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I agree with Jessica Dur Taylor (“Fear Factor”, July 31) when she says that cognitive behavioral therapy can be an effective treatment for social anxiety. However, her article glosses over a significant problem with the type of CBT discussed in her article, and it perpetuates a myth about talk therapy. Exposure therapy can be severely distressing—sometimes too distressing for a person to tolerate. For that and other reasons, studies have shown dropout rates averaging around 25 percent and as high as 50 percent or more. Someone may tolerate and respond better to another form of therapy, and it’s the therapist’s job to match the therapy to the individual. There’s no such thing as one-size-fits-all. Second, the article’s depiction of talk therapy as “lie-on-the-couch-andwhine” therapy doesn’t reflect the state of talk therapy today. Short-term psychodynamic therapy, for example, doesn’t rehash the past; it focuses on helping a client recognize when they’re repeating dysfunctional patterns they learned in the past so they can respond in new ways to what’s happening in the here and now. Finally, the writer defames talk therapists when she suggests that some therapists dislike CBT because they’d rather have long-term clients than provide the most effective treatment. Such unethical behavior could quickly lead to a therapist’s license being revoked. Disseminating knowledge about an effective therapy such as CBT is extremely helpful; perpetuating outdated stereotypes and making unwarranted accusations of unethical behavior by therapists who provide other, equally effective types of therapy is not.
DR. JOANNA PASHDAG, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST Santa Rosa
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Americans express horror at Germans for being silent during World War II and covering up atrocities. We are appalled at them when they say, “I was only following orders.” We believe those orders were unconscionable and should not have been followed. Since Bradley Manning released documents proving that the United States is committing war crimes, he has been pursued as a criminal. Now he has been convicted of charges that could lead to many years in prison. This is hypocrisy of a very ugly sort. Had a young German done the same in 1940, Americans would hail him as a hero. To prosecute Manning and put him in prison is a shameful and dangerous act. It sends a message to those who have access to important information that they are risking their careers and freedom if they break silence. Bradley Manning is a real patriot and has done us a great service. He should be free.
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Efren Needs Better Nutrition There are two victims here, and one is clearly the woman who was being frightened by a crazed man (“Falling Star,” July 17). At the same time, it is important to realize that demented behavior is just that—demented. In other words, Efren Carrillo was not his usual—his real—self. Unlike a broken leg, mental illness is a fairly invisible malady. But it is not intentional. Nor is it strictly in the mind, but has a physiological basis. Prescription drugs for mental illness are based on that very physiology. Therefore, everyone can grasp the concept that rebalancing one’s biochemistry will result in improved health. No one is born with a need for Prozac, but everyone requires various nutrients that are scarce in our modern diet.
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As the hunger strike by California state prisoners protesting solitary-confinement conditions entered its third week, at least six activists blocked the entrance to the state building in downtown Oakland on Aug. 5. Around 300 prisoners continue to refuse food as part of a mass statewide protest that began at the Pelican Bay State Prison solitary unit, where some prisoners have been held for years (one inmate has been in solitary for 42 years, according to a recent Mother Jones article) without access to phone calls or family. Carl Patrick, a Petaluma-raised activist, told a reporter from CBS that the goal of Monday’s protest was to call on Gov. Brown and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to enter into “meaningful negotiations with the prisoners.” By the end of the day, at least seven arrests had been made after activists entered the lobby of the building.
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amid the constant clamor, executive director Rick Nowlin casually mentions— in a raised voice to cut through the noise—“We have a wedding here on Saturday.” “Believe it or not,” adds Mark Hagenlocher, director of operations, “we’re in the home stretch here. Our first show is 16 days away.” In the midst of a $2.8 million remodel that will give the
main theater at the 30-year-old performing arts center new floor seats, a new sound system and a drastically overhauled stage and backstage area, the center’s staff is surprisingly calm. They’re confident that the center will reopen on schedule, with the changes boosting the center’s stature in an increasingly competitive industry. “All of our wish list has been checked off,” says Hagenlocher. ) 10
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Remodel ( 9 For the main theater, this includes new seating on the oor that can be removed for standingroom-only shows; new raised ADA platforms; a new sound system and speakers; and the removal of two bulky speaker towers and piano storage boxes on either side of the stage, resulting in unobstructed views from the “cheap seats.â€? New LED aisle lighting, a new color scheme of gray and burgundy and a raised stage are all coming in the next week. Behind the scenes are ďŹ xes that audiences may not notice directly, but will improve the booking capabilities of the center. A baptismal font from the building’s former use as the Christian Life Center has been removed, and along with it a nine-foot platform that performers once needed to walk over to get to the stage. Crews loading in equipment had to do so through the front doors and down the aisle of the theater; now, new eight-foot doors allow load-in from the outside. For the ďŹ rst time, ďŹ re sprinklers will be installed, and a raised heating and air conditioning system means 10 feet of extra space above the stage. “When you have the Peking acrobats in here,â€? Hagenlocher says, “they’re not going to be scraping the ceiling.â€? The remodel comes at a pivotal time for the center, after what Nowlin calls “a rough few years,â€? echoing most nonproďŹ ts weathering the recession. A sale of land for the construction of Sutter hospital next door gave the center a ďŹ nancial cushion, but about 20,000 square feet of the building, rented out to a series of private and charter schools over the years, has been mostly empty since 2011. “The loss of the school was a signiďŹ cant hit. That’s $700,000 of revenue,â€? says Nowlin. “It helped fund a lot of what we do.â€? Then there’s the new Green Music Center at SSU, which in its ďŹ rst year hosted several acts that in the past had played the Wells Fargo Center. But because the Green Music Center’s specialty is in acoustic-based performance, Nowlin says, the Wells Fargo
Center can focus now on ampliďŹ ed shows. (Removable seats to create a dance oor are long overdue; Hagenlocher predicts, “We’re gonna have a ballet one day, a hard rock band the next day and an educational show the next.â€?) The relocation of the Santa Rosa Symphony to the Green Music Center, too, allowed the Wells Fargo Center to rethink the acoustics of the theater, remove bulky choral risers and take over symphony storage. “We really see ourselves as complementary to what they do,â€? says Nowlin.
‘We’re gonna have a ballet one day, and a hard rock band the next day.’ Built in 1974 as the Christian Life Center before turning into a performing arts center in 1981, the former Luther Burbank Center entered into a naming-rights deal with Wells Fargo in 2005. Though that deal expires in 2015, “We’re in discussions right now with Wells Fargo to extend it,â€? says Nowlin. Future phases of the center’s remodel include elevators, balcony and restroom renovation, landscaping, a new roof, new windows and doors, a paint job and repaving the parking lot. The total price tag for all phases is $10 million, to be raised from sponsors and community partners. (Like many performing arts centers, ticket sales pay for only a fraction of the center’s overall operating costs.) The ďŹ rst show in the renovated theater is set for Aug. 16 with Patti LaBelle, in a theater ďŹ nally distanced completely from its former life as a chapel. Reminded of the long tradition of artists joking about performing inside a church, Nowlin nods knowingly. “Hopefully,â€? he says, in the ďŹ nal stretch of renovations, “we won’t hear that anymore.â€?
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picture. Cool, right? Keep eating stuff, try different things. It’ll last for about two hours or so, but be careful not to eat too many lemons—just because you can’t taste the sour acidity doesn’t mean it won’t burn a hole in your gut if you eat too much. Have you ever had pineapple—on miracle fruit? Oh, man, it’s, like, soooo much more intense. It’s like someone put a pineapple inside a pineapple and covered it with a pineapple-reduction sauce. The
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Sizzling Tandoor II 9960 HWY 1 s 707-865-0625
Miracle Berry ( 27 And there’s salt to counteract bitterness. I used to get the weirdest looks when I’d go into the coffee shop by the office and put a dash of salt into my black coffee. But, hey, the coffee shop made bitter coffee and I didn’t like cream, so this helped me get a caffeine ďŹ x without sacriďŹ cing too much taste. But, boy, this miracle fruit. Ya know how pot is used to help cancer patients and stuff? Miracle fruit could seriously help diabetics curb their sugar craving. Instead of satisfying a sweet tooth with a cookie-inspired insulin spike, pop a miracle fruit and eat some unsweetened Greek yogurt. It’s nutritious and has probiotic properties, which aids in digestion. It’s all good, right? Wrong. Even though it’s legal to buy, consume and sell, its extract is classiďŹ ed as a food additive and would be subject to USDA review, which would take years. In fact, in 1974 Robert Harvey was all set to launch a company selling the berry’s extract, primarily marketing it as a health product to diabetics. The USDA had been on his side, leading him to believe it would be labeled “generally recognized as safe.â€? He was all set to market products like “miracle berry lollies,â€? which tested better than regular ones with focus groups. But a week before the launch, the USDA changed its mind and classiďŹ ed it as an additive, requiring more years of testing. Harvey couldn’t afford it, and the company folded before it even began—some say because of behind-the-scenes ďŹ nagling from the Sugar Association, a sugar-industry lobbyist (not a soul pop group from the ’70s, as I ďŹ rst suspected). But, hey, at least we can still get the tablets and berries for home use. I’m gonna get some people together and have a avor-tripping party. Put a bunch of sour stuff out and give everyone a hit of miracle berry. Wanna come? It’s just two bucks a hit—friend price.
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Sports Bar. $$. Home of the almost-famous bacon cheeseburger. Seventeen beers on tap (wine list available). Fourteen flat screen televisions to watch all of the hottest sports events. Two great pool tables. Lunch and dinner daily. 3082 Marlow Rd # B8, Santa Rosa. 707.573.9453.
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restaurant property. Dinner daily. 29 E MacArthur St, Sonoma. 707.938.2929.
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Cape Cod Fish & Chips
Sonoma-Meritage Martini California-French. $$$. The menu, which changes daily, is well-rounded with plenty of options, thanks in no small part to the fresh seafood bar. Dinner daily. 165 W Napa St, Sonoma. 707.938.9430.
Arigatou Japanese Food to Go Japanese. $.
Fish and chips. $. A dingy hole in the wall–just like a real chippy! This popular lunch spot offers perfectly cooked fish and chips to eat in or take out. Open daily. 7530 Commerce Blvd, Cotati. 707.792.0982.
Farmhouse Inn & Restaurant CaliforniaFrench. $$$$. A splurgeworthy, romantic inn with an extensive wine list and highly polished service. Dinner, ThursMon. 7871 River Rd, Forestville. 707.887.3300.
Healdsburg Bar & Grill American. $-$$ Gourmet burgers and potent cocktails from the owners of Cyrus. It ain’t fancy, but it’s awfully good, with topnotch ingredients and low prices. Lunch and dinner daily. 245 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.433.3333.
Le Bistro French. $$. A tiny space, simple menu, excellent food–and a reasonable price. Dinner, Wed-Sun. 312 Petaluma Blvd S, Petaluma. 707.762.8292.
Monti’s Rotisserie & Bar California cuisine. $-$$. Small plates and a few larger entrées with emphasis on house-roasted meats. Lunch and dinner daily. 714 Village Ct, Santa Rosa. 707.568.4404.
Pub Republic Pub fare. $-$$. Pub grub from Petaluma’s southernmost tip, featuring Brussels sprout tacos and a hearty selection of brews. Lunch and dinner daily; weekend brunch. 3120 Lakeville Hwy, Petaluma. 707.782.9090.
Saddles Steakhouse. $$$$$$$. A steakhouse in the best American tradition, with top-quality grass-fed beef. Pies are made from fruit trees on
Sushi Tozai Japanese. $$. Spare, clean ambiance and some of the freshest sushi you’ll ever eat. Lunch and dinner, TuesSun. 7531 Healdsburg Ave, Sebastopol. 707.824.9886.
Three Squares Cafe Cafe. $-$$. Home-style cooking in iconic Railroad Square location. Breakfast, lunch and dinner, Tues-Sun.205 Fifth St, Santa Rosa. 707.545.4300.
Tolay Californian. $$-$$$. Sonoma County cuisine is the specialty, with entrees focusing on local wild and farmed foods. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. In the Sheraton Sonoma County, 745 Baywood Drive, Petaluma. 707.283.2900.
The Villa Italian. $-$$. Spectacular views, superb service. Seafood, steak, poultry, seasonal specialties, pizza from wood-burning oven, patio dining. Open 7 days a week. 3901 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa 707.528.7755.
Vineyards Inn Spanish. $$. Authentic foods from Spain, fresh fish off the fire broiler, extensive tapas, as well as paellas and more. Emphasis on organic. Open for lunch and dinner, Wed-Mon. 8445 Sonoma Hwy. (Highway 12), at Adobe Canyon Road, Kenwood. 707.833.4500.
Viva Cocolat Dessert. $. After dinner in downtown Petaluma, stopping at this quaint chocolate shop is very nearly required. Open late on weekends; closed Wednesdays. 110 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. 707.778.9888.
Cheap, delicious and ready to go. Lunch and dinner daily. Miracle Mile Plaza, 2046 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.453.8990.
Comforts Californian. $$. The Chinese chicken salad is beyond rapturous. Excellent celebrity sightings. Eat in or takeout. Breakfast and lunch daily. 335 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo. 415.454.9840. Copita Tequileria y Comida Mexican. $$. California-inspired preparation of traditional Mexican fare, including spit-roasted chicken, homemade tamales and “eight-hour” carnitas. Some ingredients are sourced from the restaurant’s own organic garden. Lunch and dinner daily. 739 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.331.7400.
Drake’s Beach Cafe Californian. $$-$$$. More dinner party than restaurant, and the food is fresh and amazing. A meal to remember. Lunch, Thurs-Mon. 1 Drake’s Beach Rd, Pt Reyes National Seashore. 415.669.1297.
Finnegan’s Marin Pub fare. $$. Irish bar with the traditional stuff. Lunch and dinner daily. 877 Grant Ave, Novato. 415.899.1516.
Marin Brewing Co Pub food. $-$$. Excellent soups, salads, pub grub and awardwinning pork-beer sausage. Lunch and dinner daily. 1809 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.4677. Mountain Home Inn American. $$-$$$$. Great summer sandwiches with a view atop Mt Tamalpais. Breakfast, Sat-Sun; lunch and dinner, Wed-Sun. 810 Panoramic Dr, Mill Valley. 415.381.9000.
Nick’s Cove Seafood/
contemporary American. $$$$. Fresh from the bay oysters, upscale seafood, some steaks and a great burger. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. 23240 State Route 1, Marshall. 415.663.1033.
Sol Food Puerto Rican. $. Flavorful, authentic and homestyle at this Puerto Rican eatery, which is as hole-in-thewall as they come. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. San Rafael locations: 811 Fourth St. 415.451.4765. 901 & 903 Lincoln Ave. 415.256.8903. Mill Valley location: 401 Miller Ave, Mill Valley.
N A PA CO U N T Y Ad Hoc American. $$-$$$. Thomas Keller’s quintessential neighborhood restaurant. Prix fixe dinner changes daily. Actually takes reservations. 6476 Washington St, Yountville. 707.944.2487. Alexis Baking Co Cafe. $-$$. Alexis excels at baked goods and offers killer breakfasts and sensible soup’n’-salad lunches. Breakfast and lunch daily. 1517 Third St, Napa. 707.258.1827.
Bouchon French. $$$. A Keller brother creation with a distinctly Parisian bistro ambiance, offering French classics. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. 6534 Washington St, Yountville. 707.944.8037. Brannan’s Grill California cuisine. $$-$$$. Creative cuisine in handsome Craftsman setting. Lunch and dinner daily. 1347 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga. 707.942.2233.
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Me + Eat = Meat There are two ways to view Cochon 555 Heritage Fire in St. Helena. With closeup photos of chefs, maybe set to some Ratatouille-esque jazz and lots of posed, happy smiles, it looks like a highend, winery food event. But that wouldn’t be Cochon. No. It’s so tied to fire and meat that it used to be called “Primal.” Cochon tours 13 cities and crowns a “King and Queen of Porc” (won in 2011 by Santa Rosa’s Duskie Estes and John Stewart of Zazu). Because of this, it’s best imagined through photos of wide-eyed chefs in bloody butcher coats, knife in hand, laughing maniacally while staring at a flayedout side of beef on a makeshift cross tilted over a massive bonfire while huge, slow, doom-metal guitar riffs from Sunn o))) and Isis shake rib cages of the living. Specters of slaughtered pig, goat, squab, thresher shark, sturgeon, duck, cow, rabbit, lamb, lobster and chicken haunt the grounds, their spirits permeating the bones of all who consume them. Oh, and there’s wine, too. Like, really, really good wine. The chef list reads like a who’s who of cooking, with meat masters from the Thomas, A16, French Laundry, CIA at Greystone, Fifth Floor and many others. Cochon 555 Heritage Fire takes place Sunday, Aug. 11, at Charles Krug Winery. 2800 Main St., St. Helena. 3pm. $125–$200. 707.967.2200. —Nicolas Grizzle
Fazerrati’s Pizza. $-$$. Great pie, cool brews, the game’s always on. Great place for post-Little League. Lunch and dinner daily. 1517 W Imola Ave, Napa. 707.255.1188.
French Laundry Definitive California Cuisine. $$$$. What else is there to say? Chef Thomas Keller’s institution is among the very best restuarants in the country. 6640 Washington St., Yountville. 707.944.2380.
Fumé Bistro & Bar California cuisine. $$$. California bistro fare that nearly always hits the mark. Lunch and dinner daily; brunch, Sat-Sun. 4050 Byway E, Napa. 707.257.1999.
La Toque Restaurant French-inspired. $$$$. Set in a comfortable elegantly rustic dining room reminiscent of a French lodge, with a stone fireplace centerpiece, La Toque makes for memorable special-occasion dining. The elaborate wine pairing menus are luxuriously inspired. Dinner daily. 1314 McKinstry St, Napa. 707.257.5157.
Redd California cuisine. $$$$$. Rich dishes balanced by subtle flavors and careful yet casual presentation. Brunch at Redd is exceptional. Lunch, Mon-Sat; dinner daily; brunch, Sun. 6480 Washington St, Yountville. 707.944.2222.
Siena California-Tuscan. $$$$. Sophisticated, terroir-informed cooking celebrates the local and seasonal. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily; brunch, Sun. 875 Bordeaux Way, Napa. 707.251.1900. Zuzu Spanish tapas. $$. Graze your way through a selection of tasty tapas in a lively rustic chic setting with a popular wine bar. Bite-sized Spanish and Latin American specialties include sizzling prawns, Spanish tortilla, and Brazilian style steamed mussels. Lunch, Mon-Fri; dinner daily. 829 Main St, Napa. 707.224.8555.
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Downtown Wine Casual spot with LP records on the turntable and relaxed vibe, founded by surfer-skater turned winemaker. Offers an eclectic range of wines from delicate, Thai-cuisine–inspired Banyan whites to rustic, brambly Hobo reds inspired by the open road. Folk Machine and Branham Estate Wines, too. Don’t skip the refreshingly dry Santa Lucia Highlands Riesling. Ramble on in. 132 Plaza St., Healdsburg. Open Thursday–Monday, 11am to 6pm. Tasting fee, $5. 707.473.0337.
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of the wine that candidly promises fun for the whole family, from Rosso table wine to Director’s Cut Pinot Noir; from poolside cabanas to an Argentinean-Style grill, plus movie memorabilia from The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and more. 300 Via Archimedes, Geyserville. Tasting daily, 11am–6pm; restaurant till 9pm. 707.857.1400.
Iron Horse Despite the rustic tasting room, Iron Horse produces sparkling wine and Pinots for the elite. A brilliant view for winetasting. 209786 Ross Station Road, Sebastopol. Open daily, 10am–3:30pm. 707.887.1507.
Sbragia Family Vineyards Ed Sbragia makes stellar Cab in Zin country. 9990 Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg. Open daily, 11am– 5pm. 707.473.2992.
Talisman Wine Wineindustry husband-and-wife team play out their passion for Pinot in unassuming warehouse space. Don’t miss the taste test between the Dijon and Pommard clones. 21684 Eighth St., Sonoma. Limited tasting availability, by appointment. 707.996.9050.
Toad Hollow A humorous, frog-themed tasting room begun by Robin Williams’ brother Todd Williams and Rodney Strong, both now passed. Refreshing and fun. 409-A Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg. Open daily, 10:30am–5:30(ish)pm. 707.431.8667.
Vinoteca Vinify Wine Services is like a Russian doll of wineries within wineries making brands for still more clients. It’s in a generic industrial-park location, but with unique, single-vineyard wines from Frostwatch, Baker Lane, Bjornstad, Super Sonoman and others. 3358 Coffey Lane, Ste. C, Santa Rosa. Friday– Sunday 11am–5pm. $10 fee. 707.542.3292.
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Nalle Winery Rising above the vineyards like some kind of New Age bunker, the rosemary-shrouded winery houses a down-toearth father-and-son team dedicated to low-alcohol Dry Creek Zinfandel. Greeters Lila and Pella present soggy tennis balls. 2385 Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg. Saturdays, noon– 5pm. No fee. 707.433.1040.
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Russian River Pinot for $18 at no-nonsense, solid producer. 5220 Ross Road, Sebastopol. By appointment only, Monday–Friday. 707.887.8130.
The old trope “beer-drinking NASCAR fans vs. Chardonnaysipping highbrows� runs out of gas at a winery that sponsors an annual NASCAR race and
another treeless hilltop in the windswept Carneros turns out to be a striking, temple-like visitor center, with fantastic views. Spanish varietals Tempranillo and Albariùo; Pinot, too. 1345 Henry Road, Napa. 10am to 5pm daily, $10– $15 fee. Chocolate, cheese and food pairings by appointment. 707.224.1668.
has its own car, emblazoned with grapes. A Roman emperor who appreciated hearty vino as much as a good chariot race inspired Maximus White and Red “feasting wines.� 3340 Hwy. 128, Calistoga. 707.942.6684.
Cuvaison Estate Wines (WC) Producing some 65 percent of its product as Chardonnay, Cuvaison has a 22,000-square-foot cave. 4550 Silverado Trail N., Napa. By appointment. 707.942.6266.
Flora Springs Winery & Vineyards Napa Valley’s latest geotectonic eruption on Highway 29 is a stylish place to explore famous Chardonnay, Meritage blend and winery-exclusive Italian varietals. Hip but not too cool, the 30-year-old family winery surely has a sense of humor as well as sense of place. 677 S. St. Helena Hwy., St. Helena. Open daily, 10am–5pm. Tasting fees, $15–$25. 707.967.8032.
Madonna Estate Millennial contingent of multigenerational family winery, once known as Mount St. John, finds success running it old-school: touristy, oldfashioned, and wildly popular. Refreshing Gewßrztraminer for summer picnics. 5400 Old Sonoma Road, Napa. Daily 10am to 5pm; $5–$10. 707.255.8864.
Nichelini Winery Take a joyride in the Napa backcountry and discover this rustic little winery that’s been in the family for generations. See the only Roman wine press in the Western Hemisphere. 2950 Sage Canyon Road, St. Helena. Saturday and Sunday, 10am–5pm. No fee. 707.963.0717.
Taste at Oxbow Discover refreshing white varietals Albariùo and Vermentino in stylish setting across from Oxbow Market, then move on to Pinot Noir from Carneros pioneer Mahoney Vineyards; Waterstone Wines, too. 708 First St., Napa. Sunday– Thursday, 11am–7pm; Friday– Saturday, 11am–9pm. Tasting fee $10. 707.265.9600.
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Craft distillery shakes and stirs the pot BY JAMES KNIGHT
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in. Blamed for the ills of society in the 1700s, studiously eschewed by young drinkers today in imitation of a fictional secret agent’s preference for vodka martinis— shaken, not stirred—the spirit has hardly been hailed except as a melancholy pairing with an antimalarial tonic favored by British colonials. But, says a young couple now bringing craft-made gin to Sebastopol, you don’t know proper gin until you’ve sampled a dram of theirs. Husband and wife team Timo and Ashby Marshall recently opened Spirit Works Distillery in Sebastopol’s Barlow project after a four-year journey that began when they decided, “Let’s make gin.” Timo’s from southern England, where his family has made sloe gin for years. But it’s Ashby who became the master distiller, after the couple took distilling courses and apprenticeships to learn the craft. “We’re very lucky,” says Timo, who does much of the talking while Ashby covers most of the wry smiling. “She’s got the skills.” In distilling, they say, there’s a knack for it which mere instruction can’t provide. At first, the Marshalls cast about for a distillery to partner with, but they couldn’t find any in California up to their standards. “There’s a lot of smoke and mirrors in spirits,” says Timo. For instance, many craft distillers use bulk alcohol from a factory. The Marshalls decided to make theirs from grain to glass. With the help of family-andfriends investors, they installed a gleaming set of German-made tanks and copper rectification columns in their Barlow warehouse. Each batch starts with a one-ton pallet of organically grown, California red winter wheat. After being distilled to a purity of 95 percent, then cut with filtered water, it’s vodka, a small sample of which is as pure and creamy as straight booze can be on the palate. A signature blend of herbs and citrus rind, which Ashby zests on production days, go into the final gin cook. If you thought Bombay Blue Sapphire was as good as it gets, here is new territory on your tongue. With a deep note of citrus and ethereal notes of juniper and herbs, it’d be a shame to dirty this up with olives and whatnot, whether stirred or shaken. Under current law, Spirit Works cannot sell product out of the tasting room (“A Fair Pour,” Bohemian, April 3, 2013); it’s going for about $28 at Santa Rosa’s Bottle Barn. Luckily for the G&T crowd, yes, artisanal tonic made in California is now available. Straight wheat whiskey is on the way, which will be aged in charred American oak barrels, plus sloe gin— “Not the stuff,” says Timo, “you drank in high school.” Spirit Works Distillery, 6790 McKinley St., Ste. 100, Sebastopol. Thursday–Monday, 11am–4pm. No fee. 707.634.4793.
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arinwood is a quiet suburb between San Rafael and Novato, where threebedroom homes with backyard pools circle green, undeveloped hills. On a Wednesday evening in June, it was also the setting for a town hall meeting that would later be likened to a lynch mob.
discussing mere proposals, Supervisor Susan Adams has been interrupted, taunted and accused of ‘volunteering Marin for the ghetto.’
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Grousing About Housing Yelling, bickering, a costly recall—what the hell is going on in Marin? BY RACHEL DOVEY
Held by Supervisor Susan Adams, the gathering at the Marinwood Community Center on June 26 began with a simple presentation on proposed zoning changes but quickly devolved into hysterics. Residents packed the large room, standing in doorways and leaning in open windows, waving signs that said “Democracy, Not Autocracy” and showed apartment homes crossed out. Shouts of “No, no, no!” drowned out the official when she tried to speak. One woman commandeered the microphone, taunting Adams by pretending to hand it back again and again as the supervisor grabbed at air. Finally, in a line that would echo infamously through the fair-housing community, real estate agent Melissa Bradley told Adams she’d “volunteered Marin for the ghetto.” Throughout the hour and 45 minutes, Adams tried to answer questions, looking flustered as she lost control of the room. That housing is a big deal in no-growth Marin is hardly news. Spurred by the perceived threat of apartment complexes, communities in the wealthy county have so far neglected to zone for low-income housing, in violation of state law, and then been sued; zoned for low-income housing on the sites of existing businesses that may not intend to sell; and, in the case of Corte Madera, withdrawn altogether from the regional planning agencies that oversee this kind of zoning. Still, recent months have seen this polarized debate give rise to behavior that is downright
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common theme at meetings in Marinwood and elsewhere is the notion that information is being withheld. Carol Sheerin, one of the founders of the Susan Adams recall effort, says the anger on display in Marinwood comes partly from a feeling of futility: suddenly there appears to be all this compounded development, without the type of public process neighbors feel that they deserve. “Just in general, people feel like they have not been made aware,” she says. Stephen Nestel, the founder of SaveMarinwood.org, seconds this. “Our community, like most around the Bay Area, should have been brought into the planning process at the very earliest time, about 10 years ago,” he writes in an email, adding, “This is undemocratic and an affront to citizens.”
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NO GROWTH A pink dot marks a site under bitter debate for housing in Marinwood; the green areas of open space show just
how little room there is for any type of development off the 101 corridor.
So what, exactly, is being proposed in Marinwood? Is it the acres upon acres of concrete, high-rise slums that many speak of as though the first cinderblock is about to be laid? No, it isn’t. As Adams explained at the meeting, one developer has turned in an application to renovate the derelict Marinwood Plaza, and that application will be subject to all the public processes—EIR certification, design review—that developers are subject to under California law. But what has so many homeowners up in arms is a little thing called a PDA, or a priority development area, and that concerns zoning, not actual development. A word on zoning. Under state law, government entities are supposed to zone their communities cyclically to plan for future growth. (These same entities do not build housing, which is the domain of private or nonprofit developers.) One of the ideas behind housing element law is integration. Public entities are supposed to make sure that zoning does not “unduly constrain” development of multifamily housing, where
people who cannot afford to buy a three-bedroom home with a yard can live. Government is supposed to match projected growth for all income levels with fair zoning. This is a huge problem in Marin County, where, as one advocate wrote, the poor are “zoned out.” According to a county document prepared for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, multifamily housing is clustered in only a few areas like Marin City and San Rafael’s Canal District, where racial and ethnic minorities tend to live. According to a study funded by the Marin Community Foundation, 60 percent of Marin’s workforce lives out of the county and commutes in daily, holding jobs that tend to pay under $50,000, like residential care and retail. The study also notes the environmental hazards of such a freeway clog—an unnecessary 2.4 million pounds of carbon pouring into the atmosphere every day. This is a rough equivalent—daily—to the emissions produced by 42,000 U.S. households in a year. As Adams points out, none of the zoning in Marinwood
has been proposed in secret. Though audience members at the town hall shouted “You did not come to this community, you did not notice this community!” she replied that every meeting where potential zoning was discussed had been done in a public. Discussions over the housing element update—public. Board of supervisors meetings, where Marin’s 101 corridor was discussed as a place to concentrate future growth because so much of the rest of Marin is preserved as open space—public. “There have been public meetings, with audio streaming and webcasting, so you can see not only all the documents discussed, but the conversation around those documents,” she tells me on the phone. She’s right. I’ve been covering land-use issues in Marin for three years, and none of the zoning changes discussed at the Marinwood meeting were new to me. Still, audience members seemed to feel that public process wasn’t enough. “It’s not our full-time job!” one audience member yelled. “It’s your job as ) 18
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bizarre—not just in the form of meetings like the one described above, but also in a recall effort against Adams, which would cost as much as $250,000 and oust the supervisor from office only months before she faces a general election anyway. How did this happen? After all, as Carla Marinucci pointed out in a recent San Francisco Chronicle piece on the county’s current incivility, Bush-era Marin County was supposed to be a Greenpeace mecca of laissez-faire hippies soaking in backyard hot tubs. It continues to be caricatured as a rosy-vibe utopia policed by the handholding Kumbaya Patrol, not a place where mob mentality sweeps town halls. Is this chaotic mass opposition to housing the byproduct of top-down leadership on the part of local government, as some claim? Is it hysterical fear of Big Development in the wake of mortgage plummets, national bailouts and an economic machine that many no longer trust? Or is it really as ugly as it looks from the outside—wealthy suburban privilege at its worst, organizing to keep renters, low-wage workers and recent immigrants far, far away.
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18 Susan Adams ( 17 supervisor to come to us when there are major land-use issues at stake in our community!” There was a chorus of applause. I asked Sheerin how she thought Adams should have “noticed” the Marinwood community. “I can’t say putting it in the newspaper, because no one reads the newspaper,” she says. “Maybe sending out postcards.” In a background conversation, another person at that meeting told me nearly the exact same thing: “Nobody reads the newspapers,” she said. “Maybe if it had been on TV.” As Adams says when I told her about these responses: “‘Notice’ is a two-way street.”
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nother common theme at the Marinwood meeting, and others that I’ve covered, is more understandable. It’s the notion that the numbers governing this whole process are off. Two speakers addressed this eloquently. When Adams stated that a “low-income” designation in the wealthy county caps at around $65,000, one man protested, “We are that bracket.” Another man from the crowd called out, “That’s us!” It’s true. Just as the tech boom has wildly inflated rent in San Francisco, Marin County’s extremely high median earning— $130,000—has hiked the lowincome line past what many living in market-rate housing make. And the idea of somehow subsidizing families making more than you do in low-income apartments is hardly popular. The supposed “low-income” number comes from an organization called ABAG, which, lately, seems to be Marin County’s least favorite fourletter word. The acronym, short for the Association of Bay Area Governments, refers to the planning organization that puts out another acronym, the RHNA. This Regional Housing Needs Allocation is the all-holy number of units that each government
CAUSE OF ANGER A developer’s proposal for housing at Marinwood Plaza, now
a decaying strip mall, has some residents furious.
needs to zone for every few years, to match projected growth. If this number were some kind of omniscient data set, all would be well and good. But it’s not. Spurred by Mark Luce, the president of ABAG who called the process a “black box” when I interviewed him last summer, and Bob Ravasio, council member of Corte Madera and a member of ABAG who told me “If you find out how the RHNA works, let me know,” I drove to Oakland to visit ABAG. There, I sat in an office and looked over at least 10 sheets of paper as planning director Hing Wong explained the “formula” used to calculate RHNA. It took an hour. And it’s wasn’t a formula, really—it was determined by months and months of meetings, in which government officials, fair-housing lawyers, developers and transit workers decide the “fair share” of how much each region should get. But though ABAG has a reputation for strong-arming development onto unwilling towns, the RHNA process can be arbitrary in unexpected and troubling ways. Because housing, particularly affordable housing, has
historically been so unpopular in Marin, elected officials can push back against this fair-share mentality. And thus, despite its high in-commuting numbers, parts of Marin received unusually low numbers in the most recent cycle, compared to recent years. As we reported last year, Wong told me that in Novato, this was at least partly because “a councilwoman wanted very low numbers.”
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he lack of good, unbiased data means that vast conspiracies have sprung up in which Marin’s lack of affordable housing and clogged freeways aren’t really problems— they’re considered smokescreens for developers who just want to make a buck. “Everyone says ‘You’re in the pocket of the developers,’” affordable-housing advocate Lynne Wasley says. “I’ve never been given a dime.” Op-eds are written in which supervisors, characterized as “well-to-do progressives,” and developers seem to be in cahoots. And during the Marinwood meeting, Bradley and several others alluded to
the study conducted by Marin County for HUD—which found that minorities and multifamily units had been clustered due to discriminatory zoning—as an affirmative action document, implying that it was a tool to bring in “underrepresented minorities [from] outside Marin County.” And so a strange and sour attitude comes into play at public meetings, which tend to be overwhelmingly middle-class and white. It’s an attitude that doubts the very existence of low-income workers and residents in Marin— an attitude that might explain something like the farcical post on Nestel’s SaveMarinwood.org. “Wanted” it reads. “Gay Eskimos for Marinwood Village Affordable Housing Complex.” At Novato’s affordable housing meetings, which I covered back in 2010, it took the form of comments like “I heard that we recruited people from Richmond to come here tonight to fulfill our need for affordable housing” and “All of these people who need a place to live, where are they now?” And the answer mirrors this systemic issue. They’re not at evening Marin meetings, because
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though they work in Marin, they don’t live there. Or else, as a troubling press conference recently implied, they’re too scared to come.
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t a very different meeting than the ones described above, a group of fairhousing advocates and grass roots organizers came together in the Marin Civic Center garden on a Tuesday morning. They spoke quietly, waited their turn to speak and punctuated each comment with well-mannered applause. No one hissed, booed or called the police. And the tenor of the gathering felt like a PTSD support group. John Young, leader of Marin Grassroots, recalled talking to a colleague during a public meeting—before someone called the sheriff and asked that he be kicked out. A black man who describes himself as a big guy, Young said he felt afraid. “This was a room full of 200plus European Americans,” he says. An Asian-American man shares a similar experience. He recalls getting up to speak in favor of affordable housing and being heckled with the words:
“You don’t belong here.” Wasley, who was in attendance, says she hasn’t been to a public meeting in Novato in two years, after being booed and hissed in numerous town halls. She was even hissed at the grocery store wearing a sticker in favor of affordable housing, she says. And then Gail Theller, a spokesperson for Community Action Marin, says something that does not bode well for the future of public discourse in Marin. “The public areas in which these discussions are taking place have gotten to be so threatening that I’m unable to organize a group of people who are lowincome to come,” she says. The group announced that it was going to write a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown about the fact that all sides of Marin’s housing debate are not being heard. But in the meantime, meetings take place in suburbs like the one described at the beginning of this piece, where homes sell for an average of $650,000 a pop and beautiful community halls are packed with angry people, holding signs and shouting about apartment buildings.
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With his signature tall, curly coif and ensemble band in tow, Texas-based Lyle Lovett & His Large Band make their debut in Marin County this week. Lovett, a triplethreat songwriter, musician and actor, has garnered fans nationwide with his fusing of American music elements—country, swing, jazz and folk. With four Grammys under his belt, this eclectic performer has never been one to shy away from the spotlight. I mean, who can forget his quickie marriage-divorce to Julia Roberts? Fans nevertheless remain enthralled with Lovett’s greatest calling, music, and now he brings his band of 14 players on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at Marin Center Showcase Theatre. 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. $50–$90. 8pm. 415.473.6800.
In 2003, director Safinez Bousbia discovered the story of a group of Jewish and Muslim artists separated by war more than 50 years ago. These musicians shared one quality, a passion for chaabi, a blend of Berber, Andalusian and Flamenco sounds. Bousbia and these artists came together to produce the 2011 documentary El Gusto, which chronicles the stories and musical production of the group, called The Buena Vista Social Club of Algiers. This week, the 20-piece orchestra provides a screening of the inspirational film and a lively performance for guests on Sunday, Aug. 11, at the Green Music Center. 1801 East Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park. $5. 4pm. 866.955.6040.
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Guitars: strum, pick and slap these things, and out comes beautiful acoustic melodies or head-banging anthems. With this much amazing variation, is it really any surprise that there’s a threeday celebration dedicated to this single instrument? The 2013 Healdsburg Guitar Festival knows what’s up, because every year it’s dedicated to shining the spotlight on the guitar. Filled with workshop upon workshop, demonstrations, a showcase of hundreds of custom instruments and acoustic guitar summits featuring musicians like Walter Strauss, Teja Gerken, Peter Lang and Kelly Joe Phelps, the festival is a must for those who enjoy playing, listening or anything in between. The fest runs Friday, Aug. 9, to Sunday, Aug. 11, at the Hyatt. 170 Railroad St., Santa Rosa. $15–$149. 9am. 800.477.4437.
Think your travel stories are incredible to hear because they were adventurous, heroic and life-altering? Well, that just might make author Tim Cahill laugh. The acclaimed travel writer has faced every travel situation one could dream up, as well as ones never imaginable. If the titles of his books, including A Wolverine Is Eating my Leg and Pass the Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered, don’t provide enough explanation into his crazy travel adventures, skeptics (or fans) can listen to the author’s own accounts when he joins with National Geographic writer Don George in an evening of travel discussion and readings on Thursday, Aug. 8, at Book Passage. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. $10. 8pm. 415.927.0960.
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TO THE END OF LOVE Madeleine Peyroux sings at the Napa Valley Opera House on Aug. 9. See Concerts, p26.
BRIDGING BOTH WORLDS Bella Andre’s contract allows her to retain all digital rights and royalties.
Rags to Romance Sonoma author’s seven-ďŹ gure print deal has the industry spinning BY DAEDALUS HOWELL
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ike all mediabased industries, publishing has seen its share of digital disruption. Unlike the music and ďŹ lm biz, however, the seismic shifts caused by Kindles, iPads and their lot have had direct beneďŹ t for the creative people behind the work. Writers, who often have stopped just short of human sacriďŹ ce to score a traditional publishing
deal that would net a mere 7 percent royalty off the cover price, are now able to go it alone with little to no overhead and a worldwide market at their ďŹ ngertips. Among the thousands of authors successfully charting their own path is Sonoma-based author Bella Andre, who recently inked a seven-ďŹ gure deal with romance imprint Harlequin MIRA for her popular series The Sullivans. How, you ask, can Andre have
her indie publishing cred and a major contract, too? Andre is a “hybrid author,â€? the term publishing professionals use to describe writers whose careers straddle both the worlds of traditional and self-publishing. More to the point, as a hybrid, her deal represents only the print rights in the United States, Canada and Britain—the ebook, audio book, ďŹ lm, TV and foreign-language rights remain resolutely hers. This is signiďŹ cant because most publishing houses try to sew up these often
lucrative rights, frequently leveraging the author’s ignorance of their worth in the process. “I wouldn’t have done the deal otherwise,â€? says Andre, speaking by phone from a hundred-year-old log cabin in the Adirondacks, where her family spends their summers. Andre had already been published by three of the big six New York publishers, but in 2010, Random House elected not to pick an option on a forthcoming slate of books. A colleague suggested that the author publish directly to Kindle e-readers using Amazon’s self-publishing platform. She posted some works from her back catalogue and soon saw results. They weren’t staggering numbers—at ďŹ rst—but they were sufficient for Andre to doubledown on the prospect of selfpublishing. “I sold 161 copies that ďŹ rst month, and it was super-exciting. I was like, ‘Hey, I’m gonna do this thing,’â€? says Andre. “Fast forward three years, and I’m right around the 2 million mark on selfpublished ebooks.â€? Last summer, Andre debuted on the New York Times bestseller list with three self-published ebooks from The Sullivan series simultaneously. All the major publishers expressed interest in working with her. “I was just very clear with all of them from the outset that ‘I’d love to see my books on bookshelves, but I’m not giving up my digital rights,’â€? says Andre, who wryly adds, “‘Really, you couldn’t afford them.’â€? Harlequin MIRA “didn’t mess around,â€? says Andre. “They were like, ‘We get it. We understand that you are dead serious when you say that the only thing we can have are English-language print rights.’ So our negotiations from day one were just for that.â€? Since June, Andre’s series has been rolled out in continuous back-to-back ) 22
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ISLE SETTING Samson Hood and John Craven (L–R) as Alonso and Prospero.
Magic Act Shakespeare’s enchanted ‘Tempest’ blows into Ives Park BY DAVID TEMPLETON
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orture! That’s the best word for it. Torture!”
Rohnert Park actor and educator John Craven is describing the wildly complicated character of Prospero, the primary protagonist of William Shakespeare’s tragicomic play The Tempest. “And if torture is what Prospero is feeling, then that’s exactly what I’m feeling,” Craven says with a gentle laugh. “This is a very tough role, Prospero. It’s a real challenge, and every rehearsal brings huge new discoveries. It’s pretty tough.” Ah, the life of a Shakespearean actor. The Tempest—with Craven in the lead, Sheri Lee Miller directing and a crack team of local all-stars filling out the colorful cast—opens a three-week run this weekend at Sebastopol’s Ives Park, part of Main Stage West’s Sebastopol Shakespeare Festival. Of course, along with its complexity and
depth, and despite the sufferings of its central character, The Tempest is also one of Shakespeare’s sweetest, funniest, most magical, most emotionally satisfying plays. Once the Duke of Milan, the embittered magician Prospero has spent years on a mysterious island. Marooned long ago by traitors (Peter Downey, Anthony Abate), Prospero has raised a daughter (Rachel Quintana), all while mastering the art of magic, preparing for the day he might exact revenge on those who put him there. When those enemies, traveling across the sea, finally do sail within sight of his island, Prospero summons the tempest of the play’s title to shipwreck them all—and what begins as Prospero’s revenge turns into something different, as the old man discovers a long lost sense of hope, humanity and forgiveness. And then there’s some stuff about a drunken butler (Eric Thompson), a troubled monster
‘The Tempest’ runs Thursday–Sunday Aug. 9–25 at Ives Park. 154 Jewell Ave., Sebastopol. All shows 7:00pm. $7–$20. 707.823.0177.
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oody Allen’s Blue Jasmine, partially filmed in San Francisco and Marin, is more ambitious than his recent romcom travelogues—it’s a tragi-comic rephrase of A Streetcar Named Desire. (The play means a lot to Allen; 40 years ago, he personally burlesqued Blanche DuBois in Sleeper.)
Cate Blanchett, who recently toured as Blanche in revivals of Streetcar from Sydney to New York City, plays the penniless Jasmine. With no choices left, she descends into the San Francisco flat of her all-forgiving sister, Ginger (Sally Hawkins of Happy-GoLucky), a friendly grocery store clerk in the Mission. Allen shuttles through time so we can see Jasmine when she was riding high a few years previously as the pampered, bubble-bath-soaked wife of Wall Street baron Hal (Alec Baldwin). Jasmine trusted him utterly, even while an Alec Baldwin character is never to be trusted.
Jasmine works her way back from this plummet, finding a last chance at love with a gentleman caller. The new man (Peter Sarsgaard) is a Tiburon princeling with political ambitions. Allen splits the apish Stanley Kowalski figure into two separate men. Hawkins’ first husband is played in a comeback role by Andrew Dice Clay, who’s improved, though he’s still Andrew Dice Clay. Ginger’s later beau, Chili (Bobby Cannavale with an Italian version of a Human League haircut), is a garage mechanic who sees through Jasmine’s fancy airs and French perfume. The Spanish cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe tries to visualize the dull compliments Allen’s characters pay the City: “It’s so Mediterranean,” they exclaim. “If you can’t fall in love here, you can’t fall in love anywhere.” When on the Marin bay shore, Allen has the sense to turn the camera for a long appreciative view of the water. But he gets no excitement from the Mission. It’s as if Allen envisioned the area as Queens, and once he did, he couldn’t unsee that vision. Jasmine is rich material for Blanchett. She doesn’t have Tennessee Williams’ language, nor the throbbing accent, but she gets to seethe with craziness, to mutter with it, to sweat through her Chanel suits. If Jasmine isn’t crushed, she gets mauled a little by a drippy pawing dentist, played richly by Michael Stuhlbarg: “You can learn an awful lot about people by looking at their mouths.” Such gags work—they’re what Allen does best. And Blanchett’s acting will be aptly described as forceful when awards season comes. Yet maybe the word “forceful” isn’t analyzed as it ought to be—doesn’t it define a performer taking something unworkable and trying to beat it into submission? ‘Blue Jasmine’ opens Friday, Aug. 9, at Summerfield Cinemas, 551 Summerfield Road, Santa Rosa. 707.522.0719.
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Real Dough Pizza Punx give rock and roll a righteous home BY LEILANI CLARK
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e’re not just going to give anyone a back patch,” says 22-year old Nick O’ Rooney, aka Papa Pizza, the 22-year-old guitarist from local fuzz-garage duo Sharky Coast. “You start out as a ‘Dough,’ you gotta show up to see bands, you have to be willing to put up flyers and help promote it, to tell all your friends about it.” O’Rooney and 20-year-old Ian O’Connor, aka Sergeant Salami, along with O’Rooney’s girlfriend Denise Fraizer, are the forces behind the Pizza Punx, who tape oldschool cut-and-paste flyers for shows on light poles all over town. It’s not easy to become a pizza punk. To get fully initiated one must complete the herculean task of eating a large pizza in its entirety while watching Rock and Roll High School in one sitting. “If you can’t
do that, you can’t be called a Pizza Punk,” says O’Rooney. Beyond the PBR-and-pizza-grease haze, the two are dead serious about getting quality, underground bands to play in the often-overlooked locale of Sonoma County. At the Pizza Punx headquarters—a garage in a quiet neighborhood near the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, decorated with flyers, a few rescued pieces of furniture, a television and a drum kit—O’Rooney pulls out four large pieces of paper on which he’s meticulously written the names of over a hundred current, West Coast bands. He and the other Pizza Punx have reached out to every single one, asking them to come to Sonoma County with the guarantee of a place to sleep, do laundry, eat a meal, play a show and get a bit of gas money. The effort has produced five months of solid lineups, with headliners like Cool Ghouls, Indian Wars, White Mystery and Acid Baby Jesus, from Greece, playing shows at houses in South Park and at the “Ranger’s House” in Howarth Park, where shows have been surprisingly troublefree. (Only one band—CCR Headcleaner—was loud enough for the neighbors to call the police.) The next Pizza Punx show, on Aug. 8, features NoBunny, the creepy bunny-mask-and-underwearloving pop-garage persona of Justin Champlin (Like a “cuddly G.G. Allin,” says O’Rooney), along with Burger Records sweet pop duo Summer Twins, out of Riverside. The only rule is that it has to be allages because, really, in the end, they’re doing this for the kids. “The whole world is trying to absorb those kids, sell to them, try to get them to buy Hot Topic bullshit,” says O’Rooney. “And we’re the opposite of that,” adds O’Connor. Or as the Pizza Punx would say, “Keep it real, dough.” NoBunny, Summer Twins and Pookie & the Poodlez slice it up on Thursday, Aug. 8, at the Arlene Francis Center. 99 Sixth St., Santa Rosa. 7pm. $8. 707.528.3009.
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Concerts SONOMA COUNTY Backyard Concert Series Aug 8, the Sorentinos, Frankie Boots & the County Line. Every other Thursday through Sep 5. KRSH, 3565 Standish Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.588.9999.
El Gusto Performance by “The Buena Vista Social Club of Algiers,” the 20-piece El Gusto orchestra, and screening of documentary about the group. Aug 11, 4pm. $5. Green Music Center, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.
Friday Night Live Weekly music series in conjunction with farmers market. Aug 9, Eddie Roberts’ West Coast Sounds. 5:30pm. Free. Cloverdale Plaza, Cloverdale.
Funky Fridays Live music in the park’s outdoor amphitheater. Proceeds support Team Sugarloaf. Aug 9, Streetwise with Blythe Klein. 6:30pm. $10. Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood.
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MARIN COUNTY Blues on the Lawn BBQ with Ron Thompson & the Resistors, Danny Click & the Hurricanes and Volker Strifler. Aug 11, 4pm. $20. Rancho Nicasio, Town Square, Nicasio. 415.662.2219.
Summer Music Series Aug 11, Wendy DeWitt and Kirk Harwood. 1pm. $8. Elk’s Lodge, 1312 Mission Ave, San Rafael. 415.721.7661.
NAPA COUNTY Gypsy Allstars Spawned from a recent collaboration in India featuring Gipsy Kings’ family, Mario Reyes and Georges Reyes. Aug 10, 8pm. $30. Napa Valley Opera House, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.226.7372.
Los Lonely Boys Acoustic show, rescheduled from March 8. Tickets from canceled show honored. Sarah Gwen opens. Aug 14, 8pm. $45$55. Uptown Theatre,
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Madeleine Peyroux Her unique jazz voice can soothe the most chaotic soul. Aug 9, 8pm. $50. Napa Valley Opera House, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.226.7372.
Clubs & Venues SONOMA COUNTY Aqus Cafe Aug 9, Euro Café Music. Aug 10, Down with May. Aug 11, Brulee. 189 H St, Petaluma. 707.778.6060.
Arlene Francis Center Aug 8, Nobunny, Summer Twins, Pookie & the Poodlez. Aug 9, These Paper Satellites, Frankie Boots & the County Line, Tiny Pyramids, the Dandelion War, Wander, Bobcat. Aug 10, John Courage & the Great Plains, Secret Cat, Mr December, Rags, the Bad Apple String Band. Aug 14, Nikos Eliot, Heather Marie Van Cleave, Andrew Maurer. Mon, Fire Spinning. Wed, Open Mic. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.3009.
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Fri, Sat, Live DJs. 501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.843.5643.
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Cinnabar Theater Aug 14, Men of Worth. 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.763.8920.
Aug 9, Crossfire. Aug 10, CT Cruisers. Tues, Swing Dancing with Lessons. Sun, 7pm, salsa with lessons. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.545.8530.
Green Music Center Aug 10, pianoSonoma. Aug 11, El Gusto. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.
Heritage Public House Aug 10, Thick Soup. 1901 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.540.0395.
Hopmonk Sebastopol Aug 7, Freddy Todd. Aug 9, Jelly Bread. Aug 10, Dgiin, Koobi Fora. Aug 11, Healdsburg Guitar Festival After Party. Aug 12, Toussaint the Liberator. Aug 14, DJ Shotnez, Dub Gabriel, Dr Israel. Tues, 7:30pm, open mic night. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.7300.
Hopmonk Sonoma Aug 9, the Hellhounds. Aug 10, Jamie Clark Band. Aug 11, Craig Corona. Wed, Open Mic. 691 Broadway, Sonoma. 707.935.9100.
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Lagunitas Tap Room Aug 7, Nate Lopez. Aug 8, Tim Farrell. Aug 9, Jason Bodlovich. Aug 10, Jinx Jones. Aug 11, Disorderly House Band. Aug 14, Gypsy Trio. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.778.8776.
Main Street Station Aug 8, Slowpoke. Aug 9, Prisma Trova. Aug 10, Wendy DeWitt. Aug 12, Gypsy Cafe. Aug 7 and , Aug 13, Maple Profant. Aug 14, Pocket Canyon Ramblers. 16280 Main St, Guerneville. 707.869.0501.
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Redwood Cafe Aug 7, Jason Bodlovich. Aug 10, Redwood Tango Trio. Aug 12, Brett Dennen. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.795.7868.
River Theatre Thurs, Thugz. 16135 Main St, Guerneville. 707.869.3194.
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Aug 11, Sean Carscadden. 464 First St E, Sonoma. 707.935.0660.
Fri, Jazz on the River with the Peter Welker Sextet. 54 E Washington St, Petaluma. 707.773.3200.
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Aug 9, Transcendental Soundscapes with David Helfand and Justin Lader. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental. 707.874.9392.
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Ruth McGowan’s Brewpub Aug 10, the Rains. Sun, Evening Jazz with Gary Johnson. 131 E First St, Cloverdale. 707.894.9610.
Sebastopol Center for the Arts Aug 11, New Horizons Band. 282 S High St, Sebastopol. 707.829.4797.
Society: Culture House Aug 7, Vickie Guillory. Aug 14, Sonny Lowe. Wed, North Bay Blues Revue. Thurs, Casa Rasta. Sun, Church on Sundays. 528 Seventh St, Santa Rosa, No phone.
Sonoma Valley Regional Library Aug 10, Old Redwood Highway. 755 W Napa St, Sonoma. 707.939.0379.
Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards Aug 10, Ernie Watts Quartet. 4401 Slusser Rd, Windsor. 707.237.3489.
Sunflower Center Aug 9, Summer Soul. Aug 10, Creation. Aug 14, Ashley Raines & the New West Revue. 1435 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.792.5300.
Tradewinds Aug 9, Feral Moon. Aug 10, Crosscut Band. Mon, Donny Maderos’ Pro Jam. Tues, Jeremy’s Open Mic. Thurs, DJ Dave. 8210 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.795.7878.
MARIN COUNTY 142 Throckmorton Theatre Aug 8, Fingerstyle Guitar Summit. Aug 9, Eoin Harrington. Mon, Open Mic with Derek Smith. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.
Fenix Aug 8, Will Russ. Aug 9, Bautista. Aug 10, Swing Fever. Aug 11, the Breedloves. Wed, Blues Night. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.813.5600.
George’s Nightclub Thurs and Fri, DJ Rick Vegaz. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.226.0262.
Hopmonk Novato Aug 9, Sol Horizon. Aug 10, Rock Candy. Wed, Open Mic.
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Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts Aug 10, Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic. Osher Marin JCC, 200 No San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.
19 Broadway Club Aug 7, the Ring. Aug 8, the Grain, Bobby Jo Valentine. Aug 9, Roach Gigz. Aug 10, Mystic Roots Band, I Sight, Sound Systems. Aug 13, Jeb Brady Band. Aug 14, Gail Muldrow. Mon, 9pm, open mic. Wed, Baker’s Dozen. 19 Broadway, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.
No Name Bar Tues, 8:30pm, open mic with Damir. Fri, 9pm, Michael Aragon Quartet. Sun, 3pm, Mal Sharpe’s Dixieland. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.1392.
Panama Hotel Restaurant Aug 7, Lorin Rowan. Aug 8, Wanda Stafford. Aug 13, James Moseley Quartet. Aug 14, Dale Polissar Trio. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael. 415.457.3993.
Peri’s Silver Dollar Aug 7, the Weissmen. Aug 9, Swoop Unit. Aug 10, Zydeco Flames. Aug 14, Dr Mojo. Mon, acoustic open mic. Tues, John Varn & Tom Odetto. Second Sunday of every month, Sexy Sunday: Women Rockers. Second Thursday of every month, Mark’s Jam Sammich. 29 Broadway, Fairfax. 415.459.9910.
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Aug 9, the Two Mikes. Aug 10, Tender Mercies. Aug 11, Ron Thompson & the Resistors, Danny Click & the Hurricanes, Volker Strifler. Town Square, Nicasio. 415.662.2219.
Outside Lands Festival A bazillion bands, and even more lifestyle brand marketers, all vying for your attention. Aug 9-11 in Golden Gate Park.
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Iveta Sangalo Oakland melts into puddle of Brazilian love, drains into Lake Merritt, rebounds in epic dance party. Aug 9 at Fox Theater.
Whitesnake Featuring the tireless David Coverdale, goin’ down the only road he’s ever known. Aug 9 at the Warfield.
Moses Ex-High on Fire, ex-Strychnine members rock summertime afternoon BBQ. Aug 11 at the Hemlock Tavern.
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Aug 8, Janet Lee and Kenny Ray. Aug 9, Doc Kraft Dance Band. Aug 10, Rolando Morales and Carlos Reyes. Aug 11, Pa’l Baillador. Tues, Jazz with Noel Jewkes and friends. Wed, Tango with Marcello & Seth. First Wednesday of every month, Tangonero. Sun, salsa class. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito.
Sleeping Lady Aug 7, Dirty Cello. Aug 8, Songbook Night. Aug 9, Danny Click & the Hell Yeahs. Aug 10, James Nash and Bobby Vega. Aug 11, Danny Uzilevsky. Aug 13, Amanda Addleman. Mon, 8pm, open mic with Simon Costa. Sat, Uke Jam. Sun, 2pm,
Irish music. Second Wednesday of every month, Finger-Style Guitar Showcase. Second Thursday of every month, Appleberry Jam’s Guitar Pull. 23 Broadway, Fairfax. 415.485.1182.
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Smiley’s Mon, reggae. Wed, Larry’s karaoke. Sun, open mic. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas. 415.868.1311.
Studio 55 Marin Aug 10, West My Friend. 1455 E Francisco Blvd, San Rafael. 415.453.3161.
Sweetwater Music Hall Aug 7, Mingo Fishtrap. Aug 8, Victoria George with Midnight North. Aug 9, Super Diamond. Aug 10, Newcomers. Aug 11, Peter Walsh. Aug 12, Harvey Scales, Lester Chambers and friends. Aug 14, Steep Ravine. Mon, Open Mic. Every other Wednesday, Wednesday Night Live. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.
Terrapin Crossroads Aug 8, Telstar. Aug 9-10, Phil Lesh and friends. Tues, American Jubilee. Wed, Terrapin Family Band Bar Show. Fri, 4:20 Happy Hour with live music. Sun, Terrapin Family Band. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael.
Travis Marina Second Sunday of every month, the Lonestar Retrobates. Fort Baker, Sausalito.
NAPA COUNTY Downtown Joe’s Brewery & Restaurant Wed, Jumpstart. Sun, DJ Night. 902 Main St, Napa. 707.258.2337.
Molinari Caffe Thurs, Open Mic. 815 Main St, Napa. 707.927.3623.
Napa Valley Opera House Aug 8, De Corda EM Corda. Aug 8, Madeleine Peyroux. Aug 10, Gypsy Allstars. Second Tuesday of every month, Cafe Theatre Comedy Series. 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.226.7372.
Silo’s Aug 8, Michael Belair. Aug 9, Wendy DeWitt. Wed, 7pm, jam session. 530 Main St, Napa. 707.251.5833.
Uptown Theatre Aug 14, Los Lonely Boys. 1350 Third St, Napa. 707.259.0123.
‘Like a Zombie Movie’ Oddjob Ensemble survive wreck; tour cut short “We’re all very lucky to be alive,” says Kalei Yamanoha, accordionist for Gypsy-klezmer project Oddjob Ensemble, the day after a horrific car accident on I-80 in Nevada. The crash happened at about 5pm as the band, which features members of Church Marching Band and the Crux, headed to play some shows in Colorado. “The driver hit the rumble strip on the side of the road, veered off and overcompensated,” says Yamanoha. “The car started veering back and forth, lost control and we flipped four times into the median.” Everyone was wearing their seatbelts, and once the 1995 Mercedes station wagon stopped—landing upside down—all inside were able to walk away. “When we all crawled out of the car, we were covered with blood and dust,” explains Yamanoha. “It was like a scene out of a zombie movie.” Within minutes, about 10 Samaritans, including an off-duty EMT, stopped to help. Clarinetist Travis Hendrix busted his lip, fiddler Annie Cilley hit her head and cut her shoulder on a broken window, trumpeter Josh Jackson got minor abrasions to the head and arms, and Yamanoha suffered tissue damage in his back. An upright bass and violin were destroyed, and the car was left totaled in a Nevada tow yard. But the accident won’t stop the musicians from getting back out on the road. There’s a Crux tour in a month, and Church Marching Band plays the Wunderkammer Festival in Santa Rosa’s Railroad Square on Aug. 25. “The way the accident happened, I’m surprised we’re all walking and OK,” adds Yamanoha, the shock still evident in his voice. “This is what we do for a living, so we’re not going to stop.”—Leilani Clark
Galleries RECEPTIONS Aug 9 At 5pm. Art Works Downtown, “Transitions,� photography-based imagery from 32 Bay Area artists. 1337 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.451.8119.
Aug 10 At 5pm. Upstairs Art Gallery, “Exuberant Watercolors,� Patricia Barnett’s watercolor paintings. 306 Center Ave (above Levin & Co bookstore), Healdsburg. 707.431.4214.
Aug 11 At 1pm. Toby’s Feed Barn, “Exhibition 3D,� portraits and large nature photographs by Art Rogers and John Kaufman. 11250 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. 415.663.1223. At 2pm. Marin Society of Artists, “Trends and Impressions, Your Vision–Your Way,� juried member show. 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross. 415.454.9561.
SONOMA COUNTY Calabi Gallery Through Aug 31, “Summer Selection,� new selection of works by gallery artists as well as vintage art. 144 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. Wed-Sun, 11 to 5. 707.781.7070.
Charles M Schulz Museum Through Sep 1, “Art of the Line,� describing Schulz’s process, from the tools he used to the research he undertook. Through Oct 14, “Barking Up the Family Tree,� featuring comic strips with Snoopy’s siblings. Through Oct 27, “Mid-Century Modern,� works of prominent post-war-era decorative, textile and furniture designers. 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, noon to 5;
Sat-Sun, 10 to 5. 707.579.4452.
City Hall Council Chambers Through Sep 18, “Printmaking,� pieces by Catherine Atkinson. 100 Santa Rosa Ave, Ste 10, Santa Rosa. 707.543.3010.
Gallery of Sea & Heaven Through Aug 10, “Hodge Podge,� mixed-media exhibit by artists from Becoming Independent and the Barracks Studio. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa. Thurs-Sat, noon to 5 and by appointment. 707.578.9123.
Gallery One Through Aug 31, “Scapes, Scapes & Scapes,� handcolored photos by Laura Culver and oil scapes by Robin Burgert. 209 Western Ave, Petaluma. 707.778.8277.
Gallery 300 Through Aug 31, “Pieces,� art by Cat Kaufman and Mary Vaughan. 300 South A St, Santa Rosa. Open Sat, 12 to 5, and by appointment. 707.332.1212.
Graton Gallery Through Aug 11, “Summer Songs,� works by Mylette Welsh and Maria-Esther Sund. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. Tues-Sun, 10:30 to 6. 707.829.8912.
Hammerfriar Gallery Through Aug 11, “The Summer of 2013,� featuring pieces by Harley, Bill Shelley, Brian Wilson and Hugh Livingston. 132 Mill St, Ste 101, Healdsburg. Tues-Fri, 10 to 6. Sat, 10 to 5. 707.473.9600.
Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center Through Sep 26, “Inspired by Nature,� quilted fiber arts by the Pointless Sisters. 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.527.9277.
Local Color Gallery Through Aug 11, “Horizons,� paintings and drawings by Pamela Wallace and Linda Gamble. 1580 Eastshore Rd, Bodega Bay. Daily, 10 to 5. 707.875.2744.
Occidental Center for the Arts Through Sep 1, “Light and Shadow,� original art. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental. 707.874.9392.
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Petaluma Historical Museum & Library Through Aug 25, “Changing Courses,� the history and future of the Petaluma river. 20 Fourth St, Petaluma. Wed-Sat, 10 to 4; Sun, noon to 3; tours by appointment on Mon-Tues. 707.778.4398.
RiskPress Gallery Through Aug 25, “Reverse Image,� printmakers show their process. Closing reception, Aug 25, 4pm. 7345 Healdsburg Ave, Sebastopol. No phone.
Riverfront Art Gallery Through Sep 8, “Juried Fine Art Show,� works from North Bay residents. 132 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. Wed, Thurs and Sun, 11 to 6. Fri-Sat, 11 to 8. 707.775.4ART.
Sebastopol Center for the Arts Through Sep 7, “Monoprints,� pieces by Harry Frank. Through Sep 7, “Not Just Landscapes,� scenery in any style, from cityscapes to nature views. 282 S High St, Sebastopol. Tues-Fri, 10 to 4; Sat, 1 to 4. 707.829.4797.
Sonoma County Museum Through Aug 18, “Margins to Mainstream,� seven contemporary artists with disabilities. Through Aug 18, Rodger Warnecke, Oakland artist, displays paintings after a 25-year hiatus from art. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. TuesSun, 11 to 4. 707.579.1500.
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Through Aug 25, “Akin,� pieces by photographer Nicole Katano and painter Marc Katano. Artist talk, Aug 15, 5:30pm. Through Aug 25, “Stand by Me,� photographs by Nicole Katano of the Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance. 551 Broadway, Sonoma. Wed-Sun, 11 to 5. 707.939.SVMA.
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Through Aug 25, “Exuberant Watercolors,” Patricia Barnett’s watercolor paintings. Reception, Aug 10, 5pm. 306 Center Ave (above Levin & Co bookstore), Healdsburg. SunThurs, 10 to 6; Fri-Sat, 10 to 9. 707.431.4214.
MARIN COUNTY Art Works Downtown Through Aug 23, “Transitions,” photography-based imagery from 32 Bay Area artists. Reception, Aug 9, 5pm. 1337 Fourth St, San Rafael. Tues-Sat, 10 to 5. 415.451.8119.
Bolinas Museum Through Aug 25, “Birds of the Sierra Nevada,” paintings by Keith Hansen. Through Aug 25, “Celebrating 30 years,” featuring historical pieces from the museum’s past. Through Aug 25, “Constructed Surfaces,” color photographs by Andy Rappaport. Through Aug 25, “Consuelo Kanaga,” pieces by the American photographer from the collection of Susie Tompkins Buell. 48 Wharf Rd, Bolinas. Fri, 1 to 5; Sat-Sun, noon to 5; and by appointment. 415.868.0330.
Falkirk Cultural Center Through Aug 17, “Splendid
Objects,” new works by 19 contemporary artists. 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael. 415.485.3438.
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Through Sep 15, “Summer Group Show,” art by Bryn Craig, Phoebe Brunner and others. 483 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 415.945.9454.
Through Sep 2, “Nurture,” photos and stories midlife mothers with their families, written and created by Cyma Shapiro with photos by Shana Sureck and Tracy Cianflone. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.
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Through Sep 8, “Box Show,” 150 artists choose from three boxes and create a work of art. Closing party and live auction, Sep 8, 3pm. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. Wed-Mon, 11 to 5. 415.663.1347.
Through Aug 31, “Summer Salon,” group exhibition of select gallery artists in various mediums. 23 Sunnyside Ave, Mill Valley. Tues-Sat; 11 to 6. Fri-Sat, 11 to 7; Sun, 12 to 5. 415.384.8288.
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Through Sep 27, “Breaking Barriers,” featuring work by Bay Area artists with disabilities. 5 Hamilton Landing, Ste 200, Novato. Open Mon-Fri, 9 to 5.
Marin MOCA Through Aug 25, “Out of Order,” a MarinMOCA member exhibition. Novato Arts Center, Hamilton Field, 500 Palm Dr, Novato. Wed-Sun, 11 to 4. 415.506.0137.
Marin Society of Artists Aug 11-31, “Trends and Impressions, Your Vision–Your Way,” juried member show. Reception, Aug 11, 2pm. 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross. MonThurs, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, 12 to 4. 415.454.9561.
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Through Aug 26, “Bay Area Women Artists,” mixed-media artwork with emphasis on exploration and abstraction. 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. Tues-Sat, 10 to 2; also by
Through Aug 28, “Exhibition 3D,” portraits and large scale nature photographs by Art Rogers and John Kaufman. Reception, Aug 11, 1pm. 11250 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. MonSat, 9 to 5; Sun, 9:30 to 4. 415.663.1223.
NAPA COUNTY Blackbird of Calistoga Through Aug 31, “Vegetable Portraits,” photography by Lynn Karlin. 1347 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga.
di Rosa Through Sep 22, “External Combustion,” pieces by Sacramento sculptors Nathan Cordero, Julia Couzens, Chris Daubert and Dave Lane. Artist panel discussion, Aug 14, 7pm, $10. Through Dec 31, Largest collection of contemporary Bay Area art. Tours daily. 5200 Sonoma Hwy, Napa. Wed-Sun, 10am to 6pm 707.226.5991.
ECHO Gallery Through Aug 31, “Sum Sum
Grand Hand Gallery Through Sep 29, “Presence,� paintings by Michele de la Menardiere and sculptures by John Petrey. Reception, Aug 17, 6pm. 1136 Main St, Napa. No phone.
Comedy Comedy Night Adult content, hosted by Helen Pachynski. Second Fri of every month, 9pm. $4. Gaia’s Garden, 1899 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.544.2491.
Anjelah Johnson Comedian became an internet sensation with her Bon Qui Qui character and nail salon video. Aug 9, 8pm. Sold out. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa. 707.259.0123.
Tuesday Evening Comedy Mark Pitta hosts ongoing evenings with established comics and up-and-comers. Tues at 8. $15-$20. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.
Events Antiques & Collectibles Show Only pre-1975 items are up for sale in this truly vintage market. Aug 11, 9am. Free. Windsor Town Green, Bell Road and McClelland Drive, Windsor.
Bayer Farm Tending All ages welcome to join LandPaths for garden care. Wed, 4-8pm. Bayer Farm, 1550 West Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.524.9318.
Cartoonist-inResidence Meet, watch and talk to a professional cartoonist. Aug 10, Joanna Sternberg. Free. Charles M Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. 707.579.4452.
Center Literary Cafe Meeting of poets, writers and artists with rotating speakers and readings. Second Wed of every month, 7-9pm. Healdsburg Senior Center, 133 Matheson St, Healdsburg.
Gravenstein Apple Fair Celebrate the apple that made Sebastopol famous with entertainment and music from Zydeco Flames, California Honey Drops, Cahoots, Buzzy Martin & the Buzztones and others. Aug 10-11, 10am. $5$12. Ragle Ranch Park, 500 Ragle Rd, Sebastopol.
Open House Take a self-guided nature walk or a guide-led tour of the historic house and barn. Second Sat of every month. Free. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.527.9277.
Public Star Party Three main telescopes plus others set up for viewing. Second Sat of every month, 9pm. $3. Robert Ferguson Observatory, Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood. 707.833.6979.
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Film Die Walkure Wagner’s incredible opera captured on film. Aug 11, 4pm. $7. Napa Valley Opera House, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.226.7372.
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Get info on housing, transit, food stamps and Medi-Cal. Wed, 11am-1pm. Free. Petaluma Health Center, 1301 Southpoint Blvd, Petaluma. 707.559.7500.
One of the most popular ballets ever takes on new brilliance in this reimagining by dance legend Rudolf Nureyev and the Paris Opera Ballet. Aug 10, 7pm. Jarvis Conservatory, 1711 Main St, Napa. 707.255.5445.
San Rafael Art Walk
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Second Fri monthly, 5 to 8, galleries and retailers host artists and artwork, receptions and entertainment. Second Fri of every month, 6-8pm. Downtown San Rafael, Fifth and A streets, San Rafael.
Aug 9, “Being There�; Aug 10, “Lincoln�; Aug 16, “Singletrack High�; Aug 17, “The Avengers.� Fri-Sat, 8pm, through Aug 17. Free. Creek Park, Hub Intersection, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, San Anselmo.
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Girl Rising
Meet up and play a few hands, no partner required. Fri. Napa Senior Center, 1500 Jefferson St, Napa. 707.224.2055.
Solar Viewing Safely observe the sun through a solar telescope. Second Sat of every month-noon. Free. Robert Ferguson Observatory, Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood. 707.833.6979.
Sonoma County Fair “Home Spun Fun� theme includes horse racing, dog shows, butterflies, tiny houses and more. Music lineup (separate tickets required) includes: Aug 7, Florida Georgia Line; Aug 8, Bridgit Mendler; Aug 9, Intocable. Tues-Sun, 11am-11pm. through Aug 11. $5-$20. Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.545.4200.
Teen Health Clinic Thurs, 3:30-6pm. Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St, Petaluma. 707.762.3565.
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Documentary aims to prove that if women are educated the world will change. Aug 13, 5:30pm. $10. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.
Hava Nagila Documentary about the traditional Jewish song and its cross-cultural connections. Aug 14-15, 4:30 and 6:30pm. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.
Jewish Film Festival Several films shown, highlights include “The Zigzag Kid,� “Rue Mandar� and “First Cousin Once Removed.� Times vary. Aug 10-12. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.
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Civic Center Farmers Market Sun at 10am, “Eat Local 101� provides walking tour with information, cooking advice and ideas inspired by locally grown foods. Thurs, 8am-1pm and Sun, 8am-1pm. Marin Civic Center, 3501 Civic Center Dr, San Rafael. 800.897.3276.
Cochon Heritage Fire BBQ Over 20 wineries and 1,200 pounds of meat on hand to satisfy all cravings. Aug 11, 3pm. $125-$200. Charles Krug, 2800 Main St, St Helena. 707.967.3993.
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Sip on artisinal cocktails while costumed Raven Players present mini-scenes from select plays. Aug 11, 4:30pm. $75. Hotel Healdsburg, 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg. 707.431.2800.
Fairfax Community Farmers Market Offering artisanal foods and locally grown and raised agricultural products. Wed, 4pm. through Sep 24. Free. Bolinas Park, 124 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax.
Cheryl Forberg Nutritionist for “The Biggest Loser� demonstrates how easy it is to prepare a healthy meal. Includes dinner. Aug 8, 6:30pm. $55. Next Key Center, 1385 N Hamilton Pkwy, Novato. 415.382.3363, ext 211.
Healdsburg Farmers Market Wed, 4-7pm. Downtown Plaza, Healdsburg Avenue and Matheson Street, Healdsburg. Wed-Sat, 9amnoon. Healdsburg Farmers Market, North and Vine streets, Healdsburg. 707.431.1956.
Indian Valley Farmers Market Organic farm and garden produce stand where you bring your own bag. Wed, 10am-3pm. College of Marin, Indian Valley Campus, 1800 Ignacio Blvd, Novato. 415.454.4554.
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Fundraiser for upcoming Sonoma Valley Museum of Art exhibit. Wine and appetizers served. Aug 8, 6pm. $25. Ramekins Culinary School, 50 W Spain St, Sonoma. 707.933.0450.
Tues, 3-7pm. Russian River Vineyards, 5700 Hwy 116, Forestville. 707.887.3344.
Redwood Empire Farmers Market
Green String Herb Fling Afternoon of culinary and therapeutic herb samplings. Aug 10, 11am. Free. Green String Farm, 3571 Old Adobe Rd, Petaluma.
and 25 wineries, with live jazz and classical music. Aug 10, 1pm. Free. Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael. 415.485.3438.
Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market Sat, 9am-1pm and Wed, 9am1pm. Wells Fargo Center, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.522.8629.
Tam Valley Farmers Market Local artisan food, flowers and crafts. Tues, 3pm. through Aug 27. Shoreline Shopping Center, 219 Shoreline Highway, Mill Valley.
Valley of the Moon Farmers Market Tues, 5:30-8:30pm. through Oct 29. Sonoma Plaza, First St E, Sonoma.
Wednesday Night Market
Sat, 8:30am-1pm and Wed, 8:30am-noon. Veterans Memorial Building, 1351 Maple Ave, Santa Rosa.
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Medicinal Herb Workshop Herbalist Tina Tedesco talks about medicinal herbs as home-based first aid remedies. Aug 10, 10am. $10-$15. Sonoma Garden Park, 19990 Seventh St E, Sonoma.
Naomi Murakami Abstraction Then & Now Historian Ann Wiklund traces the introduction of abstract painting to the American audience. Tues, Aug 13, 2pm. $55. Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, 551 Broadway, Sonoma. 707.939.SVMA.
Peter Bowerman Commercial writer talks about how to make a living and build a writing portfolio. Aug 11, 3pm. $8. Flamingo Lounge, 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.545.8530.
Burbank Lecture Series Aug 14, Tour the Prince Memorial Greenway with Bill Montgomery; Sep 11, Susan Hatch describes gardening with bulbs; Oct 9, Tour of Juilliard Park and the Church of One Tree with Bill Montgomery. $10. Luther Burbank Experiment Farm, 7781 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol. 707.824.9492.
CityZen Evening of sitting meditation, tea and dharma talk. All are welcome. Mon, 7pm. Free. Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.568.5381.
Death Cafe Talk about death in a calm and informal conversational setting. Aug 13, 6:30pm. Free. Aqus Cafe, 189 H St, Petaluma. 707.778.6060.
An Evening with Catherine Karnow Travel photographer talks about her work. Aug 10, 8pm. $10. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 415.927.0960.
Beth Kephart University of Pennsylvania professor discusses memoir writing. Aug 11, 3pm. $8. Flamingo Lounge, 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.545.8530.
Laguna’s Prehistory Archaeologist Tom Origer talks about the oldest dated artifact found in Sonoma County. Aug 10, 3pm. $10. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.527.9277.
Art director for the Wellness and Advocacy Center gives a presentation. Aug 8, 7pm. $9. Sonoma County Museum, 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. 707.579.1500.
Science Buzz Cafe
The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog & the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero” with Michael Hingson. 100 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma 707.763.9801.
Redwood Cafe Second Tuesday of every month, 8:30pm, Slamazon Poetry Slam, all-women’s open mic with competitive poetry and a headlining poet. $5-$10. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati 707.795.7868.
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“The Quiet Time Revolution: Stress & the Teenage Mind” with Kim Dierke; Aug 13, 7pm. $5. French Garden, 8050 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol. 707.824.2030.
Second Sunday of every month, 4pm, Westword Salon. $1. 707.829.1549. 282 S High St, Sebastopol.
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Second Thursday of every month, 7pm, “Why There Are Words,” reading series presents various writers on a theme. $5. 333 Caledonia St, Sausalito 415.331.8272.
Build understanding about hunger, neurobiology and neurochemistry with Sarah Josef, director of the Dietetics program at San Francisco State University. Aug 10, 9am. $40. Bergamot Alley, 328-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.433.8720.
Readings Book Passage Aug 7, 7pm, “The Best Travel Writing, Volume 9: True Stories from Around the World” with authors. Aug 8, 8pm, “Pass the Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered” with Tim Cahill. $10. Aug 9, 8pm, “The Valley of Amazement” with Amy Tan. $10. Aug 12, 7pm, “Hope Conquers All: Inspiring Stories of Love and Healing from CaringBridge” with Sona Mehring. Aug 13, 7pm, “Griefprints: A Practical Guide for Supporting a Grieving Person” with Radha Stern. Aug 14, 1pm, “The Light Between Oceans” with ML Stedman. Aug 14, 7pm, “Heirs and Graces” with Rhys Bowen. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.
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The Cat in the Hat The story of a mischievous cat and his bottomless headpiece presented by Bay Area Children’s Theatre. Sat-Sun, 10:30am and 12:30pm. through Aug 18. $15-$20. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.5208.
A Comedy of Errors
Aug 12, 6pm, Dine with Local Authors. $4. 1899 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa 707.544.2491.
Marin Shakespeare Company’s presentation of the Bard’s classic with a Texas twist. Fri-Sun, 8pm. through Sep 29. $20-$37.50. Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, 890 Belle Ave, Dominican University, San Rafael.
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Second Sunday of every month, 9pm, North Bay Poetry Slam, Monthly poetry performance and competition. Aug 4, National Team Stockton. $5-$10. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol 707.829.7300.
Six performers delineate the dying lifestyle of wealthy WASPdom and the now neglected room which was once a vital center of family life. Fri-Sat, 8pm and Sun, 3pm. through Aug 31. $12-$15. Russian River Hall, 20347 Hwy 116, Monte Rio. 707.849.4873.
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CRITIC’S CHOICE
Not a Genuine Black Man Brian Copeland recounts his 1970s San Leandro upbringing in this one-man comedy. Aug 13, 8pm. $35. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.763.8920.
Rent (School Edition) Story about falling in love under the shadow of HIV and AIDS adapted for a younger audience. Fri-Sat, 7:30pm and Sat-Sun, 2pm. through Aug 18. $10-$15. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.763.8920.
Shrek: The Musical Everyone’s favorite ogre has his life turned upside-down when a talking donkey and beautiful princess come calling. Thurs, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm and Sat, 2pm. through Aug 10. $15-$25. Burbank Auditorium, SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.
The Spanish Tragedy Marin Shakespeare Company opens summer season with the play credited as the inspiration for “Hamlet.” Sun, 4pm and Fri-Sun, 8pm. through Aug 11. $20-$38. Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, 890 Belle Ave, Dominican University, San Rafael.
The Tempest Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation in this Shakespeare play. Thurs-Sun, 7pm. through Aug 25. $7-$20. Ives Park, Willow Street and Jewell Avenue, Sebastopol.
The Pirates of Penzance Gilbert & Sullivan’s classic tale of swashbuckling and singing on the high seas. Wed, Aug 7, 7:30pm. $15-$25. Burbank Auditorium, SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.
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Game Over Starbase Arcade to close, taking 32 years of memories Usually, whenever time is running out on the game, dropping a few extra quarters in the slot is all one needs to keep playing. But for San Rafael’s 32year-old Starbase Arcade—among the last ’80s-style video game arcades in the country—even the extra points from being a certified institution aren’t enough to qualify for one last bonus round. The venerable arcade cannot stand up to the skyrocketing rents in San Rafael, so at the end of the month, owner “Video Bob” Albritton will be shutting his doors for good. For Video Bob’s legion of fans, including middle-agers who still recall playing their first game of Centipede or Mortal Kombat at Starbase, news of the arcade’s closure is just one more nail in the coffin of a generation’s collective memories. Ironically, the news comes just as Starbase is about to be honored in an exhibition about the history of arcade culture, at Twin Galaxies in Fairfield, Iowa. There will be a ceremony marking the demise of Starbase, but it’s unlikely Albritton will be there. Instead, he’ll be busy figuring out what to do with 60-plus video games that are about to lose their home. For fans of Starbase, and video games in general, the countdown has begun. Starbase Arcade pulls the plug in just three weeks. Starbase Arcade, 1545 Fourth St., San Rafael. 415.459.7655.—David Templeton
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For the week of August 7
ARIES (March 21–April 19) “You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings,� says author Elizabeth Gilbert. I recommend that you experiment with this subversive idea, Aries. Just for a week, see what happens if you devote yourself to making yourself feel really good. I mean risk going to extremes as you pursue happiness with focused zeal. Try this: draw up a list of experiences that you know will give you intense pleasure, and indulge in them all without apology. And please don’t fret about the possible consequences of getting crazed with joy. Be assured that the cosmos is providing you with more slack than usual.
dwindled or drooped? The next few weeks will be an excellent time to take inventory of these things. Your own evaluations will be most important, of course. You’ve got to be the ultimate judge of your own character. But you should also solicit the feedback of people you trust. They may be able to help you see clues you’ve missed. If, after weighing all the evidence, you decide you’re pleased with how your life has unfolded these past 10 to 11 months, I suggest you celebrate your success. Throw yourself a party or buy yourself a reward or climb to the top of a mountain and unleash a victory cry.
TAURUS (April 20–May 20)
Monmouth Park in New Jersey hosts regular horse races from May through November. During one such event in 2010, a horse named Thewifenoseeverything ďŹ nished ďŹ rst, just ahead of another nag named Thewifedoesntknow. I suspect that there’ll be a comparable outcome in your life sometime soon. Revelation will trump secrecy. Whoever is hiding information will lose out to anyone who sees and expresses the truth. I advise you to bet on the option that’s forthcoming and communicative, not the one that’s furtive and withholding.
“I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything ďŹ ts,â€? writes Taurus author Annie Dillard, “but instead am wandering awed about on a splintered wreck I’ve come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air.â€? I recommend you try on her perspective for size. For now, just forget about scrambling after perfection. At least temporarily, surrender any longing you might have for smooth propriety. Be willing to live without neat containment and polite decorum. Instead, be easy and breezy. Feel a generous acceptance for the messy beauty you’re embedded in. Love your life exactly as it is, with all of its paradoxes and mysteries.
GEMINI (May 21–June 20) Studies show that when you’re driving a car, your safest speed is ďŹ ve miles per hour higher than the average rate of trafďŹ c. Faster than that, though, and the danger level rises. Traveling more slowly than everyone else on the road also increases your risk of having an accident. Applying these ideas metaphorically, I’d like to suggest you take a similar approach as you weave your way through life’s challenges in the coming week. Don’t dawdle and plod. Move a little swifter than everyone else, but don’t race along at a breakneck pace. CANCER (June 21–July 22) The key theme
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this week is relaxed intensiďŹ cation. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to heighten and strengthen your devotion to things that are important to you—but in ways that make you feel more serene and self-possessed. To accomplish this, you will have to ignore the conventional wisdom, which falsely asserts that going deeper and giving more of yourself require you to increase your stress levels. You do indeed have a great potential for going deeper and giving more of yourself, but only if you also become more at peace with yourself and more at home in the world.
LEO (July 23–August 22)
Last year a young Nebraskan entrepreneur changed his name from Tyler Gold to Tyrannosaurus Rex Gold. He said it was a way of giving him greater name recognition as he worked to build his career. Do you have any interest in making a bold move like that, Leo? The coming weeks would be a good time for you to think about adding a new twist to your nickname or title or self-image. But I recommend something less sensationalistic and more in line with the qualities you’d actually like to cultivate in the future. I’m thinking of something like Laughing Tiger or Lucky Lion or Wily Wildcat.
VIRGO (August 23–September 22)
AfricanAmerican jazz singer Billie Holiday was the greatgranddaughter of a slave. By the time she was born in 1915, black people in the American South were no longer “owned� by white “masters,� but their predicament was still extreme. Racism was acute and debilitating. Here’s what Billie wrote in her autobiography: “You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.� Nothing you experience is remotely as oppressive as what Billie experienced, Virgo. But I’m wondering if you might suffer from a milder version of it. Is any part of you oppressed and inhibited even though your outward circumstances are technically unconstrained? If so, now’s the time to push for more freedom.
LIBRA (September 23–October 22) What resounding triumphs and subtle transformations have you accomplished since your last birthday? How have you grown and changed? Are there any ways you have
SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)
SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21) You have both a poetic and a cosmic license to stretch yourself further. It’s best not to go too far, of course. You should stop yourself before you obliterate all boundaries and break all taboos and smash all precedents. But you’ve certainly got the blessings of fate if you seek to disregard some boundaries and shatter some taboos and outgrow some precedents. While you’re at it, you might also want to shed a few pinched expectations and escape an irrelevant limitation or two. It’s time to get as big and brave and brazen as you dare. CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) When I was 19, a thug shot me in the butt with a shotgun at close range. To this day, my body contains the 43 pellets he pumped into me. They have caused some minor health problems, and I’m always queasy when I see a gun. But I don’t experience any routine suffering from the wound. Its original impact no longer plagues me. What’s your own personal equivalent of my trauma, Capricorn? A sickness that racked you when you were young? A difďŹ cult break-up with your ďŹ rst love? The death of someone you cared about? Whatever it was, I suspect you now have the power to reach a new level of freedom from that old pain. AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) Want to take full advantage of the sexy vibes that are swirling around in your vicinity? One thing you could do is whisper the following provocations in the ear of anyone who would respond well to a dose of boisterous magic: (1) “Corrupt me with your raw purity, baby; beguile me with your raucous honestyâ€?; (2) “I ďŹ nally ďŹ gured out that one of the keys to eternal happiness is to be easily amused. Want me to show you how that works?â€?; (3) “I dare you to quench my thirst for spiritual sensualityâ€?; (4) “Let’s trade clothes and pretend we’re each other’s higher selves.â€?
PISCES (February 19–March 20)
Some people put their faith in religion or science or political ideologies. English novelist J. G. Ballard placed his faith elsewhere: in the imagination. “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world,â€? he wrote, “to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the conďŹ dences of madmen.â€? As you make your adjustments and reconďŹ gure your plans, Pisces, I suggest you put your faith where Ballard did. Your imagination is far more potent and dynamic than you realize—especially right now.
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