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Rhapsodies Were We Ready?

Tom Gogola’s piece was brutally honest and totally correct (“Not Ready,” Dec. 30).

And, no, American was not ready for Mr. Obama, but I’m sure happy he was our president. The humility, class, calm and superior demeanor this president emanated was priceless. I was certainly ready for him, and I think the world was ready for the United States to have brilliance in the White House. Do we have the audacity for the next president to be a democratic female executive?

Heck, yeah! Let’s do it! Haters are going to hate, but we can’t care about them.

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Donald Trump is the only candidate in either party who is not owned by the special interests of the left or the right.

He represents America’s silent majority of decent men and women.

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There Is a Difference The Open Mic by Jeff Falconer (“The Evil of Two Lessers,” Dec. 30) was a disaster,

By Tom Tomorrow

typically very condescending to Hillary (and, by implication, Obama) and dismissive to the point of ignorance of some very major differences between the two parties, starting with abortion, women’s rights (including equal pay), gay rights, all minority and social issues, minimum wage, jobs (e.g., infrastructure) science, immigration, climate change (which I would say is a very important issue, wouldn’t you?), gun control, campaign finance reform, tax breaks for the rich and corporations, war, Supreme Court appointments, religious issues, sex education, etc.

Isn’t that enough for you? It’s too bad many progressives have to act, feel and vote (or not vote) in lockstep, often in their own worst interests (such as voting for Ralph Nader and ending up with George Bush), almost moronically and robotically. And thanks to writers like Mr. Falconer, who holds his nose to say the Dems are just barely less obnoxious and dangerous than the GOP nutcases, they’ll keep on doing it.

Same thing all over again by supporting Bernie Sanders. I love Bernie as a person, always have, and it’s great having him in the Senate. But there’s no way in hell he’ll be elected in this country, for a variety or reasons, but primarily because he’s way too far left.

So what’s wrong with Hillary? Let’s celebrate having the first woman as president and someone historically more accomplished, intelligent, versatile, strong and dynamic than just about anyone you can name. What, she’s not perfect? She’s too middle-of-the-road?

That’s the whole point—maybe she can actually get elected. Mr. Falconer’s lukewarm approach to this election could very likely give us Trump or Cruz or some other catastrophe. Are you ready for that? No!

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Closing Time Saying goodbye to Tra Vigne Italian restaurant BY MICHAEL SHAPIRO

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on’t be sad, be happy,” said the young Latino server to his co-worker as tears streamed down her cheeks. “How good was it?” he said. “So good it made you cry.”

The middle-aged woman wasn’t the only one in tears as St. Helena’s Tra Vigne restaurant closed its doors for good Dec. 20. On its final night, Tra Vigne’s typical hum of conviviality was punctured by exclamations: a patron telling a server how much she loves him and will miss him, a hostess hugging a chef, salting his kitchen whites as she buried her head in his chest. It was a wake, a mix of revelry and sorrow, with servers bustling to get everything right on the final night, just as they have for almost three decades.

Like a great Tuscan home, Tra Vigne’s ivy-laced walls have stood proudly over Napa Valley, offering exquisite and generous plates at affordable prices. When I had little money in the ’90s, I’d splurge there and was treated just as well as high rollers like Francis Ford Coppola. My wife and I had our wedding rehearsal dinner there in June 2011, a golden night when we drank Pinot on the patio as the Wine Train chugged by at sunset.

On the final night, when tables began to clear, the servers and chefs started grouping by the open kitchen. A spontaneous howl of appreciation rose through the dining room as patrons raised their glasses to the hard-working crew that made the magic happen every night.

For some of the staff it was too much; a few went back to work to avoid getting overwhelmed by the river of emotion. I even saw one resetting tables and straightening the silver, even though the last party had already been served.

Our server said Tra Vigne was profitable, but its lease wasn’t renewed. The new place (to be overseen by Meadowood chef Christopher Kostow) may be great, but the death of Tra Vigne seems premature and unnecessary.

I’ve rarely been to a place where the employees were so openly affectionate with one another, and that made it a joy to be among them. My wife and I merely lost our favorite restaurant, but these workers lost their family, and a place “so good it made you cry.”

Michael Shapiro is author of ‘A Sense of Place.’

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APPLE OF MY EYE In spite of its humble name on the menu—roasted apples—this deconstructed crumble-like dessert was a gem.

OSO Good Sonoma Plaza newcomer shows promise with its eclectic menu BY FLORA TSAPOVSKY

D

iners visiting Sonoma’s town square are spoiled for choice. There’s a restaurant every couple of blocks, from elegant to basic. Opening a new spot right in the middle of it all means that to thrive you must find a way to stand out in the crowd.

OSO Sonoma, the newest addition to the overpopulated food scene in town, tries very hard, but the Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson tunes playing through the meal are the perfect metaphor for the menu: crowdpleasing, familiar, not too daring.

Does it work? Greeted by an energetic “What’s up?” from the bartender (more places should use this greeting), we sat down to find out.

The lunch menu is compact and all across the board, mixing seafood with hearty sandwiches and tacos. We started with the soup ($8), tomato and fennel, sprinkled with Parmesan and sourdough croutons. Tomato soup is often a restaurant cliché, but OSO’s stands out. Whipped and containing no dairy, the hot soup has a multi-dimensional taste and a light, gazpacho-like texture that’s complemented by

crunchy croutons. A total must.

The following two dishes we tried, however, were disappointing.

The Gulf shrimp cocktail ($14.50) is elegantly served and comes accompanied by an excellent spicy adobo sauce, but paying this price for six mediumsized, if delicious, shrimp felt a bit decadent, even for Sonoma. The steamed mussels ($14) promised a great-sounding combo of green onion, radish and miso broth, but the unfortunate appearance of dominating bacon compromised the flavor and robbed the mussels of their pleasantly martime flavors of sea, salt and funk.

Simplicity and balanced flavors returned in the form of the achiote-flavored chicken sandwich ($14). In a sweet brioche bun, dressed with jalapeno aioli, pepper jack cheese, avocado, lettuce and red onion, awaited the perfect chicken breast, crispy and spicy on the outside, juicy and cooked through on the inside. The kitchen did equally well on the fuyu persimmon salad ($8). Cubes and discs of persimmon mingled with grapefruit and avocado in light herby vinaigrette. It was a little sweet, refreshing and light.

“What about dessert?” asked the attentive waitress, and gave us the choice of chocolate cake, a cheese plate or “roasted apple.” Light, fruity desserts are often outnumbered by creamy and overtly sweet options, but sometimes all you want is a tart treat. The roasted apple ($8) was served cubed and warm, with hazelnut streusel, vanilla ice cream and poached tart cherries.

It was delicious, every bite and combination of ingredients more satisfying than the next.

As we left the restaurant, a couple of bundled-up visitors asked if the restaurant was any good. The answer didn’t come easy. OSO is good—with a couple of delicious standouts and a fun, family-friendly vibe, perfect for stopping by and ordering that chicken sandwich any given day— but it’s not quite yet the foodie destination it hopes to be.

OSO Sonoma, 9 E. Napa St., Sonoma.

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

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Undecided” pizza, with surprise toppings that never disappoint.

135 Fourth St, Santa Rosa.

707.545.6900.

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Monti’s Rotisserie & Bar California. $-$$.Small

California. $. Chef Mark Malicki is a true Sonoma County star, serving up an always-changing menu of locally sourced, inspired creations at this decades-old rustic roadhouse.

Unpretentious, creative, and affordable, Casino is a whispered. 17000 Bodega Hwy, Bodega. 707.876.3185.

De Schmire Continental. $$-$$$. Informal, with emphasis on seafood.

Generous portions, open kitchen, outside dining.

304 Bodega Ave, Petaluma.

707.762.1901.

East West Restaurant California. $$. Comfortable and casual setting for modern SoCo institution. 557 Summerfield Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.6142.

Estero Cafe American. $-$$. Mother-and-daughter team serve locally sourced comfort food. Burgers, corned beef hash, fish and chips– pretty much what you’re looking for. 14450 Hwy 1, Valley Ford. 707.876.3333.

Formosa Bistro Asian. $$. Chinese, Japanese and sushi done tastily and affordably, with no MSG and an accompanying solid vegetarian menu. 799 Gravenstein Hwy S, Sebastopol. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. 707.823.6688.

Glen Ellen Star California. $$. A comfy-casual, farmhouse-style restaurant with classic American -nspired dishes. Wood-fired pizzas, roasted and grilled meats, and uniquely prepared seasonal vegetables. 13648 Arnold Dr., Glen Ellen. 707.343.1384.

plates and a few larger entrées with emphasis on houseroasted meats. 714 Village Ct, Santa Rosa. 707.568.4404.

Parish Cafe Cafe. $$.

Authentic po’ boy sandwiches elicit the sound of a big brass marching band with every bite.

Breakfast favorites include shrimp and grits, but don’t forget the beignets. 60-A Mill St, Healdsburg. 707.431.8474.

The Spinster Sisters American. $$-$$$. Always something surprising and delicious on the menu. Go for breakfast! 401 South A St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.7100.

Stark’s Steakhouse Steakhouse. $$$$. Could be the best steak you’ll ever have. “Other than steak” menu changes seasonally.

Happy hour Mon-Fri, 3 to 6.

521 Adams St, Santa Rosa.

707.546.5100.

Thai Pot Thai. $$. A local favorite for authentic Thai recipes with pad Thai, curries, exotic appetizers and entrées.

2478 W Third St, Santa Rosa.

707.575.9296. 6961 Sebastopol Ave (across from West America Bank), Sebastopol , CA. Lunch and dinner daily. 707.829.8889.

Twist Eatery California. $$. Quaint little spot in a quaint little town that serves satisfying, homemade plates from fresh ingredients.

The pulled pork sandwich and organic beet salad are standouts on this winning menu. 6536 Front St, Forestville. 707.820.8443.

Delicious preparations of the freshest fish and shellfish. 403 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg.

707.433.9191.

MA R I N CO U N T Y Benissimo Ristorante & Bar Italian. $$. Hearty and flavorful food in authentic neighborhood-style Italian restaurant 18 Tamalpais Dr, Corte Madera. 415.927.2316.

Buckeye Roadhouse American. $$-$$$. A Marin County institution. Delightful food, friendly and seamless service, and a convivial atmosphere. Try one of the many exotic cocktails. 15 Shoreline Hwy, Mill Valley.

415.331.2600.

Ciccio Italian. $$. A woodfired oven churns out simple pizzas and seasonal entrees often made with ingredients from the restaurant’s own gardens. 6770 Washington St., Yountville. 707.945.1000.

Finnegan’s Marin Brewpub. $$. Irish bar with the traditional stuff. 877 Grant Ave, Novato. 415.899.1516.

Jennie Low’s Chinese. $$. Light, healthy, and tasty Cantonese, Mandarin, Hunan, and Szechuan home-style cooking. Great selection, including vegetarian fare, seafood, and noodles.

Vintage Oaks Shopping Center, Rowland Ave, Novato.

415.892.8838.

Joe’s Taco Lounge & Salsaria Mexican. $.

Mostly authentic Mexican menu with American standbys 382 Miller Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.8164.

Left Bank French. $$-$$$.

Brasserie Splendid, authentic French cuisine. 507 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 415.927.3331.

Marin Brewing Company Brewpub. $-$$.

Excellent soups, salads, pub grub and award-winning porkbeer sausage 1809 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur.

415.461.4677.

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Underwood Bar & Bistro European. $$. The

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American. $$. A casual hotspot with a great comfort-foodinspired menu in a key Railroad Square location. Get “The

Underwood’s classy bistro menu and impressive bar belie its rural setting 9113 Graton Rd, Graton. 707.823.7023.

$. The ultimate in American cuisine. Crispy fries, good burgers and friendly locals chowing down. 2017 Sir

Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax.

415.454.0655.

Sol Food Puerto Rican. $.

Flavorful, authentic and homestyle at this Puerto Rican eatery, which is as hole-in-thewall as they come. 401 Miller Ave, Mill Valley. 415.380.1986.

811 Fourth St; 901 Lincoln Ave; 903 Lincoln Ave, San Rafael.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. 415.451.4765.

Sorella Caffe Italian. $$. The embodiment of Fairfax casual, with delicious, high-quality food that lacks pretension. 107 Bolinas Rd, Fairfax. 415.258.4520.

Station House Cafe California. $$. Innovative menu, fresh local seafood and rangefed meats. Outdoor dining; full bar 11180 State Route 1, Pt Reyes Station. 415.663.1515.

Sushi Ran Japanese. $$$$.

This beautiful restaurant attracts locals and tourists with its fresh catches. A wide selection of nigiri, depending on what’s fresh. 107 Caledonia St., Sausalito. 415.332.3620.

Sushiholic Japanese. $$-$$$. A nice addition to the local lineup, with a lengthy and well-crafted repertoire including uncommon dishes like nabeyaki udon, zaru soba, yosenabe and sea bass teriyaki Rowland Plaza, 112-C Vintage Way, Novato. 415.898.8500.

Sweetwater Cafe California. $$. A casual, musically influenced ambience with fresh and tasty food. A large menu includes favorites such as huevos rancheros, French toast, chicken and steak sliders and fried apple pie. 19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley.

707.388.1700.

Tavola Italian Kitchen Italian. $$. Cozy-casual dining within a stucco-clad strip mall.

Thin crust pizzas, homemade pasta and sausage, meat and fish entrees, and crisp greens.

An authentic gem within the Hamilton Marketplace.

5800 Nave Drive, Novato.

415.883.6686.

Tommy’s Wok Chinese. $-$$. Tasty and filling Chinese fare without the greasy weigh-down. Nice vegetarian selections, too. 3001 Bridgeway Ave, Sausalito. 415.332.5818.

The William Tell House American. $$. Marin County’s oldest saloon.

Casual and jovial atmosphere.

Steaks, pasta, chicken and

fish all served with soup or salad. 26955 Hwy 1, Tomales.

707.878.2403.

Yet Wah Chinese. $$.

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

1238 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.460.9883.

N A PA CO U N T Y Azzuro Pizzeria E Enoteca Pizza. $$. The hippest little corner pizza joint in town, with an open kitchen and always-full dining room.

Salads and pastas are good here, but it’s the pizza that’s the star, boasting incredible crusts. 1260 Main St., Nap. 707.255.5552.

BarBersQ Barbecue/ California. $-$$. An upscale ’cue joint with a high-end chef and high-end ingredients.

Gorgeous chipotle-braised short ribs and pulled pork.

3900-D Bel Aire Plaza, Napa.

707.224.6600.

Barolo Italian. $$. A wine bar and Italian kitchen in a sleek, modern space, Barolo’s menu is filled with all the luscious suffixes (-etta, -ini) that make a valley traveler come hither.

Pizza, pasta and salads are done right; to take it to the next level, go for the swordfish filet or the pork milanese.

1457 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga.

707.942.9900.

Ca’ Momi Enoteca Pizza. $$. Great Pizzas and pastas are the stock in trade for this Oxbow standout, but the secret weapon are its bignès. Traditional regional Italian with organic ingredients and a welcoming, casual atmosphere. 610 First St, Napa.

707.257.4992.

Farmstead Restaurant American. $$$.

Gourmet home-style cooking with an emphasis on local and organic ingredients. Fresh soups and salads to start.

Chicken, fish, and “cut of the day” grass-fed beef are only some of the entrée options.

738 Main St., St Helena.

707.963.9181.

Fazerrati’s Pizza. $-$$.

Great pie, cool brews, the game’s always on. Great place for post-Little League. 1517 W Imola Ave, Napa. 707.255.1188.

French Laundry Definitive California Cuisine. $$$$. What else is there to say? Chef Thomas Keller’s institution is among the very best restuarants in the country. 6640 Washington St., Yountville. 707.944.2380.

Fumé Bistro & Bar California cuisine. $$$.

California bistro fare that nearly always hits the mark. 4050 Byway E, Napa.

707.257.1999.

Gillwoods Cafe Diner. $-$$. Classic hometown diner, specializes in the homemade.

1313 Main St, St Helena.

707.963.1788. 1320 Napa Town Center, Napa. Breakfast and lunch daily. 707.253.0409.

Goose & Gander American. $$. Cozy steakhouse vibes, but with a much more generous menu. Fish, pasta and steak are some of the standard dishes, but the G&G burger should not be overlooked. Interesting charcuterie and cheese lists.

1245 Spring St, St Helena.

707.967.8779.

La Condesa Mexcian. $$$. Part of a small explosion in upmarket Mexican dining in the region, this attractive location in the old Keller Bros.

Meats building on Main Street serves a creative yet accessible menu of regional delights and modern dishes. The zanahoria, the bife lento, the panza de puerco–it’s all very good.

1320 Main St., St. Helena .

707.967.8111.

Morimoto Japanese. $$$$. Upscale meets casual with a wide range of Asianinspired dishes from Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. Cold and hot appetizers, great seafood options, and newcomer dishes such as Tuna Pizza. Perfect for the adventurous eater.

610 Main St, Napa. 707.252.1600.

Mustard’s Grill American. $$$. “Deluxe truck stop classics” include Dungeness crab cakes with chipotle aioli, grilled Laotian quail with cucumber-scallion salad and a bacon-wrapped rabbit roulade.

7399 St. Helena Hwy, Napa.

707.944.2424.

Oenotri Italian. $$$. A casual eatery with the three P’s of Italian: pizza, pasta, and panini. Delicate pizza and pasta dishes, and they butcher their own meat. These guys do simplicity well. 1425 First St, Napa. 707.252.1022.

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Wineries

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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.

SONOMA COUNTY Banshee Wines Everything’s for sale at rustichipster aesthetic downtown tasting room, including the nicely priced Sonoma Coast Pinot. 325 Center St., Healdsburg. Daily, 11am–7pm.

Tasting fee, $15–$30.

707.395.0915.

Red Car Wine Co. Lay some track to the “Gateway to Graton” and take your palate on a ride with Boxcar Syrah and Trolley Pinot from Sonoma Coast vineyards.

Next stop: Côte-Rôtie on the way to Beaune. 8400 Graton Road, Sebastopol. Open daily, 10am-5pm. Tasting fee $10.

707.829.8500.

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Repris Wines A new crew reignites a blast from the past at historic Moon Mountain Vineyard. 1700 Moon Mountain Road, Sonoma. By appointment only. 707.931.7701.

Truett-Hurst Newly planted biodynamic estate features patio seating, gardens, steelhead habitat, plus frisky goats and sheep. Taste brambly Zin and “Burning Man” Petite Sirah in airy, barnlike house, furnished with rough-hewn recycled materials. 5610 Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg.

Tasting, 11am–5pm daily, no fee. 707.433.9545.

VJB Estate Buon giorno!

Aglianico, Nero d’Avola, Barbera! But first, for you, my friend, Prosecco! Espresso, gelato, pizzeria, deli sandwich!

If Il postino rides his bicycle straight through the courtyard, don’t be the least bit surprised.

60 Shaw Ave., Kenwood.

Marketplace open daily, 10am–5pm. Tastings $5–$10.

707.833.2300.

MARIN COUNTY Bacchus & Venus A trendy place for beginners and

tourists. Great place to learn the basics. 769 Bridgeway, Sausalito. Open daily, noon– 7pm. 415.331.2001.

Point Reyes Vineyards The tasting room features many varietals but the main reason to go is for the sparkling wines. Open Saturday–Sunday, 11am–5pm.

12700 Hwy. 1, Point Reyes.

415.663.1011.

NAPA COUNTY Corison Winery Winemaker Cathy Corison proudly describes herself as a “Cabernet chauvinist.”

987 St. Helena Hwy., St. Helena. By appointment.

707.963.0826.

Cuvaison Estate Wines (WC) Producing some 65 percent of its product as Chardonnay, Cuvaison has a 22,000-square-foot cave. Nice Pinot, too. 4550 Silverado Trail N., Napa. By appointment.

707.942.6266.

Flora Springs Winery & Vineyards Napa Valley’s latest geotectonic eruption on Highway 29 is a stylish place to explore famous Chardonnay, Meritage blend and winery-exclusive Italian varietals. Hip but not too cool, the 30-year-old family winery surely has a sense of humor as well as sense of place. 677 S. St. Helena Hwy., St. Helena. Open daily, 10am–5pm. Tasting fees, $15–$25. 707.967.8032.

Frog’s Leap Winery A good story is nearly as important as good wine; Frog’s Leap does a neat job on both. As you wind through the vineyard, the frog pond and the rustic 1884 winery, your tour guide finds bottles along the way, like Easter eggs. Dry-farming, who knew, can produce a beverage more thirst-quenching than water. 8815 Conn Creek Road, Rutherford. Daily, 10am–4pm.

Tastings, $20; tours Monday– Friday, $20. 707.963.4704.

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.

Opus One Future archaeologists may conclude that this earthen mound located in the center of Napa Valley was intended to inter this society’s finest bottles for the exclusive use of winepharaohs Baron Philippe de Rothschild and Robert Mondavi in their afterlife; meanwhile, it’s available to the teeming masses. 7900 St. Helena Hwy., Oakville. 707.944.9442.

By appointment only. Tours, $75–$175; tasting only, $40.

707.944.9442.

Robert Sinskey Vineyards In the lofty, barnlike hall–as elegant as a theater, as solid as a ski lodge–visitors can take in the tank room action; at least, the gleaming stainless steel, framed by wood and stonework and brewpubstyle chalkboard menus imbues the space with a sense of energetic immediacy.

“Gluttonous Flight” pairs savory munchables prepared in the gourmet demonstration kitchen with biodynamically farmed Carneros Pinot Noir and Bordeaux varietals. Not to worry: there’s no flight for ascetics offered, so go for it.

6320 Silverado Trail, Napa.

Open 10am–4:30pm daily.

707.944.9090.

Silver Oak Silver Oak truly is a venerable cult wine, confounding to outsiders who don’t feel the magic. Folks love the Silver Oak; the Silver Oak is good. 915 Oakville Cross Road, Oakville. Monday– Saturday, 9am–5pm; Sunday, 11am–5pm. Tasting fee, $20.

707.942.7022

Cab It Up Searching for the sweet spot in recent Cabernet Sauvignon releases

BY JAMES KNIGHT

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will venture at least one bold prediction for 2016: Cabernet Sauvignon will continue to be America’s top-selling red wine. Check in, come January 2017, and tell me it isn’t so.

There will be other contenders for the title of Next Big Wine of the Wine World, as surely as there will be a pooh-poohing chorus of subsequent press to explain their failure: “They’re only really good in their home region in Europe, after all, and besides, their names are just too hard for everyday wine drinkers to pronounce—as compared to, say, Cabernet Sauvignon.”

It’s hard to say what it is that boosts the Beringer 2012 Private Reserve Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($165) above its neighbors in this lineup. It isn’t the price, although the tasting was not blind, I had a misremembered and wildly inaccurate, lower figure in my head for this wine. An inky, purple specimen, nearly smoking with singed oak and charcoal aromas, sweetened with maple syrup and bourbon overtones, the Private Reserve at first only offers fruit aromas of charred fruit. Thick tannins drag across the palate like a cat’s tongue. But intense extract of blackcurrant and blackberry fruit win out through the roundly puckery finish in the end—this wine’s just got the stuffing.

Shy and restrained in the aroma department, the Francis Ford Coppola 2013 Director’s Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon ($21) is a party wine on the palate. Sweet, purple grape and blackberry juice integrate nicely, for the price, with char and modest tannins.

Recognizing that most Cabs in this price range are cellared in the trunk of the car for as long as it takes to get home from the store, the Martin Ray 2012 Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon ($25) is bottled with a super-helpful screw cap. Grapey and savory notes, with an animal-hide facet, evolve after a day or so, and when the backend heat subsides, until it’s a stewed-plum pleasure.

Telling about the 14 months it spent in French and American oak in the aroma language of French roast coffee and oily oak smoke, the Alexander Valley Vineyards 2013 Estate Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($23) delivers clearly defined blackberry juice flavor and cassis liqueur intensity on the palate, capped, like an unexpectedly sumptuous dinner for a very modest tab, with a chocolate mint.

Delivering a near anesthetic dose of tongue-numbing tannin, the Murphy-Goode 2012 Poker Knight Knights Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($45) may call some big Cab drinkers’ bluff; I like the 2012 Terra a Lago Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($40) for its prettier smack of dried black cherry.

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Condemned W Men Talking A day on San Quentin’s death row

BY TOM GOGOLA

e’re at the end of the tour, and nobody has the key to get into the lethal-injection chamber. That seems a little ironic in the moment. It has been a long day at San Quentin State Prison for reporters and corrections staff alike. The four-hour media tour of the death row facilities has gone on for six hours, and along the way, all day, there have been skeletontype keys opening big metaland-concrete doors, numerous ID checks, sign-ins and sign-outs at the three facilities that house the nation’s largest population of the condemned.

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SOLITARY MEN Some inmates in San Quentin’s Adjustment Center are confined to their tiny cells 24 hours a day.

of intravenous barbiturates. It will be 10 years in February since Morales lucked out, and 10 years since anybody has been executed at San Quentin.

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an Quentin is a place of many contrasts, and one of the more starkly poignant examples I encounter on the Dec. 27 tour is the difference between how you access the death row facilities and how you access the lethal-injection chamber. It provides a handy metaphor for the status of capital punishment in California.

Gaining access to the condemned men in their cells requires reporters to pass through a set of security gates, sally ports and various other clearances, ID checks and metal detectors.

It takes a while, just as it takes a while—25 years, on average—from the time an inmate is convicted to when he is executed, leading to a broken capital punishment system that, in 2014, federal judge Cormac Carney said was effectively a “life sentence with the remote possibility of death,” as he declared the California capital punishment regime cruel and unusual because of the delays.

That ruling was vacated by the U.S Court of Appeals for the

Ninth Circuit in San Francisco in November on technical grounds— even as it did not rule on the constitutional issue raised by Carney. Another hurdle, another gate to pass through before anyone is executed here.

A proposed 2016 ballot initiative would recognize these costly and interminable delays that characterize the system, and end capital punishment outright. A similar ballot measure, Proposition 34, was beaten back by death-penalty advocates in 2012 by 52 to 48 percent.

And yet to gain access to the lethal-injection chamber, they just open an innocuous-looking door that faces out to the pleasant San Quentin grounds, steps away from the employee canteen and just a few yards from the heavy-security main entrance—and you’re in, just like that. A pro–death penalty referendum also scheduled for 2016 seeks to expedite the appeals process to get the executions flowing again.

Meanwhile, 724 men (and counting) sit on death row at San Quentin. There are between 12 and 16 whose last appeals have been exhausted, says Robinson, but there’s no time frame for the resumption of executions. ) 14 “The if is the question.”

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And now here we are, about 20 members of the media and a handful of San Quentin prison officials, including warden Ronald Davis, milling around outside the door to the never-used lethalinjection chamber. Waiting.

Lt. Samuel Robinson is the chief public information officer at San Quentin and has been our lead guide for the tour.

Robinson says he worked on death row for 10 years before moving into his public-affairs role, and throughout the day he is greeted by inmates, a couple fist-bumping him as we make our way to and through the three areas that house the condemned: the Adjustment Center, the North Segregation Unit and the East Block, whose 520 beds house the majority of death row inmates at San Quentin.

“They live in a world,” Robinson tells reporters that morning, as he searches for the words, “an alternate world, the era when they left the streets . . . it freezes them in limbo.”

While we wait for the missing key to arrive, Robinson talks about how he was the corrections officer who handed off the last three condemned inmates to the team of officers charged with putting them to death.

Robinson’s last words to the inmates were always the same.

“I wished them good luck.” He defers on the question of his personal feelings about capital punishment. As a state worker, Robinson’s not going there. He wished them good luck, that’s all.

And so it was that on Dec. 13, 2005, Crips co-founder Stanley “Tookie” Williams (who had been nominated five times for a Nobel Peace Prize and once for a Nobel Prize in literature) was executed.

Triple-murderer Clarence Ray Allen was next; his luck, and his appeals, ran out on Jan. 17, 2006.

A month later, Michael Morales was given the same send-off by Robinson and was scheduled to be put to death at 7:30pm on Feb. 21. Two hours before he was to be killed by lethal injection, federal judge Jeremy Fogel put a halt to the execution after courtappointed physicians refused to inject Morales with a lethal dose

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FACE TIME Adjustment Center inmates can earn the privilege to mingle with other inmates; however, on this day only one had gained the privilege.

Attitude Adjustment The order is for murder And we’ve been there before The men in black are coming back To serve the killing floor —Lemmy Kilmister One minute you’re listening to Motörhead records and mourning Lemmy Kilmister’s death while you dance around, a free man in your kitchen, and the next, you’re standing in the harshly appointed and zoo-like yard of San Quentin’s Orwellian named Adjustment Center, a 102-cell facility built in 1960, the solitary-confinement tier and most restrictive housing in the prison—and possibly the state.

The “A/C” is home to the worst of the worst offenders, not

all of them condemned, though most, about 80 percent, are. It’s a self-contained prison within a prison, and the guards aren’t even allowed out once they check in for their shifts. It’s the deepest hole you can find yourself in at San Quentin.

This is the first stop on the tour, and it’s immediately apparent that we’re going to need more of those green anti-stab jackets; there just aren’t enough for all the reporters and cameramen, so some from other tiers are collected and made available as we squeeze into an Adjustment Center hallway and jostle our way forward to the gate.

The reporters can’t all go on the tier at once, so we proceed in shifts through a metal gate, having already passed through two other gates, and that’s not even talking about the first three

gates we went through at the outset of the tour. Anyone who isn’t already wearing eyeglasses has to wear a face-protection mask to guard against any bodily excretions flung our way by inmates; we all wear the protective gear until we check out of the prison with our invisible “Get Out of Jail Free” wriststamps, as Robinson calls them.

No media person has seen the inside of one of these solitaryconfinement cells in over a decade. A few of the cells are empty, doors swung open, and the officers let me step up to the entrance and enter a foot or so into the cells, keeping a watchful look or, one might say, glare.

There’s an austere and off-putting peaceful feel to the tier that belies the daily dangers and stresses on both guards and prisoners alike; a creepy, treacherous monasticism prevails on this insular tier. That can change in an instant.

These men here are forever in a routinized and highly choreographed shuffle from one cage to another, and some are “indefinitely in leg restraints” as they are transported from cage to cage, Robinson says.

Two adjoining cells give a sense of the kind of privileges one can earn, whether an inmate is on death row or serving out a lighter sentence elsewhere in San Quentin, whose population hovers around 3,700.

There are two kinds of prisoners that transcend the Level 1 to Level 4 classification system (the Adjustment Center is Level 4), Robinson explains. There’s Grade A and Grade B. Grade A follows the rules; Grade B doesn’t.

One cell has a TV and walls filled with thong-wearing Latina pinups, while the next one over is absent any visible personalized touches beyond rolled-up white socks and a manila folder or two.

According to online prisoner resources, death row inmates went on hunger strike here in 2013 in order, among other things, to get the same privileges the state affords the non-condemned.

Robinson says that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation gives equal access to earned privileges, regardless of

one’s classification.

But nobody in San Quentin is streaming Netflix, don’t worry about it. The TVs are hooked into antennas and reception is limited to network television. Inmates can also listen to the radio.

This morning, there’s only one inmate in his cell willing to talk to reporters, and it’s Sunset Strip killer Douglas Clark, described

by Robinson as a “prolific serial killer,” who was associated with Carol Bundy and was rumored to be pals with her relative, Ted. Clark’s capital crimes were rather heinous and involved a beheading, but “Sunset Strip killer” does have a sexy anticelebrity ring to it, and Clark does his part.

Clark says he has been in solitary confinement for 33 years and that “this is actually the best facility that they have.” Nobody visits him, Clark says, as he makes the best of what may be his greatest anti-celebrity moment of infamy since his incarceration.

Clark talks to reporters through a small vent in the closed-front cell door. Reporters press their mics against the vent and shout questions at the inmate, who shouts right back. He wears a straw hat and gives great quotage to the line of media waiting their turn. “You’re a reporter’s dream,” one reporter tells him. Clark says he loves the Sacramento Bee—but the guards? Standard issue: they’re corrupt, “a bunch of fucking morons.”

Inmates spend all their time in these cells except for three and a half hours of yard time three days a week. One of the other whopping contrasts immediately evident is that San Quentin is really two prisons; its general population is among the least violent in the California prison system, even as it houses the most violent offenders in the state.

It’s a prison that benefits mightily from a generally empathic Bay Area demographic with a volunteer cadre of 4,000 people who provide all kinds of programming, and Davis says the programs are what keep the violence in check.

And while San Quentin is famous for its Shakespeare

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productions and other reformminded efforts at rehabilitation, little of that is available to the condemned. About a hundred of the condemned have access to hobby and craft programs, but that’s about it as far as programming goes, Robinson says.

There are no restorative-justice programs for the condemned, either, no opportunities for inmates to meet with survivors of their mayhem, Davis says, because of security issues around inmate-civilian contact, a key aspect of restorative justice.

The contrast between general population and the condemned plays out in the functioning and upkeep of death row itself. Prison labor built the new $850,000 lethal-injection chamber, and prisoners are also at work on a project to retrofit cells in San Quentin’s Donner building to expand death row capacity by 97 beds. That unit will open this month or next, Robinson says.

As we stand in the Adjustment Center, Robinson tells me about another inmate here whose penchant for violence ended the career of four corrections officers.

We’ll meet him soon enough.

We leave the tier and wait in another sally port before gaining access to the Adjustment Center yard, which consists of a couple dozen single-man “walk-alone” cages with sinks and toilets, and one larger yard for inmates who have mingling privileges.

There’s only one inmate in there today, one of about 10 men out here this morning in the cold rows of cages—pacing, talking among themselves, doing pullups, mostly in white shorts and sneakers, though a couple wear prison-issued sweats. It’s a little chilly out here.

The protocol is a little unclear, so I set off into the wilderness of cages and approach a very large and shirtless Latino man. He asks me what we’re doing here, what’s going on. He looks like he could crush my skull with the power of his nipples alone.

I tell him it’s a media tour of death row and that I want to interview him—but I’ve apparently gone a little off the

THE BIG HOUSE Mass incarceration comes to life on San Quentin’s multi-tiered East Block, where 520 inmates

spend their lives in cells waiting to die.

reservation, as an officer tells me to get back with the rest of the reporters, who have gathered around another cage.

“They’re censoring you!” the man shouts after me as I rejoin the group—then subsequently passes on the opportunity to sign a required consent form to talk with reporters. A little while later, Robinson tells me that was the very inmate who ended those corrections’ officers careers. He seemed so friendly for a second there.

Reporters are gathered around the cage that houses Robert Galvan, a seriously bad man, and it’s hard to suppress the thought that Galvan has a little bit of the Lemmy look to him. “I deserve to be here,” Galvan says as he talks about life on the Adjustment Center tiers, where there is “absolutely zero privacy.”

Galvan has a general mien of biting, accessible menace, and I ask him what it feels like to be on death row in a state that almost

never executes anyone. “It’s like being left on a shelf,” he says. “I feel like that’s torture.”

The book on Galvan is that he had so many “assault with a deadly weapon” charges, including one for assaulting a corrections officers, that prosecutors stopped pursuing them after stringing together three consecutive life terms. His capital crime occurred while he was already locked up: Galvan killed his cellmate.

The pro–death penalty referendum on the docks for 2016 seeks to end the practice of housing the condemned in one-man cells, to save money.

California spends almost $200 million a year in costs associated with its stalled capital punishment regime.

How’s the food, I ask, and Galvan laughs a short, hard laugh.

“It’s food.” He says they don’t serve that notorious “Nutraloaf” at San Quentin, where the biggest food gripe I hear through the

day centers around the ready availability of pancakes.

Galvan says, “That’d be a good if they did it,” when asked about the 2016 referendum to end capital punishment, but he’s never getting out of here, death penalty or no death penalty: “It’ll be the same thing, a different cell, different atmosphere, but I’m still in a cell 23 hours a day.”

Jarvis Jay Masters Inmates . . . can assume the role of monk or gladiator, and the duality between prison warrior and prison monk is particularly true on death row.

—Jenny Phillips, reviewing That Bird Has My Wings Disembodied voices, harsh and angry and demanding, greet reporters as we spilled into the vast East Block, home to the majority of the 724 condemned of San Quentin. There are

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16 San Quentin ( 15 more than 500 men here, and they shout down from the upper tiers, “They got us in restraints like we are animals!” “We want to come out of the handcuffs!”

They shout about the spoiled milk and the endless pancakes and they shout about Burton Abbott, exonerated but nevertheless executed in 1955, from this intensely intimidating, five-tier stack of cells. American flags hang from sky-high rafters in both wings of East Block, and guards walk the gangway as reporters are set loose on the tier to find inmates to interview.

We walk past naked old men in showers, a guy sitting on the crapper and a couple of telephones-on-carts that are rolled in front of the cells for inmates’ use.

I walk down the tier and stop in front of the one inmate I had hoped to encounter today, and offer greetings to Jarvis Jay Masters, the Buddhist author of 2009’s That Bird Has My Wings. It’s a heavy story about Masters’ upbringing and his path to death row, with harrowing-funny stories about the violence of life among the condemned and Masters’ journey to a monklike and meditative existence on death row.

Masters had just recently ended a 27-day hunger strike prompted, he says, by a chronic absence of capital-crime lawyers at the prison. He ended up weakened and ill and on an IV at Marin General Hospital, and only ended the hunger strike when the warden came to see him.

“Guys are dying and nobody is up here saying, ‘You are a human being,’ Masters says. “Nobody says, ‘Tell me your story.’ The lawyers don’t even know their clients’ names, their stories, their suffering. It felt like there was a purpose behind the hunger strike. It helped me to understand suffering.”

Masters is at work on his third book (he also published Finding Freedom, a collection of prison writings, in 1997). This one is going to be called Out of Bounds, a fictionalized retelling

of his early-1970s childhood, he says, that will explore the abuse and molestation he says he experienced as a youth. “Out of Bounds” is the single most prevalent stenciled signage on the walls of San Quentin. The signs inform inmates that they’ve entered a restricted area.

Masters, a native of Long Beach, covered a lot of biographical ground in That Bird Has My Wings, which told the story of his rough upbringing, his four siblings parceled out to foster homes, him getting shuffled from a nurturing foster-care environment to another that was full of violence and abuse. All of which led to his life of violent crime as a young man.

Masters spent 21 years in the Adjustment Center, and turned to Buddhism and meditation to help survive the intense psychological strain of long-term solitary confinement. He has a dedicated support network on the outside that includes renowned Buddhist author Pema Chödrön, and a legal team at work to get his conviction overturned. Masters says Chödrön understood why he had undertaken the hunger strike, though she did not support his decision.

Some inmates, Masters says, have come to a kind of peace on death row; they’ve outgrown their criminality, but it can leave them in an awful and hopeless limbo.

“Some people have made the transition,” he says, “but there are more suicides than executions here.”

Masters’ Buddhist practice and meditation have kept him grounded in the face of a death sentence handed down after he was implicated in the 1985 murder of prison sergeant Howell Burchfield. “Spiritual grounding is a real, real, enduring force if you ever find yourself in a situation like this,” Masters says.

There are all kinds of ways to torture yourself on death row, he says, which include dwelling on “the contradictions in your life, the callings that you will think about for the rest of your life.”

Whether an inmate is innocent or guilty, “death row means you are in a lot of trouble, and you sit

INTERVIEW WITH A KILLER Reporters pepper ‘Sunset Strip’ serial killer

Douglas Clark with questions.

with that—my writing, that is how and where I found my greatest reflection of that fact.”

Masters was sent to San Quentin in the early 1980s to serve a 10-year armed robbery sentence and then joined a prison gang. A few years into his term, he was implicated in the death of Burchfield and charged with sharpening a piece of bed frame into a shank, which was then fashioned into a spear, using rolled-up paper. Two other inmates were given life sentences without parole for their role in the murder; Masters got the death penalty.

There’s a website called the Officer Down Memorial Page (odmp.org) that honors law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. The entry for Burchfield contains a quote from Euripides that has a particular potency when it comes to Masters, who has maintained his innocence all along: “When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”

I ask him about his writing process, and Masters enthusiastically pulls out a white five-gallon bucket from the back of his cell. That’s his writing chair.

A large board propped on his rack serves as his desk. Then he shows me his pen.

When he was in the Adjustment Center, Masters’ writing implement consisted of a floppy

pen tube sans its plastic outer shell. He’s been in the East Block since 2007 and takes apart the pen and shows me how it used to be. He gets a regular pen here.

In San Quentin, and especially on death row, the smallest of details and items, which in the outside world would be considered trivial and mundane, can take on a new kind of value and force. Masters laughs as he shows me the other key piece of his writing kit, a tan crocheted hat. “Don’t tell anyone, but I need my writing hat. I can’t write without it.”

Masters’ many supporters are adamant that he is innocent of the capital charge that landed him on death row, and with a little bit of luck—and a positive ruling from the California State Supreme Court—he may find himself in a whole new situation by the end of February.

In the meantime, there’s a lot of old-fashioned Buddhist nonattachment that has to be brought to bear on the outcome. On Nov. 15, the court heard oral arguments from his defense team and from prosecutors.

“The case is still alive,” Masters says, and the clock is ticking on the court’s 90-day window to issue a ruling. He could be looking at a new trial, or more of the same.

Either way, he’s ready. “Life changes one way or the other,” Masters says. “One thing I have to do is be in the center; ) 18

17 (who admits to curing no one) Dear Friend, I wanted to let everyone know what happened while I was in college. It was a moment that changed my life forever. But before I tell you about my experience, I wanted to tell you my story from the start.

Let me start by explaining the photo in this letter, I’m the guy in the middle, Dr. Taatjes.

You know when I meet people in town and they usually say, “Oh yeah, I know you, you’re Dr. Taatjes. You’ve been in Petaluma for years…” Well, that’s me.

Twenty-seven years ago something happened to me that changed my life forever. Let me tell you my story.

I was studying pre-Med in college, in hopes of becoming a medical doctor. Things were looking up, and life was good, until things took a turn for the worse.

I began to have terrible back and stomach problems. For a young guy, I felt pretty rotten. My back hurt so badly that I had a hard time even concentrating in class. I was miserable. The medical doctors tried different drugs, but they only made me feel like I was in a “cloud.” I was just not getting better.

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His hunger strike ended when Davis came to him in the hospital, Masters says, “and pointed some things out to me. I felt blessed.

He allowed me to take a step back when he said, ‘You made your reason known.’”

But he couldn’t bring himself to eat the prison food after. “I couldn’t eat none of it,” he says with a laugh. “I stared at all that food, looked at it and touched it.

But I couldn’t eat it.”

We talk about the the idea that you “always want to leave a little bit on the plate,” as a gesture, perhaps, of gratitude and solidarity with the suffering—or to simply indicate that you are full.

He says of his hunger strike, “You are doing it for somebody, and you got something out of it, too. It was about awareness, not making a demand.”

Masters is 52 years old and says one of the great challenges for any death row inmate is to acknowledge one’s misdeeds while also leaving open the possibility for a kind of deliverance via personal growth.

In his 35 years at San Quentin, he says the enormous challenge for inmates is to acknowledge “that you can be a better person.

There’s regret and there’s growth.

These are the circumstances we all have to deal with, one way or the other. You can have the regret, but also the determination to not give in. You damage a lot of people when you do robberies, and I cried like a baby when I got here. The only thing you can do is sit with it, and say, ‘We are real human beings.’”

The Anti-Celebrity To the extent that it’s possible, I like to live by a professional code

where I’ll chase a fact, but I won’t chase a celebrity. That includes chasing anti-celebrities on death row, like Scott Peterson.

The last full-on media tour of San Quentin’s death row, Robinson says, was given around the time Peterson was in the news as international anti-celebrity du jour. Interest was high. Peterson was universally reviled for killing his eight-months-pregnant wife and saying he was on a fishing trip in San Francisco Bay. The TV cameras haven’t been in here since Peterson’s conviction, but San Francisco KALW radio reporter and author Nancy Mullane was given access to death row for a series of reports she produced between 2012 and 2014, and which culminated in a book, Life After Murder, which wasn’t about death row, but about five inmates who Mullane believed deserved a chance at parole.

When Mullane’s book came out, she was invited on The Today Show, co-hosted by Matt Lauer.

The interview was frankly one of the most revolting exercises in the media’s anti-celebrity obsession you will ever witness. Lauer took the implied bait that Peterson was living a cushy life on the North Seg unit, the least-restrictive of the three death row facilities at San Quentin: He has his own cell!

Reportedly allowed to spend up to five hours a day outside of it!

What’s clear from the segment is that Mullane would never have been invited on The Today Show had she not inadvertently captured Peterson in some photos she took on the North Seg rooftop yard. She didn’t even know it was Peterson she was shooting until after the fact. One of the photos found Peterson smiling and shirtless, playing basketball.

The five inmates that were the subject of Mullane’s extremely worthwhile book were rendered an afterthought by Lauer: “We want to talk about them in just a second,” but please first tell our viewers how you never even talked to Scott Peterson, that’s fascinating.

We are up on the North Seg rooftop yard and, wouldn’t you know it, there’s Peterson with his back turned to reporters. We’ve

DO NOT ENTER Lt. Sam Robinson stands before the entrance to East Block,

where most of San Quentin’s 724 condemned men live.

interrupted a basketball game.

He and another man, an AfricanAmerican of less anti-celebrity stature, stand that way the whole time reporters interview other inmates.

The condemned of North Seg are granted tier time to mingle with inmates, and they can spend about six hours a day, from 7:30am to 1pm, in the rooftop yard, with its stunning views of San Francisco.

There’s sheet-metal fencing around the yard, which Davis says is there mostly to protect the privacy of inmates from binocular-wielding gawkers— another of the many contrasts within San Quentin, where there’s no privacy among and within the condemned but there’s an effort to shield them from the eyes of a prying public.

This anti-celebrity dynamic is in the air all day long, and we all play into it a little. There is a peculiar thrill to being so close to the condemned, especially when some of them are so totally irredeemable, and any journalist will tell you that a chance to visit death row, San Quentin—that’s reportorial gold. But the anticelebrity media scrum did feel a little unseemly.

That morning, outside the main entrance gate to San Quentin, as reporters waited to be let into the prison, the chatter was all about Richard Ramirez, who is dead, and Charles Manson, who isn’t

even on death row. I sat there with a cocked ear and recalled an interview I did many years ago with the writer Ed Sanders in his upstate New York home.

Sanders wrote a book about the Manson murders, The Family, and I always remembered his quip about the relationship that sprung up between the men: “You haven’t lived until you’ve gotten a Christmas card from Charles Manson.”

Serial killers occupy a peculiar social strata in the American imagination, as do upstanding white people like Scott Peterson who commit heinous crimes—it’s the last thing you’d expect of them. So Peterson turned his back, but Steven Livaditis availed himself to reporters on the rooftop yard. Livaditis killed three people during a 1986 jewelry store robbery in Beverly Hills and almost immediately admitted to his crime and found solace in the Bible. He’s been in the North Seg unit for almost 30 years.

Livaditis is a long, long way from his Bay Ridge, Brooklyn roots, and while he says that “it seems pointless to have a death penalty when people are not being executed,” he believes that some criminals deserve the capital charge, including Polly Klass’ killer, Richard Allen Davis, who also turned his back to reporters from his East Block cell.

“In some cases the death penalty is appropriate,” Livaditis says.

Big Production The tour is a big production for the prison, and there are many moving parts both at San Quentin and around the politics of capital punishment that would indicate one was in order. Beyond the expansion of its death-row facilities, the prison just passed the one-year anniversary, in October, of the opening of the court-mandated and first-inthe-nation Psychiatric Inpatient Program (PIP) for condemned inmate patients, which reporters get to tour as well.

The 40-bed facility was built at a cost of $620,000 to address a stark reality that numerous men have been driven completely insane during their decades of limbo on death row. Veteran reporters recollect tales of harrowing, incessant screams on the East Block, which drove a federal order to build the PIP. Our prison guides show us the inside of the group-therapy rooms that comprise part of the treatment, and once again, wherever the condemned of San Quentin go, whatever their mental-health status, they are held in cages. Dr. Paul Burton, who oversees the unit, says he’s fairly certain that taking photos of those units is off-limits, even though there are no inmates in the room. The cages are small holding cells with a steel stool in them.

This unit feels peaceful in much the same way the Adjustment Center has an eerie sense of calm about it. One inmate stands at

a big window looking out with his hands behind his back. The rooms are larger here, and there’s a dictionary and a board game or two on a shelf in the room.

The other moving part: The state recently announced its new single-drug execution protocol that calls for a lethal dose of barbiturate to be administered to the condemned, amid a national focus on lethal injections that have gone awry because of multidrug cocktails, and questions about the medical ethics of killing the condemned.

The state is getting its deathhouse in order for whatever might come next, while tacitly acknowledging that it was extremely bad form for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to allow one reporter, Nancy Mullane, exclusive access to the largest death row in the nation, while telling other reporters that they can’t tour the facility because of the dangers.

And so here we are, near the end of the tour. It’s been quite a day so far.

The Bent, Rusty Nail It took me about two full days to decompress from the tour, and when someone would ask, “How was death row,” I couldn’t answer the question; I had no idea what to say. When I got home later that night, I just stared off into space awhile, and my mind kept coming back to this one moment.

Jarvis Masters’ pen demonstrated to me how very small details and privileges take on amplified significance in the land of the condemned, where human dignity and mercy are stretched to their limit, and where the threat of violence is real and imminent—prisoners with nothing but time on their hands on constant lookout for that tiny crack in security, that opportunity to commit violence, to exploit an opportunity.

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“It does merit capital punishment.”

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“Good question.”

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I thought for a second that I should pick up this nail and ask the warden about it, but there was no way I was going to do that.

That nail represented murder.

And yet I had to admit later that there is something about San Quentin and an encounter like this that stimulates one’s inner deviant; it’s just a fact of life.

Later, I thought about a journey that the nail could have taken, and this is exactly why the state does background security checks on anyone who wants to visit death row. They don’t want nutbags picking up random nails and passing them off to prisoners, for one thing.

Drop my notebook, tie my shoe, pick up the nail. Would’ve been a snap. We left North Seg and headed to the hospital, and then the East Block. That nail was a weapon, a lethal weapon, a ticket to mayhem. In any other context, it’s just a nail. Here, there is vast and unlocked potential for evil.

I should be clear here in saying that this landing, and this area of the prison, is one that no inmates have access to, condemned or otherwise. But we passed through the outdoors general population on our way to a tour of the PIP wing, and then we went to the East Block. There were numerous opportunities when one could have passed that nail to an inmate.

The End Is Near We’re almost at the end of the tour and I linger with a couple other reporters at the other end of the East Block, where along one wall are the rows of tiers, and along the other, small holding cells for inmates returning from the law library or elsewhere. It feels like we’re trapped between these sets of cells. There’s no place to lean back and take it all in, and that’s a little unsettling,

especially when I back into one of the holding cells and hear a “Hey,” come from it. There’s a man in there with a manila envelope and a goatee, and I wonder if he could have made use of that nail. Scary.

We’re waiting for the rest of the reporters to finish interviews, and a couple of other inmates are brought onto the tier and placed in the holding cells. They put their arms through a slot in the ritual removal of the handcuffs and one of them asks the goateed man about an empty cell across from them.

“He cut himself last night.”

Damn. They open the gate and we are, surprisingly, right back where we started, at the main entrance to the prison. We pile up the anti-stab jackets on a table, throw away the face protectors, show our ID a couple more times and file outside for the last stop on the tour.

Enter the Sepulchral The key has arrived and they open the door, and just like that, we’re in there, the state’s new, as-yet-untested lethal-injection facility. It’s a bare, two-room chamber, save for 12 chairs and a gurney containing numerous black straps. A big clear window separates the chairs from the gurney. This is the only part of the tour where cameras are banned, as though we’re going to steal a soul by taking a photo of the death-gurney.

All the reporters and TV guys have to leave their cameras on the ground outside. I can’t say enough about how weird it is that they just open a door and you’re in the chamber.

And again I found myself taken by how a facility with such heavy violence associated with it can have such a strangely peaceful and sepulchral elegance to it, this clean, austere chamber of death, deliverer of the haunted and broken and malevolent. The gurney arms are splayed in a Christ-like manner, and let’s not forget that he was the man, after all, who died a criminal’s death despite his innocence. For what that is worth.

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The North Bay Organizing Project is a diverse community group dedicated to social justice and equality. In Sonoma County, they know the current housing and homeless crisis is an obstacle to achieving true equality. In an attempt to get the conversation on affordable housing started, the Project hosts the ‘Roofless’ art exhibit in Santa Rosa.

Billed as “art against displacement,” the show is open to all artists whose work relates to those affected by everrising rents. “Roofless” opens with a reception on Friday, Jan. 8, and runs through Sunday, Jan. 10, at the Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St., Santa Rosa.

Reception at 6pm. For more information, contact mdelafineart@gmail.com.

Two amazing water-media exhibits come to the Sebastopol Center for the Arts this week, featuring nationally recognized watercolor artists. The 148th annual ‘International Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society’ is one of the top traveling watercolor shows in the world, and features more than 140 paintings selected from over 1,200 submissions, chosen by the society’s panel of experts. Also showing, the ‘SCA Water Media Exhibit’ features strictly California artists selected by respected artist and author Christopher Schink. The dual exhibits open with a reception on Friday, Jan. 8, and runs through Feb. 7 at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 High St., Sebastopol. 6pm.

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Stephen Sondheim’s dark-tinged musical fairy tale Into the Woods is staged often but rarely well. The music is hard, the cast is large, and there is an actual giant in it. Marin County’s Theater-at-Large, which staged the show in November in Novato, gave us one of the good ones. Riding in on a magical wave of thunderous praise, Into the Woods will be materializing in an encore run at Spreckels Performing Arts Center (www. spreckelsonline.com), where the mirth and mayhem of Sondheim’s tricky script and score will have

even more room to work their complex wonders (Jan. 8–17).

And like a two-headed ogre, or ghostly doppelganger, Into the Woods will be staged again, in a completely different production, as part of Sonoma State University’s spring theater season (www.sonoma. edu/theatreanddance). Directed

by Marty Pistone, with musical direction by Grammy-nominated Lynn Morrow, the double-dose of Sondheim (Feb. 4–14) is just adding to the buzz.

One Man, Two Guvnors, lauded worldwide as one of the funniest shows ever written, made a huge splash last Spring in Berkeley. Now, under the direction of Carl Jordan, its coming to 6th Street Playhouse (www.6thstreetplayhouse.com), where artistic director Craig Miller will be taking the role that made late-night-television’s James Cordon a star in London and New York. Running Jan. 15–Feb. 7, the show—about a manic fellow who hires himself out to two different employers for one very confusing day —will offer Miller a true tourde-force opportunity to show off his comedic skills.

At Marin Theater Company (www.marintheatre.org), August Wilson’s mesmerizing masterpiece Gem of the Ocean will ďŹ nally get its ďŹ rst North Bay production from Jan. 14 to Feb. 14, directed by Daniel Alexander Jones. The tale of an extended post-slavery family in 1904 Pittsburgh, the Tonywinning story blends magical realism and grounded, indelible characters in a tale woven around the 285-year-old Aunt Esther, who offers a haven to a troubled young vagrant named Citizen Barlow.

Though a clever series of haircutting videos, a conspicuous electric chair in the lobby and outrageous advance word-ofmouth, anticipation is building for Main Stage West’s (www. mainstagewest.com) presentation of Amanda Moody’s hit onewoman-show Serial Murderess, running through Jan. 17. The alternately shocking and hilarious show—about real-life women convicted of murder—is nothing short of electric.

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crash before he’ll unfold his arms for Ryan Gosling.

Fleeced ‘The Big Short’ retells the mortgage crisis with lots of yuks BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ike a really good punk-rock song, The Big Short is a triumph of snotty tone and fourth-wall breaking, right down the middle between sweet-tempered populism of a Michael Moore film and the smugness of Scorsese’s Wolf of Wall Street. Director Adam McKay (the Anchorman franchise, Step Brothers) makes grim farce out of the traders who made a mint betting on the financial collapse of ’08. It’s based on the book by Berkeley author Michael Lewis (Moneyball).

In this fictionalized telling, among the few who understood that AAA-rated mortgages were mixed with useless subprimes was the solitary Silicon Valley physician and founder of Scion Capital Michael Burry (Christian Bale). Clapping a pair of drumsticks (he likes to bash along with Metallica) and hanging his jaw in an imitation of a smile, this is a one-note performance by Bale.

The other traders include Mark Baum, a principled Manhattanite who is God’s angry man (Steve Carell in his most impressive movie acting yet); a guru who quit the Street in disgust (Brad Pitt); and Ryan Gosling as a young Wall Street turk, the most cynical of the characters. The lightness of tone counterpoints the landscape of financial horror and the insane exuberance of the market that turned bankers from dull, solid citizens into frothing gamblers.

The Big Short is short on women, though Melissa Leo and Marisa Tomei provide typically hard-edged supporting work. McKay ends with a new slant on the would-be Capra-style piece de resistance in a more strictly mainstream movie—Carell, giving a speech explaining the intrinsic problem at the heart of committing fraud, has an audience of distracted traders, checking their thrumming cell phones for news of the final swoon of Bear Stearns. In the end, 6 million houses were left vacant because of fiscal malfeasance.

‘The Big Short’ is playing in wide release in the North Bay.

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BY CHARLIE SWANSON

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eading into its fourth year, the North Bay’s big and bold BottleRock Napa Valley music, wine and food festival has announced the lineup for 2016, taking place on May 27–29, with headliners the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stevie Wonder and Florence + the Machine.

“Last year went very well,” says Dave Graham, CEO of BottleRock Napa Valley and Latitude 38 Entertainment, the festival’s organizing group since taking over in 2014. “And the day after, we started anew and reviewed everyone from customers to vendors and partners to figure out where we can improve, and we have been working diligently on that all year.”

That work included booking bands for the current festival even

before last year’s started. “That’s how competitive the festival market can be,” says Graham.

Also confirmed are the Lumineers, Death Cab for Cutie, Lenny Kravitz, Walk the Moon, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Ziggy Marley, Grouplove, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Gogol Bordello, Cold War Kids, Buddy Guy, Jamestown Revival, Ozomatli, the Pimps of Joytime, the Pharcyde, Langhorne Slim & the Law and many others.

North Bay and Bay Area talent will also be on display once again this year, with festival favorites Moonalice appearing, as well as Diego’s Umbrella, Royal Jelly Jive, the Deadlies, the Iron Heart, Anadel and more.

“This year, with the credibility we were able to build with the industry and our customers, we’ve been able to bring on an amazing lineup of artists,” Graham says.

Fans of the massively popular Red Hot Chili Peppers will be glad to hear that the flashy funk rockers, who’ve been relatively quiet since releasing their last album in 2011, spent last year in the studio and are gearing up for a massive 2016, including a top spot at BottleRock.

Soul and Motown legend Stevie Wonder last year proved he was still one of the most in-demand singers and performers today with an extended, sold-out North American tour, Songs in the Key of Life, a stage adaptation of his ambitious 1976 album of the same name.

London’s longtime indie rock sensation Florence + the Machine round out the headliners for BottleRock 2016 with their own, artful baroque pop fronted by the stunning voice of lead singer Florence Welch.

Graham says that popular additions to last year’s fest, like the Culinary Stage, are being taken to the next level, and the fest hopes to entice more families with a kid’s area.

“We are incredibly excited about what we have in store this year,” Graham says.

BottleRock Napa Valley takes place May 27–29, at the Napa Valley Expo, 575 Third St., Napa. Tickets go on sale Jan. 7. For the full lineup, visit Bohemian.com.

Concerts SONOMA COUNTY Craig Cardiff Canadian songwriter mixes traditional roots folk and electronic looping for a mesmerizing sound. Jan 8, 9pm. $10. HopMonk Sebastopol, 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.7300.

Santa Rosa Symphony Rising classical violinist Caroline Goulding joins the symphony for “Pastoral Pleasures,” featuring a program of international works from contemporary composer An-Lun Huang to Tchaikovsky and more. Jan 9-10. Green Music Center, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

866.955.6040.

MARIN COUNTY The Lauren Murphy Band Former California talent returns to the West Coast after moving to the artistic hamlet of Fairhope, Ala. Jan 6, 8pm. $17-$20. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.1100.

Roy Zimmerman Zimmerman’s virtuoso acoustic guitar and satirical lyrics bring wit to issues surrounding social justice inspired by today’s headlines. Concert benefits Health Care for AllMarin. Jan 8, 7:30pm. $15. Mt Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Ave, Mill Valley.

NAPA COUNTY 2nd Planet Contemporary jazz rock band plays two shows in one night and performs music from their latest release, “The Next Level.”

Jan 9, 6pm. $20. Silo’s, 530 Main St, Napa.

707.251.5833.

War Quintessential Los Angeles band brings their afro-Cuban beats and jazz rock hits to Napa. Jan 8, 8pm. $30-$50.

Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa. 707.259.0123.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA COUNTY Andrews Hall

For Her Cinnabar Theater Jan 10, Le Jazz Hot. 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.763.8920.

Mon, open mic. Tues, 12pm, Jerry Green’s Peaceful Piano Hour. Jan 10, 2:30pm, Blues and R&B jam.

6761 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.6600.

Annex Wine Bar

Jan 11, Dick Conte and Steve Webber Duo. Jan 12, Christian Foley-Beining and Tom Shader Duo. 317 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.431.0330.

Sun, 5pm, Sunday Dance Party with the Blues Defenders.

Jan 9, Lef Deppard and Ozzy Alive. 120 Fifth St, Santa Rosa.

707.542.1455.

Aqus Cafe Jan 6, 7pm, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons performed by Richard Heinberg. 189 H St, Petaluma.

707.778.6060.

Arlene Francis Center

Finley Community Center Mon, 11am, Proud Mary’s ukulele jam and lessons.

Second Friday of every month, Tom Shader Trio. 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.543.3737.

Guerneville Library

Jan 9, Marshall House Project.

16 Kentucky St, Petaluma.

707.766.8162.

HopMonk Sebastopol

Tues, Wavelength. Jan 7, Ricky Alan Ray. Jan 8, John Pita. Jan 9, Clay Bell.

133 Fourth St, Santa Rosa.

707.578.1826.

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Jan 8, “Giants of the High Baroque” with Live Oak Baroque Orchstra. 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Brixx Pizzeria

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Jan 16 D “Mr. Americana” 8:30

Gaia’s Garden

Jan 9, 2pm, the Pine Needles. 14107 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville.

707.869.9004.

Tues, “Reggae Market” DJ night. 400 First St E, Sonoma.

707.938.7110.

8:00 / No Cover Sat

Wed, Sat, karaoke. Fri, DJ Night.

8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.792.9847.

Green Music Center Schroeder Hall

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Tues, the American Alley Cats.

128 American Alley, Petaluma.

707.776.4631.

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Dry Creek Kitchen

Jan 6, Judith Lerner plays the Hand Pans. Jan 8, 6:30pm, Virgil Elliott. Jan 9, 2pm, Acapella Open Mic. 1899 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.544.2491.

The Big Easy

A Marin Treasure 8:00 / No Cover

Fri

Jan 12, Staggerwing. 100 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.789.0505.

Wed, Open Mic. Tues, Open Didgeridoo Clinic. Jan 7, Boilermaker with Kitten Drunk and Faulty Lockets.

99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

707.528.3009.

Jan 8, Jen Tucker.

Jan 9, Gypsy Cafe.

3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental. 707.874.9037.

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Coffee Catz

Jan 9, “On the Edge” with Black & White Jazz. Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma.

707.938.4626.

Annie O’s Music Hall

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707.938.7779.

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Jamison’s Roaring Donkey Wed, open mic night. Jan 8, Matt Bolton. Jan 11, Paint Night.

146 Kentucky St, Petaluma.

707.772.5478.

Jasper O’Farrell’s Tues, Sessions hip-hop and reggae night. Second Friday of every month, DJ Konnex and DJ Jaclyn JacaLioness. 6957 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol.

707.829.2062.

Lagunitas Tap Room Jan 6, Roem Baur. Jan 7, Pistachio. Jan 8, Barrio Manouche. Jan 9, Jinx Jones.

Jan 10, Little Spikes.

Jan 13, Solid Air. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.778.8776.

Mc T’s Bullpen Mon, Wed, DJ Miguel.

Jan 9, Hillbilly Strike Force.

Jan 10, George Heagerty & Never the Same. 16246 First St, Guerneville. 707.869.3377.

Murphy’s Irish Pub Jan 8, Dan Martin and the Noma Rocksteady. Jan 9, Mostly Simply Bluegrass.

464 First St E, Sonoma.

707.935.0660.

Phoenix Theater Jan 8, Baeza and Lil Debbie.

Jan 9, Verbal Abuse with Infernal Damnation and Trecelence. 201 Washington St, Petaluma. 707.762.3565.

Pub Republic Jan 8, the Drifting Rich. 3120 Lakeville Hwy, Petaluma.

707.782.9090.

Redwood Cafe Thurs, Open Mic. Jan 6, Irish set dancing. Jan 9, Bohemian Highway. Jan 10, 6pm, Irish jam session. Jan 13, Sound Kitchen.

8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7868.

Rio Nido Roadhouse Jan 9, Dgiin.

14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido. 707.869.0821.

Rossi’s 1906 Sun, 5pm, Sweet Potato 5.

Thurs, 6:30pm, Paint Night at Rossi’s. Jan 8, Rubber Soul dinner show. Jan 9, Kingpin Rowe & the Grateful Church with the Funky Blues Revue. Jan 13, the California Honeydrops. 401 Grove St, Sonoma. 707.343.0044.

Ruth McGowan’s Brewpub Sun, Evening Jazz with Gary Johnson. Jan 7, Manzanita Moon. Jan 9, Ricky Ray Band.

131 E First St, Cloverdale.

707.894.9610.

Sonoma Speakeasy Thurs, R&B classics. Sun, R&B diva night. Tues, New Orleans R&B night. Fri, Sat, R&B party.

452 First St E, Ste G, Sonoma.

707.996.1364.

Spancky’s Bar Thurs, 7pm, Thursday Night Blues Jam. Thurs, 11pm, DJ Selecta Konnex. Jan 9, Sweetleaf. 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.664.0169.

Toad in the Hole Pub Sun, live music. 116 Fifth St, Santa Rosa. 707.544.8623.

The Tradewinds Bar Wed, Sonoma County Blues Society. Tues, Open Mic. 8210 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7878.

Twin Oaks Tavern Mon, Blues Defenders Pro Jam. Jan 6, Roadhouse Ramblers. Jan 7, Levi’s Workshop with Levi Lloyd. Jan 8, Delta Brew. Jan 9. 707 Band.

Jan 10, Blues and BBQ with Detroit Disciples. Jan 13, Old School Country Band.

5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove. 707.795.5118.

MARIN COUNTY Belrose Theater Thurs, open mic night.

Second Wednesday of every month, Ragtime jam.

1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael.

415.454.6422.

Benissimo Ristorante & Bar

American Honey. Jan 9, Matt Jaffe & the Distractions. Jan 13, open mic night with Radar.

224 Vintage Way, Novato.

415.892.6200.

19 Broadway Club Mon, open mic. Jan 6, Book of Birds. Jan 7, Cha Ching!. Jan 8, Tam Valley All-Stars. Jan 9, the Shams. Jan 10, 5pm, Setchko & Meese. Jan 10, 9pm, Eddie Neon Band. Jan 12, “Bluesdays” with Walt the Dog. Jan 13, Electro Soul Sessions featuring Crooked. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

No Name Bar Mon, Kimrea and the Dreamdogs. Tues, open mic.

757 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.332.1392.

Osteria Divino Jan 6, Susan Sutton Trio.

Jan 7, J Kevin Durkin. Jan 8, Emma Callister. Jan 9, Ken Cook Trio. Jan 10, Brian Moran & John-Paul Buongiorno.

Jan 12, Rob Reich. Jan 13, Pedro Rosales Con Quimba.

37 Caledonia St, Sausalito.

415.331.9355.

Panama Hotel Restaurant Jan 6, Brian Byrnes. Jan 7, Charlie Docherty. Jan 12, Panama Jazz Trio. Jan 13, Vardo. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael.

415.457.3993.

Peri’s Silver Dollar Mon, Billy D’s open mic.

Jan 6, the Weissmen. Jan 7, Burnsy’s Sugar Shack. Jan 8, Dirty Cello and Junk Parlor.

Jan 9, the Real Deal. Jan 10, Matt Bolton. Jan 12, Fresh Baked Blues and Waldo’s Special. Jan 13, the New Sneakers. 29 Broadway, Fairfax.

415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio

Thurs, Fri, live music. 18 Tamalpais Dr, Corte Madera.

415.927.2316.

Jan 8, Jerry Hannan. Jan 10, 4pm, San Geronimo. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio.

415.662.2219.

Fenix

Sausalito Seahorse

Wed, Pro blues jam. Jan 7, Fog Swamp. Jan 8, Carmen Jones. Jan 9, Miles Schon.

Jan 10, Stephanie Teel Band.

919 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.813.5600.

Wed, Tango with Marcello and Seth. Mon, Marco Sainz Trio.

Tues, Jazz with Noel Jewkes and friends. Jan 8, the 7th Sons. Jan 10, Rumbacha. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito.

415.331.2899.

George’s Nightclub Wed, George’s Jazz Time jam.

Thurs, California Flight Project.

Sun, Mexican Banda. Jan 9, DJ Marlo. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.226.0262.

HopMonk Novato Jan 6, open mic night with Billy D and friends. Jan 7, Hot Start and the Happy’s. Jan 8,

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon Sun, open mic. Mon, Epicenter Soundsystem reggaae. Jan 8, Void Where Prohibited.

41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas.

415.868.1311.

Spitfire Lounge First Thursday of every month,

CANADIAN ROOTS Ontario singer-songwriter Craig Cardiff performs traditional

folk backed by looping effects on Jan. 8 at HopMonk Tavern in Sebastopol. See Concerts, p25.

the North Bass DJ night.

Second Friday of every month, DJ Beset. 848 B St, San Rafael.

415.454.5551.

Travis Marina Second Sunday of every month, the Lonestar Retrobates. Fort Baker, Sausalito.

Studio 55 Marin Jan 10, Muriel Anderson. 1455 E Francisco Blvd, San Rafael.

415.453.3161.

NAPA COUNTY Billco’s Billiards

Sweetwater Music Hall

Thurs, live music. 1234 Third St, Napa. 707.226.7506.

Mon, Open Mic. Jan 8, Chuck Prophet & the Mission Express.

Jan 10, Delta Deep. Jan 13, Buck Nickels & Loose Change record release party. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.1100.

Downtown Joe’s Brewery & Restaurant

Throckmorton Theatre

Thurs, Open Mic. 828 Brown St, Napa. 707.927.3623.

Wed, 12pm, Noon concert series. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Silo’s

Sun, DJ Aurelio. Tues, the Used Blues Band. 902 Main St, Napa.

707.258.2337.

Molinari Caffe

Jan 6, Tommy Alexander with Moon Bottle and Kent Smith.

Jan 8, Suspects of Soul with Herman Wilson. Jan 13, Hoot & Holler. 530 Main St, Napa.

707.251.5833.

Uncorked at Oxbow Thurs, open mic night. Fri, Sat, live music. 605 First St, Napa.

707.927.5864.

Uptown Theatre Jan 10, Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam. 1350 Third St, Napa.

707.259.0123.

Uva Trattoria Jan 6, Justin Diaz. Jan 7, Trio Soleá. Jan 8, Jack Pollard and Dan Daniels. Jan 9, Jackie and friends. Jan 10, Nate Lopez.

Jan 13, Amy Alvey and Hoot & Holler. 1040 Clinton St, Napa.

707.255.6646.

Arts Events RECEPTIONS Jan 8 Arlene Francis Center, “Roofless,� exhibit of art against displacement focuses on the housing crisis in Sonoma County.

6pm. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.3009.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts, “Water Media Exhibit,� paintings from the International Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society are on display as part of a traveling show along with a SCA water media show with local talent. 6pm. 282 S High St, Sebastopol. 707.829.4797.

Jan 9 Healdsburg Center for the Arts, “Annual Members Exhibition,� show provides a unique opportunity for HCA artist members to exhibit their work free from the restrictions of traditional shows. 5pm. 130 Plaza St, Healdsburg. 707.431.1970.

SONOMA COUNTY Art Museum of Sonoma County Through Feb 7, “Inside Magnolia Editions: Collaboration & Innovation,� an experimental collection of renowned works from the topnotch Oakland printmaking company. 505 B St, Santa Rosa.

Tues-Sun, 11 to 5. 707.579.1500.

The Art Wall at Shige Sushi Through Jan 31, “Jenny Honnert Abell Solo Show,� showing intimate mixed-media works characterized by subtly exotic imagery and fine handwork. ctalcroft.wix.com/ artwallatshige/. 8235 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. hours vary.

Calabi Gallery Through Jan 16, “Woodblock Prints by Michael McMillan,� the diverse artist’s fine woodwork centers an show

that also features works by Douglas Ballou, Mary Jarvis, Sherrie Lovler and others. 456 10th St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 5. 707.781.7070.

Fountaingrove estate and made renowned wines in Sonoma County. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 4. 707.579.1500.

Charles M. Schulz Museum

Paradise Ridge Winery

Jan 13-Jul 25, “It’s Football, Charlie Brown,� selection of Peanuts comic strips highlights the Gang’s gridiron efforts and coincides with Super Bowl 50 coming to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2016. 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, noon to 5; Sat-Sun, 10 to 5.

707.579.4452.

Cloverdale Arts Alliance Through Jan 14, “Encore,� guest artists Alain Bloom, Ron Rodgers and Barbara Tocher join featured resident artist is Terry Holleman. 204 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale.

Finley Community Center Through Jan 28, “The Dynamic Duo,� Judith A Eisen’s lifetime of watercolors and oils are on display. 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, 8 to 6; Sat, 9 to 11am. 707.543.3737.

Graton Gallery Through Jan 24, “Under the Influence,� group show features Sally Baker with Taylor Gutermute, Susan Ryan and other guest artists. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. Tues-Sat, 10:30 to 6; Sun, 10:30 to 4.

707.829.8912.

Hammerfriar Gallery Through Jan 14, “Paintings by Laura Hoffman & Mike Tinney,� the two Sonoma County artists illustrate dreamlike worlds of the human subconscious. 132 Mill St, Ste 101, Healdsburg.

Tues-Fri, 10 to 6. Sat, 10 to 5.

707.473.9600.

History Museum of Sonoma County Through Jan 10, “Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation,� exhibition moves past pop-culture stereotypes of Indian Americans to explore the diverse contributions of Indian immigrants and their descendants in the United States. Through Feb 7, “Journey to Fountaingrove,� exhibit chronicles the life of Japanese national Nagasawa Kanaye, who took over the

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Through Apr 30, “Conversations in Sculpture,�

11 artists provide an artistic statement that introduces a conversational topic. 4545 Thomas Lake Harris Dr, Santa Rosa. Daily, 11 to 5.

707.528.9463.

Petaluma Arts Center Through Jan 24, “Petaluma Arts Center Members’ Exhibition,� Hella Merrill is the featured artist. 230 Lakeville St, Petaluma. Thurs-Mon, 11 to 5. 707.762.5600.

Quercia Gallery Through Jan 31, “Le Source,�

Bobbi Jean Quercia’s installation of colorful ethnic figures moving toward a water fountain signifies a common goal of finding one’s connection to humanity.

25193 Hwy 116, Duncans Mills.

Fri-Mon, 11am to 5pm and by appointment 707.865.0243.

Sculpturesite Gallery Through Jan 12, “Hot Picks!�

Art advisor Tom O’Connor curates a selection of his favorite pieces. 14301 Arnold Dr, Ste 8, Glen Ellen. Daily, 10 to 5. 707.933.1300.

Sebastopol Gallery Through Jan 9, “First Looks and Second Chances,� assemblage works from Rebeca Trevino Assemblage paintings from James Reynolds show together. 150 N Main St, Sebastopol. Open daily, 11 to 6.

707.829.7200.

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Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Through Mar 6, “Contemplative Elements,� Sonoma artists Danae Mattes and Frances McCormack split the museum with “Between Nature and Technology� exhibit from New Orleans artists Courtney Egan and David Sullivan. 551 Broadway, Sonoma. Wed-Sun, 11 to 5. 707.939.SVMA.

Steele Lane Community Center Through Jan 14, “Documenting Sonoma County,� photographer Sara Silver explores Sonoma County and the

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Mon-Thurs, 8 to 7; Fri, 8 to 5.

707.543.3282.

Studio 35 Through Jan 11, “Olive Season Art Show,” the best of local olive-inspired art shows during the ongoing Sonoma Valley Olive Season. 35 Patten St, Sonoma. Thurs-Mon, 11am to 5pm. 707.934.8145.

MARIN COUNTY Desta Art & Tea Gallery Through Jan 30, “The Way of Art,” featuring paintings, bronze sculptures and jewelries from local Bay Area artists. 417 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo. Mon-Sat, 10 to 6 415.524.8932.

Gallery Route One Through Jan 17, “Time As We Know It,” photographs from West Marin’s Marna Clarke joins a “Wild Book Show” that features Dylan Yvonne Welch and drawings by Vickisa. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. WedMon, 11 to 5. 415.663.1347.

The Image Flow Through Jan 23, “Holiday Art Show,” featuring diverse original artwork by Stephen Bruce, J Scott Cilmi and Donna D’Acuti. 401 Miller Ave, Ste. A, Mill Valley. 415.388.3569.

Madrigal Family Winery Through Jan 13, “Celebrate the Holidays,” art installation in the tasting room features Bay Area oil painter Kay Carlson.

819 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.729.9549.

Marin Museum of Contemporary Art Through Jan 10, “Thirty-Six Views of the Bay Bridge,” David Garnick’s series of photographs exhibits in the main gallery, with Gale S McKee’s “The American Car: A Family Portrait” in the Ron Collins Gallery. 500 Palm Dr, Novato.

Wed-Fri, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, 11 to 5. 415.506.0137.

Mark Jaeger pursues insight into personal and social projections and purposes. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

NAPA COUNTY di Rosa Through Jan 24, “Robert Kinmont: Trying to Understand Where I Grew Up,” the first Bay Area solo presentation by the Sonoma-based artist in over 45 years shows works from his entire career. 5200 Sonoma Hwy, Napa. Wed-Sun, 10 to 6.

707.226.5991.

Downtown Napa Through May 31, “Napa ARTwalk,” rotating exhibition of original, high-quality sculpture is showcased in public areas around Downtown Napa and the Oxbow District. First Street and Town Center, Napa.

Mumm Napa Through May 1, “Jim Marshall Seen Through the Eyes of Carlos Santana,” an exhibit of photographs by Marshall, curated by Santana, show Marshall’s genius as a photographer, a chronicler of history and portraitist of no equal. 8445 Silverado Trail, Rutherford. Daily, 10am to 4:45pm 707.967.7740.

Napa Valley Museum Through Jan 10, “Life Is Fantastic and Death Is Too,” spotlight gallery shows local artists June Altamura and Amber Keithley, whose artwork centers around the grotesque wonder of the unknown. Through Mar 27, “Trashed and Treasured,” features work from Recology’s significant collection of alumni artists. 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. Tues-Sun, 10 to 4.

707.944.0500.

Comedy Comedy Night Queenie T T headlines a night of laughs. Every other Thurs, 7pm. Bui Bistro, 976 Pearl St, Napa. 707.225.5417.

Robert Allen Fine Art

Comedy Night at the Redwood Cafe

Through Jan 29, “Lands End Allegory,” solo show of new works from San Francisco artist Jay Mercado. 301 Caledonia St, Sausalito. MonFri, 10 to 5. 415.331.2800.

The best standup comics from the Bay Area and beyond come to Cotati. Second Fri of every month, 8:30pm. $10. Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.795.7868.

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The funny comic and television writer headlines Murphy’s

Back Alley Comedy Night. Jan 10, 7:30pm. $15. Murphy’s Irish Pub, 464 First St E, Sonoma.

707.935.0660.

Jan 12, 7pm. Free. NAMI Marin, 555 Northgate Dr, San Rafael.

415.444.0480.

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Wed. Spancky’s Bar, 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.664.0169.

The world famous basketball ambassadors of good will play two exhibition games in Santa Rosa as part of their 90th anniversary world tour.

Wed, Jan 13, 7pm. $31 and up.

Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 866.777.8932.

Tuesday Night Live

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Social Satire from Sahl. Thurs. $15-$20. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Open Mic Comedy

Featuring comedians at the top of their game, both rising stars and names known worldwide. Tues, 8pm. $17-$27.

Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

Events Beginning Aerial Skills Class Six week series taught by Amanda Grace, Sierra Faulkner and Alyra Rose focuses on increasing flexibility and strength necessary for climbing and inverting in the air. Jan 7, 5pm. $25/$140 full series. Devi Yoga Center, 7151 Wilton Ave, Sebastopol.

707.318.6538.

Beginning & Intermediate Ukulele Classes Come and learn to play the ukulele from teacher Fred Riley or continue learning if you are already playing.

Space is limited, registration recommended. Wed, 12:30pm. through Feb 10. $35-$40.

Whistlestop, 930 Tamalpais Ave, San Rafael.

Better Breather’s Club Learn how to live better with COPD, asthma and other lung diseases with this support group. Jan 6, 2:30pm. Free.

Novato Community Hospital, 165 Rowland Way, Novato.

415.209.1300.

Cascade Canyon School Tour Learn all about the school’s curriculum and arts programs in this open house event. Tues, Jan 12, 9am. Cascade Canyon School, 2626 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax. 415.448.5125.

Family-to-Family Workshop 12-week course is designed for families of individuals suffering from major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses.

Harlem Globetrotters

Popular psychic medium and bestselling author returns to Santa Rosa for an intimate event of readings and more.

Jan 10, 12pm. $60-$150. Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

Living Your Wild Creativity Workshop Rediscover play. Recapture your wildness. Open to your heart’s desire. Transform resistance into excitement. Let your story become your gift to the world in this ongoing workshop. Sat, Jan 9, 10am. $950. Community Church, 1000 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol. 707.953.3373.

Meditation Class Experience meditation in a form that is natural and easy to follow. Second Sat of every month, 10:30am. $15. Healing for People, 7 Mt Lassen Dr, San Rafael. 415.380.8600.

Ping-Pong & RightBrain Exploration Table tennis takes on a whole new light. Mon, 7:30pm. $15 per month. Dance Palace, 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station.

415.663.1075.

Public Star Party Observatory’s three main telescopes plus many additional telescopes open for viewing. Presentations on astronomical topics given in the classroom. Jan 9, 6pm. $3.

Robert Ferguson Observatory, Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood. 707.833.6979.

Santa Rosa Gem Faire Over 70 exhibitors from around the world present their fine jewelry, precious gemstones, beads, crystals, minerals and more at manufacturer’s prices. Jan 8-10. $7. Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.545.4200.

Valentine’s Card Making Join in making heartwarming

cards for homebound seniors.

Supplies provided, advance sign-up requested. Jan 12, 3pm. Free. Whistlestop, 930 Tamalpais Ave, San Rafael.

Watercolor Extravaganza A day of workshops and events features artist and educator Barbara Nechis offering tips on getting paintings accepted into National shows and more.

Jan 9, 11am. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol. 707.829.4797.

WIld Cat Adventure Presentation features five live wild cats from around the world and shares information about their habitat and habits. Jan 10, 3pm. $5-$10.

Sebastopol Community Center, 390 Morris St, Sebastopol.

707.874.3176.

Work-in-Progress Wednesday Video makers the chance to get their work critiqued by an industry pro. Jan 6, 6:30pm.

Free. Community Media Center of Marin, 819 A St, San Rafael.

415.721.0636.

Field Trips Afternoon Community Service Participate in center restoration projects. First Wed of every month. Richardson Bay Audubon Center, 376 Greenwood Beach Rd, Tiburon.

415.388.2524.

Garden Volunteer Day Sink your hands into the beautiful, rich soil at the OAEC’s garden and learn from the diversity of plant life.

Wed. Free. Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, 15290 Coleman Valley Rd, Occidental.

707.874.1557.

Glen Ellen Green Tour In cooperation with Quarryhill Botanical Gardens and Benziger Winery, the park offers a day-long tour of all three properties with food and wine tastings included.

Reservations required two weeks in advance. Ongoing. $59. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen. 707.938.5216.

Marin Moonshiners Hike Monthly three-mile hike to experience sunset, moonrise, picnic and spectacular views.

Pack your own picnic. Second Tues monthly at 7:30. $15.

Pelican Inn, 10 Pacific Way, Muir Beach, RSVP. 415.331.0100.

Mount Burdell’s Geomorphology & Historic Quarries Hike explores how and why Mount Burdell came to look the way it does today, focusing on geology and movement that shaped the mountain and three quarry sites from different time periods. Jan 10, 9am. Mount Burdell Preserve, San Andreas Dr, Novato, marincountyparks.org.

Native Garden Work Days Help improve our native habitats and create gardens. First Thurs of every month, 10am. Richardson Bay Audubon Center, 376 Greenwood Beach Rd, Tiburon.

415.388.2524.

Oceans Aglow A family night hike and campfire is led by environmental science educators. Sat, Jan 9, 5:30pm. $12. NatureBridge, 1033 Fort Cronkhite, Sausalito.

415.332.5771.

Plant Nursery Work Day Volunteer at the Sonoma Garden Park. Thurs, 9am.

Sonoma Ecology Center, 20 E Spain St, Sonoma.

707.996.0712.

Stewardship Workday at Fitch Mountain Lend a hand to maintain the natural preserve. Registration is required. Sat, Jan 9, 9am.

Fitch Mountain Preserve, 908 Chanticleer Way, Healdsburg, landpaths.org.

Sugarloaf Trail Work Day Add your helping hand to improve lower Bald Mountain Trail. Every other Thurs, 9am.

Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood. 707.833.5712.

Trail Crew at Cataract Creek Join the Marin Municipal Water District as we perform rock work, tread maintenance, erosion control, and possibly some vegetation reduction. marinwater.org. Jan 9, 9am.

Laurel Dell Fire Rd Gate, Ridgecrest Blvd, Mill Valley.

415.945.1128.

Waterfowl of the Laguna de Santa Rosa & the Pacific Flyway Naturalist Dave Barry presents

The Art of Natural Cheesemaking Guerilla cheesemaker and author David Asher shares his secrets and leads a daylong hands-on workshop. Jan 9, 10am. $200. SHED, 25 North St, Healdsburg. 707.431.7433.

Home BREWers Competition RateBeer Best Awards and Festival hosts a night of homebrewers competing and a pop-up dinner to boot. Jan 13, 7pm. $75. Brew, 555 Healdsburg Ave, Santa Rosa. 707-303-7372.

Home Cheesemaking Class Award-winning cheese maker Sheana Davis leads a monthly class. Jan 13, 1pm. $75. The General’s Daughter, 400 W Spain St, Sonoma.

707.933.0450.

Winter in the Wineries YOU TALKING TO ME? Comedian and actor Joe DeRosa makes you feel funny at Murphy’s Irish Pub in Sonoma on Jan. 10. See Comedy, adjacent page.

an afternoon lecture on identifying ducks, geese and waterfowl on Saturday and then leads a sunrise nature walk on Sunday. Registration required for the walk. Jan 9-10. $10-$30. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.527.9277.

Wild Work Days Rediscover a reciprocal relationship with nature. First Thurs of every month, 1pm.

Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, 15290 Coleman Valley Rd, Occidental. 707.874.1557.

Film CULT Film Series It’s a double bill of director John Carpenter’s classic horror films, as “The Fog” and “Prince of Darkness” play back to back. Jan 7, 7pm. $10.

Roxy Stadium 14 Cinemas, 85 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.525.8909.

For Your Consideration A rare opportunity to view some of the most distinguished international films, many of which are film festival

prizewinners and all of which were submitted to the Academy for Oscar consideration..

Through Jan 7. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

In Football We Trust Insightful and moving documentary explores the remarkable story behind the Polynesian Pipeline to the NFL that’s located in Salt Lake City of all places.. Jan 11, 1 and 7pm. Free. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol.

707.525.4840.

Mind Reels Weekly series presents notable documentary films as well as guest speakers and performers bringing the film’s ideas to life. Tues-noon. $25-$30. Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 415.924.5111.

Sundance Film Festival AwardWinning Shorts All six short films in this program won awards at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and showcase a wide variety of story and style. Jan 8-14.

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

415.454.1222.

Tour, taste wine and meet winemakers at 15 heralded wineries, both large and small, in and around the town at the top of Napa Valley. Through Feb 7. $50. Calistoga wineries, various locations, Calistoga.

707.942.6333.

For Kids American Canyon Library Preschool storytime. Tues, 10:30am. Free. American Canyon Library, 3421 Broadway (Highway 29), American Canyon. 707.644.1136.

Bay Area Discovery Museum Ongoing, “Animal Secrets.”

Hands-on art, science and theater camps, art studio, tot spot and lookout cove adventure area. Wed-Thurs at 10 and 11, music with Miss Kitty. $5-$6. Fri at 11, aquarium feeding. Ongoing. Admission, $8-$10. Bay Area Discovery Museum, Fort Baker, 557 McReynolds Rd, Sausalito.

415.339.3900.

Belvedere-Tiburon Library Mon at 10:30 and 11, songs and fingerplays for kids under two.

Wed at 11, toddler storytime; at 4, read-along program for ages seven and up. Mon. BelvedereTiburon Library, 1501 Tiburon Blvd, Tiburon. 415.789.2665.

Breakfast with Enzo Bring clapping hands, singing voices, dancing feet and breakfast for weekly family music show. Sun at 10 and 11. Mill Valley Golf Clubhouse, 267 Buena Vista, Mill Valley.

415.652.2474.

Carolyn Parr Nature Center Learn about Napa County habitats and birds of prey through tours, dioramas, games, hands-on activities and books. Ongoing.

Free. Carolyn Parr Nature Center Museum, Westwood Hills Park, 3107 Browns Valley Rd, Napa.

707.255.6465.

Children’s Garden Whimsical environments for kids’ exploration. Hours: Mon, noon to 4; Tues-Sun, 9 to 5.

Ongoing. Free. Cornerstone Sonoma, 23570 Arnold Dr, Sonoma. 707.933.3010.

Chops Teen Club Hang-out spot for Santa Rosa teens ages 12 to 20 offers art studio and class, open gym, tech lounge, cafe, recording studio and film club. Hours for high schoolers: Mon-Thurs, 3 to 9; Fri, 3 to 11; Sat and school holidays, noon to 11. For middle school kids: Mon-Fri, 3 to 7; Sat and school holidays, noon to 7. Film club meets Tues at 4. Ongoing. Membership, $5$10 per year. Chops Teen Club, 509 Adams St, Santa Rosa.

707.284.2467.

Circus of Smiles Jan 10, 11am. Mill Valley Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.389.4292.

Learning Through Art Program for fourth and fifth graders to visually explore art through their own interpretations. Second Sat of every month-noon. Napa Valley Museum, 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. 707.944.0500.

Messy Mucking About Every Saturday, 9:30 to 11:30, toddlers and their parents are invited to a drop-in, free-form art studio to create with paint, ceramics, collage, construction, found objects and feathers.

Sat. $15. Nimbus Arts, St Helena Marketplace, Ste 1-B, 3111 St Helena Hwy, St Helena.

707.965.5278.

Readers of the Pack A chance for new readers to get together. Tues-Sat. Free. Petaluma Library, 100 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma.

707.763.9801.

Saddle Club Children six and up are

welcome for horse- and stablerelated games and a casual dinner. Fri, 5:30pm. $20. Sunrise Stables, 1098 Lodi Lane, St Helena. 707.333.1509.

Lectures Behind Enemy Lines Historic evening tells the true story of a French spy in Nazi Germany, with Marthe Cohn.

Followed by an interview with Gil Gross and Rhoda Bodzin from Talk 910 AM. Jan 10, 7pm. $15. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael.

415.444.8000.

Biodynamic Series III: Slow Bee Ongoing biodynamic lecture series this time presents Michael Thiele talking about ancient and traditional apiculture. Jan 10, 10:30am. $15. SHED, 25 North St, Healdsburg. 707.431.7433.

One Hundredth Anniversary Lecture Series A talk from Bill Lynch, lifelong resident of Sonoma and the retired former editor and publisher of the Sonoma Index-Tribune. Jan 10, 3pm. $10. Andrews Hall, Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma. 707.938.4626.

Peace Corps Informative Talk Learn about the Peace Corps and opportunities to make a difference around the world.

Jan 12, 12pm. Free. Civic Center Library, 5301 Civic Center Dr, San Rafael. 415.499.6058.

Readings Book Passage Jan 7, 7pm, “The Bone Labyrinth” with James Rollins. Jan 9, 1pm, “You Are Not What You Think” with David Richo. Jan 9, 4pm, “My Pulse is an Earthquake” with Kristin Fitzpatrick. Jan 9, 7pm, “Window of Exposure” with Roccie Hill. Jan 10, 1pm, “Vietnam: 25 Years Documenting a Changing Country” with Catherine Karnow. Jan 10, 4pm, “The Negative Calorie Diet” with Rocco DiSpirito. Jan 10, 7pm, “A Sober Mom’s Guide to Recovery” with Rosemary O’Connor. Jan 13, 7pm, an evening with She Writes Press.

Jan 13, 7pm, “The Sound of Gravel” with Ruth Wariner. 51

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Edna Maguire Elementary Jan 7, 7pm, “The Sweet Spot” with Dr Christine Carter. 80 Lomita Dr, Mill Valley.

Point Reyes Books Jan 7, 7pm, “Cora DuBois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent” with Susan Seymour.

Free. Second Monday of every month, 7pm, Knit Lit group.

11315 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station 415.663.1542.

Theater Dottie Goes to Hollywood A readers theatre presentation presents a quirky cast of characters set in the roaring 1920s. Jan 9-10. $30. White Barn, 2727 Sulphur Springs Ave, St Helena. 707.987.8225.

Mahalia Jackson: Just As I Am Playwright and performer Sharon E Scott brings her exuberant and powerful musical work to Cinnabar for the acclaimed show’s west coast premiere. Opens with two special New Year’s Eve shows.

Through Jan 24. $25-$35/$56$66. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.763.8920.

Serial Murderess: A Love Story in Three Axe Amanda Moody’s one-womanplay is comically twisted in its exploration of three famous lady killers. Opens with a New Year’s Eve bash. Through Jan 17. $15-$25/$60-$100. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol. 707.823.0177.

The Spy Who Killed Me Get a Clue Productions returns with an interactive murdermystery dinner theater experience. Select Friday and Saturday nights. getaclueproductions.com. Fri, Jan 8, 7pm. $68 (includes meal).

Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor.

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BY ROB BREZSNY

For the week of January 6

ARIES (March 21–April 19) John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962. His novel Of Mice and Men helped win him the award, but it required extra persistence. When he’d almost finished the manuscript, he went out on a date with his wife. While they were gone, his puppy Toby ripped his precious pages into confetti. As mad as he was, he didn’t punish the dog, but got busy on a rewrite. Later, he considered the possibility that Toby had served as a helpful literary critic; the revision was Steinbeck’s breakout book. I’m guessing that in recent months you have received comparable assistance, Aries—although you may not realize it was assistance until later this year.

TAURUS (April 20–May 20)

Remember back to what your life was like during the first nine months of 2004. I suspect that you fell just short of fulfilling a dream. It’s possible you were too young to have the power you needed. Or maybe you were working on a project that turned out to be pretty good but not great. Maybe you were pushing to create a new life for yourself but weren’t wise enough to make a complete breakthrough. Almost 12 years later, you have returned to a similar phase in your long-term cycle. You are better equipped to do what you couldn’t quite do before: create the masterpiece, finish the job, rise to the next level.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) To become a skillful singer, you must learn to regulate your breath. You’ve got to take in more oxygen than usual for extended periods, and do it in ways that facilitate rather than interfere with the sounds coming out of your mouth.

When you’re beginning, it feels weird to exert so much control over an instinctual impulse, which previously you’ve done unconsciously. Later, you have to get beyond your self-conscious discipline so you can reach a point where the proper breathing happens easily and gracefully. Although you may not be working to become a singer in 2016, Gemini, I think you will have comparable challenges: (1) to make conscious an activity that has been unconscious; (2) to refine and cultivate that activity; (3) to allow your consciously crafted approach to become unselfconscious again.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) Ancient humans didn’t “invent” fire, but rather learned about it from nature and then figured out how to produce it as needed. Ropes had a similar origin. Our ancestors employed long vines made of tough fiber as primitive ropes, and eventually got the idea to braid and knot the vines together for greater strength. This technology was used to hunt, climb, pull, fasten and carry. It was essential to the development of civilization. I predict that 2016 will bring you opportunities that have metaphorical resemblances to the early rope. Your task will be to develop and embellish on what nature provides.

LEO (July 23–August 22) British author Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) had a day job with the postal service until he was in his 50s. For years he awoke every morning at 5:30 and churned out 2,500 words before heading to work. His goal was to write two or three novels a year, a pace he came close to achieving.

“A small daily task, if it really be daily,” he wrote in his autobiography, “will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.” I recommend that you borrow from his strategy in 2016, Leo. Be regular and disciplined and diligent as you practice the art of gradual, incremental success.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22)

Umbrellas shelter us from the rain, saving us from the discomfort of getting soaked and the embarrassment of bad hair. They also protect us from the blinding light and sweltering heat of the sun. I’m very much in favor of these practical perks. But when umbrellas appear in your nightly dreams, they may have a less positive meaning. They can indicate an inclination to shield yourself from natural forces, or to avoid direct contact with primal sensuality. I hope you won’t do much of that in 2016. In my opinion, you need a lot of face-toface encounters with life in its raw state. Symbolically speaking, this should be a non-umbrella year.

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) Around the world, an average of 26 languages go extinct every

year. But it increasingly appears that Welsh will not be one of them. It has enjoyed a revival in the past few decades. In Wales, it’s taught in many schools, appears on road signs and is used in some mobile phones and computers. Is there a comparable phenomenon in your life, Libra? A tradition that can be revitalized and should be preserved? A part of your heritage that may be useful to your future? A neglected aspect of your birthright that deserves to be reclaimed? Make it happen in 2016.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21) Thirteenth-century author Geoffrey Chaucer produced a collection of stories known as The Canterbury Tales.

It became a seminal text of English literature even though he never finished it. The most influential book ever written by theologian Thomas Aquinas was a work he gave up on before it was completed. The artist Michelangelo never found the time to put the final touches on numerous sculptures and paintings. Why am I bringing this theme to your attention? Because 2016 will be an excellent time to wrap up long-term projects you’ve been working on—and also to be at peace with abandoning those you can’t.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21) A bottle of Chateau Cheval Blanc wine from 1947 sold for $304,000. Three bottles of Chateau LafiteRothschild 1869 went for $233,000 apiece. The mystique about aged wine provokes crazy behavior like that. But here’s a more mundane fact: most wine deteriorates with age, and should be sold within a few years of being bottled. I’m thinking about these things as I meditate on your long-term future, Sagittarius. My guess is that your current labor of love will reach full maturity in the next 18 to 20 months. This will be a time to bring all your concentration and ingenuity to bear on making it as good as it can be. By September of 2017, you will have ripened it as much as it can be ripened.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) In her poem “Tree,” California poet Jane Hirshfield speaks of a young redwood tree that’s positioned next to a house. Watch out! It grows fast—as much as three feet per year. “Already the first branch-tips brush at the window,” Hirshfield writes. “Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.” I suspect this will be an apt metaphor for you in 2016. The expansion and proliferation you have witnessed these past few months are likely to intensify. That’s mostly good, but may also require adjustments. How will you respond as immensity taps at your life?

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) Centuries ago, lettuce was a bitter, prickly weed that no one ate. But ancient Egyptians guessed its potential, and used selective breeding to gradually convert it into a tasty food. I see 2016 as a time when you could have a comparable success. Look around at your life and identify weed-like things that could, through your transformative magic, be turned into valuable assets.

The process may take longer than a year, but you can set in motion an unstoppable momentum that will ensure success.

PISCES (February 19–March 20)

Imagine that a beloved elder has been writing down your life story in the form of a fairy tale. Your adventures aren’t rendered literally, as your waking mind might describe them, but rather through dreamlike scenes that have symbolic resonance. With this as our template, I’ll predict a key plot development of 2016: You will grow increasingly curious about a “forbidden” door—a door you have always believed should not be opened. Your inquisitiveness will reach such an intensity that you will consider locating the key for that door. If it’s not available, you may even think about breaking down the door.

Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1.877.873.4888 or 1.900.950.7700.

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