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Rhapsodies No Mountain Bikes

isn’t that good enough for mountain bikers? They are all capable of walking.

Bicycles should not be allowed in any natural area (“Fat Tire Temple,” July 1).

They are inanimate objects and have no rights. There is also no right to mountain-bike. That was settled in federal court in 1996 (see mjvande. nfshost.com/mtb10.htm). It’s dishonest of mountain bikers to say that they don’t have access to trails closed to bikes. They have exactly the same access as everyone else—on foot! Why

A favorite myth of mountain bikers is that mountain biking is no more harmful to wildlife, people and the environment than hiking, and that science supports that view. Of course it’s not true. To settle the matter once and for all, I read all of the research they cited and wrote a review of the research. Of the seven studies they cited, all were written by mountain bikers, and in every case, the authors misinterpreted their own data

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in order to come to the conclusion that they favored. They also studiously avoided mentioning other scientific studies that did not favor mountain biking and which came to the opposite conclusions.

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Bicycle Puffery All this “puffery” for bikes and not a

By Tom Tomorrow

word about safety (“Let the Good Times Roll,” July 1). Every day I observe cyclists riding on the wrong side of the road, on the sidewalk, not making turn signals and riding with flip-flops and no helmet. Time for the police to crack down on the irresponsible cyclists.

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Mental Health Myths It was disheartening to see the June 17 cover of the Bohemian titled “NorCal Psycho.” The word “psycho” is a derogatory word used to describe those of us with mental-health challenges.

I am sure that the Bohemian did not intend to promote prejudice toward people with mental-health disabilities by printing this cover. Our culture is full of myths surrounding mental health and derogatory language like “crazy” and “psycho.”

The Bohemian is not unique in pairing words like “psycho” with violence as it did on the cover. However, it is a myth that “people who have been diagnosed with mental illnesses are dangerous.”

According Eachmindmatters.com, “mental illness accounts for, at most, 3 percent of all violence committed in the U.S., and people with serious mental health challenges are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators.”

I hope that our community will pay more attention to our language and to challenge the Bohemian to print some of the positive and heartwarming stories from our community about people who have experienced mentalhealth recovery, and programs in our community where people are receiving help.

TERESA ROMERO Sebastopol

Write to us at letters@bohemian.com.

To Boldly Go On the pleasures of watching (and rewatching) ‘The Wrath of Khan’ BY D. T. ALLISON

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think I have just crested the hundredth viewing of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, arguably the best in the Star Trek movie franchise. Watch a movie more times than is, well, sane, and the finer points of filmmaking shine forth.

In The Wrath of Khan, the special effects—especially the phaser blasts—are as stunningly realistic as anything that could be accomplished today, and one could make a case that the shiveringly beautiful James Horner score is destined for the classics. I wonder if Mr. Horner got goose bumps while conducting his orchestra.

The one-minute sequence treating us to a visual tour of the Enterprise in space dock, with the triumphant music behind the camera angles, is a testament to Nicholas Meyer, a director who knew how to shoot for the big screen. Beautiful close-up shots. No need for 3D, just good cinematography.

Sometimes, when I’m feeling as if today’s youth have some great advantage over me, with their computers and iPads and all sorts of gadgets (having cable TV in one’s neighborhood was cause enough to feel imperious in my day), I take solace in the fact that there’s one thing I can claim as precious and special, something to jokingly lord over youngsters. It is the fact that I had the privilege of seeing The Wrath of Khan on the big screen when it came out, with the added blessing of my not knowing, one way or the other, if the rumors were true that Spock would die and holding on to the hope that it was just some clever misinformation scheme from Paramount Pictures.

I remember driving home that night, speeding down the freeway in my nearly brand-new Toyota Corolla GT-S sports coupe, pretending I was traveling at warp speed five and bawling like a great big sissy. I had never been more emotionally affected by a motion picture than I was by The Wrath of Khan and, truthfully, have never been since. I was 21 years old and I felt . . . young. I felt young.

D. T. Allison lives in Santa Rosa.

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Paper BLUM DEAL Richard Blum, who is married to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, has profited handsomely

from the subprime mortgage debacle of 2008.

Homewrecker Richard Blum’s fortune grows on the ruins of the American dream BY TOM GOGOLA

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nd now let us pause to contemplate Richard Blum’s participation in the destruction of the American dream at the hands of a new phenomenon known as the “Wall Street landlord.”

Blum’s wife is Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The California legislator’s latest financial

disclosure report, filed with the U.S. Secretary of State on May 15, includes a 2014 Blum Family Partners investment of at least $1 million in Colony American Homes Holdings.

Blum is the billionaire founder of the private-equity firm Blum Capital Parnters. Colony homes are owned under the umbrella of Colony Capital, one of the largest investment firms in the world.

The senator’s disclosure

describes Colony American Homes as a “leading owner and provider of high-quality singlefamily residences for rental across the United States.”

What it doesn’t say is that the rental stock is made up of foreclosed homes purchased by a handful of investor groups and hedge funds in the aftermath of the 2007–08 financial crisis and real estate crash. The Blackstone Group and Waypoint Homes join

Colony Capital in this business, along with American Homes 4 Rent and Silver Bay Realty.

Blum is often identified as a quintessential Democratic Party insider, with ties that run the gamut from Jimmy Carter to the Dalai Lama. His private-equity firm manages about $500 million in assets, and the bulk of the fund’s portfolio is dominated by holdings in CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm.

Though Blum has taken pains to deny it, reports say he’s worth at least $1 billion. According to a recent Roll Call survey, Feinstein’s net worth is $45.3 million, which puts her in the top tier of wealthy Washington lawmakers.

Colony American Homes was one of several investor-owned landlords highlighted in a June report from the anti-poverty advocates at the California Reinvestment Coalition (CRC).

That study focused on the rise of the Wall Street landlord and its impact on California renters and would-be homeowners.

The verdict from the CRC is that Colony American Homes has not been an especially good landlord: rents are above average, utilities generally aren’t included, and maintenance is poor, at best.

Moreover, would-be first-time homeowners in California often find themselves squeezed out by cash-rich corporate buyers like Colony American Homes. Rents are going up, and the landlord is nowhere to be seen.

“Neighborhoods are changing, income diversity is changing, the tenure of residents is changing,” says CRC associate director Kevin Stein, an author of the report.

The investor grab of housing stock, he says, “is destabilizing neighborhoods and creating a lot of displacement.”

The CRC survey found that real estate investment trusts, private equity firms and hedge funds have spent $25 billion buying over 150,000 distressed homes around the country since 2012.

“This whole situation is only possible because of a financial crisis that was engineered by Wall Street,” says Stein. “This

that [investors] are bidding and that their offers are in cash.”

Fair Housing of Marin was one of 70 signatories to the CRC report. Over the past few years the North Bay housing nonprofit has identified chronic maintenance failures at bank-owned homes in poor communities.

Fair Housing of Marin Executive Director Caroline Peattie describes a full-circle foreclosure dynamic that hit poorer communities in the North Bay. “Banks targeted communities of color with a disproportionate number of unaffordable subprime loans,” she says. “Those same communities suffered a disproportionate number of foreclosures; the banks then failed to maintain and market those properties; and, finally, banks have been selling foreclosed homes in bulk to investors who care nothing about the property, the tenants who live in those properties, nor the neighborhood.”

Just as Feinstein was putting the finishing touches on her May 15 financial disclosure report, Tenants Together released its study, “The New Single-Family Home Renters of California,” on May 12.

The statewide tenants-rights organization found that renters of single-family homes from the three biggest corportate landlords in the state—Blackstone/Invitation Homes, Waypoint Homes and Colony American Homes—“pay higher rents than their neighbors and face challenges getting repairs.”

Those companies together own about 9,500 properties in California, according to Tenants Together.

A scan of available investorowned properties for sale or rent in the North Bay doesn’t yield many hits—but that may not mean anything, says Stein.

“It could be that there’s more happening than what you see, because some of the sales are happening before anybody even knows a property is available,” he says, “and it’s not known because it has already been sold to Colony.”

Doug Henwood, an economics journalist and author of Wall

Street: How It Works and for Whom, says investor-driven home purchases follow the general model of private-equity deals.

“They are in it for the short-term, the medium-term,” says Henwood.

“They are not in it for the long haul. The incentive is to screw the tenants over completely, minimize repairs and maximize rents.”

The senator’s disclosure report lists the Colony American Homes investment in the section of Feinstein’s “non-publicly traded assets and unearned income sources,” which also includes another Colony distressed-asset fund, Colony American Homes War I, LLC. According to the report, Blum Family Partners has a $50,000– $100,000 investment in Colony American Homes War I and no reported 2014 income from that investment.

The disclosure form exempts Feinstein from having to provide any further detail on Colony American Homes, since the investment is held independently

by Blum. As such, Feinstein didn’t have to indicate anything beyond that the investment eclipsed $1 million.

No surprise there, says Henwood. “This is entirely consistent with the Democrats.

Real estate, and especially urban real estate, is one of the lifebloods of Democratic party financing.”

The investment in Colony American Homes earned Feinstein and Blum between $50,000 and $100,000 in capital gains and interest in 2014, according to the disclosure report.

In contrast, the average down payment for a single-family home in 2014 was $32,000, according to the online real-estate service RealtyTrac.

In response to questions about the investment, Feinstein communication director Tom Mentzer says that “Sen. Feinstein has no involvement in her husband’s business decisions. Her assets are in a blind trust, which has been the case since she arrived in the Senate, and I have no information on her husband’s assets.”

A phone call to Blum Capital Partners was not returned.

DEBR IEFER Fracking Regs Last week California saw the implementation of 2013’s Senate Bill 4, the state hydraulic fracturing law written by Sen. Fran Pavley. Depending on your perspective, SB 4 was either a giveaway to a frack-crazed energy industry or it represents the arrival of the toughest fracking regulations in the country. (The latter determination is according to a Los Angeles Times report on SB 4 from last week.)

Both can be true. The Pavley law was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown after legislative attempts to ban fracking failed.

Anti-frackers charged that Pavley’s bill gave the state oil and gas industry two years of unfettered fracking before the regs kicked in. SB 4 also served to stymie a robust statewide push to ban fracking when it created a set of regs under which the practice can continue.

Among its other highlights, fracking involves lots of wasted water, the potential for earthquakes and, possibly, blue flames shooting out your faucet.

No Violation Last week several federal agencies wrapped up their investigation of the Andy Lopez shooting.

Conclusion: The 13-year-old’s federal civil rights weren’t violated when he was killed by a Sonoma County Sheriff’s deputy in late 2013.

The Lopez family lawyer vowed to press on; a civil rights case against the sheriff’s office is scheduled to hit federal court in April 2016.

Arnoldo Casillas argues that even as the sheriff’s office says the feds’ decision endorses its position that there was no violation of Lopez’ civil rights, “the feds confirmed that this was not the case, and that their decision is simply that they will not prosecute deputy Erick Gelhaus under the federal statute.”—Tom Gogola The Bohemian started as The Paper in 1978.

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is investors profiting off of foreclosure.”

What can be done? Stein says Gov. Jerry Brown could “use his bully pulpit to talk about the importance of neighborhood stability, and to acknowledge that there’s extreme gentrification and displacement going on.”

Or Brown could pay back the $331 million he diverted from foreclosure relief for homeowners in 2012 to solve the state budget crisis. The Associated Press reported this week that lawmakers and community groups have called on Brown to repay the money, after a Sacramento judge ruled that he had illegally funneled the foreclosure monies into the state’s general fund.

A May report from the California advocacy group Tenants Together also weighed in on so-called Wall Street landlords.

The organization reported that Colony has, to date, purchased more than 2,000 formerly foreclosed properties in California and flipped them into rentals.

Banks help investors do this by converting future rental income on properties into securities, which are then turned back to the investors as loans. “Wall Street has also issued over $8 billion in securities tied to almost 60,000 homes,” some owned by Colony, reports the CRC. The loans are then used to purchase additional distressed properties, notes CRC. This has conspired to fuel a growing market in investor-purchased single-family homes.

The investor-led push to buy distressed single-family homes, says Stein, means individual buyers often get pushed out of the market. The CRC survey heard from numerous would-be first-time homebuyers, he says, “who could get decent loans but couldn’t successfully bid on properties.”

Nonprofits and developers who want to build affordable housing are often outbid, and local businesspeople, many of them from communities of color, “feel that they are being circumvented.

These deals are going around local businesspeople,” says Stein.

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In the Club Sam’s Social Club in Calistoga is elegant, serene and a lot of fun BY FLORA TSAPOVSKY

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imagine it’s easy to play it safe when opening a restaurant attached to a resort.

If it’s the vacationing folk you’re catering to, they’d probably eat anything you serve them, as long as it’s close to their room.

That could have been the fate at the new Sam’s Social Club at Calistoga’s Indian Springs Resort & Spa. Named after resort founder Samuel Brannan, this is

Indian Springs’ first full-service restaurant.

A number of things take Sam’s to a different level. It’s both elegant and fun. Vacationing and feeling glitzy are easy here, even if you live nearby. The new establishment fits right into the country-club motif. There’s beautiful scenery, a fire pit and outdoor sitting. All spaces exhibit a laid-back, easy-going vibe, with muted beige and sandy hues blending well into the natural setting. It’s a restaurant where

you wear designer flip-flops and spend hours relishing the summer weather.

With plenty of dining opportunities in Calistoga, chef Kory Stewart had to go beyond the obvious. The dinner menu does contain some classics like the hamburger ($15) and blue cheese salad ($12), but Sam’s isn’t afraid of adventure either. Grandma will be happy, but so will the millennial foodie.

We started with a couple of snacks, $6 each. The deviled eggs,

saved from banality by a hint of truffle oil and a crispy sunchoke chip on top, were a promising start. The Brussels sprouts were less creative. Fried and served with a lemony aioli, they’d be a perfect side dish along with something more dominant, but as a standalone, they left me wanting.

From the appetizer list, almost everything was a hit.

The butter lettuce salad ($11) had crunchy fennel, lettuce and creamy avocado blended nicely with juicy navel oranges and flakes of manchego cheese.

The market ceviche ($16), highly recommended by the knowledgeable waiter, was satisfying and fresh. Served with sweet potato crisps and avocado slices, it set us in a breezy, oceancentric mood we decided to keep going with the grilled octopus ($13). It was on the rubbery side, but the sweet and tangy romesco sauce saved the day, even lending itself to the leftover Brussels sprouts.

Being able to make vegetarians and vegans smile is mandatory for a modern-day restaurant, and Sam’s addresses the issue with an intriguing dish of trumpet mushrooms, sunchoke purée, corn, tomatoes and zucchini ($25). The sunchoke purée delivered deep, earthy tones, and the mushrooms played a meaty, juicy role. The ingredients were individually flavorful, but the components didn’t come together as harmoniously as I’d hoped and left me craving a bigger flavor moment.

The kitchen has a more traditional approach to dessert: chocolate Valrhona pudding, and a strawberry and rhubarb crisp (both $8). Both were great.

The kitchen may take some time to bring all of its menu up to speed, but Sam’s Social Club already has a lot going for it. A resort restaurant that feels truly indulgent and memorable? Easier said than done, and Sam’s got that part totally right.

Sam’s Social Club, 1712 Lincoln Ave., Calistoga. 707.942.4913.

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Dining Our selective list of North Bay restaurants is subject to menu, pricing and schedule changes. Call ďŹ rst for conďŹ rmation.

Restaurants in these listings appear on a rotating basis. For expanded listings, visit www.bohemian.com.

COST: $ = Under $12; $$ = $13-$20; $$$ = $21-$26; $$$$ = Over $27

Rating indicates the low to average cost of a full dinner for one person, exclusive of desserts, beverages and tip.

Lunch specials start at $7.95 Includes soup or salad Mon-Fri only

Open 7 days a week Sun-Th 11:30-9:30 Fri-Sat 11:30-10:00 525 4th Street(Upstairs) 707.526.3939

S O N O MA CO U N T Y Bistro 29 Bistro. $$-$$$.

Get an honestly prepared plate of excellence, reasonably priced, at this veritable palace of crepes. Dinner, Tues-Sat. 620 Fifth St, Santa Rosa.

707.546.2929.

Expert preparation by celebrity Indian and Nepalese Chef Full Bar Happy Hour 5–6pm Santa Rosa Express Lunch $11+ both locations 190 Farmers Lane, Santa Rosa 707.521.9608 14301 Arnold Drive, Glen Ellen 707.996.9930 YetiRestaurant.com

Chinois Asian Bistro Asian. $$. Pan-Asian cuisine done delicious. Happy hour tapas and cocktails weekdays.

Dinner daily; lunch, Mon-Fri. 186 Windsor River Rd, Windsor.

707.838.4667.

French Garden French. $$$-$$$$. The French Garden serves classic French and California cuisine focusing on seasonal and sustainable foods, much of it grown on its own farm; also, a casual bar with small plates. Dinner, Wed-Sun; brunch, Sun. 8050 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol.

707.824.2030.

Native Peruvian Cuisine Lomo Saltado Empanadas

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Thai. $-$$. Sophisticated and delicate Thai cuisine. Fresh ingredients, packed with flavor. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Fri; dinner, Sat-Sun. 2400 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.528.8048.

Phyllis’ Giant Burgers American. $. Come with a hearty appetite for an oldfashioned patty. Lunch and dinner daily. Two Sonoma County locations: 4910 Sonoma Hwy, Ste B, Santa Rosa.

707.538.4000. 1774 Piner Road #B, Santa Rosa. 707.521.0890.

Two Marin County locations: 924 Diablo Ave, Novato.

415.898.8294. 2202 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.456.0866.

SeaThai Bistro Thai. $$.

An oasis of exotic Bangkok with some truly soul-satisfying dishes. Lunch and dinner, TuesFri; dinner, Sat. 2323 Sonoma Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.528.8333.

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.

West Side Bar & Grill 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.

Willi’s Seafood & Raw Bar Seafood. $$. Delicious preparations of the freshest fish and shellfish. Lunch and dinner daily. 403 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.433.9191.

Yao-Kiku Japanese. $$-$$$. Fresh sushi with ingredients flown in from Japan steals the show in this popular neighborhood restaurant. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. 2700 Yulupa Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.578.8180.

Zazu Cal-Euro. $$$. Perfectly executed dishes that sing with flavor. Zagat-rated with much of the produce from its own gardens. Dinner, Wed-Sun; brunch, Sun. 6770 McKinley St #150, Sebastopol. 707.523.4814.

MARIN CO U N T Y Arigatou Japanese Food to Go Japanese. $.

Cheap, delicious and ready to go.

Lunch and dinner daily. Miracle Mile Plaza, 2046 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.453.8990.

Avatar’s Indian-plus. $.

Fantastic East-meets-West fusion of Indian, Mexican, Italian and American, with dishes customized to your palate. Lunch and dinner, MonSat. 2656 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.332.8083.

Bay Thai Thai. $. Fresh Thai food with curries that combine the regions classic sweet and tart elements. Some of the best fried bananas to be found. Lunch and dinner, MonSat; dinner, Sun. (Cash only.)

809 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.458.8845.

Benissimo Ristorante & Bar Italian. $$. Hearty and flavorful food in authentic neighborhood-style Italian restaurant. Lunch and dinner daily. 18 Tamalpais Dr, Corte Madera. 415.927.2316.

Fish Seafood. $$-$$$.

Incredibly fresh seafood in incredibly relaxed setting overlooking bay. Lunch and dinner daily. (Cash only.)

350 Harbor Dr, Sausalito.

415.331.FISH.

Fradelizio’s Italian. $$.

Locally sourced northern Italian dishes with a Californiacuisine touch. The house red is a custom blend from owner Paul Fradelizio. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch, Sat-Sun. 35 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.

415.459.1618.

Il Piccolo Caffe Italian. $$. Big, ample portions at this premier spot on Sausalito’s spirited waterfront. Breakfast and lunch daily. 660 Bridgeway, Ste 3, Sausalito. 415.289.1195.

Insalata’s Mediterranean. $$$. Simple, high-impact dishes of exotic flavors. Lunch and dinner daily. 120 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo.

415.457.7700.

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.

Pizzeria Picco Pizza. $-$$.

The wood-fired oven keeps things cozy, and the organic ingredients and produce make it all tasty. Lunch and dinner, Sat-Sun; dinner only, Mon-Fri. 316 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 415.945.8900.

Sushiholic Japanese. $$$$. A nice addition to the local lineup, with a lengthy and wellcrafted repertoire including uncommon dishes like nabeyaki udon, zaru soba, yosenabe and sea bass teriyaki.

Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Rowland Plaza, 112-C Vintage Way, Novato. 415.898.8500.

The William Tell House American & Italian.

Yet Wah Chinese. $$.

Can’t go wrong here. Special Dungeness crab dishes for dinner; dim sum for lunch.

Lunch and dinner daily.

1238 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.460.9883.

N A PA CO U N TY Ad Hoc American. $$-$$$.

Thomas Keller’s quintessential neighborhood restaurant.

Prix fixe dinner changes daily.

Actually takes reservations.

6476 Washington St, Yountville.

707.944.2487.

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.

Bounty Hunter Wine country casual. $$. Wine shop and bistro with maverick moxie for the wine cowboy. Premium bottles for sale, also. Lunch and dinner daily. 975 First St, Napa.

707.226.3976.

Checkers California. $$.

Perfect casual spot for dinner before the movie. Try the panĂŠed chicken and butternut squash ravioli. Lunch and dinner daily. 1414 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga. 707.942.9300.

Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen Eclectic. $$-$$$. As comfortable as it sounds, with a rich and varied melting pot of a menu. Lunch and dinner daily.

1327 Railroad Ave, St Helena.

707.963.1200.

Cole’s Chop House American steakhouse. $$$$$. Handsome, upscale 1950s-era steakhouse serving chophouse classics like dryaged porterhouse steak and Black Angus filet mignon.

Wash down the red meat with a “nostalgia� cocktail. Dinner daily. 1122 Main St, Napa.

707.224.6328.

Compadres Rio Grille Western/Mexican. $-$$.

Contemporary food and outdoor dining with a Mexican flavor. Located on the river and serving authentic cocktails.

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$$. Marin County’s oldest saloon. Casual and jovial atmosphere. Steaks, pasta, chicken and fish all served with soup or salad. Lunch and dinner daily. 26955 Hwy 1, Tomales. 707.878.2403

Napa’s Oxbow Public Market and Judd’s Hill Winery will present the fifth annual “Uke-APalooza,� a night of Polynesian music, food and fun, on July 31 from 6pm to 9pm.

The event will feature a performance on the Oxbow River Deck by good-times Polynesian band the Maikai Gents. The band is headed by Judd Finkelstein himself, second-generation winemaker at Judd’s Hill Winery. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own ukulele and perform. The evening will include a raffle to benefit Voices of Napa. Polynesian-themed merchandise and food will be offered by Oxbow merchants, and Polynesian and vintage beach clothing

by Melissa Gruenhagen of Retro Diva.

Admission is free.

Oxbow Public Market is located at 610 and 644 First St. in Napa. 707.226.6529.

Visit oxbowpublicmarket.com for more info.—Stett Holbrook

Nightly specials and an abiding love of the San Francisco Giants. 505 Lincoln Ave, Napa. Lunch and dinner daily.

707.253.1111.

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.

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. Dinner daily. 1314 McKinstry St, Napa.

707.257.5157.

Pizza Azzurro Italian. $.

Run by a former Tra Vigne and Lark Creek Inn alum, the pizza is simple and thin, and ranks as some of the best in the North Bay. Lunch and dinner daily.

1260 Main St (at Clinton), Napa.

707.255.5552.

Red Rock Cafe & Backdoor BBQ American. $-$$. Cafe specializing in barbecue and classic diner fare.

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Messy, delicious. Lunch and dinner daily. 1010 Lincoln Ave, Napa. 707.252.9250.

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, terroirinformed cooking celebrates the local and seasonal, with electric combinations like sorrel-wrapped ahi tuna puttanesca. 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.

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Wineries

Most reviews by James Knight. Note: Those listings marked ‘WC’ denote wineries with caves. These wineries are usually only open to the public by appointment.

Wineries in these listings appear on a rotating basis.

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to quality. All the wines are above average. 1401 Westside Road, Healdsburg. Open daily, 10am–4pm. 707.431.2121.

DaVero Sonoma Get

Occidental Road Cellars High-end clients

lubed with spicy extra virgin from California’s first Tuscan olive trees; rare Sagrantino wine is in a different league.

Jams, soaps and balm from the farm, too. 766 Westside Road, Healdsburg. 10am-5pm daily except Tuesday. Nominal fee $15. 707.431.8000.

Göpfrich Winery Accomplished dentist Ray Göpfrich found a new career in gladly helping to stain your teeth purple. Dry Creek Valley Cab, and sweet treats: Riesling, Silvaner and Huxelrebe from friends in Germany. 7462 West Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg.

By appointment, Saturdays.

707.433.1645.

Hawley Winery Barrelfermented Viognier, kiwistyle Sauvignon Blanc, plus toothsome reds. Winemaker John Hawley helped to grow some of the big-name brands; now his sons have joined him in this small, Dry Creek Valley family business. 36 North St., Healdsburg. Open daily, 11am– 6pm; $5 fee. 707.473.9500.

La Crema Winery Stylish salon offers hip urbanites limited-release country cousins of the top-selling restaurant brand. Pop in for the Pinot, stay for the Syrah.

235 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg. Open daily, 10:30am–5:30pm.

707.431.9400.

La Follette Wines You’ve heard of the brands he’s helped to create or save— Flowers, La Crema—but do you know Greg La Follette?

Find out how the man behind “big-hair Pinot” has reinvented himself. 180 Morris St., Suite 160, Sebastopol. Daily, 11am– 6pm. Tasting fee, $10–$15.

Saturday Terroir Tour, $30.

707.827.4933.

Mill Creek While the historically inspired building is just spinning a decorative wheel, quaint is just a footnote

like Schramsberg and RadioCoteau buy most of the Prathers’ grapes; just 5 percent are made into their own wine, and at a comparative “grower’s discount.” Chard, Pinot, and cool-climate Syrah at its very best. 2064 Gravenstein Hwy. N., Building 7, Sebastopol. By appointment, Saturday 1–4pm.

707.874.9470.

Simi Winery Pioneered female winemaking by hiring the first female winemaker in the industry. The tastingroom experience is mediocre, but the wine is fantastic and worth the wait. Excellent Chard, Sauvignon Blanc and Cab. 16275 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg. Open daily, 10am–5pm. 707.473.3213.

Tricycle Wine Partners There’s more to terroir than the dirt that grapevines grow in—there’s the rock the oak for the barrels grows in.

23568 Arnold Drive, Sonoma.

In Cornerstone Sonoma. Open daily, 11am–5pm; weekends to 6pm. Tasting fee, $10.

707.255.4929.

Ty Caton Vineyards Mountain-grown Cabernet, “Tytanium” red blend, and Syrah are highlights.

8910 Sonoma Hwy. (in the Kenwood Village Plaza), Kenwood. Daily, 11am–6pm.

707.938.3224.

N A PA CO U N T Y Beaulieu Vineyard History in a glassful of dust– Rutherford dust. Somethingfor-everyone smorgasbord of solid varietal wines, plus library selections of flagship Georges de Latour Cab back to 1970. 1960 St. Helena Hwy., Rutherford. Daily, 10am–5pm.

Tastings $15–$20; Reserve Room, $35. 707.967.5233.

Brown Estate Vineyards (WC) A beautifully restored and converted stone and redwood barn is the winery and tasting room facility at Brown Estate.

3233 Sage Canyon Road, Napa.

707.963.2435.

Cain Think you know about what food to pair with Napa Valley “mountain grown” Cabernet Sauvignon? How about sake-marinated poached cod in a light broth?

Yeah, it is different up here.

3800 Langtry Road, St. Helena. Tour and tasting by appointment only, Monday– Friday, 10am and 11:30am; Saturday, 10am and noon. $35.

707.963.1616.

Jericho Canyon Vineyard Oh boy, boutique Napa Cab from celebrity consultant Michel Rolland and high-rollers who used to spend half the year in Hawaii? Well, yeah, but they’re super nice, work hard, and their wines are tops. Cab and Sauv Blanc.

3322 Old Lawley Toll Road, Calistoga. Tour and tasting by appointment only, $30.

707.942.9665.

RustRidge Ranch Down one of Napa’s less-traveled roads, the story began with thoroughbred horses. Bed and breakfast stays available in a rambling ranch house with wall-to-wall horse decor.

2910 Lower Chiles Valley Road, St. Helena. By appointment, 10am–4pm. Tasting fee, $20.

707.965.9353.

Summers Estate Wines Excellent Merlot and that rarest of beasts, Charbono.

Small tasting room and friendly staff. 1171 Tubbs Lane, Calistoga. Open daily, 10am– 4:30pm. 707.942.5508.

Vermeil Wines Pair the Chardonnay with baked brie en croute, if you’re having that kind of Super Bowl party.

Also rare Charbono from OnThEdge Winery, and late harvest Sémillon, perfect for potato chips. 1255 Lincoln Ave., Calistoga. Sunday–Thursday, 10am–5:30pm; Friday– Saturday, 10am–8pm. Tasting fee, $12. 707.341.3054.

Cabby Cab Passing the predictability barrier with Cabernet Sauvignon

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n a tasting of several Cabs, I thought it would be clever to roll a blackcurrant berry into the room and ask, which is the Cabbiest of them all? Instead, I just found I liked the atypical 2011 vintage best of all.

The red-fruited favorites from 2011: Arrowood 2011 Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon ($35) Bordeaux enthusiasts can argue among themselves over which “bank” this wine’s better analogue might be, but nobody who enjoys red wine could complain about this Cabernet. There’s sandalwood-style oak, vanilla and raspberry perfume for starters, and then intense, red berry fruit brings the palate home from day one to day two. The 2010, also from a mostly cool vintage, is very similar.

Jordan 2011 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($53) You get some herbs, maybe picholine olives on the nose, along with a bit of warm red berries—nothing flashy. Bring it on down the palate, and it checks all the right boxes. Like good restaurant service, this top-selling restaurant wine does its job while you hardly notice how well-constructed it is.

The $20 Values: Benziger 2012 Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon ($20) After-dinner chocolate-mint wafer allied with bay laurel, then German chocolate cake and rich, dark earth. Token tannins grab half-heartedly at the tongue, leaving the finish long and classically crème de cassis–sweet.

Educated Guess 2013 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($20) The pitted cork is the cheapest thing I’ve seen for days, and the wine had little trouble pushing past it. Still, the brandy–chocolate truffle aroma and blackberry flavor backed by coffee-grounds bitterness make it an economical “cocktail” Cab. The best of the rest, and the rest: Frank Family 2012 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($50) You don’t expect such shyness from a wine Robert Parker called “opulent,” but today the aroma is just an echo. Pleasant licorice and blueberry flavors, though.

Del Carlo 2011 Dry Creek Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($30) On the rustic and eclectic side, this adds baked fig to the usual Cab roster, and is reminiscent of rawhide, olives and used bookstore— all in a good way. Cinnamon candy spices up the juicy palate.

Jackson Estate 2012 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($36) You’ll pay for the lush, sticky black fruit flavors by enduring a more aggressive astringency, but with the right grilled foodstuffs, this might be just the ticket.

Murphy-Goode 2012 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($26) Chocolate oak eclair? Goode enough, but the tannins—Goode grief!

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Taking It to the Streets

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t’s been a busy day for 58-year-old Charlene Love. She spent most of it in classes at Santa Rosa Junior College, where she studies horticulture.

Later, she went to a meeting of housing advocates, and she ended the day scanning the internet looking for a job and a place to live. Love recently found housing, but it’s not permanent.

“My goal is to not get caught up in the system of homelessness,” says Love, who is weary of hopping from one temporary shelter bed to another. She’s not alone.

Love’s story is all too familiar in the North Bay, even as the city of Santa Rosa is ranked in the top 10 in California for homeless services. It is, surprisingly, third in the state when it comes to the availability of affordable housing.

And yet Sonoma County saw a 32 percent spike in homelessness between 2009 and 2013, according to data from the Task Force for the Homeless.

That rate is higher than the state and national averages, and data from the Sonoma County Department of Health indicates that an average of 30 homeless people die on the streets of Sonoma County every year. The

good news is that the county has seen the advent of a vigorous homeless-advocacy movement.

Love is a part of that movement, and serves on the county’s Task Force for the Homeless and is a member of Homeless Action, a group of activists, church members and, critically, the homeless themselves.

The push in activism comes as the county studies efforts to address homelessness in more innovative ways. There are models around the country worth considering. Utah, for example, has reduced its homeless population by 77 percent utilizing the “housing first” approach. It’s a

pretty simple idea: Give people a place to live, because it’s cheaper than jail or the emergency room.

Think Small Some cities have developed sanctioned encampments run by homeless people. The camps bring people into community, instead of isolating them from it.

Santa Rosa is looking into it, but not very closely. The key question for Sonoma County leaders is to find which solutions are most viable for the region. There are plenty of ideas: sanctioned encampments, converting the old Sutter Hospital building into single-room occupancies, ) 16

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A growing movement in the North Bay pushes for long-term solutions to a chronic homeless problem BY CHRISTOPHER BOWERS

Marge, Dave and Killer the dog are among the growing number of homeless in Sonoma County.

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16 Homeless ( 15 rent protections, rescinding all city ordinances that prohibit sleeping in cars and providing safe parking for those with cars, to name a few.

One solution that seems particularly workable for Sonoma County is providing tiny homes for the homeless. (There are three tiny-house communities run by and for homeless people in at least three states; they offer a mix of transitional and permanent housing.) These 200to 500-square-foot houses are affordable ($15,000–$30,000) and energy efficient, and they align well with Sonoma County’s longterm plan for affordable housing, Program 41, which proposes using “non-traditional structures for housing.”

The county already has a vibrant tiny-house scene, and is considered a hub of production thanks to Tumbleweed Tiny Houses and the educational advocacy of Jay Shafer, Tiny Houses author and founder of Four Lights Houses. Shafer leads workshops on tiny-house design across the country and hopes to create a development in Sebastopol.

He is reticent on the point that tiny houses are a solution to homelessness, but he’s emphatic about the general social boon the tiny-house movement can offer, especially on affordability.

And Shafer is optimistic that changes in housing code will remove barriers to tiny-house development in the county.

Small houses are often put on wheels making them technically recreational vehicles. Grouped together, they could be zoned as RV parks to get around regulations about permanent structures.

Housing advocate Jack Tibbets has a proposal with Sonoma County to create an “EcoCommunity,” a five-unit mini neighborhood designed with a central garden space. Residents would be required to put 65 percent of their rent into a savings account.

The project’s estimated cost is $287,000, far cheaper than the cost of traditional affordable housing.

Tibbets has submitted a proposal

to the county Board of Supervisors that seeks to identify properties for a pilot project. The board is considering the proposal but has not acted on it.

Tibbets believes small houses will give residents the dignity that shelters strip away. “I have found many homeless people to be incredibly self-sufficient and independent,” he says, “and I think we should be creating spaces for their self-determination to thrive.”

Jay Beckwith, CEO of Sonoma Workforce Homes, has a plan to create a community for lowwage workers in Healdsburg.

Sounds good on paper: tiny-house ownership at zero percent interest for workers who make at least $15 an hour, which he’d like to see become the minimum wage.

Beckwith believes that business owners have a responsibility to their communities. “We believe access to a home, food, water and education are a right,” he says.

“Since such a change is unlikely [to come] anytime soon, we are doing what we feel is our moral obligation.”

The problem with the tiny-house push is that, as one activist put it, it relegates poor people to “glorified shacks” while blowing off the issue of economic injustice— which creates the problem of homelessness in the first place.

The Crisis in Our Midst Members of homeless-rights groups like Homeless Action, the Homeless Advocacy Group, the North Bay Organizing Committee and Camp Michela have fought to undo the homeless stigma that leads to a lack of community support for solutions. In turn, elected officials here have grown more responsive than in past years.

This year, Santa Rosa made ending homelessness a priority. In recent years, under the leadership of City Councilmember Julie Combs, the city has increased shelter beds, developed dozens of affordable-housing units, increased access to public restrooms and funded shelters and programs.

“I have worked hard to create

DOWN, NOT OUT ‘My goal is not to get caught up in the system of homelessness,’ says Charlene Love.

partnerships around homeless issues,” says Combs.

But her recent proposal for a 45day moratorium on rent increases failed.

Sonoma County has created a homeless outreach team and partnered with Homeless Action and Catholic Charities to support a controversial program that allows homeless people to sleep in their cars in a safe location.

Homeless advocates have criticized the county’s efforts as woefully insufficient: outreach to vulnerable populations is of limited value in the absence of affordable housing, which is scant and largely unaffordable.

Sonoma County Supervisor Shirlee Zane disagrees. “I’d be the first to agree we need more affordable housing, but that critique is uninformed.”

Zane says the county’s homeless outreach support team ambitiously hopes to house 173 people in the next year. “This is an evidencebased program,” she says, “and it has already made an impact.” But the impact thus far has been small:

the program housed nine people in its first 10 months.

More can be done to get people off the streets—but advocate groups say what’s absent is a sense of crisis.

“The framework of our officials and, in truth, our entire community has been that of charity rather than seeing this as unacceptable,” says Adrienne Lauby, cofounder of Homeless Action. “At the moment, our elected officials do not feel that sense of urgency and outrage.”

Others are discouraged at how hard they must push to create even the smallest of changes. “It seems incredible to me that we have to work on something so basic as going to the bathroom and sleeping,” says Gerry LaLondeBerg of the North Bay Organizing Project and Homeless Action. “We have to convince the community to prioritize meeting basic human needs.”

Carolyn Epple, an activist with Camp Michela (an advocacy group named after Michela Woolridge, a homeless woman murdered in Santa Rosa in 2012), believes local politicians are more beholden

nothing about the homeless problem? The average lifespan in the United States is 78. If you’re homeless, it’s 46.

This kind of institutionalized inaction takes a toll on people’s lives and dignity—which only serves to feed stereotypes about homelessness.

“To hear people say ‘pull yourself up from your bootstraps’ when you’ve lost everything you own—well, you don’t have any bootstraps,” says Love. “When you are at the bottom of the barrel, you are seen as dirt.”

There are ways to avoid the social cost. Development often means that rents go up and an unsustainable gap builds between available jobs and available housing. Santa Rosa has responded to this phenomenon through the collection of so-called impact fees. But those fees wind up in the general fund, where they compete with many other uses.

State level efforts have also been ineffective. As David Grabill of the Housing Advocacy Group in Santa Rosa points out, California suffers from a critical absence of resources that would hold local government accountable and mandate requiring that localities identify sites for low-income housing.

The View from Downtown Closer to home, Santa Rosa’s officials emphasized other fiscal priorities. They approved $17 million to reunify Courthouse Square, but offered nothing on that scale to combat the city’s homeless problem—a problem that often finds its way to the very same area, much to the dismay of business owners and the local Chamber of Commerce.

Mike Montague is a co-owner of the TeeVax appliance store in Santa Rosa’s Railroad Square, an area where homeless people are highly visible. Homelessness, he’s discovered over the years, is more complex than he thought.

“I’ve learned that there are different categories of homeless people,” Montague says. “Some are sincerely struggling”; others he sees as the “willing ) 18

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to developers and tourists than the well-being of down-and-out residents. Epple says the interests of the Sonoma County supervisors are dominated by a “pro-growth, development, supply-side economics agenda” that alienates the working class. This is not an uncommon view in a community that has seen a spike in wealth for some that’s concurrent with diminished standards for others.

“I think some county and city officials want to do right by those that are harmed,” says Epple, “but I think that their own class biases are still going to enter in.

Their privileges shape their own worldview and what they see as possible and not possible.”

At the North Bay Leadership Council’s housing summit in May, organizers focused on “workforce housing,” rather than homelessness, though many homeless people are in fact part of the workforce.

Zane believes that real estate developers hold the key to more affordable housing. To that end, she held a forum earlier this year for developers to discuss affordable-housing incentives the county might kick their way.

“Every day since I have been meeting with builders and investors to discuss this,” says Zane.

The homeless may be in trouble if county leaders really think profit-minded developers are going to step up. The county has already fought off lawsuits from developers who wanted to turn rent-controlled mobile home parks into market-value condos.

Often, developers simply pay “inlieu” development fees to bypass requirements that they offer affordable units as part of their building projects.

Affordable housing can be expensive to get off the ground— but it’s not nearly as expensive as the accrued costs of not housing people. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the average cost per person of an emergency room visit is $905 a day. For jail, it’s $87 a day; drug detox costs $256 a day.

Affordable housing? That’ll cost a county $31 a day per person.

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18 Homeless ( 17 homeless.” He worries that service providers enable the latter while short-changing the former.

“Between St. Vincent [de Paul], Catholic Charities and the Rescue Mission, it’s easy to be homeless in Santa Rosa,” he says.

Montague believes the services are useful for people who want to get off the street, but he thinks some just don’t want to follow social norms. He’d like to see fewer homeless people (and stronger anti-loitering laws) and better mental-health services for those who remain. “What message does this send to visitors?” Montague asks. “It’s not good.”

Still, Montague does advocate hiring homeless people who have support from social services. “You will be amazed at how appreciative and loyal they will be.”

Others seem less willing to address the crisis. Case in point: Discussions last fall between activists and officials about converting Sutter Hospital into housing for homeless centered on fear that affordable housing would anger the Chanate Road neighborhood’s wealthy constituency.

Such fear was on display in 2013 when Social Advocates for Youth (SAY) unveiled plans for homeless services and assistance to exfoster youth in Bennett Valley in Santa Rosa. Skillful community organizing mollified neighborhood concerns, but it wasn’t easy.

“We instituted a public outreach program that educated the public about our services,” says SAY executive director Matt Martin. “We spoke at numerous organizations, and we went door to door. But most of all we listened.”

The effort paid off. Thousands of people, including some former neighborhood opponents, supported SAY’s plan.

But not every neighbor needs to be convinced that homeless services won’t ruin the neighborhood. Jacqueline Smith, a mother of two, lives in Santa Rosa’s West End, which has had ongoing struggles with the high population of homeless in the area.

“It’s a societal problem that

should not be ignored,” she says. “I don’t think of homeless as ‘them’ and ‘us.’ I have friends who could easily be on the streets. If services are implemented well, it could help my children understand the importance of providing help to those less fortunate.”

While NIMBY concerns may be overstated, the underlying stigma is not. “Many of the concerns came from a lack of understanding of the population,” says Martin.

Still, the stigma and stereotypes that surround the homeless are pervasive. Even service providers can succumb.

“Everyone’s situation is different, but [service providers] see us as one big mass of individuals,” says Love. “During an intake, I was asked, ‘What is your drug of choice?’ Already there was an assumption that I was on drugs. There is an assumption that you have to look, smell and act homeless.”

Epple blames the stigma on accepted cultural narratives around individualism that need to change. “It’s as if because you are mentally ill, you are less deserving of housing,” she says. “The homeless get stuck in the idea that if you work hard you can get what you want—and that if you don’t or can’t, you are lazy and deserve to be poor.”

Love experienced this first-hand when she was homeless. “If I watch TV, they think I’m lazy; if I have a restful Sunday afternoon, they think that I am not trying to find a job. They don’t see how damn hard it is to be homeless. It takes practically everything out of you.”

Councilwoman Combs hopes to combat the stigma by drafting an ordinance that would ban housing discrimination for those with Section 8 vouchers (a common impediment to housing). But she will need the the support of activists and the homeless themselves.

“We are the only ones that really know what it feels like,” says Love.

“The homeless themselves have to mobilize, and that can be hard when your self esteem is low.”

HAND UP Carolyn Epple believes elected officials are more

beholden to developers than to the down-and-out.

Try a Little Dignity Dignity Village in Portland, Ore., is a city-sanctioned encampment run by and for people without housing.

In Eugene, Ore., the city donated an acre of land for small, shed-like housing—also self-governed by residents. Rain City Housing in Vancouver, B.C., operates three no-barrier shelters, where sobriety and following curfews and rules do not come before a person’s right to be safe and sheltered.

Similar ideas have been pitched in Sonoma County. Homeless Action and Camp Michela recently submitted a proposal to the county for a sanctioned encampment.

They got no direct reply, but Zane told the Bohemian she wouldn’t support it.

“Nobody is going to be happy about an encampment in their neighborhood,” Zane says, “and I think we should put our funding into permanent solutions.”

But that is years away and something needs to be done now, says Gerry LaLonde-Berg. He speaks to the value of short-term

solutions like encampments. If an alternative to living near the creeks was provided, LaLondeBerg says, “we would give people a safe place to be and improve the environment.”

Not all housing solutions will be locally applicable, and the key question for Sonoma leaders is: Are certain solutions not going to work for the county, or is the county not going to work with certain solutions?

Last February, Homeless Action and Camp Michela cohosted a film and discussion on homelessness at the Arlene Francis Center. About a hundred people showed up, and many spoke passionately for better conditions, more housing—and more dignity.

One homeless woman who requested anonymity said that “homeless folks like myself have a vision. It may be buried deep inside, but it will emerge under nurturing conditions.”

The question is whether the city and county’s efforts will suffice to nuture those conditions.

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The week’s events: a selective guide

RUSTIC REGGAE Mendocino County musician Joseph Israel & the Jerusalem Band bring their worldfusion melodies to Mill Valley’s Sweetwater Music Hall on July 15.

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Journalist and author Ben Fong-Torres is a Bay Area icon. In the late 1960s, Fong-Torres joined a little rock and roll magazine called Rolling Stone, writing about superstars like Paul McCartney and Marvin Gaye, and eventually becoming a senior editor. His career also includes 10 books, work as a rock DJ and radio host in the 1970s, and a regular gig writing a column in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Fong-Torres sits down for a conversation with Press Democrat columnist Chris Smith to talk about his upbringing in the Bay Area and to share stories of his longstanding love affair with rock and roll on Thursday, July 9, at the History Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St., Santa Rosa. 6:30pm. $10–$15.

707.579.1500.

This year marks 20 years for Calexico, the dusty Southwest rock outfit fronted by longtime friends Joey Burns and John Convertino. Specializing in sunbaked rhythms inspired by the tiny border towns that dot their home state of Arizona, the guys still work at a breakout pace. They followed up two live albums in the last two years with the release of a new studio album, Edge of the Sun, this past April. The album has been praised as an inspired reworking of Calexico’s tried-and-true alt-country aesthetic, and this week the band show off their sound when they hit the stage on Thursday, July 9, at City Winery, 1030 Main St., Napa. 8pm. $30–$40.

707.260.1600.

Last summer, Vacant Lot Productions and the Arlene Francis Center unveiled Santa Rosa’s most intriguing “playhouse” when they debuted Shakespeare in the Cannery, set within the remaining walls of what used to be a large cannery in Railroad Square. The al fresco theater returns this week with Twelfth Night.

One of Shakespeare’s most enduring comedies, Twelfth Night packs in all the classic tropes of cross-dressing and mistaken identity in a story that has entertained audiences for 400 years.

Shakespeare in the Cannery invites you to bring a picnic and blankets when you come to the show, opening on Friday, July 10, at 3 West Third St., Santa Rosa.

Gates at 5pm, show at 7pm. $5–$25. shakespeareinthecannery.com.

Since its inception 14 years ago, the Petaluma Art & Garden Festival has blossomed from a simple street fair to an extravaganza that features 145 local vendors, live entertainment and family-fun activities. This year, the festival boasts the debut performance from a musical supergroup with North Bay roots, Following Ghosts, which features Bay Area songwriter Miles Schon (son of Journey’s Neil Schon), drummer Danny Thompson (Alan Parsons Project) and Novato native Michael Kelly (Blue Man Group). Petaluma’s Saffell, Bobby Jo Valentine and others will also be on hand when the Petaluma Art & Garden Festival takes to the streets on Sunday, July 12, at Kentucky and Fourth streets, Petaluma.

11am. Free. Petalumadowntown.com.

—Charlie Swanson

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In that spirit, the museum gives a rare glimpse into the mind of the artist. Working with the Diebenkorn Foundation, the museum presents a number of Diebenkorn’s works on paper, including figurative, abstract and still life pieces. The selections in this exhibit highlight his working process and his evolution as an artist.

‘Everybody’s seen the paintings, but nobody has really understood how the paintings came to be.’

ABSTRACT THOUGHT Richard Diebenkorn is one of California’s best known modern artists.

Intimate Art Solo exhibit offers a peek into the mind of Richard Diebenkorn BY CHARLIE SWANSON

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rtist Richard Diebenkorn’s large-scale paintings made him an influential figure in multiple art movements of the 20th century and a worldwide sensation in his lifetime.

Best known for his dramatic Ocean Park series, his expressive abstract and figurative masterpieces fetch millions at auctions.

The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art is hosting a careerspanning retrospective exhibit, “The Intimate Diebenkorn,” that presents a revealing look at many

of the artist’s previously unseen sketches and drawings. The exhibit runs through Aug. 23.

“I think he’s the most wellknown modern California artist,” says SVMA executive director Kate Eilertsen. “Everybody’s seen the paintings, but nobody has really understood how the paintings came to be.”

—Kate Eilertsen

“He loved to draw; he loved charcoal, gauche, watercolors,” says Eilertsen. “You can tell he tries to get the most out of whatever medium he’s in.”

Born in 1922, Diebenkorn was raised in the Bay Area and at a young age developed his style of abstract expressionism before participating in the Bay Area figurative movement of the mid20th century. He lived in Santa Monica when he began his vivid Ocean Park paintings in the late 1960s.

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a different perspective,â&#x20AC;? says Eilertsen.

Returning to the Bay Area and working proliďŹ cally until his death in 1993, Diebenkorn and his wife, Phyllis, split their time between Berkeley and Healdsburg for the last decade of his life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most artists, when they become successful, feel like they have to stick to what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing, but he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ever safe,â&#x20AC;? says Eilertsen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He pushed himself to try new things. â&#x20AC;&#x153; The most intriguing pieces in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Intimate Diebenkornâ&#x20AC;? come in the form of a number of seemingly simple ďŹ gure and portrait sketches, most of which capture Diebenkornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite muse, his wife, in casual or relaxed poses.

These ďŹ&#x201A;uid and freewheeling works offer a peek into Diebenkornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s everyday experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sweet and personal show,â&#x20AC;? says Eilertsen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to go into the mind of the artist very often.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to the exhibit, the museum is hosting several educational events. On Saturday, July 11, Diebenkornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter, Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant, will offer a talk titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Perspective,â&#x20AC;? in which she relates stories about her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life and work.

On July 14 and 16, the twopart Spotlight Seminar with educator Ann Wiklund looks at Diebenkornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lasting inďŹ&#x201A;uence on West Coast art. Also, on July 18, artist Jan Wurm presents a talk focusing on Diebenkornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work while he lived in Berkeley.

The show includes archival video presentations showing Diebenkorn in his home and studio. The museum also invites the public to get interactive with a working studio space where visitors can draw and sketch their own scenes.

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SWEET SORROW Imogen (Stella Heath) bids farewell to husband, Posthumus (Thomas Gorrebeeck.)

One Crazy Play MCS stages nutty Shakespeare work

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here’s an unwritten law in theater that says if you’re going to mess with the text of a Shakespeare play, you’ll get less blowback if you pick a play few people know.

Cymbeline, one of the playwright’s last works, is rarely performed, despite the fact that it’s one of his most complexly plotted, surprise-packed and satisfying plays, all of which made it very popular, once upon a time.

Modern critics tend to turn their noses up at it, as they do anything Shakespeare wrote for the sheer hell of it—which is exactly what Cymbeline feels like. As the Latin critique goes, Prolixior est unum rabidus fabula. Roughly translated: “This is one crazy play!”

Cymbeline, running outdoors through July at Marin Shakespeare Company, carries so many plot ideas reminiscent

of Shakespeare’s other plays that it often seems like a cross between self-parody and a career retrospective. There’s a woman disguised as a boy, an aging ruler losing his kingdom and his sanity, a soldier convincing a married man his wife is unfaithful and a magic potion that makes the living appear dead.

Though the play is named for the recently remarried English king Cymbeline (Paul Abbott, in a performance as over-the-top as a circus tent), the true heroine is his daughter, Imogen, played with brilliant simplicity and sweetness

by Stella Heath. Imogen has angered her father by refusing to marry the obnoxiously self-loving prince Cloten (a hilarious Thomas Gorrebeeck), marrying instead the lowly Roman orphan Leonatus Posthumus (also Gorrebeeck, apparently a quick-change artist).

Imogen becomes the target of her duplicitous stepmother, the queen (Lee Fitzpatrick) and also the subject of an egregious test of fidelity on the part of Posthumus.

She ends up on the run, with Cloten in pursuit.

A pair of kidnapped princes raised as mountain men figure into the storyline, which packs enough twists, turns, mistaken identities and hairs-breadth reversals for three Shakespeare plays. Director Robert Currier makes the dangerous choice of rewriting certain bits of exposition, either introducing the info in original songs (yep, it’s kind of a musical) or adding enough comical commentary to make the sometimes-dense prose crystal clear.

While I’d have preferred Currier to have solved these problems the way most directors do—by directing the play so that it makes sense—in this case, it kind of works. And, hey, since very few audience members will have seen Cymbeline before, it’s likely no one will know the difference.

Rating (out of 5): ‘Cymbeline’ runs Friday–Sunday through July 26 at Forest Meadows Amphitheater at Dominican University. 890 Belle Ave., San Rafael.

Showtimes vary. $12–$35. 415.499.4488.

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SHELL SHOCKED Director James Kent re-adapts Vera Brittainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poignant memoir.

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he new adaptation of Vera Brittainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memoir Testament of Youth proves one glib rule of ďŹ lmmaking and disproves another. First, it really is best to start a story as late in the plot as you can. Second, a war movie doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily have to endorse war.

Director James Kent is allowed far more realism than the previous BBC miniseries adaptation of Brittainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WWI memoir of being a nurse to the wounded. We can see that the conditions in a Western Front ďŹ eld hospital havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed much since the Crimean War; for that matter, a crane shot of casualties laid out on stretchers in a muddy ďŹ eld resembles the similar carnage of the Atlanta depot scene in Gone with the Wind.

Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) plays Vera, a young lady who yearns to go to Oxford, despite the fact that her family believes education is wasted on women. Vikander plays the role with anachronistic furyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as if sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surprised by the discrimination against women and hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t grown up with it all around her.

Vera sees her loved ones consumed by the war one after another.

The decorum of her class makes the story sadder. One never expects upper-class Brits to emit howls of grief, as they do here.

The terriďŹ c opening begins with Vera coming out of a fog on the morning of Armistice Day. Her numb horror at the crowdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s screams of joy drive her into an empty church. There, she sees a painting of Noahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ&#x201A;ood, and she imagines herself tumbling in the tide.

The reminder of the price of war also serves as a showcase for young actors. As Edward Brittain, Taron Egerton evokes the loss of an entire generation simply by turning up in an ill-ďŹ tting woolen army uniform. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too soon to tell if Kit Harington, as Veraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lover Roland, will go places beyond Game of Thrones. But there is warmth enough between Vikander and Harington to draw in a romance-seeking audience, while those who never heard these stories of wastage before will be pierced quite deeply. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Testament of Youthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; opens July 10 at Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St., Sebastopol. 707.525.4849.

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SLANG Aesthetics: The Art of Robert Williams June 5â&#x20AC;&#x201D;September 20, 2015

VELVET TOUCH North Bay indie stalwarts release ďŹ rst new music in ďŹ ve years.

All In New Velvet Teen LP ranges from frenetic to serene BY CHARLIE SWANSON

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ince forming in Santa Rosa in 1999, the Velvet Teen have served as the standard bearers for indie rock in Sonoma County.

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Robert Williams is widely upheld as the godfather of the low brow and pop surrealist art movements, and with as much frequency denigrated as an irreverent iconoclast among the arbiters of â&#x20AC;&#x153;highâ&#x20AC;? art. A true maverick who sought to create vital work that channeled the shifting energies and immediacy of counterculture, from the 60â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s onward, Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; paintings invoked a return to craftsmanship, figuration and demotic imagery that rejected the elitist tenets of conceptual minimalism.

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Founded by singer and multiinstrumentalist Judah Nagler and bassist Josh Staples, and joined by drummer Casey Deitz in 2006, the band has continually delved into varied arenas of music, be it pianodriven chamber pop or electroprog noise rock.

Nine years after their last full-length release, the Velvet Teen return with an eclectic and energizing new album, All Is Illusory, on Top Shelf Records. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve taken each album up to this point as an exploration,â&#x20AC;? says Nagler from his home in Petaluma. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like now we have any one of those sounds at our disposal, we have all those colors in our palette.

For this last album, we drew from all those sources. It just organically happened that all those elements became a part of this bunch of songs.â&#x20AC;?

All Is Illusory was in the works for several years and is their most collaborative album to date. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Collaborating] tends to lend

itself to a better end result,â&#x20AC;? says Nagler. Certain tracks, like the euphoric power jam â&#x20AC;&#x153;You Were the First,â&#x20AC;? were born out of single jam sessions, while others, like the shimmering slow burner â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Giving In,â&#x20AC;? were built piece by piece.

Throughout, Naglerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature pleading vocals soar over Deitzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hyper-yet-precise beats and Staplesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rumbling bass lines.

Between this album and the last, the band faced a series of personal and professional challenges.

Founding drummer Logan Whitehurst died in 2006 after a battle with cancer, and the group struggled to get a new record out, though their 2010 EP, No Star, was an expressive blast of fresh air. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m grateful that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to stay together in one form or another. Now things are feeling a lot more solid than they have in quite a long time,â&#x20AC;? says Nagler.

All Is Illusory is a triumphant statement from the band, crafted from half a lifetime spent creating countless musical conversations.

This summer, the Velvet Teen take their record on the road for a massive tour that wraps up with a concert Aug. 22, at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma.

Concerts SONOMA COUNTY Dawg Day Afternoon Bluegrass Festival Enjoy bluegrass in the sun with performances by David Grisman Sextet, Del McCoury Band and Jerry Douglas. Jul 12, 3pm. $25 and up. Green Music Center, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Harry Connick, Jr Multi-talented musician, singer, songwriter and American Idol judge stops in Santa Rosa on his national tour. Jul 12, 8pm. $89-$129.

Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

Martina McBride Four-time CMA Female Vocalist of the year has won millions of fans around the world with her searingly honest songs of family, faith, heartbreak and redemption.

Jul 11, 7:30pm. $35 and up.

Green Music Center, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Wash Young R&B crooner out of Atlanta hits the club for a live performance. With DJ Tony Tone, DJ Lazyboy and Kid Vicious all spinning vinyl. Jul 11, 10pm. Remyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Lounge, 130 Stony Point Rd, Santa Rosa.

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MARIN COUNTY Erik Deutsch & The Jazz Outlaws The Brooklyn funk and jazz pianist and bandleader plays in the Grate Room and performs off his new album, Outlaw Jazz. Jul 9, 8pm. $15. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773.

Joseph Israel & the Jerusalem Band Mendocino County musician has amassed a following with a sound that blends soul, world music, folk and reggae. Jul 15, 8pm. $15-$17. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.1100.

Ramblinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jack Elliott & Nell Robinson The famous folk troubadour makes a special appearance

to perform alongside former protege Nell Robinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new band, Your Good Luck Charm. Jul 11, 8pm. $25-$40.

Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

NAPA COUNTY Amy Hanaialiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;i Top-selling vocalist pulls from a disciplined blend of classical training, powerhouse vocals and her Hawaiian heritage. Jul 10, 7pm. $50 and up. Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville. 707.944.9900.

Bill Medley The legendary singer, one half of the Righteous Brothers, performs from his classic catalog of songs as well as his latest album honoring his late partner Bobby Hatfield. Jul 14, 8pm. $45-$55. City Winery Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa.

707.260.1600.

Calexico Southwestern indie band cross the borders between rock and country music, with Villagers opening. Jul 9, 8pm. $30-$40.

City Winery Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.260.1600.

El Sol de Verano (Summer Sun) Seattle-based Flamenco dancer Savannah Fuentes is joined by singing prodigy Jose Manuel Perez and guitarist Bobby de Sofia for her latest show. Jul 15, 8pm. $8-$35.

Lucky Penny Community Arts Center, 1758 Industrial Way, Napa. 707-266-6305.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA COUNTY Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Roma Roasters Jul 10, Mike Z and the Benders.

Jul 11, Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Judith. 95 Fifth St, Santa Rosa. 707.576.7765.

Aqus Cafe Jul 9, Amy Obenski. Jul 10, Dirty Red Barn. Jul 11, Tonewoods.

Jul 12, 2pm, Chris Miano. Jul 15, West Coast Songwriters Competition. 189 H St, Petaluma. 707.778.6060.

Barley & Hops Tavern Jul 9, New Skye Band. Jul 10,

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Bergamot Alley Jul 14, La Mandanga. 328-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg.

707.433.8720.

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Jul 8, Tracy Rose and friends.

Jul 11, the Bee Rays with Amy Hogan. Jul 12, Left Coast Syncopators. Jul 14, the American Alley Cats. Jul 15, Bruce Gordon and Nicky Otis.

128 American Alley, Petaluma.

707.776.4631.

JUL 17 > Dance Band

Doors 8pm/Show 9:30/$10 Advâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;$12 Door

The Daniel Castro Band Top Secret

JUL 18 > Classic Blues, R&B, and Soul

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BR Cohn Winery Jul 12, 2pm, Jason Bodlovich.

15000 Sonoma Hwy, Glen Ellen.

707.938.4064.

JUL 24 > Party Band

Stereo Bounce

BV Whiskey Bar & Grille

JUL 25 > Rock Band

Rock Skool

Jul 10, Highway Poets. Tues, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reggae Marketâ&#x20AC;? DJ night.

400 First St E, Sonoma.

707.938.7110.

JUL 31 > 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rock Band

Metal Shop

Calabi Gallery

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Jul 12, 2pm, Larry Hanks and Deborah Robins. 456 10th St, Santa Rosa. 707.781.7070.

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Costeaux French Bakery

2777 4th Street | Santa Rosa flamingoresort.inticketing.com

Jul 14, 11am, Bastille Day concert with Gypsy Kisses. 417 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg.

Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Argenzio Winery Jul 9, Joe Clopton (Bearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Belly).

1301 Cleveland Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.280.4658.

Flamingo Lounge Jul 10, the Daniel Castro Band.

2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa.

707.545.8530.

French Garden Jul 10, Haute Flash Quartet. Jul 11, Honey B and the Pollinators.

8050 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol.

707.824.2030.

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Jul 8, French Session. Jul 9, Gypsy Jazz Jam. Jul 10, Virgil Elliott. Jul 11, the Keepers. Jul 12, Guerilla Vocal open mic.

Jul 15, Celtic Session. 1899 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.544.2491.

HopMonk Sebastopol Jul 10, the Galactic Band. Jul 11, Igor and the Red Elvises. Jul 12, 1pm, Pre-EarleFest party with Amber Fenex, Bearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Belly and others. Jul 13, Monday Night Edutainment with Perfect Giddimani. Tues, open mic night. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.7300.

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707.874.9037.

Music ( 25 and Dino. Jul 12, 1pm, Tom Martin. 691 Broadway, Sonoma.

707.935.9100.

Sonoma County’s Premier Lounge

Wed, Jul 8 8:00–9:00am JAZZERCISE with JEN McCLESTER 10:15am– SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE 12:40pm Youth and Family 5:45-6:45pm REGULAR JAZZERCISE SINGLES & PAIRS Square Dance Club 7–10pm Thur, Jul 9 8:45–9:45am JAZZERCISE with JEN McCLESTER 5:45-6:40pm REGULAR JAZZERCISE 7:15–10:30pm CIRCLES N' SQUARES Square Dance Club Fri, Jul 10 8:45–9:40am JAZZERCISE with JEN McCLESTER 7:30–10:30pm CALIFORNIA BALLROOM DANCE with Salsa Lesson Sat, Jul 11 8:45–9:45am JAZZERCISE 10:30–5:30pm SANTA ROSA YOUTH Scottish Dance Workshop and Ball CIRCLE ‘N SQUARES HOEDOWN 7–10pm Sun, Jul 12 8:45-9:45am REGULAR JAZZERCISE 5–9:30pm Steve Luther DJ COUNTRY WESTERN LESSONS AND DANCING Mon, Jul 13 8:45–9:45am JAZZERCISE with JEN McCLESTER 5:45-6:45pm REGULAR JAZZERCISE Tue, Jul 14 8:40–9:40am JAZZERCISE with JEN McCLESTER 5:45-6:40pm REGULAR JAZZERCISE 7–9pm RAZZMATAZ FOLK DANCE CLUB

Santa Rosa’s Social Hall since 1922

1400 W. College Avenue • Santa Rosa, CA 707.539.5507 • www.monroe-hall.com

Lunch & Dinner Sat & Sun Brunch

Outdoor Dining 7 Days a Week

BBQS ON THE LAWN SUNDAY, JULY 12

DANNY CLICK AND THE HELL YEAHS !

SHANA MORRISON + special guest JERRY HANNAN SUNDAY, JULY 19

the subdudes SUNDAY, JULY 26 RUTHIE FOSTER PLUS HOWELLDEVINE

Ives Park Jul 8, 5pm, the Pulsators. Jul 15, 5pm, Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum with Nina Gerber.

Willow Street and Jewell Avenue, Sebastopol.

Juilliard Park Jul 12, 5pm, the Rhythm Rangers. 227 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa.

Kelley & Young Winery Jul 12, 4pm, Doug Morton with Del Sol. 5465 Red Winery Rd, Geyserville.

Lagunitas Tap Room Jul 8, Barefoot Band. Jul 9, Hot Grubb. Jul 10, Ain’t Misbehavin’.

Jul 11, the Pine Needles. Jul 12, the Nickel Slots. Jul 15, Ragtag Sullivan. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.778.8776.

Main Street Bistro Jul 8, Greg Hester. Jul 9, Susan Sutton Jazz Piano. Jul 10, Bruce Halbohm Trio. Jul 11, T Jackson Trio. Jul 12, Cazadero Jazz Project. Jul 14, Eric Wiley. Jul 15, Pocket Canyon Ramblers.

16280 Main St, Guerneville.

707.869.0501.

Mc T’s Bullpen Jul 10, Santeria. Jul 11, the Hillbilly Strike Force. Jul 13, DJ Miguel. Tues, Thurs, karaoke with Country Dan. 16246 First St, Guerneville. 707.869.3377.

Medlock Ames’ Alexander Valley Bar

WE KNOW JACK Ramblin’ Jack Elliott shares the stage with Nell Robinson on Saturday, July 11, at Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley. See Concerts, p25.

Volunteers. 10005 Main St, Penngrove. 707.664.8018.

Phoenix Theater Jul 10, Seth Francis. Jul 11, “Got Love 4 Tha Bay Show” with Preach, Elkinz and others. 201 Washington St, Petaluma.

707.762.3565.

Pub Republic Jul 10, Jacob Green Band.

3120 Lakeville Hwy, Petaluma.

707.782.9090.

Quincy’s

SUNDAY, AUG 2 Two Blues Legends

Wed, open mic. Jul 10, Sweet Addiction and the Bill Decker Band. 6590 Commerce Blvd, Rohnert Park. 707.585.1079.

SUNDAY, AUG 9

Murphy’s Irish Pub

Redwood Cafe

SUNDAY, AUG 23

Jul 10, Deluxe. Jul 11, Mostly Simply Bluegrass. Jul 14, Lisa Stano. 464 First St E, Sonoma.

707.935.0660.

SUNDAY, AUG 30

Occidental Center for the Arts

Jul 8, Simon Hopper and Donny Mederos. Jul 11, the Thugz. Jul 12, 11am, Richard Torres. Jul 12, 6pm, Irish jam session. Jul 14, Bastille Day concert with Gypsy Kisses. Thurs, Open Mic. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7868.

PAUL THORN

SUNDAY, AUG 16

LEON RUSSELL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL PETTY THEFT SUNDAY, SEPT 7 THE SONS OF CHAMPLIN SUNDAY, SEPT 13

MARCIA BALL plus a rare reunion of THE ANGELA STREHLI BAND

LaRosaLounge.com

Jul 11, Steve Rubardt Trio with John Paul Norris and Matt Camgross. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg. 707.431.2800.

Jul 12, 5pm, Dixie Giants with Calistoga Kitchen.

6487 Alexander Valley Rd, Healdsburg. 707.431.8845.

ELVIN BISHOP AND CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE

Upstsairs at La Rosa 500 4th St, Santa Rosa

Hotel Healdsburg

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SUNDAY, SEPT 20

TOMMY CASTRO AND THE PAINKILLERS G ATES AT 3 / MUSIC AT 4 Reservations Advised

415.662.2219

On the Town Square, Nicasio www.ranchonicasio.com

Jul 11, It’s A Beautiful Day acoustic. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental. 707.874.9392.

Paradise Ridge Winery Through Jul 8, “Superheroes in Love” with Desiree Davar and Nicolas Dromard. 4545 Thomas Lake Harris Dr, Santa Rosa.

707.528.9463.

Rio Nido Roadhouse Jul 11, Third Rail. 14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido. 707.869.0821.

Rocker Oysterfeller’s Jul 12, Lucky Drive Bluegrass Band. 14415 Hwy 1, Valley Ford.

707.876.1983.

Penngrove Pub

Rossi’s 1906

Jul 10, Arizona and the

Jul 10, DJ Isak. Jul 11, Keith

Andrew Band. Jul 12, 3 On a Match. 401 Grove St, El Verano.

707.343.0044.

Ruth McGowan’s Brewpub Jul 11, Mark and Cindy Lemaire.

Sun, Evening Jazz with Gary Johnson. 131 E First St, Cloverdale. 707.894.9610.

Spancky’s Jul 10, the Soul Section. Thurs, 7pm, Thursday Night Blues Jam. Thurs, 11pm, DJ Selecta Konnex. 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.664.0169.

Stout Brothers Jul 8, Truck. Jul 15, Rewind.

527 Fourth St, Santa Rosa.

707.636.0240.

Sugarloaf Ridge State Park Jul 10, Rosetown Revue. 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood.

707.833.5712.

Taft Street Winery Jul 12, 3pm, Twang Ditty.

2030 Barlow Ln, Sebastopol.

707.823.2049.

Toad in the Hole Pub Jul 12, Gyspsy Jazz Trio.

116 Fifth St, Santa Rosa.

707.544.8623.

Twin Oaks Tavern Jul 8, Old School Country Band.

Jul 9, the Bootleg Honeys. Jul

West End Farmers Market Jul 12, 10:30am, Rags. 817 Donahue St, Santa Rosa.

Zodiacs Jul 9, Tubaluba. Jul 10, the Soul Section. Jul 11, Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Finest with Koobi Fora. Jul 15, Train Wreck Junction. 256 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.773.7751.

MARIN COUNTY Fenix Jul 9, Erin & the Project. Jul 10, the Sun Kings. Jul 11, Will Russ Jr. Jul 12, 11:30am, Kurt Huget.

Wed, Pro blues jam. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.813.5600.

HopMonk Novato Jul 8, open mic with West Of Saratoga. Jul 11, Sabbath Lives.

Jul 12, 5pm, Megan Slankard and Billy Shaddox. Jul 12, 9pm, Thrive. Jul 15, open mic with Angela Cross. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

Marin Art & Garden Center Jul 9, 5pm, Adam Theis MOBtet.

30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross.

Marin Country Mart Jul 10, Susan Sutton Trio. Jul 12, 12:30pm, Todos Santos.

2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur.

Menke Park Jul 12, 5pm, Dirty Cello.

Redwood Ave and Corte Madera Ave, Corte Madera.

19 Broadway Club Jul 8, Tam Valley All Stars.

Jul 9, Stymie and the Pimp Jones Love Orchestra. Jul 10, Kortuzday Band. Jul 11, Lovelight Blues Band. Jul 12, 5pm, Just Friends. Jul 12, 9pm, Migrant Pickers. Jul 14, Aflora.

Jul 15, Fun With Phonics. Mon, open mic. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

Puja. 923 C St, San Rafael.

415.457.4191.

Osher Marin JCC Jul 11, Hot Buttered Rum. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael.

415.444.8000.

Osteria Divino Jul 8, Pedro Rosales Con Quimba. Jul 9, Hippopotamus Trio. Jul 10, Ken Cook Trio. Jul 11, Jay Sanders Trio. Jul 12, Bret Heenen Trio. Jul 14, Ken Cook. Jul 15, Jonathan Poretz.

37 Caledonia St, Sausalito.

415.331.9355.

Panama Hotel Restaurant

Terrapin Crossroads Jul 8, Terrapin All-Stars with Grahame Lesh. Jul 9, Cochrane and friends. Jul 10, Terrapin All-Stars with Grahame Lesh and Alex Koford. Jul 11, Grateful Dead Funk Night.

100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael.

415.524.2773.

Throckmorton Theatre

Periâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Silver Dollar

Jul 12, 2pm, Janet Lee and the Dan McGee Three. 100 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera. 415.924.2961.

Presidio Yacht Club Jul 10, the 7th Sons. Fort Baker, Sommerville Rd, Sausalito.

415.332.2319.

Rancho Nicasio Jul 10, Tom Finch Trio. Jul 12, Danny Click, Shana Morrison and Jerry Hannan.

1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio.

415.662.2219.

Sausalito Seahorse Jul 9, Judy Hall and Connie Deucey. Jul 10, Lucky Drive Band. Jul 11, DJ Richard Habib.

Jul 12, Fito Reinoso y Los Classicos de Cuba. Tues, Jazz with Noel Jewkes and friends.

Wed, Tango with Marcello and Seth. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito. 415.331.2899.

Smileyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Schooner Saloon Jul 9, Robby-Neal Gordon. Jul 10, Urban Grass. Jul 11, the Spectones. Sun, open mic. Mon, reggae. Wed, Larryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s karaoke. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas. 415.868.1311.

Station House Cafe

Jul 9, Jimmy & Ray Ray Allstars.

Jul 10, Michael Aragon Quartet.

Jul 11, No Name Allstars. Jul 12, 3pm, Flowtilla. Jul 13, Kimrea and the Dreamdogs. Jul 15, Shawn Byron and friends.

Tues, open mic. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.1392.

Jul 12, Paul Knight and friends.

11180 State Route 1, Pt Reyes Station. 415.663.1515.

Jul 9, Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kirtan with Mangalananda. Jul 15, Kali

Jul 11, the 7th Sons. 1000 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.332.7660.

Jul 10, Steep Ravine. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

Jul 8, Tom Finch Trio. Jul 9, Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jam Sammich. Jul 10, Jamie Clark Band. Jul 11, Rusty Evans and the Ring of Fire.

Jul 14, Fresh Baked Blues. Jul 15, the Elvis Johnson Soul Revue. Mon, Billy Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open mic. 29 Broadway, Fairfax.

415.459.9910.

Sweetwater Music Hall Jul 8, Al Stewart with Dave Nachmanoff. Jul 9, JD Souther and Chris Walters. Jul 11, 11:30am, Shark Alley Hobos musical tribute to Jaws. Jul 11, 9pm, Metalachi. Jul 12, Rue â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;66 Bastille Day Celebration. Jul 14,

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Taste of Rome

Jul 8, Joan Getz Quartet. Jul 9, Wanda Stafford. Jul 14, James Moseley. Jul 15, the Jazz Roots Band. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael.

415.457.3993.

No Name Bar

Open Secret

Mood Swing. Mon, Open Mic. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley.

415.388.1100.

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10, the Hots. Jul 11, 5pm, Jeffrey Halford and the Healers. Jul 11, 8pm, Ricky Alan Ray. Jul 12, Bluegrass and BBQ with Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Bunchovus. Jul 15, Dirty Red Barn. Mon, Blues Defenders Pro Jam. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove. 707.795.5118.

Town Center Corte Madera

NAPA COUNTY Beringer Vineyards Jul 12, Trio Solea. 2000 Main St, St Helena, 866.708.9463.

City Winery Napa Jul 10, Karla Bonoff. Jul 11, John Mayall with Brigitte DeMeyer.

Jul 13, the White Buffalo with Jade Jackson. 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.260.1600.

Sebastiani Theatre

FARM at Carneros Inn Jul 8, David Ronconi Duo. Jul 9, Dan Daniels Trio. Jul 15, Whiskey & Honey Trio.

4048 Sonoma Hwy, Napa.

888.400.9000.

Goose & Gander Jul 12, San Geronimo.

1245 Spring St, St Helena.

707.967.8779.

Priest Ranch Tasting Room Jul 9, the Davies Dukes. 6490 Washington St, Yountville.

707.944.8200.

River Terrace Inn Jul 9, Nate Lopez. Jul 10, Salet. 1600 Soscol Ave, Napa.

707.320.9000.

Siloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jul 8, Cosmic Spin. Jul 9, the Tune Riders. Jul 10, Joe Ellison & Run With Patience. Jul 11, Revolver. Jul 12, Steve Sage and friends. Jul 15, Syria T Berry. 530 Main St, Napa. 707.251.5833.

Uva Trattoria Jul 8, Tom Duarte. Jul 9, Duo Gadjo. Jul 10, Jack Pollard and Dan Daniels. Jul 11, Nicky DePaola. Jul 12, James & Ted. 1040 Clinton St, Napa.

707.255.6646.

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Vintage Film Series â&#x20AC;&#x153;Murder on the Orient Expressâ&#x20AC;?

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Arts Events RECEPTIONS Jul 10 Napa Valley Museum, “Forms of Fragmentation,” creative collages by Thomas Morphis display in the Spotlight Gallery. 5pm. 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville.

707.944.0500.

Jul 11

707.774.6576.

Riverfront Art Gallery, “Showin’ on the River,” eclectic exhibit features works from over 40 artists in all mediums. 5pm. 132 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.775.4ART.

Neither Bitter Nor False,” Kristen Throop’s paintings use cows, bears and repetitive song lyrics to find the humor of life in suburbia. Through Sep 3, “Mariko Irie,” a solo exhibit of watercolor and oil paintings from the artist, Mariko Irie.

2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, 8 to 7; Sat, 9 to 11am 707.543.3737.

Gaia’s Garden

Arts Guild of Sonoma, “William’s Pond Series,” artist Jennifer Whitfield’s metaphorical, multimedia works highlight the Guild’s July exhibit. 4pm.

140 E Napa St, Sonoma.

707.996.3115.

Seager Gray Gallery, “Terra Cognita,” presents artist’s observations and their expressions of the natural world, both literal interpretations and abstract.

5:30pm. 108 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

Through Jul 31, “Force of Life,” mixed-media artist Kimberly McCartney utilizes discarded and found objects in her expressive works. 1899 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. 707.544.2491.

EoMega Grove, “Photography & Jewelry Group Show,” renowned photographer Bo Svenson and master jewelers Joanne Quirino and Dianne Collins display. 5pm. 7327 Occidental Rd, Sebastopol.

707.824.5632.

Upstairs Art Gallery, “Vines & Vistas,” paintings

by Laura Roney display the vivid wine country landscapes she knows so well. 3pm. 306 Center St, Healdsburg. 707.431.4214.

Healdsburg Center for the Arts

Jul 12

History Museum of Sonoma County

Graton Gallery, “Chiaroscuro,” works by Marylu Downing with guests Patrick Fanning and others. 2pm. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. 707.829.8912.

MarinMOCA, “Collaboration,” unpredictable exhibit features MarinMOCA members working together and getting out of their comfort zone. 5pm. Novato Arts Center, Hamilton Field, 415.506.0137.

Opera House Collective, “Tan-Ta-Mount,” inaugural exhibit features art from Beth Hibbard and Kory Vanderpool that explore the human condition. 6pm.

145 Kentucky St, Petaluma.

Galleries SONOMA COUNTY Calabi Gallery Through Aug 2, “Summer Selection,” featuring works by Douglas Ballou, Eva Belishova and Bob Dreier, as well as other gallery artists. 456 10th St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.781.7070.

Marin Society of Artists Gallery, “Exposed,” open juried photography exhibit is both realistic and imaginative. 2pm. 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross.

415.454.9561.

Occidental Center for the Arts, “Holes,” group exhibit by members of the Pointless Sisters, an art quilt group. 2pm. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental.

707.874.9392.

San Geronimo Valley Community Center, “Matt Tasley’s Marin Landscapes,” the local artist and educator offers his views of the surrounding area in theis solo show. 4pm. 6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Geronimo. 415.488.8888.

Chroma Gallery Through Jul 10, “METAMORPHOSiS: The Art of Change and Rebirth,” group show explores transformative changes in appearance, character or substance, such as the profound changes in our lives. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa. 707.293.6051.

Through Aug 16, “Clay & Glass,” sculpture works by more than a dozen artists display. 130 Plaza St, Healdsburg. Daily, 11 to 6. 707.431.1970.

Through Aug 30, “I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story” traveling Smithsonian exhibit comes to Santa Rosa.

Through Aug 30, “LIFE, Labor, and Purpose,” the renowned photography of of Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel displays.

425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa.

Tues-Sun, 11am to 4pm.

707.579.1500.

Look Up Gallery

Black and White,” showing varied, multimedia artwork, in mainly black and white or with tolerance for a minimal sidestep of color. 282 S High St, Sebastopol. Tues-Fri, 10 to 4; Sat, 1 to 4. 707.829.4797.

Shige Sushi Through Aug 2, “Seiko Tachibana: Elements,” the artists work distinctively balances Asian tradition with minimalist modernity. 8235 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. hours vary 707.795.9753.

Slaughterhouse Space Through Aug 15, “The Battle of Mara,” new paintings from artist Laine Justice. 280 Chiquita Rd, Healdsburg. Sat, noon to 5, and by appointment.

707.431.1514.

Thumbprint Cellars Through Aug 18, “Northern California Landscapes,” photography exhibit by Sonoma County artist Alexis Greenberg. 102 Matheson St, Healdsburg. 11 to 6, daily 707.433.2393.

MARIN COUNTY Art by the Bay Weekend Gallery Fridays-Sundays. through Aug 9, “Ever Changing Earth,” artworks inspired by the beauty of West Marin.

18856 Hwy 1, Marshall.

415.663.1006.

Through Jul 24, “The Art of Rock Legends,” works by Jerry Garcia, Grace Slick, Carlos Santana and others display.

1337 Fourth St, San Rafael.

Tues-Sat, 10 to 5. 415.451.8119.

Through Jul 25, “Genesis Outlet,” Ariana Papademetropoulos extracts multiple meanings from her found images re-imagined with original art. 16290 Main Street, Guerneville. 11am-9pm, daily. 415.640.8882.

Petaluma Arts Center

Bay Model Visitor Center

Redwood Cafe Through Jul 14, “Tatiana Castillo & Edo Pradini,” the local artists display their original paintings, sketches and watercolors. Free.

8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7868.

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Through Aug 9, “Line, Form and Texture,” summer exhibit features paintings and ceramic sculptures from local Bay Area artists. 417 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo.

Gallery Route One Through Jul 19, “Art Works!” art by the gallery’s artist members.

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Wed-Mon, 11 to 5. 415.663.1347.

Osher Marin JCC Through Jul 26, “China Camp: A Photographic Journey,” solo exhibit by artist, musician and Marin County resident Osher Levi. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.

Robert Allen Fine Art Through Jul 30, “Realism: Architecture and Landscape,” group show features Everett Jensen, Davis Perkins, Victoria Ryan and others. 301 Caledonia St, Sausalito. 415.331.2800.

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Through Jul 26, “Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist,” works on paper by the artist and his circle. 230 Lakeville St, Petaluma. 707.762.5600.

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Through Jul 31, “Flora, Fauna, Mythological Creatures & More,” inmates at San Quentin present artwork of natural landscapes and imaginary creatures. 19 Sunnyside Ave, Mill Valley. 415.380.4665.

Jul 14-Aug 23, “Connections: Women Environmental Artists,” twelve artists present their hopes for the endangered wildlife of the Marin Coast.

2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

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Corte Madera Library Through Jul 9, “Marin Meanderings,” an exhibit of watercolors by members of Marin County Watercolor Society, celebrating 45 years.

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activities, local vendors and chalk art demonstrations.

North Bay super group Following Ghosts makes their debut. Jul 12, 11am. Free.

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Rooftop Reception Celebrate a bold new art installation in downtown Petaluma with a party overlooking artist Basal Ganglia’s 17-foot structure. Jul 10, 6pm. Free. Theatre District Parking Garage - Rooftop Level, 149 C St, Petaluma.

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Teriyaki BBQ & Bazaar A day of cultural activities commemorates the temple’s 81 years in Sonoma County; with tasty food, martial arts demonstrations, games and more. Jul 12, 10am. Free.

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Film 3-D Rarities Amazing collection of stereoscopic shorts show in the centennial celebration of the first 3-D motion picture.

Jul 12, 4:30 and 7:30pm. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

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Dance Anna Halprin Birthday Performance Celebration includes a solo piece by Anna Halprin, a gallery of her work, live music and dancing. Jul 12, Mountain Home Studio Theatre, 15 Ravine Way, Kentfield 415.461.5362.

Events Harper Lee Midnight Release Party Party begins with a screening of To Kill a Mockingbird, then celebrates the midnight release of “Go Set A Watchman,” Harper Lee’s highly anticipated second novel. Jul 13, 9:30pm. Napa Bookmine, 964 Pearl St, Napa.

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Petaluma Art & Garden Festival Annual event boasts food and wine tastings, outdoor

Art film directed by Pascale Ferran follows a Silicon Valley drone chucking his job while in a Paris hotel. Jul 11, 7pm. Jarvis Conservatory, 1711 Main St, Napa. 707.255.5445.

Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary Filmmakers are on hand for a showing of the intimate portrait of two very complex, controversial characters in an epic friendship. Jul 13, 7:30pm.

Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael.

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Food & Drink Bastille Day at Left Bank The Brasserie celebrates with a la carte menu specials, live music, traditional French garb and festive decorations.

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Conversation with Ben Fong-Torres Best known for his work as editor and writer for Rolling Stone, Ben Fong-Torres shares stories of his childhood in the Bay Area and his exploits as a journalist. Jul 9, 6:30pm. $10-$15. History Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. 707.579.1500.

A Daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Perspective In conjunction with the current exhibit, Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant shares stories about life with her father, artist Richard Diebenkorn. Jul 11, 2pm. $15.

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JMW Turner: Painting Set Free Art talk about one of the greatest British artists of the nineteenth century. Jul 14, 12pm. San Anselmo Library, 110 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo.

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Rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Roll: The First Decade Historian Richie Unterberger traces the origins of rock and roll from Elvis to the Beatles.

Jul 9, 7pm. Free. Corte Madera Library. 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera. 707.924.6444.

Readings Aqus Cafe Jul 13, 6:30pm, Tempest, reading by B.A.R.D.S. Jul 14, 6:30pm, Beat Poets Live, Woodstock poets Andy Clausen and Pamela Twining join SF poet Neeli Cherkovski. Free.

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Santa Rosa Copperfield’s Books Jul 8, 7pm, “Epitaph: A Novel of the OK Corral” with Mary Doria Russell. Jul 10, 7pm, Victoria Laurie & Juliet Blackwell, two mystery writers appear and read from their latest. Jul 14, 7pm, Hot Summer Nights with the Redwood Writers, featuring authors of historical fiction 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa 707.578.8938.

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Buddy! The Buddy Holly Story The true story of the singer’s meteoric rise to fame features over 20 of Buddy Holly’s greatest hits. Through Jul 19. $25-$37. Sixth Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.523.4185.

The Butterfly’s Evil Spell Bilingual, bicycle-powered theater returns to Sonoma County with this classic Federico Garcia Lorca play, kicking off at the Imaginsists before pedaling around town to perform at local parks.

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Jul 11, 7pm, “Be Good in the World” with Brenda Knight.

Jul 13, 7pm, “I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them” with Jesse Goolsby.

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Marin Shakespeare Company’s awarding-winning outdoor summer festival begins with this magical, romantic comedy which follows a pair of lovers on a Medieval adventure.

Through Jul 26. $10-$35.

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Jul 14, 6:30pm, Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show, with local poets Claire J Baker, Kosrof Chantikian, Peter Hensel and Cynthia Sims. Free.

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A razzle dazzle musical revue from the Kut-Ups of Rohnert Park. Jul 11-18. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park.

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Open Secret Jul 10, 7:30pm, “Divine Revelations” with Yor Glory.

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Point Reyes Presbyterian Church Jul 11, 7pm, “Local Color” with Mimi Robinson. Free. 11445 Shoreline Hwy, Point Reyes Station 415.663.1349.

San Rafael Copperfield’s Books Jul 10, 7pm, “Giant Splash” with Andrew Baggarly. Jul 14, 12pm, “Field Peas to Foie Gras” with chef Jennifer Hill Booker.

Jul 15, 7pm, “A Shot of Malaria “ with Charles Souby.

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Jake’s Women Neil Simon’s poignant comedy about Jake, a writer, and the women in his life is presented

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The Most Happy Fella West Marin Players jovially present Frank Loesser’s beloved musical romance, set in the Napa Valley around 1927.

Jul 10-12. $30. Dance Palace, 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station.

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South Pacific Set in a tropical island paradise, this beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical is presented by SRJC Summer Rep. Through Aug 8. $15-$25.

Burbank Auditorium, SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

The Spy Who Killed Me Get A Clue Productions returns with an interactive murder mystery dinner theater experience. Select Friday and Saturday nights. getaclueproductions.com.

Through Sep 26, 7pm. $68 (includes meal). Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor.

Tapas Pegasus Theater Company pus on its annual short play festival, serving up seven tasty new works in four different towns. Jul 10-12. Mt. Jackson Masonic Hall, 14040 Church St, Guerneville. 707.583.2343.

Tartuffe SRJC Summer Rep presents the devilish comedy about the art of deception and the price of misplaced faith. Through Aug 2. $15-$25. Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

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Twelfth Night Directed by David Lear, the Bard’s delightful comedy is performed under the stars and in the ruins of the Cannery, presented by Vacant Lot Productions and the Arlene Francis Center. Jul 10-Aug 15. $5$25. Shakespeare in the Cannery, 3 West Third St, Santa Rosa.

Jane Austen’s Emma SRJC Summer Rep takes on the classic play, which continues to delight audiences both as a coming-of-age tale and a lively satire. Through Jul 29. $15-$25. Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

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ARIES (March 21–April 19) How can you fulfill your potential as an Aries? What strategies will help you become the best Aries you can possibly be? Now is an excellent time to meditate on these riddles. One of my Aries readers, Mickki Langston, has some stellar tips to inspire you: 1. One of your greatest assets is your relentless sense of purpose. Treasure it. Stay connected to it. Draw on it daily. 2. Love what you love with pure conviction, because there is no escaping it. 3. Other people may believe in you, but only sometimes. That’s why you should unfailingly believe in yourself. 4. It’s your duty and your destiny to continually learn more about how to be a leader. 5. Don’t be confused by other people’s confusion. 6. Your best friend is the Fool, who will guide you to laughter and humility when you need it most, which is pretty much all of the time.

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I suggest that you consider a similar approach in the coming weeks, Taurus. As you weave your way toward your next destination, shed the accessories and attachments you don’t absolutely need. Keep lightening your load.

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VIRGO (August 23–September 22)

Even the most provocative meme cannot literally cause the internet to collapse from overuse. It’s true that photos of Kim Kardashian’s oiled-up butt spawned a biblical flood of agitated responses on social media. So did the cover shot of Caitlyn Jenner in Vanity Fair and the Youtube video of a tiny hamster noshing tiny burritos and the season-five finale of the TV show Game of Thrones. But none of these starbursts unleashed so much traffic that the web was in danger of crashing. It’s too vast and robust for that to ever happen. Or is it? I’m wondering if Virgos’ current propensities for high adventure and rollicking melodrama could generate phenomena that would actually, not just metaphorically, break the internet. To be safe, I suggest you enjoy yourself to the utmost, but not more than the utmost.

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to acquire a new title. It’s quite possible that a person in authority will confer it upon you, and that it will signify a rise in

status, an increase in responsibility or an expansion of your clout. If for some reason this upgrade doesn’t occur naturally, take matters into your own hands. Tell people to refer to you as “Your Excellency” or “Your Majesty.” Wear a name tag that says “Deputy Director of Puzzle-Solving” or “Executive Vice-President of Fanatical Balance and Insane Poise.” For once in your life, it’s OK to risk becoming a legend in your own mind. P.S.: It wouldn’t be a bad time to demand a promotion—diplomatically, of course, in the Libran spirit.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

Between now and July 22, your password and mantra and battle cry is “serendipity.” To make sure you are clear about its meaning, meditate on these definitions: a knack for uncovering surprising benefits by accident; a talent for stumbling upon timely help or useful resources without searching for them. Got that? Now I’ll provide clues that should help you get the most out of your lucky breaks and blessed twists: 1. Be curious and receptive, not lackadaisical and entitled. 2. Expect the unexpected. Vow to thrive on surprises. 3. Your desires are more likely to come true if you are unattached to them coming true. But you should formulate those desires clearly and precisely.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21) On behalf of the Strange Angels in Charge of Uproarious Beauty and Tricky Truths, I am pleased to present you with the award for Most Catalytic Fun-Seeker and Intriguing Game-Changer of the Zodiac. What are your specific superpowers? You’re capable of transforming rot into splendor. You have a knack for discovering secrets that have been hidden. I also suspect that your presence can generate magic laughter and activate higher expectations and wake everyone up to the interesting truths they’ve been ignoring.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) “Who is that can tell me who I am?” asks King Lear in the Shakespeare play named after him. It’s a painful moment. The old boy is confused and alarmed when he speaks those words. But I’d like to borrow his question and transplant it into a very different context: your life right now. I think that you can engender inspirational results by making it an ongoing meditation. There are people in a good position to provide you with useful insights into who you are.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) What’s hard but important for you to do? What are the challenging tasks you know you should undertake because they would improve your life? The coming days will be a favorable time to make headway on these labors. You will have more power than usual to move what has been nearly impossible to move. You may be surprised by your ability to change situations that have resisted and outfoxed you in the past. I’m not saying that any of this will be smooth and easy.

But I bet you will be able to summon unprecedented amounts of willpower and perseverance.

PISCES (February 19–March 20)

Franz Kafka produced three novels, a play, four short fiction collections and many other stories. And yet some of his fellow writers thought he was uncomfortable in expressing himself. Bertolt Brecht said Kafka seemed perpetually afraid, as if he were being monitored by the cops for illicit thoughts. Milena Jesenská observed that Kafka often wrote like he was sitting naked in the midst of fully clothed people. Your assignment in the coming weeks is to shed such limitations and inhibitions from your own creative expression. What would you need to do to free your imagination? To get started, visualize five pleasurable scenarios in which you feel joyful, autonomous, generous and expansive.

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