-domed chapel atop it. Completed in 1640 and largely rebuilt in 1722, the island appears to float on the surface of the water, visible from every shore.

Kotor: City of Castles

We haven’t come by sea, though, as the majority of those visiting the Bay of Kotor do, disembarking en masse from cruise ships for a day of sightseeing. Instead, my daughter and I came by public bus south along the Croatian coast from Dubrovnik, holding our breath as the vehicle dodged oncoming cars along the single narrow road hugging the inlet-studded shore. She’s in the midst of a five-month sojourn of backpacking through Europe, and I’ve joined up for this stretch to remember what it’s like to see the world this way.

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Opener: The city of Dubrovnik and a view of Fort Lovrijenac.

Opposite: The 1,350 stairs that lead to Kotor’s Fortress of St. John. This page from top: Our Lady of the Rocks appears to float on the water; the Ottoman bridge Stari Most was completed in 1566.

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Traveling overland, we’ve been able to spend days and nights exploring the old walled city of Kotor and taking day trips like this one, which finishes with a picnic lunch on the stone-walled quay in the bougainvillea-draped village of Perast.

From our room just inside the city’s ancient fortified walls, we’re awakened by bells ringing out from Kotor’s many churches, including the Cathedral of St. Tryphon and the orthodox churches of St. Luke and St. Nicholas.

We have time to spend a morning wandering the waterfront stalls of the Saturday farmers’ market and to climb the 1,350 steep, crumbling stone steps that switchback up the mountain to the Castle of San Giovanni, also known as the Fortress of St. John. We stop halfway up to visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Remedy, built in 1518 by grateful survivors of the plague, clamber down the backside of the mountain to the abandoned chapel of St. George, and stay to watch the sunset over the bay far below.

Heavily fortified in the early Middle Ages, Kotor still feels utterly medieval; it’s easy to imagine knights riding across the moat and jousting in the main square. But the Kotor you see today also looks and feels Venetian, having been part of that empire for more than 350 years, from 1420 to 1797, during which many of the current buildings were constructed or embellished.

The Mediterranean influence is deliciously evident in Kotor’s cuisine; choosing among the many cozy restaurants with their lamp-lit outdoor tables, we sample black risotto made from squid ink; octopus salad; and buzara, a deep bowl of shellfish and prawns cooked in white wine.

Other local specialties are influenced by the traditions of neighboring Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia, as Kotor spent time under the rule of each.

Market stalls overflow with the small, skinless cevapi sausages, soft cheeses in olive oil, and pastries such as burek, made from filo dough filled with spinach and cheese or ground meat. Not to be missed is riblja corba, a rich fish soup typically made from sea bass or mullet enhanced with potatoes, carrots and sometimes tomatoes.

Mostar: More than a Bridge

To our taste, though, nothing rivals the meals we eat in the Bosnian city of Mostar, which spent 500 years under Ottoman rule and still shows a great deal of Turkish, Greek and Middle Eastern influence. The first thing we do upon arrival is visit Cafe de Alma, where owner Jasmin serves up a lesson on the history and ritual of Bosnian aka Turkish coffee, which we drink while relaxing on her sunny, rainbow-hued patio.

We’ve driven all morning through the rolling, vineyard-covered hills and valleys of southern Herzegovina, so we’re hungry and we head to Sadrvan, where waiters in traditional dress recommend we start with Mostarski Sahan, a sort of sampler platter featuring sogan-dolma, roasted onions stuffed with minced meat; japrak, a more traditional grape leaf dolma; and buttery rich potato and lamb stew topped with sour cream.

But we’re really just waiting for the crowds to thin so we can have Stari Most, the world-famous Ottoman bridge, to ourselves. The pet project of Ottoman emperor Suleiman the Magnificent, Stari Most is a true architectural wonder, seeming to defy gravity as its single span of white limestone arches high over the Neretva River. Completed in 1566 after 10 nail-biting years of construction, it was a symbol of Muslim-Christian peace until it was bombed seemingly beyond repair in the bitter wars for

Balkan independence in the early 1990s. Painstakingly rebuilt block by block, it reopened in 2004 and has become a symbol of the slow, painful reconciliation process that’s still ongoing.

Mostar enchants us, from the calls to prayer echoing from its mosques to the Turkish bazaar of colorful crafts and market stalls to the still war-torn neighborhoods displaying bold murals of nationalist pride. Of course, we also love the cake shops and bakeries, where shelves glow with honey-soaked pastries, four-layer cream-filled cakes and the elaborate puddings that were favorites of the Ottoman sultans.

Dubrovnik: The Fairy-Tale City

We finish — as we started — in Dubrovnik, today among the most popular and crowded destinations in central and southeastern Europe thanks to its role standing in for King’s Landing in Game of Thrones. But here’s what most people don’t know: visiting Dubrovnik is a completely different experience for those who stay within or just outside the old city walls.

From its towering battlements to the smooth white paving stones that gleam underfoot, Dubrovnik feels like the setting of a chivalric legend, and having it all to yourself at night and in the early mornings lets you sense the magic the most. Dubrovnik is a dream for those who love to walk, and we do, climbing up to Fort Lovrijenak on its high rocky perch and scaling Srd Hill to visit Napoleonic Fort Imperial, which protected the city through many wars, including the battle for Croatian independence.

And we climb up one of the towers to walk the entire 1.2-mile circuit of the old city walls, considered one of the greatest fortifications of the Middle Ages, staying to watch the sunset touch the gleaming stones with gold.

The azure-blue Dalmatian coast is another draw here, and we spend two of our days visiting islands by ferry. Just an hour’s ride away, Lokrum’s attractions include a Benedictine monastery-turned-palace surrounded by courtyards and a botanical garden. The grounds have become a sanctuary for escaped peacocks and fluffy rabbits happy to nibble from your hand.

Many people also come to the island to swim in its secluded coves, dive off the craggy rocks or float in the iridescent blue-green “dead sea” saltwater lake connected to the ocean by underground caves.

Lopud, one of a group of islands called Elafiti, is as popular for its white sand beach as it is for the Franciscan monastery that looms dramatically over the port. The ferry rides themselves are a highlight, offering endless photo opps of Dubrovnik’s famed seawalls and the islands’ craggy coastlines and peaceful harbors.

On our second-to-last day in Dubrovnik, the city’s many plazas and parks suddenly bloom with flower stalls, each vying to outdo the others with massive arrangements of white and yellow chrysanthemums, daisies and roses of all hues. Checking the calendar, we realize that tomorrow is All Saints Day, to be followed by All Souls Day, when Central European Christians honor deceased family members by cleaning and decorating their graves.

Before heading for the airport, we wake early to watch families proceeding into the beautiful Cemetery of Boninovo and marvel at the care and beauty lavished on each mausoleum. Noticing the clusters of red glass lanterns, we ask their significance and an elderly woman looks surprised at our ignorance. “They light the way into heaven,” she says. It seems a fitting endnote for a trip that’s shown us the ways in which Balkan traditions remain strong despite hundreds of years of conquest, upheaval and death by land and sea. m

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Clockwise from top: The white sand beaches of Lopud; Dubrovnik’s La Stradun in old town; the city walls glow at sunset in Dubrovnik.

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THEATER THRU SEP 9 Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical As told by the San Francisco Mime Troupe: It’s election night 2018 and a former Obama voter who took a chance on Trump gets transported back to 1912 for some political lessons. Various locations (SF). 415.285.1717, sfmt.org

SEP 5–30 The Phantom of the Opera Back and bigger than ever before, the classic tale of a mysterious opera haunt who aims to get closer to a vocalist.

Orpheum Theatre (SF).

888.746.1799, shnsf.com SEP 20–OCT 27 Bravo 25: Your A.I. Therapist Will See You Now Eliza Gibson’s solo show draws on her experience as a therapist and

social worker to share the stories of six support group members, each aided by artificial intelligence therapist Amber. The Marsh (SF).

415.282.3055, themarsh.org

DANCE SEP 21–22 All Joan Show A retrospective of dances created by veteran choreographer Cid Pearlman in

conjunction with San Francisco–based cellist and composer Joan Jeanrenaud. Joe Goode Annex (SF). joegoode.org SEP 27–OCT 13 Death Fact/SF and CounterPulse come together for the world premiere of Death, an immersive performance centering on losing a

loved one.

CounterPulse (SF). counterpulse.org SEP 28–OCT 6 Dance Series 01 Smuin marks the start of its 25th season with a fall program featuring a series of works that push the boundaries of contemporary ballet. Palace of Fine Arts (SF). 415.912.1899, smuinballet.org

COMEDY TUESDAYS Tuesday Night Comedy Funnies An evening of hilarity with comedians who make us laugh and think. Throckmorton Theatre (Mill Valley).

415.383.9600, throck mortontheatre.org

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THRU SEP 8 Sex and the City Live! Join drag queens D'arcy Dollinger, Sue Casa, Lady Bear and Steven LeMay in this parody of everyone’s favorite New York City foursome.

Oasis (SF). sfoasis.com

MUSIC THRU SEPT 19 Broadway Under the Stars An outdoor evening series of awardwinning concerts featuring accomplished Broadway and Hollywood performers. Jack London State Historic Park (Glen Ellen). bestnightever.org SEP 6 Daniel Reichard’s Summer Playlist The star of the original Broadway cast of Jersey Boys performs an eclectic collection of songs.

Feinstein’s at the Nikko (SF). 866.663.1063, feinsteinsatthe nikko.com SEP 7–30 Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci S.F. Opera’s season opens with Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, in a double showing of single acts. War Memorial Opera House (SF).

415.864.3330, sfopera.com SEP 13 Michelle Schmitt The singer and her band celebrate Schmitt’s 60th birthday with an evening of fun and music, with proceeds going to Little Wishes. Throckmorton Theatre (Mill Valley).

415.383.9600, throck mortontheatre.org SEP 29 Whistlestock The Fairgrounds Island is transformed into an island of blues

— featuring Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio and Tommy Castro and the Painkillers —in support of Whistlestop, which promotes independence, well-being and quality of life for older adults and people living with disabilities. Fairgrounds Island (San Rafael).

415.456.9062, whistlestop.org SEP 30 Matthew Morrison: Song and Dance Man Bay Area Cabaret brings Matthew Morrison to the stage with a show celebrating his 20 years on stage and screen. Fairmont (SF). 415.392.4400, bayareacabaret.org

MUSEUMS MARIN Bay Area Discovery Museum Imagine, create and transform while exploring the unique museum’s ongoing exhibits (Sausalito).

415.339.3900, baykids museum.org

Saturday, September 15, 2018 / 7 pm Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium

Bolinas Museum Gallery Opening See three new exhibitions and hear from the artists and curators, September 22 (Bolinas). 415.868.0330, bolinasmuseum.org Marin History Museum Numerous collections containing historical articles, documents, artifacts and photographs celebrating the traditions, innovation and creativity of Marin County (Novato). 415.382.1182, marinhistory.org

Pricing Starting at $25 tickets.marincenter.org 415.473.6800

Marin Museum of Contemporary Art Color Works This exhibit showcases works that utilize the power of color as

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Out & About / CALENDAR an avenue for voice, through September 16 (Novato). 415.506.0137, marinmoca.org

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Ruth Kahn

Violist and artistic director of Musica Marin Ruth Kahn discusses the organization’s inaugural festival.

Those yearning for a classical music festival on par with the more mainstream variations are in luck: this year, the first-ever Musica Marin International Chamber Music Festival takes place in the county September 21–23. Renowned musicians from Europe, New York, Philadelphia and the Bay Area, along with celebrated chefs, come together for a three-day series of events. musicamarinfestival.com MM: What compelled you to found Musica Marin?

RK: Although I trained at The Juilliard School and have performed in prominent venues across the country and abroad, I am a Bay Area native. Having raised my family in Marin, I felt the creation of Musica Marin was a natural fit for our community and environment. Our events are portals to the past, but with all the comforts of today, and the intimate settings enable classical music to be heard the way composers intended their works to be heard. Our motto, “A front row seat with a backstage pass,” says it all.

MM: Why is chamber music such a special genre?

RK: Chamber music transcends language and time and serves as an emotional connection to the past.

The accessibility of chamber music, especially when it’s performed in intimate settings, makes it both very human and yet divine.

MM: Tell us about Musica Marin's fundraising.

RK: The philanthropic mission of Musica Marin is very close to my heart. The educational component has raised funds for a number of local youth musical arts organizations, including San Francisco Boys Chorus, Mill Valley Film Festival Education Program and The Juilliard School Scholarship Program (specifically for a California student). We have included in our concert programming young, up-and-coming artists from Merola Opera Program, San Francisco Boys Chorus and the Adler Fellowship Program, along with young performers entering The Juilliard School this fall.

Asian Art Museum Traces of the Past and Future: Fu Shen’s Paintings and Calligraphy Fu Shen’s fir t retrospective in the United States honors the tradition of Chinese ink art, through September 16 (SF). 415.581.3711, asianart.org Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive In Focus: Ingmar Bergman A lecture-screening series focusing on Ingmar Bergman, through November 28 (Berkeley).

510.642.0808, bampfa.org California Academy of Sciences Giants of Land and Sea Discover the forces that make Northern California a place unlike anywhere else. Step inside an immersive fog room, feel a jolt in an earthquake simulator, and explore marine mammal skeletons and models (SF). 415.379.8000, calacademy.org Contemporary Jewish Museum Lew the Jew and His Circle: Origins of American Tattoo An exhibition exploring the work of “Lew the Jew” Alberts (born Albert Morton Kurzman), one of America’s most influential ta too artists at the beginning of the 20th century, through November 18 (SF).

415.655.7800, thecjm.org

de Young Weapons of Mass Seduction: The Art of Propaganda Today’s version of propaganda may come in a single tweet or online headline, but past information spreading was a bit more complicated, a concept explored in this exhibit through a selection of World War I and II–era posters shown alongside film , ephemera and more from the 1910s to the 1940s, through October 7 (SF).

415.750.3600, deyoung. famsf.org di Rosa Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times (Part 2) A continuation of an exhibition of works responding to the evolving social and political climate, through December 30 (Napa). 707.226.5991, dirosaart.org Exploratorium Ongoing interactive exhibits exploring science, art and human perception (SF). 415.397.5673, exploratorium.edu Legion of Honor Truth and Beauty: The PreRaphaelites and the Old Masters Peruse the fir t major exhibition to examine art by the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood — an artistic alliance aspiring to rebel against its contemporary Victorian art world — with works that inspired the members, through September 30 (SF).

415.750.3600, legionof honor.famsf.org Museum of Craft and Design Raw Design An exhibition that explores innovative new mediums as if discovered for the fir t time, through October 28 (SF).

415.773.0303, sfmcd.org

Oakland Museum of California Homegrown Heroes: Oakland A’s at 50 In celebration of the A’s 50th anniversary, a tribute to three famed homegrown players — Dennis Eckersley, Rickey Henderson and Dave Stewart — with personal photos from the past, through October 21 (Oakland). 510.318.8400, museumca.org SFMOMA René Magritte The fir t exhibition to look exclusively at surrealist painter René Magritte’s late career, featuring more than 70 artworks in nine immersive galleries, through October 28 (SF). 415.357.4000, sfmoma.org Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Natural Affinity: Cal ornia Women Sculptors in the Landscape Public art in Sonoma Plaza showcases female sculptors, through October 21 (Sonoma). svma.org The Walt Disney Family Museum Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men: Masters of Animation An exhibition highlighting Disney Studios’ artists dubbed the “Nine Old Men” by Walt Disney, through January 7 (SF).

415.345.6800, walt disney.org Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Bay Area Now 8 This survey exhibit features visual artists specializing in a range of mediums — as selected through a series of studio visits — to present a picture of the Bay Area in the present tense, September 7–March 24 (SF). 415.978.2787, ybca.org

EVENTS SEP 1 Taste of Sonoma A one-day festival of Sonoma County’s most renowned vintners, growers and chefs offers wine-lovers and foodies an opportunity to taste and experience the local bounty. Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park). 855.939.7666, sonomawine.com SEP 5 San Francisco Symphony Opening Night Gala The symphony opens its new season with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting An American in Paris, followed by other Hollywood movie music in an evening featuring violinist Itzhak Perlman. Enjoy live music, cocktails and dancing after the concert. Davies Symphony Hall (SF). sf symphony.org SEP 7–9 Autumn Food and Wine Festival Lake Tahoe’s prestigious alfresco celebration of food, wine, spirits and beer returns for its 33rd year. Celebrity chefs give hands-on demonstrations and attendees enjoy winemaker lunches and dinners, attend seminars, and learn about mixology and more.

Northstar California Resort (Lake Tahoe). gotahoenorth.com SEP 8 Artists@ Issaquah The work of 14 artists presented in nine floating homes is part of a free celebration of art, waterfront living and creativity. Issaquah Dock (Sausalito). floating homes.org

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Fine art, food, wine and live music converge at the Sausalito Art Festival, happening once again by the water for its 66th year. September 1–3, Marinship Park (Sausalito). sausalito artfestival.org

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Sound Summit offers an annual taste of flowerchild-era Marin. Head up the mountain for a musical gathering featuring Bob Weir, Nikki Lane and others.

September 8, Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre (Mill Valley). soundsummit.net

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Star Wars and More: The Music of John Williams is the Marin Symphony’s celebration of the renowned composer’s roster of movie scores. September 15, Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium (San Rafael). marinsymphony.org

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An Evening with Neil deGrasse Tyson Join the astrophysicist for a conversation followed by a lively Q&A. September 24, Davies Symphony Music Hall (SF). shnsf.com

Oslo tells the true story of a Norwegian diplomat and a social scientist who arranged meetings between the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, resulting in the 1993 Oslo Accords. September 27–October 21, Marin Theatre Company (Mill Valley). marintheatre.org

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SEP 8 Bolinas Museum Annual Benefit Art Auction and Party Cruise out to West Marin for a fun-filled evening of cocktails, local fare, lively music and a live auction offering works donated

by Bay Area artists.

Peace Barn (Bolinas).

415.868.0607, bolinas museum.org

SEP 9 The French Market Peruse this outdoor antique market to find art, books, textiles, vintage and estate jewelry, furniture, prints and much more, all accompanied

by French music and crepes. Marin Civic Center (San Rafael).

415.383.2252, golden gateshows.com

SEP 8 Winesong Wander through the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, sample wares from world-class wineries of Mendocino, Sonoma and Napa, and enjoy food, live music and silent and live auctions. Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens (Fort Bragg). winesong.org

SEP 14 Halleck Creek Ranch Annual Fundraising Dinner Head to Halleck Creek for an evening of fine wine, local fare, auctions, live music and other treats, in support of the ranch’s therapeutic horseback rides and the care of the herd that provides them. Rancho Nicasio (Nicasio).

415.662.2488, halleck creekranch.org

SEP 14–16 Gem Faire Fine jewelry, precious and semiprecious gemstones, millions of beads, crystals, gold and silver, and minerals are among the baubles here, at manufacturer’s prices.Marin Center (San Rafael).

503.252.8300, gemfaire.com SEP 15 Native American Trade Feast The Museum of the American Indian celebrates 51 years with live traditional performances, Miwok songs and stories, basketry demonstrations, regalia making, shell bead drilling, children’s activities and more.

Miwok Park (Novato). marinindian.com

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SEP 15–16 S.F. Cheese Fest In honor of the fest’s fourth anniversary, this year’s theme is four-by-four, celebrating cheeses made with four types of milk (cow, goat, sheep and water buffalo) through tastings, pairings, live music and other fun. Social Hall (SF). sfcheesefest.com

SEP 21 Spirit of Marin Bank of Marin presents the 25th annual awards luncheon honoring local businesses and businesspeople for their volunteer spirit and achievements, as chosen by the Marin County Chamber of Commerce. St. Vincent’s School for Boys (San Rafael). spiritofmarin.com SEP 21–23 Oktoberfest by the Bay Munich’s famous festival gets the Bay Area treatment in a weekend of music, singing, dancing, German food and — of course — beer. Pier 23 (SF). oktoberfestby thebay.com

The Phantom of the Opera, Orpheum Theatre, S.F.

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SEP 15–16 Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival Experience this unique local arts event under the towering Mill Valley redwoods, with local food and drinks, live performances, and arts and crafts. Old Mill Park (Mill Valley).

415.381.8090, mvfaf.org

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All proceeds benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma’s mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is the world’s largest voluntary agency dedicated to fighting blood cancers. Learn more at www.LLS.org.

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SEP 22 Reach for the Stars Gala The evening takes place in the ’20s at this speakeasythemed gala. Enjoy food and bootleg libations in support of Side by Side, an organization supporting young people impacted by adversity. Private residence (San Rafael). sidebysideyouth.org SEP 22 UNICEF Gala Join UNICEF in celebrating the organization’s national and regional commitment to advocating, educating and fundraising for the world’s most vulnerable children.

Four Seasons (San Francisco). unicefgala sanfrancisco.org SEP 22 WildCare Gala A spectacular evening of wildlife

and wonder features wines, a locally sourced meal and encounters with WildCare’s animal ambassadors, capped by an auction.

Marin Country Mart (Larkspur). wildcare bayarea.org SEP 29 Stepping Out to Celebrate Life The 23rd annual gala features a Hollywood theme and raises money to support underserved people living with breast cancer in the Bay Area.

Marin Center (San Rafael). 415.455.5882, tocelebratelife.org SEP 30 Race for the Cure Run along the Embarcadero to raise awareness and funds to combat breast cancer; 75 percent of proceeds benefi the immediate community and

25 percent go toward research and grants.

Ferry Building (SF).

415.397.8812, komensf.org

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FILM SEP 6–13 San Francisco Green Film Festival Environmental cinema gets the spotlight for the eighth year, with 60 new films from 20 countries. Various locations (SF). 415.767.1977, greenfi mfest.org SEP 6–15 San Francisco Fringe Festival A series of performances presented as part of the largest grassroots theater festival in the Bay Area. Exit Theatre (SF).

415.673.3847, sffringe.org

ONGOING First Tuesday ArtWalk Join the Mill Valley Arts Commission each month for a stroll through town to view exhibits by local artists. Various locations (Mill Valley). cityofmillvalley.org ONGOING Free First Wednesdays Visit the Bay Area Discovery Museum the fir t Wednesday of every month for an outing full of exploration and fun. Bay Area Discovery Museum (Sausalito).

415.339.3900, baykidsmuseum.org

SEP 7 Chuck Brickley Local haiku writer Chuck Brickley reads from his recently published collection Earthshine, in conjunction with O'Hanlon Center’s annual WabiSabi Exhibit. O'Hanlon Center for the Arts (Mill Valley). 415.388.4331, ohanloncenter.org SEP 8 Digital Black and White Photography Students are invited to investigate various elements that lend themselves to powerful black-and-white images.

These techniques will be practiced and applied in a hands-on location shoot, followed by lab time.

The Image Flow (Mill Valley). 415.388.3569, theimagefl w.com

SEP 15 California Coastal Cleanup Day Join others around the state to make a diffe ence in the 34th Annual California Coastal Cleanup Day, at one of more than 40 sites in Marin. Various locations (Marin County).

415.332.3870 SEP 20 Architects’ Forum SPACES editorin-chief Zahid Sardar moderates this discussion with architects whose projects will be showcased in this year’s San Francisco Living: Home Tours. Cambria Gallery (SF). archand city.org/sfht1

annual dinner & auction Friday, September 14th, 2018 Silver Buckle Honoree

Enock Glidden

Join us for an evening of dinner and music, plus live and silent auctions benefiting our therapeutic horseback riding programs.

Held at the historic Rancho Nicasio Restaurant $175 VIP Admission · $125 General Admission

halleckcreekranch.org · (415) 662-2488 Thank you to our event sponsors:

Photo Credit: Dean Ruggiero Photography

The Pasha Fund Hennessy Funds Overlook International Foundation Stephanie Moulton and Roger Peters Selina and Greg Wajnowski Victor and Karen Trione HUB Insurance Dr. Bill Barboni and Hicks Valley Ranch Jim and Paula Sauve

The Buse Family Maja Kristin Sonoma County Trailblazer Foundation Malcolm and Josie Plaister Dan and Kristi Steadman George and Sheri Clyde Stanley and Judith Lubman Frank Rogers and Ann Riley-Rogers Ed Rossi and Marin Subaru

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WHO Justin Faircloth, Splitrock Tap & Wheel owner WHAT A place for local riders and non-riders to gather and dine WHERE 2020 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, 415.721.7644, splitrocktapandwheel.com b $$ LD

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STEVE KEPPLE

Finishing a task feels good, but multitasking sometimes feels even better, and it’s just what Fairfax’s Splitrock Tap & Wheel offers. The former Fairfax Cyclery space, which had been operating as just a bike shop, has been reconfigured and now also serves food and an assortment of beers. Menu standouts include the Drop pizza — mozzarella cheese, red sauce, pepperoni, fresh tomato, garlic and fresh basil — and appetizer plates of citrus-marinated olives and house-made pickles, all ideal treats for worn-out cyclists coming off he mountain trails. Beers on tap are almost exclusively local favorites, with a couple of San Diego breweries like Green Flash in the mix. The new concept was inspired by mountain resorts where a day on the slopes ends with beer, food and socializing, and really, what’s better than that? KASIA PAWLOWSKA

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BENISSIMO Italian “Benissimo” means “really, really good” in Italian. Aside from the daily 4 to 6:30 p.m. happy hour, the menu offers a large selection of pizza, pasta and large plates, like cioppino, fresh fishes of the day, T-bone steaks and the signature Benissimo Burger or portobello burger. Specials include all-day happy hour on Mondays, no-corkage Tuesdays, Wednesday night martinis and live music on Thursdays.

415.927.2316, benissimos.com s $$$ S D º BLUE BARN GOURMET American The first Marin outpost of the S.F.-based eatery has proven very popular.

The menu includes customizable salads, toasted sandwiches, soups and more, prepared with locally harvested produce and proteins. Try the Jersey cow milk gelato from Double 8 Dairy of West Marin. 335 Corte Madera Town Center, 415.927.1104, bluebarn gourmet.com b $$ S Í LD º BURMATOWN Asian The small home-style Asian fusion restaurant offers fresh, light meals like tea leaf salad and basil shrimp stir-fry, as well as curries, coconut rice and chili-garlic green beans. Extra heat optional. Prepare for a short wait if dining in, or order for takeout.

60 Corte Madera Ave, 415.945.9096, burma town.com b $$ S D MARIN PIZZA Pizza Farm-to-pizza is the mission of this

fast-casual restaurant.

Choose from signature pies or design your own.

The pizza is baked on a convection conveyor of rotating stone slabs, which ensures a crisp, thin crust without the long wait. 107 Corte Madera Town Center, 415.891.8788, marin.pizza b $$ S Í LD PIG IN A PICKLE American Fresh and locally sourced brisket, pork, ribs and chicken get star billing at this Town Center eatery.

Sauces are crafted to represent various American barbecue regions, including Memphis and South Carolina. House-made pickles, buns and sausages will keep you coming back. 341 Corte Madera Town Center, 415.891.3265, piginapicklebbq.com b $$ S Í BLD TAMALPIE Pizza The second location of the original Mill Valley pizzeria is now open, with indoor and outdoor seating plus takeout and delivery. Try the locally inspired pizzas and seasonal cocktails.

55 Tamal Vista Blvd, 415.704.7437, tamalpie pizza.com s $$ S Í LD º VEGGIE GRILL Vegan/ Vegetarian Veggie Grill is a fast-casual restaurant chain that celebrates the veggie by offering a variety of hot sandwiches and burgers, entree salads, bowls, home-style plates, shareable sides, organic teas and housemade desserts prepared with vegetables, fruits, grains and nuts. 147 Corte Madera Town Center, 415.945.8954, veggiegrill.com b $ S Í LD

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FAIRFAX BAREFOOT CAFE American Chef Tony Senehi prepares fresh dishes with local organic ingredients from sustainable sources. A popular brunch spot, this restaurant in the heart of Fairfax serves everything from eggs Benedict to panna cotta dessert. 1900 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, 415.460.2160, barefootcafe.com b $$ S BLD FRADELIZIO’S Italian Fradelizio’s blends Northern Italian with California-inspired healthy fare, featuring natural beef and freerange chicken dishes.

35 Broadway Blvd, 415.459.1618, fradelizios.com b $$$ S LD BR THE HUMMINGBIRD American This New Orleans–style restaurant serves up creole staples like fried

chicken and waffles, shrimp and grits, po’boys, gumbo and beignets. Opt for the spicy syrup or homemade hot sauce to get that Cajun kick. Cash only. 57 Broadway Blvd, 415.457.9866 b $$ S BL BR IRON SPRINGS PUB & BREWERY American Pair your pick from the extensive beer list with an ale-braised barbecue pork sandwich, shrimp tacos or the house-ground-chicken bacon cheeseburger.

765 Center Blvd, 415.485.1005, ironspringspub.com b $$ S Í C LD º MAS MASA Mexican Chef and owner Patrick Sheehy focuses on the ancient technique of corn nixtamalization, using organic, non-GMO blue corn to make its handmade tortillas. The beer and wine lists highlight local California microbreweries and

wineries. 31 Bolinas Road, 415.529.5444, eatmasmasa.com s $$ S Í LD SORELLA CAFFE Italian Run by sisters Sonia and Soyara, Sorella, which means “sister” in Italian, serves fresh Italian with a northern influence. Customer favorites include the cioppino, butternut squash ravioli and Pollo alla Sorella. Another highlight is the giant wheel of Grana Padano cheese. Stop by for live music on weekends and every second and fourth Thursday of the month.

107 Bolinas Road, 415.258.4520, sorellacaffe.com b $$$ S D SPLIT ROCK TAP & WHEEL American The former Fairfax Cyclery space, which had been operating as just a bike shop, has been reconfigured and now also serves food and an assortment of beers.

Menu items include

pizzas, sandwiches, and snacks like citrus marinated olives or house-made pickles.

Beers on tap are almost all exclusively local favorites. 2020 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, 415.721.7644, splitrock tapandwheel.com b $$ LD VILLAGE SAKE Japanese Lucky for Fairfax, beloved former Sushi Ran chef Scott Whitman has opened an izakaya, a Japanesestyle community pub, on Bolinas Road. In the compact space, you’ll find sushi and skewers, salads and small plates, plus great sake and craft beers. The daily wait list opens online at 5 p.m. 19 Bolinas Road, 415.521.5790, villagesake.com b $$$ Í D

GREENBRAE PATXI’S PIZZA Pizza This welcoming neighborhood restaurant is

a great place to share a meal with family and friends. Try the popular burrata bruschetta appetizer and/ or focus on what Patxi’s does best — Chicagostyle deep-dish pizza.

Gluten-free and vegan options available.

340 Bon Air Center, 628.243.0721, patxispizza.com s $$ S Í LD VICTORIA BAKERY & CAFE Italian The famed Italian pastry place now offers elderflower cake, the same kind served at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding, as well as savory lunch options like paninis, open-face spinach croissants and quiches.

292 Bon Air Shopping Center, 415.461.3099, victoriabakery marin.com $$ Í BL

LARKSPUR BACKSTAGE Californian Nestled in

DJ’S CHINESE CUISINE Chinese A great place to satisfy a craving for wonton soup before a show at the Lark Theater; the outdoor patio is a scene-stealer in itself. Lunch and takeout are popular here, too. 435 Magnolia Ave, 415.924.0717, djchinesecuisine.com b $$ S Í LD BELCAMPO MEAT CO. American The goods at this meatery are delivered from the certified-organic Belcampo Farms near Mount Shasta, dedicated to practicing a holistic approach to pasture management. Try the lamb burger banh mi or the daily meat board.

Marin Country Mart, 2405 Larkspur Landing Circle, 415.448.5810, belcampomeatco.com b $$ Í LD BR FARM HOUSE LOCAL California This downtown gem is sure to please with simple, healthy food in a warm, cozy atmosphere, both indoors and on the covered patio. The seasonal menu includes biscuits and gravy; a “BLAT” (with avocado) sandwich; and a daily fluffy omelet stuffed with meats, vegetables and artisanal cheeses. 25 Ward St, 415.891.8577, farmhouselocal.com b $$ S Í BL

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• AUGUST 1 FIVE Indian A seasonal menu inspired by the regional cooking of northern and central India breaks away from staples like curry.

The interior makes an inviting atmosphere for modern interpretations of Indian cuisine. 524 Van Ness Ave, 415.771.5900, august1five.com s $$ LD º

downtown Larkspur, Backstage is a comfortable, sociable setting for wine tasting and light appetizers. Flights of exclusive picks from small-scale California vineyards bring wine country closer to Marin. Happy hour Tuesday through Friday 4 to 6 p.m. 295 Magnolia Ave, 415.898.6778, back stagewines.com b $$ º

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FARMSHOP American Located in the Marin Country Mart since 2013, Farmshop Marin has quickly become a top spot here in the county. Indoor and outdoor seating available.

Marin Country Mart, 2233 Larkspur Landing Circle, 415.755.6700, farmshopca.com s $$$ S Í C LD BR LEFT BANK RESTAURANT French This authentically classic brasserie has been serving the Larkspur community for more than two decades.

Whether on the patio, at the European-style bar or in the casually elegant main dining room, it’s a fun and French experience. 7 Magnolia Ave, 415.927.3331, leftbank.com s $$$ S Í C LD BR MARIN BREWING CO. American Grab a cold beer made on site and pair it with fish ’n’ chips — in this case fresh cod dipped in Mt. Tam pale ale batter, served with steak fries and homemade tartar sauce — or anything from the all-American menu.

Marin Country Mart, 1809 Larkspur Landing Circle, 415.461.4677, marinbrewing.com b $$ S Í LD º PERRY’S American Perry’s on Magnolia has the quintesssentially American fare, bustling bar and warm personality the San Fancisco original has always been famous for. Along with three separate dining rooms in a historic building, there’ss outdoor dining on the patio and in the redwood grove. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch on weekends and holidays; valet parking in the evenings. 234 Magnolia

Ave, 415.927.1877, perryssf.com s $$$ Í LD BR º PICCO California Popular since its inception, Picco has a seasonally driven menu featuring items such as risotto (made every half hour) that keep attracting return visits. 320 Magnolia Ave, 415.924.0300, restaurantpicco.com s $$$ S Í C D PIZZERIA PICCO Pizza This upscale parlor offers Californiainfluenced Neapolitan pizzas, cooked in a wood-burning pizza oven. Fresh mozzarella is pulled in-house and the menu also features organic salads, a daily soup and Straus Dairy soft-serve ice cream.

316 Magnolia Ave, 415.945.8900, pizzeriapicco.com b $$ S Í LD º

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R’NOH THAI Thai This cozy place by the Corte Madera Creek has a reputation for clean and tasty dishes. From curries and Thai barbecue to noodle dishes and the classic tom ka (coconut lemongrass soup), R’Noh is bound to satisfy your Thai cravings. For an indulgent treat, try the fried sweet potato appetizer.

1000 Magnolia Ave, 415.925.0599, rnohthai.com b $$ S Í LD RUSTIC BAKERY California The homegrown bakery is known and loved the world over: Pope Francis famously requested Rustic Bakery flatbread and crostini when he visited the U.S. in 2015. Organic bread, croissants and pastries baked fresh each morning and

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Lunch choices like paninis and burgers are also available.

31 Sunnyside Ave, 415.326.5159, kitchen sunnyside.com b $$ S BL BR

GRILLY’S Mexican If you’re looking for a quick, fresh meal, Grilly’s is an easy and delicious stop. Pick up a couple burritos and the much-loved chicken taco salad and you have a lunch or dinner to please the whole family. 493 Miller Ave, 415.381.3278, grillys.com b $ S Í C BLD BR

MILL VALLEY BEERWORKS American Known for handcrafted beers, imported and local microbrews and house-made kombucha and root beer, this popular downtown Mill Valley neighborhood brewery is also a full-blown restaurant.

Choose from a large selection of small plates, including king oyster mushrooms, roasted potatoes and grilled squid, and a small list of large portions like confit rabbit.

173 Throckmorton Ave, 415.888.8218, mill valleybeerworks.com b $$$ Í D BR

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salads, sandwiches, and soups for lunch make Rustic a local staple. 1139 Magnolia Ave, 415.925.1556; Marin Country Mart, 2017 Larkspur Landing Circle, 415.461.9900, rusticbakery.com b $$ S Í BLD BR WISE SONS American The popular Jewish deli Wise Sons has opened its fourth outpost at the Marin Country Mart. The grab-and-go Larkspur bagel shop includes classic favorites like hot pastrami, matzo ball soup and lots of homemade schmear.

Marin Country Mart, 2227 Larkspur Landing Circle, 415.878.3354, wisesonsdeli.com $$ BL BR

MILL VALLEY BALBOA CAFE MILL VALLEY California The San Francisco institution has become a place to see and be seen in Mill Valley, especially

after 142 Throckmorton comedy nights. Menu includes Niman flatiron steak, braised beef brisket risotto and classic burgers. 38 Miller Ave, 415.381.7321, balboacafe.com s $$$ S Í LD BR º BOO KOO Asian This locally owned restaurant creates healthy meals that blend equal parts California fresh with Southeast Asian– inspired street food.

With a updated menu and expansion of the restaurant, they’ve ushered in a vibrant bar with wines and kombucha on tap as well as one of the best craft beer offerings in town. Vegan, GF and vegetarian-friendly menu. 25 Miller Ave, 415.888.8303, eatbookoo.com b $ Í LD BUCKEYE ROADHOUSE American Oysters Bingo, baby back ribs and ChiliLime “Brick” Chicken

are a few of the satisfying comfort-food menu items that have made this classic roadhouse a favorite since the ’30s.

The warm dark-wood bar with red leather booths is a popular spot for cocktails, conversations or a light meal.

15 Shoreline Highway, 415.331.2600, buckeyeroadhouse.com s $$ C LD BR BUNGALOW 44 American One of Mill Valley’s neighborhood hot spots, featuring contemporary California comfort food, signature cocktails, fine wine, and one-dollar oysters from 5 to 6 p.m. every day.

44 E Blithedale Ave, 415.381.2500, bungalow44.com s $$$ S Í C D CAFE DEL SOUL California Healthy options become addictive at this eatery that now has locations in both Tam Valley and San Rafael. Once you

stop in for the deliciously fresh quinoa wrap, you’ll want to return to try the chipotle rice bowl. A casual lunch spot and great for takeout, Cafe del Soul also serves smoothies and pressed juices. 247 Shoreline Highway, 415.388.1852, cafedelsoul.net $ S Í LD FLOUR CRAFT BAKERY American The brainchild of pastry chef Heather Hardcastle, this second location, in the bright and airy renovated Lumber Yard, offers not only gluten-free baked goods but sandwiches, salads and takeout. The first location is in San Anselmo. 129 Miller Ave, 415.384.8244, flourcraftbakery.com b $$ S Í BL FRANTOIO RISTORANTE Italian This Tuscan-themed restaurant is centered around its in-house olive press, which

INDIA PALACE Indian Known as “that great restaurant in the Travelodge,” India Palace is a favorite with the takeout crowd; eating on site is also a treat.

707 Redwood Highway, 415.388.3350, india palacemillvalley.com b $$ S LD JOE’S TACO LOUNGE Mexican Joe’s serves up fish tacos, burritos and enchiladas as well as more unusual items like Mexican pizza, tofu tostada and crab tostadas. A colorful interior and quick service make this a fun, easy stop.

If there are too many unsupervised kids for a peaceful meal, takeout is easy too. If you stay, grab a selection of hot sauce bottles from the wall and find your perfect match. 382 Miller Ave, 415.383. 8164, joestacolounge.com b $$ S Í BLD KITCHEN SUNNYSIDE American This brunch stop brings some gourmet to your morning with options like

PIATTI RISTORANTE AND BAR Italian The staff rides itself on capturing the warm and welcoming atmosphere of a traditional Italian trattoria. Get a table by the window or on the outdoor deck for a truly exceptional view right on the water. Peruse the impressive selection of Italian wines to accompany your rustic seasonal meal.

625 Redwood Highway, 415.380.2525, piatti.com s $$ S Í C LD BR PIAZZA D’ANGELO Italian Family owned for over 35 years, Piazza D’Angelo evokes a traditional trattoria dining experience. Enjoy a variety of house-made pastas, meat and seafood dishes, wood-fired pizzas, and gluten-free

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• GOTT’S ROADSIDE American The restaurant’s first Marin outpost features the signature Californiainspired dishes Gott’s is renowned for as well as a roll-up garage door that brings the outside in when weather permits and a 30-footlong pine table for community-style eating. 302 Bon Air Center, 415.785.4233, gotts.com b $$ S Í BLD

produces a special blend popular with locals., and the olivepress room can be reserved for occasions and private parties. The popular weekday happy hour starts at 4:30 p.m.

415.289.5777, frantoio.com s $$$ Í C LD º

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offerings with organic and locally sourced ingredients. 22 Miller Ave, 415.388.2000, piazzadangelo.com s $$ S Í C LD BR º PIZZA MOLINA Pizza One of Mill Valley’s favorite pizzerias is back with a distinctly family-friendly, casual vibe. Patrons can find their favorite California wines and beers on tap along with a robust pizza menu that incudes gluten-free and vegan options. 17 Madrona St, 415.383.4200, pizza molina.com b $$ S Í D PRABH INDIAN KITCHEN Indian Owned and operated by the Dhindsa family, this restaurant emphasizes healthy, organic,sustainable eating in choices like chicken pakora, vegetable biryani and basil garlic naan foods, with options for the vegan and gluten-free. At lunch, the thali menu lets you try several Indian dishes at once.

24 Sunnyside Ave, 415.384.8241, prabhindian kitchen.com b $$ S Í LD

diner with a small-town feel. Check out the mix of Mexican and traditional breakfast fare.

221 Shoreline Highway, 415.388.9085, shoreline coffeeshop.com b $$ S Í BL BR SOL FOOD Puerto Rican This Marin favorite has opened in Mill Valley, still serving up everyone’s favorite Puerto Rican cuisine.

The line can get long, but the food is well worth it. 401 Miller Ave, 415.380.1986, solfood restaurant.com $$ S BLD TAM TAM RAMEN Pan Asian Ramen, bao sliders, wonton nachos and pan-fried gyoza are made fresh to order, with sushi and salads from Whole Foods and Urban Remedy available in the grab-and-go cooler. If you’re dining in, an array of sake, beer and wine rounds out the menu. 745 E Blithedale Ave, 415.381.3900, genjiweb.com $$ LD

ROBATA GRILL AND SUSHI Japanese Robata translates as “by the fireside”; fittingly, food here can be cooked on an open fire and served in appetizer-size portions to pass around the table. Or simply order your own sushi or entree from the menu.

591 Redwood Highway, 415.381.8400, robatagrill.com b $$ S LD

TAMALPIE Italian Owner Karen Goldberg designed this restaurant with a large group seating area, indoor and outdoor fireplaces, and a small casual bar.

The food is Italian home cooking with the daily modern inspiration of locally sourced seasonal ingredients found in the salads, house-made pastas and crispy Neapolitan-style pizza, with a selection of beer and wine to match. 477 Miller Ave, 415.388.7437, tamalpie pizza.com s $$ S Í C LD º

SHORELINE COFFEE SHOP American Tucked away in a parking lot at Tam Junction, this coffee shop is a funky

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noodles, pad thai, fresh rolls and extensive bar menu. It’s also a great place for lunch. 615 Strawberry Village, 415.383.3444, theplela.com s $$ S Í LD URBAN REMEDY American This is a popular spot for organic and non-GMO coldpressed juices, snacks and ready-to-eat meals, plenty of gluten-free, grain-free, and lowglycemic-index choices, and even raw desserts.

Try the namesake salad or give the cashew milk with cinnamon and vanilla a shot to see what Urban Remedy is all about. 15 E Blithedale Ave, 415.383.5300, urbanremedy.com $$ Í BLD VASCO Italian Whether at a table, the bar or the back counter, you can expect an intimate dining experience in this one-room trattoria.

Try one of the pasta

dishes or thin-crust wood-fired pizzas. 106 Throckmorton Ave, 415.381.3343, vasco millvalley.com s $$ S D

NOVATO BESO BISTRO AND WINE BAR Californian This Hamiton Field bistro highlights locally sourced organic produce, fresh sustainable seafood, and pastureraised and free-range meat. Wine lovers can embrace their inner Dionysus — Beso offers more than 20 selections by the glass and more than 50 by the bottle.

502 S Palm Drive, besobistro.com b $$ Í LD BOCA PIZZERIA Italian Enjoy authentic pizza prepared with fresh mozzarella made in house and tomatoes imported from Italy, or go for a grilled rosemary chicken sandwich

or the braised beef short rib pappardelle. Weekly specials include half off all wines by the bottle on Wednesdays and half off raft beers on Thursdays. 454 Ignacio Blvd, 415.883.2302, bocapizzeria.com b $$ S Í C LD BOCA TAVERN American Bring a date here or celebrate a special event. Favorites at this classic restaurant include bigeye tuna poke, Dungeness crab cakes, mac ’n’ cheese croquettes and duck-fat fries. From the woodburning grill there’s fresh fish, shrimp and dry-aged ribeye.

On Tuesdays wine is half off. 415.883.0901, bocasteak.com s $$$ S Í C LD º CHIANTI CUCINA Italian This cozy eatery offers an array of Italian and American dishes, including a long list of pastas; try the housemade ravioli cooked up

by chef Edgar DeLon. 7416 Redwood Highway, 415.878.0314, chianti novato.com b $$$ S Í D º HILLTOP 1892 California In a historic country estate in Novato with sweeping views, enjoy classic favorites with a California flair.

There’s a private banquet room for special events. 850 Lamont Ave, 415.893.1892, hilltop1892.com s $$$ S Í C LD BR º HOPMONK TAVERN American The beer garden–style outdoor patio and live music keep fans coming back to this Novato brewhouse. Weekly events include country line dancing and open mic nights with an ample selection of beers on tap. 224 Vintage Way, 415.892.6200, hopmonk.com s $$ S Í C LD

MARVIN’S RESTAURANT American This place, known for “Best Breakfast in Novato,” also serves up generous portions for lunch. The corned beef hash, Benedicts and superb service draw a consistent crowd yearround. 1112 Grant Ave, 415.892.4482 $ S Í BL RICKEY’S RESTAURANT & BAR American Besides a fullservice restaurant and bar (with banquet and meeting rooms), this comfort food bastion offers poolside dining and a garden patio overlooking green lawns.

250 Entrada Drive, 415.883.9477, rickeys restaurant.com s $$ S Í C D º RUSTIC BAKERY California Organic pastries, breads, salads and sandwiches are on the menu here, including daily seasonal specials.

Try the Marin Melt — Cowgirl Creamery’s Mt. Tam and Point Reyes Toma cheeses grilled on honey whole wheat, served with dressed baby greens and crisp apple slices. 1407 Grant Ave, 415.878.4952, rusticbakery.com b $$ S Í BLD BR

THE SPEAKEASY American There’s nothing like the comfort of a solid burger and beer when you’re kicking back and watching the game, and the Speakeasy provides.

In addition to the 10 beers on tap, you can go beyond traditional pub grub with treats like a deconstructed salmon salad. 504 Alameda del Prado, 415.883.7793, the speakeasynovato.com s $$ LD BR º TOAST American With outdoor dining and spacious inside seating, Toast Novato is ideal for large parties and families craving ample plates of comfort food. 5800 Nave Drive, 415.382.1144, toast novato.com b $$ S BLD Wildfox Restaurant American Serving Novato for two decades, with dishes like prime rib, French onion soup and pecan-crusted goat cheese flatbread.

Bottomless mimosas for Sunday brunch and half-off elect wine bottles on Monday are other treats. On the patio, enjoy live music by the fire Thursday and Friday nights.

225 Alameda Del Prado, 415.833.9125, wildfoxrestaurant.com s $$ S Í LD BR º

SAN ANSELMO BAAN THAI CUISINE Thai Known for its mango sticky rice, this restaurant is committed to serving fresh, local and seasonal food.

Warm up with the tom kha soup or stave off he heat with a lychee iced tea. 726 San Anselmo Ave, 415.457.9470, baanthaimarin.com b $$ LD

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• FISHER’S CHEESE + WINE American Marin Country Mart gets a cheese-inspired restaurant and retail shop by Kiri Fisher. Expect a unique selection of fromage and wine as well as hot dishes like meatballs with creamed kale.

Marin Country Mart, 2201 Larkspur Landing Circle, 415.779.2201 fisherscheese.com b $$ Í LD BR

JENNIE LOW’S Chinese Choose from Cantonese, Mandarin, Szechuan and Hunan cuisines, and if you don’t see your favorite, let the restaurant know; whenever possible, they’re happy to try and prepare dishes off menu. The pot stickers are the best around.

120 Vintage Way, 415.892.8838, jennielow.com b $ S LD

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CREEKSIDE PIZZA & TAP ROOM American Under the direction of chef Janet Abrahamson, Creekside serves American-style artisan pizza (vegan and gluten-free options available) and organic salads, along with an extensive selection of craft beer on tap and Northern California wines. There’s a daily happy hour, a big-screen TV and a banquet room available by reservation. 638 San Anselmo Ave, 415.785.4450, creeksidesa.com b $$ S C D º CUCINA SA Italian Owners Donna Seymour and Kevin Hansmeyer renovated this cozy space, formerly Cucina Restaurant and Wine Bar, and reopened it as Cucina Sa in December 2015. Homemade pastas, wood-fired pizzas and Italian wines are on the menu, a large part of it vegetarian and gluten-free-friendly.

510 San Anselmo Ave, 415.454.2942, cucina-sa.com b $$ Í D

FARM BURGER American The awardwinning burgers here are made from 100 percent grass-fed beef that is dry-aged, ground fresh and cooked to order. Other dishes include seasonal salads, hand-cut French fries and a diverse selection of daily specials. 882 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, 415.785.4802, farmburger.net b $$ S Í LD FLOUR CRAFT BAKERY American Along with artisan gluten-free pastries, breads and special-occasion cakes, this place serves lunch, with dairy-free and vegan choices available.

Customer favorites include oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, decadent cinnamon rolls, flourless hazelnut brownies and the bakery’s signature granola 702 San Anselmo Ave, 415.453.3100, flour craftbakery.com $ S Í BL INSALATA’S Mediterranean Awardwinning chef Heidi Krahling’s restaurant

features delicious, soulful Mediterranean fare, as well as food-to-go at a counter inside. 120 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, 415.457.7700, insalatas.com s $$$ S C LD BR L’APPART RESTO French Savor a range of French and local favorites or a $36 three-course prix fixe menu in an energetic yet sophisticated setting. There’s live music on Thursdays; dinner Monday to Saturday; lunch and brunch Friday to Sunday.

636 San Anselmo Ave, 415.256.9884, lappartresto.com b $$ S Í LD BR MADCAP Californian Chef Ron Siegel has opened his first solo venture in a contemporary art-filled space with an urban edge. The vegetable-centric menu incorporates seafood and local ingredients, fusing California and Japanese cuisines in colorful dishes that are bold, balanced and bright. 198 Sir Francis Drake Blvd,

415.453.9898, madcapmarin.com b $$$ D MARINITAS Mexican This sister restaurant of Insalata’s continues to flourish as a bastion of creative Mexican and Central and South American cuisine. Not your typical southof-the-border spot, Marinitas serves up top-notch margaritas and Latin lusciousness.

218 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, 415.454.8900, marinitas.net s $$ S LD BR PIZZALINA Italian Along with handmade pizzas baked in a wood oven, you’ll find classic shrimp risotto and a caprese salad with mozzarella di bufala. Menus change daily according to seasonal markets but always include salads, antipastos, house-made pastas and dining available. 914 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, 415.256.9780, pizzalina.com b $$ S Í LD º SUSHI 69 Japanese Opened in 2001 in San

SAN RAFAEL AMICI’S EAST COAST PIZZERIA California A wide array of thin-crust pizzas, freshly made pastas and salads are the ticket here, along with flame-roasted lemon chicken wings, for dine-in, takeout and delivery. Gluten-free pizza crust is available. 1242 Fourth St, 415.455.9777, amicis.com b $$ S Í LD º ARIZMENDI BAKERY California A workerowned bakery cafe, Arzimendi prides itself on high-quality local ingredients. Visit any time of day for coffee and pastries, breakfast and lunch sandwiches, and thin-crust artisan sourdough pizza. 1002 Fourth St, 415.456.4093, arizmendisan rafael.com $ S Í BLD BR FENIX California An intimate live-music venue in the heart of downtown San Rafael, Fenix features inspired California cuisine with a Southern French twist. Executive chef Lorenzo Villacampa brings a world of expertise, having worked at the Dubai InterContinental Hotel and the Gloria Plaza

Hotel in Beijing, among other fine dining locations. 919 Fourth St, 415.813.5600, fenixlive.com s $$ S C D BR º FLATIRON American The remodeled Flatiron is where refined American bar food lives happily in its ideal environment — with a bevy of craft beers. Owned by the Strickers, a husband-and-wife duo, this polished sports bar serves noshes like chili lime cauliflower, classic sandwiches, and truffle and waffle fries in a space that also features classic arcade games.

724 B St, 415.453.4318, flatironsanrafael.com s $$ LD º LA TOSCANA RISTORANTE & BAR Italian Family owned and operated since 1985, La Toscana has completed an extensive interior and exterior renovation, transforming an already popular San Rafael gathering spot into a place for any occasion. The menu features classics like gnocchi and carbonara and an ample selection of wine. 3751 Redwood Highway, 415.492.9100, ristorante latoscana.com s $$$ S Í C LD º LE COMPTOIR French The owners of San Francisco’s Gamine have opened their second restaurant, this time in the heart of San Rafael. The bistro serves up traditional French favorites like beef cheeks bourguignon and onion soup gratinée in a chic and cozy setting. If you’re planning to go, call ahead. 1301 Fourth St, 415.454.5454, lecomptoirsr.com b $$ Í C D

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• LAVIER CUSINE Mexican Free-range meat and fresh seafood are the focus at this allorganic eatery run by Gabriela and her husband Guillermo, who hails from Yucatán.

Try the popular puffy fish tacos with slaw and black beans. 1025 C St, 415.295.7990, lavierlatinfusion.com b $$ S LD BR º

Anselmo, Sushi 69 has been a favorite for locals looking to get their fill of no-frills sushi. The owner hails from Japan and has created an extensive menu featuring traditional tempura and the popular Hiro’s roll (spicy tuna with avocado, salmon and ponzu sauce wrapped in sushi rice). 69 Center Blvd, 415.459.6969, shallwego69.com b $$$ Í D

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LOS MOLES Mexican Nestled centrally on Lincoln Avenue, Los Moles offers traditional pueblo Mexican cuisine, with — you guessed it — a variety of different moles to enhance your dish. Offering brunch, lunch, dinner and party options, Los Moles’ menu includes enmoladas, tacos, pollo al horno, carne asada, flan and much more. Don’t miss Taco Tuesday night for all-you-caneat tacos. 912 Lincoln Ave, 415.453.5850, losmoles.com s $$ LD BR º MCINNIS PARK GOLF CLUB RESTAURANT American Grab a meal prepared by chef Chris Harman before or after hitting the driving range (or even without picking up a club). Outdoor seating is popular, as is the full bar, with a selection of premium Scotches, small-batch bourbons and more than 50 wines from California vineyards. McInnis Park, 415.491.5959, mcinnis parkgolfcenter.com s $$$ Í C LD MULBERRY STREET PIZZERIA Italian Chef Ted Rowe won first place in the Food Network Television Pizza Challenge with his For the Love of Mushroom pizza —sautéed mushrooms in a creamy garlic sauce and a red wine reduction atop a fresh crust.

Be sure to try other unique pies, like the spicy Three Beer pizza.

101 Smith Ranch Road, 415.472.7272, mulberry streetpizzasan rafael.com b $$ S RANGE CAFE American The cuisine is local, seasonal, made with

naturally raised ingredients and served in a casual, comfortable and refined setting, with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the grand Peacock Gap lawns. An inviting cafe at lunch with ice-cold lemonade and refreshing chardonnays makes a great dinner spot once the sun sets.

333 Biscayne Drive, 415.454.6450, rangecafe.net s $$ S Í C BLD º ROCKET ROLL Japanese There are plenty of fusion restaurants around, but not many that blend Mexican and Japanese.

Rocketroll offers everything from a spicy tuna rice bowl to yellowfin or salmon sashimi “sushi burritos.” Smoothies like the avocado fresher round out the menu. 1109 Fourth St, 415.866.0537 $ LD

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SAN RAFAEL JOE’S Italian A Marin institution famous for sophisticated yet casual Italian fare since 1947.

The dining room, with a friendly atmosphere and seating for 240, is great for large parties, and the roast sirloin of beef and Fettuccine Joe’s are sure to please. 931 Fourth St, 415.456.2425, sanrafaeljoe.com s $$ S C LD º SHIRO KUMA Japanese Shiro Kuma, which means polar bear, takes its inspiration from chef Yasuo Shigeyoshi’s childhood in a small rural town in the south of Japan and offers traditional-style sushi and wagyu A5 and Kobe beef to cook over ishiyaki grilling stones.

Popular weekly specials include hamachi

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jalapeño and the omakase (chef’s choice) dinner. 1518 Fourth St, 415.295.7464, sushishiro kuma.com b $$ S LD SOL FOOD Puerto Rican Fast becoming a Marin legend, Sol Food whips up traditional Puerto Rican dishes just like the ones owners Sol Hernandez grew up eating. Favorites include the bistec sandwich, mofongo and other fried plantain dishes, but anything tastes good with a dash of the signature hot sauce, also for sale by the bottle (as is the lemon-garlic salad dressing). 901 Lincoln Ave, 415.451.4765, sol foodrestaurant.com $$ S BLD STATE ROOM American Formerly the Broken Drum, State Room Brewery has ditched the diner vibe in favor of a modern gastropub.

All draft beers are made on site and are available in sizes from half-pints to take-home

growlers; beer flights are also available. The menu, created by Alex Stricker and Andrew Toy, changes seasonally and includes a burrata cheese BLT and sashimi-grade tuna poke. 1132 Fourth St, 415.295.7929, state roombrewery.com s $$ Í LD º TERRAPIN CROSSROADS American This waterfront restaurant and music venue presents fresh food and local talent. The menu offers salads, savory dishes and wood-fired pizzas plus a wide selection of beer, wine and cocktails. Come for the food, stay for the music.

100 Yacht Club Drive, 415.524.2773, terrapin crossroads.net s $$ Í C D BR º VN NOODLE & GRILL Vietnamese Located in Montecito Plaza, the restaurant has a robust menu of standard Vietnamese fare, including a wide

selection of rice plates, pho and of course, iced coff e. 421 Third St, 415.306.4299 $$ S C LD YET WAH Chinese Named for the founder’s wife (“Yet” refers to the moon, “Wah” to brightness), this beloved mainstay has a traditional Chinese menu and daily dim sum.

Expect live music in the Kung Fu Lounge. 1238 Fourth St, 415.460.9883, yetwahsanrafael.com s $$ S Í LD

SAUSALITO ANGELINO RESTAURANT Italian Authentic Italian eatery with handmade pastas and seasonal antipasti, showcasing cuisine of the Campania region for more than 20 years. 621 Bridgeway, 415.331.5225, angelino restaurant.com s $$$ S BLD

ARAWAN THAI Thai This Sausalito favorite serves up popular dishes like prawn arawan with yellow curry as well as $10 lunch specials. 47 Caledonia St, 415.729.9395 b $$ LD BAR BOCCE American Food just tastes better on a bayside patio with fire pits and a bocce ball court. Order one of the sourdough bread pizzas and a glass of wine and you’ll see why this casual eatery, overseen by Robert Price of Buckeye and Bungalow 44, has become a local favorite. 1250 Bridgeway, 415.331.0555, barbocce.com s $$ S Í LD CIBO California Located in a historic brick building on Sausalito’s main drag, this is a great place to a sip a quick cup of coffee outdoors. The menu offers tarts, croissants, cookies, paninis and soups. Every dish is

COPITA Mexican Co-owner Joanne Weir, along with chef Daniel Tellez, presents fresh Mexican fare in the heart of downtown Sausalito. The ever-changing menu is 100 percent glutenfree, and the in-house tequila bar serves over 100 varieties and fantastic cocktails.

Dine at the bar or on the outdoor patio for great people-watching. 739 Bridgeway, 415.331.7400, copita restaurant.com s $$ S Í LD BR DAVEY JONES DELI American Stationed in the New Bait Shop Market, Davey Jones Deli offers houseroasted sandwich meats, healthy condiments and local, organic vegetables; the deli serves sandwiches, veggie-wiches, wraps and salads with vegetarian, vegan and meat-lover options. Because the sandwiches are so generous, this easy stop is great during a day of boating, biking, hiking, and general adventuring around Marin. Gate 6 Road, 415.331.2282, daveyjonesdeli.com b $$ S Í L F3/FAST FOOD FRANCAIS French Owned and operated by the owners of Le Garage, F3 serves brunch, lunch and dinner featuring “Frenchified” American comfort food. A rotating menu includes items like the Quack burger (duck confit, black pepper chèvre, lettuce and red onion

marmalade). Enjoy with a side of Brussels sprout chips or pommes dauphines (tater tots). 39 Caledonia St, 415.887.9047, eatf3.com s $$ S Í LD BR FISH Seafood The ultimate place for freshly caught fare. Order the fish tacos, ceviche and a bottle of wine and take in the bay views on the open-air deck. Casual; bring cash (lots of it!).

350 Harbor Drive, 415.331.3474, 331fish.com b $$$ S Í LD JOINERY American This waterfront restaurant features craft beer, burgers, rotisserie chicken and other hearty, seasonal fare in a communal setting, with outdoor seating and great views. 300 Turney St, 415.766.8999, joineryca.com b $$ Í LD KITTI’S PLACE Thai This home-style family restaurant has been in Sausalito 20 years and features favorites like lettuce cups, soft spring rolls and weekly specials. 3001 Bridgeway, 415.331.0390, kittisplace.com b $$ S Í LD LE GARAGE French Escape the tourist crush for an indulgent meal right on the water.

The atmosphere is animated with light French music (à la Amélie), and the much-adored croque-monsieur is authentic. Indoor or outdoor seating.

85 Liberty Ship Way, 415.332.5625, legaragebistro sausalito.com b $$$ S Í BLD BR

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41 Throckmorton Ave, 415.384.8871, playamv.com s $$ Í D

made from scratch with local and seasonal products. 1201 Bridgeway, 415.331.2426, cibosausalito.com $$ S Í BL

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Out & About / DINE on the bay in Tiburon, Servino also prides itself on its extensive sustainable seafood program. Savor la dolce vita on the waterfront patio. 9 Main St, 415.435.2676, servino.com s $$$ S Í C LD BR º

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• SERVINO RISTORANTE Italian Chef and owner Angelo Servino highlights organic ingredients in an array of rustic Italian dishes, including house-made pastas, wood oven pizzas, and seasonal specialties. Located on the bay in Tiburon, Servino also prides itself on its extensive sustainable seafood program.

Savor la dolce vita on the waterfront patio. 9 Main St, 415.435.2676, servino.com s $$$ S Í C LD BR º

SCOMA’S OF SAUSALITO Italian Sausalito’s oldest seafood house. Scoma’s boat, berthed at Pier 47, fishes seasonally and is approved for salmon and Dungeness crab, resulting in fresh catches year-round.

The menu regularly features whole crabs, chowders and grilled fi h. 588 Bridgeway, 415.332.9551, scomas sausalito.com s $$ C LD SEAHORSE Italian The spacious dining area, accompanied by a dance floor and stage, make Seahorse ideal for celebrations large and small. Enjoy a modern twist on classic Tuscan

coastal cooking while grooving to the nightly live music and entertainment in a historic building. 305 Harbor Drive, 415.331.2899, sausalitoseahorse.com b $$$ Í C LD BR º

baked pastries and eggs for breakfast and a selection of soups, salads and paninis for lunch. 1 Main St, 415.435.8515, caffeacri.com b $$ Í BLD

dining. Enjoy a wide array of fresh salads, sandwiches and pastries on the boardwalk.

1550 Tiburon Blvd, 415.797.6123, rustic bakery.com b $$ S Í BLD BR

SUSHI RAN Japanese Sample innovative small plates just big enough to share before enjoying some of the best sushi the Bay Area has to offer; the prices don’t deter the herd of enthusiasts who line up nightly to partake.

Just stopping by? The wine, cocktail and sake lists keep even the pickiest barfly satisfied. Reservations are required in the main room. 107 Caledonia St, 415.332.3620, sushiran.com s $$ Í LD

SALT & PEPPER American With its hardwood floors and blue-checkered tablecloths, the sun-filled one-room restaurant is an area favorite.

Scallops, rib-eye steak, a beef burger and traditional crab cakes with jalapeño dipping sauce are some of the popular choices. 38 Main St, 415.435.3594 b $$ S Í LD

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LUNA BLU Italian Executive chef Renzo Azzarello serves Sicilian seafood and homemade pastas with a Californian touch.

The seasonal menu incorporates fresh and organic produce, local naturally grown meat and poultry from small farms. The restaurant complies with Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch, so all the seafood is sustainable. In 2014 diners voted Luna Blu one of the Top 100 Neighborhood Gem restaurants in America. 35 Main St, 415.789.5844, lunablurestaurant.com s $$ S Í LD

CAFFE ACRI Italian The well-lit corner cafe in Tiburon is a go-to for bikers, city commuters and locals. Diners will find Italian roast espresso drinks, freshly

RUSTIC BAKERY California This location of the beloved bakery offers the same menu as the other locations in Novato and Larkspur, as well as outdoor

SAM’S ANCHOR CAFE American The menu at this seaside institution features local organic produce and sustainably sourced meats and fish. Chef Robert Taylor, formerly of Farallon, has curated an oyster list for the raw bar menu and a fresh cocktail list to boot. 27 Main St, 415.435.4527, samscafe.com s $$$ S Í C LD BR º SERVINO RISTORANTE Italian Chef and owner Angelo Servino highlights organic ingredients in an array of rustic Italian dishes, including house-made pastas, wood oven pizzas, and seasonal specialties. Located

NICK’S COVE American This coastal escape is now famous for barbecued local oysters, Dungeness crab mac ’n’ cheese and cocktails incorporating homegrown ingredients. Large windows in the 120seat restaurant provide picturesque views of Tomales Bay and Hog Island (Marshall).

23240 Highway 1, 415.663.1033, nickscove.com s $$$ S Í C LD BR OSTERIA STELLINA California Whether it’s to cap off a ay of hiking or celebrate a romantic anniversary, Osteria Stellina suits any occasion. The menu is Italian-inspired and features local organic ingredients. If you’re up for something unusual, try the goat shoulder, a hit with both tourists and locals (Point Reyes). 11285 Highway 1, 415.663.9988, osteriastellina.com b $$ S LD

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POGGIO Italian Executive chef Benjamin Balesteri creates Northern Italian fare using fresh and local ingredients.

Private dining rooms above the restaurant can accommodate larger parties (10 to 150 guests). 777 Bridgeway, 415.332.7771, poggio tratoria.com s $$$ S Í C BLD

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Q&A with Stephanie Haffner

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What led you to join Legal Aid of Marin? Legal Aid of Marin’s board has given me the opportunity to do what I went to law school to do: engage in communitygrounded legal services. In my prior position as litigation director at the Western Center on Law and Poverty I was invited to work with Legal Aid of Marin on a variety of housing issues and frankly fell in love with the work there is to do and the communities organized to do it.

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Why is Legal Aid successful? Legal Aid of Marin doesn’t receive federal legal services funding, so we can assist all of Marin’s low-income residents without regard to immigration status. That is critical. Without federal funding restrictions, we can choose the advocacy tool that’s appropriate to the legal problem. All of that helps position Legal Aid of Marin to fight for an inclusive Marin for people from all walks of life — families, seniors, immigrants and people of all racial and economic backgrounds.

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What are the hardest challenges Marin’s underserved communities face? Although new to the

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position and still learning, I’d say accessible housing for all and enforcement of legal and human rights for immigrants stand out.

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How do you plan to move Legal Aid of Marin’s mission forward? Funds are our lifeblood. The local bar association historically has been very supportive, and we will be building on its support as well as bringing in new support from area businesses and from lawyers who live in Marin but work elsewhere. We’ll be building on our strengths: our skilled bilingual staff ith over 90 years of legal experience combined, the goodwill of all our community partners, and our tenacious, committed board members.

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Favorite Marin spot to gain renewal and hope?

Any locally owned coffee shop or bookstore, plus anywhere in the company of the people of goodwill who work daily to make Marin a just and equitable place.

Abbotts Lagoon at Point Reyes National Seashore and the Steep Ravine Trail from Stinson Beach are favorites to clear my head.

Center for Biological Diversity The fight is on to protect wildlife, public lands, climate and communities. Support this organization’s work to help secure a future for all species on the brink of extinction. biologicaldiversity.org

Save the Redwoods League Your donation protects and restores land containing giant ancient sequoias and helps connect people to the trees’ beauty. savetheredwoods.org

➤ Volunteer with San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory to make a difference in the bird conservation effort.

Help with conducting research, sharing data, restoring habitats, raising money or educating the community. sfbbo.org ➤ Get your business involved in the Golden Gate National Parks corporate volunteering program; your team can have a fun and active day outdoors with a purpose. parksconservancy.org ➤ Join Coalition for a Livable Marin and help improve Marin’s livability and support communities that make this area inclusive and vibrant. livablemarin.org ➤ Marin History Museum needs ongoing help with educational outreach, graphic design, IT support, research and writing. Museum training provided. marinhistory.org

Soles4Souls A donation helps provide shoes to those who need them the most and contributes to solutions that combat poverty worldwide.

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Save the Bay Donate and help protect and restore the bay for future generations as advocates and volunteers work with scientists and policymakers to bring positive change. savesfbay.org PHOTO CREDIT

Legal Aid of Marin turns 60 this year and welcomes a new executive director, East Bay resident Stephanie Haffner. BY KIER HOLMES

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• SPACES ISSUE PARTY More than 120 people attended the celebration of the summer/fall edition of SPACES magazine held at Tazi Designs in Sausalito.

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• TRANSCENDENCE THEATRE A private home in Sonoma was the setting for this “Broadway in the backyard” theater benefit featuring musical entertainment and a four-course dinner.

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• MARIN THEATRE COMPANY More than 200 patrons, supporters and artists from the MTC gathered at the Mill Valley Community Center to celebrate the theater’s 51st season and help raise more than $200,000.

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• GREAT CHEFS AND WINERIES Peacock Gap Golf Club was the setting for the April 21 Lifehouse fundraising gala, which brought in over $500,000 for the nonprofit.

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• MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION Nearly $1.3 million was raised at this 1920s-themed gala benefiting the hospital’s Structural Heart Program.

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• ANNUAL ALTERED BOOK EXHIBIT AND FUNDRAISER The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art hosted its ninth annual exhibit, silent auction and party in Novato this summer.

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• MARINSCAPES The 30th anniversary Buckelew Programs fundraiser took place June 21–24 at the Escalle Winery in Larkspur.

Patricia Gatti, Kanna Colliat, Shiva Pakdel and Kay Carlson

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• MARIN OPEN STUDIOS Over 1,000 people came through the Town Center gallery and attended the April 28 gala in celebration of local art.

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SWEAT EQUITY Buying and renovating a bungalow amid family drama with a new baby on the way.

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In no time at all, the Champagne’s son will be walking, then running across this flat, sunny, fully-fenced backyard.

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married in June of 2016 and soon thereafter got thrown a curveball. Their landlord called to say he was terminating their lease.

Rather than scramble to find a new rental, they decided to move in with Gary’s parents and start looking for a home of their own.

First, they boxed up all their belongings and left on a delayed autumn honeymoon.

They returned and started hunting in earnest; unfortunately, the inventory of available housing was low that fall and even worse as winter came around.

But in the spring of 2017, a 1951 bungalow in East Corte Madera went up for sale. “It was in near-original condition,” Kelly says. “It had linoleum and floral wallpaper everywhere.”

The only update — a garage conversion — was from around the Kennedy era. Still, something about the place clicked: “It was the neighborhood as much as the house,” she says. “We loved seeing all the families playing on their

front lawns.” The couple put together an offer and beat the competition.

They stayed with Gary’s family and started drawing up plans for an extensive kitchen remodel. Their budget wouldn’t cover a professional designer, so Kelly channeled HGTV’s Joanna Gaines — “she was definitely my inspiration” — and found that design on a dime is possible even without the backing of a network production crew. White Shaker cabinets from Home Depot, brass fixtures found on Amazon, and kitchen island light pendants from Cost Plus were some of her thrifty finds.

Then, right around the time the city approved permits, Gary and Kelly learned they were expecting. And, well, the nesting instincts went into overdrive. “We were still on a very tight budget, so our parents agreed to help out with the remodel,” Kelly adds. Her dad did some demo work in the main bathroom and in the converted garage, which needed updating as it had zero in the way of insulation, and her mom got on board to help design.

There was, however, a challenge: Following a bitter divorce, her parents weren’t exactly speaking. “I had to juggle to keep them from showing up at the same time,” Kelly says.

Fortunately, the shared excitement over the impending arrival of a first grandchild became a salve. Kelly’s parents found a way to put differences aside, eventually even collaborating.

The sweat equity from her parents, with manual assists from Gary’s side of the family, kept costs in check, as did Kelly’s dedication to bargain-hunting. The Fireclay tile in the bathroom is from Craigslist, and the chic bathroom vanity? That’s Ikea.

The take-home from most renovation stories is that the process is stressful but the results make it all worthwhile. This one has an even happier ending. By the time everything was complete, Kelly’s parents had reconciled.

“I guess you could say our house brought them back together,” she says. And three months after move-in, this mended extended family welcomed baby Gus. m

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THE DETAILS WHERE THEY PURCHASED The Marina Village neighborhood of Corte Madera WHAT THEY BOUGHT A threebedroom, two-bathroom bungalow LISTING AGENT Dennis Naranche of Alain Pinel Realtors SELLING AGENT Barry Crotty of Coldwell Banker THE STATS Price per square foot for homes in the neighborhood: $845

Opposite: An outdoor living room is great for entertaining.

Clockwise from top left: A budgetfriendly kitchen remodel can still pack a punch; curb appeal; baby’s room; a cozy living room; a light, bright bathroom; Gary, Gus and Kelly.

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Marin Home / GARDEN Follow the Light Find your sunniest spot (at least four to six hours of direct sun) and start your edible garden there.

Elevate If your soil is unhealthy, rocky or packed with clay or your only available space is concrete, consider building or buying raised beds so you can control the soil mix. Good bed materials are cedar, redwood, small boulders or brick.

Think Small If you are new to this, start with one raised bed or a few containers to test your green-thumb skills.

Soil Alert Always use compost-rich organic soil for plant health and vigor. For convenience, consider bagged organic soil formulated for growing veggies.

Seed Money While it’s tempting to buy nursery seedlings in six-packs, consider using seeds — some seeds are easier (and cheaper) to grow.

Also, seeds allow variety and let you test out less conventional or heirloom options.

Easy Peasy Try growing these top edibles: peas, carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, zucchini, radishes, strawberries, parsley, oregano and thyme.

Know Your H20 For a few pots, hand-watering might be OK, but for larger vegetable plots install drip irrigation on a timer to guarantee consistent hydration.

Growing Groceries Edible gardening is easier than you think.

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Even with Marin’s bountiful farmers’ markets, healthy groceries and delivered local produce, it’s great to grow some food at home. The good news?

Almost anyone can grow good eats, whether you have a small balcony or rolling acres. And by planting produce you save money, conserve energy resources, reconnect with the earth and help teach the younger generation where food actually comes from. Here are tips to consider before sowing the first seed or digging the first hole.

IN THE FIELD “No matter what you grow, begin your garden with plants you love and try a handful to start,” recommends Emily Murphy, a Mill Valley–based organic gardener and photographer, creator of the blog Pass The Pistil and author of Grow What You Love. Murphy’s current obsession is Tokyo Market turnips because they are uncommon, quick to germinate, and have a short growing season so you can harvest and enjoy them in no time. Also, “midsummer is the perfect time to sow carrots,” she says, “because they prefer warm soil for optimal germination and then they sweeten up as the months move into fall. Plan to harvest carrots after the first fall frost for that perfect carrot taste.”

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Free and Clear Commit to growing organically — without chemicals, pesticides or herbicides. It’s healthier for you and for the environment.

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Mill Valley Masterpiece 351 LOVELL AVENUE | OFFERED AT $7,000,000 5 Bed | 6.5 Bath | 5,340 Sq Ft | 351Lovell.com

This contemporary Mill Valley masterpiece has it all. New construction from the ground up. It presents large scale, coupled with a beautifully conceived floor plan. Great entertaining areas on multiple levels offering Mt. Tam views, decks, and lovely outside space. Besides five en suite bedrooms it has other fabulous rooms for den, office, or home gym use.

The interior is wonderfully appointed with hardwood floors, top quality cabinetry, appliances, and stunning bathroom finishes throughout. The master suite offers solitude and convenience with a spacious master bath and huge walk-in closet. Floor to ceiling glass doors, sky lights and beautiful windows bring the beauty and light of the natural surroundings in on every level. Truly one of a kind!

Paul Hurley | 415.860.2240 | PaulRHurley@gmail.com | Cal BRE# 00903431

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Wherever you find beautiful properties, premium service, and extraordinary living you will find Engel & Völkers, the world leader in luxury real estate.

We invite you to visit our Sausalito shop today to experience a different approach to real estate.

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ENGEL & VÖLKERS SAUSALITO | 539 BRIDGEWAY | SAUSALITO, CA 94965 SAUSALITO.EVUSA.COM | +1 (415) 497-8864 | DAN.NEBENZAHL@EVUSA.COM ©2018 Engel & Völkers. All rights reserved. Each brokerage independently owned and operated. Engel & Völkers and its independent License Partners are Equal Opportunity Employers and fully support the principals of the Fair Housing Act. All information provided is deemed DRE# 01976469 reliable but is not guaranteed and should be independently verified. If your property is currently represented by a real estate broker, this is not an attempt to solicit your listing.

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DANIEL M. NEBENZAHL

98 HARRISON AVENUE | 3 BD | 3.5 BA | 3,669 SQ FT | OFFERED AT $4,279,000

Make all of your life’s moments memorable when choosing to live at 98 Harrison Avenue above the heart of downtown Sausalito. This is a newly-built masterpiece with views spanning the hills of Marin, the Bay and onward to San Francisco’s iconic skyline. Nearby public stairs lead to Bridgeway and the Golden Gate Ferry Terminal.

DESTINATION | LAKE TAHOE, INCLINE VILLAGE, NV

See the 3D virtual tour!

130 RUBICON PEAK | 6 BD | 6 BA + 2 HALF BA | 6,905 SQ FT | .544 ACRE LOT | OFFERED AT $4,300,000

Gorgeous and unique estate located just two and a half blocks from Incline Beach. The multi-level design of the home allows for privacy, but also provides extensive open space for entertaining. The home includes an office, a loft library, a media room, a spa, a lounge/game room, an over-sized laundry room, multiple decks and patios, and beautiful outdoor space. Luxurious supplementary features include gourmet kitchen appliances, in-floor radiant heat, four fireplaces, and a home security system.

DANIEL M. NEBENZAHL | PHONE: +1 (415) 497-8864 | EMAIL: DAN.NEBENZAHL@EVUSA.COM | S E A R C H I N G S A U S A L I TO.C O M | DRE# 01705660 ©2018 Engel & Völkers. All rights reserved. Each brokerage independently owned and operated. Engel & Völkers and its independent License Partners are Equal Opportunity Employers and fully support the principals of the Fair Housing Act. All information provided is deemed DRE# 01976469 reliable but is not guaranteed and should be independently verified. If your property is currently represented by a real estate broker, this is not an attempt to solicit your listing.

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Private and sheltered—for those longing for a pristine retreat from the world—but who also want to be close to internationally acclaimed Squaw Valley and Lake Tahoe’s recreation, arts and entertainment.

This rare opportunity to craft and define the last and most significant landholding in the heart of Squaw Valley may never come again. This exceptional 29.6 acre assemblage offers multiple development sites and opportunities for conservation, in addition to numerous options for the construction of a new residence for the owner, whether a family or corporate entity.

The custom-crafted main home is designed with the quality and detail of a true European chalet, with four bedrooms and four and half baths.

The large stone fireplaces, expansive windows, massive clear-heart redwood beams and wrought iron accents give the home a timeless mountain feel, which creates a perfect rustic retreat from the world, or a staging area for a more substantial estate-level home.

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JUST LISTED STUNNING STONE TREE HOME 24 Owl Ridge Court | Novato This magnificent Cape Cod style home resides behind the gates of the exclusive Stone Tree Community.

Expansive lot over 1⁄2 acre, this 4 bedroom / 5 bath estate features a grand entry with open two-story ceilings, a gourmet chef’s kitchen, multiple decks and patios, an office/fifth bedroom, as well as a large bonus area, private community pool and club house.

For more information please visit

MustSeeStonetree.com

Christine Christiansen

415.259.7133 christine@vanguardmarin.com DRE# 01393098

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JUST SOLD TWO ROSS PROPERTIES 46 Upper Rd. | Buyer Represented 66 Wellington Ave. | Seller Represented “Dave is a true professional and a pleasure to work with.

He helped us through 3 successful real estate transactions.

Through every transaction Dave offered a clear strategy and experienced, knowledgable advice with an almost familial concern for our ultimate well-being. He went above and beyond our expectations-always operating at the highest level of integrity.

Dave delivered outstanding results.”

— Ross Seller and Buyer

LISTENING to my clients and really understanding their goals/motivations nets them REWARDING RESULTS.

David Doyle

415.215.3169 ddoyle@vanguardmarin.com DRE# 01397556

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EXQUISITE MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRY CLUB ESTATE 283 SUMMIT AVENUE SAN RAFAEL

Offered at $4,850,000 Design Features Include: § 4 Bedrooms § 3 Baths § Bonus Room perfect for Gym, Office or

Guest Room § 1 Bedroom / 1 Bath Guest Cottage § Huge Kitchen + Great Room § Formal Living & Dining Rooms § Incredible pool, patios, gardens, lawns,

and play space. § Chicken Coop § Sand Volleyball Court

283Summit.com

Chelsea E. Ialeggio

415.300.6881 chelsea@vanguardmarin.com DRE# 01394011

Co-listed with

Karen Z. Hardesty Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty DRE# 00684137

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JUST LISTED 75 UPLAND ROAD KENT WOODLANDS

| Offered at $3,395,000

5 BD/4.5 BA | 3865 SQFT | 1/2 ACRE LOT HIP & COOL MID-CENTURY MODERN MASTERPIECE with an authentic retro-vibe. Located in the heart of Kent Woodlands on a level, private and secluded lot, this home is a rare blend of old and new. Built by esteemed designer Jack Hillmer in 1958 and updated in 2006 to reflect the needs of today’s lifestyle. The layout is ideally suited for indoor/outdoor living and entertaining, boasting soaring walls of glass & doors that open directly onto the expansive level lawn and garden areas.

www.75UplandRoad.com

Bitsa Freeman

415.385.8929 bitsa@vanguardmarin.com DRE# 01143971

Allison Salzer

415.297.2110 allison@ vanguardmarin.com DRE# 01978463

Helping Marin Experience the Mid Century Modern Dream!

JUST SOLD 875 FLAXBERRY LANE (pictured at right)

SAN RAFAEL | Represented Seller Renovated and Expanded Eichler. Sold more than 10% over list with multiple offers.

2042 HUCKLEBERRY ROAD SAN RAFAEL | Represented Buyer Classic Eichler Style with Modern Updates

Allison Salzer

415.297.2110 allison@vanguardmarin.com DRE# 01978463

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JUST LISTED 5 CORTE LAS CASAS TIBURON

| Price Upon Request

It’s what everyone has been waiting for!

Gorgeous 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths with office and large family room in a cul-de-sac setting.

Sparkling pool with a large private playful yard.

Top-notch award winning Tiburon Schools.

45 DE SILVA ISLAND MILL VALLEY

| Offered at $2,098,000

Luxurious SF water view townhouse in prestigious, highly sought-after community.

Elegant single level home features 2 bedrooms plus a den/office, 2.5 baths, offers-high ceilings, 2 fireplaces and private elevator. Club House and Pool/Spa are a bonus. Commuters’ dream 5 minutes to San Francisco, with some of the best shops and restaurants.

12 LAUREL AVE KENTFIELD

| Offered at $1,339,000

Craftsman two story 3 bedroom, 2 bath home built in 2002 in sought after award-winning Kentfield School District and detached garage with built in cabinets and French doors leading to the back yard.

Lori Saia ODisio

415.747.6707 LoriO@vanguardmarin.com DRE# 01249475

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Presented by

The DuPont Group SHARED RANCH HORSES & MOUNTAIN BIKING PROPERTY

SAN ANTONIO ROAD | 1,473 Acres Offered at $750,000 Amazing opportunity to own a share in 1,473 acre working horse and cattle ranch property just 25 minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County.

The ranch consists of 3 shared houses, a new 60’ pool and entertaining area, multiple camp sites and barns, 4 ponds, almost endless mountain biking, hiking and horseback riding trails, and exploration opportunities for kids. The property includes long-term income streams, and endless memories for friends and family.

Contiguous to Polo fields.

720 EDGEWOOD AVENUE 5+ BEDROOMS | 5 BATHS Offered at $6,750,000 | 720Edgewood.com This 6.6 acre, private estate is perched on Mt Tamalpais, 7 minutes to Mill Valley, 30 minutes to San Francisco.

A magical family view-home with breathtaking views secretly presides over Southern Marin in banana belt location and features a poolhouse with bathroom & lawn, all accessed by a long gated driveway. Ideal for discerning buyers interested in privacy, views, trail running and hiking.

Dave DuPont

415.867.6611 Dave@TheDuPontGroup.net DRE# 01355045

Presented by The DuPont Group

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LEGACY MARIN REAL ESTATE Providing Marin families more of what they want

JUST SOLD: BUYERS REPRESENTED

22 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BLVD. ROSS | SOLD FOR $1.900,000 Winning in multiple offers

323 MADRONE AVENUE LARKSPUR | SOLD FOR $2,600,000 Successfully negotiating price and terms

JUST LISTED: 22 OAKCREST AVENUE SAN RAFAEL | OFFERED AT $799,000 Tastefully remodeled townhome

COMING SOON: 90 FAIR DRIVE

(PLANS AT LEFT)

SAN RAFAEL | OFFERED AT $1,700,000 Brand new single family home

Building Relationships

THE BOWMAN REAL ESTATE GROUP

415.717.8950 jennifer.thebowmangroup@gmail.com DRE# 01933147

BowmanRealEstateGroup.com @THEBOWMANGROUP

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13 Buida Ct, Corte Madera Brad James | 415.314.8580

255 Ralston Ave, Mill Valley Andrew Roth | 415.786.6548

19 McNear Dr, San Rafael Jaime Pera | 415.505.7197

Zephyr Real Estate All Over Marin 350 Bon Air Center #100, Greenbrae, CA 94904 415.496.2600 ZephyrRE.com Sold

41 Via La Brisa, Larkspur Lynne L Priest | 415.990.4647

95 Samrose Dr, Novato Spiro Marin | 415.225.6412

BURLINGAME

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101 Ashford Avenue, Mill Valley Stefano DeZerega | 415.987.7833

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Coming Soon Mill Valley

8 Laurina Road | $4,999,000 8LAURINA.COM

Allison Fortini Crawford 415.297.9596 DRE: 01353131 Allison.@Fortini-Crawford.com Fortini-Crawford.com

Sotheby’s International Realty and the Sotheby’s International Realty logo are registered (or unregistered) service marks used with permission. Operated by Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc. Real estate agents affiliated with Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc. are independent contractor sales associates and are not employees of Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc. Equal Housing Opportunity.

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INTRODUCING

Steps To Main Street | Belvedere BELLAVISTAINBELVEDERE.COM

Walkability Galore – Leave your car at home. Enjoy delightful restaurants, gourmet markets, and more. Jump on the San Francisco ferry for a 30-minute (approx.) easy commute. Excellent school district and amenities abound. Let this enchanting property sweep you away from the ordinary and infuse your life with the charm, warmth and lure of extraordinary.

Offered at $5,695,000

YOU R SAN F RANC ISCO CONNECTION IN MARIN

Danielle Chavanon

Danielle.Chavanon@sothebyshomes.com 415.706.5804 | DRE: 01130681

Isobel Wiener

Isobel@IsobelWiener.com 415.730.5556 | DRE: 00707023

San Francisco Brokerage 117 Greenwich Street | San Francisco, California | sothebyshomes.com/sanfrancisco

Sotheby’s International Realty and the Sotheby’s International Realty logo are registered (or unregistered) service marks used with permission. Operated by Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc. Real estate agents affiliated with Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc. are independent contractor sales associates and are not employees of Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc. Equal Housing Opportunity.

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Fairfax | $4,295,000 mid-century custom home with mt. Tam views on nearly 3 acres. 11,000+ square feet w/5+ bedrooms, 6.5 baths, 7 fireplaces & separate apartment. Stunning.

Sharon B. Luce & Darlene Hanley 415.298.4558 | 415.454.7600 CalRE #00959151 | 00945576

San anselmo | $2,400,000 This beautiful, private, approximately 6-acre oasis is in Sleepy Hollow. The four bedroom, two and one-half bath property sold, with 4 offers over asking.

Darlene Hanley 415.454.7600 | darhanley@comcast.net CalRE #00945576

novato | Price Upon Request Stunning Pointe marin home with 5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, approximately 2,930 square feet, a 3-car garage, gourmet kitchen and a lovely backyard. mac Pourtabib & Fung Jin Pourtabib 415.497.9135 | 415.601.7053 CalRE #01771122 | 01230696

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Novato | $1,499,000 Never before offered; 2 homes on approx. 1.5 acres, near downtown.

San Anselmo | $1,195,000 Sweet and charming 3 bedroom, 2 bath home in San Anselmo.

Shari Wilkins 415.328.2323 | Shari@NBayHomes.com CalRE #01194450

Abby Tanem 415.497.9542 | atanem@cbnorcal.com CalRE #01301798

San Rafael | $1,100,000 Single-level 3br/2ba w/pool & views of Terra Linda hills.

Petaluma | $869,000 Beautiful turnkey 4br/2.5ba home in coveted Turtle Creek.

Andy Falk 415.250.8025 | Andy.Falk@cbnorcal.com CalRE #01459954

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Novato | $810,000 Spacious single-level 3br/2ba w/indoor-outdoor living & views.

Jola Jankowska 415.257.2016 | jolajankowska@outlook.com CalRE #01710099

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Novato | $749,000 3br/2ba beautiful single-level Novato home.

John Hammer 415.971.4769 | JHammer@cbnorcal.com CalRE #00975220

richmond | $689,950 This cute Wildcat Canyon mid-century bungalo is a commuter’s dream.

Dedee Rogers & Lea Loux 415.531.9592 | 415.314.4810 CalRE #01797685 | 02006092

Greenbrae | $699,000 Tastefully updated 3br w/Mt. Tam & Corte Madera Creek views.

Terri Dawson & Scott Cherry 415.257.2062 | 415.257.2000 CalRE #01152254 | 00483672

Forestville | $560,000 Charming 3br/3ba close to Sonoma County’s premier wine country.

Noa Bloch 415.699.5073 | nblochre@gmail.com CalRE #02047142

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Coldwell Banker Home of the Nation’s Top Agents Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage is proud to congratulate Joshua Deitch, who was named to the prestigious REAL Trends “The Thousand” list of the top U.S. real estate professionals. His passion, experience and extensive knowledge of the Southern Marin market ensure you receive exceptional representation, every time.

JOSHUA DEITCH C. 415.572.5433 JoshuaDeitch@me.com CalRE #01902477 Top 1% Marin County Realtors® Top 1% Coldwell Banker Worldwide

Over $40MM in Off-Market Sales for 2017

Real estate agents affiliated with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage are independent contractor agents and are not employees of the Company. ©2018 Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. All rights reserved. Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and Equal Opportunity Act. Owned by a subsidiary of NRT LLC. Coldwell Banker and the Coldwell Banker logo are registered service marks owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. 421888SF_7/2018

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Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01527235. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only. Information is compiled from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. This is not intended to solicit property already listed. Nothing herein shall be construed as legal, accounting or other professional advice outside the realm of real estate brokerage.

Helping families find their place in Marin.

Seasoned Realtor and Marin local, this former

urbanite helps families make the move across the

bridge, expertly navigating niche neighborhoods,

top schools and headache-free commutes with

ease. A reputable resource and proven partner,

there’s no better agent to help your family find

their forever home.

Lori Docherty

415.254.7016

lori.docherty@compass.com

loridocherty.com

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10 Manor Terrace 6 Bed 4.5 Bath $5,300,000 Buyer Represented

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1929 heritage home with heart, soul & character. Overlooking Boyle Park,

Beautifully restored 1912 classic brownshingle. Historic Cascade Canyon

an easy stroll to the Park School and downtown Mill Valley. Street-to-

hillside with added convenience of a walk-to-town location from the

Street lot to Manor Terrace above. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, plus an

bottom of this street to street lot. Garden steps from the back door

office, and a reading nook. Sunny Mediterranean gardens galore.

down to Cascade equals a 7 minute stroll to Old Mill!

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60 Crest Road $1,495,000 60crestroad.com

Single-level, tastefully remodelled 4 bedroom/3 bathroom home, with

Sited on a large, serene lot on the crest above the Barber Tract, this

additional office, expansive back yard, and great views of Mt. Tam! Friendly

contemporary 3 bedroom/2.5 bathroom home has been beautifully updated.

neighborhood where kids ride bikes and play ball, and people walk their dogs

Private, peaceful views from on high, with a sensible layout allowing for

on the level sidewalks. Proximity to the wonderful Cove Elementary School

single level living if desired. The nearby Wellington-Baywood loop is a

and the gourmet market and cafe add to the mix of this great area.

popular neighborhood stroll.

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Prime Belvedere Knoll-Top Home Designed by Charles Warren Callister, one of Northern California’s best known master architects, The Steinhart House is a notable example of his early Zen Modern influences. Sited on one of Belvedere’s premier lots, this half-acre property has easy access, level yard, privacy, full sun, and wrap around views.

The home offers abundant light, with natural stone and wood providing an elegant indoor/outdoor flow. Ready for your updates! Tons of Potential!

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Regine Familet

415.272.3799

415.517.2317

sharon.faccinto@compass.com

regine.familet@compass.com

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302 Upper Toyon Drive Buyer Represented Off Market Sale $2,831,000

sharonkramlich.com

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Corte Madera

Mill Valley

estate market, Sharon has cultivated an extensive

network in Marin County and San Francisco.

Sharon’s expertise combined with Compass’ leading

technology and marketing, allows Sharon to provide

her clients with unparalleled service.

$3,000,000 17 Bahr Lane Current Off Market Listing

Sharon Kramlich

415.609.4473

sharon.kramlich@compass.com $1,425,000

72 Rose Seller Represented Off Market Sale $2,400,000

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Larkspur

Kentfield

Compass Proudly Welcomes Sharon Kramlich With 25 years of experience in the Bay Area real

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Compass is a real estate broker licensed by the State of California and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. License Number 01527235. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only. Information is compiled from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, condition, sale or withdrawal without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. This is not intended to solicit property already listed. Nothing herein shall be construed as legal, accounting or other professional advice outside the realm of real estate brokerage.

City Living, San Rafael Style — Coming Soon

David Goldsmith Jen Pennington

510.684.2300

415.860.5340

david.goldsmith@compass.com

jen.pennington@compass.com

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Sophisticated and remodeled from the ground up,

this modern, Mediterranean-style home is set on a

quiet, tree-lined street two blocks north of downtown.

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Welcome Haley Wright

Pacific Union is pleased to welcome Haley Wright to our Marin team!

Haley Wright Luxury Property Specialist 415 601 5520 haley.wright@pacunion.com pennywrightmulligan.com License # 01980953

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233 ROUND HILL ROAD, TIBURON $9,495,000 Reminiscent of an East Coast contemporary country estate, this elegant property includes a stunning main residence, a generous guest/pool house and a detached two-car carriage house with top-floor recreation room. This five bedroom, six-bath luxury residence is perfectly sited on a gated and private, nearly acre parcel with incredible views, sweeping lawns and flat usable spaces. Expertly built by Werner Schneider in 1971, this property has been perfectly honed over the years into the ultimate family retreat by noted architect Paden Prichard and Hadley Builders. Enjoy inspirational views of Richardson Bay, Sausalito and the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Scott Woods Luxury Property Specialist 415 419 4510 scott.woods@pacunion.com ScootCWoods.com License # 01863705

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Celebrating the Extraordinary Agents Who Recently Joined Us! We welcome the top agents of today and tomorrow who have recently joined Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty. They can now offer their clients the best global brand, international exposure, and luxury services for properties at every price point.

Valerie Castellana

Suzie Fitzpatrick

Jennifer Glassman

415.533.9211 Lic.# 01324085

415.720.6699 Lic.# 01176210

415.309.5331 Lic.# 02059113

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Jen Kuleto

Marta Kurland

Jean Ludwick

415.627.8583 Lic.# 01842786

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Luisa Massey-Blake

David Ogden

Gregory Tully

415.717.2044 Lic.# 02059722

415.308.5025 Lic.# 01189327

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East Coast Meets West Coast Brick pillars open to the tree-lined drive leading to this stunning two-time Marin Designers Showcase property. Taken down to the studs, rebuilt and expanded under the guidance of famed architect M. Dean Jones, the residence is now one-story and over 6,000 square feet. Updated again in 2013, the home offers an open floor plan where every room flows to the exterior grounds.

Sited beautifully on over 1.5 acres, the exclusive Country Club estate boasts sprawling level lawns, regulation tennis court, gardens, large entertainment patio with outdoor kitchen, pool and spa, and all-encompassing breathtaking panoramic Bay to Mt. Tamalpais vistas. This is truly a family compound built for indoor/outdoor living year-round.

Lindy Emrich 415.717.4005 lindy@sir.com

Lic.# 00511105

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Belvedere

209GoldenGate.com

Views, Views, Views Galore

This spacious, elegant home has commanding views of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco and Sausalito. Perfect for entertaining, this residence has 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, formal living/dining

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Tiburon Gem!

$2,095,000

Tiburon

2387MarEast.com

Above Keil Cove—panoramic views of Angel Island, property consists of main home with 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, office. Separate stand-alone cottage—potential rental.

rooms, gourmet kitchen, stunning great room, bonus office space

Valerie Castellana

and elevator. Located on a street-to-street landscaped lot of 15,000±

415.533.9211

square feet, the home is private and quiet with generous decks and

valeriec@sothebysrealty.com ValerieCastellana.GoldenGateSIR.com

spacious patios surrounding the infinity edge pool.

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Novato

65SaddleWoodDrive.com

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Kentfield

Elegant Rush Creek Beauty

Timeless Turn-of-the-Century Brown Shingle

This special home is situated amongst mature landscaping on an

This charming home offers the best of both worlds with rare architectural

almost 30,000± square foot lot with open space on two sides. High

details, a sense of history and updates for today’s modern style of living.

ceilings and tall banks of windows allow for a gracious airy feeling

Best of all, the sunny farmhouse kitchen opens to a

in the dining room and living room. The upscale kitchen opens onto

wide expanse of lawn and a wonderful “Secret Garden”.

a welcoming family room. The master suite features a recently remodeled designer master bath. The bedroom and full bath on the main level is ideal for guests or in-laws. 3 car garage.

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Fairfax

VERY RARE! Mid-Century Modern Style with Panoramic Views in a Resort-Like Setting Not a single stair in this single-level stunner. Polished concrete floors, a large great room with lofted exposed beam ceilings and a gorgeous remodeled kitchen. An ideal layout with a master bedroom wing and great guest quarters on the opposite side of the home. The master bedroom with huge closet space plus a spacious bathroom is ready for the buyer’s customization.

Set at the end of your own long private driveway, this home sits well back from the street with excellent privacy and tranquility.

An infinity lawn that runs right up to the vista point, with spaciousness rarely seen in Marin County. Multiple potential pool sites.

Adjacent to the kitchen is an extra large outdoor dining area.

This approximately one-acre lot with flat yard and views is incredibly rare in Marin County. Surrounded with forests and wildlife, and just a few blocks away from the best golf course in Marin County. Adjacent to open space for hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding. This home is the destination most people dream of for their next vacation.

Nick Svenson 415.505.7674

n.svenson@ggsir.com

Lic.# 01918616

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Novato. Located in one of the most desirable enclaves of Novato you’ll find this 1.3± acre gated, French-country inspired Vineyard Road estate, built in 1996. This entertainer’s dream features a wood beamed cathedral ceiling, built-in bookcases, two fireplaces, and large family and dining rooms. The gourmet kitchen offers an attached breakfast room. The master bedroom suite contains separate his and her bathrooms and closets. Multiple outdoor patios and terraces overlook a beautiful French garden and a large putting green, an ideal site for a pool. A level pasture includes an area for turn out, a riding arena, barn with two stalls, tack room, hay room, and a large covered front porch. An additional living space located above the detached three-car garage offers an open living area with a wet bar, cooking area with space for a small refrigerator, full bathroom, and laundry hook-ups—ideal for an in-law unit, au pair quarters, or overnight guests.

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415.706.6025

j.stafford@ggsir.com GoldenGateSIR.com Lic.# 01372158

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Custom Designed Contemporary in Toyon Terraces. Dramatic grand

Serenity in Pacheco Valle. Dramatic custom home nestled in the

scale open floor plan ideal for indoor/outdoor entertaining with expansive decks, fire pit, and hot tub. Spectacular views, 2 story family room, master suite with sumptuous bath and walk-in closet. 2 car attached garage. Short SF commute.

natural beauty of Pacheco Valle. Four bedrooms plus an office with an abundance of natural light, and chef’s kitchen opening onto family room, patio, pool and waterfalls. Easy access to 101.

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2-AcornCourt.com

Linda Saint Amant

Kathy Schlegel

415.990.2154

k.schlegel@ggsir.com KathySchlegel.com Lic.# 01089137

Broker Associate

linda.saintamant@sothebysrealty.com Lic.# 00919610

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San Anselmo Seminary | Immaculate Craftsman-Style

A Home to Capture Your Heart! A+ in All Categories • Location: Historic seminary in the quaint hamlet of San Anselmo.

• Curb Appeal: Brown shingle with inviting front porch all surrounded by lush, mature and manicured landscaping.

• Gracious and Meticulous Interiors: Chef’s kitchen with period coffered ceilings, 2 ovens, “pub-style” eat-in area which overlooks a spacious family room with attached deck.

• Outdoor Area: The extensive fenced backyard has a lush lawn area and is bordered by beautiful trees. “A” for AMAZING!

17Idalia.com Price: $2,148,000

Vicki Buckle-Clark

415.497.0044

Licensed Associate Broker

v.buckle-clark@ggsir.com GoldenGateSIR.com Lic.# 01141500

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Presenting Kilham Farm The Northbay’s Most Preeminent Equestrian Center 62± Acres | $15,000,000 | 3431NicasioValleyRd.com

Rick Trono

Broker Associate

415.515.1117

r.trono@ggsir.com LivingMarin.com

Lic.# 01045523

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Dubie Breen

Brian Byers

Lindy Emrich

415.640.4927

415.602.7915

415.717.4005

Lisa Garaventa 415.518.2772

dubie.breen@sothebysrealty.com Lic.# 01079071

brian @ brianbyers.com BrianByers.com Lic.# 01386695

lindysellsmarin@gmail.com LindyEmrich.com Lic.# 00511105

lgaraventa @ sothebysrealty.com FineMarinLiving.com Lic.# 01399273

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Sherry Ramzi

Nick Svenson

415.827.9229

415.902.7344

415.505.7674

415.847.0459

megan @ sothebysrealty.com MeganSellsMarin.com Lic.# 01884035

sherry.ramzi @ sir.com MarinExclusiveHomes.com Lic.# 01057486

n.svenson@ggsir.com Lic.# 01918616

rosalie.weigle @ sir.com RosalieWeigleHomes.com Lic.# 00613854

Lei Ann Werner

Julie Widergren

Alisa Knobbe Wynd

John Zeiter

415.710.0117

415.827.8727

415.298.4037

415.720.1515

leiann@sothebysrealty.com Lic.# 00994572

julie.widergren@sir.com MarinRealEstateNow.com Lic.# 01402872

a.wynd@ggsir.com AlisaWynd.com Lic.# 01342726

j.zeiter@ggsir.com Lic.# 01325942

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AlamedaDeLaLoma.com

d.breen@ggsir.com | DubieBreen.GoldenGateSIR.com

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MARIN COUNTRY CLUB, NOVATO

Lindy Emrich | 415.717.4005

Lisa Garaventa | 415.518.2772

lindy@sir.com | LindyEmrich.com

lgaraventa@sir.com | FineMarinLiving.com

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NOT ON MLS

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MARIN COUNTRY CLUB, NOVATO

Megan Pomponio | 415.827.9229

Julie Widergren | 415.827.8727

meganpomponio@gmail.com | MeganSellsMarin.com

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Tiburon

$5,900,000 Belvedere

Japanese Style | 5 BD | 6 BA | 1 Half BA

$7,495,000 Tiburon

$37,000,000

$6,995,000 Nicasio

$15,000,000

Prime Belvedere Dream | 0.675± Acres

Private Estate Lot | 14.5± Acres

NEW LISTING

SOLD

San Rafael

$4,295,000 Tiburon

Rare Waterfront Oasis | 5 BD | 6 BA | 2 Half BA

SOLD OVER ASKING

Tiburon

Classic Contemporary | 5 BD | 4 BA | 2 Half BA

SOLD

IN CONTRACT

$3,200,000 Ross

Haven with a View | 4 BD | 3 BA | 1 Half BA

GLOBALESTATES .COM

Equestrian Estate | 62+ Acres

$6,995,000 Tiburon

Classic California Living | 6 BD | 11 BA | 2 Half BA

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$7,900,000

The Ceiling of the World | 6 BD | 4 BA | 1 Half BA

PRICE REDUCED

Lydia Sarkissian

415.517.7720 l.sarkissian@ggsir.com Lic.# 01159670

Magda Sarkissian

415.847.7913

m.sarkissian@ggsir.com

Lic.# 02028978

Bill Bullock

415.384.4000 bb@ggsir.com Lic.# 00837358

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Mill Valley

33Escalon.com

This classic-contemporary, shingled estate rests atop a completely private knoll with uninterrupted 360-degree panoramic views of the San Francisco skyline, San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz, the Bay Bridge, the Marin Headlands and Mount Tamalpais. Gated and approached down an extensive private drive, the approximately 6,785 sq. ft. residence is designed for family living and entertaining on a grand scale, and is located on over five acres of private woodlands, meadows, an extensive trail system and numerous scenic outlooks. In addition to the indoor living space, this estate includes a large three-car garage, lots of storage, a covered front porch and sprawling level lawns. This classic hilltop retreat is minutes from San Francisco, yet a world away from it all.

Lydia Sarkissian

Magda Sarkissian

Bill Bullock

l.sarkissian@ggsir.com

m.sarkissian@ggsir.com

bb@ggsir.com

Lic.# 01159670

Lic.# 02028978

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Mill Valley

Liz McCarthy 415.250.4929 liz@lizmccarthy.com lizmccarthy.com DRE 01421997

3 Wainwright Place 3 Bed 2 Bath 1,933 SF $1,700,000 3wainwright.com Liz McCarthy 415.250.4929 liz@lizmccarthy.com lizmccarthy.com DRE 01421997

San Rafael

Call for address 4 Bed 4 Bath 3,270 SF $3,100,000

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Deborah Solvason 415.519.3555 deb@marinsbesthomes.com DRE 01104774

5 Heatherstone Drive 4 Bed 3 Bath 4,422 SF $2,000,000 5heatherstone.com Eric Gelman 415.686.1855 eric@ericgelman.com EricGelman.com DRE 01417335

San Rafael

San Rafael

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75 Main Drive 5 Bed 3 + 2 Half Bath 3,600 SF $2,500,000 75maindr.com

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We’ve joined Compass!

Helping everyone find their place in the world.

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Paragon has joined forces with Compass, a national real estate brokerage focused on empowering agents to better serve you. Compass specializes in combining exceptional agents with innovative technology, to simplify the buying and selling experience.

Paragon’s deep commitment to our community, our knowledge of the local market and decades of experience, combined with Compass’ unique offering — provide several advantages that will benefit you, our client(s) and the community in which we live.

With this merger: Compass is the #1 real estate brokerage in San Francisco with nearly 17% market share

Together, we have more than 500 agents in the Bay Area representing more than $4.5 billion in sales volume in the last year

Nationally, Compass has more than 4,000 agents across the top markets in the United States

We look forward to this transition as we join their mission — which is helping everyone find their place in the world.

SARAH NANCY BUTLER

Seas The Day! Enjoy the coastal lifestyle in this quintessential and beautiful Stinson Beach bungalow. Located very close to the beach, this spotless and updated cottage is a perfect place to relax and recharge. Immaculately cared for and impeccable, the house offers one bedroom, one bath, and two bonus rooms. Relax in the spacious yard, soaking in the sun and the sea breeze. The house is close to the heart of the village and amazing hiking trails of Mt Tamalpais. Fulfill the dream. 1 bedroom, 1 bath, and 2 bonus rooms.

12 Calle del Occidente, Stinson Beach, Listed for $1,450,000, 12calledeloccidente.com

(415) 868-0717 | DRE #01258888

Conveniently Located in Stinson Beach

3470 Shoreline Highway, Stinson Beach, CA 94970, oceanicrealty.com

Specializing in Sales, Vacation Rentals, and Property Management in Stinson Beach.

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Looking Back

Hotel T Larkspur Even though this landmark has had only a few owners in 127 years, it’s got a colorful history. BY JIM WOOD

HE NA ME OF the photographer of the above image is not known, but the location where he or she was standing is — it’s a short distance from the former North Coast Pacific Railroad station in Larkspur. Hotel Larkspur opened on June 13, 1891. Also open around then were San Rafael High School (1888) and Dominican College, now Dominican University of California (1889), and, soon after, the San Francisco Theological Seminary in nearby San Anselmo (1892). In the 1920s and 1930s, the hotel had the largest public dining room in Marin County, with guest rooms on the upper floors. During World War II the top floor served as an emergency hospital. Over the years, the hotel’s name was changed to Hotel Merwin’s (that’s Edwin L. Merwin’s General Merchandise on the right) and then, in the early 1900s, the Blue Rock Inn. In 1994 it became the Left Bank Brasserie, a popular French restaurant now with other locations in Menlo Park and San Jose. m

In 1994, it became the Left Bank Brasserie, a popular French restaurant.

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LIVE WHERE YOUR PASSION LIES

Do you have a passion for powder, an appetite for adventure and a desire for downtime? Make your home base in the mountains closer to everything—at the base of the mountain. Forget about hauling your gear every weekend, be minutes from dining choices, and all the amenties needed for your time at Squaw Valley.

63 Single Family Homes // Townhomes // Lots now available.

Ideally located in a quiet area of Olympic Valley — the Palisades is both private and convenient.

Contact Matt Smith: matt@palisadesatsquaw.com or 530.414.9177 www.PalisadesAtSquaw.com Exclusively Represented by SagePoint, a California Licensed Broker. DRE #01987029

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8/14/18 10:03 AM

FIND YOUR

PLACE THE EXPERIENCE IS

ALAIN PINEL

Make your real estate career count.

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It’s the Alain Pinel way and it’s unforgettable.

Throughout the Bay Area and Northern California — from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe, Carmel to Wine Country — our agents are second to none.

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