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The week’s events: a selective guide
CULTURE
Crush NICASIO
The Pugilist Is your marriage unfulfilling? Do your relatives piss you off? Ever want to split your boss’s lip? With bluesy rock-and-roll and a few jokes, Paul Thorn can ease your pain. Once a factory worker, skydiver and professional boxer before making it in music, Thorn’s between-song bluecollar humor is as much a reason to see his concerts as are his blues. Thoroughly Southern and thoroughly Americana, Thorn will play songs from all 10 of his albums in a two-night stand this weekend. If the music and laughs don’t do it for you, maybe you can stay late and ask the former Mid-South middleweight champion for some help with those back wages your boss owes you. Thorn plays Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 4 (8:30pm) and Aug. 5 (4pm), at Rancho Nicasio. 1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio. $27–$30. 415.662.2219.
M I L L VA L L E Y
Mitt on Crack All right, Newt Gingrich, you’re a ditzy bachelorette on a dating game show, and Herman Cain, Joe Biden and Ron Paul are the contestants. Freeze! What movie style is it, audience? Sci-fi? Go! Now, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney: find 20 unconventional uses for this cucumber! Barack Obama, dub Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry’s silent conversation! Freeze! Rick, now the room’s getting inexplicably warm. Even warmer! Go! No, unfortunately the 2012 election won’t do improv for you this weekend. But you can see the 2012 election interpreted through sketches, music and improv when the Holy City Zoo Players present an “Improvised Guide to the 2012 Election” this Saturday, Aug. 4, at 142 Throckmorton Theatre. 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. $16. 8pm. 415.383.9600.
SA N R A FA E L
Daddy Is Working During a set in Paris a few years ago, comedian Scott Capurro illustrated his job by drawing a line in the air with his fingers. “Line. Crossing it. Moving line,” he explained. Much of the rest of the set wouldn’t be tremendously wise to reprint in all its graphic detail, but really, should anyone be that offended by a gay man joking about gay sex in 2012 anyway? Watch Capurro move the line forward while expertly shutting down hecklers and stroking the microphone stand on Wednesday, Aug. 1, at George’s Nightclub. 842 Fourth St., San Rafael. $10–$15. 8:30pm. 415.226.0262.
S A N TA R O S A
Mad World
BEDHEAD Sean Hayes plays Long Meadow Ranch Winery on Aug. 5. See Concerts, p24.
Big-ass forehead. Squinty eyes all squished together. Mouth gaping like a shark’s, with nearly as many teeth. Caricature is funny because our brains do it already: to recognize thousands of people whose facial features differ only by millimeters, we exaggerate the two or three things that set them apart. Caricaturists like Tom Richmond, Mad magazine illustrator and winner of this year’s Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, just exaggerates a little more. Richmond gives caricature lessons and speaks about his new instructional book on Saturday, Aug. 4, at the Schulz Museum. 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. Class, $35–$40, 10am. Book signing, free, 2pm. 707.579.4452.
—Jay Scherf