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A Resilient World I really appreciated the excellent article “Sacred Ground” (Feb. 10). In this time of self-centered politics, the leadership that Greg Sarris and the Graton Rancheria folks are exhibiting is truly amazing. By stepping into the controversial casino world, earning the big money and then redirecting it to help with social services and environmental protections, they

demonstrate one pathway toward a more resilient world.

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No GMO I applaud Shepherd Bliss’ article (Open Mic, Feb. 10) about the health dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup and the California EPA for labeling glyphosate, a Roundup ingredient, as carcinogenic. Let’s now ban GMO crop cultivation in Sonoma County,

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as 38 countries and five counties in California (Marin, Santa Cruz, Mendocino, Trinity, Humboldt) and two in Oregon have already done. This alone will reduce the amount of glyphosate being sprayed in our county, and it will also protect nonGMO farms, pastures and cover crops from cross-contamination. It will reduce the amount of health problems linked to GMOs by animal studies, according to the American Academy of Environmental Medicine.

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DEER DOMNITZ Santa Rosa

Like to say thank you to Terry Dirks and L. Lewis who agreed with me regarding the trees in downtown Santa Rosa (Rhapsodies & Rants, Feb. 10). It is still hard for me to believe they are going to cut down these beautiful long-living trees. I feel they are the anchor of our downtown. City leaders seem to look at a quick fix instead of looking at different options. Yes, I know the plan to revitalize downtown Santa Rosa has been on the table for years, but I cannot help think this was another quick fix to get it off the table.

It reminds me of when, years ago, we almost lost the building that now houses Barnes & Noble because city leaders felt it could not be saved because of an asbestos problem. I even spoke to the owner, and he agreed with the city leaders. The plan was to tear it down and put in another parking lot. But at the very last minute a builder from San Francisco disagreed with them. He bought the building and made it what it is today.

I cannot see myself visiting the downtown area because of the noise and pollution that this will bring to our city. I have stopped honoring the merchants whom I used to shop at for years. Sad, very, very sad that city leaders and merchants put their wealth ahead of our city’s history. These tress have been there as long as I can remember.

MIKE SHEA Santa Rosa

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The Munchies Kill Remembering Fred—without sugarcoating BY MICHAEL BOBIER

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had a friend named Fred. I say had because he’s gone. Fred was a medical pot smoker. He didn’t like edibles, because of the length of the high, whereas smoking was a nice up and a soft landing down.

What Fred didn’t know, and what so many do not know, is that there is a nerve at the bottom of the stomach called the vagus nerve. This nerve, when stimulated by cannabis, cries out for sweets. In Fred’s case, he would have three or four Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and junk-food snacks like potato chips. There is nothing wrong with smoking or eating herb, but the uncontrollable munchies can cause health problems unrelated to the actual ingestion or use of the herbal substance.

Fred went to his doctor for his yearly checkup and blood tests. The doctor told him that he showed the beginning signs of type 2 diabetes. His doctor also mentioned that with diabetes one can lose one’s eyesight and could be looking at an amputated limb if his condition worsened and he didn’t get it under control. Fred paid no attention and continued smoking and eating candy; he added sweeteners to his coffee and he drank soda.

When I saw him after a year had gone by, Fred told me he was dealing with diabetes, and that he was depressed.

After another half-a-year went by, his eyesight was seriously affected and he was still depressed. To make a short story shorter, Fred bought a rifle. He sat in his favorite TV chair, put the gun barrel in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

Medical pot didn’t cause his demise; but the munchies did.

I wonder how many people are burdened by the curse of the munchies? Probably way too many.

Michael Bobier is a Santa Rosa resident.

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FISH OR NUTS? California’s iconic king salmon is competing for water resources with Central Valley

almond farmers and other agricultural interests.

On the Run Is there hope for California’s salmon?

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or more than 14,000 years, humans have had a close relationship with wild salmon.

Along the Pacific Coast, natives harvested thousands of adult salmon each fall from their spawning grounds in local rivers and streams, a catch that fed their families throughout the year.

While many cultures in the

Pacific Northwest and Alaska are still deeply wedded to the salmon resource, California’s grasp has grown increasingly slippery, with only a small percentage of its historical natural breeding population remaining.

Salmon’s legacy for Californians goes far beyond its estimated $1.4 billion fishery or its classification as one of the most nutritious foods in the world: the

BY MARIA GRUSAUSKAS fish also provide a vital transfer of nutrients and energy from the ocean back to the freshwater ecosystems where they were born.

“People have done studies to show that you can identify oceanderived nutrients from salmon in many dozens of different species, like kingfishers or water ouzels, fish-eating ducks, foxes, raccoons, coyotes—all the way up to the big predators that used to live

here but are gone, like grizzly bears,” says Nate Mantua, a research scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Southwest Fisheries Science Center in Santa Cruz.

Accumulating 95 percent of their biomass at sea, adult Pacific salmon die after they spawn, and their nutrient-rich carcasses, gametes (mature eggs and sperm) and metabolical waste return to the land. “It’s fascinating that, over the eons, a lot of fertilizer was provided by these dead salmon, so a lot of the wine grapes and a lot of the agriculture inland by the rivers was fertilized by salmon for a long time,” says Randy Repass of the Golden Gate Salmon Association (GGSA), a coalition of salmon advocates based in Petaluma.

Salmon’s yearly return props up an entire food web, replenishing bacteria and algae, bugs and small fish, and fueling plant growth with deposits of nitrogen and phosphorus. The Chinook (aka king), the largest salmon species (adults often exceed 40 pounds and are capable of growing to 120 pounds), is the pride and joy of California’s salmon fishery. Not so long ago, the Central Valley watershed was one of the biggest producers of naturally breeding Chinook salmon in the world, second only to the Columbia River, with the Klamath River another big California contributor. Driven by the Sacramento and San Joaquin river systems, the Central Valley nursed a ballpark average of a few million salmon per year, emerging each spring out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, says Mantua.

“Today, natural production— maybe in a good year—is in the hundred thousand or hundreds of thousands,” Mantua says. “So, yeah, it’s a few percent of the historical population.”

In addition to cold ocean water and an ample food supply at sea, salmon require cold river water that drains all the way to the sea, and, during their early life, a

alifornia’s four salmon runs—fall, late-fall, winter and spring—are named for the time of year the fish return from the open ocean as adults, after about two to five years spent feasting on smaller fish and krill at sea, and back under the Golden Gate Bridge to the SacramentoSan Joaquin Delta. As of 1989, the winter run had joined the ranks of 130 other endangered and threatened marine species when it was listed as an endangered species under the Federal Endangered Species Act. Ten years later, the spring run was listed as threatened.

“When we have a really good fishing year out in the ocean, it’s because of two things,” McManus says. “We have a good contribution from natural spawning salmon coming out of the Central Valley, and we have a good contribution from the hatcheries.”

Following a period of abundance in the late ’80s, and then again in the late ’90s and early 2000s, California’s salmon season was closed in 2008 and 2009, resulting from a population crash that NOAA scientists found was due to a lack of upwelling and the subsequent low production of krill, one of salmon’s dietary staples.

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a modest rebound since then, but it still has not reached the abundance that we observed in the late ’90s and early 2000s,” says Michael O’Farrell, a research fish biologist at the NOAA. While there has been an increase in small sardines, a potential good sign for salmon, Greg Ambiel, who has been fishing salmon locally for 30 years, is not hedging any bets for this coming season.

‘It’s hard to say which way the population is going to go at this point.’

“The fish are being killed in the Central Valley before they get a chance to get to the ocean,” Ambiel says. “If you follow the money, that’s who gets the water.

It’s simple: just go look at the almond trees in the Central Valley.”

Indeed, over the last few years, a fairly drastic shift has occurred, with high-profit almond crops replacing raisin grapes and other less profitable crops in the Central Valley. The problem for salmon is that it takes a gallon of water to produce one almond— which is three times more water than it takes to produce a grape— according to a study published in 2011 at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

Water demands for agriculture are a known contributor to an estimated 95 percent loss of salmon’s critical rearing ground in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

ast month, O’Farrell began the process of calculating 2016 abundance forecasts for both the Sacramento and Klamath rivers and tributaries, based on data that includes the return of fish the previous fall. Each March, he reports the number to the Pacific Fishery Management Council, who then sets the season in April.

“Where we’re at right now, we’ve come out of the very low abundance periods of 2008 and 2009, but we don’t know exactly what the returns are for this past year,” O’Farrell says. “There are some issues that we are monitoring with regard to the effects of drought and ocean conditions. It’s hard to say which way the population’s going to go at this point, but we’ll have more information on that in a couple of months.”

The Central Valley Improvement Act, passed in 1992, ambitiously hoped to double the number of salmon and steelhead trout in the Sacramento River basin over the past 22 years, but it has fallen short. While their goal was to see 86,000 springrun Chinook salmon spawning in the Central Valley by 2012, the number was only 30,522. Federal officials cited obstacles such as drought, competing demands for water and lack of funding.

But Steve Lindley, leader of the Fisheries Ecology Division at the NOAA, points to wetlandrestoration success stories in the Central Valley, in places like Clear Creek and Butte Creek.

“These shallow areas that are nurseries for salmon—those populations have done very well, even during the poor ocean and drought periods,” he says, “so it’s not a lost cause. But we do really need to address some of these habitat issues, and find a way to operate salmon hatcheries in a way that supports our fisheries without imperiling their longterm liability. We’re really keen on working with GGSA and the fishing community and the broader fish and water communities to try to find those kind of solutions.”

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DEBR IEFER Scalia Via Anagram These are serious times that require serious, thoughtful reflection on grave matters of state, such as: Now that Antonin Scalia—divisive American and pugnacious defender of rigging contested presidential elections so your GOP guy wins—has gone to the great Gitmo in the sky, what are the most relevant anagrams that can be made out of his name?

“Anal inactions” is one anagram for “Antonin Scalia” that springs to mind, except that Scalia was a right-wing judicial activist who tried to use the Supreme Court to do what the Tea Party Congress couldn’t: repeal Obamacare by any means necessary.

There’s also “in satanic loan,” which is pretty choice, if one believes that Scalia was Beelzebub’s minion, on loan from the devil to do his unearthly misdeeds, and maybe he was.

“Satan icon lain” could be the anagram headline following his funeral. “Can ail nations,” sure does describe what Scalia did to this particular nation, such as that time he voted to overturn Miranda rights.

Given his devilish devotion to a nonliving Constitution, it might be true that, upon reaching his final destination, Scalia was heard to shout, “Lo, a satanic inn!” We’ll always remember that time he said it was OK to execute the retarded, because that’s how they rolled in 1791.

But none of those anagrams really get at the heart of Scalia, and “anal stain icon” is looking more and more like the top contender. Disrespectful of the dead? How about Scalia’s disrespect for gay marriage rights, which cannot be overlooked, even as he now admits, from the grave, that “I sanction anal.” Meanwhile, California attorney general Kamala Harris is on the short list to replace Scalia, but don’t count on it: “Kamala Harris” is just another way of saying “Ma Sharia lark.”—Tom Gogola The Bohemian started as The Paper in 1978.

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delta habitat. Salmon eggs do not survive in water warmer than 56 degrees, which is why adult fish ready to spawn instinctively head toward the cold, upper headwaters and tributaries coming out of the snow-packed mountains.

Development in the 1940s through ’60s, and especially the constructions of dams like the Shasta Dam, built in 1943 on the Sacramento River, played a key role in the near annihilation of the long-standing fish stock.

“When they built the big dams in California, they basically blocked off access to 80 or 90 percent of the habitat salmon historically used to reproduce in California,” says John McManus, executive director of the GGSA.

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Dining BEAN GOOD TO ME Bella Rosa’s coffee beans are roasted in a proprietary device that uses 80 percent

less energy than typical roasters.

The Good Cup Bella Rosa Coffee Company started green and stays green BY ERIN HARER

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n the crowded coffee business, Jon Bixler, owner of Santa Rosa’s Bella Rosa Coffee Company, says his company is growing at a “terrifying” rate, 35 to 40 percent per year. This year alone, Bixler expect to roast over a quarter of a million pounds of coffee.

It’s no wonder. Bella Rosa’s coffee is everything good coffee should be: rich, balanced,

bright but not acidic, nutty and aromatic, as well as socially and environmentally conscious.

Bixler and co-owners Cynthia Buck and David Greenfield integrate values of family, community, ingenuity and environmentalism into their business.

Bella Rosa’s coffee beans are 100 percent organic and roasted on-site in what can only be described as a “top secret” cutting-edge piece of technology.

I wasn’t allowed to take pictures of the roaster, but I did get to see it in action. The machine uses a convection process, as opposed to the more commonly used heated drum. The roaster uses 80 percent less natural gas than a comparable sized drum.

The entire roasting process is controlled by a computer program developed by Greenfield over the course of two years. The company claims it can roast 60 pounds of coffee, with 200 different flavor

profiles, in 12 minutes—and it does, all day long. The roasted beans sit overnight to allow much of the CO2 that off-gasses from roasted coffee to blow off. Each morning, Bixler and Buck brew a cup of each individual batch to taste for quality. Their dedication to their craft is matched by their commitment to the Sonoma County community, and the communities of their growers.

Bella Rosa chooses suppliers that pay their workers at least fair-trade wages, and pays close attention to what those suppliers are doing for their communities.

The company prioritizes doing business with growers who share their values, some of whom fund local hospitals and HIV/AIDS education and send their children to school instead of the fields.

In Sonoma County, Bella Rosa donates coffee to local organizations like Worth Our Weight, the Ceres Community Project, local homeless shelters, food banks, schools, and even community sports teams.

While the company takes its responsibility to preserve the environment seriously, the staff at Bella Rosa do not take themselves too seriously.

Anyone who has visited the cafe on Skylane Boulevard gets a friendly welcome. Art hangs on the walls, and bobbleheads line shelves. A TV in the corner is reserved for old movies. This month is Bowie Appreciation Month at the cafe, so don’t be surprised if you walk in and see Labyrinth on the screen.

Most of the employees are family, and the few who aren’t might as well be. The most charming team member is Giacomo, son of Bixler and Buck.

Having grown up at Bella Rosa, he’s at home in the cafe, and can be seen running around with his green Hulk hand and a cardboard box on his head.

It’s clear the company keeps its guiding principles close at hand— the reason for preserving the future is literally running around beneath their feet.

Bella Rosa Coffee Company, 5491 Skylane Blvd., Santa Rosa.

707.542.6220

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food like lomo saltado and aji de gallina with a modern, sophistication. 522 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. 707.324.9548.

Campo Fina Italian. $$.

More casual than its sister restaurant Scopa, Campo Fina is serving up Italian staples such as pizzas and woodfired meats. Dinner daily. 330 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg.

707.395.4640.

Lucas Wharf Seafood. $$-$$$. Dine overlooking the Bodega Harbor. Fresh, locally caught seafood. Next-door fresh fish market and deli.

Outdoor takeout seafood bar, weather permitting. Familyfriendly. 595 Hwy 1, Bodega Bay. 707.875.3522.

Dierk’s Cafe Cafe.

Restaurant and wine bar specializing in Asian fusion, where Schezuan, Mongolian and Mu Shu come together with a modern twist. 7501 Healdsburg Ave, Sebastopol.

707.823.8189.

El Coqui Puerto Rican. $-$$.

Water Street Bistro

Eclectic. $$. Homemade soups, salads, sandwiches and entrées 100 N Petaluma Blvd, Petaluma. 707.763.9563.

Willi’s Seafood & Raw Bar Seafood. $$.

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

707.433.9191.

Willi’s Wine Bar Bistro.

Haku Japanese. $-$$.

Cleverly-named rolls like “Jedi Mind Trick” and “Roll me a Fatty” are as flavorful as they are fun. 518 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. 707.541.6359.

Wolf House California.

Jennie Low’s Chinese.

$$-$$$. Fresh sushi with ingredients flown in from Japan steals the show in this popular neighborhood restaurant. 2700 Yulupa Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.578.8180.

$-$$. Light, healthy and tasty Cantonese, Mandarin, Hunan and Szechuan home-style cooking. Great selection, including vegetarian fare, seafood and noodles. 140 Second St, Ste 120, Petaluma.

707.762.6888.

La Perla Peruvian Cuisine Peruvian. $$. La

Perla serves classic Peruvian

$$$. Bistro dishes and extensive wine list. A terrific place to dine before a show at the Wells Fargo Center. 4404 Old Redwood Hwy, Santa Rosa.

707.526.3096.

$$$-$$$$. Stick with the simple, classics dishes, as they always shine. 13740 Arnold Dr, Glen Ellen. 707.996.4401.

Yao-Kiku Japanese.

Zazu European. $$$.

Perfectly executed dishes that sing with flavor. Zagat-rated with much of the produce from its own gardens. 6770 McKinley St, Sebastopol. 707.523.4814.

authentic Mexican menu with American standbys 382 Miller Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.8164.

Phyllis’ Giant Burgers

Hamburgers. $. Come with a hearty appetite for an oldfashioned patty. 924 Diablo Ave, Novato. 415.456.0866.

2202 Fourth St, San Rafael.

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Piatti’s Ristorante & Bar Italian. $$-$$$. Rustic,

seasonal, Italian food. Kidfriendly. 625 Redwood Hwy, Mill Valley. 415.380.2525.

Pine Cone Diner Eclectic.

$$. Funky diner meets upscale bistro. Ambitious dishes, like cherry-wood-smoked pork loin with lavender gastrique, and steak au poivre with peppercorn brandy sauce are served in homey atmosphere.

60 Fourth St, Pt Reyes Station.

415.663.1536.

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Pizzeria Picco Pizza. $-$$.

The wood-fired oven keeps things cozy, and the organic ingredients and produce make it all tasty. 320 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 415.945.8900.

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Authentic and delicious Puerto Rican home cooking. Chuletas, Pollo al Horno, Jibarito–it’s all delicious. Plan on lunching early, because the place fills up fast. 400 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.542.8868.

Joe’s Taco Lounge & Salsaria Mexican. $. Mostly

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Saturdays & Wednesdays 8:30–1pm at Wells Fargo Center for the Arts eat

Eight Asian. $$-$$$.

Japanese. $$$. Well-crafted traditional Japanese with some modern extras like deep-fried mashed potato croquettes with mayo. 3082 Marlow Rd, Santa Rosa , CA. Lunch and dinner daily. 707.527.8871.

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HopMonk Tavern

Pub fare. $$. More than serviceable tavern food with a menu that hops the globe.

Great beers from far and wide and their own brews, too. 224 Vintage Way, Novato.

415.892.6200.

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$.Classic, fresh diner food in a comfortable diner setting.

Hearty and filling omelets, sandwiches galore and the famous Dierk’s pull-apart.

Ought to be in a movie.

Parkside Cafe: 404 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.573.5955.

Midtown Cafe: 1422 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.545.2233

Toyo Japanese Grill

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casual Mexican restaurant that’s much more than super burritos. California inspired preparation of traditional Mexican fare, including spitroasted chicken, homemade tamales, and “eight hour” carnitas. Some ingredients are sourced from the restaurant’s own organic garden. All dishes can be enjoyed with one of their tequila cocktails.

739 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.331.7400.

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Plate Shop Classic

California. $$$. Mediterraneaninflected, Bay Area farm-totable cooking. Don’t be afraid of the excellent rabbit-liver crostini, but the pork chops, chicken and ravioli are good as well. 39 Caledonia St., Sausalito. ) 415.887.9047.

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Poggio Italian. $$-$$$.

Truly transportive food, gives authentic flavor of the Old World. The cheaper way to travel Europe 777 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.7771.

Portelli Rossi Italian. $$.

Tasty and affordable fare in a cozy setting. 868 Grant Ave, Novato. 415.892.6100.

Robata Grill & Sushi Japanese. $$. Mmm. With thick slices of fresh sashimi, Robata knows how to do it. The rolls are big winners. 591 Redwood Hwy, Mill Valley. 415.381.8400.

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.

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

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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.

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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.

Brix American. $$$.

Elegant but casual restaurant offers local, seasonal and sophisticated comfort foods.

The charcuterie platter is a hit. Don’t skip on dessert.

7377 St. Helena Hwy, Napa.

707.944.2749.

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.

La Condesa Mexcian.

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.

$$$. 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.

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.

American. $$. A very casual diner serving up biscuits and gravy, fried chicken, and chicken and waffle sliders. And they aren’t kidding when they

The William Tell House American. $$. Marin

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Napa Valley Biscuits

say “sweet tea.” 1502 Main St., Napa. 707.265.8209.

Norman Rose Tavern

American. $$. More than just suds ‘n’ grub–though that’s the name of the happy hour– this old-fashioned hangout with dark wood and rustic touches does pulled-pork nachos, wild boar burgers, osso bucco and crab-potato tots right. 1401 First St, Napa.

707.258.1516.

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.

Pizza Azzurro Italian. $.

Run by a former Tra Vigne and Lark Creek Inn alum, the pizza is simple and thin, and ranks as some of the best in the North Bay. 1260 Main St (at Clinton), Napa. 707.255.5552.

Redd California cuisine. $$$$$. Rich dishes balanced by subtle flavors and careful yet casual presentation. Brunch at Redd is exceptional. 6480 Washington St, Yountville.

707.944.2222.

Ristorante Allegria Italian. $$. Inside a historic 1916 building lies this Italian restaurant with music, candlelight and a robust menu. Full bar, wine list and special dining in “the Vault”– more romantic than it sounds, believe us. 1026 First St, Napa.

707.254.8006.

Siena California-Tuscan. $$$$. Sophisticated, terroirinformed cooking celebrates the local and seasonal, with electric combinations like sorrel-wrapped ahi tuna puttanesca. 875 Bordeaux Way, Napa. 707.251.1900.

Tarla Mediterranean Grill Greek/Mediterranean.

$$. Casual and trendy with a variety of Turkish and Greek options for any meal of the day.

The lamb burger should not be missed. 1480 First St, Napa.

707.255.5599.

Zuzu Spanish tapas. $$.

Graze your way through a selection of tasty tapas in a lively rustic chic setting with a popular wine bar. Bite-sized Spanish and Latin American specialties include sizzling prawns, Spanish tortilla, and Brazilian style steamed mussels. 829 Main St, Napa.

707.224.8555.

Wineries

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SONOMA COUNTY Enkidu Wines Savage,

dark Rhône-style wines and floral, seductive rosé star in this Sonoma winery named for a supporting actor in the epic of Gilgamesh. Enkidu, a hairy wild man who drank from watering holes with the animals, was domesticated by love and introduced to the pleasures of wine. Get introduced to toothsome Syrah and other pleasures at this comfortable tasting room located in genteel Kenwood.

8910 Sonoma Hwy., Kenwood.

Open 11am–6pm, Tuesday– Sunday. Tasting fee $10.

707.939.3930.

Hawley Winery Barrel-

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

is a regular favorite; Mourvèdre and other Rhône varietals are outstanding. As the steelhead have lately rediscovered, Quivira is worth returning to year after year. 4900 Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg. Open daily, 11am–5pm. 800.292.8339.

Robert Stemmler Winery Serious Pinot Noir

buffs may want to inquire about little-hyped Stemmler wines and their highly allocated sister brand, Donum Estate. 24520 Ramal Road, Sonoma. Limited availability by appointment only.

707.939.2293.

Sonoma Valley Portworks Although it’s

a small-time crime to call a wine “port” what wasn’t made in Portugal, it’s all on the level here at the home of DECO California Port. Everybody gets a button: “Lick my glass!”

613 Second St., Petaluma.

Thursday–Monday, noon to 5pm. No fee. 707.769.5203.

Thomas George Estates Pinot pioneer Davis

adventures of Merlot and Alicante B. at the big table. 1 Vintage Lane, Glen Ellen. Daily by appointment only, $25 per person. 707.933.2800.

Bynum hung up the hose clamp and sold his estate, but the good wine still flows in remodeled tasting room featuring a long bar and vineyard videos. Russian River Chard, Pinot and Zin; sweet berry flavors and long-lasting finishes. Wine caves. 8075 Westside Road, Healdsburg. 11am–5pm, daily.

Tasting fee, $15. 707.431.8031.

Mayo Family Winery

VJB Estate Buon giorno!

Lasseter Family Winery Thrill to the

Excellent place to pair food with wine, as tastings are matched with specific food items.

9200 Sonoma Hwy., Kenwood.

Open daily, 10:30am–6:30pm.

707.933.5504.

Novy Family Winery

Daily tastings by appointment in a no-nonsense warehouse, and is better known as a celebrated member of the “Pinot posse” by its other moniker, Siduri. 980 Airway Court, Ste. C, Santa Rosa.

707.578.3882.

Quivira Winery Certified

biodynamic producer that promotes creek stewardship and steelhead-salmon-habitat restoration. Dry Creek Zinfandel

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. Saturdays and Sundays through harvest, Sonoma Valley Tenors sing from the balcony at 2pm.

Tastings $5–$10. 707.833.2300.

Wind Gap Wines One-

time vintner of big, opulent Pax Syrah refocuses on coolclimate locales that yield a more savory style. Plus, growlers! Arinto, Trousseau

Gris or Rosé. At the Barlow, 6780 McKinley St #170, Sebastopol. Tasting fee, $12$24. 707.331.1393.

NAPA COUNTY Beringer Vineyards

(WC) This historic winery offers 10 daily tours for nominal fees, most of which end gratefully with a glass and a spin through the underground wine-aging tunnels—or, rock it in the Rhine House. Open daily, 10am–6pm (summer hours).

2000 Main St., Napa.

707.963.7115.

Fantesca Estate & Winery (WC) Set on land

that was the dowry gift when Charles Krug married in 1860, this estate winery specializing in Cab features a wine-aging cave built right into the side of Spring Mountain. 2920 Spring Mountain Road, Napa. By appointment. 707.968.9229.

Far Niente (WC) Far Niente was founded in 1885

by John Benson, a ’49er of the California Gold Rush and uncle of the famous American impressionist painter Winslow Homer. 1350 Acacia Drive, Napa. By appointment.

707.944.2861.

Nichelini Winery

Take a joyride in the Napa backcountry and discover this rustic little winery that’s been in the family for generations.

See the only Roman wine press in the Western Hemisphere.

2950 Sage Canyon Road, St. Helena. Saturday and Sunday, 10am–5pm. No fee.

707.963.0717.

Swanson Vineyards

Not lotus-eating, per se, but caviar, Grana Padano, artisan chocolate bonbons–same idea. Whimsically elegant Salon or informal, candystriped Sip Shoppe. Known for Merlot. 1271 Manley Lane, Rutherford. Sip Shoppe Thursday–Sunday 11am–5pm; call or ring gate. Fee $15–$20.

Salon by appointment, $60.

707.754.4018.

Little Wonder La Pitchoune is the new winery on the vineyard block BY JAMES KNIGHT

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he first thing I noticed when a box of La Pitchoune wines showed up was that I’d never heard of ’em. But I’d sure heard of the vineyards that they’re working with, with names like Pratt and Van der Kamp. Ever wondered how relative unknowns can make a splash with such vineyard designates of renown?

It is partly to do with the money to buy the grapes, of course—owners Tracy and Peter Joachim Nielsen have backgrounds in marketing and business—but it comes down to wine country connections. Tracy wanted to get into the wine business, but everyone from barrel makers to cork companies turned her away for lack of experience in the industry, until she met up with winemaker Andrew Berge at a wine party. “He wanted to get out of what he was doing at the time, and I wanted to get in,” Nielson says. Taking on Berge as a partner, they started the bonded winery with five tons of Pinot Noir. Now they’re up to 20, made at Vinify Wine Services in Santa Rosa. With a laugh, Nielsen says she’s been promoted to assistant winemaker.

When I see Chenoweth Vineyards, I think of the Sonoma winery Patz & Hall, which makes a vineyard-designate Pinot Noir of that name. It’s hard to believe the 2013 Chenoweth Vineyards Sonoma Coast Chardonnay ($48) was fermented in all-neutral oak. The cool but toasty aroma first brings to mind a shortbread cookie by the hearth on a winter’s evening, but the season soon turns in the glass, and our cookie is instead roasting on the beach, slathered in coconut lotion. Pineapple flavor picks up the tropical theme, while crisp, just-ripe pear freshens up the butterscotch candy finish.

The 1.25-acre Holder Vineyard would have been hard to find if it weren’t for the Chenoweth connection. Savory notes of marjoram and sandalwood hardly hint at the exuberant, sweet palate of cherry-raspberry-cranberry sauce that makes the 2013 Holder Vineyard Russian River Valley Pinot Noir ($68) such a pleasure.

English Hill is certainly an obscure vineyard designate. It just happens that Bohème’s Kurt Beitler, who farms this eight-acre vineyard in a windy area south of Sebastopol, is a friend of Berge.

Folks who know that wading past a weedy, slightly reductive initial aroma can lead to the best kinds of Pinot complexity will want to follow the 2013 English Hill Vineyard Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir ($58) to its comparatively more tannic conclusion. Along the way, flowering mustard, clove oil and suede aromas weave in and out, while deep flavors of plum and pomegranate lacquer the palate.

The 2013 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir ($48) seems like a less intense selection of the English Hill, but the baking-spice notes and cranberry, plum and strawberry flavors invite another sip.

Tasting and cheese pairing by appointment only; $30. Call 415.272.5135 or email tnielsen@lapitchounewinery.com.

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Wineries in these listings appear on a rotating basis.

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A beach bum ’s manifesto OGOLA

It takes a bit of work to get to this small, driftwood shack, built above the high-tide line and nestled in a wee cove. Since its construction commenced last January, it has survived the El Niño and king tides, crashing driftwood jumbles, high winds, tumbling boulders, scouring sun and the erosion, always the erosion. You’ve heard of a blowdown stack—this is a blowdown shack, a well-built domicile for a human in search of a place to blow off steam or crash for the night, a special place.

But I can’t stress this enough: shhh, don’t tell the Coastal Commission about it—the builder didn’t have the proper permits!

The shack’s contents speak to a simple life lived on the square. There are Dick Francis and Carl Hiaasen novels on a shelf, dog-eared and a little sodden. There are a couple of first-aid kits, fully tricked out with ointments and cold packs for any low-level cut or scrape or twisted ankle that might befall a visitor.

A journal, soaked from the rain, is stashed in a cooler and filled with wonder and gratitude and loopy penmanship. It tells of people who came a long distance and enjoyed the place, and left something behind or did something to improve the lot of humankind. One characteristic entry reads: All good manfolk and womanfolk are welcome here to share the bounty of the sea with the various native seabirds, pelicans, osprey, terns and seagulls fishing from these waters. Watch for seals also fishing in the kelp beds, and faraway sailboats going where the winds take them . . .

The shack’s builder also constructed a perch on the roof that provides a million-dollar view of the ocean. But let’s not put a dollar sign on everything.

I’ve come to this shack several times to chill out and stare at the Pacific Ocean awhile. Others come for overnight good times on the driftwood bunk. I love me a good

beach shack, and have built a few in my time. Visitors to the shack occupy a key place in the freedomtrail culture of the nook, experts in sussing and creating these hidden slipstreams of refuge for wild-living fun-seekers, outlaw hikers and marginal artist-campers on the scruff wind, trying to stay on the coast at all costs—with an emphasis on the cost. I am a proud, unreconstructed beach bum, and these are my people.

The shack is a cultural signifier and a furtive line in the sand that denotes, however anonymously, the raging “class” issue of beach access in California, now under fire as the powerful state Coastal Commission moved to axe its popular executive director, Charles Lester, last week.

That move has raised, as they say, serious questions about the future of the 1972 Coastal Act that set a course for free public access to the California coastline (and which created the commission to ensure that access).

Lester supporters, who came out in droves to support him last week, saw the ouster as part of a concerted effort to denude the Coastal Act of its radical push for free access to all of California’s beaches, despite one’s income, race or smelly feet. They viewed it as a putsch engineered

by Gov. Jerry Brown, in the service of developers itching to take advantage of the state’s suddenly robust economy, or at least that’s what the luxe-humping California bureau of the New York Times suggested. It was a coup!

As the Coastal Commission worried over the Lester firing and insisted that, no, this was a personnel issue centered on Lester’s management style, his organizational shortfalls, that sort of thing, not a “coup”—I bounced out to the shack on a breezy, clear day.

The tide was on the ebb—you can’t get here on the flood without risking

peril—and I spent some time reading through the journal from the cooler that also contained a couple of cans of tuna fish, a lantern, instructions on how to catch a crab and a few other useful odds and edible ends.

A prior visitor had arranged rainbeating tarps inside the shack and on the roof, which now bulged with gathered water in a couple of places.

I emptied the tarps and sloshed water all over myself doing so. Classic. Ate an orange, took a bracing 30-second plunge in the surf, and, after a while, I sealed the journal in a plastic bag and sat and watched and listened.

The only sound that you could hear was the crashing ocean, which is the only sound that I wanted to hear.

And so as humanity teeters on the presumptive edge of a selfmade oblivion, the poignancy of the must-have coastal life is, more and more, experienced in the sharp relief of Mother Nature taking her vengeance, even if she’s just doing her thang. We are all eroding together—all of us, rich and poor— and so who will have the front-row, end-times seat atop a bluff or along the shore when the Big Erosion really sets in? Well, rich people, that’s who. And so I declare: beach-bum Bolsheviks of the world, unite!

I made my way back home from the shack and, later that night, wondered if anyone had written about it before.

I had heard that there had been an encampment of several such shacks near this spot in the good ol’ days, but that once word got out, the Man came and tore them down.

At this shack, people are packing it in, and they are packing it out.

It truly is a communal space, a temporary autonomous zone for drifters and wayfarers, and which is doing zero harm to the environment.

Why does the Man care so much about what marginal, peaceful people are doing with their time?

Because it’s an outlaw beachside hotel, and everyone else pays their share to enjoy the California coast?

Not according to the Coastal Act’s mandate. Is it a Bernie Sanders freestuff shack for lazy commies as we stand at the cusp of a national Dr. Zhivago moment? Seize the property and redistribute to the beach proletariat! Perhaps. But for now, it takes work and a high tolerance for a life lived ) 16

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here’s a sturdy and well-appointed beach shack along the California coast. The precise details of its location, should they be publicized, would likely mean the end of the shack at the hands of the Man, so let’s just say that it is somewhere between Santa Cruz and Jenner—or, even better, somewhere between San Diego and the Oregon border. It’s out there—way the freak out there. Don’t try to find it, and if you do . . . shhh. It’s our little secret.

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16 Beach Bum ( 15 rugged to fully appreciate this shack, to find it. It is a populist pop-up redoubt, a Trump Tower for the rest of us. Leave us alone.

The shack speaks to exactly what went down in this recent Coastal Commission set-to about the coast: who owns the view, who governs access to a sacred solitude that often arrives as entitlement on wings of dollars?

I wanted to know if anyone had written about the shack, so I typed a few words into the Google machine and was directed to a “pirate shack” on a vacation home-sharing platform. Wow, I thought—somebody is renting this place out?!

Of course not. The Google offering was a quiet, remote, topof-the-bluff shack down some goat trail in Magical Marin, and it was listed for—wait for it—$285 a night.

There are those who will pay that fee, claim the world-class view for themselves and resent the hell out of anybody who tries to abscond with it without paying their “fair” share for that selfsame view.

Too bad for those terrorists of the view; we have our shack.

It will never make the pages of Architectural Digest. It’s roughhewn and extremely beachy. It is, by definition, ramshackle.

We’re all out here on the edge, but just because your name is the Edge—well, that doesn’t give you special privileges. Or maybe it does. Last year, the Coastal Commission gave a very highprofile green light to the U2 guitarist who, after a 10-year battle with his adopted California and its beach bureaucrats, got approval for a five-building manse-spread on what had been a pristine Malibu bluff. In the course of fighting for the building permits, the Edge donated $1 million to a local conservancy in exchange for them not weighing in on his proposal—which is to say that he paid them hush money—but shhh, don’t tell anyone, the Edge is a good liberal. He don’t mean no harm.

Meanwhile, our humble little shack stands proud, in the name of a different kind of love: the love for unfettered and free access to

the beach without payoffs and ultra-luxe vulgarities. The Coastal Commission would likely plotz at the idea of a free hang-space for free-minded souls to hang their freak flag, smoke some Mother Nature and get naked in the sand. But this is exactly the constituency that drove the emergence of the Coastal Act in the first place, and the beach-bum constituency ought to be front and center in any discussion about the future of access to California’s beaches.

Here’s a little perspective on the vast California coastline. I’ve done a lot of outlaw hiking and camping over the years, most of it on the East Coast. To that end, I used to spend a lot of time traipsing around the variously accessible beaches of Long Island.

One time, about 20 years ago, I hiked the entire South Shore of the island, mostly along the barrier beaches that would later get pummeled during Hurricane Sandy. One thing I learned is that when you carry a fishing pole, you’re not camping (illegal), you’re fishing (legal), and that’s cool. Most nights along that hike, I found a spot in the dunes that was removed from the prying headlights of roving beachbuggies occupied by the Man. They do not take kindly to bums on the beaches of Long Island.

One night it was around twilight, and I was in the deep, deep Hamptons, which, for our purposes, can be considered the Malibu of the Long Island coastline. Very rich, very exclusive and very, very entitled.

I was a little concerned at the lack of available furtive campsites, as the houses along this stretch are right up on the beach.

The general rule of beach access here and in New York is that even if a beach is indeed “private,” all are “public” below the high-tide mark. But you can’t realistically sleep in the frothing surf line. Even if you could, you’d first have to get on the beach, and the high-toned Hitlers of the Hamptons figured out long ago that the best way to deal with the private-not-private beach issue is by putting severe restrictions on who can park where, and

WEATHERED WORDS Visitors to this hidden bungalow leave journal entries

about their time in the sand, sun and rain.

when. You can’t, not there, never.

Otherwise, enjoy the beach.

It’s a different story in California, where cars are allowed to park along Highway 1, and whose drivers can then find their way to the nearest accessible beach, provided some entitled terrorist of the view hasn’t put up an illegal “No Trespassing” sign.

Yes, I’ve got a real problem with people who believe that when they buy that beachside house, they also buy the view that comes along with it. To that end, last year the state took some measures in defense of the Coastal Act’s mandate and gave its OK to the Coastal Commission to start throwing fines at people who illegally block access to public beaches with sneaky signage and the like.

Anyway, it was twilight deep in the superluxe Hamptons and I couldn’t find a place on the beach to camp out, so I trudged a little farther to a point where the houses thinned out and there was a lot of what looked like open space in the dunes.

It looked promising, and it was.

I found the perfect outlaw place to camp, hidden from view: in a sandy dip in the dunes, out of eyeshot. Not safe enough to pitch the tent, but by now I was used to roughing it under the stars.

Yeah, well. I woke up on a sultry late-August morning to a golden Labrador bounding and barking around the outlaw campsite. I popped up out of the sleeping bag and looked around and saw a Latino man pushing a lawnmower nearby.

He looked at me, startled, and then quickly looked the other way.

I then realized that I was camped out in a sand trap on a golf course at the Maidstone Club, whose oceanfronting golf course, like Pebble Beach in Malibu, is one of the most exclusive in the world.

They’ll shoot me if they find me here, is what I thought. I scooped my gear into the pack and headed for the beach and kept on with the journey after some cowboy coffee and oranges on a rock jetty. That night, I reached Montauk, known affectionately-ironically by its locals as the End. My adopted hometown of Bolinas has an interesting corollary in Montauk. Both towns are surrounded by public land, and the development has been limited to a kind of core central area. But the story of Montauk, and who trespassed there and drove out the town’s longstanding middle-class citizenry, is really a cautionary tale as the California economy lusts after a blufftop

my kind of living. Montauk and Bolinas are both fishing-andsurfing wilderness towns—but one very big difference is that in Montauk, nearly every available inch of developable land now has a house on it. Montauk used to be the kind of place where even the developed areas had all sorts of natural interzones; you could hike through the woods from the beach to the bar, until the woods were bulldozed by developers to make way for the Hamptons money.

In Bolinas, there’s a road called Ocean Parkway that has slipped into the ocean in various sections due to the erosion, so the road is chopped like a Don’t Tread on Me snake as it wends around the Big Mesa. There’s a house that I found to be fascinating, alluring, and if I had any money in the bank, I would have bought it. And, yes, it’s an old fisherman’s shack at the end of a section of the Ocean Parkway that is slipping back into the Pacific, but before I could save my pennies (about 10 million of them), the house was sold to some young bearded sort of fellow.

I have to account for my raging class resentment here, but the person who bought the house almost immediately cleared out all the underbrush, stuck a trampoline on the property and, right at the corner of it that was falling into the ocean, built a little viewing-hangout platform with a canvas roof.

Pretty cool, except the new owner also hung a couple “Private Property: No Trespassing” signs along the fence and on the viewing platform. From my perspective, that’s a hate crime.

The signs were torn down and thrown over the cliff. I recounted the story to one of the High Holy Hippies of Bolinas, who made a sign for me that read, “No ‘No Trespassing’ Signs (Goes Without Saying),” and which the Coastal Commission should enshrine as its new motto.

Bolinas being a small town with a super-militant attitude about obnoxious signage, the owner has stopped replacing or repairing those “No Trespassing” signs— and I’ve yet to see a person ascend that platform. Except me. That’s a killer view, dude!

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housing construction boom.

I lived in Montauk off and on for a bunch of years, fishing and living the good life, and I was out there one early spring trying to, you know, scrape out a month or two of odd jobs before the fishing season commenced.

I had rented an off-season oceanfront hotel room that was pretty cheap, but the cash was running out fast and my deckhand job wouldn’t kick in for a month or so, so one day I decided to head out to a remote former fishcamp for an adventure. I packed a simple kit: a gallon of water, some herb, a bag of peanuts. That was about it. I had this vague notion of camping out between the boulders or up in the woods, which out there are called Hither Hills. It’s all very California-like, of the less rugged and more lowslung variety; the bluffs are less tall, the water is warmer.

I spent the day building a shack out of washed-up lobster traps pushed ashore in the winter, and filled it in with other beach-abrac: bits of fiberglass bulkhead, driftwood, whatever was available.

I called the shack the Harry Crews shack because I had a copy of the novelist’s A Feast of Snakes in my backpack.

After a while, the sun went down and I realized that this shack was not going to keep me warm. Fires are a big no-no out here, but the hell with that. I burned lots and lots of dry wood trying to stay warm through the night, woke up and headed right back to the hotel.

It had to be at least a year later when I was working on a head boat for the summer and back in my usual summer rental. A friend came to visit, and I said, hey, let’s go see what’s happening with the Harry Crews shack.

We got there and it was lost to the tides and storms, but the book I had left—I found a weathered section of it back in the dune grass. It was the only reminder that a shack had been there. And up the bluff behind where the shack had been, the concrete foundation of a long-ago abandoned fisherman’s shack hung off the edge.

Old fisherman shacks, that’s

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THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A SELECTIVE GUIDE

Crush

HANDFUL OF HARPS Blues Hall of Famer Charlie Musselwhite joins the North Mississippi Allstars on Feb. 19 at the Uptown Theatre in Napa. See Concerts, p22.

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A showing of antique and modern American Indian art returns to Marin for a 32nd year, displaying works produced by nationally known artists and antiques collected by the nation’s top art dealers.

With an emphasis on precolonial artifacts, including textiles, baskets, pottery and beadwork, as well as sculpture and paintings, the show benefits MarinLink, a local nonprofit that serves as an incubator for various social projects. The art show runs through Feb. 21 and opens with a preview night on Friday, Feb. 19, at Marin Center Exhibit Hall, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 5pm. $10–$15.

415.499.6800.

With the recent rains, now is a perfect time for North Bay mushroom foragers.

This week, Copperfield’s Books in Sebastopol presents fungus guru David Arora, author of Mushrooms Demystified and All That the Rain Promises, and More . . . for a night of mushroom facts delivered with wit and wisdom. Arora’s books are the perfect guides for taking to the hills while you search for tasty morsels. Arora, who lives in Mendocino County, guides you through the do’s and don’ts of foraging on Friday, Feb. 19, at the Sebastopol Community Center, 390 Morris St., Sebastopol. 7:30pm. $10; $30 with pocket guide.

North Bay fans of world music are probably already familiar with vocalist Mimi Pirard, who formed the popular outfit Dgiin with her brother Gabe several years ago. Now Pirard is harnessing her passion for French chanteuse singers like Edith Piaf in a new ensemble, SonoMusette. Together with accordionist Robert Lunceford and bassist Jan Martinelli (Un Deux Trois), guitarist Jason Briggs (Hot Club Beelzebub) and veteran drummer Richard Andrews, the band debuts on Saturday, Feb. 20, at the Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Court, Occidental. 8pm. $15–$20.

707.874.9392.

The story behind the McBride sisters proves fact is stranger than fiction. The twins were raised continents apart, in New Zealand and California, unaware of the other for most of their lives. Each developed a passion for wine in their respective regions, and found each other against all odds in 1999. Since then, they have been inseparable, joining forces for their popular brands, eco.love Wines in New Zealand, and Truvée Wines along the Central Coast of California. The sisters tell their amazing story on Tuesday, Feb. 23, at Napa County Library, 580 Coombs St., Napa. 6:30pm. Free.

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TEN YEARS GONE It won’t be long before North Bay residents don’t have to invoke the name of a frickin’ bank when they talk about the haps at the LBC.

Naming Rights

Local tribe helps Luther Burbank Center for the Arts take back its name BY CHARLIE SWANSON

J

ust when you had gotten used to calling it the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, the world-class performance venue and cultural center in Santa Rosa is changing its name back to the original designation as the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, with help from Lytton Rancheria.

The Luther Burbank Memorial

Foundation founded the center in 1981 as an independent, nonprofit performing- and visual-arts hub for Sonoma County. As such, the center depends on donations, grants and financial support from business (and tickets sales, of course).

In 2006, the center entered into a 10-year agreement with the San Francisco–based multinational banking company Wells Fargo for naming rights. It then became the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, to the disappointment—

and anger—of many residents who were miffed at the notion of a corporate-sounding center, though the venue was, and still is, run by the memorial foundation.

That naming agreement with Wells Fargo ends March 11.

While there is no word about whether Wells Fargo has declined to renew the agreement, the venue did announce that the Lytton Rancheria, of the Sonoma County–based Lytton Band of Pomo Indians, is stepping up

from “season sponsor” to “naming sponsor,” and will restore the name effective March 12.

“As dedicated and involved members of the North Bay region, Lytton Rancheria seeks projects and partners with whom we feel strong synergy,” tribal chairperson Margie Mejia said in a statement.

The Lytton Rancheria has seen great financial success from its San Pablo Bay casino and other business ventures in the last decade. They’ve been a supporter of the arts center since 2009, and donate regularly to Sonoma County groups, such as the Boys & Girls Club of Central Sonoma County, the Charles M. Schulz Museum and the Sonoma County Historical Society.

“We place high value on supporting education, enrichment and community connection—three guiding principles of the Luther Burbank Memorial Foundation,” said Mejia.

“Deepening our commitment to the Foundation by stepping up to support the name returning to Luther Burbank Center perfectly aligns with how we see our role in the community.”

Besides hosting nationally touring musicians, comedians (excluding Bill Cosby, whose scheduled Wells Fargo appearance was canceled last year) and performing groups, the center is also home to local theater companies Left Edge Theatre, North Bay Stage Company and Roustabout Theater. Other residents include the Sonoma County branch of the Anova education center, which provides education services to children and teens with autism or other learning impairments, and the yearround Santa Rosa Original Certified Farmers Market, which sets up in the parking lot every Wednesday and Saturday.

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BEWITCHED Is Anya Taylor-Joy a witch, or something else?

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‘The Witch’ delivers much more than scary hags on brooms BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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t may not be doing Robert Eggers’ The Witch a favor to describe it as a terrifying movie. It’s a superior, elegantly moody horror film, more substantial than frightful, about a family in colonial Massachusetts turning against itself. The possibility of reasonable explanations fades as the supernatural becomes natural.

Set in 1630, the film begins with a family of six being exiled from the Plimoth Plantation for religious nonconformity. A horse-drawn wagon carts them out of town and drops them into new pastures. The refuge lasts only a short while. After the crops fail, the family is driven into the forbidding woods to hunt.

Minding her baby sister one day, thirteenish Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy) plays peekaboo. Though her eyes are covered for only a second, the baby vanishes. Eggers cuts to a crone’s sagging arm, clutching a knife over the naked baby.

Dark omens abound. After meeting a mysterious red-cloaked woman in the woods, Thomasin’s elder brother, Caleb (Harvey Scrimshaw), returns to the farm. Upon seeing him, Calebs’ father describes him as “pale as death, naked as sin and witched.”

The pale colors add to the film’s sense of doom. Against this muted palette, fresh blood pops out of the screen. One warning: It’s said that an English speaker of today, traveling back in time, could only understand conversations if they went back as far back as the Shakespearean era. Shakespeare hadn’t been long dead in 1630 and the script is full of dialogue you strain to understand. Still, it’s startling to see a movie with such an appreciation and aesthetic understanding of this too-infrequently filmed era.

‘The Witch’ is playing at Century Northgate, 7000 Northgate Drive, San Rafael. 415.491.1314.

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STEPPING OUT Kyle Martin

(second from left) gets back to gritty roots on new record.

High Hopes

Kyle Martin reclaims roots on new album

BY CHARLIE SWANSON

T

he Kyle Martin Band’s new album, High and Dry, lives up to its name with a dusty, dirty and hotter-than-blazes country-rock sound. And while the nine-track trek largely sticks to the straightforward rock and roll path, the record connects to listeners with memorable hooks and resonating lyrics about longing hearts and nostalgic memories.

Kyle Martin, a Santa Rosa native, grew up in a musical family. His mother, Nancy Pettitt-Martin, plays drums to this day and his dad, Craig Martin, played in San Francisco rock revue band Butch Whacks & the Glass Packs until his passing in 2007.

The Kyle Martin Band plays a record-release show for ‘High and Dry’ on Saturday, Feb. 20, at the Last Record Store, 1899-A Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa. 2pm. Free. 707.525.1963.

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That was the same year Kyle Martin became a founding member and driving force of beloved southwest Santa Rosa venue the Boogie Room and its campfire-like sing-alongs.

Now the Boogie Room is history, and at 28 years old and living in downtown Santa Rosa, Martin says he is trying to return to his roots.

“This new record really speaks to that,” he says. “I’m pulling from all the different experiences I’ve had.

This record is heavier than my first solo record. It’s a nod to my early days in punk-rock bands, little sprinkles of that kind of rock.”

His first solo record, released in 2012, had a more traditional classic rock sound. “It was like I was trying to please an older generation,” Martin says. “I was living in West County trying to make music for parents.”

“This new record is like when it’s past 10 o’clock, and the all-ages venues are closed,” he says. “This one’s a little more like a bar banter, a little rough, a little edgier.”

Martin achieves this rousing atmosphere on High and Dry by using all live takes and original vocals, recorded late last year at Jackalope Studios in Santa Rosa in two sweat-soaked days. Martin’s band consists of drummer Taylor Cuffie, keyboardist Nate Dittle and bassist Kevin Cole, all of whom Martin calls great players.

Martin’s other passion is farming, and, lyrically, High and Dry speaks not only to California’s drought but also to what is soon-to-be its largest cash crop, marijuana. The opening track, “Bone Ranch Village,” is about an actual ranch in San Bernardino and the people who cultivate weed on the parched land. “Real Estate on Mars” imagines a desolate and lonely environment as the setting for self-discovery. Other tracks, like “Creeks and Hills” and “I Picked a Flower,” offer a more hopeful look at the beauty of our natural surroundings.

“That’s what I like,” says Martin.

“That’s what I want to honor.”

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The Manhattan Transfer & Take 6

Two of the most acclaimed, award-winning vocal groups in pop music team up to thrill audiences of all ages. Feb 18, 8pm. $55-$65. Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.546.3600.

Santa Rosa Symphony Violinist Rachel Barton Pine joins the symphony for a program titled “Strokes of Genius” that includes selections from Beethoven and Bruckner. Feb 20-22.

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

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MC and founding member of the legendary hip-hop quartet the Pharcyde performs along with the sultry songstress J Ross Parrelli, multiinstrumentalist Tony Ozier and others. Feb 19, 8:30pm. $10. Jasper O’Farrell’s, 6957 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol.

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Former lead guitarist for the Black Crowes shows off his Americana chops with a solo performance. Feb 20, 9pm. $20-$25. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.1100.

The Kind Buds

Celebrated acoustic jam duo from Vermont features special guest David Gans. Feb 23, 8pm. $12-$14. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.1100.

NAPA COUNTY Charlie Musselwhite & North Mississippi Allstars

North Bay resident and Blues

Hall of Famer brings his stellar band to Napa for a night of sizzling harmonica and Southern roots music. Feb 19, 8pm. $40-$65. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa.

707.259.0123.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA COUNTY A’Roma Roasters

Feb 19, Collaboration with David Scott. Feb 20, Barry Bisson. 95 Fifth St, Santa Rosa.

707.576.7765.

Annie O’s Music Hall

Sun, 5pm, Sunday Dance Party with the Blues Defenders. Feb 19, Powerage with Jett Black and Miss Behaved. 120 Fifth St, Santa Rosa. 707.542.1455.

Aqus Cafe

Feb 17, West Coast Songwriters Competition. Feb 19, Jammin in the Parlor. Feb 20, Dictator Tots. Feb 21, 2pm, Catilin Lucia.

Feb 24, bluegrass and old time music jam. 189 H St, Petaluma.

707.778.6060.

Arlene Francis Center Wed, Open Mic. Tues, Open Didgeridoo Clinic. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.3009.

Barley & Hops Tavern Feb 18, the Sticky Notes. Feb 19, Jen Tucker. Feb 20, Hilary Marckx. 3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental. 707.874.9037.

Bergamot Alley

Feb 20, Left Coast Country.

328-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.433.8720.

The Big Easy

Feb 17, Bruce Gordon & the Acrosonics. Feb 18, T Luke & the Tight Suits. Feb 19, Rockin Johnny Chicago Blues. Feb 20, Scary Little Friends with Mark Tyrell. Feb 23, the American Alley Cats. Feb 24, Certified Organic. 128 American Alley, Petaluma. 707.776.4631.

Brixx Pizzeria

Feb 20, Rhythm Drivers.

16 Kentucky St, Petaluma.

707.766.8162.

B&V Whiskey Bar & Grille

Tues, “Reggae Market” DJ night. Feb 19, DJ Hi C. Feb 20, DJ Tei. 400 First St E, Sonoma.

707.938.7110.

Cellars of Sonoma

Tues, Wavelength. Feb 18, Greg Yoder. Feb 19, Ricky Alan Ray. Feb 20, John Pita. 133 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.578.1826.

Coffee Catz

Mon, open mic. Tues, 12pm, Jerry Green’s Peaceful Piano Hour. 6761 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.6600.

Corkscrew Wine Bar Feb 19, the Drifting Rich.

Feb 23, songwriter’s lounge with Lauralee Brown. 100 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.789.0505.

Dry Creek Kitchen

Feb 22, Carlos Henrique Pereira and Tyler Harlow Duo. Feb 23, John Stowell and Randy Vincent Duo. 317 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.431.0330.

Finley Community Center

Mon, 11am, Proud Mary’s ukulele jam and lessons. Third Friday of every month, Steve Luther. 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.543.3737.

Flamingo Lounge

Feb 19, Power House. Feb 20, Crossfire reunion show.

2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa.

707.545.8530.

French Garden

Feb 19, New Skye Band. Feb 20, Laflamme-Lawrence Ensemble. 8050 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol. 707.824.2030.

Friar Tuck’s

Wed, Sat, karaoke. Fri, DJ Night.

8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.792.9847.

Gaia’s Garden

Feb 17, El Tocte. Feb 19, Duo Guiliani. Feb 20, the Watanabes. Feb 24, Klezmer Creek. 1899 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.544.2491.

Green Music Center

Feb 19, the King’s Singers. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Green Music Center Schroeder Hall

Feb 21, 2pm, Navarro Trio. 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

HopMonk Sebastopol

Tues, open mic night. Feb 19, Sessions. Feb 20, Govinda and Kaminanda. Feb 22, 7th St Showcase with Luv Fyah and Binghi Ghost. Feb 24, Bleep Bloop. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.7300.

HopMonk Sonoma

Feb 19, Roem Baur. Feb 20, Ten Foot Tone. 691 Broadway, Sonoma. 707.935.9100.

Jamison’s Roaring Donkey

Lagunitas Tap Room

Feb 17, the Gentlemen Soldiers.

Feb 18, Jason Bodlovich. Feb 19, the Royal Deuces. Feb 20, Matt Lax & Nearly Beloved. Feb 21, Caitlin Mahoney. Feb 24, Lowell Levinger. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.778.8776.

Last Record Store

Feb 20, 2pm, the Kyle Martin Band. 1899-A Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.525.1963.

Mc T’s Bullpen

Feb 20, Wiley’s Coyotes. Feb 21, 4pm, Robby-Neal Gordon. Feb 21, 9pm, DJ Miguel. 16246 First St, Guerneville. 707.869.3377.

Monroe Dance Hall

Feb 19, Switching Protocol. Feb 20, Tom Rigney and Flambeau.

1400 W College Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.529.5450.

Murphy’s Irish Pub

Feb 20, Blue House. Feb 21, Dave Thom presents the Mosey Boys. 464 First St E, Sonoma.

707.935.0660.

Mystic Theatre

Feb 20, Pride & Joy. Feb 21, Ricki Lee Jones. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.765.2121.

Occidental Center for the Arts

Feb 20, SonoMusette debut concert. Feb 21, 3pm, the Noam Lemish Quartet. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental.

707.874.9392.

Feb 20, Wvrth and Aberration.

201 Washington St, Petaluma.

707.762.3565.

Redwood Cafe

Feb 17, Irish set dancing. Feb 19, Mardi Gras concert with Gypsy Kisses. Feb 20, Onye & the Messengers. Feb 21, 5pm, Gold Coast Jazz Band. Feb 24, Irish set dancing. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7868.

Resurrection Parish

Feb 21, 3:30pm, Lyle Sheffler.

303 Stony Point Rd, Santa Rosa.

Rincon Valley Library Feb 20, 2pm, Gravenstein Mandolin Ensemble. 6959 Montecito Blvd, Santa Rosa.

707.537.0162.

Rio Nido Roadhouse

Feb 19, Andy T & Nick Nixon.

Feb 20, the Pulsators. 14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido.

707.869.0821.

Rohnert Park-Cotati Library Feb 20, 2pm, Haute Flash Quartet. 6250 Lynne Conde Way, Rohnert Park.

707.584.9121.

Rossi’s 1906

Feb 18, Paint Night at Rossi’s.

Feb 19, Ten Foot Tone. Feb 20, Codi Binkley and friends. Feb 21, Cannon School of Music winter show. 401 Grove St, Sonoma. 707.343.0044.

Ruth McGowan’s Brewpub

Feb 20, Bruce Halbohm.

131 E First St, Cloverdale.

707.894.9610.

1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael.

415.454.6422.

Sonoma Speakeasy

Benissimo Ristorante & Bar

Thurs, R&B classics. Fri, Sat, R&B party. Sun, R&B diva night.

Tues, New Orleans R&B night.

452 First St E, Ste G, Sonoma.

707.996.1364.

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

415.927.2316.

Fenix

Wed, Pro blues jam. Feb 18, Wayne “Guitar” Sanders. Feb 19, Freddy Clarke & Wobbly World. Feb 20, Greg Ballad sings Luther Vandross. Feb 21, 6:30pm, Greg Johnson & Glass Brick Boulevard with Carlos Reyes. Feb 23, Tao Theory.

919 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.813.5600.

Sonoma Valley Regional Library

Feb 20, 2pm, Susan Comstock Swingtet. 755 W Napa St, Sonoma. 707.939.0379.

Spancky’s Bar

Thurs, 7pm, Thursday Night Blues Jam. Thurs, 11pm, DJ Selecta Konnex. 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.664.0169.

George’s Nightclub

Feb 20, DJ Jorge. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.226.0262.

Toad in the Hole Pub

Sun, live music. 116 Fifth St, Santa Rosa. 707.544.8623.

HopMonk Novato

Feb 17, open mic with Jimmy Kraft. Feb 18, the Melt with Ned Endless & the Allnighters. Feb 19, the Zins. Feb 20, Sol Seed.

Feb 24, open mic with Bobby Ramirez. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

The Tradewinds Bar

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

707.795.7878.

Whiskey Tip

Feb 19, North Bay Cabaret presents Furbruary. Feb 20, Family Room DJ night. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.843.5535.

19 Broadway Club

Wed, Walt the Dog. Mon, open mic. Feb 18, Fighting Smokey Joe. Feb 19, Grateful Dead night with Cryptical. Feb 20, Cha Ching! and Pasto Seco. Feb 21, 4pm, Erika Alstrom with Dale Alstrom’s Jazz Society.

Feb 21, 9pm, Jazz Roots Band.

Feb 23, Donna Eagle Band.

17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.

415.459.1091.

Wells Fargo Center for the Arts Feb 22, Black Violin. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.546.3600.

MARIN COUNTY

No Name Bar

Belrose Theater

Thurs, open mic night.

Hanly Banks

Tues, open mic. Feb 17, Jimi James Band. Feb 18, Michael LaMacchia Band. Feb 19, Michael Aragon Quartet. Feb 20, Chris Saunders Band.

Feb 21, Migrant Pickers and friends. Feb 22, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs. Feb 24, Fiver Brown and friends.

757 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.332.1392.

Osteria Divino

Feb 17, Noam Lemish Trio. Feb 18, David Jeffrey’s Jazz Fourtet.

Feb 19, Eric Markowitz Trio.

Feb 20, Joe Warner Trio. Feb 21, Emma Callister. Feb 23, Rob Reich. Feb 24, Joan Getz.

37 Caledonia St, Sausalito.

415.331.9355.

Panama Hotel Restaurant

HE’S A DREAMER Lo-fi songwriter Bill Callahan, once known as Smog, brings his poetic music to Gun Bun Winery in Sonoma on Feb. 24. See Concerts, adjacent page.

Feb 17, Todos Santos. Feb 18, Deborah Winters. Feb 23, Lorin Rowan. Feb 24, the Jazz Roots Band. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael.

415.457.3993.

Peri’s Silver Dollar

Mon, Billy D’s open mic. Feb 17,

the Elvis Johnson Soul Revue.

Feb 18, Burnsy’s Sugar Shack.

Feb 19, Erin & the Project.

Feb 20, Physical Suicide Deterrent System Project.

Feb 21, Motorboat. Feb 23, Fresh Baked Blues & Waldo’s Special. Feb 24, the New Sneakers. 29 Broadway, Fairfax.

415.459.9910.

All-Stars. Feb 20, Goodnight, Texas. Feb 21, the Terrapin All-Stars with Steve Pile. Feb 22, Grateful Mondays with Stu Allen and Jason Crosby. Feb 23, “Stuesdays” with Stu Allen and friends. Feb 24, CCR night with Grahame Lesh & the Terrapin All-Stars. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773.

Rancho Nicasio

Throckmorton Theatre

Feb 19, Stompy Jones. Feb 21, 4pm, San Geronimo. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio.

415.662.2219.

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

Rickey’s

Feb 17, Sound Healing with Rene Jenkins. 600 Palm Dr, Novato.

Feb 19, Lady D. Feb 20, Andoni.

Feb 21, Brian Campbell Trio.

250 Entrada Dr, Novato.

415.883.9477.

Sausalito Seahorse

Wed, Tango with Marcelo Puig and Seth Asarnow. Tues, Jazz with Noel Jewkes and friends.

Feb 18, Fiesta Total flamenco show. Feb 19, Doc Kraft & Company. Feb 20, Havana Nights with Fit y su Clasicos de Cuba. Feb 21, 5pm, Orquesta la Moderna Tradicion. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito.

415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon

Sun, open mic. Mon, Epicenter Soundsystem reggaae. Feb 18, Erin & the Project. Feb 19, the Emma Lee Project with Joe Kaplow. Feb 20, Kingsborough.

Feb 24, Midnight North. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas. 415.868.1311.

Spitfire Lounge

Third Friday of every month, DJ Jimmy Hits. 848 B St, San Rafael. 415.454.5551.

Studio 55 Marin

Feb 19, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass. 1455 E Francisco Blvd, San Rafael.

415.453.3161.

Sweetwater Music Hall

Mon, Open Mic. Feb 17, Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra. Feb 19, Brian Fallon & the Crowes with Jonny Two Bags. Feb 21, 11am, Festival Speed & the Bearcat Duo brunch show. Feb 21, 8pm, Striking Matches. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley.

415.388.1100.

Taste of Rome

Feb 19, the Jazz Roots Band.

1000 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.332.7660.

Terrapin Crossroads

Feb 17, the Terrapin Family Band with Elliott Peck. Feb 18, Danny Click & Hanger. Feb 19, Top 40 Friday with Stu Allen, Scott Law & the Terrapin

Unity in Marin

NAPA COUNTY Billco’s Billiards

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

Deco Lounge at Capp Heritage Vineyards Sat, live music. 1245 First St, Napa. 707.254.1922.

Downtown Joe’s Brewery & Restaurant

Tues, the Used Blues Band. Feb 17, the Sorry Lot. Feb 18, the Voice with Patty Bobo. Feb 19, Otis & the Smokestacks. Feb 20, Midnight Harvest. 902 Main St, Napa. 707.258.2337.

Jarvis Conservatory

Feb 20, Napa Youth Chamber Ensemble. 1711 Main St, Napa.

707.255.5445.

Molinari Caffe

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

Napa Valley Roasting Company Fri, jammin’ and java with Jeffrey McFarland Johnson. 948 Main St, Napa.

707.224.2233.

Silo’s

Feb 17, Mike Annuzzi. Feb 18, Joe Kaplow. Feb 19, CircusMoon. Feb 20, Groove Dragon. Feb 21, NVJS presents the Jeff Denson Quartet. 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

Feb 20, Indigo Girls. Soldout. 1350 Third St, Napa.

707.259.0123.

Uva Trattoria

Feb 17, Bob Castell. Feb 18, Three on a Match. Feb 19, Party of Three. Feb 20, Kickin the Mule. Feb 21, Tom Duarte. Feb 24, Le Hot Jazz. 1040 Clinton St, Napa. 707.255.6646.

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Feb 19, Wicked Man. 146 Kentucky St, Petaluma.

707.772.5478.

Phoenix Theater

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Arts Events RECEPTIONS Feb 18

University Art Gallery Feb 18-Mar 13, “Yes! Glue,” exhibiting a half-century of collage art by Bruce and Jean Conner. 5pm.Sonoma State University, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

707.664.2295.

Feb 19

Community Media Center of Marin, “Wear & Tear: Living Woman,” artist Sheri Park’s exhibit features poetry, biology, fact, fantasy, dance and drama. 6:30pm.

819 A St, San Rafael.

415.721.0636.

Healdsburg Center for the Arts, “Young Artists Show,” sixth annual exhibit features works by students from Sonoma County elementary schools. 4pm.

130 Plaza St, Healdsburg.

707.431.1970.

Marin Center Exhibit Hall, “The American Indian Art Show,” showing and selling antique and contemporary Native American art works.

5pm. $15-$25. 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael.

415.499.6800.

Petaluma Arts Center, “Art Shapes the World,” fifth annual youth exhibition.

Galleries SONOMA COUNTY The Back House Gallery at Heebe Jeebe Through Mar 5, “Glittersweet,” a show dedicated to the late David Bowie features works with glitter. 46 Kentucky St, Petaluma. Mon-Sat: 10 to 6; Sun 10:30 to 5. 707.773.3222.

Chroma Gallery Through Mar 5, “Small Works Show,” ninth annual show features several galleries in the SOFA arts district displaying paintings, sculptures and ceramics no larger than a square foot. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa. 707.293.6051.

4pm. 230 Lakeville St, Petaluma. 707.762.5600.

Feb 21

Art Museum of Sonoma County, “Running Fence: 40 Years Post,” exhibit displays works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the renowned artists behind large-scale art projects like “Running Fence,” donated to the museum in 2001 by the late Tom Golden. 4pm.

505 B St, Santa Rosa.

707.579.1500.

Gallery Route One, “In Formation,” installation artist Dennis Peterson’s work conveys confusion and humor, showing along with “The Pacific Gyre Series,” with works addressing plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean. 2:30pm. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station.

415.663.1347.

Feb 20

Hammerfriar Gallery, “Moving Target: American Dream,” mixed media showing from sculptor and educator Ryan Carrington reflects on the public perspective of blue-collar workers in the United States. 6pm. 132 Mill St, Ste 101, Healdsburg.

707.473.9600.

Erickson Fine Art Gallery Through Feb 23, “Carlos Perez: Recent Work,” features the Healdsburg artist’s paintings in oil and mixed media exploring portraits and abstraction. 324 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. Thurs-Tues, 11 to 6. 707.431.7073.

Fogbelt Brewing

Janakos’ vintage antiques and art showroom, Robert Redus’ jewelry and new gallery artists Henrik Liisberg, Teri Sloat and Adam Springer are all featured.

1200 River Rd, Fulton. Sat-Sun, noon to 5pm 707.536.3305.

Gaia’s Garden

Through Mar 15, “The Art of Jonnie Chrystal,” Santa Rosa artists displays her wildlife and farm-life works. 1899 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

Lunch and dinner, MonSat; lunch and brunch, Sun. 707.544.2491.

Gallery One

Through Feb 22, “White Plus One,” juried exhibit.

209 Western Ave, Petaluma.

707.778.8277.

Graton Gallery

Through Feb 28, “Small Works Show,” fifth annual group show is juried by Sandra Speidel and Clark Mitchell. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. Tues-Sat, 10:30 to 6; Sun, 10:30 to 4.

707.829.8912.

History Museum of Sonoma County

Through Feb 28, “Journey to Fountaingrove,” exhibit chronicles the life of Japanese national Nagasawa Kanaye, who took over the Fountaingrove estate and made renowned wines in Sonoma County. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 4. 707.579.1500.

My Daughter the Framer

Through Feb 29, “Botanicals, Birds & Butterflies,” Sonoma County colored-pencil artists Vi Strain, Elizabeth Peyton and Nancy Wheeler Klippert show detailed depictions of nature’s subjects. 637 4th St, Santa Rosa. Daily, 10 to 5:30.

707.542.3599.

Quercia Gallery

Through Feb 29, “SuperMonks,” images by artist Clay Vajgrt that show the calm and peaceful side of superheroes.

1305 Cleveland Ave, Santa Rosa. Wed; 3pm to 9pm, ThursSat; noon to 10pm, Sun; noon to 8pm 707.978.3400.

Through Mar 28, “New Paintings by Inna Talantova,” Soviet Union native now living in the Russian River valley shows her latest plein air paintings. 25193 Hwy 116, Duncans Mills. Fri-Mon, 11am to 5pm and by appointment 707.865.0243.

Fulton Crossing

Riverfront Art Gallery

Through Feb 29, “February Art Show,” Alanna Tillman’s exhibit of acrylic paintings, Craig

Through Mar 6, “Bicycles & Birds,” winter show highlights the work of Petaluma artist

Karen Spratt. 132 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. Wed, Thurs and Sun, 11 to 6. Fri-Sat, 11 to 8.

707.775.4ART.

Sonoma Community Center

Through Feb 26, “Andrews Hall Renovation 2013,” Owen Orser presents a photographic tribute to the center’s recent renovations. 276 E Napa St, Sonoma. Daily, 7:30am to 11pm.

707.938.4626.

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.

MARIN COUNTY Art Works Downtown

Through Feb 26, “Climate Change,” several artists open the dialogue on this timely issue with their art. Through Mar 5, “It’s a Beautiful Day for a Watercolor,” special exhibit and art sale features watercolors by Ronald and Suzanne Bean. 1337 Fourth St, San Rafael. Tues-Sat, 10 to 5.

415.451.8119.

Bay Model Visitor Center

Through Mar 5, “Traces,” San Francisco photographer Elena Sheehan shows her abstract images of rocks and water, shot in Greece and in the San Francisco Bay Area.

2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.332.3871.

Fairfax Library

Through Feb 28, “For the Love of Art,” group show of oil and acrylic paintings by local artists. 2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax. 415.453.8092.

Marin Society of Artists

Through Mar 6, “1515,” celebrating their new location, the society shows works from its talented artist members in a wide range of media. 1515 Third St, San Rafael. Wed-Sun, noon to 4 pm 415.464.9561.

MarinMOCA

Through Feb 21, “Layers,” group show features MarinMOCA members interpreting the theme in materials or meaning.

500 Palm Dr, Novato. WedFri, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, 11 to 5.

415.506.0137.

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts

Through Feb 18, “Art of Love,” romance is in the air with a group showing of Valentine’s-inspired work.

616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. Tues-Sat, 10 to 2; also by appointment. 415.388.4331.

1108 Gallery

Through Feb 29, “Peer to Peer Tobacco Education Art Exhibit,” presented by Bay Area Community Resources and Community Action Marin.

1108 Tamalpais Ave, San Rafael. Thurs-Fri, 5pm to 8pm 415.454.1249.

San Geronimo Valley Community Center

Through Feb 29, “The Floyd Family Traveling Picture Show,” featuring two generations of work from San Geronimo photographers Harlan and Hank Floyd. 6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Geronimo.

415.488.8888.

Seager Gray Gallery

Through Feb 28, “Material Matters,” third annual exploration of the interactions of artists with their materials features several local artists in various media. 108 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

Throckmorton Theatre

Through Feb 28, “Ellen Litwiller Solo Show,” the artists’ paintings of moons of our Solar System are on display through the month. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

NAPA COUNTY Caldwell Snyder Gallery

Through Feb 29, “Cole Morgan Solo Show,” abstract, playful and enigmatic, the shapes and forms represented in Morgan’s paintings seem to live somewhere between imagination and reality. 1328 Main St, St Helena. Open daily, 10 to 6. 415.531.6755.

Comedy Follow the Thread

Improv workshops for novice, beginning and experienced actors, improvisers and comedians.Talented and professional educators draw from their cumulative experience as they skillfully blend the crafts of acting, improvisation and sketch comedy. Wed, 7pm. through Feb 17. $20/week. Throckmorton

Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Jim Jefferies

Brash, rising Australian standup comic appears as part of his “Freedumb” tour Feb 19, 8pm. $40-$50. Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.546.3600.

Dance LINES Ballet Senior Project

Dancers from the dance program perform. Feb 19-20. $10. Angelico Hall, Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael. 415.482.3579.

Hermann Sons Hall

Mondays, 7pm. through May 2, International Folk Dance Class, dances from Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Turkey and more. $7/$65.

415.663.9512. 860 Western Ave, Petaluma.

Monroe Dance Hall

Wednesdays, Singles and Pairs Square Dance Club. Thursdays, Circles ‘n Squares Dance Club.

Sundays, Country-Western dancing and lessons. Mondays, Scottish Country Dancing.

Tuesdays, Razzmataz folk dance club. 1400 W College Ave, Santa Rosa 707.529.5450.

Events (Book) Talk & Walk

New parents are invited to load up the stroller and converse on books, current events and parental topics. Third Thurs of every month, 10am. through Jun 16. Free. Napa Main Library, 580 Coombs St, Napa.

707.253.4070.

Cat Show

Feline fun abounds with hundreds of pedigreed cats and kittens, shelter cats for adoption, original cat-themed artwork and agility contests.

Feb 20-21. $3-$5. Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.545.4200.

Field Trips Beads, Baubles & Found Treasures

Rangers provide instruction in the ancient Viking skill of

“nalbinding,” a technique similar to knitting or crocheting. Bring a found item like a sea shell and get creative on the beach. Feb 17, 11am. McNear’s Beach Park, Cantera Way, San Rafael, marincountyparks.org.

who make their home in Sausalito. Feb 24-25, 7:30pm.

Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

$80. Next Key Center, 1385 N Hamilton Pkwy, Novato.

415.382.3363, ext 213.

The Messenger: Imagine a World Without Birdsong

WWII in the Shadow of Mt. Tam

Madrone Audubon Society hosts a screening of documentary about the struggles of songbirds to survive worldwide. Feb 18, 6:30pm. Summerfield Cinemas, 551 Summerfield Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.528.4222.

Learn all about how to handle these two popular fermented products, with tasting. Space is limited, reservations required. Sat, Feb 20, 1pm. $30.

The Beverage People, 1845 Piner Rd, Ste D, Santa Rosa.

707.544.2520.

Bartleby

Filmmaker Jonathan Parker and musician Seth Asarnow present the new, contemporary film adaptation of the classic story, with a musical performance highlighting the theremin, used heavily in the film. Feb 18, 7pm. $7-$11. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

Best of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

Selections from the most recent SFJFF screens in a fourpart series. Tues, Feb 23, 7pm. $36. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael.

415.444.8000.

Cinema & Psyche: Hidden Treasures

Six-week film series invites cinephiles to study, watch and discuss six hidden film treasures. Feb 22, 2pm. $126. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 240 Channing Way, San Rafael.

Cuba, Libre?

Special screening of the new documentary tracing the history of American travel to Cuba from the early decades of the 20th century until the present day. Feb 19, 7pm.

Sausalito Library, 420 Litho St, Sausalito. 415.289.4121.

CULT Film Series

A double bill of ‘80s fantasy films, “Flash Gordon” and “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai,” screen. Feb 18, 7pm. $10. Roxy Stadium 14 Cinemas, 85 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.525.8909.

Life on the Water Film Series

The world of maritime lore comes to screen with the remarkable personalities

Petaluma Film Alliance hosts a screening of a recent, critically acclaimed film, with preshow lecture and post-show discussion. Wed through May 18. SRJC Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mtn Pkwy, Petaluma. 707.778.3974.

A Reason to Live

Powerful documentary about teen and young adult depression and suicide aims to remove the stigma of depression. With discussion and Q&A following the film.

Feb 20, 7:30pm. by donation.

Congregation Shomrei Torah, 2600 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.578.5519.

A Star Is Born

Author William Wellman Jr presents a rare archival 35mm screening of the 1937 classic, directed by his father, who is the subject of Wellman Jr’s new biography “Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel.”

Feb 21, 4pm. $8-$12. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

Food & Drink The Art of Pasta Making & Pairing

Beringer’s culinary series shows you how to make ravioli and match it with their exclusive wines. Feb 21, 1pm. $40-$50. Beringer Vineyards, 2000 Main St, St Helena, 866.708.9463.

Fresh Starts Chef Event

Chef Joanne Weir, co-owner of Sausalito’s Copita restaurant, presents a menu with new recipes showcased in her latest book, “Kitchen Gypsy,” a copy of which is included in the ticket price. Feb 18, 6:30pm.

Lunch & Learn

Monthly resource for Napa Valley seniors includes lively educational activity and healthy lunch. Reservations required. Third Wed of every month, 11am. Calistoga Community Center, 1307 Washington St, Calistoga.

707.341.3185.

SRJC Wine Classic

Second annual event boasts tastings with over 30 wineries and a celebration of honorary wine classic co-chairs, chef John Ash and Gaye LeBaron.

Feb 21, 2pm. $75. Bertolini Student Center, SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

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Lectures An Evening with Mira Sorvino

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Academy Award-winner and social-justice advocate speaks to the campus and community.

Feb 23, 7:30pm. $10/SSU students Free. Green Music Center, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

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Exploring the Sacredness of Darkness Honoring the sacredness in Black History, China Galland speaks about her sacred pilgrimage of darkness, with Bobby Ellison Finney singing spiritual songs. Feb 24, 7pm.

Free. Unity in Marin, 600 Palm Dr, Novato.

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Spend an evening with John Philip Newell and hear his presentation, “The Sacred Earth: A Celtic Perspective.”

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Mission to Mars

Learn of the progress being made around the world and examine the what, why, how, when and who of the first human mission to Mars. Feb 24, 12pm. Free. Civic Center Library, 3501 Civic Center Dr, San Rafael. 415.499.6058. Learn about the plans for sending men to Mars, with Dr Pascal Lee of the Mars Institute. Feb 24, 7pm. Corte Madera Library.

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One in 400,000

The Space Station Museum presents retired Air Force pilot Don Shields with a presentation about his experiences with the Apollo Lunar Module, Skylab, and being in the space race.

Feb 24, 6:30pm. San Rafael Library, 1100 E St, San Rafael.

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Porpoises & Dolphins of the SF Bay Area Up-to-date info comes from biologists at the Golden Gate Cetacean Research Organization. Feb 23, 7pm. $5. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

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Science & Our Climate

Aquarium of the Bay collaborates with the Bay Model to show the science behind the climate change headlines. Feb 20, 11:30am. Free. Bay Model Visitor Center, 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.3871.

A Survivor’s Story of Escape & Determination Listen to longtime San Rafael resident Herbert Heller’s inspiring story of courage and determination in escaping Auschwitz and the Nazis in WWII. Feb 21, 2pm. Chabad Jewish center of Novato, 7430 Redwood Bl Suite D, Novato.

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Watch a livestream of the popular TED Conference.

Feb 18, 1pm. $20-$40. Lucky Penny Community Arts Center, 1758 Industrial Way, Napa.

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Readings Arlene Francis Center

Feb 20, 8pm, Parking Lot Poets,

featuring Los Angeles poet Matt Sedillo. $10. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa 707.528.3009.

Book Passage

Feb 17, 7pm, “Breaking Wild” with Diane Les Becquets.

Feb 18, 7pm, “Mixed Up with Murder” with Susan Shea, in conversation with Terry Shames. Feb 19, 7pm, “The Portable Veblen” with Elizabeth McKenzie. Feb 20, 1pm, “The Future of Mental Health” with Eric Maisel. Feb 20, 4pm, “Snapshots and a Bagel” with Ethel Seiderman, in conversation with Isabel Allende. Feb 21, 1pm, “Winston Churchill Reporting” with Simon Read. Feb 23, 7pm, “Why We Came to the City” with Kristopher Jansma. Feb 24, 7pm, reading the poets with John Hart. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Newman Auditorium

Feb 22, 12pm, “Movies Change Lives” with Dr Tony Kashani.

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Feb 20, 7pm, the Arcana Familia book series with Randy Henderson. 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma 707.762.0563.

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Feb 23, 7pm, “Vegan Under Pressure” with Jill Nussinow.

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Rebound Bookstore

Feb 24, 6:30pm, Hand to Mouth/ WORDS SPOKEN OUT, with authors Joseph Zaccardi and Les Bernstein. 1611 Fourth St, San Rafael 415.482.0550.

San Rafael Copperfield’s Books Feb 20, 7pm, “I’ll See You in Paris” with Michelle Gable.

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Feb 20, 7pm, “All the Winters After” with Sere Prince Halverson. Feb 23, 6pm, “Trains to Concordia” with Marilyn Campbell. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa 707.578.8938.

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Sonoma Valley Portworks

Feb 19, 7pm, “Cheddar” with Gordon Edgar, presented by Copperfield’s Books, with cheese and port sampling.

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Sweetwater Music Hall Feb 24, 7pm, Notes & Words preparty, with author Kelly Corrigan and musical guests WJM. $20 and up. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley 415.388.1100.

Theater Ain’t I a Woman

San Francisco Theological Seminary presents the musical one-woman-show celebrating the lives and times of four significant African American women. Feb 18, 7pm. $20. Montgomery Chapel, 5 Richmond Rd, San Anselmo.

Arches, Balance & Light Ross Valley Players present the world premiere production of Bay Area playwright Mary Spletter, inspired by Julia Morgan, California’s first woman licensed architect.

Feb 18-Mar 6. $10-$20. Barn Theatre, Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross. 415.456.9555.

The BFG

Dallas Children’s Theater brings the classic tale to life with gigantic puppets and magical humor for kids ages three and up. Feb 21, 3pm. $5-$17. Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

A Cajun Midsummer Night’s Dream

Novato Theater Company transports Puck to the Bayou in this spicy rendition of Shakespeare’s fantastical comedy, adapted and directed

by Clay David. Through Feb 21. $12-$27. Novato Theater Playhouse, 5420 Nave Dr, Novato. 415.883.4498.

The classic tale of Don Juan gets a hilariously skewed adaptation, resented by Pegasus Theater Company.

Through Feb 28. $18. Graton Community Club, 8996 Graton Rd, Graton. 800.838.3006.

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Heart in the Hood

Feb 20, 7pm, “Succulent Wild Love” with Sark and

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Bay Area TV, film and stage actor Michael Sommers writes and performs this funny true story of a Vermont native moving to west Oakland. Feb 17, 7pm. $10. Presidio Yacht Club, Fort Baker, Sommerville Rd, Sausalito. 415.332.2319.

Kismet

This award-winning Arabian Nights musical adventure is packed with mirth and melody for a wild and magical ride.

Through Feb 28. $16-$26.

Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. 707.588.3400.

Lear’s Shadow

New solo show written and performed by humorist Geoff Hoyle tells Shakespeare’s “King Lear” from the view of the king’s jester. Feb 20, 7pm. $25. Dance Palace, 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station. 415.663.1075.

Love Letters

North Bay Stage Company presents the imaginative theater piece, performed by a rotating ensemble of players and comprised of letters exchanged between two people over the course of their lifetimes. Through Feb 21. $24.

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

Once on This Island

A Caribbean adaptation of the popular fairy tale, “The Little Mermaid,” presented by JustinSiena’s award-winning theatre program. Feb 19-27. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville. 707.944.9900.

Powerful Women Within Petaluma troupe of women performers present an entirely new and powerful stage production. Feb 19, 7pm. $20.

St John’s Episcopal Church, 40 Fifth St, Petaluma.

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Feb 19, 7:30pm, “Mushrooms Demystified” with David Arora, presented by Copperfield’s Books. 390 Morris St, Sebastopol 707.874.3176.

of his funny true story about moving from Vermont to west Oakland. Feb 24, 7pm. $5-$10.

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Reel Empowerment

Social Action film series focuses on mental health Overlooking Bennett Valley in eastern Santa Rosa since 1974, the progressive Congregation Shomrei Torah is now the largest Jewish congregation in Sonoma County, propelled by a dedication to learning programs and social-action committees open to people of all spiritual and social interests.

This weekend, the congregation’s Social Action Goes to the Movies film series opens its 2016 season with the theme “Mental Illness . . . It Takes a Community,” with a screening of the powerful documentary A Reason to Live. Produced in 2008, the short doc examines the sensitive subject of teen depression and suicide with thoughtful and personal stories told by young people and families of all walks of life.

Following the screening, a panel discussion and Q&A will feature representatives from the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the Sonoma County Crisis Assessment, Prevention and Education Team.

In the following months, the film series will also present films ranging from adolescent misunderstandings of masculinity to the crisis of U.S. soldiers suffering from PTSD. The series wraps in May with a community forum on depression that includes several Sonoma County mental-health experts.

A Reason to Live screens on Saturday, Feb. 20, at Congregation Shomrei Torah, 2600 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa.

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ARIES (March 21–April 19) “Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent,” said playwright Lillian Hellman. “When that happens, it is possible to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman’s dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea.” Why does this happen? Because the painter changed his or her mind.

Early images were replaced, painted over. I suspect that a metaphorical version of this is underway in your life.

Certain choices you made in the past got supplanted by choices you made later. They disappeared from view.

But now those older possibilities are re-emerging for your consideration. I’m not saying what you should do about them. I simply want to alert you to their ghostly presence so they don’t cause confusion.

Let’s talk about your mouth. Since your words flow out of it, you use it to create and shape a lot of your experiences. Your mouth is also the place where food and drink enter your body, as well as some of the air you breathe. So it’s crucial to fueling every move you make. You experience the beloved sense of taste in your mouth. You use your mouth for kissing and other amorous activities. With its help, you sing, moan, shout and laugh. It’s quite expressive, too. As you move its many muscles, you send out an array of emotional signals. I’ve provided this summary in the hope of inspiring you to celebrate your mouth, Taurus. It’s prime time to enhance your appreciation of its blessings!

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) Coloring books for adults are bestsellers. Tightly wound folks relieve their stress by using crayons and markers to brighten up black-and-white drawings of butterflies, flowers, mandalas and pretty fishes. I highly recommend that you avoid this type of recreation in the next three weeks, as it would send the wrong message to your subconscious mind. You should expend as little energy as possible working within frameworks that others have made. You need to focus on designing and constructing your own frameworks.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) The Old Testament book of Leviticus presents a long list of forbidden activities, and declares that anyone who commits them should be punished. You’re not supposed to get tattoos, have messy hair, consult oracles, work on Sunday, wear clothes that blend wool and linen, plant different seeds in the same field or eat snails, prawns, pigs and crabs.

(It’s OK to buy slaves, though.) We laugh at how absurd it would be for us to obey these outdated rules and prohibitions, and yet many of us retain a superstitious loyalty toward guidelines and beliefs that are almost equally obsolete. Here’s the good news, Cancerian: Now is an excellent time to dismantle or purge your own fossilized formulas.

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LEO (July 23–August 22) “I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well,” said the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau. In accordance with your astrological constitution, Leo, I authorize you to use this declaration as your own almost any time you feel like it. But I do suggest that you make an exception to the rule during the next four weeks. In my opinion, it will be time to focus on increasing your understanding of the people you care about—even if that effort takes time and energy away from your quest for ultimate selfknowledge. Don’t worry: You can return to emphasizing Thoreau’s perspective by the equinox.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) You are entering the inquisitive phase of your astrological cycle. One of the best ways to thrive during the coming weeks will be to ask more questions than you have asked since you were five years old. Curiosity and good listening skills will be superpowers that you should you strive to activate. For now, what matters most is not what you already know but rather what you need to find out. It’s a favorable time to gather information about riddles and mysteries that have perplexed you for a long time. Be super-receptive and extra wide-eyed!

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) Poet Barbara Hamby says the Russian word ostyt can be used to

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describe “a cup of tea that is too hot, but after you walk to the next room, and return, it is too cool.” A little birdie told me that this may be an apt metaphor for a current situation in your life. I completely understand if you wish the tea had lost less of its original warmth, and was exactly the temperature you like, neither burning nor tepid. But that won’t happen unless you try to reheat it, which would change the taste. So what should you do? One way or the other, a compromise will be necessary. Do you want the lukewarm tea or the hot tea with a different flavor?

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

Russian writer Ivan Turgenev was a Scorpio. Midway through his first novel Rudin, his main character Dmitrii Nikolaevich Rudin alludes to a problem that affects many Scorpios. “Do you see that apple tree?” Rudin asks a woman companion. “It is broken by the weight and abundance of its own fruit.” Ouch! I want very much for you Scorpios to be spared a fate like that in the coming weeks. That’s why I propose that you scheme about how you will express the immense creativity that will be welling up in you. Don’t let your lush and succulent output go to waste.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21) Asking you Sagittarians to be patient may be akin to ordering a bonfire to burn more politely. But it’s my duty to inform you of the cosmic tendencies, so I will request your forbearance for now. How about some nuances to make it more palatable? Here’s a quote from author David G. Allen: “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.“ Novelist Gustave Flaubert: “Talent is a long patience.“ French playwright Moliere: “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.“ Writer Anne Lamott: “Hope is a revolutionary patience.” I’ve saved the best for last, from Russian novelist Irène Némirovsky: “Waiting is erotic.“

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) “If you ask for help, it comes, but not in any way you’d ever know.” Poet Gary Snyder said that, and now I’m passing it on to you, Capricorn. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to think deeply about the precise kinds of help you would most benefit from— even as you loosen up your expectations about how your requests for aid might be fulfilled. Be aggressive in seeking assistance, but ready and willing to be surprised as it arrives.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) For a limited time only, 153 is your lucky number. Mauve and olive are your colors of destiny, the platypus is your power animal and torn burlap mended with silk thread is your magic texture. I realize that all of this may sound odd, but it’s the straight-up truth. The nature of the cosmic rhythms are rather erratic right now. To be in maximum alignment with the irregular opportunities that are headed your way, you should probably make yourself magnificently mysterious, even to yourself. To quote an old teacher, this might be a good time to be “so unpredictable that not even you yourself knows what’s going to happen.”

PISCES (February 19–March 20)

In the longrunning TV show M*A*S*H*, the character known as Sidney Freedman was a psychiatrist who did his best to nurture the mental health of the soldiers in his care.

He sometimes departed from conventional therapeutic approaches. In the series finale, he delivered the following speech, which I believe is highly pertinent to your current quest for good mental hygiene: “I told you people something a long time ago, and it’s just as pertinent today as it was then. Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: Pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”

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