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Dear Friend, I wanted to let everyone know what happened while I was in college. It was a moment that changed my life forever. But before I tell you about my experience, I wanted to tell you my story from the start.

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

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

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

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

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

A friend of mine convinced me to give a chiropractor a try. The chiropractor did an my spine. The adjustment didn’t hurt, it actually felt good. I got relief, and I soon was off all medication. It worked so well that I decided, then and there, to become a chiropractor myself.

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Ramen Gladiators We are enthusiastic local customers who have been to Ramen Gaijin twice (“Triple Shot,” March 30), but the no-reservations rule is a misstep. During a 90-minute wait, we noted that the entire bar side was empty by 8:30pm. Ramen Gaijin has three distinct areas: the wet bar, the ramen side of the restaurant and a middle section that straddles both halves. The restaurant’s inability to serve ramen, at

least in the middle, is a misstep. We would gladly sit there to enjoy the ramen menu, as I’m sure others would as well when confronted with a very long wait.

Yes, the food is amazing: you will shake your head in disbelief that this is available in Sebastopol. We will always come back; however, we worry that the “no reservations” rule will hurt the restaurant, and the limited ramen seating is just unfortunate. This is apparently because they did not expand the ramen-cooking area of the kitchen during the renovation. That’s puzzling,

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Cow-a-Bungle Once again the National Park Service is under fire in the Bay Area for issues of mismanagement (“Beef of Burden,” March 30). There’s been a constant drone of criticism from Drakes Bay to West Marin cattle ranching practices to tule elk dying of thirst to massive traffic at Muir Woods damaging the environment to curtailing legitimate recreational uses at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Has anyone ever given thought that maybe the National Park Service is not the right agency, considering that its experience and forte is managing remote wilderness areas? Yes, these are hard, complex issues. Yes, there are competing interests. Of course it’s not easy. Yet this is not a good performance review by any stretch. Can anyone argue that it’s not time for a total shake-up and revamping of NPS leadership and operations in the Bay Area?

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Dept. of Corrections The National Park Service called last week with a couple of clarifications and corrections to last week’s “Beef of Burden” story. There are 4,000 cattle in Point Reyes National Seashore, and another 2,000 in parkland administered by the PRNS but located in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area—not 6,000 in PRNS, as we reported. The NPS also wanted to make clear that in the Drakes Bay Oyster Company lawsuit, the NPS was sued by Drakes Bay. Finally, NPS wanted to clarify that the parks service enlisted the University of Wisconsin to test 18 elk for Johne’s disease and found that, while none of the animals exhibited symptoms of the disease, which includes emaciation, a few were found to have contracted the bacteria that causes the disease.

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The following are facts I located in the public records and via verbal confirmation from Councilmember Julie Combs. The Courthouse Square project is classified as a “capital improvement project” (CIP). These projects are subject to annual public budget review requirements, which take place over a five-year period prior to the commencement of a project. City charter section 28 requires that “prior to any annual goal setting meeting held by the Council, the Council shall hold a public hearing seeking oral and written comment from the public on budget priorities for the upcoming fiscal year.”

The capital budget records account for the five-year budget review of Courthouse Square sewer and street repairs. But Combs informed me that the remaining expenditures for Courthouse Square do not need to pass the five-year public-budget review, even though I pressed her on the fact that the taxpayer general fund will be used to pay for the project.

City charter section 10 requires that the council shall receive advisement through its appointed community advisory board (CAB). The CAB’s responsibility is to “greatly increase citizen and neighborhood participation and responsibility,” including helping to set annual “CIP budget priorities for their respective districts.” But the CAB failed to comply with a January deadline for the Courthouse Square community budget outreach. Combs gave me no guarantee that the council would enforce the charter.

The charter requirements are the city’s governing constitution voted by the people, which the city council must fulfill. If it is not, citizens remain unrepresented in meetings in which they’re allowed to participate—to support or oppose CIP budget priorities and review regarding Courthouse Square.

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Fee or Not to Fee Iron ranger battle likely to be settled at next Coastal Commission meeting BY TOM GOGOLA

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he term “iron ranger” may invoke a misbegotten 1980s hard-rock hybrid between San Francisco’s Night Ranger and British metal legends Iron Maiden— but of course beach-loving readers of the Bohemian know the iron rangers as the devilish devices that the state wants to install in eight coastal parks and parking lots in Sonoma County.

Critics have knocked the state’s

pay-to-park plan for its dishonoring of the 1976 California Coastal Act, which enshrines equal access to the beach for all, regardless of one’s race, class or gruesomely weathered lizard skin. The issue will likely be resolved late next week when the California Coastal Commission meets in Santa Rosa to take up the proposal.

The pay-to-park fight has waged for several years between the California Department of Parks and Recreation (which wants the parking fees) and Sonoma County (whose supervisors unanimously rejected the plan in 2013). The

iron rangers would be installed at destinations like Goat Rock, Salmon Creek, Shell Beach and other spots along a 35-mile stretch of Sonoma County coast.

The state appealed the county’s decision to the commission, which will meet on April 13–15 at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Santa Rosa. The meeting was moved from a smaller facility in anticipation of big crowds.

Every indication is that the commission is going to nix the state’s plan, since that’s what commission staff recommended in an epic February report on

the dust-up that ran to over 700 pages. There, commission staff noted the popularity of the subject beaches, which draw over 3 million visitors annually— almost all of them arriving by car, and many from lower-income residences of Sonoma County.

“These facilities are essential for continuing lower-cost access to the coast at all for many economically disadvantaged groups,” the commission staffers noted, “including the significant Latino population centers located near and within the city of Santa Rosa. In many ways, the question of whether to charge fees here can also be considered a question of social justice.” That’s what local critics of the plan said when the state first announced its intention to install the iron rangers.

The machines have themselves been upgraded by the state over the years, and the state apparently believes this should be reason enough to install them—while also suggesting that charging people $8 to park for the day will bring more people to the beach. Don’t you love how technology provides its own rationale?

In a 2015 letter to the Coastal Commission, the state says it “will demonstrate pay station installation will not result in damage to coastal resources, and will actually enhance public access to the coastline within Sonoma County. . . .”

“The available technology now employed has rapidly evolved and improved,” the letter continues, before describing the high-tech machines as solar-powered, WiFiequipped devices that “allow for the purchase of day use access through the use of cash, debit, credit, and Pay Pass options. . . .

Users can add time using their smartphones in locations where cell phone service is available, and [California State Parks] can alternate rate schedules to ensure maximum access is promoted.”

“You’re motoring / what’s your price for flight?” asked Night Ranger’s Santa Rosa–based frontman Jack Blades, in the band’s hit “Sister Christian.” Next week’s Coastal Commission meeting ought to answer that question once and for all. Oh, the time has come.

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D E B RI E F E R California’s crab fleet is back in action after many months of being stuck at the dock waiting for domoic acid levels to drop in the Dungeness fishery. Now that they’re back to work, State Sen. Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg, has another crabrelated bill he’s pushing through the Legislature—one to keep the ocean free of lost crab gear, or “ghost pots,” as they’re called. McGuire last week offered a bill that aims to help California’s whale population from getting entangled in lost or abandoned crab gear that litters the ocean floor. His bill, SB 1287, provides incentives to fishermen “to retrieve Dungeness crab fishing gear that would otherwise be lost.”

It’s the first program of its kind in California that isn’t a voluntary pilot program; other coastal states have also enacted ghost-pot retrieval laws.

Every year, writes McGuire’s office in a release, hundreds of pots, some with hundreds of feet of rope attached, are lost during the fishing season.

Whales get entangled in the gear, and it’s a bad scene for the mammals.

The McGuire plan would be administered through the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Who’s going to pay those incentives to gear retrievers? The crabbers themselves will fund the program.

Under McGuire’s bill, the crabber whose lost or abandoned pot is retrieved will pay a retrieval fee once it’s been salvaged. That fee has yet to be set by Fish and Wildlife.

A single commercial Dungeness crab pot retails for around $100, according to online sources. They’re not cheap to replace. Does the fisherman who lost the pot at least get it back after paying the retrieval fee? Yes, he does. The State Senate’s Natural Resources Committee takes up the McGuire bill on April 12.

Weep and Quail Petaluma-based vegetable and quail-egg farmer Molly Myerson recently lost her business to a fire, a

tough deal for her and the Bay Area restaurants that purchase her eggs and produce. Myerson, a thirtysomething native of New York City, operates the one-acre Little Wing Farm between Bloomfield and Tomales, and was profiled in these pages last Thanksgiving for the amazing, locally sourced holiday menu she contributed to the pages of the equally amazing, locally sourced Inverness Almanac. There was a benefit for Myerson at the restaurant Saltwater in Inverness last week, the first of a few that are in the offing as Myerson tries to get back on her feet. If you want to help her out, contact Myerson directly: PO Box 2770, Petaluma 94953.

Go Rental Santa Rosa City Council member Julie Combs sent us a heads-up text last week as the Santa Rosa City Council was voting on a couple of rent-related regulations that we wrote about last month. Combs reported that a rent-stabilization and a just-cause-for-eviction measure were voted out of a council subcommittee “with a recommendation to support” on April 1. Those measures will come up for a full vote on May 10 and would enact a so-called soft rent stabilization program that won’t come with a big new city bureaucracy to enforce it.

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Kern lives in Rohnert Park, but her former career as an artist and product developer regularly took her to Shenzhen, China. It was in China’s manufacturing hub, a city where air pollution stains the sky

brown and tints the sun red, that she says she was exposed to toxic levels of lead and mercury.

Once home, Kern felt foggyheaded for days, like jet lag that never ended. Her eyes were red and her nose runny. She knew something was wrong and visited 25 doctors. It was only when she visited an environmental test center in Dallas that she discovered the toxins, and she then underwent various alternative treatments to heal herself.

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Kern says. “I was told I had to rebuild my cells from the inside out.”

It was switching to a vegan, raw-food diet, and healthy servings of chlorophyll, that really helped her feel good again. It was an initially radical change for someone who grew up in Nebraska eating the typical American diet heavy on corn-fed beef.

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lack of vegan offerings in Sonoma County, he struck upon the idea of opening a restaurant to bring the food he was eating to a wider audience. Together with partner Ismael Serrano, he opened Seed to Leaf early last year.

For a decidedly nichey restaurant, the place attracts a crowd of appreciative diners for breakfast and lunch. It’s a narrow space with a long bar and a row of tables and banquettes. No doubt many customers are vegetarian and vegans, but thanks to talented chef Brooke Miller, the food is appealing to all. There is no tofu on the menu, an ingredient that’s known to cause inflammation, Kern says. Instead, there are whole, fresh foods creatively prepared.

One of my favorite things on the menu are the “tacos” ($12), made with walnuts in place of beef and a cashew-chipotle cream.

I also loved the warming beans and greens, a rich, turmeric-spiked broth loaded with pleasantly bitter greens and buttery gigante beans ($8).

Most gluten-free bread I’ve tried isn’t fit for pigeon feed, but Miller’s vegan version is excellent. It’s more seed than grains and made with millet, teff and quinoa. If you call ahead, you can order it by the loaf.

The list of smoothies, fresh juices and “tonics” is great too.

I’ve become a fan of the “cherry pie” smoothie (cherries, hemp protein powder, cacao nibs, cacao powder, mint and house-made almond “mylk”; $9), and I love the golden latte—almond milk, coconut oil, black pepper, honey, turmeric and a shot of espresso ($6).

The desserts are actually good for you, and you won’t miss the eggs and butter. Check out the raw “cheez cake” of the day made with almond meal, coconut-date crust and cashew-coconut cream ($7).

When people thank her for opening the restaurant, Kern demurs, saying it wasn’t really her doing.

“That was so much that wasn’t intended that came to fruition,” she says. “It was something that my destiny drove me to do.”

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S O N O MA CO U N T Y Estero Cafe American. $-$$. Mother-and-daughter team serve locally sourced comfort food. Burgers, corned beef hash, fish and chips– pretty much what you’re looking for. 14450 Hwy 1, Valley Ford. 707.876.3333.

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Gaia’s Garden Vegetarian. $. International vegetarian buffet featuring curries, soups, pasta or polenta and sauce, rice, steamed vegetables, salad bar, homemade bread and desserts. Vegan-friendly, beer and wine. 1899 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.544.2491.

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Healdsburg hotspot, and his craft is reflected in the menu, rife with innovation and local ingredients. 214 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg. 707.433.1520.

Old Chicago Pizza Pizza. $$. Casual rustic dining with tremendous pizza, ranging from the deepest-dish to the crispiest-crust. Toppings galore and history aplenty; yes, the building used to be a whorehouse. 41 Petaluma Blvd.

N., Petaluma. 707.763.3897.

Sante California. $$. In this world-class spa setting sample Sonoma County-inspired dishes or an elegant traditional brunch. 18140 Sonoma Hwy, Boyes Hot Springs.

707.939.2415.

Traditional diner food treated with utter respect; the quality ingredients make for sublime eating 13647 Arnold Dr, Glen Ellen. 707.935.1565.

Sazon Continental. $$.

Excellent, family-owned Peruvian restaurant with authentic recipes, innovative dishes and the to-diefor chicha morada. 1129 Sebastopol Road, Santa Rosa.

707.523.4346.

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Thai Issan Thai. $$.

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American. $$. Very casual comfort-food spot.

Sandwiches, pasta and the Cajun cornerstone, gumbo.

Breakfast is the show-stealer with gourmet omelets and a puffy Dutch pancake. 972 Gravenstein Hwy, Sebastopol.

707.861.3777.

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. 230 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol, 707.829.7300; 691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100.

La Fondita Mexican.

$. Hearty, filling, very tasty.

No glop or goop here. 816 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.526.0881.

Mateo’s Cocina Latina Mexican. $$. Chef

Mateo Granados served underground Yucatan dinners for months before opening this

Popular full-spectrum Thai restaurant. 208 N Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.762.5966.

Twist Eatery California.

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

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

Willi’s Wine Bar Bistro.

$$$. 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.

MARIN CO U N T Y Ciccio Italian. $$. A wood-

fired oven churns out simple

pizzas and seasonal entrees often made with ingredients from the restaurant’s own gardens. 6770 Washington St., Yountville. 707.945.1000.

The Garden

Mediterranean. $$. Casual environment supplying dishes with Mediterranean and Italian flair. Pastas and salads seem to be a favorite among regulars.

333 Enfrente Road, Novato.

415.883.9277.

Nick’s Cove American.

$$$$. Fresh from the bay oysters, upscale seafood, some steaks and a great burger.

23240 State Route 1, Marshall.

415.663.1033.

123 Bolinas California.

$$. Urban-moderne decor pairs with a locally sourced menu for a must-try highlight on the Fairfax dining scene.

Pizza, soups, local cheese and charcuterie, greens and a wine bar, all done well. 123 Bolinas St., Fairfax. 415.488.5123.

Paradise Bay American. $$. For tasty standards and vegetarian items. Also get a delicious curry here. 1200 Bridgeway Ave, Sausalito.

415.331.3226.

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.

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.

Sorella Caffe Italian.

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

Station House Cafe

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

Sushi Ran Japanese. $$$$.

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

107 Caledonia St., Sausalito.

415.332.3620.

Tavola Italian Kitchen

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

The William Tell House American. $$. Marin

County’s oldest saloon.

Casual and jovial atmosphere.

Steaks, pasta, chicken and fish all served with soup or salad. 26955 Hwy 1, Tomales.

707.878.2403.

Yet Wah Chinese. $$.

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

1238 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.460.9883.

N A PA CO U N TY Buster’s Barbecue

Barbecue. $. A very busy roadside destination–for a reason. It’s the hot sauce, available in two heats: regular and hot. And the hot, as the sign says, means “hot!”

1207 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga.

707.942.5606.

Checkers California. $$.

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

Fumé Bistro & Bar

California cuisine. $$$.

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

707.257.1999.

Goose & Gander

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

1245 Spring St, St Helena.

707.967.8779.

Gott’s Roadside Tray Gourmet Diner. $-$$.

Formerly Taylor’ Automatic Refresher. Famous! 933 Main

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California Roots Napa’s Basalt restaurant opened this week and showcases a menu inspired

by California’s first settlers, drawing on flavors from Mexico, Spain and Portugal. Chef Esteban Escobar, formerly of San Francisco’s Town Hall and Walnut Creek’s Corners Tavern, has created a menu of plates large and small that includes dishes like chicharrones with lime salt and honey; marinated and fried chicken wings with cilantro cream; chorizo consommé with toasted noodles, pork belly and poached egg; and an achiote-cocoa-marinated black cod.

The restaurant is playing up its bar offerings, created by cocktail master Jason “Buffalo” LoGrasso. In addition to a solid list of classic cocktails, the bar will feature a 20-head tap system for wine and beer. The handsome interior was designed by Rapt Studios, which sourced 80 percent of all furnishings and lighting from local artisans and fabricators.

Basalt is open for dinner, 5pm to 10pm, Sunday–Thursday, and until 11pm on Friday and Saturday. Lunch service will be added later. 790 Main St., Napa. 707.927.5265. basaltnapa.com.—Stett Holbrook

St, St Helena. 707.963.3486.

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707.224.6900.

JoLe California. $$$. Casual familial vibes with adventurous interpretations of already loved dishes. Crab cocktail, pork shoulder, and a burger with truffle-flavored cheese.

Maximize your experience by trying the tasting menu.

1457 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga.

707.942.5938.

Morimoto Japanese.

$$$$. Upscale meets casual with a wide range of Asianinspired dishes from Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. Cold and hot appetizers, great seafood options, and newcomer dishes such as Tuna Pizza. Perfect for the adventurous eater. 610 Main St, Napa. 707.252.1600.

Mustard’s Grill American. $$$. “Deluxe truck stop

classics” include Dungeness crab cakes with chipotle aioli, grilled Laotian quail with cucumber-scallion salad and a bacon-wrapped rabbit roulade.

7399 St. Helena Hwy, Napa.

707.944.2424.

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

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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.

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

Wineries in these listings appear on a rotating basis.

Dinner with the Winemaker Friday, April 15, 2016

6:30 No-Host Reception ~ 7:00 Dinner $ 95 plus tax and gratuity

Special Guest Justin Seinfeld, Winemaker

RESERVATIONS: 707.875.2751 800 Hwy One, Bodega Bay 707.875.2751 • www.InnattheTides.com

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

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

Saturday Terroir Tour, $30.

707.827.4933.

tasting room adjacent the cellar. Is that a Jackalope, or is that just the Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel? Also on hand is Papapietro-Perry and the six Family Wineries of Dry Creek.

Dashe Cellars crafts mainly powerful Zinfandels and other reds. At Kokomo Winery, it’s about the reds. Also look for Mietz Cellars, Lago di Merlo and Collier Falls. 4791 Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg.

Tasting rooms generally open daily from around 11am to 4:30pm. 707.433.0100.

707.431.7568.

Lambert Bridge Winery On gloomy

Trione Vineyards & Winery One-time owners

afternoons, a string of lights and a curl of smoke from the stone chimney make this Dry Creek landmark all the more inviting. Chandelierilluminated redwood cellar is a warm setting to sample meticulously crafted Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Zin and claret paired with gourmet small plates. 4085 West Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg. Open 10:30am–4:30pm. Tasting fee $15; food pairing, $45.

707.431.9600.

707•545•6900 135 fourth street, santa rosa jacksonsbarandoven.com

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Preston Vineyards Ask many locals which is their favorite winery, more than a few will tell you they’re huge fans of quirky Preston. Limited picnicking facilities, organic vegetables and homemade bread for sale. On Sundays, the bread is fresh and the Italianstyle jug wine, Guadagni, flows. 9282 W. Dry Creek Road, Healdsburg. Open daily, 11am– 4:30pm. 707.433.3372.

Thumbprint Cellars

of Geyser Peak Winery now wear all the different hats that a small winery requires. A popular stop along a well-liked cycling route, where you’re likely to be greeted with a glass of crisp Sauvignon Blanc, or Bubba the bulldog.

19550 Geyserville Ave., Geyserville. Thursday–Sunday, 10am–5pm. Tasting fee, $5–$15. 707.814.8100.

MARIN COUNTY Heidrun Meadery This

is not your fæder’s mead: flower varietal, regional, méthode champenoise sparkling mead on a farm made for the bees. 11925 Hwy. 1, Point Reyes Station. By appointment only, Monday– Friday. 415.663.9122.

Point Reyes Vineyards The tasting

Vegan wines named Arousal, Threesome and Four Play; but it all started out innocently enough. Downtown lounge offers curvaceous bar, hookah-den-styled booth, and seasonal nosh.

102 Matheson St., Healdsburg.

Open 11am to 6pm Sunday– Thursday, to 7pm Saturday.

Tastings $5–$10; with food pairing, $10–$20.

707.433.2393.

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

12700 Hwy. 1, Point Reyes.

415.663.1011.

Timber Crest Farms

Acacia Vineyard

Animal labels abound at Peterson Winery’s expanded

NAPA COUNTY Acclaimed Pinot and Chardonnay; their biggest

client is Costco, but Ducks Unlimited is also a fan. 2750 Las Amigas Road, Napa.

Monday through Saturday, 10am–4pm; Sunday, noon– 4pm. $15. 707.226.9991.

Clos Pegase Winery

(WC) Practically an art museum. A 2,800-square-foot “cave theater” plays frequent host to parties and more.

Tasting flight, $20–$30. 1060 Dunaweal Lane, Calistoga.

Open daily, 10:30am–5pm.

800.366.8583.

Constant (WC) Boutique winery specializing in the kind of Cabernet that makes the Wine Spectator drool. 2121 Diamond Mountain Road, Napa. By appointment.

707.942.0707.

St. Supéry Expect to find

the tasting room crowded, but St. Supéry features an interesting art gallery with changing exhibitions.

8440 St. Helena Hwy., Rutherford. Open daily, 10am– 5pm. 800.942.0809.

Saintsbury A contrarian enterprise in the 1970s, now a hallowed hall of Carneros Pinot Noir. Visitors may linger under shade trees in fair weather or sit down for a serious tasting adjacent the office. 1500 Los Carneros Ave., Napa. Monday– Saturday, by appointment.

707.252.0592.

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

707.942.7022 Vermeil Wines Pair the Chardonnay with baked brie en croute, if you’re having that kind of Super Bowl party.

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

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‘Cult’ winery Thackrey & Company turns up in Forestville BY JAMES KNIGHT

T

he story of how Andreas Krieger became assistant winemaker to Sean Thackrey, the reputedly enigmatic vintner who’s been ensconced with his barrels in Bolinas since 1981, is really quite simple. “I put my bike on the fence, and walked around to the door, and introduced myself,” says Krieger. “I said, ‘Hi, I’m Andreas from Switzerland.’”

Now it’s just as easy to introduce yourself to the wines of Thackrey & Co. at its Forestville location—tucked away in an old backstreet cellar—where Krieger tends to the winery’s flagship Pleiades red blend, while juicing up the brand with new white blends.

Thackrey got the inspiration for his “heretic wine” when a batch of Nebbiolo that turned out rather wan and funky was transformed by the addition of Grenache. The blend is consistent year to year only in the way that a painter’s style is, explains Krieger: you recognize it in an entirely different painting. The heresy of Pleiades XXIV Old Vines ($24) is that it’s based on Pinot Noir, which is rarely seen in blends, let alone with Sangiovese. Showing a savory, sage aroma and light cherry fruit, the wine takes its time introducing notes of mandarin orange tea, raspberry pastille and vanilla bean. Silky texture builds on the light, quaffable palate as the wine becomes more interesting with each sip.

The new, white version of Pleiades, La Pleïade II ($24), is a blend of Roussanne, Marsanne and Viognier that hints at “orange wine,” although the crushed grapes were only soaked, not fermented, on their skins. An exotic medley of fermented apricots, marmalade, butterscotch and cinnamon bark leads to fleshy fruit and a firm, dry finish.

The second vintage inspired by a Sangiovese project that preferred to be a rosé instead, the 2014 Fifi ($24), is a bright, fun rosé with crunchy cherry flavor. On the deeply colored and alluring end of the spectrum, the 2013 Sirius Mendocino County Petite Sirah ($45) plays up the varietal’s cassis and blueberry sauce character with flavorful results.

Thackrey calls his 2013 Orion ($90) a “California native red wine,” a typically cryptic designation that really means it’s a singlevineyard field blend from old vines. Unlike many such blends, it’s light on Zinfandel and heavier on blueberry-fruited Petite Sirah (and whatever mystery varieties the vineyard contains). At 15.7 percent alcohol by volume, it’s a big, deceptively juicy wine, the intense olallieberry fruit obscuring a tannic chassis that, rather than crumbling after the bottle’s been open for three days, just keeps rolling that fruit along.

Thackrey’s wines are also available by the glass or bottle at Marin Sun Farms. Thackrey & Company, 6450 First St., Forestville.

Tasting by appointment, Saturday and Sunday. 707.820.1428.

(See this week’s Feature, p16, for an interview with Sean Thackrey.)

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Iconoclast Winemaker Sean Thackrey on terroir, home cooking and the wine of ancient mariners BY JAMES KNIGHT

E

ven if you can’t find Sean Thackrey in Bolinas, you expect to find Sean Thackrey in Bolinas.

He’s been called eclectic, eccentric and idiosyncratic, and that’s just in one magazine article. Add cryptic, enigmatic and even downright medieval, and you get the picture that the winemaker inhabits the

outskirts of wine country proper—of course you’d be more likely to find such a character in a bohemian enclave like Bolinas.

Except that for many years, I could not find Sean Thackrey. Yes, he had a website, but even that was arcane: much of the text is in Latin, Italian and Middle French from the scholarly winemaker’s personal library. An email went nowhere. I made a reconnaissance

to Bolinas, poking around in the eucalyptus groves where the vintner was said to be ensconced with his barrels and his books, and making wine according to ancient recipes.

And it wasn’t just me. As novelist and wine writer Jay McInerney recently told the Wine Writers Symposium at Meadowood, for all his world travels, finding Sean Thackrey in Bolinas was one of the most confounding tasks. Thackrey must be the last vintner in the

world that doesn’t send out regular press releases to tout his wines.

Then one day, there it was in my inbox: a press release from Thackrey & Company Fine Wine.

What happened?

Whole Foods happened, for one. Thackrey’s lowest priced and once slightly-less-thanimpossible-to-attain wine, a red blend called Pleiades, got picked up by the behemoth grocer for its Northern California stores, which means that Pleiades must be on

Bohemian: From reading articles over the past decade or so, I would think people have this impression of Sean Thackrey as the reclusive, mysterious winemaker.

Thackrey: People just get

so enamored of that kind of simplification. The other one that I love is being called eccentric, just because I don’t do things the way [UC] Davis does them—it’s not eccentric in the slightest.

Bohemian: Would you say that your use of ancient texts is overemphasized?

Thackrey: Well, I think it’s a little

overemphasized. Wine has really been made a lot of different ways.

I don’t think people understand how different earlier wine styles are than what we now do—I mean just totally different—and yet they gave great pleasure. So I think it opens your eyes to the immense number of possibilities to make something that might be really delicious, using all sorts

Bohemian: What are some

examples of ancient or medieval techniques that you do apply?

Thackrey: It’s more the idea of being open to different tastes in wine than just the narrow band that we’re now working with. I’m not advocating adding seawater to wine, but you at least might want to do the experiment just for the hell of it.

As I said, do you really think that the people who designed the Parthenon were sitting down and drinking absolute rot? It’s a little hard to believe; that’s not the way it generally tends to work. I just think it’s very nice to keep an open mind about what can actually work in winemaking, and I think studying ancient texts is a very good way to do that.

Bohemian: Most of the time when people talk about the ancient technique of winemaking that they’re doing, it’s just crushing, not adding stuff, and punching down. And they say, well, that’s the way it’s always been done.

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of techniques that we don’t even think of now.

Some of the most famous wines of Greece, for example, were cut pretty severely with seawater. The island of Kos was kind of famous for its wines, and apparently a shipment of wines was going to Athens from Kos, and when it arrived, there were two amphorae that were decidedly better than the others. The shipper was really interested in getting to the bottom of why these two were so much better than the others.

To make a long story short, it turned out that the crew had said, fuck it, we want some wine, so they broke into these amphorae and they took a bunch of wine out to drink on the boat and replaced that with seawater. And apparently that was so much better, that became a standard technique of making what they called Coan wine. I’ve never tried it, but it’s just an example of something that you wouldn’t dream of doing now. And yet you have to think that the people who made the Parthenon had a reasonable taste in wine.

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You’re saying there’s more to it than the bare bones?

Thackrey: Far more. Winemaking used to be far more invasive than it now is. Half of the old winemaking texts are ways to fake things, ways to add stuff, because there were so many ways for wine to go bad. After all, it wasn’t until Pasteur that people even realized—microbes were thought not to exist and there was a lot of sentiment that any suggestion they might exist was considered heresy at that point.

That’s what’s interesting about the history of winemaking, is how little of it was undisturbed. If you lived in the village of Nuits-SaintGeorges, you could get some pretty much undisturbed wine; if you lived anywhere else—I mean, that Burgundy was going to be put through so much bullshit by the time it ever got to you that it would be pretty much amazing to talk about it as just being the real thing straight from the source, not being touched by anything but pure virgins or something. It was unbelievable.

So a lot of those texts are meant

to be very practical, which is what makes them interesting to me.

Because they actually go into the detail about what you’re supposed to be doing. And some of the detail was very surprising!

Bohemian: For example?

Thackrey: If you go anywhere in Burgundy they tell you it’s all been done exactly the same way since the seventh century or whatever—the pretense is that we’re just doing the same old thing; wine is made in the vineyard; we don’t really do much of anything, and so on.

Well, the first text that really goes into great detail on winemaking in Burgundy is from about 1831. And it was by a Dr. Morelot who owned some major estates in the Côte d’Or, so he knew what he was talking about.

I was just very struck, for example, by where he talks about how long a great red Burgundy should be fermented. He said it should be on the skins for something between 24 and 36 hours. Hours? You know, that wouldn’t be enough to ) 18

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A photographer and art history dropout, Thackrey co-owned a San Francisco art gallery when he founded a winery at his Bolinas home in 1981. He first sold wine to his friends at Chez Panisse and garnered early acclaim when his first official release was called “the best Merlot ever made in California, blah blah blah,” according to Thackrey, by a budding wine critic named Robert Parker.

When I finally meet Thackrey, he bounds out of his Bolinas barn—a newer location that holds extra barrels and a few old redwood fermenters, and which is just a little more artistically bent than your average barn—and begins talking a mile a minute about the origin of Pleiades. Clad in a jean jacket and sporting a gray mop coiffed by randomness, Thackrey’s affable, academic quickness and vintage style are reminiscent of a radical campus professor with roots in the ’60s.

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soak?

Thackrey: I use a different version of the same sort of idea, and I’m the only one I know that does that, although it used to be very common. That is definitely an idea that I would not have had if I did not get it from old books. The first mention I have of it is from the Greek poet Hesiod—that would be eighth century B.C., so that’s going back quite a ways—and it goes as a leitmotif all the way up through the entire history of winemaking until the late 19th century. That was the idea that you get the grapes off the vine, and then you simply put them some place and let them rest for a while before you then crush them and make them into wine.

We do that now absolutely as a matter of course.

There’s no question whatever that the wine produced from fruit that had just been allowed to sit for a while was simply better. And it was better, because it was more harmonious. It was an unusual sort of quality about it.

Nobody in classical cider texts ever talks about taking apples right off the tree and fermenting them. They would let them sit in a pile. It was called “sweating” the apples. They would sit there and they would be practically rotting, a long time. . . . And then they would crush them and make them into cider. And it was very much the same idea [with grapes]. It was meant to improve the taste.

That’s the kind of thing that is, I think, a legitimate use of early texts, and it certainly was a surprise to me.

Bohemian: Have you come across

anything regarding the Medieval Warm Period, when temperatures were maybe two degrees warmer until the 1400s? It struck me that varieties like Pinot Noir became celebrated during that time. So were they making the Californiastyle wines that people talk about these days, or what?

Thackrey: Who the hell knows,

but that’s just the fad that we’re in now—the low-alcohol fad. It kinda gets to you after a while, particularly if you read back historically. All of the great vintages—the vintage of 1811 or the vintage of 1945—they were all the hottest years around. That’s what everybody said—the wine had concentrations we’d never seen before. Well, now we hear about the French palate, the American palate, fruit bombs and crude, over-extracted wine—and I’m so tired of that. I mean, there are ways to sell wine, and that’s one of them. But ripe fruit is ripe fruit.

‘This idea that the subsoil of the Morvan Forest wants to express itself in a glass of wine just sets off so many short circuits for me.’

Yes, fruit will be ripe at different points for different kinds of wines.

Obviously, fruit that’s made into Champagne is perfectly ripe for Champagne; it’s certainly not ripe for Amarone.

If you think about it, the difference between 15 percent and 13 percent is 2 percent. Well, 2 percent of 750 milliliters is 15 milliliters. If you look at 15 milliliters, that’s the difference in the amount of alcohol in a bottle of wine at 15 percent vs.

13 percent. Do you really think that’s just going to totally unbalance everything and wreck the thing and make it into this horrible, hot finish, chemical-tasting wine? It’s crazy.

To me, the classic argument is, OK, so you can’t drink port, because it’s 21 percent alcohol, right? It’s got a hot finish, right?

Ah, well, no!

Thackrey: Oh, I’ve heard that so

many times. If you wanted to talk about it as being a cultural thing, then I wouldn’t have any problem with that at all. For example, let’s suppose we’re sitting here at the table with an old guy from MoreySaint-Denis and we serve him a Chard, and he says, “That doesn’t taste at all like our home cooking, that doesn’t have the sense of place that I want it to have, that doesn’t taste like Morey-Saint-Denis to me.” Well, that’s a cultural thing.

Bohemian: It’s a personal history.

Thackrey: It’s a personal history,

absolutely. That’s home cooking, is what it really is. That’s perfectly valid; there’s nothing wrong with that, that’s great. But for people to invent this whole idea that somehow the subsoil of the Morvan Forest wants to express itself in a glass of wine, I mean, it just sets off so many short circuits for me, it’s very, very hard to stay entirely polite.

Bohemian: I’ve seen this applied to recently developed vineyards.

Thackrey: Oh, sure, and you go

on the website and all you see are pictures of dirt!

I don’t understand it in the slightest. The idea that fruit grown in different places tastes different is hardly revolutionary. The point is, somebody has to do something with this. And what they do with it is going to be what bats last as to how it winds up tasting.

After all in so many cases, I will be buying part of a vineyard’s production of Sangiovese, say, and somebody else will be buying the rest of it. So we’re both making wine from exactly the same grapes. And very often we’ll harvest it on exactly the same day.

And we will wind up with wines that are radically different from each other. And it’s not that either one of us is some mechanically minded winemaker that just ruins everything into the same stuff; it’s just you make different choices as you’re going along, as a cook

would. Nobody would expect that two different chefs working with the same source of chicken would wind up making chicken that tastes the same. I mean, of course you wouldn’t think that.

It’s a matter of what people want to believe. The part that I don’t like about the whole thing with terroir is the part that is simply in bad faith. In other words, it’s absolutely to the economic self-interest of people that own vineyards to attribute the quality of the wine that results from that vineyard to the real estate that they own. This is very bankable.

It’s like having a restaurant that’s called Chez Jacques and Jacques dies—well, what happens to the restaurant? Well, that’s very much true with winemaking. So obviously if Chateau Margaux can sell people on the idea that it’s because of the real estate that is owned by Chateau Margaux that Chateau Margaux tastes the way it does, they’re way ahead of the game.

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Bohemian: I hear people talking about how they want a wine with a “sense of place,” and that it should taste like it “comes from somewhere.”

Bohemian: Do you feel that at this

point people will keep coming back for your wines for the name, or do you really have to keep up the innovation and quality?

The

Thackrey: Well, I do. Nothing

ever goes out of here that I don’t absolutely like, completely. And I mean in the sense that I want personally to drink it as often as possible. That is a rule about which there is no negotiation whatever. We even call the catalogue that we send out to our mailing list, The Catalog of Reliable Pleasures. Because that’s what I like to think of them as being.

If someone feels just like a glass of Pleiades, they’re going to go up there and take down the bottle and pour themselves a glass of Pleiades, and you know, they’re going to like it! They know that. So consistency I think is extremely important, particularly if you do as much experimenting as I do.

I think people still have to feel that the end result is going to be something that I actually, really, no kidding, feel was pretty terrific.

For more on Sean Thackrey, see this week’s Swirl column, p15.

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This weekend, a talented Napa artist and a prominent Napa chef blend their talents for a sumptuous afternoon of fun. Charcuterie and the Art of the Monotype is a new immersive workshop experience presented by artist and printmaker Nancy Willis and chef David Katz, of St. Helena’s Panevino. Willis will be showing participants the nearly lost art of monotype, in which plates are coated in paint and transferred to paper. On the other side of the table, Katz will be dishing up bites and Y. Rousseau wines. The event takes place on Saturday, April 9, at Willis’ Studio, 1830 Soscol Ave. #D, Napa.

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by Iranian refugees Azam Ali and Loga Ramin Torkian in Los Angeles over a decade ago. Inspired by their home in the Middle East and the continuing struggle faced by many religious and ethnic groups who live there, the duo blend Indian, Mediterranean and Persian melodies with poetic lyrics and a philosophical worldview that celebrates diversity, freedom and dignity. For their North Bay appearance, Niyaz are performing in support of Moms Against Poverty, whose mission is to educate and nurture underprivileged children around the world. Niyaz perform on Sunday, April 10, at the Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Drive, Yountville. 5pm. $25 and up. 707.944.9900.

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World of Rock It’s going to be an international affair in Petaluma when Toronto-based progressive metal band Intervals and Sydney, Australia, solo artist Plini take the stage at the Phoenix. They bring with them instrumental rocker Angel Vivaldi, hardcore metal heads Save Us from the Archon and experimental rockers Chapters for a night of brutally brilliant music. Intervals’ new album, The Shape of Colour, is a powerhouse collection rooted in classic metal riffs embellished with electro-soundscapes and moody melodies. Plini is only 23 years old, though his sophisticated metal styling sounds as epic as anything in the genre. These eclectic musicians come together on Saturday, April 9, at the Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St., Petaluma. 7:30pm. $15–$18.

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SHOW AND TELL Santa Rosa’s Oddjob Ensemble are one of 28 acts performing at the Next Level Showcase.

Level Up

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n an exciting new meeting of the minds between Sonoma County musicians, business and government, the inaugural Next Level Showcase and Conference launches April 15–17 at the Arlene Francis Center and Chops Teen Center in Santa Rosa.

Made possible by support from the California Arts Council and a grant from the Hewlett Foundation, Next Level will

highlight the area’s wealth of local musical talent and help local bands and those in the music business take the next steps in achieving their personal and professional goals.

Next Level is the brainchild of Kristen Madsen and Josh Windmiller, the man behind local music collective the North Bay Hootenanny. Appointed last year as the director of Creative Sonoma, a program under the county’s Economic Development Board, Madsen brings a lifetime

of music-industry experience to Sonoma County. She previously worked at the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and was the senior vice president of the Grammy Foundation.

“I’ve been doing professional development and networking for music people for 20 years,” Madsen says. “So when I first came to Sonoma County last year, I was trying to find my way into the music community around here. And that’s when Josh and I hooked up.”

A Sonoma County native and lifelong musician, Windmiller has fronted the folk-punk ensemble the Crux since 2007, and founded the nonprofit Hootenanny to organize community events that included last year’s Railroad Square Music Festival.

“I got a really good sense of the wonderful spirit of comradery in the community,” says Madsen.

“We wanted to find a way to build on that. That’s a core part of what Creative Sonoma is about: helping creative people do what they do better.”

For the two days of musical showcases, Windmiller joined forces with Second Octave, the creative team behind the summer concert series at the Sonoma Mountain Village Event Center in Rohnert Park, to book a farreaching range of talent.

“We wanted to expand on the Hootenanny’s normal lineup of Americana music,” says Second Octave marketing director Bryce David Dow-Williams. “We wanted to show off some of the younger, louder, more experimental music that’s also happening around Sonoma County, expand the breadth of the showcase.”

On Friday, April 15, the Arlene Francis opens its doors at 7pm for three stages of regional acts that include Petaluma pianist Saffell, songwriter Kevin Russell, indiepop wonders Lungs and Limbs, acoustic folk band Mr. December, psychedelic blues-rockers Rainbow Girls, and others.

Saturday, April 16, continues with experimental West County band Antiphony, melodic indierock outfit Rags, fun-loving pop band Secret Cat, Gypsysoul ensemble Royal Jelly Jive and songwriters Travis Hayes, Kristen Pearce, Ashley Allred and Timothy O’Neil.

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The day wraps with roundtable discussions where musicians can get one-on-one advice.

Next Level is also initiating a grants program, offering five bands or artists the chance to receive $2,500 to go toward their choice of projects.

The grant comes with 10 free hours of one-on-one consulting and three hours of legal advice, all meant to help musicians capitalize on the investment. “The bands not only get some money to help them get where they want to be, we’ll pair them with professionals so they can also get advice and expertise in whatever area they are going to use the money for,” explains Madsen.

Conference attendees will be able to submit their grant proposals at the event, and Creative Sonoma will track recipients’ progress throughout 2016. Next year, Madsen hopes to bring the bands back together to share their experiences at the second Next Level Conference.

“I think this is a unique experience to have this level of industry professionals coming to Sonoma County,” Madsen says. “It makes a strong statement about what people outside of the area see in terms of the music scene here, and that is really positive for the future of Sonoma County musicians.”

Next Level Showcase and Conference takes place Friday through Sunday, April 15–17, at the Arlene Francis Center (99 Sixth St., Santa Rosa) and Chops Teen Center (509 Adams St., Santa Rosa). $15 and up. Tickets are available online at www.nextlevelsonoma.com and at the Last Record Store, 1899-A Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa.

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Jean-Marc Vallée’s follow-up to his excellent Wild and his middling Dallas Buyers Club concerns a man who seeks catharsis through smashing things.

Like Bruce Wayne, Davis Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal) is an affluent, muscley executive driving around in an expensive car, traumatized by the loss of a loved one. Batman never had to describe the worst day of his life, though, as Davis does at the dinner table, when he displays a stiff upper lip over the death of his wife, Julia (Heather Lind): “Massive head trauma in a car accident. Can you pass the salt?”

Davis has been cracking up ever since his wife died, and he’s acting out through an obsession to take things apart. Davis’ boss, Phil, also his father-in-law (Chris Cooper, too good for the flat part of an ornery investment banker), is becoming alarmed by the disassembled computers and taken-apart bathroom stalls turning up in his office.

Davis recounts his sad story in a letter to the complaint department of a vending-machine company. His correspondent, played by Naomi Watts, ultimately gives him a phone call in the middle of the night, and what follows is a relationship of equal parts stalking and love letters. The movie, however, isn’t about recovering passion with a new lover or coming to an understanding about the depth of grief; it’s about tantrums, it’s about making couch forts with sheets and flashlights, it’s about riding carousels.

Bryan Sipe (The Choice) scripted the film, but who knows who to credit for the ending, a matching pair of fistfights edited in with what looks like last-minute panic. Sipe, who is from the Jersey Shore, cites Bruce Springsteen as an influence on his writing, but there’s not much common-man celebration here; Demolition, after all, is the story of a man who has so much money he can sledgehammer through his granite kitchen counters and 40-inch TV to release tension. There hasn’t been a movie about grief this awkward since Reign Over Me. ‘Demolition’ opens April 8 at Summerfield Cinemas, 551 Summerfield Road, Santa Rosa. 707.525.8909.

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RINGMASTER Jake Ward presents

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Bridging the Gap Jake Ward aims to unite musicians and venues

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romoter and event producer Jake Ward wants to see the entertainment scene in Sonoma County succeed.

The founder of North Bay Cabaret and co-founder of Circus Maximus, which performs its new original production, Juxtapose, at the Glaser Center in Santa Rosa on April 9, has gained a wealth of knowledge, and he plans to pay it forward.

In the last year, Ward was introduced to and began working with promoter Rick Bartalini, the one-man force behind Rick Bartalini Presents, whose client list includes Diana Ross and comedian Bill Maher. Last month, Bartalini brought Ward on board to help with the sold-out Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen acoustic show at the Marin Center in San Rafael.

Circus Maximus’ ‘Juxtapose’ hits the stage on Saturday, April 9, at the Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa. Doors at 5pm. $20–$25. juxtapose.brownpapertickets.com.

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“His approach to being a promoter really resonated with me,” Ward says. “He’s very successful, but he’s not in it for self-promotion. And he’s really dedicated to offering a quality experience for the artist.”

In addition to the idea of artistfocused attention, Bartalini has also introduced Ward to the financial scrutiny that comes with event promotion, analyzing and strategizing everything from venue size to ticket prices. Now Ward wants to translate this knowledge into helping local bands and venues maximize their potential. For Ward, the state of the scene in Sonoma County is at the forefront of his mind.

“There are so many bands who would be adept at creating their own shows, at dealing with independent tours, if they just had a little direction,” says Ward.

Ward points to the upcoming Next Level Showcase and Conference (see p21 for more info) as a great resource and sees his own concept, a series of workshops focused on helping musicians and venues connect, as the flip side of that coin.

“There is no book to being an independent promoter or producer,” Ward says. “Every market is different, every venue is different.

I’m trying to boil some of that down and save people years of trial and error.”

Ward is also focused on his work with Circus Maximus. For the past few months, he’s organized biweekly workshops at the Arlene Francis Center in Santa Rosa, where potential performers can drop in and practice with things like stilts and tight ropes. The next event is Sunday, April 17.

This weekend’s Circus Maximus production will be an all-ages show with aerialists, acrobats and clowns. Face-painting, food, games and midway attractions will also be part of the action. “It’s an aweinspiring lineup,” Ward says. “It’s going to be great for kids as well as adults.”

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Music Concerts SONOMA COUNTY Blackalicious Veteran hip-hop duo out of Sacramento headlines, with support from MC Radio Active and Pure Powers. Apr 7, 9pm. $20. HopMonk Sebastopol, 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol.

707.829.7300.

Circus Maximus Sonoma County circus troupe debuts their new show, “Juxtapose,” with familyfriendly acts, food, music and merriment. Apr 9, 5pm. $20-$25. Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.568.5381.

Sonoma County Philharmonic Pianist Marilyn Thompson and mezzo-soprano vocalist Carmen Mitchell join the philharmonic for a program entitled “Spanish Gardens,” featuring Latin chamber music.

Apr 9, 7:30pm and Apr 10, 2pm. $10-$15. SRHS Performing Arts Auditorium, 1235 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, socophil.org.

MARIN COUNTY Dave McGraw & Mandy Fer Studio 55’s final show features two internationally acclaimed songwriters displaying amazing vocal harmonies and pioneering guitar work. Apr 8, 8pm. $17-$20. Studio 55 Marin, 1455 E Francisco Blvd, San Rafael. 415.453.3161.

Luther Dickinson & the Cooperators Former front man of the the North Mississippi Allstars hits the stage with his new band and plays off his newlyreleased double album, “Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger’s Songbook) Vol. I & II.” Apr 7, 8pm. $25. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael.

415.524.2773.

Fionn O Lochlainn Talented, British-born guitarist pairs masterful musicianship with emotionally resonant songwriting. Apr 12, 8pm. $15.

Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley.

415.388.1100.

NAPA COUNTY Niyaz Standout world music ensemble explores Iranian music and performs in cooperation with Moms Against Poverty. Apr 10, 3pm. $25 and up. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville. 707.944.9900.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA COUNTY Annie O’s Music Hall Apr 8, BassLov3’s Bass Equinox. Sun, 5pm, Sunday Dance Party with the Blues Defenders. 120 Fifth St, Santa Rosa. 707.542.1455.

Aqus Cafe Apr 6, student open mic. Apr 7, Celtic Music. Apr 8, Tito & the Harmonic Three. Apr 9, Dictator Tots. Apr 10, 2pm, Gary Vogensen’s Sunday Ramble.

Apr 12, Project Censored with Mickey Huff. Apr 13, open jazz jam. 189 H St, Petaluma.

707.778.6060.

Arlene Francis Center Tues, Open Didgeridoo Clinic.

Wed, Open Mic. Apr 7, Salt Suns and Big Kitty. Apr 9, 1pm, Jeff Mooney Drum Circle. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.3009.

Barley & Hops Tavern Apr 8, Ricky Alan Ray. Apr 9, Gypsy Cafe. 3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental. 707.874.9037.

The Big Easy Apr 6, Bruce Gordon & the Acrosonics. Apr 7, Old Century Blood. Apr 8, the Reverend Shawn Amos. Apr 10, Nolatet.

Apr 12, American Alley Cats. Apr 13, the Wednesday Night Band.

128 American Alley, Petaluma.

707.776.4631.

B&V Whiskey Bar & Grille Tues, “Reggae Market” DJ night. 400 First St E, Sonoma.

707.938.7110.

Cellars of Sonoma Tues, Wavelength. Apr 7, Joe Valley Band. Apr 8, John Pita. Apr 9, Ricky Alan Ray. 133 Fourth St, Santa Rosa.

707.578.1826.

Cheryl Teach Music

Second Saturday of every month, 6:30pm. through Dec 10, all ages family jam. Free.

4910 Sonoma Hwy, Ste C, Santa Rosa. 707.326.8797.

Cinnabar Theater

Apr 10, “Belly Up to the CinnaBar” with Sandy and Richard Riccardi. 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.763.8920.

Coffee Catz

Tues, 12pm, Jerry Green’s Peaceful Piano Hour. Apr 11, all ages open mic. 6761 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol.

707.829.6600.

Corkscrew Wine Bar Apr 8, the Incubators. Apr 12, Danny Montana. 100 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.789.0505.

Finley Community Center

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

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

707.543.3737.

Flamingo Lounge

Apr 8, B-4 Dawn. Apr 9, salsa with Edgardo & Candela.

2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa.

707.545.8530.

French Garden

Apr 8, Haute Flash Quartet. Apr 9, Honey B & the Pollinators.

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

Apr 6, Judith Lerner’s Hand Pans. Apr 9, acoustic open mic.

1899 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.544.2491.

Green Music Center

Apr 7, Santa Rosa City Schools Instrumental Music Showcase.

Apr 8, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

HopMonk Sebastopol

Tues, open mic night. Apr 8, Mean Girls with Lungs and Limbs and Big Kitty. Apr 9, EPROM with Conrank and Humpfree LowGart. Apr 10, Parcivillian. Apr 11, Monday Night Edutainment with DJ Jacques and DJ Guacamole.

Apr 13, Through the Roots with Thrive and Bad Nieghbors. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol.

707.829.7300.

FROM THE HEART The Reverend Shawn Amos keeps the blues alive one gig at a time, performing at Fenix in San Rafael on April 7, and the Big Easy in Petaluma on April 8. See Clubs & Venues, this page.

HopMonk Sonoma

Apr 8, David Thom. Apr 9, the Cherry Pickers. 691 Broadway, Sonoma. 707.935.9100.

Hotel Healdsburg

Apr 9, the Myron Cohen Quartet with Bliss Rodriguez and Danny Castro. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg.

707.431.2800.

Jamison’s Roaring Donkey

Wed, open mic night. Apr 8, Funktopus and Domer.

Apr 9, High Tide Collective.

146 Kentucky St, Petaluma.

707.772.5478.

Jasper O’Farrell’s

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

707.829.2062.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Apr 6, the Turkey Buzzards. Apr 7, Jessica Malone. Apr 8, rizona and the Volunteers. Apr 9, Jinx Jones. Apr 10, the RevTones.

Apr 13, Roem Baur. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma.

707.778.8776.

Lavish Hi-Fi

First Thursday of every month, 5:30pm, Music for Enjoyment

and Pleasure. 402 Moore Ln, Healdsburg. 707.433.9199.

Main Street Bistro Apr 8, Susan Sutton jazz trio. Apr 9, Vernelle Anders.

16280 Main St, Guerneville.

707.869.0501.

Mc T’s Bullpen Mon, Wed, Fri, DJ Miguel. Apr 9, Wiley’s Coyotes. Apr 10, 4pm, Robby-Neal Gordon. Apr 10, 8pm, George Heagerty & Never the Same. 16246 First St, Guerneville. 707.869.3377.

Mystic Theatre Apr 8, the Everly Brothers Experience. Apr 9, Roy Rogers & the Delta Rhythm Kings. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.765.2121.

Newman Auditorium Apr 8, Bennett Friedman Quartet. SRJC, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.527.4372.

Occidental Center for the Arts Apr 9, Ancient Future. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental.

707.874.9392.

Phoenix Theater Apr 8, Mannequin Planet and Disrupted Continuum. Apr 9, Intervals with PLINI and Angel Vivaldi. Apr 10, Otep with

Lacey Sturm and September Mourning. 201 Washington St, Petaluma. 707.762.3565.

Redwood Cafe

Apr 6, Irish set dancing. Apr 9, Old School & Beyond with DJ Bubba & DJ Loisaida. Apr 10, 3pm, Celtic fiddle music. Apr 10, 6pm, Irish jam session. Apr 11, Open Mic with DJ Loisaida.

Apr 13, Sound Kitchen. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7868.

Resurrection Parish

Apr 10, 3:30pm, Allegra Chapman. 303 Stony Point Rd, Santa Rosa.

Rio Nido Roadhouse

Apr 9, Levi Lloyd & 501 Band.

14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido.

707.869.0821.

Rossi’s 1906

Apr 6, dance lessons with Ricky Ray Band. Apr 8, the Gravel Spreaders. Apr 9, Danny Click & the Hell Yeahs. Apr 10, Sunday night blues jam. Apr 13, dance lessons with Honey B & the Pollinators. 401 Grove St, Sonoma. 707.343.0044.

Ruth McGowan’s Brewpub

Apr 9, Haute Flash Quartet.

131 E First St, Cloverdale.

707.894.9610.

Sonoma Speakeasy

No Name Bar

Tues, New Orleans R&B night.

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

452 First St E, Ste G, Sonoma.

707.996.1364.

Spancky’s Bar

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

707.664.0169.

Toad in the Hole Pub

Apr 8, country covers night with Freddy Parish, John Courage, and others. Sun, live music. 116 Fifth St, Santa Rosa.

707.544.8623.

The Tradewinds Bar

Tues, Open Mic. Wed, Sonoma County Blues Society. Apr 9, ‘70s & ‘80s dance party. 8210 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7878.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse Wed, open mic night. Apr 7, Levi’s Workshop with Levi Lloyd. Apr 8, Stagefrite. Apr 9, the Bootleg Honeys. Apr 11, the Blues Defenders pro jam.

5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove.

MARIN COUNTY Belrose Theater

Thurs, open mic night.

Second Wednesday of every month, Ragtime jam.

1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael.

415.454.6422.

Benissimo Ristorante & Bar

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

415.927.2316.

Fenix

Wed, Pro blues jam. Apr 7, the Reverend Shawn Amos. Apr 8, Salvador Santana. Apr 9, the Best Intentions. Apr 10, Nikita Germaine. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.813.5600.

HopMonk Novato

Apr 7, Soul Mechanix. Apr 8, American Honey. Apr 9, Kingsborough. Apr 13, open mic night with the Sauce Boys.

224 Vintage Way, Novato.

415.892.6200.

19 Broadway Club

Mon, open mic. Apr 6, Walt the Dog. Apr 7, Marble Party and Book of Birds. Apr 8, San Geronimo with the Chrissy Lynne Band. Apr 9, the

Tues, open mic. Apr 8, Michael Aragon Quartet. Apr 11, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs.

757 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.332.1392.

Lanterman. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.1100.

Terrapin Crossroads

Apr 8, Goodnight, Texas. Apr 9, Jason Crosby and friends.

100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael.

415.524.2773.

Travis Marina

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

Osteria Divino

Apr 6, Jonathan Poretz. Apr 7, Ami Molinelli Trio. Apr 8, Ian McArdle Trio. Apr 9, Joe Warner Trio. Apr 10, Parker Grant Trio.

Apr 12, Brian Moran. Apr 13, Pedro Rosales Con Quimba.

37 Caledonia St, Sausalito.

415.331.9355.

Panama Hotel Restaurant

Apr 6, Dale Polissar Duo. Apr 7, Martha Crawford and friends.

Apr 12, Lorin Rowan. Apr 13, John Hoy. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael. 415.457.3993.

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

29 Broadway, Fairfax.

415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio

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Apr 8, Roem Baur. Apr 9, Ragtag Sullivan. 1141 First St, Napa. 707.224.6664.

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

Downtown Joe’s Brewery & Restaurant

Apr 7, the Voice featuring Patty Bobo. Apr 9, Jinx Jones & the King Tones. 902 Main St, Napa.

707.258.2337.

Molinari Caffe

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

Apr 8, Gary Vogensen and friends. Apr 9, Zulu Spear.

Apr 10, 5pm, San Geronimo.

1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio.

415.662.2219.

Napa Valley Roasting Company

Sausalito Seahorse

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Tues, Jazz with Noel Jewkes and friends. Wed, Tango with Marcelo Puig and Seth Asarnow. Apr 7, College of Marin Big Swing Jazz Band. Apr 8, Sabroso Salsa with DJ Jose Ruiz. Apr 9, Wavelength. Apr 10, 5pm, salsa with Rumbache.

305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito.

415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon

Mon, Epicenter Soundsystem reggaae. Apr 7, Mama Magnolia. Apr 8, TV Mike & the Scarecrows. Apr 9, the Right Time. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas.

415.868.1311.

Spitfire Lounge

First Thursday of every month, the North Bass DJ night.

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

415.454.5551.

Sweetwater Music Hall

Mon, Open Mic. Apr 7, Tom Freund with Wally Ingram and Chris Haugen. Apr 8, Billy & the Kids with Billy Kreutzmann.

Sold-out. Apr 9, Super Diamond. Apr 10, Hayseed Dixie. Apr 13, Emerging Artist Series hosted by Shelby

Fri, jammin’ and java with Jeffrey McFarland Johnson. 948 Main St, Napa. 707.224.2233.

Fri, 7:30pm, Friday Night Blues with Gretschkat. Sat, Saturday Night Stars with Shelby Lanterman. Sun, 12pm, Aloha Brunch with Jimmy Duhig.

3150 B Jefferson St, Napa.

707.666.9028.

River Terrace Inn

Apr 8, Craig Corona. Apr 9, Smorgy. 1600 Soscol Ave, Napa.

707.320.9000.

Silo’s

Apr 7, Kristen Van Dyke & the Bunnies with Zak Fennie. Apr 8, Rubicon. Apr 9, Beer Drinkerz & Hell Raiserz. 530 Main St, Napa.

707.251.5833.

The Red Hen Cantina Apr 9, the Special Guests.

4175 Solano Ave, Napa.

707.255.8125.

Uncorked at Oxbow

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

707.927.5864.

Uva Trattoria

Apr 6, Tom Duarte. Apr 7, Trio Solea. Apr 8, Nicky DePaola.

Apr 9, Jack Pollard & Dan Daniels’ Party of 3. Apr 10, Bob Castell Blanch. Apr 13, Tom Duarte. 1040 Clinton St, Napa.

707.255.6646.

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Apr 9, Cynthia Tarr Band.

276 E Napa St, Sonoma.

707.938.4626.

Monophonics. Apr 10, 2pm, Irish jam session. Apr 10, 5:30pm, Jazz Roots Band. Apr 12, Fly by Train. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

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Arts Events Galleries RECEPTIONS Apr 7

Napa Valley Museum, “Napa Valley Collects,” displaying significant works from outstanding art collections throughout the Napa Valley. 5pm.

55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. 707.944.0500.

Robert Allen Fine Art, “Abstract Landscapes & Cityscapes,” group exhibit of works on canvas features art from Heather Capen, Nick Coley and others. 5:30pm. 301 Caledonia St, Sausalito.

415.331.2800.

Apr 8

Petaluma Mall Depot “Petaluma Postcard Project,” a series of limited-edition postcards featuring the work of local artists. 7pm. 40 Fourth St, Petaluma. 707.762.8150.

Apr 9

Prince Gallery, “Floresta,” solo show by Chelsea Rogoff envisions the youthful fascination with world exploration in paintings and drawings.

6pm. 122 American Alley, Petaluma. 707.889.0371.

Apr 10

Marin Society of Artists, “Spring Has Sprung,” juried member show.

2pm. 1515 Third St, San Rafael. 415.464.9561.

Pie Eyed Open Studio, “The Big Art Treasure Hunt,” county-wide hunt for 50 pieces of original art hidden throughout for you to find and keep.

Noon. 2371 Gravenstein Hwy S, Sebastopol.

707.477.9442.

Apr 11

The Art Wall at Shige Sushi, “Lewis Bodecker Exhibit,” featuring paintings and drawings by the late artist. 5:30pm.

8235 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.795.9753.

SONOMA COUNTY Art Museum of Sonoma County

Through Apr 17, “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.

425 Seventh Street, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.579.1500.

Calabi Gallery

Through Apr 30, “3/16th Off,” gallery artists group show includes discounted sale of select works from the vintage collection. 456 10th St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.781.7070.

Charles M. Schulz Museum

Dyke: The Fine Art of Fiber,” tactile works from the collage and fiber artist are thoughtprovoking and unexpected.

2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, 8 to 6; Sat, 9 to 11am. 707.543.3737.

Fulton Crossing

Through Apr 30, “April Art Showing,” displaying new works by visiting artists and studio artists including Grave Levine, Linda Guzzetta, Carol Bogovich, Michael Ramos and Mylette Welch. 1200 River Rd, Fulton. Sat-Sun, noon to 5pm 707.536.3305.

Gaia’s Garden

Through May 1, “The Art of Timothy Dixon,” 1899 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat; lunch and brunch, Sun. 707.544.2491.

Gallery 300

hrough Apr 24, “Snoopy and the Red Baron,” learn about the real Red Baron and Schulz’s attention to historical detail through rare artifacts, original artworks, and an expansive selection of cartoons showcasing Snoopy’s famous alter-ego. 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, noon to 5; Sat-Sun, 10 to 5. 707.579.4452.

Through Apr 24, “Visualization: Seeing Through the Eyes of Two Women Artists,” exhibition of new work by Jennifer Hirshfield and C.K.Itamura highlights differences between and commonalities of their approaches and materials. 300 South A St, Santa Rosa. Sat, 12 to 5; and by appointment.

707.332.1212.

Christie Marks Fine Art Gallery

Graton Gallery

Through Apr 16, “Translations,” exhibition of stunning fine photography by Sonoma County artist Don Van Amerongen features digitally painted photos taken in Myanmar, India and Tibet. 312 South A St, Ste 7, Santa Rosa.

Thurs-Sun, noon to 5, and by appointment. 707.695.1011.

Chroma Gallery

Through Apr 22, “Art of the Figure,” exhibiting artwork by participating members of Sonoma County figure drawing groups. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa. 707.293.6051.

City Hall Council Chambers

Through Apr 7, “Teri Sloat: Beyond My Window,” showing imaginative landscapes from the children’s book author and illustrator. 100 Santa Rosa Ave, Ste 10, Santa Rosa.

707.543.3010.

Finley Community Center

Through Apr 28, “Debbie Van

Through Apr 10, “Nine Artists - Nine Perspectives,” featuring works by Sally Baker, Susan R Ball, Marylu Downing, Tim Haworth and others. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. Tues-Sat, 10:30 to 6; Sun, 10:30 to 4.

707.829.8912.

Hammerfriar Gallery

Through Apr 9, “Moving Target: American Dream,” mixedmedia showing from sculptor and educator Ryan Carrington reflects on the public perspective of blue-collar workers in the United States.

132 Mill St, Ste 101, Healdsburg.

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

707.473.9600.

Healdsburg Center for the Arts

Through Apr 10, “Full Circle: Pond Farm Revisited,” an exhibition of eclectic pottery works by alumni of Pond Farm Pottery. 130 Plaza St, Healdsburg. Daily, 11 to 6.

707.431.1970.

Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center Through Apr 24, “California

Flora,” Northern California artist Nina Antze shows botanical paintings done in colored pencil. 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.527.9277.

Paradise Ridge Winery Through Apr 30, “Conversations in Sculpture,” 11 artists provide an artistic statement that introduces a conversational topic. 4545 Thomas Lake Harris Dr, Santa Rosa. Daily, 11 to 5.

707.528.9463.

Petaluma Arts Center

Through May 1, “Metalworks: Cast, Forged & Welded,” featuring more than 35 works that explore the properties of metal and the trends in modern-day sculpture. 230 Lakeville St, Petaluma. ThursMon, 11 to 5. 707.762.5600.

Riverfront Art Gallery Through May 8, “Juried Photography Show,” 48 photographers will show their work along with member artists. 132 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. Wed, Thurs and Sun, 11 to 6. Fri-Sat, 11 to 8.

707.775.4ART.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts

Through Apr 10, “Passion for the Arts,” juried exhibition for young artists and art students.

282 S High St, Sebastopol.

Tues-Fri, 10 to 4; Sat, 1 to 4.

707.829.4797.

Sebastopol Gallery

Through May 1, “Sebastopol Gallery Group Show,” comes see the newly redecorated space and meet new gallery artist Lucy Martin. 150 N Main St, Sebastopol. Open daily, 11 to 6. 707.829.7200.

University Art Gallery

Through Apr 24, “Juried Student Show,” exhibition is selected by two jurors from the art world who visit the campus to view the work and talk to the students about their careers and ideas about art.

Sonoma State University, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

Tues-Fri, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, noon to 4. 707.664.2295.

MARIN COUNTY Alemany Library Gallery

Through Apr 9, “Summer’s Lease,” artist Lynn Sondag’s expressive watercolors show in conjunction with another exhibit, “Twilight,” featuring Pamela Wilson-Ryckman’s found photos turned into artistic explorations. Dominican

University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael. 415.485.3251.

Aroma Cafe

Through May 6, “Images of China Camp,” Marin photographers Osher Levi and Brian Byrnes exhibit their photos of the state park and local treasure. 1122 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.459.4340.

Bay Model Visitor Center

Through Apr 23, “The Mooring Series,” collection of watercolors by Nelson W Hee is full of meditative detail.

2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.332.3871.

Desta Art & Tea Gallery

Through Apr 19, “Atmospheric Moments,” featuring works of Ann Bernauer and Claire Smith. 417 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo. Mon-Sat, 10 to 6 415.524.8932.

Falkirk Cultural Center Through Apr 30, “Two Views,” married artists Steve Emery and Kathleen Lipinski show their individual and collaborative works. 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael.

415.485.3438.

Gallery Route One

Through May 8, “Joy of Man’s Desiring,” artist Dorothy Nissen explores the the union of dreams and the creative process in daily drawings, as part of the Lucid Art residency program. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. Wed-Mon, 11 to 5.

415.663.1347.

MarinMOCA

Through Apr 10, “Travels with Phil,” expansive exhibit of cartoonist Phil Frank’s strips includes the San Franciscobased “Farley” and nationally syndicated “Elderberries.” Also showing, “Dark World,” Bolinas photographer Ken Botto utilizes collected miniatures, bones and found objects to create tiny dioramas. 500 Palm Dr, Novato. Wed-Fri, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, 11 to 5. 415.506.0137.

Novato City Offices

Through Apr 26, “MarinMOCA Artists on Exhibit,” paintings

by Tania Walters and Jane Liston display. 922 Machin Ave, Novato.

Seager Gray Gallery

Through May 1, “Gwaltney,” the artist’s paintings reflect the sunlit open sky along the beautiful coastline of Laguna Beach. 108 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.384.8288.

Tiburon Town Hall

Through Apr 28, “Vibrant Colors,” exhibit of works from the Marin County Watercolor Society is bold and beautiful.

1505 Tiburon Blvd, Tiburon.

NAPA COUNTY Mumm Napa

Through May 1, “Jim Marshall Seen Through the Eyes of Carlos Santana,” an exhibit of photographs by Marshall, curated by Santana, show Marshall’s genius as a photographer, a chronicler of history and portraitist of no equal. 8445 Silverado Trail, Napa. Daily, 10am to 4:45pm (707) 967-7700.

Robert Mondavi Winery

Through Apr 24, “GENERATE: One Family’s Painting, Photography and Music” features the paintings of John Bonick, the photography of Dona Kopol Bonick, and the work of their sons, Dylan and Max. 7801 St Helena Hwy, Oakville. Daily, 10 to 5.

707.968.2203.

Comedy Mike Capozzola

Comedian and cartoonist’s show mixes comics, movie monsters, sci-fi secret agents and superheroes in a night of standup and silliness. Apr 8, 8pm. $16. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

MarINSANITY

Some of the Bay Area’s top standup comics will tape for a new TV show and are in need of a live studio audience.

Space is limited. Apr 11, 7pm.

Community Media Center of Marin, 819 A St, San Rafael, cmcm.tv/marinsanity.

SheCan’s Comedy Night Inaugural evening of laughs with local comedians Ricky Del Rosario, KC Chandara, Jill Maragos and others also features wine and beer and a silent auction. Apr 8, 7pm. $15-$20. Saturday Afternoon Club, 430 10th St, Santa Rosa.

707.575.8436.

Dance Mystique

College of Marin’s Spring dance concert includes inspiring sights and sounds. Through Apr

9. College of Marin. $10-$20.

835 College Ave, Kentfield.

Spring Dance Concert

Events The Director’s Tour

Get a guided tour of the art currently on display with director, Paul Mahder. Learn about specific art pieces, personal stories about the artists and more. First Wed of every month, 1pm. Free. Paul Mahder Gallery, 222 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg.

Gather ’Round

Fundraiser for West Side School boasts live music, local food, auctions and dancing.

Apr 8, 6pm. $50-$60. Villa Chanticleer, 900 Chanticleer Way, Healdsburg. 707.431.3303.

Laguna Open House

Take a self-guided nature walk or a guide-led tour of the historic house and barn.

Second Sat of every month.

Free. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.527.9277.

Napa Valley Arts in April

A month of events aims to foster a unique sense of place through locally produced art paired with Napa Valley’s best wine and culinary offerings.

Through Apr 30. Napa Valley, various locations, Napa, artscouncilnapavalley.org.

Novato Copperfield’s Ribbon-Cutting

Join the Novato Chamber of Commerce and Copperfield’s for a ceremony, with a bookstore tour and refreshments. Apr 13, 5:30pm.

Novato Copperfield’s Books, 999 Grant Ave, Novato.

Re-String & StringRecycling Event

Recycling event takes place in honor of Earth Day. Apr 12, 2pm. Free. Bananas At Large, 1504 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.457.7600. Recycling event takes place in honor of Earth Day. Apr 13, 2pm. Free. Bananas At Large, 515 Ross St, Santa Rosa. 707.542.5588.

Sausalito’s Spring City Wide Yard Sale Over 90 sale booths offer

ideology. Apr 11, 1 and 7pm.

Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol. 707.525.4840.

Apr 8-14. Playhouse Theater, 40 Main St, Tiburon. 415.381.4123.

Dogtown Redemption

Sheep to Sweater

Award-winner at the Mill Valley Film Festival tells the story of Dogtown, West Oakland, a bustling yet invisible corner of California. Apr 7, 7pm. $7$11. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael..

415.454.1222.

Food & Drink

Sheep shearing event is hands-on fun for the family.

Apr 9, 11am. $2-$3. Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park, 3325 Adobe Rd, Petaluma.

707.762.4871.

Spring Crafts Faire

Local artists and crafters offer their handmade treasures, from pottery to jewelry and more. Apr 10, 10am. Flamingo Resort Hotel, 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.545.8530.

Field Trips Mushroom Hike

Learn about the fascinating world of fungi from local expert George Reiner. RSVP required.

Apr 10, 10am. $10. Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood.

707.833.5712.

Music & Marine Ecology

An afternoon of wine, hors d’oeuvres and music brought to you by the women of Kitka and Kedry Apr 9, 2pm. $30. Fort Ross State Historic Park, 19005 Hwy 1, Jenner.

Public Star Party

Three telescopes are open for viewing with presentations on astronomical topics given in the classroom. Apr 9, 8pm. $3.

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

Woolly Egg Ranch Tour See the blooming flowers, frolicking lambs and newly hatched chicks in the walking tour. Apr 9, 10:30am. Tam Valley Community Center, 203 Marin Ave, Mill Valley.

Yoga Hike

Take a meditative stroll in the park and practice Yoga in the natural surroundings. Apr 9, 10am. $20. Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood. 707.833.5712.

Film The Armor of Light

Film follows two people of faith who come together to explore the contradictions in USA’s

For Grace

CinemaBites event includes the film about chef Curtis Duffy’s attempts to open his dream restaurant, followed

by Q&A with Meadowwood chef Christopher Kostow and live Skype with Chef Duffy. Apr 11, 5pm. $45. Cameo Cinema, 1340 Main St, St Helena.

707.963.9779.

Goya: Visions of Flesh & Blood

Documentary offers an indepth look at the life and work of Spain’s celebrated artist. Apr 9, 7pm. $10. Jarvis Conservatory, 1711 Main St, Napa. 707.255.5445.

Italian Film Series

“The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio” screens, followed by a discussion. Apr 8, 6pm. $5.

SRJC Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mtn Pkwy, Petaluma.

707.778.3974.

Poetry in Motion Film Festival

A series of compelling contemporary films about inspiring American poets.

Sun, Apr 10. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael.. 415.454.1222.

A Sidewalk Astronomer

Inspiring film examines teacher John Dobson, who revolutionized amateur astronomy. Includes Q&A with filmmaker Jeffrey Jacobs. Apr 7, 7:30pm. $7-$10. Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur.

415.924.5111.

The Ukrainians

Documentary about the fight for Ukraine’s independence in 2014 includes first-hand footage from the battle at Donetsk Airport and examines the soldiers that defended the airport and Ukraine. Apr 7, 7pm. Free. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol.

707.525.4840.

Tiburon International Film Festival

The “United Nations” of film fests returns. For full info, visit www.tiburonfilmfestival.com.

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Through Apr 7. Sonoma State University. $5-$17. Evert B. Person Theatre, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

eclectic treasures at affordable prices. Apr 9, 9am. Free admission. MLK Parking Lot, 610 Coloma St, Sausalito.

Charcuterie & the Art of the Monotype

Panevino chef David Katz joins local printmaker Nancy Willis in a unique workshop for the senses.

Apr 9, 1:30pm. $100. Nancy Willis Studio, 1830 Soscol Ave #D, Napa. www.nancywillis.com.

Spring into the South Prix fixe dinner is prepared by chef Gator. Apr 12, 5pm. $55. Fenix, 919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.813.5600.

For Kids Guys and Dolls Jr

The classic Broadway musical is performed by and for kids.

Apr 8-9. $15-$25. Marin Center Showcase Theatre, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael.

415.499.6800.

Spring Kids Clothing Swap

Bring your newborn to age 8 gently worn clothing, seasonal items, Halloween costumes, hats, shoes, and accessories to swap. 2 grocery bags of items gets you free admission.

Apr 9, 9am. $10. Tam Valley Community Center, 203 Marin Ave, Mill Valley.

Story Pirates

Described as “Monty Python meets Schoolhouse Rock,” these funny sketches and mini-musicals are based on stories submitted by children Apr 10, 3pm. $12-$17. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

Lectures The Art of Seeing

Half-day photography class teaches you to see and use shapes patterns and textures to elevate your photos. Part of the park’s year-long “Discover Your Call of the WIld” celebration. Apr 9, 8am. $35.

Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen.

707.938.5216.

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April Showings Arts in April takes over Napa

Arts in April, a celebration of art and community hosted by the Arts Council Napa Valley, is in its sixth year, and the size and impact of the event has grown tremendously, “from 42 in 2014 to over 80 this year,” says Arts in April producer Danielle Smith.

The festivities began on April 1. On April 7, Arts in April collaborates with the Napa Valley Museum for the exhibit “Napa Valley Collects,” which showcases and gives access to personal art collections from the area.

The Arts in April selection committee will spotlight 25 artists throughout the month.

Local artists from Napa and the Bay Area will be featured alongside international artists in events ranging from fine art exhibitions at posh wineries to poetry readings in driveways. On the closing weekend, April 30–May 1, 30 exhibitors will create and display their work in a facility in Calistoga.

“Napa Valley Collects” opens with a reception on Thursday, April 7, at the Napa Valley Museum, 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. 5pm. $10–$20. 707.944.0500.

For more information, visit www. artscouncilnapavalley.org.—Amelia Malpas

centered communication with Lori Grace. Fri, Apr 8, 7:30pm.

Sunrise Center, 645 Tamalpais Dr, Corte Madera. 415.924.7824.

How to Pay for Care as You Age Eldercare expert Laurel Etheridge offers information and optons for seniors. Apr 12, 3pm. $5-$7. Whistlestop, 930

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ShareFax Marin hosts a mature perspective on health and cannabis. Apr 10, 1:30pm.

Free. Fairfax Community Church, 2398 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Fairfax. ) 415.454.6085.

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Apr 6, 5pm, “The Nest” with Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney. Apr 6, 7pm, San Geronimo Valley School poetry reading. Apr 7, 7pm, “Buyer’s Remorse” with Bill Press. Apr 7, 7pm, “India’s Elephants” with Annette Bonnier. Apr 8, 7pm, “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” with John Gray. Apr 9, 7pm, “Three Corner Rustlers” with Kim Vogee. Apr 10, 11am, “Dream Home” with Jonathan and Drew Scott, the property brothers. $38. Apr 10, 2pm, “Now and Again” with Charlotte Rogan. Apr 10, 4pm, “M.F.K. Fisher’s Provence” with Aileen Ah-Tye. Apr 11, 7pm, “Two If By Sea” with Jacquelyn Mitchard.

Apr 12, 7pm, “Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings” with Stephen O’Connor. Apr 13, 7pm, “People Get Ready” with Robert McChesney & John Nichols. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Cavallo Point Lodge

Apr 7, 6pm, “Drinking the Devil’s Acre” with Duggan McDonnell, a “Books & Bites” event. $125.

601 Murray Circle, Sausalito 415.339.4700.

Dance Palace

Apr 9, 7pm, “Buyer’s Remorse” with Bill Press. $10. 503 B St, Pt Reyes Station 415.663.1075.

Diesel Bookstore

Apr 6, 6:30pm, “All Tomorrow’s Parties” with Rob Spillman, in conversation with Dorothy Allison. 2419 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur 415.785.8177.

Green Music Center

Apr 13, 7:30pm, “Do Cool Sh*t” with Miki Agrawal, part of the Women in Leadership series. $25. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park 866.955.6040.

Healdsburg Copperfield’s Books

Apr 7, 7pm, “The Nest” with Cynthia D Sweeney, followed by a reception and book signing at Bob Johnson Art Gallery.

104 Matheson St, Healdsburg 707.433.9270.

HopMonk Sebastopol Apr 13, 6pm, “Luckiest Girl Alive” with Jessica Knoll, a Debut Brews event presented

by Copperfield’s Books. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol 707.829.7300.

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Apr 9, 2pm, “Queen of Likes” with Hillary Homzie. 3740 Bel Aire Plaza, Napa 707.252.8002.

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Apr 9, 7pm, “Lucifer’s Game” with Will Schneider. 138 N Main St, Sebastopol 707.823.2618.

Theater 4000 Miles

Leo and his grandmother spend an infuriating and ultimately enlightening month together in Amy Herzog’s drama. Through Apr 17. $12-$27. Novato Theater Company, 5240 Nave Dr, Novato.

415.883.4498.

All My Sons

The Raven Players present the heady exploration of greed, love, deceit and the fragility of the American Dream. Apr 8-24. $12-$25. Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg.

707.433.3145.

Boeing Boeing

Ross Valley Players presents the Tony Award-winning farce about a playboy living in Paris and juggling love affairs with three stewardesses. Through May 1. $25-$29. Barn Theatre, Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross, rossvalleyplayers.com.

Murder at Sea

Get a Clue Productions’ new mystery dinner theater show is a Caribbean cruise who-dunnit, with audience participation and island-themed attire encouraged. Fri, Apr 8, 7pm. $68. Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor. 707.837.0019.

Outside Mullingar

Full of dark humor and poetic prose, playwright John Patrick Shanley’s tender portrait reminds us it’s never too late to take a chance on love.

Through Apr 10. $15-$25. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol. 707.823.0177.

Pericles

Shakespeare’s tale of romance and adventure is presented by the Napa Valley Conservatory Theater. Apr 8-17. $15-$20.

Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center, 2277 Napa Vallejo Hwy, Napa. 707.256.7500.

P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!

Curtain Call Theatre presents the rollicking comedy with claws. Through Apr 23. $15.

Russian River Hall, 20347 Hwy 116, Monte Rio. 707.524.8739.

Savoy Express: A Gilbert & Sullivan Revue

Fun-filled revue benefits the playhouse’s education programs. Apr 8-10. $40. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 West Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.523.4185.

Three Viewings

Theatre Anew presents three original love stories that will make you laugh and cry.

Through Apr 16. Church of One Tree, 492 Sonoma Ave, Santa Rosa.

Time Stands Still

Tony-nominated drama explores relationships and social issues by focusing on a photojournalist returned to Brooklyn after being injured in the Iraq War and her boyfriend, a reporter who left here there. Through Apr 17. $9-$25. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.763.8920.

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Gödel (1906–1978) was among history’s greatest logicians. His mastery of rational thought enabled him to exert a major influence on scientific thinking in the 20th century. Yet he also had an irrational fear of being poisoned, which made him avoid food unless his wife cooked it. One of the morals of his story is that reason and delusion may get all mixed up in the same location. Sound analysis and crazy superstition can get so tangled they’re hard to unravel. The coming week will be an excellent time to meditate on how this phenomenon might be at work in you. You now have an extraordinary power to figure out which is which, and then take steps to banish the crazy, superstitious, fearful stuff.

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CANCER (June 21–July 22) Your personal oracle for the coming weeks is a fable from 2,600 years ago.

It was originally written by the Greek storyteller Aesop, and later translated by Joseph Jacobs. As the tale begins, a dog has discovered a hunk of raw meat lying on the ground. He’s clenching his treasure in his mouth as he scurries home to enjoy it in peace. On the way, he trots along a wooden plank that crosses a rapidly flowing stream. Gazing down, he sees his reflection in the water below. What? He imagines it’s another dog with another slab of meat. He tries to snatch away this bonus treat, but in doing so, drops his own meat. It falls into the stream and is whisked away. The moral of the fable: “Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”

LEO (July 23–August 22) “I never get lost because I don’t know where I am going,” said the Japanese poet known as Ikkyu. I stop short of endorsing this perspective for full-time, long-term use, but I think it suits you fine for right now. According to my astrological projections, you can gather the exact lessons you need simply by wandering around playfully, driven by cheerful curiosity about the sparkly sights— and not too concerned with what they mean. P.S.: Don’t worry if the map you’re consulting doesn’t seem to match the territory you’re exploring.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) “If literally every action a human can perform was an Olympic sport,” Reddit.com asked its users, “which events would you win medals in?” A man named Hajimotto said his champion-level skill was daydreaming. “I can zone out and fantasize for hours at a time,” he testified. “This is helpful when I am waiting in line.” You Virgos are not typically Olympic-class daydreamers, but I encourage you to increase your skills in the coming weeks. It’ll be a favorable time for your imagination to run wild and free. How exuberantly can you fantasize? Find out!

LIBRA (September 23–October 22)

In his book Strange Medicine, Nathan Belofsky tells us about unusual healing practices of the past. In ancient Egypt,

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for example, the solution for a toothache was to have a dead mouse shoved down one’s throat. If someone had cataracts, the physician might dribble hot broken glass into their eyes. I think these strategies qualify as being antidotes that were worse than the conditions they were supposed to treat. I caution you against getting sucked into “cures” like those in the coming days. The near future will be a favorable time for you to seek healing, but you must be very discerning as you evaluate the healing agents.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

In his poem “The Snowmass Cycle,” Stephen Dunn declares that everyone “should experience the double fire, of what he wants and shouldn’t have.” I foresee a rich opportunity coming up for you to do just that, Scorpio.

And, yes, I do regard it as rich, even marvelous, despite the fact that it may initially evoke some intense poignancy. Be glad for this crisp revelation about a strong longing whose fulfillment would be no damn good for you!

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21)

“When I look at my life, I realize that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgment but failures of feeling.” Writer Jeanette Winterson said that, and I’m passing it on to you at the exact moment you need to hear it. Right now, you are brave enough and strong enough to deal with the possibility that maybe you’re not doing all you can to cultivate maximum emotional intelligence. You are primed to take action and make big changes if you discover that you’re not feeling as much as you can about the important things in your life.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) Psychotherapist Jennifer Welwood says that sadness is often at the root of anger. Feelings of loss and disappointment and heartache are the more primary emotions, and rage is a reflexive response to them.

But sadness often makes us feel vulnerable, while rage gives us at least the illusion of being strong, and so most of us prefer the latter. But Welwood suggests that tuning in to the sadness almost always leads to a more expansive understanding of your predicament, and it often provides the opportunity for a more profound self-transformation. I invite you to apply these meditations to your own life, Capricorn. The time is right.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) “The causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky said that in his novel The Idiot, and now I’m passing it on to you just in the nick of time. In the coming weeks, it’s especially important for you to not oversimplify your assessments of what motivates people—both those you respect and those you don’t fully trust. For your own sake, you can’t afford to naively assume either the best or the worst about anyone. If you hope to further your own agendas, your nuanced empathy must be turned up all the way.

PISCES (February 19–March 20) “Believing

love is work is certainly better than believing it’s effortless, ceaseless bliss,” says author Eric LeMay. That’s advice I hope you’ll keep close at hand in the coming weeks, Pisces. The time will be right for you to exert tremendous effort in behalf of everything you love dearly—to sweat and struggle and strain as you create higher, deeper versions of your most essential relationships. Please remember this, though: the hard labor you engage in should be fueled by your ingenuity and your creative imagination. Play and experiment and enjoy yourself as you sweat and struggle and strain!

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