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On March 31 the Sonoma County Coast MAC (Municipal Advisory Council) met with approximately 80 people from Bodega Bay, Jenner, Occidental and Timber Cove at the Bodega Bay Grange. The meeting was to inform residents about the coastal marathon to be held Sept. 29. Originally, Highway 1 was to be closed from Fort Ross to Bodega Bay. Because of public outcry, it was decided that the race would be a half marathon which would close one lane of Highway

One and begin at Jenner and end in Bodega Bay. At the meeting many people spoke vociferously against the race.

Concerns raised included environmental impacts, traffic, business shutdowns and a possibly slower emergency response times. Residents asked the race officials why the community wasn’t contacted first about this planned event. Efren Carrillo, the former 5th district supervisor, and Tina Wallis, the attorney for this event, were supposed to attend this meeting but failed to show up.

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How’s That Working Out? Since the ’80s, politicians have told us that a “pure capitalism” economy will solve every problem we have economically. An unregulated free market became more important than democracy to many politicians. Bill McKibben, former New York Times science writer and founder of the climate change organization 350.org, recently said that it “was unfortunate that political point of view developed” just when we needed a response to climate change.

Unfortunate or deliberate, how is that working out for us? Fossil fuel companies are the obvious companies that—had they been mildly regulated or taxed for their carbon footprint—we would be far better off today. This is really true of most, if not all big businesses. The more we consume what they produce, the more carbon is released into the atmosphere. Our worldwide ecosystem is breaking down, and now we are faced with needing to take drastic measures to prevent going over 2 degrees Celsius. So far the interpretation that “a completely free market solves everything” is still our religious type of belief and appears to be elevated even above the ideal of democracy.

Monday was Earth Day, and this year’s theme was extinction. Species are going extinct at a rapid rate—plants, animals, birds, insects, coral reefs, ocean life.

How’s that theory of unregulated growth of production resulting in more and more consumption working out for us?

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f animals suffer, so do we.

I say this not just because I’m an animal lover, but because bad food may give us cancer or troubled stomachs. It’s important to be animal guardians because cruelty or neglect is always unjust. It’s profoundly important to understand that people who harm animals usually end up hurting humans, too. Studies show a connection between animal cruelty and many other crimes, from drug and firearm offenses to battery and sexual assault, according to the Humane Society.

In an enlightening book that I highly recommend, called “Eating Animals” by Safran Foer, there is study after study of what really happens in many places that kill animals and then offer meat for sale. It states: “When Temple Grandin (inventor of more calming ways to treat cattle before slaughter) conducted an industry wide audit in 1996, her studies revealed that the vast majority of cattle slaughterhouses were unable to regularly render cattle unconscious with a single blow. After the head skinner, the carcass (cow) proceeds to the leggers who cut off the lower portions, says a line worker ‘it looks like they're trying to climb the walls.’”

But there are good things happening for animal protection. San Francisco is banning sales of fur, and even though rabbits are still mistreated, animal welfare advocates were pleased by SB 1604, also known as “Tommie’s Bill,” which increases the penalty for animal abuse from a misdemeanor to a felony.

Be kind, don’t turn your back on suffering. As Albert Einstein reflected late in his life in a letter to his daughter: “When I proposed the theory of relativity, very few understood me ...for love we live and die… This force explains everything and gives meaning to life. This is the variable that we have ignored for too long, maybe because we are afraid of love because it is the only energy in the universe that man has not learned to drive at will."

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BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME? The North Bay has been vocal against

Sen. Scott Weiner’s housing bill.

Local Controllers Behind the State Senate’s Split-Level Housing Plans BY TOM GOGOLA

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t’s the battle of the housing bills.

First, there’s SB 50, San Francisco Sen. Scott Weiner’s attempt to end local control over zoning decisions in “transit rich” areas of the state.

He proposed a similar bill last

year, SB 827, which was met with various levels of alarm and support among localities and housing activists—but died in committee.

Then there’s SB 4, Healdsburg Senator Mike McGuire’s response bill to Weiner’s bill. McGuire

says his bill seeks similar aims— to streamline the process for building high-desnity housing in transit-rich zones by giving the state a bigger hand in local zoning decisions—but of a less draconian nature, given the number and scope of the exemptions in SB 4.

McGuire, who helped kill Weiner’s bill last year in the Senate Transportation and Housing committee, put up a trio of housing-related bills this year as he was also elevated by Sen. Majority Leader Toni Atkins to his position as second in charge of the senate Democrats.

McGuire emphasizes workforce housing in his legislative package this year and criticized Weiner’s “one-size-fits-all” San Francisco– centric housing bill.

McGuire is also seeking a reanimation of the state’s redevelopment program, with the introduction last month of SB 5.

That bill aims to ramp up state and regional efforts at building middle and low-income housing.

With SB 4, he offers a rejoinder to Weiner’s bill, which has received surprising support from construction trade unions and the construction industry, along with “YIMBY” groups, while being condemned by Marin electeds, Marin Independent Journal columnists, and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Both bills passed through their respective committees earlier this month, with both men refraining from voting on the others’ proposal and pledging to hash out their differences in advance of hearings and committee votes on the bills this week.

Critics of Weiner’s proposed SB 827 last year variously accused him of being a “WIMBY” (Wall Street in My Backyard), and for abandoning any pretext of building an affordable-housing component into his bill. He responded with an upgraded bill this year that mandates a 20 percent affordable housing ratio in new housing developments in transit rich zones. The criticisms continue over the bill’s core push to end local control over sensitive zoning issues— even as a broad consortium of developers, housing advocates and unions have supported Weiner’s approach.

McGuire’s bill, by contrast, pushes for a 30 percent affordable housing set-aside

9 units, and 48 “micro units” of 500 square feet or less. The latter represents twice the number of low-income units required under Healdsburg’s zoning code.

The Replay plan also calls for a 53-room hotel with a spa, and the company specifically noted in its 2017 proposal to the city that it would “take advantage of . . . the future SMART transit center,” along with providing numerous amenities to the town that include a new park and commercial district. The low and very-low income housing would be managed by Eden Housing, a Hayward-based supportive housing nonprofit that’s emerged as a go-to agency for privatepublic partnerships that are simultaneously pro-business and pro–affordable housing.

Under McGuire’s bill, Healdsburg, with a population of 12,000, would be exempt from any future state-driven attempts to seize control of local zoning decisions in the downtown area.

Meanwhile in Santa Rosa, there’s a SMART station at Railroad Square but an empty former freight train depot lot across the tracks that’s been a hot potato property since the SMART District was created in 2002 and subsequently purchased the land.

In the aftermath of the 2017 wildfires, which saw Santa Rosa lose five percent of its housing stock, the property has continued to languish under the weight of known soil contamination and complex issues related to the five acre lot’s extensive title history, according to city documents and published reports on the Santa Rosa snafu.

SMART’s been trying to jumpstart trackside development where it’s been flagging— especially in Santa Rosa.

According to SMART documents, General Manager Farhoud Mansourian tried to fast-track a development deal with the Santa Clara–based ROEM Development Corp. in 2018 with a planned high-density development of 321 apartments, including 48 below-market rate units. But, citing title and oil contamination

issues, ROEM backed out of the deal early this year. Cornerstone Properties then stepped into the breach and bought the land from the SMART district for $5.4 million. A project plan is pending from Cornerstone.

What impact might a McGuireWeiner compromise bill have on Santa Rosa? It’s unclear. Santa Rosa has the highest population in the North Bay, at 175,000, which puts it squarely within the population parameters set by McGuire. But McGuire’s bill also offers exemptions to areas where there’s a high risk of wildfire.

Marin County has been especially vociferous in denouncing of Weiner’s bill and any legislative attempt to seize control over local zoning decisions.

Marin County has been especially vociferous in denouncing Weiner’s bill and any legislative attempt to seize control over local zoning decisions. Marin’s been the much-publicized flashpoint for local control over high-density development along the travel corridor, with its rich “NIMBY” culture of older homeowners who have resisted the renewed rush to develop, met with a new YIMBY push that’s highlighting an outsized cost of living in Marin that’s driven largely by its pricey

real estate market. San Rafael has seen several projects in recent years that demonstrate McGuire’s overall point about the “onesize-does-not-fit-all” approach to residential development.

In one pending project, San Rafael and the county have tentatively embraced a publicprivate partnership model that also makes use of support services from the nonprofit Eden Housing. Several years ago, BioMarin and the Whistlestop senior services facility both put forth ambitious redevelopment plans that were approved by city planners in San Rafael, only to have them face the regulatory buzzsaw of the county and the state—not to mention a funding wall for Whistlestop, thanks in part to the end of redevelopment.

Last year the entities combined their plans into one new project that would see a new plant for the local pharmaceutical firm, a residential tower for seniors and as well as parks, bikeways and other amenities. That plan is now being reviewed by numerous county departments, and an environmental review is underway.

The Biomarin-Whistlestop plan serves as a demonstration model for how local control can play out and provide the maximum benefit to all parties—including those who are having a hard time making the rent in Marin. But as the YIMBYs like to point out, Marin County has been very slow to approve new residential developments in the past decade and has exacerbated its own housing crisis through a local control regime that’s heavy on the control.

Weiner says his bill is designed to remediate the failings of local control when it comes to upzoning transit-rich areas, and it remains to be seen how or if Wednesdays hearings will address projects in the pipeline.

McGuire’s staying mum on the subject. “Nothing to report yet,” says McGuire spokeswoman Kerrie Lindecker. “But more to come on [April 24] when the bills come to [the] Governance and Finance Committee.”

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for new residential projects in transit-rich areas. That’s twice the average in the North Bay, and represents the Highway 101 and SMART train corridor.

Cities up and down the line have development projects in the pipeline that, in their own way, underscore the region’s dilemma when it comes to building affordable housing in a region with the highest valued real estate markets in the country that’s also facing a huge population boom in coming years to go along with various natural and man-made disasters.

McGuire’s bill would limit the new state zoning mandates to cities and towns with a population greater than 60,000 in a county with fewer than a million people.

Marin’s population is 250,000; Sonoma is about 500,000.

In McGuire’s district, his bill’s population parameters mean that while Santa Rosa, Petaluma and San Rafael could be subject to new state zoning mandates (and be impelled to approve, for example, three-story mixed-use apartments near SMART stations), smaller cities such as Cloverdale and his own high-end home base of Healdsburg would not.

In Healdsburg, home to Sonoma County’s priciest median home value ($888,000, according to the latest Zillow figures), the city council recently gave the green light to an ambitious build-out of an old lumber yard that’s located yards from a proposed SMART station scheduled to arrive in town by 2022. The plan is very Healdsburg to the extent that it cozies up to the tourism industry while making an earnest effort at dealing with its workforcehousing crisis.

Replay Healdsburg LLC is a corporation under the umbrella of Vancouver-based developer Replay Destinations, which is mostly in the hotel business.

Their public-private plan was approved by the city council and, when fully developed, will include 208 new residential dwellings split between 146 market-rate residencies, 40 multi-family rental

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Dining Charlene Peters

FARM TO FORK Most of the produce for Chalk Hill’s tasting menus,

like this celery root carpaccio, comes from nearby gardens.

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A (Dining) Room with a View Awaits at Chalk Hill Estate BY CHARLENE PETERS

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nown for its great views and lively white wines, Chalk Hill Estate winery also offers a lunch tasting menu in a dining room high atop the 1,300 acre property.

The meals are largely sourced from culinary gardens just below the dining room, a modern, glass-

walled building with sweeping views of the 300 acres of vines and points west.

Unlike many wineries that limit dining to wine club members, Chalk Hill Estate is open to the public. The 90-minute lunch goes for $120. For club members it’s $96. The experience, which includes a brief tour, is available by reservation, Tue-Sat at 11am.

The man behind Chalk Hill Estate is the late Fred Furth, an

aviator and litigation lawyer who used his funding from a few big litigation wins to purchase his first three acres of land here in the 1960s. He planted some vines and by 1974 had produced a small lot of Chardonnay. Eventually, he purchased all 1,300 acres.

In 2010, Bill Foley acquired the property as part of his evergrowing wine empire. Foley lives on the property half the year and produces 26,000 cases of

Sauvignon Blanc and 12,000 cases of Chardonnay.

In spite of a large, domed horse pavillon, horses on property are a thing of the past, and the stables have been renamed as “VegStables.” Three culinary gardens on the property grow 80 percent of the daily culinary tasting menu. Produce is harvested early each morning for the kitchen.

Chalk Hill’s executive chef is Dave Thater. Lunch began with a tiny cup of delicious chilled leek soup served with bits of crunchy pancetta on top. The 2017 Felta Chardonnay pulled out the citrus notes of the Meyer lemon oil drizzled over the next dish: earthy, paper-thin slices of celery root carpaccio. Each slice varied the strength of the lemon that changed the acidity of each sip of wine. A garlic-cilantro emulsion and edible pansies added to the complexity of the dish.

The next course of roasted acorn squash topped with mint pistou of macadamia nuts was the size of a deck of playing cards.

Underneath the block of squash was a bed of black lentils and wispy sheets of sliced carrots.

Ricotta salata, pressed and aged one week, was strewn over the dish like confetti.

The 2015 Pinot Noir provided the perfect tannin structure for this pairing and was the only wine served that wasn’t grown on the Chalk Hill Estate vineyards.

It’s a bit too warm for Pinot Noir here so the grapes come from the Russian River Valley.

Course three was a misobraised octopus with pickled shiitake mushrooms and a briny vegetable broth served in a fire engine red Le Creuset crock. The earthiness of a 2014 Syrah served with it was a great pairing for this hearty dish.

The New York strip loin topped with a Petit Verdot saba (wine must reduction) and a dusting Bodega Bay sea salt ended the meal on a strong note, made even better with a glass of the 2014 Clara’s Blend (namesake of Furth’s granddaughter), a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and a bit of Malbec and Petit Verdot.

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In France’s Loire Valley, the wonder twins of white and red wine are crisp Chenin Blanc and silky Cabernet Franc. There they get to express their true selves instead of playing referee between Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon.

The Paul Mathew Russian River Valley Cabernet Franc ($29) must be the softest, most supple (again, one hates to say, “feminine”) Cabernet Franc I’ve run across in these parts, showing pretty aromas of red licorice, soft leather and warmed olives. It’s the kind of easygoing bistro wine that plays nice, but doesn’t feel cheap.

This wine is made in 100 percent stainless steel, “and also made by a guy who predominately makes Pinot Noir,” says Barb Gustafson, coconspirator in Paul Mathew Vineyards with winemaker Mat Gustafson, “so he’s trying to bring up the elegance of the wine, instead of oaking it and making a big, huge, chunky wine.”

You can pair this wine with small bites by Boon Eat + Drink, Agriculture Public House, Big Bottom Market, A La Heart Catering and other food vendors at the fourth annual Spring Fling, a benefit for the Guerneville Chamber of Commerce, which could use a little benefit after a soaking wet winter.

They’re calling it their coming out party after the floods, says Gustafson. Should the weather warm enough to mandate a splash of spicy white, try Paul Mathew’s Russian River Valley Gewürztraminer ($24).

This is no sweet thing, like many wine drinkers expect of Gewürz. The aroma’s just a touch creamy, with accents of rosemary and juniper berry, and it drinks like a spicier Sauvignon Blanc, with zesty, kiwi cocktail acidity for days and a nice and dry finish.

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Retro Fool

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don’t know why exactly, but I’ve always been a collector.

My first memories are filled with scenes of me picking up rocks and keeping them in a box to look over later, or sifting through my parent’s change to find old coins to keep (I still have a penny from 1896). Once I got into comic books at 8, I found a hobby that let my imagination soar, and I collected several thousand comics from Spider-Man to Swamp Thing, lovingly placing each book in a plastic sleeve to protect them.

Living in the past with LaserDiscs

BY CHARLIE SWANSON

Yet, comic books soon got expensive, old pennies stopped turning up, and the rocks found their way back to the fields where they belonged. I was a collector in need of an obsession. In 2007, I found what I was looking for: a dead media format called LaserDisc.

An Affair to Remember

My love affair with LaserDisc movies began in Santa Rosa. It was in a thrift shop, Sacks on the Square, in the heart of Railroad Square. I saw a dozen or so vinyl records sitting together in the corner.

Or so I thought.

PRESS PLAY “This looks like a silver

LaserDisc Legacy

As I pulled the first title from the shelf, I mistook it for the motion picture soundtrack to Terry Gilliam's Brazil, the 1985 dystopian science fiction film in which a man stuck in a totalitarian world dreams of flying on metal wings. It’s one of my favorite films.

I had been toying with the idea of going whole hog on collecting vinyl records, as I already had a box of old LPs culled from thrift stores at home, so I grabbed the 12-inch record off the shelf to inspect the soundtrack.

What the heck is a LaserDisc? The retro tech goes back to 1958 when Dr. David Paul Gregg developed optical disc storage while working at California electronics company Westrex, a part of Western Electric. Gregg first developed a transparent videodisc covered by pits and ridges, with video and audio stored in analog format that was read by a laser rather than a needle such as vinyl records used.

He patented the technology in 1961 and again in 1969, when he sold the patent to Phillips, one of the largest tech and consumer electronics companies in the world. Phillips had already been working on a reflective disc system similar to Gregg’s, and they used his patent to develop LaserDiscs with the intention of selling it as a home video system.

To do this, Phillips teamed up with MCA, who owned the rights to the largest catalog of films at the time, to bring the LaserDisc technology to market, and they

demonstrated the technology first in 1972. Five years later, in 1978, Stephen Spielberg’s original blockbuster Jaws became the first LaserDisc movie to hit the market in North America.

At the time of its initial release, the medium was not actually called LaserDisc. Rather, MCA decided to call it DiscoVision, hoping to capitalize on the disco craze at the time, I suppose. Guess how long that name lasted? Not long.

Along with their own film catalogue, MCA also manufactured discs for other companies, including Paramount, Disney and Warner Brothers.

While home movie lovers in the early ‘80s were obsessed with the VHS vs. Beta conflict, film aficionados were flocking to LaserDisc. It was considered the format for serious home video collectors, offering twice as much resolution as a VHS tape and the ability to store multiple audio tracks on one disc. This gave birth to the director’s commentary feature.

LaserDiscs were also the first video format with chapters, like DVD and Blu-ray today, that the viewer could skip directly to.

This feature led to the creation of LaserDisc-based video arcade games, beginning with Dragon's Lair in 1983, which wowed gamers with smooth animated graphics that were otherwise unheard of in the era of Galaga.

LaserDiscs were also an essential teaching tool in the classroom, given that lessons could now be accompanied by illustrations, animations and video interviews to heighten the learning process.

In 1984, an upstart video distribution company, The Criterion Collection, began releasing films on LaserDisc exclusively, starting with the release of Citizen Kane and King Kong, and adding to LaserDisc’s appeal to serious collectors.

At its peak, 1 million LaserDisc players were operating in North American homes, and in Japan, the phenomenon grew even greater, with the anime market driving approximately 4 million people to own LaserDisc players.

A collector’s market for LaserDisc is still thriving there today.

The Future Past In North America, LaserDisc production lasted until 2000, with Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow and Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead being the last two titles released on the format.

Once DVDs came into the market in the mid-90s, the large, heavy, expensive and sometimes inconvenient LaserDisc format went the way of the Beta.

Gone, but not forgotten, LaserDisc has become an obsession for people like me who love the throwback look and feel of them, as well as the thrill of finding a true treasure of a film in a bin somewhere.

As a result, I've driven to every distant corner of the Bay Area and beyond to relieve them from Craigslist sellers. I’ve scrolled countless Ebay listings, scoured miscellaneous racks at every vintage store I come across and chatted on Internet forums like LaserDisc Database to find out the specifics of certain releases.

My beloved collection of 500 or so LaserDisc movie, television and educational releases is quite modest in comparison to others I’ve talked with. One serious dealer I contacted needed to use their entire garage to store approximately 10,000 discs he owns.

Recently, I’ve taken the obsession to a new height by starting a podcast, Laser Discourse, which is dedicated to revisiting the best and worst of LaserDiscs. So far, we’ve talked about classics like Jaws and The Terminator, as well as obscure movies like the Billy Blanks and Roddy Piper-starring 1993 head scratcher Back in Action.

Sadly, the truth is that LaserDiscs will never have a vinyl-esque resurgence, and the format is suffering; laser rot is a very real issue for many collectors. For now, all I can do is store my beloved collection as safely as possible and share my love of LaserDiscs now, while they are still around.

You can listen to the ‘Laser Discourse’ podcast at soundcloud.com/ Laserdiscourse.

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record, but it's not a silver record, it's a LaserDisc! There's a movie on there!”

-SLC Punk

Yet when I pulled the "record" out of its sleeve, a shining silver disc greeted me. As the light reflected in my eyes, that theme to Brazil somehow started playing in my head.

I began to stammer, completely unprepared for the supremely smooth slab of media I was gazing upon, before the words "LaserDisc" met my eyes, and I realized I was holding the actual movie itself, presented in an outdated, oversized and thoroughly obsolete technology.

I was hooked. In fact, there were over 20 LaserDisc films in that lot, with such classics as David Lynch's Blue Velvet and Sylvester Stallone's arm-wrestling masterpiece Over the Top in rank.

I grabbed them all.

As it happened, the LaserDisc movie player, a Pioneer CLDD406, was sitting on the other side of the store and in perfect working condition (a rare feat for thrift store shopping). I walked out of Sacks on the Square with the movies and the player, weighing in at about 40 pounds of awesomeness, for less than $20. I had finally found what I was looking for.

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Sixteen Rivers Press was founded 20 years ago to create a sustainable publishing collective, and the press continues to provide a platform for local poets and writers today. Meet three such poets at the upcoming reading “Fire, Rain, Darkness: Three New Books from Sixteen Rivers Press.” Camille Norton reads from A Folio for the Dark, while Barbara Swift Brauer reads from Rain, Like a Thief and Sonoma County Poet Laureate Maya Khosla reads from All the Fires of Wind and Light on Thursday, April 25, at Readers’ Books, 130 E Napa St, Sonoma. 7pm. 707.939.1779.

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Still Skating Opened on April 28th, 1969, the Redwood Empire Ice Arena, better known as Snoopy’s Home Ice, has become a beloved institution in Santa Rosa for ice-skating and Snoopy fans alike, and this weekend marks the arena’s 50th anniversary. Celebrate with the “Peanuts” gang as the rink, gallery and gift shop gets a special dedication, hosts a panel discussion on its history, boasts hockey games for charity and offers public skating and café treats at 1969 prices. Friday through Sunday, April 26-28, at Snoopy’s Home Ice, 1667 W Steele Lane, Santa Rosa. Find times and tickets at snoopyshomeice.com.

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Celebrate Spring Now in its fourth year, the Russian River Food & Wine Spring Fling takes to the tree-lined Main Street in downtown Guerneville to showcase locally produced food and wine from the heart of the Russian River Valley, including celebrity chefs Crista Luedtke

and Michele Ana Jordan and several wineries that do not have tasting rooms.

There’s also live music from the Thugz, art galleries and shops to browse and more, and this year’s fling supports the west County’s recovery from recent floods on Saturday, April 27, 16251 Main St., Guerneville. 1pm to 4pm. $30 food only; $50 food and wine.

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History on the Vine Founded in 1876, Beringer Vineyards is not only the oldest continuously operating winery in the Napa Valley; it’s also a California historical landmark.

This weekend, raise a glass to the winery’s history at the Beringer Founders' Day Celebration, in which visitors can enjoy wine and food while exploring the historical wine cave, vineyards and the 19th century Rhine House. There will also be seminars, live music and special guests to mark the 143rd anniversary of Beringer Winery on Sunday, April 28, 2000 Main St., St. Helena. 11am. $20; additional fees for some events.

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ILLUMINATING POP Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig lead indie band Lucius in an intimate performance on Sunday, Apr 28, at Gun Bun Winery in Sownoma. See Concerts, pg 20.

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WHAT’S THE BUZZ? Phillip Percy Williams plays the titular role in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar.’

Musical Saviors SRJC takes on Biblical rock opera BY HARRY DUKE

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anta Rosa Junior College’s Theatre Arts Department closes out their second season “on the road” with a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. With the Burbank Auditorium still undergoing renovations, Maria Carrillo High School’s theater hosts this production through May 5.

Director Leslie McCauley has gathered a multi-generational cast to tell Webber and Rice’s very loose interpretation of the last days of Jesus Christ set to a pounding rock score. Guest Artist Phillip Percy Williams has been brought in to essay the title role—and he’s excellent—but the lead character in this piece is actually Judas Iscariot.

Noah Sternhill, last seen as Lord Farquaad in the JC’s production of Shrek, the Musical, tears up the stage as the man whose name is synonymous with “traitor” but whose character is given a lot more shading in Webber and Rice’s world.

Vocals were generally excellent under the direction of Joshua Bailey.

Williams, a 12-year veteran of San Francisco’s Bleach Blanket Babylon revue, knows his way around a song

and gets several opportunities to prove it. His rendition of “Gethsemane” is wrenching.

Sternhill matches him from the get-go with “Heaven on Their Minds.” Ariana LaMark does well by the show’s most popular number—“I Don’t Know How to Love Him”— though her Mary Magdalene seemed curiously disconnected from the goings on. There’s great character work from Anthony Martin as Pontius Pilate, Michael Arbitter as Caiaphas, and Riley Craig makes quite an impression as a Liberace-esque King Herod.

The show’s technical elements are very strong. Scenic Designer Peter Crompton has the events taking place on a utilitarian set of scaffolds and columns that’s well enhanced by Vincent Mothersbaugh’s lighting.

Neither blasphemous nor slavishly pious, Jesus Christ Superstar can be seen as an interesting look at the culture of celebrity, the fickle nature of followers and the hypocrisy of those in leadership roles. Sound relevant?

Rating (Out of Five): HHHH 'Jesus Christ Superstar' runs through May 5 at Maria Carrillo High School Theatre, 6975 Montecito Blvd., Santa Rosa. Recommended for ages 12 and above. Thursday -Saturday, 7:30pm; Saturday & Sunday, 1:30pm; $10–$22.

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urtling toward a black hole, a spacecraft known only as “7” is in the middle of an eight-year mission. The outside of the craft is blandly boxlike. Inside, it’s crappy like the littered hall of a public housing apartment.

Claire Denis’ High Life, and yes, the title is ironic, begins with two survivors aboard, Monte (Robert Pattinson) and Dr. Dibs (Juliette Binoche).

Monte is repairing a magnetic shield outside the craft, while baby-monitoring the wails of a girl fussing in her makeshift playpen. When not tending to the babe, Monte is recycling his urine, or hauling the scraps of his meals in a dingy plastic bucket to the indoor compost heap.

The rest of the crew is still aboard, corpses in space suits.

The mission was made up of murderous criminals shot into space as a way of serving their sentences. In flashbacks, the shipmates’ crimes are teased out.

Dr. Dibs is the biggest criminal on the ship, to hear her tell it; she’s guilty of the kind of crime that makes up Greek myths.

High Life has poetry, but it’s awkward poetry. After a long and distinguished career (White Matter, Chocolat, 35 Shots of Rum) this is Denis’ first movie in English. Is there any reason, beyond increased ticket sales, that a director would cut off her tongue at age 70? It’s not like there needed to be much dialogue, since it’s mostly a movie about Pattinson looking bitter and Binoche looking wanton.

Dull colors and space madness explain why people might want to “space” themselves, to use The Expanse’s term for the one way trip out the airlock. No one made an effort to decorate this flying slum, except with gouged graffiti and sprays of bodily fluid.

But there is one break from the unnaturalness: a space garden.

The tantalizing dream of space exploration is absent in High Life’s reckoning; it’d be better if we just stayed on Earth and tended our gardens.

‘High Life’ is playing at select theaters.

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Bluesy Virtuosos Dirty Cello gets busy on record and on the road BY CHARLIE SWANSON

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aised in San Rafael and now living in Novato, Rebecca Roudman makes her living as a cellist in the Oakland Symphony and the Santa Rosa Symphony. She started playing classical music when she was 7 years old, and after graduating as a music major in college, it was all classical music all the time.

“But classical music has never my first love,” says Roudman. “It’s been everything else; blues and bluegrass and rock.”

Eight years ago, she took a musical detour in that bluesy direction, teaming with her flutistturned-guitarist husband Jason Eckl to form Dirty Cello a crossover smashup of cello strings and stomping blues rhythms that hit a note with Bay Area audiences almost immediately. “There was interest, people thought it was kind of cool and kind of weird,” says Roudman. “That’s the kind of people we are.”

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Soon after they started, Dirty Cello expanded from a duo to a full four-piece band, and today the group includes bassist Colin Williams, drummer Ben Wallace-Ailsworth and occasionally vocalist and multiinstrumentalist Sandy Lindop.

This year is shaping up to be one of the group’s busiest yet. They’re currently preparing to release Bad Ideas Make Great Stories, their second record of 2019 after Bluesy Grass, which came out in January.

“It’s a pretty unique record because it’s made from personal stories of all our adventure we’ve been on,” says Roudman.

After a record-release concert at the HopMonk Tavern in Sebastopol, Dirty Cello again goes international, performing in England, Israel and Iceland over the summer.

“If people are expecting to see a classically-trained cellist playing mellow, smooth music, it’s not that,” says Roudman. “They’re going to hear something they haven’t heard before.”

Dirty Cello performs on Friday, April 26, at HopMonk Tavern, 230 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol. 8pm. $13$20.707.829.7300. dirtycello.com.

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Concerts SONOMA Jackie Ryan

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The indie-pop outfit performs an intimate acoustic show.

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Fred Lessman & The Backroad Warriors

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Neil & the Norway Rats. Apr 28, Awesome Hotcakes. May 1, Jeremy James Meyers and Joshua James Jackson. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

Symphony Napa Valley

Maestro Michael Guttman leads the symphony. Apr 28, 3pm. $30-$65. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville, 707.944.9900.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA Arlene Francis Center Apr 27, Conspiracy of Beards sing Leonard Cohen. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.528.3009.

The Big Easy

Apr 24, the Big Easy grand reopening party with Wednesday Night Big Band.

Apr 25, Kerry Kathleen and Charley Peach. Apr 26, the Hots.

128 American Alley, Petaluma, 707.776.7163.

Coyote Sonoma

Apr 26, Wild Mint. Apr 27, the Blind Barbers. 44F Mill St, Healdsburg, 707.385.9133.

Elephant in the Room Apr 25, Timothy O'Neil Band.

Apr 26, Burnt. Apr 27, Casey

Apr 25, jazz night with Michael Price & Co. Apr 26, Dylan Juhan Jazz Group. Apr 27, DJ E Da Boss. Apr 28, Pick Your Heart Out. Apr 29, Woodlander and friends. 6780 Depot St, Suite 120, Sebastopol, 707.861.9603.

Apr 27, 8pm and , Apr 28, 3pm, “Spring Returns: An Affirming Flame” with Circa 1600 and David Parsons. 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

HopMonk Sebastopol Apr 26, Dirty Cello albumrelease show. Apr 27, Jazz Mafia and friends. Apr 29, DJ Green B. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, 707.829.7300.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Apr 25, Iriefuse. Apr 26, Smokehouse. Apr 27, the Rhythm Drivers. Apr 28, EZ Street. May 1, Le Hot Club Swing. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, 707.778.8776.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts Apr 25, Scotty McCreery. Apr 28, 3pm, Carlton Senior Living Symphony Pops. Apr 30, Friends: The Musical Parody. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa, 707.546.3600.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Apr 24, Legendary Shack Shakers and Van Goat. Apr 25, Tech N9ne. Apr 26, Chicano Batman with Brainstory.

Apr 30, Gungor with the Brilliance and Propaganda. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

The Phoenix Theater Apr 26, Shelby Ann with Folk Revival and Small Hat. 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

Redwood Cafe

Apr 25, Awesome Hotcakes.

Apr 26, Craig Caffall Band.

Apr 27, Dream Farmers. Apr 28, Irish jam session. Apr 29, the Blues Defenders pro jam.

8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707.795.7868.

The Reel Fish Shop & Grill

Apr 25, McKenna Faith.

Apr 26, Loverman. Apr 27, special surprise show. Apr 28, 2:30pm, Gruber Family Polka Band. 401 Grove St, Sonoma, 707.343.0044.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse Apr 26, Roadhouse Rumble with Bloomfield Bluegrass Boys. Apr 27, Alien Hit Radio.

5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 707.795.5118.

NAPA Blue Note Napa

Apr 25, David Ronconi Band.

Apr 26-27, Keiko Matsui. Apr 28, Napa School of Music Kids Garage Band 101. Apr 30, Road Eleven. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

Buster's Southern Barbecue

Apr 28, 3pm, Rob Watson and Vernon Black. 1207 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga, 707.942.5605.

Ca' Momi Osteria

Apr 26, Individuo. Apr 27, Ruby Jaye.

1141 First St, Napa, 707.224.6664.

The Saint

Apr 26, Monica da Silva. Apr 27, Shelby Lanterman. 1351 Main St, St Helena, 707.302.5130.

Art Opening SONOMA Frank P Doyle Library

Apr 26, “The Doyle Collection,” features art from Santa Rosa Junior College faculty and staff members past and present.

Reception, Apr 26 at 5:30pm.

SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.527.4614.

Graton Gallery

Apr 27-May 26, “Round & Round We Go,” threedimensional work by Hap Sakwa and Susandra Spicer and mixed-media paintings by Marylu Downing. Reception, Apr 27 at 2pm. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. 707.829.8912.

Paul Mahder Gallery

Apr 26-May 26, “Beyond Sight: In Search of Meaning,” exhibit collects black-and-white photography of Wynn Bullock.

Reception, Apr 26 at 6pm.

222 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.473.9150.

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

Apr 28-Jun 16, “Sonoma Modern

Apr 27-Jun 30, “Robert Buelteman Exhibit,” see the artist's vibrant and beautiful “cameraless” photographs.

Reception, Apr 27 at 2pm. 2812 St Helena Hwy N, St Helena.

707.963.5292.

Comedy Stand Up Science

Comedian and science podcast host Shane Mauss appears with special guests.

Apr 25, 8pm. $20. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma, 707.996.9756.

Dance Evert B. Person Theater

Apr 25-27, 7:30pm, SSU Spring Dance Concert. $10-$17. SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park 707.664.4246.

Events Art, Sip & Stroll

Arts in April event offers fine art and wine in the culinary heart of Napa Valley. Apr 27, 11am. Free admission. Downtown Yountville, Washington St, Yountville, artsipstroll.com.

Butter & Egg Days

Parade and festival is themed "It's Always Punny in Petaluma." Apr 27, 12pm.

Downtown Petaluma, Fourth and Kentucky Streets, Petaluma, petalumadowntown.com.

Hobo Pong

Annual table tennis tournament includes live music, kids' activities and raffles. Apr 27, 2pm. $50 and up. Hobo Wine Company, 412 Timothy Rd, Suite C, Santa Rosa, 707.887.0833.

Quake ‘n’ Make

Take part in art activities while supporting the Napa Quake Mosaic. Apr 27, 11am. Feast It Forward, 1031 McKinstry St, Napa, 707.819.2403.

Riverboat Captains & Mansions Tour Walking tour goes through the oldest neighborhood in Napa. Apr 27, 10am. $10. Hatt Building, 500 Main St, Napa, napacountylandmarks.org.

Snoopy’s Home Ice 50th Anniversary

Ice rink, gallery and gift shop marks half a century. Apr 26-28.

Snoopy's Home Ice, 1667 W Steele Ln, Santa Rosa, 707.546.7147.

Field Trips Blossoms, Bees & Barnyard Babies

Get a behind-the-scenes peek at life on the farm. RSVP for maps and details. Apr 27-28, 10am. Free. Sonoma County farms, various locations, Sonoma County, farmtrails.org.

Wineries throughout northern Sonoma County offer exclusive pairings of wine, food and entertainment. Apr 27-28, 11am. $50 and up. various locations, Healdsburg, drycreekvalley.org.

Russian River Food & Wine Spring Fling Over 20 local restaurants and wineries offer small bites and winetasting, with live music and more. Apr 27, 1pm. $30$60. Downtown Guerneville, Main St, Guerneville, 707.869.9000.

Tailwags & Handbags Ladies luncheon lets you sip and shop to benefit Pets Lifeline. Apr 26, 11:30am. $95.

Buena Vista Winery, 18000 Old Winery Rd, Sonoma, 707.996.4577x110.

Vineyard to Vintner Weekend Stags Leap District celebrates its 30th anniversary. Apr 2628. Stags Leap District, 5900 Silverado Trail, Yountville, 707.255.1720.

Theater Born Yesterday A tycoon gets more than he bargains for in this hilarious production from Sonoma Arts Live. Apr 26-May 12. $28-$40.

Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma, 707.938.4626.

Two women covet each other's life in this unflinching comedy about gender politics and more. Apr 26-May 12. $23-$33.

Lucky Penny Community Arts Center, 1758 Industrial Way, Napa, 707.266.6305.

Food & Drink

The timely story of moral courage is adapted from the novel by Harper Lee. Apr 26-May 19. $20$30. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa, 707.523.4185.

Day Under the Oaks

Cabernet Cookoff

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World-class cycling mixes with delectable food, fine wine and other fun. Apr 26-28. $45-$575.

Clif Family Winery, 709 Main St, St Helena, campovelo.com.

Educational fair features exhibits, demonstrations, food and activities for the whole family. Apr 28, 10am. Free.

Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 1.800.564.SRJC.

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Hosted by Spy Emerson, the event is part of a monthly gathering of unique performances. Apr 27, 12pm. Free.

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For the week of April 24

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the U.S., the day after Thanksgiving typically features a spectacular shopping orgy. On "Black Friday," stores sell their products at steep discounts and consumers spend their money extravagantly. But the creators of the game Cards Against Humanity have consistently satirized the tradition. In 2013, for example, they staged a Black Friday "anti-sale," for which they *raised* their prices. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to try something similar. Is it possible you're undercharging for your products and services and skills? If so, consider asking for more. Reassess your true worth and seek appropriate rewards.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Whether or not

you believe in magic, magic believes in you right now.

Will you take advantage of the fancy gifts it has to offer? I guess it's possible that you're not interested in seeing deeper into the secret hearts of those you care for. Maybe you'll go "ho-hum" when shown how to recognize a half-hidden opportunity that could bring vitalizing changes. And you may think it's not very practical to romance the fire and the water at the same time. But if you're interested, all that good stuff will be available for you. P.S. To maximize the effects of the magic, believe in it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1815, the most ferocious volcanic eruption in human history exploded from Mount Tambora in what's now known as Indonesia. It flung gas and ash all over the planet, causing weird weather for three years.

Sunlight dimmed, temperatures plummeted, skies were tumultuous, and intense storms proliferated.

Yet these conditions ignited the imagination of author Mary Shelley, inspiring her to write what was to become her most notable work, *Frankenstein*. I suspect that you, too, will ultimately generate at least one productive marvel in response to the unusual events of the coming weeks.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): For over 40 years, Cancerian musician Carlos Santana has made music that blends rock and roll with Latin and African rhythms. In the early years, his creations sold well, but by the mid-1980s his commercial success declined. For a decade, he floundered.

His fortunes began to improve after a spectacular meditation session. Santana says he was contacted by the archangel Metatron, who told him how to generate material for a new album. The result was Supernatural, which sold 30 million copies and won nine Grammy Awards. I mention this, Cancerian, because I suspect that you could soon experience a more modest but still rousing variation of Santana's visitation. Are you interested? If so, the next seven weeks will be a good time to seek it out—and be very receptive to its possibility.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "Expergefactor" is an old English word that has fallen out of use. In its original sense, it meant something that wakes you up, like an alarm clock or thunderstorm or your partner's snoring. But I want to revive "expergefactor" and expand its meaning. In its new version, it will refer to an exciting possibility or beloved goal that consistently motivates you to spring out of bed in the morning and get your day started. Your expergefactor could be an adventure you're planning or a masterpiece you're working on or a relationship that fills you with curiosity and enchantment. In my astrological opinion, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to identify and fine-tune an expergefactor that will serve you well for a long time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): We live in a cultural moment when satire, sarcasm, cynicism, and irony are prized as supreme emblems of intelligence. If you say that you value sincerity and earnestness, you risk being considered naive and unsophisticated.

Nevertheless, the current astrological omens suggest that you will generate good fortune for yourself in the coming weeks by making liberal use of sincerity and earnestness. So please try not to fall into the easy trap of relying on satire, sarcasm, cynicism, and irony to express yourself. As much as is practical, be kindly frank and compassionately truthful and empathetically genuine. (P.S. It's a strategy that will serve your selfish aims quite well.)

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "Most people don't find their creativity," mourned Libran author Truman Capote. "There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent." If that describes you even a little bit, I'm happy to let you know that you're close to stumbling upon events and insights that could change that. If you respond to the prompts of these unexpected openings, you will rouse a partially dormant aspect of your genius, as well as a half-inert stash of creativity and a semilatent cache of imaginativity.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Do you know the

word "sfumato"? Its literal meaning in Italian is "smoked." When used to describe a painting, it refers to blurred borders between objects or fuzzy transitions between areas of different colors. All the forms are soft and hazy. I bring this to your attention because I suspect the coming weeks will be a sfumato-like time for you. You may find it a challenge to make precise distinctions. Future and past may overlap, as well as beginnings and endings. That doesn't have to be a problem as long as you're willing to go with the amorphous flow.

In fact, it could even be pleasurable and useful.

You might be able to connect with influences from which you've previously been shut off. You could blend your energies together better with people who've been unavailable.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "You have

a right to experiment with your life," declared author Anaïs Nin. I agree. You don't necessarily have to be what you started out to be. You can change your mind about goals that you may at one time have thought were permanent. I suspect you could be at one of these pivot points right now, Sagittarius. Are there any experiments you'd like to try? If so, keep in mind this further counsel from Nin. It's possible "you will make mistakes. And they are right, too."

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have one main task to accomplish in the coming weeks, Capricorn. It'll be simple and natural if you devote yourself to it wholeheartedly. The only way it could possibly become complicated and challenging is if you allow your focus to be diffused by less important matters. Ready for your assignment? It's articulated in this poem by Rupi Kaur: "bloom beautifully / dangerously / loudly / bloom softly / however you need / just bloom."

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When the forces of the Roman empire occupied the British Isles from the years 43 to 410, they built 2,000 miles of roads.

Their methods were sophisticated. That's why few new roads were built in England until the eighteenth century, and many of the same paths are still visible and available today. In this spirit, and in accordance with astrological omens, I recommend that you make good use of an old system or network in the coming weeks. This is one time when the past has blessings to offer the future.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "I'm not enigmatic

and intriguing enough," writes a Piscean blogger named RiddleMaster. "I really must work harder.

Maybe I'll start wearing ankle-length black leather coats, billowing silk scarves imprinted with alchemical symbols, and wide-brimmed hats.

I'll listen to Cambodian folk songs and read rare books in ancient Sanskrit. When someone dares to speak to me, I'll utter cryptic declarations like, 'The prophecies will be fulfilled soon enough.'" I understand RiddleMaster's feelings. You Pisceans need mystery almost as much as you need food. But I believe you should set aside that drive for a few weeks. The time has come for you to show the world who you are with crisp candor.

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