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f the 24 offices on the third floor of Nichols Hall at Sonoma State University, only five doors are open. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve knocked loudly on all the doors that are closedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in case someone inside might be nappingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no answer. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2:28pm on a Thursday afternoon, and one would think that more faculty members would be at work. The halls are empty; there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a single student waiting to see a single faculty member. Final exams are happening now. Final projects are due instantly. But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost no visible sign of the imminent end of classes or graduation. This is not unusual.

These days, the halls are mostly empty and the doors to the offices are usually closed.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just returned from the swimming pool to my own office on the third floor of Nichols. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a problem, but I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a lane to myself. No one did.

The pool was thronged with swimmers. It always is.

Welcome to the wonderful world of academia. I love it. I have taught at SSU since 1981, and I would not trade my job for any other in the world. I get to teach what I want to teach; I have academic freedom. I enjoy the action of the classroom, and I love lecturing, discussion and debate with students.

I enjoy reading their papers. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even mind assigning grades, though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my least favorite activity, and also the single most important act in my job. If I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t assign grades, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t receive my paycheck.

Sonoma State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which celebrates its 50th anniversary next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is not alone in being weird; schools all around the country are. I know because I talk with colleagues at other colleges. I visit them, and I see whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on. The world around usâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the â&#x20AC;&#x153;real world,â&#x20AC;? as the students call itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has changed a lot in the last 500 years, but colleges are more or less the same. Yes, I know there are computers now, and Facebook, but the academic world is largely the same as it was in Medieval times, when universities were first born.

There are still teachers and students. We still meet in classrooms, we still read books.

Students are tested, take exams, and pass or fail. Of course, nowadays everyone passesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; except for the total losers who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t show up the whole semester. There are students like that; they pay their money and enroll, but never come to class. Weird!

Today, in my office with my door openâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; yes, I am bragging, I am hereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I received

an email from a member of the California Faculty Association that says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We survived a hectic, pretty horrible year of furloughs, job losses and reduced opportunities for our students.â&#x20AC;? Well, hurray for us! Arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we wonderful! From where I sit, it was not a horrible year, the furloughs were not a big problem, and on the whole, students did not have reduced opportunities. Some of them have bought into the big myth that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re missing out and are being cheated out of their education. If anyone is doing the cheating, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the students themselves.

The reality is that despite the fact that office doors are closed today and that most faculty members arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t here now, the quality of education at SSU is exceedingly high.

It is high because of the collaboration that takes place between students and teachers in the classroom. It is a magical performance. Those who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t teach donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really understand or appreciate it. Bring them into a classroom and invite them to interact with 18- and 19-yearolds, and on the whole theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re lost.

They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how to communicate.

So people who say that â&#x20AC;&#x153;those who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do anything else, teachâ&#x20AC;? donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a clue.

Teaching is an art; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at the heart of the university, though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also very, very nice to have a swimming pool here, and an office and a computer. I am sorry that there have been lay-offs. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like it when anyone loses his or her jobâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not in this economy or any otherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but teachers are no worse off than any other workers in the economy, and there is no guaranteed right to teach. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a privilege to be able to teach at SSU or any other university.

I started college in 1959. There hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been a time since when scholars and researchers havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been alarmed by what they call â&#x20AC;&#x153;the crisis in education.â&#x20AC;? There is always a crisis in education. The crisis does not matter. It is irrelevant. All that matters is what happens in the classroom. All that matters is the magic that takes place there between students and teachers. So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be back to teach next semester, to lecture, to ask questions, to invite students to think critically. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll swim in the pool, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll sit in my office with the door wide open.

From where I sit, the furloughs were not a problem.

Jonah Raskin is a professor of communications at SSU. His latest book is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating and Drinking Wine in California.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Open Mic is a weekly feature in the Bohemian.

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It is time to pull the plug on out-of-control police spending. Vote no on E!

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a loyal reader of your weekly, and my motivation to pick up a copy increased after viewing the last issue (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not So Easy Rider,â&#x20AC;? May 12). The article written by the depressed single mother was enjoyable and informative, but the real eye candy was the zipped-down front shirt.

Kudos to the photographer and the model. I will go so far as to say sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be getting some inquiries into her availability for dating, since she mentioned in the article her age and marital status. If the end result is her depression going away, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a supporter of her method to overcome lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disappointments.

As I watched footage of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico this morning, I felt a tremendous sense of grief and horror. This is only the most recent environmental catastrophe we have caused. I think â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do no harmâ&#x20AC;? is a better bottom line than profit. If we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t clean up a mess, then we have no business creating one.

Corporations seem willing to take any risk, anyplace, anytime. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suicidal. And Superfund sites reflect the ability of corporations to avoid responsibility. Will BP really pay the full cost of what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done? The cleanup, the lost revenues, the health impacts? And how do you quantify the damage to fisheries and the environment? Residents and anyone involved in the cleanup are likely to suffer health problems from the oil and fumes for years. Think 9-11 Ground Zero.

I would like to see those who run the companies involved and the agencies charged with regulating them held accountable. And not just with slaps on the wrist or fines they can easily pay and write off. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s get real. If terrorists caused this kind of damage, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be facing life imprisonment at least. And this looks like terrorism to me.

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The downside of all of this would be that without illegal immigrants coming into our county, the crops would rot in the fields with no one to harvest them.

Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to free the slaves, as Lincoln did during the Civil War. Pay a decent wage and provide medical benefits for farmworkers. Provide amnesty and citizenship for all â&#x20AC;&#x153;illegals.â&#x20AC;?

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ropositions 13 Earthquakes are a daily occurrence in the Golden State, and this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Proposition 13 is aimed at making homeowners, at least, a little bit safer when the next big one hits. Unlike its circa-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;78 big bro, this Prop. 13 is unopposed on the California Voterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Information Guide and, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better, it promises to makes our small slice of the world safer for all of us through the miracle of reduced taxation.

Currently, homeowners who perform seismic retrofits on their homes, particularly

nonreinforced masonry (known more familiarly as â&#x20AC;&#x153;bricksâ&#x20AC;?), may find their home values reassessed. Under the new Prop. 13, seismic retrofitting would not result in higher property taxes until the building is sold, giving homeowners a chance to act before itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all a rubble. Estimations are that there may be a small drop in local property tax revenues resulting from the passage of Prop. 13, but no other unwarranted effects are forecast. This child of the old Prop. 13 trembles a bit at the thought of supporting a proposition thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 13, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the right initiative to pass. The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bohemianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; recommends: YES on Prop. 13. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Gretchen Giles Proposition 14 Prop. 14 would do away with party primaries and replace them with an â&#x20AC;&#x153;open primary,â&#x20AC;? in which Democrats, Republicans, Greens, Libertarians and Peace and Freedom candidates would battle it out. The top two vote-getters would win the opportunity to face off in a general election.

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diminish the power of the two main parties, and more importantly, the special interestsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; unions and big businessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who wield such power over the parties.

The only thing Prop. 14 does is take the voters out of the picture. California needs comprehensive political reform, along the lines of what California Forward recommended. Prop. 14 isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it. The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bohemianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; recommends: NO on Prop. 14. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Eric Johnson Proposition 15 The California Fair Elections Act would take a baby step toward getting special interests out of campaigns by creating a pilot program for publicly funded elections. It would focus, for symbolic reasons, on the very state office that oversees balloting.

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20-year ban on public financing of campaigns, paving the way for future publicly funded races.

The most common criticism of this initiativeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that it would waste taxpayersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hard-earned dollarsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;utterly overlooks the fact that funding would come from lobbyists, not taxpayers. Another criticismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that taxing lobbyists to fund elections has been proven unconstitutionalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take into account the fact that this is a fee, not a tax, and a modest one at that. Others fret that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a gateway to a gold rush by fat-cat politicians eager to stick taxpayers with their campaign bills.

Supporters point to successful â&#x20AC;&#x153;fair electionsâ&#x20AC;? frameworks in five states and relate intriguing anecdotes about what elected officials can accomplish when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re beholden to no one. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very little to lose here, and an awful lot to gain.

The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bohemianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; recommends: YES on Prop. 15. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Traci Hukill Proposition 16 The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Taxpayers Right to Vote Actâ&#x20AC;? has nothing to do with any existing right to vote. Prop.16 is really about energy and who owns the right to sell energy to the public. If it passes, opponents say, Californians would be tied to just a handful of energy companies, and their dominance in existing and new markets would essentially be written into the state constitution.

Since the beginning of this year, PG&E has donated more than $35 million to the cause.

If Prop. 16 passes, it would amend the state constitution to require a two-thirds approval (rather than a simple majority) by local voters before a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) could provide electricity to any new customers if there was any public money or debt involved. It would require the same two-thirds approval by any community that a CCA wanted to expand into, whether or not public money or bonds were involved.

Proponents of the measure say the electricity business is risky, and voters should be able to vote when public money is being leveraged.

Opponents say Prop. 16 is just a thinly veiled manipulation of the initiative process, and that it would constitutionally guarantee a monopoly for companies like PG&E. The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bohemianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; recommends: NO on Prop. 16. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kylie Mendonca Proposition 17 Like Prop. 16, this prop is entirely backed by one company, in this case, Mercury Insurance. The allure of Prop. 17 is that consumers who choose to switch insurers can keep their continuous coverage discount and take it with them, saving up to $250 a year. Prop. 17 promises a 90-day grace period if drivers lapse on their car insurance payments. Under current law, if drivers qualify for the continuous coverage discount and then switch insurers, they cannot take that discount with them to a new company.

If passed, insurance companies would be permitted to ask a consumer for proof of auto insurance for the last five years without any lapse over 90 days, even if he or she hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been driving during that time. If the consumer canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t prove coverage, an automatic penalty of up to $1,000 could be added to the premium. Opponents see Prop. 17 as a way to make insurance companies less accountable while giving them the ability to raise premiums and add penalties.

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Powell, a 65-year-old transplant from Texas, has been making a hand-to-mouth living working as a masseuse in the Napa Valley for over 20 years. What she lacks in education she makes up for in strong thumbs and resilience in dire circumstances; frequently homeless, she often lives in a truck donated to her by a client. In that same truck, she travels with her massage table to make house calls in Napa. Much of her steady work involves providing painreliving massage to low-income seniors living in a number of Napaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mobile-home communities.

In early 2009, Powell enrolled in Medi-Cal and was approved for major dental work. A serious infection required extraction of all her teeth and replacement with dentures. Powell underwent the surgery, but when it came time to pick up her dentures in June, she was told theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been lost. They have remained â&#x20AC;&#x153;lostâ&#x20AC;? ever since. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At one appointment,â&#x20AC;? Powell says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the lady held up a white paper bag and shook it and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are your teeth, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not gonna get them because Medi-Cal isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to pay for them.â&#x20AC;?

Silvia Denny, one of Powellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more affluent clients and a steady customer for decades, finally decided to advocate on behalf of her masseuse. The 80-year-old Denny, originally from Britain, is astounded that such a thing can happen in the United States, one of the few wealthy countries in the world. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one thing to be homeless,â&#x20AC;? Denny says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But homeless and toothless is unbearable and inhumane.â&#x20AC;?

Denny claims that in the time that had lapsed between Powell losing all her teeth and going back to pick up the replacements, the

state had cut the dental program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I asked her about her teeth almost every week,â&#x20AC;? Denny says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And she would always have a new lead to follow, always a story about somebody here or there who was going to help her.

Meanwhile she was existing on peanut butter and soup.â&#x20AC;? Denny observed that Powell did not have the ability to find her way through the bureaucracy, so she stepped in to help her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After encountering the red tape firsthand,â&#x20AC;? Denny says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I realize the social services system can defeat even those of us with a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree.â&#x20AC;? Denny claims to have called agency after agency trying to get Powellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teeth back. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were very nice. But they all recommended I get in touch with someone else,â&#x20AC;?

Denny says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t their department.â&#x20AC;?

Finally in April of 2010, Powell started talking about paying for the dentures herself, even though her life savings were not enough to cover the $4,000 replacement teeth.

But her life is at stake. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a diabetic and for the past year Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve not been able to eat what I needed to eat,â&#x20AC;?

Powell says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;only things I could squish up real good and swallow. This made my blood sugar go up and up, so I had to go the hospital three times. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a year already. At the hospital, they told me I had to get my teeth no matter what. The blood sugar spikes are going to injure my heart if I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep my blood sugar under control.â&#x20AC;?

Powell went back to the dentist and was offered the option to become involved in complicated loan options she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really understand. Finally Denny decided to loan her the cash because paying up front reduced the cost to $3,600.

As of this writing, Powell is still on peanut butter and soup. While she is paying off her teeth, she is also saving for a lighter massage table, one that weighs only 25 pounds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will be easier to lug up stairs,â&#x20AC;? says the Napa senior. There is no golden retirement in sight, but things are looking brighter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Somewhere around the first of June,â&#x20AC;? Powell says optimistically, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I might have teeth again.â&#x20AC;?

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he dotcom bubble busted disastrously, but craft beer remains one of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fastest growing industries. In 2000, Joe Tucker foresaw this future. Having lost his job as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;consumer usabilityâ&#x20AC;? director at ComedyWorld.com when the San Francisco company folded, he promptly picked up another; he bought a small website just months old called RateBeer.com that was floundering under poor management. It was surely another dotcom headed for its grave.

But Tucker, who lives near Santa Rosa, brought it back to life. A beer fan as much as a tech whiz, he altered several major interface components, creating chat forums and streamlining the processes involved in reading reviews, becoming a member and rating beer.

Tucker built a community, and in the years since then the 1,000-member club has exploded into a quasi-social phenomenon of worldwide acclaim, boasting top-of-the-list Google search returns

and members who chat online, rate beers with numeric scores and post the results publicly. Just google the name of a beer released a day prior, and RateBeerians worldwide will already be nerding out on its virtues and shortcomings.

I entered the world of beer geeks on an early May weekend at the 14th annual Boonville Beer Festival, during which I camped with the managers, founders and most eminent members of RateBeer.com. The festival, held in the heart of the Anderson Valley, features several dozen breweries and attracts more than 5,000 attendees each year. As the alcohol takes its effect on the masses at festival time, the police stake out the roadways with their radar guns aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;blazing, and locals like to joke that the troopers â&#x20AC;&#x153;are going to balance the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget this weekend.â&#x20AC;?

But RateBeerians donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t drink and drive. They set up camp for two nights in the privileged company of more than 50 breweries and other friends in the trade, all of whom are hosted on the grassy premises of the Anderson Valley Brewing Company.

(Members of the general public camp at the nearby

Boonville fairgrounds.) I traveled by bike from San Francisco and rolled through the gates of the brewery on Friday afternoon. In back among the oaks and the green grassy acres, I sought the RateBeer camp.

Dozens of partiers were aggregating, staking tents and setting out kegs of brew beside trucks and vans emblazoned with logos of Bear Republic, Uncommon Brewers, Pizza Port and others.

A banner hanging from a sun tent marked the RateBeer station, where six men and women in their 30s and 40s lounged in lawn chairs or grazed over the fruit, chips and dips on the foldout table. Beer from kegs and bottles was already flowing, and though the festival didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t begin until the next day, the pre-party had already begun.

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I asked head honcho Joe Tucker for an explanation of beerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s powerful allure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beer is a different way of looking at the world,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about technology and science, putting together something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interesting. And,â&#x20AC;? he added with a lift of the eyebrows, â&#x20AC;&#x153;beer is intoxicating. We arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too proud to admit that. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re attracted to high-alcohol beersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even the geeks. We like being high. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OK to be drunk on beer, just not to overindulge.â&#x20AC;?

This was good news, for I wanted some double digits. I returned to the picnic table and found some unfiltered â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fredâ&#x20AC;? ale, at 10 percent ABV, from Hair of the Dog. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hate big beers,â&#x20AC;? journalist Ashley Routson, aka the Beer Wench, told me from her seat in a lawn chair, explaining that moderation and balance are stronger attributes of a beer than its potency. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hateâ&#x20AC;? is not a word used freely among beer lovers surrounded by craft brews, for beer geeks generally love beer. They live, pursue, study and worship beer. They have beer deities, often in the form of â&#x20AC;&#x153;hop gods.â&#x20AC;?

Beer geeks would breathe beer if they could, they taste it every chance they can, and they always, always smell it first. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the best ways to distinguish a beer geek from a beer fan,â&#x20AC;? said Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife Jen Tucker, who sipped an ale in the grass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They always smell their beer.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true. I never saw such a raucous bunch skanking to ska and neglecting to shave yet another day sniffing reverently from plastic cups. There was something heartening in this gentle act of thoughtfulness.

Though a recent trend has ushered thousands of halfheartedly dressed 35year-old men in cargo shorts and flip-flops into a world of artisan cheeses, the current popularity of pairing cheese and beer seems to be a side project for most beer nerds, and at the end of the equation, everything else cancels out and leaves one thing remaining: beer. As for food, Cheez-Its do just fine.

RateBeerians are nearly mad. They have reviewed thousands upon thousands of beers. Mario Rubio, a Santa Rosa beer writer and editor of Hop Press, RateBeerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s online periodical, has rated none. Neither has the Wench, who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe in reducing beer to numbers. But Ken Weaver has logged over 2,600 reviews. Joey Brown of Novato told me he has scored and posted 2,030. Still, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing. A Danish RateBeerian who goes by the handle â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ungstrupâ&#x20AC;? has rated just shy of 17,000 beers. Three other Danes have filed more than 14,000 reviews, and a Swede, almost 13,000.

Indeed, throughout the world, beer enthusiasts have taken to drinking at the keyboard. Jen told me that her husband receives fan mail from thankful women whose mates no longer drink at the pub. Instead, they log on, sip at the screen and chat with other RateBeerians about the brew at hand.

Ken, Jen, Mario, the Wench and I strolled through the brewersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; campground. At the Marin Brewing station under an ancient oak, Arne Johnson opened a bottle of his new

bourbon barrel-aged barleywine infected with brettanomyces. We tasted a sample of Uncommon Brewersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; barleywine spiced with redwood tips, a 15 percent ABV so long awaited that it had become a legend even before its time.

More cars rolled in through the gates.

Rumor had it that Ken Grossman of Sierra Nevada, a beer god if ever there was one, had arrived, and one exuberant geek came back to camp raving that he had just spoken at length with an older man named Ken from Sierra Nevada. It turned out to be another Ken with the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a good guy, but no god.

At 7pm, the beer party began in earnest.

Brewers and salesmen from other groups joined our campâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from New Belgium, Anderson Valley, Pizza Port and Dogfish Head. Holy bottles of oak-aged ales appeared from hidden coolers like treasures from buried arks. Corks popped, caps came off and rare beers poured like liquid gold as grateful recipients held cups aloft, awaiting just an ounce or two. Spirits soared, checked only by humility in the presence of greatness.

As a bottle of New Glarus raspberry sour went around, voices of reverence and awe thanked the provider. Anderson Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seven-year port barrel stoutâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one of just 150 bottles ever madeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;went all too fast. Boulevard Brewingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s imperial pilsner elicited gasps. Joe told me that overwhelmed beer geeks may be brought to tears when a particularly special bottle is poured. How simple the world seemed that night, and for anyone whose life may be temporarily shrouded by gloom and darkness, despair and heartache, take solace in this: happiness can be found in bottles. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen it.

I awoke as the blue and gold shades of dawn smeared the sky. Smoldering campfires spewed trails of smoke that hung silently overhead, like plumes over a battlefield.

Bottles half finished sat among a hundred empties. I tasted several, rode into town for coffee and returned to camp around 9am.

The gang was up, stretching out lazily in the sun, and for breakfast we had oatmeal stouts, barleywines and other dense malty ales. By the time the Founderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kentucky Breakfast Stout found its way to my glass, I had downed at least a pint of strong beer. So had all the geeks, and the festival was still two hours away.

Before 11am, we filled our cups with imperial stout, aged Christmas ale, spiced Belgian blonde and ginger mead. It was noon somewhere. We swirled, sniffed and sipped, and began the mile walk to the fairgrounds to do battle with the masses, to taste still more beer, to queue up in lines 50 long to receive four-ounce pours, to soak up the booze with burgers and burritos, and, at the end of it all, to walk back to camp in the sun and enjoy another night of special bottles, riotous reverie and yet more enjoyment of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest flavors in one of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most beautiful valleys. That day, the whole world was a festival.

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But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop there; follow it up with an Oyster-cue on May 30 at the Oysterpalooza at Rocker Oysterfellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Valley Ford. This third annual event features six live bands, including local-girlâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;made-good Ash Rieter, the Crux, the Easy Leaves, Green String Farm Band, Miss Lonely Heart and the Stratospheres. The motto â&#x20AC;&#x153;eat, drink and be merryâ&#x20AC;? is one to live by with a selection of barbecue goodies, draught beer and more local wines on Oysterfellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s patio.

Pinot & Paella, May 29, 11am to 2pm. Arista Winery, 7015 Westside Road, Healdsburg. $65. 707.473.0606.

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Roll down the car window and breathe in the heady scent of the cooling earth. Then the slanting sunlight reveals a roadside building on the right, a little old house really.

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The ďŹ ve-month-old restaurant only takes reservations for parties of ďŹ ve or more, and that means youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll likely have to wait. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OK. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little hangout area just inside the door where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll share space with other eager diners. Order a glass of wine from the well chosen local wine list and snack on a few of the great starters.

When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ďŹ nally seated, it feels like joining a cozy, slightly buzzed dinner party already in progress. The shabby-chic chandeliers, hardwood ďŹ&#x201A;oors, walls painted a warm yellow and the distinctive artwork give the two dining rooms a homey, welcoming feel.

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9890 Bodega Hwy., Sebastopol. 707.861.9030.

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Hemmed in between elevated freeways and the river in a revitalized historic district, the Milwaukee Public Market is that burgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s equivalent of Napaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oxbow.

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What about Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own heritage grape? In a liquor and wine shop in Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gentriďŹ ed Andersonville district, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s found under the sign, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Red Zinfandel.â&#x20AC;? I ask the clerk whether such a distinction is mandatory in these parts, but he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m getting at. Any North Bay wines in the upscale Pastoral, which promises artisan cheese and wine in the heart of the Loop? Kudos to Healdsburgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Banyan Wines, and Martin Rayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second label Angeline. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all.

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epair California was just an idea. Then, overnight, it was the not-for-profit messiah of the Golden State and the darling of nearly every major newspaper on the West Coast. In 2008, the Bay Area Council announced an idea to fix Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political crisis that was so simple and so glisteningly democratic that it was sure to fail. Called Repair California, the plan was to convene a new state constitutional convention, an idea that outshone every other proposed initiative on the 2010 ballot before its star went dark. As fast as it arrived, Repair California was gone, leaving a stunned populace to wonder, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What happened to our revolution?â&#x20AC;?

Political movements often expire before their ideas can be tested, but in the story of Repair Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rise and fall, there is a larger explanation for why California itself is fading.

Despite its apparent ties to money and power, the group went broke. Despite positive response from the public and media, Repair California couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get enough people to sign its petition. The very forces it sought to change overwhelmed the movement.

On its website, abandoned since February

of this year, the group argued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only way to make sweeping, holistic changes to our state government and wrestle our state back from special interestsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is through a limited constitutional convention.â&#x20AC;?

As envisioned by Repair California, a limited constitutional convention would call together a group of regular citizens for what essentially is a big brainstorming session. Delegates to the convention would propose changes related only to government, state spending and budgeting, elections and lobbying, and would vote on the spot on those changes. The Legislative Analystâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office estimated that it could cost taxpayers as much as $95 million to hold such a convention. If that sounds expensive, consider the current state budget gap of more than $18 billion.

Repair Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s effort is not the first time a constitutional convention has been proposed. In 1879, not 30 years after California joined the union, the state actually did convene a convention, and in 1934 the state authorized one, but did not convene.

At least five more efforts were made before 1950, according to Jeffrey Lustig, a professor of government and political science at Cal State Sacramento, and the editor of the recently published collection of essays Remaking California: Reclaiming the Public Good. The 1879 convention ensured that future efforts to rewrite the state would not be so easy. Where the

Legislature used to need a simple majority, it now needs a two-thirds majority to call a convention.

In 1911, voters won the use of the initiative, which was supposed to be a tool against specialinterest buy-outs of the Legislature. It has been used with mixed results over the years, and recently has caused more harm than good. There are today more than 500 amendments to the California state constitution. The federal constitution, a document that is more than 100 years older, has only 27 amendments, including the Bill of Rights.

In all this mess, the impact of Proposition 13 canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be overstated. Approved in 1978, it basically froze property tax revenues, including commercial property; introduced the two-thirds majority mandate needed to pass a budget or raise taxes that has since strangled California government; and shifted control of taxes and school funding from local governments to the state. When the state failed to pass a budget or adequately fund schools, voters started passing such initiatives as Proposition 98, which dictates how general fund monies should be spent. About 40 percent goes to education, thanks to Prop. 98. Once a novel political tool of the people, the initiative process has become just another tool for big business and big unions.

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state is so institutionally crippled that it canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be fixed incrementally. It all began with an August 2008 editorial by Bay Area businessman Jim Wunderman that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle. Titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;California Government Has Failed Us,â&#x20AC;? Wundermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s editorial invoked the likes of Thomas Jefferson, and unapologetically aired Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dirty laundry list of institutional failures. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is our duty to declare that our California government is not only broken, it has become destructive to our future,â&#x20AC;?

Wunderman declared. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Therefore, are we not obligated to nullify our government and institute a new one?â&#x20AC;?

Wunderman is not the most likely candidate to organize a peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political revolution. He heads the Bay Area Council, which represents the business interests of Google, PG&E and United Airlines, to name a few. But that summer in 2008, after legislators again failed to get a budget passed on time, the business community was thinking of ways to get around the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toxic two-thirds majority vote.

The effect was magic. The commentary was so well received that the Bay Area Council sent one of its own, John Grubb, to be the face of Repair California. Newspapers across the state, as well as such national magazines as The New Yorker and The Economist, were soon spilling free ink to advance the idea, and Repair Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own polling showed that 70 percent of Californians of all political ideologies supported a constitutional convention. (A later Field Poll showed about 50 percent of Californians in support.)

Soon, the group had a staff of close to 250 people working on two initiatives for the November 2010 ballot: the first would change the state constitution to allow voters, instead of legislators, to call a constitutional convention and rewrite the rules of the state. The second would actually call the first constitutional convention in California in more than a hundred years. If the initiative process got California into this mess, the theory went, perhaps it could get California out of it.

There was one major hitch in this plan: the reluctance of professional signature-gathering companies to collect the names on a petition that could put them out of business.

In a recent telephone interview, Repair Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spokesman, John Grubb, gets right to the point. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were blacklisted,â&#x20AC;? he says.

This year may be remembered as the one big money stopped being subtle about its domination of state politics. The gubernatorial and senate races are all about the tech billionaires and millionaires this round. And such ballot initiatives as Propositions 16 and 17, have been introduced, promoted and funded by single corporations. More to the point, it seems that only the extremely wealthy can afford the privilege of democracy.

Repair California argued that the state has outgrown the initiative process as it currently exists. To get an idea on the ballot requires signatures from 8 percent of the voters who turned out in the previous gubernatorial election. For 2010

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constitutional amendments, that magic number is 694,354 signatures. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It comes out to about one in 10 California residents that have to sign a petition,â&#x20AC;? Grubb says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way you can do that without signature gatherers, even with a big grassroots effort.â&#x20AC;?

Signature gathering is like a shadow industry, ostensibly operating in the open with independent contractors parked at folding tables in front of grocery stores and college libraries, while the real deals are brokered in boardrooms.

There are at least five such signaturegathering firms in California. Kimball Petition Management and National Petition Management are among the largest of these groups, and each has its specialtyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;union issues, socially conservative causes, socially liberal causes, etc. Each signature can cost between $1 and $1.50, depending on several factors, including the deadline to get on a ballot.

When Repair California was circulating its two petitions, Grubb said the going rate was $1.35 per signature, with about 35 cents of that going to the actual gatherer. Repair was looking at close to $1 million just to gather the signatures needed. The service, which Grubb argues is critical to getting an issue on the ballot, can be too pricey for any real grassroots organization.

Repair California, however, was not a poor grassroots group, and when California petitioners refused to circulate the initiatives, Repair bussed in independent signature gatherers from Oregon and Arizona at an additional cost. Grubb says those workers were routinely harassed.

The biggest obstacle to Repair California turned out not to be the signature-gathering companies themselves. Grubb alleges that signature gatherers would not circulate his petition for fear that a constitutional rewrite would fix the initiative problemâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the problem being that the process is owned by special interests.

Fred Kimball, head of Kimball Petition Management, which is the oldest signaturegathering firm in California, did not return calls from the Bohemian, but he went on record in the Feb. 4, 2010, issue of The Economist about his feelings for a proposed constitutional convention, saying flatly, â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a business, I oppose it.â&#x20AC;?

Indeed, not everyone wants change.

Groups that passed initiatives to ensure themselves funding or that helped pass laws for crime victims certainly donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to see their work undone in a sweeping constitutional rewrite. The same is true for such anti-tax activists as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (Jarvis was responsible for Prop. 13).

Kris Vosburgh, a spokesman for the Howard Jarvis Tax Association, says that the group did not support a constitutional convention for fear that the two-thirds threshold for passing new taxes would be repealed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been suspicious of those efforts,â&#x20AC;?

Vosburgh says of the convention talk, â&#x20AC;&#x153;because it could make it easier to raise taxes.â&#x20AC;?

But professor Jeffrey Lustig says he was intrigued by the idea of a convention called by the people. He was so intrigued, he says,

that he put the book together as a resource for people when the debate over specific constitutional changes began. Nonetheless, he was surprised, even skeptical, by the Bay Area Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support for it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the last 20 years,â&#x20AC;? Lustig explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;while public services have been ravaged, there has been a vast redistribution of wealth upward.

Even though they talk about the system being broken, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been working for some people.â&#x20AC;?

Grubb says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that simple. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dysfunctional governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at some point itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not helping anyone,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of our members were able to see that.â&#x20AC;?

Repair California was breaking new ground when it suggested that citizens be the ones to fix the state government. Using the initiative process was basically a new approach. The plan to elect delegates from each community in the state was not entirely democratic, as it called on county officials to choose delegates. It was also extremely complicated. Several pages of the proposal were devoted solely to the process of picking delegates. But in true â&#x20AC;&#x2122;08 style, the initiative didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t propose any specific changes, just change itself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The actual proposal to call a convention was way overdetailed,â&#x20AC;? Lustig says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was almost a parody of the problems they were trying to solve.â&#x20AC;?

There were other problems too, like funding. How a group sponsored by some of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most powerful businesses could run out of money is sort of a mystery. The group was able to raise almost $600,000, according to Grubb, and another $1 million in pledged donations. Then, he alleges, the money dried up as would-be corporate donors received threats from unions and members of the state Legislature.

Grubb would not mention specific legislators or companies, but said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Members of the Legislature told companies they would be iced out if they supported the convention.â&#x20AC;? Grubb also says he received death threats over his work. The very same institutional failures crippling the state also brought Repair California to its knees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were challenging the status quo,â&#x20AC;?

Grubb says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were challenging the biggest unions and the biggest companies in California.â&#x20AC;?

Repair Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ties to business, the very ties that normally make initiative efforts possible, turned out to be its undoing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If they were a grassroots movement,â&#x20AC;? Lustig points out, â&#x20AC;&#x153;they would have had volunteers out there gathering signaturesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they were thinking in a very corporate way.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would be really surprised if there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t another effort,â&#x20AC;? Grubb says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;certainly in time for the 2012 elections.â&#x20AC;?

Like many initiatives, Repair Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy could be in the seed it has planted. It may have been an expensive experiment in selfgovernance, but something may yet grow of it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would guess that they were way out ahead of the rest of the state,â&#x20AC;? Lustig opines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bay Area Council, being representative of high-tech, bio-tech, alternative energy, I would guess that they were very forward-thinking,â&#x20AC;?

But, Lustig warns, â&#x20AC;&#x153;any serious change has to come from the ground up. It has to be grassroots.â&#x20AC;?

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uba is in the air. The island nation may be experiencing a mellowing phaseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; at least in regards to its relationship with America. During his presidential campaign, Mr. Obama promised to meet with Cuban president RaĂşl Castro, and there is a sense that the possibility once again exists to match the island with the world.

A small slice of that promise laps up against North Bay shores when the Sonoma County Museum opens a provocative new exhibit of contemporary Cuban art on June 5 with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Polaridad Complementaria: Recent Works from Cuba.â&#x20AC;? Part of a traveling exhibit, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Polaridadâ&#x20AC;? comprises some 60 pieces in all media from an elite group of 24 mid-career Cuban artists.

Cuban-born photographer Javier Machado, now living in Oakland, gets a mini-retrospective of his own, titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Optic Fiber,â&#x20AC;? in the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upstairs gallery, and the institution fulfills its mandate for a local historical viewpoint with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Red Sonoma,â&#x20AC;? a look at communismâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past in the North Bay. Former Cuban president Fidel Castro had an unlikely affinity for the arts. As a result, Cuban children who show early talent are shunted out of pure academic practice into a field where they might more naturally excel. The government sponsors art galleries and, in a largely successful attempt to bring

the world to it, Cuba now produces a widely hailed biennial exhibit every two to three years.

Sonoma County Museum education director Jennifer Bethke helped to organize the touring showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stop in Santa Rosa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can be supported by the state if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing state-friendly art, and not many of these artists are,â&#x20AC;? she explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not unusual for them to be jailed for short periods of time. In the underground economy, now that Cuba is on the international art market map, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible for them to make a living.â&#x20AC;?

Influenced by Spanish, African and Caribbean cultures and motifs, Cuban artists often reflect the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s international isolation and the constant presence of the ocean. The nearness of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vast capitalistic riches and its ancillary indifference figure largely. After the Soviet Union began its collapse in 1991, Cuba lost its super-power support and entered what the country euphemistically calls its â&#x20AC;&#x153;special period.â&#x20AC;? Most of the young artists in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Polaridadâ&#x20AC;? show came of age during this time, and their work is emphatically marked by it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a generation turning their eyes to the international art world and making criticism of the government, though not across the board, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an interesting part of the story,â&#x20AC;? Bethke says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a complicated and interesting ambiguity. There is this pervading sense that this was an opportunity lost or squandered after the revolution, once things turned to a Soviet-style dictatorship.â&#x20AC;?

Machado made his name doing blackand-white street photography in Cuba. Once ensconced in the Bay Area, Machado continued his work in black and whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;originally chosen because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fairly inexpensive mediumâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; moving into studio portraiture, creating darkly illuminated portraits in which he consciously chooses to emulate Rembrandtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use of light and shadow to limn the images, many of them selfportraits in a variety of masks and costumes, that examine how and where one fits into the world. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His newest works are these large-scale portraits that are essentially about Cuban identity, Cuban-American identity,â&#x20AC;? Bethke says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an interesting network of issues, as he transitions to being more of a American and less of a Cuban.â&#x20AC;?

Other artists in the show include rapidly rising stars Yoan Capote, RenĂŠ PeĂąa, Abel Barroso and AimeĂŠ Garcia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In addition to all the political stuff, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just interesting art,â&#x20AC;? Bethke says of the exhibit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a show that resonates on two levels: the fascinating political questions, freedom of expression, socio-political questions; on the other hand, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just really fabulous contemporary art.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Polaridad Complementaria,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Optic Fiberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Red Sonomaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; open with a public reception on Friday, June 4, from 5pm to 7pm at the Sonoma County Museum. 425 Seventh St., Santa Rosa. 707.579.1500.

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here has been a great deal of buzz about the big multimedia Peter Pan winging its way into San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Threesixty Theatre from its successful London run. Anticipation for the high-tech extravaganza has been so high, in fact, that it caused the producers of Marin Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mountain Play to scrap their own plans to stage Peter Pan this summer amid worries that, if it came down to choosing one Peter over another, North Bay families would choose the fancy eye-candy with the dazzling high-fly effects. This was probably a good call.

The question, of course, is whether or not Peter Pan is equal to all of its hypeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the high ticket price. As an â&#x20AC;&#x153;event,â&#x20AC;? something akin to a few hours at a marine park or a day at the circus, a professional baseball game or a fireworks display, this Peter Pan certainly delivers its share of oohs and aahs. As theater, however, the show is a severely hit-and-miss affair.

The script adaptation by Tanya Ronder blends J. M. Barrieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original nonmusical stage play with bits and bobs lifted from Barrieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much better novel, retaining many of the authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edgier observations, stuff that is scrubbed from most family-friendly productions. That said, the scriptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sharpness ebbs and flows drastically. One moment, where the Indian princess thanks Peter for saving her by performing a sexy lap dance, is nothing short of bizarre.

Overall, the play is well acted but badly paced and sloppily directed by Ben Harrison.

Brilliant flashes of art direction are mixed with stunningly unconvincing projected animations. After all, those animated surroundings, projected all around the audience using the theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fancy 360-degree technology, is the current catnip.

The flying scenes are lovely, with the

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landscape of London and the nightscape of the heavens whooshing past as the children appear to swoop under bridges and over housetops.

But after that, the producers canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think of very much to do with their bag of tricks. A second act scene involving a pair of children swimming through the lagoon among animated fishes and sub-par Cirque du Soleil mermaids is pretty but mainly just slows down the story.

Mostly, the projections serve to throw scenery up around the tentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;bedroom walls, Neverland trees, the bow and stern of a pirate shipâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but the effect is more clumsy than inspired. And once the adrenaline rush of that initial night flight is over, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard not to notice that the animation is chillingly fake and cold, closely resembling that of the video game Myst. While children will likely be utterly transported by the show, the adults who shelled out the bucks might feel that there is a bit of bait-and-switch going on.

Ultimately, the best parts of the show have nothing to do with the techno-wizardry. Itxaso Morenoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s punkish Tinkerbell is delightfully bizarre. The famous ticking crocodileâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a massive two-person puppet driven by lowriding bicyclesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is incredibly satisfying, with teeth made of clothespins and a roar that shakes the seats. And as Captain Hook, British actor Jonathan Hyde (Titanic, Jumanji, Ananconda) is everything a Hook should be, until the otherwise sharp-witted script fails him, giving him one of the lamest exit lines ever forced upon kid litâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most imposing and attractive villain.

In the end, oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s satisfaction with Peter Pan will depend largely on what one expects.

Based on its marketing campaign, I expected a dazzling night of state-of-the-art theater. What I got was an above-average county-fair attraction. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Peter Panâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; runs through the end of summer at the Threesixty Theatre in Ferry Park, San Francisco. $30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$85. 888.772.6849. www.peterpantheshow.com.

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irector Ken Loach has been nobly serving the cause of the proletariat with social-realist films for so long that he has earned the right to make a crowd pleaser. The genial Looking for Eric is just that. Eric (the palindromic Steve Evets), a depressed, skinny Manchester postie, gets his groove back through the good counsel of imaginary pal Eric Cantona (playing himself), deemed here â&#x20AC;&#x153;the greatest footballer who ever lived.â&#x20AC;?

Like a Conrad hero, Eric is marked by a failure of nerve 30 years ago, and now his past has come home to haunt him. Ericâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grownup daughter, Sam (Lucy-Jo Hudson), needs some help taking care of her baby. She reaches out to both Eric and his long-estranged ex-wife, Lily (Stephanie Bishop), whom Eric has been avoiding for decades. Ericâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emotional crisis is detected by his bald, pudgy pal Meatballs (John Henshaw), who forms a makeshift menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group to help Eric out.

All the fellas are supposed to get in touch with a spirit guide. Ericâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice is obvious: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kingâ&#x20AC;? Cantona, the postmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idol ever since the French footballerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stint at Manchester United in the mid-1990s. While smoking some marijuana by himself, Eric the postman is visited by Eric the soccer star, who materializes from a poster, just as Bogart did in the Woody Allen/Herbert Ross film Play It Again, Sam. Through Cantonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good advice, Eric starts to retrieve himself from a 30-yearlong wrong turn, returning to the moment before he broke.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know jack about soccer, although Loachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movie just about convinced me of what is so great about the game. However, I can guess what sort of charisma a Frenchman would have to have to win the admiration of so many working-class British football fans.

Watching clips of Cantona play, one marvels at his preternatural ability to see when to kick and when to pass. Loach may have picked Cantona to be a guide because of an incident

in the playerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lore: how he told reporters that he went to play soccer in England because his psychiatrist advised him to do it.

The Francophobia endemic in American and English films has contributed to the death of the romantic Frenchman onscreen; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been replaced by the bloodless ditherer and the dialect-comedy clown. Cantona, a Marseillean with Sardinian roots, is an ugly/ handsome smolderer. In him, one sees the calm, debonair warmth that made moviegoers respond to French actors for decades.

Cantona had a role in the 1998 feature Elizabeth. He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stand out there, yet heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a natural for the camera, and he makes a believable mentor to a man in real pain.

Looking for Eric gets a little more fantastic in the last third, when the crowd-pleasing tricks arrive. The postman has two stepchildren from an apparently disastrous second marriage. The boys are going bad from neglect and falling under the control of a sadistic local criminal. Cantonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exhortations to â&#x20AC;&#x153;trust your teamâ&#x20AC;? convince Eric to take some extralegal action, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when I started to feel slightly ambiguous about this film.

Loach, generally a pretty strict left-wing director (Poor Cow, Raining Stones, et al.) seems here to be turning to the methods we Americans use to deal with our own feelings of powerlessness: visualization, life coaches and fantasies of vigilante action.

This is just an undertone, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as important as Loachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s often loving look at the city of Manchester, and the talk, the humor and the pubs therein. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a male world with sternness behind the fellowship, clear from the William Demerest-like gargle of Henshaw, running his menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group and urging his pals to think of â&#x20AC;&#x153;someone who totally loves you without conditions, right?â&#x20AC;? in a sergeant-majorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bark. This is a soulful movie, but its feet are on the ground. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Looking for Ericâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; opens on Friday, May 28, at the Smith Rafael Cinemas, 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael.

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Loud & Rich Whenever and wherever the multitalented Richard Thompson takes the stage, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cause for celebration. The virtuoso guitarist and poignant lyricist has been amazing audiences for over 40 years, from his days in the British folk group Fairport Convention to his amusing recent project 1,000 Years of Popular Music, and has shown not one sign of burning out. With certified classics such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Down Where the Drunkards Roll,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beeswingâ&#x20AC;? and the dexterous epic â&#x20AC;&#x153;1952 Black Vincent Lightning,â&#x20AC;? Thompson is always dazzling, if a bit serious. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where Loudon Wainwright III and his canny sense of humor come in. Still best known for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dead Skunk (In the Middle of the Road),â&#x20AC;? Wainwright has since 2005 released a fun-loving album of new, overlooked material every year or so. The two share a bill on Saturday, May 29, at the Uptown Theatre. 1350 Third St., Napa. 8pm. $37â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$47. 707.259.0123.

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The rakish singer and guitarist Michael Richardson, well loved locally for his precise, passionate emo trio Benton Falls, fell victim to legal wrangling with Deep Elm Records when Benton Falls called it a day in 2004. The fight dammed up Richardsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creative output, with only the occasional solo show in its wakeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; attended by cultish, faithful fans. Richardson has since moved to Echo Park in Los Angeles, and the change of pace has inspired a new supergroup of sorts called Paper Hands with fellow Santa Rosa ex-pats Kevin Buchholz, from Kid Dynamo, and Dio McLeod, from Edaline. Based on early demos, Paper Handsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; brand of indie rock has only slightly mellowed with age and is blessedly uncorrupted by Southern California. They play with the New Trust, Helen Earth Band and Hanalei on Saturday, May 29, at the North Bay Film and Art Collective. 99 Sixth St., Santa Rosa.

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Vintage Vagabonds Sometimes, the perfect pairing of band and venue makes a show impossible to ignore. Such is the case this weekend when Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys pull their vintage aluminum tour bus up to the dusty driveway of Rancho Nicasio to present the bygone sounds at the bygone roadhouse. Staunchly dedicated to preserving and presenting the vintage sounds

of Western swing, country boogie and rockabilly, the Fly-Rite boys play exclusively era-authentic instruments and dress in the snappy wardrobe of old-time show bands. Though decidedly retroâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; their own LPs stand strong alongside Ernest Tubb and Spade Cooley recordsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they write their own new material with the talent and f lair of the greats they so admire.

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Who needs â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em! Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take our $20 Weber knock-off and throw on some Howlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Wolf, thanks, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in this same spirit that the KRSH Outdoor Barbecue abides. This weekend is the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first of the popular free series, with an all-local, all-blues lineup that pairs the C.T. Cruisers with five local luminariesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;namely, vocalists Cathy Slack and Linda Ferro, guitarists Levi Lloyd and Jody Counter, and keyboardist Ron Lacey. Laceyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s played with the Temptations, the Drifters, Lou Rawls and more, and Counter just made the district finals in Guitar Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;King of the Bluesâ&#x20AC;? contest.

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For a group that literally began as a party band, such a response makes sense. But Weers does have some serious goals for the new album, released just last week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope this album gives us a little bit more respect from you guys, the critics,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We kind of get hounded on for being just another ska, weed-toking, reggae-punk band. But I feel like we have a little bit more substance than that, and I hope this album kind of proves it.â&#x20AC;?

Prove It is the ďŹ fth album from the Santa Cruz band. By 2004, when the group had released their third CD, Gettinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Filthy, the Expendables made a pivotal connectionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with Slightly Stoopid. That ska-rock group took the Expendables on tour and eventually signed the group to its record label, Stoopid Records, releasing the Expendables self-titled CD in 2007.

Weers, in fact, credits Slightly Stoopid with inspiring the Expendablesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; blend of ska and heavy metal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the real eye-opener and mix of the music was [from] Slightly Stoopidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Longest Barrel Ride album,â&#x20AC;? Weers offers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a song on thereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s calledâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but it goes from reggae to a metal thing. I was like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wow, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; They never really did it much after that album, but I think we took that and then just created song after song after song that has that kind of ďŹ&#x201A;ow between mellow to metal.â&#x20AC;?

The band is happy enough with Prove It that it began playing several of the new songs on its winter tour earlier this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We get tired of playing all of our old stuff, and the new stuff is really fun for us,â&#x20AC;? Weers says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all feel this is hopefully going to be our best album yet.â&#x20AC;?

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4]Y^h cWT BX[T]RT You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really listen to that full-discography torrent, will you?

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his isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t one of those tired rants about the perils of illegal downloading and how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bankrupting the artists and killing the record stores and decimating the music industry. Truth be told, the artists are making up lost revenue in increased concert ticket prices, the record stores are reverting back to the morepopular-than-ever vinyl format, and after years of bloated excess, most everybody concurs that the music industry deserved to be decimated.

Nor is this an old-man rant about the ease of illegal downloading and the valueless clicking that kids these days do and how in my time we had to walk two miles in the snow to Record Mart only to find that, sorry, the new Depeche Mode album was out of stock, and those crazy ADD-addled youths donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know what albums are anymore because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re wired up on the YouTubeEMusicFacebookPandora TwitterGorillaVsBearStereogum sites.

No, this is none of those things, because illegal downloading is here to stay. It was born of the music industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to kill the LP and increase its profit margin 1,000 percent by foisting the digital technology of CDs on music fans, the same technology that eventually made possible the mp3 and the RapidShare files and the torrents that the

recording industry hates so much. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little like the United States providing chemical weapons to Iraq in the 1980s and then fighting against them in the aughts.

But I digress. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s discussion for those addicted to the little, blue frog icon in their dock next to Audio Hijack and EasyWMA is on the rise of huge complete-discography torrents, and the simple fact that there can possibly be too much of a good thing. Like a bathtub full of IPA poured into a beer bong.

Like a hundred browser windows filled with beautiful naked women. Like a heaping pile of spaghetti shoveled onto the table by a man in a red suit and bowtie.

No one really wants these excesses. So why, I wonder, do we continue to fall for the idea that downloading a gigantic torrent of a bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complete discography is going to be in any way rewarding?

Say youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been loving Lady Gagaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alejandro,â&#x20AC;? and your acute powers of perception deliver an impulsive yearning for the song itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loosely based on, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fernandoâ&#x20AC;?

by ABBA. You cue it up on your torrent browser. You scan search results for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fernandoâ&#x20AC;? itself (5.2 MB), for ABBA Gold (70.5 MB), for Greatest Hits (60.4 MB). And then you see the motherlode. â&#x20AC;&#x153;ABBA Full Discography 320kbps 65CD,â&#x20AC;? it reads. 8.7 GB! Jesus, this rules! Or so you think.

Just as our stomach canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t process too many shovelfuls of spaghetti, just as our libidos canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t process all those naked women, just as our livers canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t process all that beer, the musical receptors in our brain just simply cannot process 8.7 GB of ABBA. A friend of mine fell victim to such temptation recently. He wanted to hear a song from Depeche Mode, and was instead lured by the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complete discography. It only required a couple hours of time and no real effort on his part, andâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;voilĂ ! Every note Depeche Mode had ever recorded was at his fingertips. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But you know what?â&#x20AC;? he said afterward. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Depeche Mode has a lot of horrible songs.â&#x20AC;?

All heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d wanted was to relive the moment he first heard â&#x20AC;&#x153;Somebodyâ&#x20AC;? and feel a warm, loving adolescent feeling that the world could be caring and kind. Now heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got crap like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Better Days (Basteroid Dance Is Gone Vocal Mix)â&#x20AC;? and all the throwaway B-sides from Ultra, not to mention Ultra itself and all the other lousy late-era records Depeche Mode ever made.

In a way, this is no burden. It takes up invisible space. But it is invisible music on an invisible aural plane, a cold, dead piece of silicon storage, the exact opposite of what he wanted to feel. Invisible or not, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s there. And most of it sucks.

My friend has two choices here. One is to spend the next year listening to Depeche Mode and nothing but Depeche Mode, evaluating and ranking and reorganizing and playlisting the virtually insurmountable glob of music with which heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s saddled himself. His other option is to drag the folder to the trash and start clean with Some Great Reward (50.2 MB).

Or, God forbid, he could walk to a record store and actually fork over the cost of a burrito for a used copy of Catching Up with Depeche Mode, and go through life piece by piece instead of hoarding it all.

Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that the best way to live, anyway?

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The play begins with a dinner party featuring several historical and literary women: 19th-century explorer Isabella Bird, legendary 13th-century Pope Joan, Chaucerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Griselda, 13th-century Japanese concubine Lady Nijo and Brueghelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dull Gret. The party is thrown to celebrate the recent promotion of Marlene, who runs the Top Girls Employment Agency. After the hilariously conceived, philosophically power-packed dinner, the actresses segue into various office workers or job seekers, allowing Churchill to tease and test her way through ideas of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s equality, glass ceilings and the choices women are often forced to make in order to work alongside men.

Though some of the smaller performances are weak, the overall production is fine, offering twice as much grist for thought as most other plays. Then again, presenting challenging theater is what Churchill does.

Take, for example, her 1972 comedy Owners, running through May 30 in a makeshift storefront space in San Rafael. Produced by Marinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fearless AlterTheater Ensemble and directed by Elizabeth Williamson, the show follows a stunning, escalating series of encounters between an obsessive property owner and the renters she is attempting to evict. Her goal is not commerce; she once had an affair with the man of the house, and she hopes to blackmail him into resuming their relationship.

The resulting anticsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;involving arson, adultery and forced adoptionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are aggressively unpleasant, and yet strangely riveting. The cast is excellent, and the clever use of the storefrontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cavernous space lends atmosphere to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;real estateâ&#x20AC;? vibe of the show.

The star, of course, is Churchill. With both of these productions, this testy, tenacious writer demonstrates the intellect and creativity that has always made her work so fascinating, challenging and important.

Top Girls runs through June 20. www.rossvalleyplayers.org.

Owners continues through May 30. www.altertheater.org.

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An open (breakup) letter to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sex and the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ear Carrie, We need to talk. I always wanted to be youâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the writer with the flirty puns, skyscraper stilettos and fabulous friends, with New York City at your beck and call. But after watching your turn in Sex and the City 2, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but wonder if we should see other people.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just that I feel like I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t relate to you anymore.

You used to understand exactly what I was going through. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why we hit it off so well in the first place, back when you had credit card debt and that one loser dumped you via Post-It note. But now that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re jet-setting to Abu Dhabi, lounging in $22,000-a-night hotel suites and pouting when your husband wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accompany you to movie premieres, we just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anything in common anymore.

Sure, our relationship was about escapism. Those early days were amazing, you in vintage Dior and the untapped utopia of New York just waiting. But you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even offer me that unadulterated, cotton candy fantasy anymore. This time, the sweet, syrupy goodness came with too much bitter realityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sexism, infidelity and lots of ethnocentrism.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got everything you ever wanted and moreâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the palatial closet, the friends and the man. But you arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happy. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re whinier than ever. And, quite honestly, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re killing my buzz. I mean, you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been this melodramatic since you cheated on your perfect boyfriend with your not-so-perfect ex back in season three.

Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not you. Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s me. It could be that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still too immature to find heavy-handed jokes about menopause funny, or that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m too stuck up to appreciate your raunchier-than-ever sense of humor. Maybe my expectation that you offer a reasonably cohesive plot line was unfairly high. Maybe.

Frankly, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m worried about you, Carrie. You used to be so stylish, but these new outfits just arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t up to your normal standard. What was that black, feathery crown you were wearing? And do you really think all that black eyeliner is a good look for you? Also, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m concerned that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hitting the self-tanner bottle a little too hard these days.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean to be so critical, but I think we need some time apart. We go way back and I hate to call you overexposed, but even the best of friends can get tired of each other. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spent enough time together that I can predict half your jokes before you even make them.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a good long runâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;six seasons and two featurelength filmsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time we go our separate ways.

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