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Radioactive Sushi Last week’s cover (“Japanese Food Is Hot,” July 20) initially brought on excited hopes that our North Bay weekly on the West Coast of the United States would finally weigh in on the Fukushima nuclear explosions and tsunami on the east coast of Japan. However, there is no word of how lethal the fish caught off our shores and in the Pacific Rim fishing grounds has undoubtedly become.

I, for one, and perhaps many others, have stopped eating sushi and even stopped going to Japanese restaurants due to continuous leaking of radioactivity from the third reactor into the oceans off the coast of Japan. I have decided it is not safe to eat fish or seaweed. Your article does mention the importing of Japanese vegetables not being allowed, but no mention of them not being safe to eat. It is good to learn that local growing sources are being utilized for organic options and tastes.

to feature the new wave of Japanese cuisine restaurants. This is a promotion with serious questions to be asked, questions not welcomes by the new owners and chefs, I’m sure. Why not weigh in on the dangers to our health?

That is my question to you and your editorial staff. We need your voice in the North Bay to report the serious health hazards we are currently facing.

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By Tom Tomorrow

Does Anybody Remember Laughter?

OK, well now it looks like we have received a really famous rant, assuming that the recent article in the Open Mic (July 20), which almost caused me to have a trumper tantrum, was actually written by Donald Trump’s wife, and not someone with the same name.

First, Melania, regarding Menswear: yes, men do swear, but so do women, so stop staring away and talking about a stairway to menswear. And, speaking of women, I thought Caitlyn Jenner was actually a man?

Yes, people do smoke pot in California, as they do around the world. However, many more people smoke tobacco, which kills thousands every year.

Speaking of rings of smoke, I assume you are not old enough to have ever seen nor met Captain Smith, or Pocahontas.

As for as the rest of the nonsensical article that I was barely able to comprehend, might I suggest you hire Michele Obama to help you write an article? Or maybe you should go back to Slovenia.

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Enough Already Sonoma County moves to limit winery development BY PADI SELWYN

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he wine industry study session held by the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors earlier this month was a step in the right direction, as local officials try to balance the interests of the wine industry with a growing backlash by rural residents who complain that unruly crowds, loud noise and traffic congestion on back-country roads are destroying the peace and quiet of their neighborhoods and contributing to the Napafication of Sonoma County.

While the wine industry is advocating for fewer restrictions, neighborhood groups are pressing county officials to rein in winery development and cap the number of permitted events. The wine industry continues to pitch proposals that categorize events by attendance or sponsor. Merely labeling a dinner-dance as a “distributor meeting” does not reduce the noise, long duration drinking or the potential of impaired drivers on our rural one-lane roads.

According to county data, there are 2,600 event days held annually.

In the Valley of the Moon alone, there are over a thousand annual events with over 170,000 visitors that create ongoing traffic and noise nightmares for residents.

Since 2000, there has been a 300 percent increase in the number of wineries approved county-wide, exceeding the general plan’s assumption of 239 wineries by 2020. There are now 447 wineries and tasting rooms outside city limits, with 60 more in the pipeline.

Supervisors agreed on stepped-up enforcement, limiting amplified music, regulating food service, establishing minimum parcel sizes and considering county-based event coordination. The board will reconvene in 60 days to continue exploring options with the Permit and Resource Management Department, whom they directed to bring back ordinances for their review, with a 2017 spring timetable for enactment.

Progress is being made, thanks to the many residents who have joined forces with Preserve Rural Sonoma County and other neighborhood groups to stand up and voice their opposition to the rampant growth and case by case permitting of ever more projects, ignoring the cumulative impacts. The current growth rate is not sustainable, environmentally or economically. Increasingly intense competition hurts existing wineries, and the impact from overdevelopment erodes the rural charm that attracts visitors.

Padi Selwyn is co-chair of Neighbors to Preserve Rural Sonoma County.

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ON THE MARCH Members of Engineers and Scientists of California union are asking Sonoma County for better pay

and help with recruitment and retention.

Labor Pains

Upper-tier Sonoma County health workers push for equity pay, end to furloughs BY CASEY DOBBERT

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hat does a single mother with three kids, a master’s degree and 27 years of experience as a physical therapist have to do in order to pay the bills? Apparently, find a job in a better paying county.

Mary Bertling is a member of the Engineers and Scientists of California union (ESC), and her plight is not uncommon among top-tier health practitioners in Sonoma County. Bertling is passionate about her work and the people she works with, but, she says, “I just can’t sacrifice my own kids much longer for the sake of other people’s.”

On July 12, Bertling and other ESC members gathered in front of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to continue their ongoing fight for better pay and push for higher recruitment and retention rates for the union.

There are 252 employees who work under the ESC umbrella in the county, according to the county website. ESC members

and supporters addressed the supervisors and told stories of how much the union’s work benefits local children—and implored the board to step up and pay the union workers what they deserve.

The latest wage fight in Sonoma is similar to the recent SEIU Local 1021 fight for better pay.

That effort saw county workers go on strike for four days as they tried to leverage better pay for lower-tier healthcare workers who provide in-home support services throughout the county.

“I think there is a direct connection between the county workers’ strike and the bargaining at ESC Local 20,” says Marty Bennett, co-chair of North Bay Jobs with Justice.

He sees intersecting issues between the two unions, such as understaffing, low morale and falling retention rates among the workers, and the impact that has on the overall quality of the services that are provided to residents. Bennett’s organization plans to host a workers’ rights board hearing on Aug. 13, where members of ESC will highlight the critical services they provide the county.

Lis Fiekowsky, business agent for ESC Local 20, says that while the respective union battles share a similar arc, the county needs to do a better job at distinguishing between the work that each group performs.

“The county is actually using the SEIU negotiations as a framework for the bargaining concerning ESC Local 20,” Fiekowsky says, “but Local 20’s population is a different group than 1021.”

She adds that the union is pushing Sonoma County away from a “one size fits all” approach to the negotiations, and prioritizes the Local 20 members whose work, she says, keep Sonoma County healthy and safe. The distinction can be seen through the wages each group typically earns. The inhouse support workers pushed for a $15 hourly wage and settled on $13.10, but ESC workers earn significantly more than that:

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D EBRI EF ER Beyond the Grove The Bohemian Grove recently settled a lawsuit for $7 million brought by over 600 former employees of the luxe West County campground where super-fabulous white men (for the most part) in khakis gather annually to get loaded, eat chili manly-man style, and sit around in circles for sing-alongs with the likes of Steve Miller.

This Bohemian heard from former Bohemian Grove worker David Gelsinger right after the settlement was announced, and he came by the office to share photos and his Bohemian Grove story. Gelsinger was basically an all-purpose man, making $250 a day to help campers kick back and commune with nature. It was, he says, a 24-7 job, for which he was not paid a 24-7 wage. Gelsinger says that this recent suit would not have happened had he not taken Bohemian Grove to court over underpayment for the hours he put in at the Grove. And he says they still owe him $1.5 million in back wages and wrongfultermination dollars.

Gelsinger worked at the Grove from 1994 until 2014 (the same year he sued) at various camps within the super-secret enclave, and says that during that time he was kicked by an attendee and also endured such hijinks as attendees writing “I’m gay” on his timecard. Very mature.

He shared a photo of himself sitting in a circle with a bunch of men—in khakis—listening to Steve Miller strum the guitar and sing.

Gelsinger says he settled his suit under duress, for an undisclosed amount somewhere north of $50,000. For his part, Steve Miller claims to be a joker, a smoker, a midnight toker. He sure didn’t want to hurt no one.

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somewhat erratic, making it difficult to find a solution that meets our needs and theirs.”

Reached for comment, supervisor Susan Gorin says she can’t discuss the ongoing negotiations.

The negotiations have spanned 20 meetings between the union and the county, whose Employee Relations Division of the Human Resources Department notes that county officials have indeed made some concessions along the way to a better package for the union workers. “The county has proposed an economic package similar to that negotiated with other bargaining units, which includes [a] two year agreement with annual COLAs, an additional employee pension cost-share with an equal offset for legacy employees, a substantial increase in county’s health insurance contributions, minor enhancements to benefits, and 0.5 percent [in] one-time money.”

The county also notes that its proposed increases in health insurance contributions is the functional equivalent of a raise, as it “represents an average of 6 percent, and up to 14.6 percent for some classifications, increase in gross wages for employees enrolled in family level insurance coverage.”

Natalie Hall, a union member who sits on the bargaining team, says she sees negotiations drawing to a resolution soon. “We have a confident and great team, and we’re on it,” she says. “The reason this bargaining team has worked is because we are all very good at different aspects of the process.”

Hall is a behavioral health nurse in the county’s crisis unit and works with people who are under observation because they might do harm to themselves or others.

The demands of the job, she says, make it critical that workers are performing at their best, “but the workers cannot be at 100 percent when they have to work three jobs just to live in the county,” she says. “Hopefully, the county will see a lot of us are struggling to make it. I have my master’s, but I have to work three jobs just to have a home.”

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hourly rates range from a bottom end of about $30 to a top tier of over $94 for county psychiatrists.

Worker retention is a key concern of Local 20, given that they’re among the last batch of county workers still negotiating a new contract following the 2008 economic crash. “All the other unions have completed bargaining and ratified their contracts,” Fiekowsky says, adding that they’ve also “gotten new healthcare options and better county contributions.”

Bargaining over the Local 20 contract began last December, a few months before the contracts were to be renewed in February.

The strategy was obvious: begin the bargaining process before the contracts were renewed to improve the terms for the workers. Now it’s late July, and the bargaining is ongoing.

Like many contract negotiations these days, ESC workers continue to be saddled with concessions and agreements that were made during the Great Recession. When Sonoma County was facing down a budget crisis wrought by the 2008 crash, workers agreed to over a week of unpaid furlough to help the county deal with the crunch.

Even as the economy has improved, the furlough days have not been lifted, and the healthcare workers have seen an overall 2 percent cut to their paychecks as a result. They’re asking for a 3 percent cost-of-living (COLA) increase on top of a 5 percent hike to the hourly rates, to bring Sonoma County in line with what other counties pay for the same services. The county has budged on the COLA increase—offering 2 percent—but the bargaining team hasn’t been able to get the supervisors to move on the mandatory furlough days.

“While we have maintained strongly and clearly that the final agreement needs to include an economic package that allows Sonoma County to recruit and retain the important public service providers that keep our community healthy and safe,” says Fiekowsky, “the county’s behavior at the table has been

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Dining BUILDING A BETTER BURGER A roadside cafe has to get its burger right, and Estero Cafe hits the mark.

Check out those onion rings, too.

Local Yolks

Valley Ford’s Estero Cafe name-drops local producers to delicious effect BY STETT HOLBROOK

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stero Cafe is everything you want in a roadside diner, and a lot you wouldn’t expect.

Walk in and there’s a long lunch counter topped with baked goods and jars of homemade blackberry preserves and hot sauce. There are half a dozen or so tables, and some classic rock playing in the background.

Valley Ford locals Ryan and

Samantha Ramey bought the restaurant in December 2014.

The menu reads like classic diner fare—chicken fried steak, buttermilk waffles, tuna melts and cheeseburgers. But the restaurant stands out for it superior, locally sourced ingredients.

The cafe could probably serve the typical Yuban coffee, Foster Farm eggs and Sysco truck canned goods you find at most diners. There are not many choices around Valley Ford, and

hungry travelers and locals alike would probably take what they could get. But then again, the cafe is smack dab in the middle of the land of milk and honey, and many of those same tourists and locals visit and live here in part because they appreciate good food from good sources. So why not give the people what they want? Estero Cafe does.

The menu includes ingredients from more than a dozen local farms and bakeries. The eggs come from

Coastal Hill Farm in Valley Ford.

Coffee comes from Taylor Made.

The grass-fed beef is raised by Valley Ford’s Twisted Horn Ranch three miles away. (The restaurant buys a whole cow at a time.) Sonoma County Meat Co. makes the bacon and sausage. The ice cream comes from Straus Family Creamery. You get the idea. Local and fresh.

“We don’t even have a can opener in the whole restaurant,” says Samantha Ramey.

There’s also a small wine and beer list that includes Third Street Aleworks, Applegarden Farm hard cider and SCV Sauvignon Blanc.

True, there are no $1.99 Grand Slam breakfasts. But good food costs more than crappy food. The one-third-pound barbecue bacon cheeseburger ($16) is good food.

It comes on a Village Bakery bun with a choice of fries or onion rings. The fries are cooked in locally sourced lard, as are the feathery, house-made onion rings. Both are great. And you have to love the choice of cheese upgrades: Pug’s Leap chèvre, Valley Ford blue and Estero Gold Asiago. Take that, Kraft.

I loved the tuna melt ($12).

Since Estero doesn’t have a can opener, the kitchen poaches fresh albacore tuna and mixes it with celery, onions, thyme, green onions and parsley. Melted Swiss cheese on top and toasted sourdough bread finish the job.

For a lazy-day breakfast, go for the hearty huevos rancheros ($13) served on a pepper jack cheese quesadilla and saucy heirloom beans. I also liked the biscuits and gravy ($12), a house-made fluffy biscuit topped with ham-flecked gravy and eggs on the side.

Estero Cafe is open for breakfast and lunch daily from 7am to 3pm, and Wednesday the cafe does a fried buttermilk chicken dinner from 5pm to 8pm. (Why Wednesdays? Nearby Dinucci’s and Rocker Oysterfeller’s are closed Wednesday nights, and Valley Ford is a small town so it makes sense to coordinate.) The whole menu is available, but the star is the fried chicken.

Estero Cafe, 14450 Hwy. 1, Valley Ford.

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Thai Pot Thai. $$. A local

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breakfast! 401 South A St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.7100.

Water Street Bistro

S O N OMA CO U N TY Dierk’s Cafe Cafe. $.Classic, fresh diner food in a comfortable diner setting.

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

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

Midtown Cafe: 1422 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.545.2233

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

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

707.762.6888.

LoCoco’s Cucina Rustica Italian. $$$.

Authentic rustic-style Italian with a touch of Northern California, and a favorite with those in the know. Get the cannoli! 117 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.523.2227.

Mombo’s Pizza Pizza. $. The crust is thin and the toppings eclectic. Classic pizza joint. Delivery too. 1880 Mendocino Ave #B, Santa Rosa.

707.528.3278. 560 Hwy 116 N, Sebastopol. 707.823.7492.

NY Pie Pizza. $. Large New York–style pies with a hefty selection of toppings and fair sizes. Open and delivering till 3am (!) most nights. (“NY Pie or DUI� is a common slogan in downtown Santa Rosa). 65 Brookwood Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.526.9743.

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.

Pick’s Drive In American. $. After 90 years, not much has changed at this oldschool burger joint, especially the famous red relish. 117 S Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale.

707.894.2962.

Pub Republic Brewpub. $-$$. Pub fare from Petaluma’s southernmost tip, featuring Brussels sprout tacos and a hearty selection of brews. 3120 Lakeville Hwy, Petaluma. 707.782.9090.

The Pullman Kitchen American. $$. Distinctive gourmet eatery featuring locally sourced fish, dairy meats and fresh seasonal produce. Expert service.

205 Fifth St, Santa Rosa.

707.545.4300.

Real Gyro Turkish Cuisine American. $-$$.

Casual, cafe-style ordering from a friendly staff. Get the coffee and buibal yuvasi dessert.. 307 F St, Petaluma.

707.765.9555.

SEA Noodle Bar Thai.

$-$$. The best thing about the noodles are the deeply flavorful broths that borrow from Vietnam’s tradition of noodle soups like pho and bun bo hue. 268 Coddingtown Center, Santa Rosa. 707.521.9087.

Shige Sushi Japanese Kitchen Sushi. $-$$. Small

space in downtown Cotati has big dreams. Lunch specials in bento format, of course, but try the nigiri for dinner. 8235 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati 707.795.9753.

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

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

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Yao-Kiku Japanese.

$$-$$$. Fresh sushi with ingredients flown in from Japan steals the show in this popular neighborhood restaurant. 2700 Yulupa Ave #23, Santa Rosa. 707.578.8180.

Zazu Kitchen & Farm

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

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Showcasing the superfood green chile in healthy dishes (including vegan) inspired by the traditions and cultures of New Mexico. 1335 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.521.5691.

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Casual dinning with panoramic Marin views and a Californiacuisine take on classic fare such as steaks, fresh seafood, and seasonal greens. Complete with custom cocktails.

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Il Piccolo Cafe Specialita Italian. $$. Big,

ample portions at this premier spot on Sausalito’s spirited waterfront. 660 Bridgeway, Ste 3, Sausalito. 415.289.1195.

Jennie Low’s Chinese.

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

Vintage Oaks Shopping Center, Rowland Ave, Novato.

415.892.8838.

Marin Joe’s Restaurant Italian-

American. $$-$$$. In business since 1954, Marin Joe’s is known for its timeless ambiance and great food— steaks, cheeseburgers, caesar salad and more. Good for late-night dining or a drink in the piano bar. 1585 Casa Buena Drive, Corte Madera.

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

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The headlining musical act is Judd Finkelstein’s Maikai Gents, a Napa-based band known for their renditions of classic Hawaiian songs. To complement the performances and food from Oxbow Market vendors, there will also be a raffle benefiting Voices of Napa. The nonprofit group helps young people in Napa County ages 16–24 transition from foster care into the wider community.

The market will feature Polynesian specials as well as Hawaiian vintage wear for sale. Uke-A-Palooza runs from 6pm to 9pm on Friday, July 29, at Oxbow Public Market in Napa. Admission is free. —Amelia Malpas

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N A PA CO U N T Y Bouchon French. $$$. A Keller brother creation with a distinctly Parisian bistro ambiance, offering French classics. 6534 Washington St, Yountville. 707.944.8037.

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.

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Morimoto Japanese.

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$$$$. Upscale meets casual with a wide range of Asianinspired dishes from Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. Cold and hot appetizers, great seafood

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610 Main St, Napa.

707.252.1600.

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

1010 Lincoln Ave, Napa.

707.252.9250.

The Restaurant at Meadowood Modern

American. $$$$. Along with the French Laundry, Meadowood is the only other Michelin three-star restaurant in the Napa Valley, and it’s earned every one of its stars.

Go at least once in your life.

900 Meadowwood Lane, St Helena. 707.967.1205.

Ristorante Allegria

Italian. $$. Inside a historic 1916 building lies this Italian restaurant with music, candlelight and a robust menu.

Full bar, wine list and special dining in “the Vault”–more romantic than it sounds,

believe us. 1026 First St, Napa.

707.254.8006.

Siena California-Tuscan. $$$$. Sophisticated, terroirinformed cooking celebrates the local and seasonal, with electric combinations like sorrel-wrapped ahi tuna puttanesca. 875 Bordeaux Way, Napa. 707.251.1950.

Tarla Mediterranean Bar & Restaurant Greek/ Mediterranean. $$. Casual and trendy with a variety of Turkish and Greek options for any meal of the day. The lamb burger should not be missed.

1480 First St, Napa.

707.255.5599.

Zuzu Spanish tapas. $$.

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

707.224.8555.

Bear Republic Brewing Company

and excellent—and worldfamous— brews. Two words: beer bites! 725 Fourth St., Santa Rosa. 707.545.2337. russianriverbrewing.com.

on German-Style beers (try the Uncle Jack’s kolsch or the Summer Altbier, when available) and California ales, Sonoma Springs Brewing Co. boasts a good-looking lineup of ales. 19449 Riverside Drive, Ste. 101, Sonoma. 707.938.7422. sonomaspringsbrewery.com.

Lagunitas Brewing If

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you haven’t hit up the beer garden at the North Bay’s most laid-back brewery, waste no time and get down there, preferably on one of the many nights of live music.

Sip on a Little Sumpin,’ Hop Stoopid, Hairy Eyeball, Pils . . . you are getting verrrrrryyy thirsty . . . 1280 N. McDowell Blvd., Petaluma. 707.769.4495. lagunitas.com.

Old Redwood Highway Brewery Now that they’ve

made the leap from the garage to an actual building, this Windsor-based brewery has really taken off. Part of the appeal, beyond delicious beers, is the focus on locally sourced ingredients. 9000-A Windsor Road, Windsor. 707.657.7624. redwoodbrewingco.com.

101 North Brewing Company A new addition to

the North Bay craft beer scene, this brewery’s Heroine IPA has 101 North winning at the beer game just out the gate. Based in Petaluma, put it on your “oneto-watch” list. 1304 Scott St., Ste. D. Petaluma. 707.778.8384.

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Petaluma Hills Brewing Co. Seeing

how it’s located across from Lagunitas Brewing Co., Petaluma Hills Brewing Co. had to do something to distinguish itself from the 500-pound gorilla. Petaluma Hills has a friendly taproom where you can see beer being made and are encouraged to ask questions.

Petaluma Hills Brewing Company, 1333 N. McDowell Blvd., Petaluma. 707.766.4458. petalumahills.com.

Sonoma Springs Brewing Co. With a focus

Started by local firefighter Aron Levin and his wife, Amy, St. Florian’s Brewery has exploded of late. The company has plans to expand its space, staff and line of beers. St. Florian’s also gives back, donating 5 percent of all profits to community and fire-related organizations.

7704-A Bell Road, Windsor.

707.383.2739. stfloriansbrewery.com.

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day on the river isn’t complete without a stop at Guerneville’s best (and only) brewery. Better yet, sip ale on the expansive patio overlooking the Russian River, and let those kayakers do all the work for you. 15045 River Road, Guerneville.

707.869.0705. stumptown.com.

Third Street Aleworks Third Street is sometimes overshadowed by a worldrenowned brewery just around the corner, but their Bombay rouge—a malty, drinkable IPA—can hold its own in a roomful of crowded beers. 610 Third St., Santa Rosa. 707.523.3060. thirdstreetaleworks.com.

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Mill Valley Beerworks If there is a beer heaven, it might look a little like this Mill Valley gem of a spot. An impressive draft list is well stocked with old and new favorites. 173 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 415.888.8218. millvalleybeerworks.com.

N A PA CO U N TY Downtown Joe’s Restaurant & Brewery Boasts a brewery built by Chuck Ankeny—the great-grandson of Adolf Hamms—this Napa mainstay has serious historical chops. Try the palate-altering Golden Thistle Very Bitter ale, and prepare to be amazed. 902 Main St., Napa. 707.258.2337. downtownjoes.com.

Napa Smith Brewery Brewer Don Barkley was part of the revered New Albion Brewery, America’s first craft brewery since Prohibition, back in 1978. He’s now part of the team creating gold-medal winning IPAs, wheat beers, pilsners and more at Napa Valley’s only production brewery. 1 Executive Way, Napa. 707.254.7167. napasmithbrewery.com.

Napa Valley Brewing Company Located within the Calistoga Inn, this brewery produces an admirable Dugan oatmeal stout that just might replace your next egg-andbacon breakfast. What’s for dinner? Why, a Calistoga porter, of course! 1250 Lincoln Ave., Calistoga. 707.942.4101. calistogainn.com.

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Wee Keg One small can, one giant leap for Lagunitas

BY JAMES KNIGHT

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ale, cold, slightly alcoholic and bitter. That’s not a winner of an online dating profile, that’s what Lagunitas Brewing Company has to say, with characteristic snark and whimsy, about its latest brew: a 12-ounce aluminum can of hoppiness called the 12th of Never.

It was “never” meant to happen, at least according to Lagunitas founder Tony Magee, who lampooned environmental claims about canned beer in a 2012 Twitter diatribe. But in an email message from last July, specialty brewmaster at Lagunitas Mark Hughes coyly told the Bohemian, “It is hard to say ‘never’ about anything in brewing!”

The can was coming. The aptly named 12th of Never pale ale was released this July in 12-ounce, purple “minikegs,” i.e., aluminum cans. Billed as a pale ale with tropical notes, it’s a hoppy one, that’s for sure—crack the pop-top and pour it into a glass to get the best hit of that classic, piney California pale ale aroma (5.5 percent alcohol by volume). Then again, if I hadn’t already evaluated my advance sample, which was shipped from the brewery’s Chicago digs, I might have wanted to take it on the hike I went on the other day instead of meeting my deadline for this column—one of the key benefits of aluminum cans being packability. “We decided that beer lovers think cans are cool and recognize they can go places glass cannot,” Magee says in the company’s press release.

Already, the can has been getting around. At the top of the mountain, I ran into someone I hadn’t seen for years, and without prompting, he said, “I had this Lagunitas beer in a little purple can—it was really hoppy!”

Meanwhile, new brews continue to clatter off the old glass bottling line. Lagunitas describes its Stoopid Wit (6.3 ABV) as a “Belgian-ish Wit-ly-esque-ish-ness brew,” perhaps because they’re cheekily self-conscious that their beers may seem like stylistic variations based on the same chassis. Some of that fruity, dried-banana, Belgian-style aroma does share the nose with those piney hop notes in this style-bridging beer, but it’s all classic, dry California pale ale after that.

A blast from the past in glass, the brewery’s “WTF,” or Wilco Tango Foxtrot, a “malty, robust, jobless recovery ale,” has just been rereleased in 22-ounce bottles (7.85 ABV). While the premise is dated, with the days of jobless recovery replaced by, well, whatever this is that we’re having now, a few glasses of this big, hoppy imperial brown ale will take the edge off any kind of trying times.

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fter an era of relative quiet compared to the so-called timber wars of the 1980s and ’90s, conflict over logging in the forests of Northern California has returned.

A plan to log 100- to 150-yearold redwood trees across 320 acres of northwestern Sonoma County in the Gualala River floodplain has generated fervent opposition from environmentalists and local

residents over the past year. Clearcutting of 5,760 fire-impacted acres in the Klamath National Forest kicked off in April, much of it on land previously designated as endangered species habitat.

The indigenous people of the area, the Karuk tribe, worked with local environmentalists to craft an alternative plan, but the Forest Service largely ignored it.

The Karuk and the environmental groups have filed a lawsuit in an attempt to scuttle the logging.

Last month, Karuk tribal members

North Coast timber conflict flares up—again

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and local activists blocked the road leading to the logging while holding up a banner reading “Karuk Land, Karuk Plan” in an effort to slow the logging operations pending a legal judgment that could come as soon as late August.

During the last period of conflict 30 years ago, regional environmentalists curtailed some logging operations by setting aside talismanic stands of oldgrowth redwood trees in parks and preserves, and by pointing

out that forests provide important habitat to numerous species, many of them endangered, including northern spotted owls, marbled murrelets and coho salmon.

California is home to some of the most prodigious forests on earth, but lumber production in California has steadily declined since the 1950s. A similar trend also occurred in other western states. But now logging companies are coming back to pick over what’s left.

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“Companies have come in and gotten up to a 16 percent return per year on their timberland, but the forests are only physically capable of yielding about 1 percent per year over the long run,” says former California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) director Richard Wilson, who lives outside the northeastern Mendocino County town of Covelo. Cal Fire is the agency that regulates timber harvests on the state’s private lands.

As a result, soil that once grew trees in the forest has washed into streams and chokes vital fish habitat. The trees that remain—many third-, fourth- and sometimes even spindly fifthgrowth replacement trees—hold back less floodwater, provide far less animal habitat and sequester far less carbon dioxide.

Even so, timber remains a major industry in California, particularly in northern counties like Humboldt, Shasta, Siskiyou and Mendocino, which account for about half the state’s timber harvest. Roughly 20 percent of that harvest currently occurs on public lands.

In some cases, this logging involving cutting old trees that survived the liquidation logging of previous eras. Most often, though, contemporary lumbering means harvesting from lands scarred by past operations, thus eliciting messy disputes.

During Wilson’s tenure at Cal Fire (1991 to 1999), he sought to address the problem of over-harvesting by requiring that timber companies file 100-year management plans for sustaining the volume of timber in their forests, called “sustained yield plans.”

But he says the industry has used its political clout to undermine these regulations, such that a large proportion of the state’s remaining timberlands continue to be degraded by companies like Sierra Pacific Industries, California’s largest timber company, which owns 1.8 million acres and relies heavily on clear-cutting.

“We’ve got the rules,” Wilson says.

“It’s a question of enforcing them.”

In this story, we highlight several timber-industry fights playing out in the North Coast.

These sorts of struggles will shape the long-term well-being of rural economies, the health of local ecosystems and the well-being of indigenous cultures.

These struggles are woven into a broader ecological context.

Northern California’s forests make up the southern leg of the conifer-rich “Pacific temperate rainforest,” which extends from Prince William Sound in Alaska to California’s Central Coast. These forests contain the largest mass of living and decaying material of any ecosystem in the world on a per-unit basis, prompting many scientists and environmentalists to view their maintenance and restoration as crucial in the fight against global climate change.

The Westside Plan: 5,700 Acres of Clear-Cuts

The Marble Mountains are among the ecological jewels of Northern California’s national forest system and home to numerous old-growth conifer stands. In the 1990s, the U.S. Forest Service set aside many mature forest habitats as reserves for the benefit of old-growthdependent species, such as the northern spotted owl, which is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. In 2014, a series of wildfires known as the Westside Fire Complex burned across 183,000 acres of the broader region, most of it in the Klamath National Forest.

In response, the Forest Service has designed timber sales that include more than 5,700 acres of clear-cuts, including fire-killed and living trees, many of them occurring in the mature forest reserves or on steep slopes above streams federally designated to promote the long-term survival of coho salmon.

The Forest Service often auctions off fire-impacted lands to timber companies for “salvage logging.” The Westside Plan is the largest post-fire timber sale in the recent history of northwestern California.

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seen,’ says EPIC’s Kimberly Baker of the Marble Mountains logging plan.

Klamath National Forest supervisor Patricia Grantham says the standing dead trees in the forest pose a major long-term fire hazard. By aggressively logging these areas of the forest, her agency is supplying logs to local mills and biomass power plants, contributing to the long-term health of the forest and protecting local residents’ safety.

“When fire returns to the area in the future, it will be smaller and less severe because of the actions we’re taking on the landscape today,” Grantham says.

But environmentalists and tribal members regard the Westside Plan as a giveaway to the timber industry of historic proportions.

“The Westside [Plan] is absolutely the worst project I’ve ever seen in Pacific Northwest national forests,” says Kimberly Baker of the Arcatabased Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC). She has been monitoring timber sales on national forests for the past 18 years.

The Karuk tribe, EPIC and three other environmental groups have filed suit in federal court to challenge the project. Logging began in April, and it is unclear how much of the land will remain intact when the judge reaches a verdict.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has also expressed

skepticism regarding the Forest Service’s proposal, noting that dead trees “greatly improve” the quality of habitat for spotted owls and other creatures as the forest naturally recovers over time.

According to Fish and Wildlife’s estimate, the Westside Plan could lead to the deaths of 103 northern spotted owls—at least 1 percent of the species’ entire population.

Many of the slopes where the logging is occurring are among the most unstable in the Klamath National Forest. They also happen to be right above several of the Klamath’s most important salmonbearing streams. By removing anchoring vegetation and carving a spider-web pattern of roads and log landings, the logging threatens to bury the streams with silt.

The Karuk tribe worked with environmental groups to develop an alternative plan that would rely on prescribed fires to regenerate the land over the long run. Logging would be confined to ridgelines, for the purpose of developing fuel breaks, such that some logs would still feed local mills. Much of the Klamath Forest is the Karuk’s aboriginal territory.

The Forest Service’s Grantham says she incorporated most of the Karuk’s input. “The plan I ultimately decided on for the

In the Shadow of Hurwitz In 1985, Houston-based investor Charles Hurwitz used junk bonds floated by financier Michael Milken (who later spent two years in jail for financial fraud) to finance a hostile takeover of locally owned logging company Pacific Lumber. This cutthroat move gave Hurwitz control of 200,000 acres of Humboldt County timberland, including more than half of all remaining privately owned oldgrowth redwoods on the West Coast—and, thus, in the world.

By the time Hurwitz cashed out of the land in the mid-aughts, his company, Maxxam Corporation, had clear-cut roughly threequarters of his ownership.

In 2008, the Fisher Family of San Francisco purchased the land and formed Humboldt Redwood Company (HRC). Best known as owners of the Gap and Banana Republic clothing companies, family matriarch Doris Fisher and her sons, Robert, William and

John (who is also well-known as the majority owner of the Oakland A’s), are all billionaires. Along with forestland they had previously purchased in Mendocino and Sonoma counties, the Fishers own more coastal redwood forest than perhaps any private entity ever has, roughly 440,000 acres.

The company immediately pledged a new era of harmony between environmentalists and the timber industry. They vowed to abstain from traditional clearcutting, preserve old-growth trees and invest in road improvements to reduce erosion into streams, which despoils fish habitat.

“From the beginning, we committed to demonstrating that it is possible to manage productive timberlands with a high standard of stewardship,” recently retired HRC President Mike Jani told me in an interview last year.

To many residents of the Elk River watershed, which drains into Humboldt Bay south of Eureka, those words are almost entirely empty. For the past 20 years, largescale logging upstream has caused floods of increasing intensity that have damaged their homes and threatened their safety.

The problems started when Hurwitz’s Maxxam conducted large-scale clear-cutting that badly reduced the soil’s capacity to absorb rainwater and created a massive sediment plume that has buried much of the river’s north fork. But the problem has worsened as HRC and another large timber company, Green Diamond Resources Company, have continued intensive logging.

“HRC’s ‘sustainability’ is based on trampling our constitutional rights, and spending huge sums of lobbying money in order to do so,” says Jessie Noell, a long-time Elk River resident.

The EPA has informed state agencies that the destruction of the Elk River, an important salmon-bearing stream, violates the Clean Water Act. In the late-1990s, they enacted a “memorandum of understanding” with the North Coast division of the state water board requiring that the board develop a plan for cleaning up the sediment in the river by 2002. ) 18

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project and the Karuk Plan are about 75 percent similar,” Grantham says, “and in some ways we came all the way over to their way of thinking.”

Karuk tribe natural resources adviser Craig Tucker says that simply isn’t true. “In reality, the Forest Service basically told us we can go pound sand,” he says regarding the agency’s response to the Karuk management plan.

According to public records, the Forest Service has spent approximately $24 million developing the Westside logging plan and is auctioning most of the logs for a paltry $2.50 per truckload, thus generating only about $450,000 in revenue for the agency.

In May, tribal members and environmental activists blocked the road leading to the salvage logging project while holding up a banner that read “Karuk Land, Karuk Plan.” They are considering further civil disobedience as the logging proceeds.

“The Karuk tribe’s been here for at least 10,000 years,” Tucker says.

“The Forest Service has been here for about a hundred. Yet they don’t listen.”

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DiPerna notes that Maxxam caused most of the original damage, even if HRC has worsened it. A 2015 post on the company's website said that “Humboldt Redwood had a recent difference of scientific opinion with the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board and remains in dialogue with the agency about the best way to address downstream flooding issues.” But the company later filed a lawsuit against the board for not authorizing sediment discharge and logging operations into the Elk River as part of a timber harvest plan the company filed.

For HRC, the problem is that the Elk River is one of the only areas of its land with large stands of merchantable timber, since Maxxam cut most of the rest.

Noell and other local residents say that doesn’t constitute an excuse.

“We have a right to be able to use our water and not to be flooded three to 20 times per year,” says Kristy Wrigley, a fourth-generation apple farmer who lives along the Elk River's north fork. Her lands are no longer productive due to the flooding.

One of the only other places where HRC owns large stands of timber is in the Mattole River watershed. It meets the Pacific Ocean at the westernmost point of the continental United States, in the town of Petrolia, located along the largest swath of undeveloped coastline in the nation, the Lost Coast.

In the Mattole, HRC has received approval to conduct the largest latesuccessional (a term for nearly oldgrowth) timber harvest in Humboldt County in at least 17 years. The areas they are attempting to log include steep slopes that Maxxam had failed to reach—a fact that is deeply painful for residents who fought off those plans in the late ’90s and early 2000s.

A road blockade erected by local activists in 2014 has forestalled most of the logging, and HRC has since been engaged in discussions with locals and environmentalists about a compromise.

A newly minted local residents group called the Lost Coast League is seeking to acquire HRC’s land in the Mattole—including about 17,000 acres—to become an ecological preserve that would limit the harvest of trees to that which facilitates their recovery.

Hack ’n’ Squirt in Mendocino County

Spanning the coastal zones from Santa Barbara to southern Oregon, tanoak trees have been a staff of life for indigenous people, who historically relied on their acorns as a food source. To modern timber companies, however, they are largely a weed tree. Tanoaks often thrive in land disturbed by logging, which include most of California’s coastal redwood and Douglas fir forests.

The most cost-effective means of eliminating tanoaks—and other undesirable hardwood species—is a method called “hack ’n’ squirt,” which involves cutting around the base of the tree, peeling back the bark and spraying a systemic herbicide called Imazapyr into the freshly opened gashes.

The largest practitioner of this technique is Humboldt Redwood Company’s southern counterpart, Mendocino Redwood Company (MRC), which the Fisher family also owns. According to documents MRC submitted to state and federal agencies in 2012, they had conducted hack ’n’ squirt on 78,000 acres of their land at that point—roughly 3 percent of vast Mendocino County’s private lands.

But the widespread herbicide use and killing of trees has outraged many Mendocino County residents.

In June, Mendocino County voters resoundingly passed Measure V, which declares intentionally killing and leaving standing dead trees a public nuisance under the county code. The measure’s explicit aim is to restrict hack ’n’ squirt, and it passed with 62 percent of the vote— even though MRC spent roughly

logging road in May to protest the plan.

$300,000 in a campaign to defeat it.

In 1984, the California Legislature responded to agribusiness interests by adopting a bill sponsored by Asemblymember Bruce Bronzan, which overturned a Mendocino County ban on aerial spraying of herbicides. In a naked power play, the bill stipulated that only the Legislature can restrict the use of pesticides and herbicides, and not counties. Thus, Mendocino County activists have been unable to call for an outright ban on hack ’n’ squirt.

The rationale for Measure V is that MRC and other smaller timber companies are “manufacturing a fire hazard,” says Albion-Little River volunteer fire chief Ted Williams, by leaving so many trees standing dead. Williams was one of the measure’s official proponents.

MRC says they try to use hack ’n’ squirt only “once in the life of a stand [60–80 years],” and that the practice is necessary for speeding up the restoration of redwoods and Douglas firs that predecessor timber companies recklessly overharvested. They also note that it is the most cost-effective way of limiting tanoaks.

The effectiveness of Measure V is subject to legal interpretation.

As MRC forester Jessie Weaver informed local residents, the company has continued to use the technique since the passage of Measure V, though he would not

say if they plan to continue relying on the practice after the county officially certifies the measure.

On July 19, about 30 local residents temporarily blocked one of the entrances to MRC’s Ukiah mill to call on them to “abide by the spirit” of Measure V by committing to an outright hack ’n’ squirt ban.

Logging the Gualala Floodplain Last year, Gualala Redwoods Timber (GRT)—owner of 29,500 acres in northwestern Sonoma and southwestern Mendocino counties—submitted plans to log hundreds of large second-growth redwoods in the Gualala River’s sensitive floodplain. The Dogwood Plan encompasses 320 acres, making it the largest Gualala River floodplain logging plans in the modern regulatory era.

The redwood trees in the floodplain are at least 100 years old. Sonoma County’s regional parks district has eyed the floodplain area as a possible park site for more than 50 years, while a consortium of conservation groups has sought to buy the remainder of the land and create a “working community forest” characterized by a lighter-touch approach to logging.

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franchise spans three states.

More than a year after submitting the Dogwood Plan, Cal Fire signed off on it last month.

The plan had received so much opposition from local residents and environmentalists that the company submitted the plan four different times.

Peter Baye, a coast ecologist who works with Friends of the Gualala River, notes that GRT still hasn’t surveyed for spotted owls or protected species of rare plants.

“I really have doubts whether they are following protocols, or just shuffling paperwork,” he says.

Friends of the Gualala River and Forest Unlimited have filed a notice of their intention to sue to stop the plan. They will likely seek an injunction to stop the logging pending a trial that could occur later this or next year.

On July 16, about 200 people attended a rally against the Dogwood Plan at Gualala Point Regional Park. Gualala Redwoods Timber forester Henry Alden, whose previous job was with Maxxam, has said that criticism of the logging plan is exaggerated, and that the company plans to log much more selectively than most critics of the project have been led to believe.

Many Dogwood Plan opponents note that the Gualala River has already sustained enormous damage. According to a 2010 Cal Fire report on sustainable forest management, the average annual California timberland harvest covers 1.64 percent of private timberland acres. By contrast, the company’s total logging from 2004–14 covered about 30 percent of its land, which translates to a harvest rate of around 2.7 percent per year—far beyond what experts consider sustainable.

Richard Wilson, the former Cal Fire chief, says that battles between environmentalists and timber companies will continue until timber companies are forced to limit their harvesting practices to sustainable levels that balance the needs of other species and local residents.

“Most of the public doesn’t realize we still have a long way to go to get to sustainability,” he says.

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The week’s events: a selective guide

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Dance for Your Health

In the fight against Alzheimer’s and dementia, researchers have found an ally in ballroom dancing. This week, Northern California group Ballroom Dance for Senior Fitness hosts its Awareness Gala in Yountville that will offer information on utilizing dance to boost brain activity and prevent dementia. Yountville mayor John Dunbar will be on hand to offer a declaration of the city’s support, and Napa musician Johnny Smith will lead big-band Opus to play the hits of the 1950s and ’60s as you dance the night away on Thursday, July 28, at the Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Drive, Yountville. 6:30pm. $25. 707.944.9900.

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Art Bound With three distinct gallery spaces, the Sebastopol Center for the Arts opens a trio of fascinating and diverse exhibits this week. In the large Galletta Gallery, the juried group show ‘Boundaries’ offers a wide selection of works in various media interpreting the titular theme by exploring geographical, political, social and emotional takes on the word. Gallery II showcases a solo installation of mixedmedia book art by local artist C. K. Itamura, “w[o]rdrobe,” that blends fashion and text. Gallery III displays a photography project of Gary Kaplan, “The Continual Effect of Abuse: Using Photography for Healing.” These exhibits open with a reception on Friday, July 29, at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S. High St., Sebastopol. 6pm. By Donation. 707.829.4797.

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Potter: The Next Generation Gather your magic wands and messenger owls, because fiction’s most famous bespectacled wizard, Harry Potter, is back in a new play, ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,’ based on a story by J. K. Rowling and opening in London this week. For the rest of us Potter-heads, the play’s script, about an overworked adult Harry Potter and his youngest son struggling with the family legacy, is being released as a book this weekend, and several bookstores in the North Bay are celebrating with midnight release parties on Saturday, July 30. Get your copy of the new adventure at Copperfield’s Books in Sebastopol and Napa, Book Passage in Corte Madera and Napa Bookmine. All events begin at 11pm. For more details, see Readings, p29.

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Midwest Star Singer-songwriter Margo Price is a fixture of the Nashville scene and is about to become a household name. Since her debut album, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, was released back in March, Price has been hailed as country music’s next top star and even snagged an appearance as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live last season. Her voice has been favorably compared to country legends like Loretta Lynn, and her songs emanate the same enduring emotion and humanity of masters like Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris. Price plays a mix of honky-tonk jams and Americana ballads on Wednesday, Aug. 3, at Gundlach Bundschu Winery, 2000 Denmark St., Sonoma. 8pm. $35. 707.938.5277.

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MANDATORY FUN Parody king ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic demands you have a good time at his show on Saturday, July 30, at the Green Music Center in Rohnert Park. See Concerts, p25.

READY PLAYER ONE Are video games like Braid games or art? Or both? A new exhibit lets you decide.

Game On

Napa Valley Museum sends you down the rabbit hole in video-game exhibit BY CHARLIE SWANSON

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apa Valley Museum curator Meagan Doud rarely encountered video games in her art history classes or her work with Bay Area galleries over the last 10 years. Yet her recent glimpse into the emerging world of independently created video games that break rules opened up a rabbit hole of curiosity.

“As soon as I saw one of these games,” Doud says, “I wanted to keep looking for other ones.

I found this whole world that I tripped into that was extremely fascinating to me and changed my perspective on video games.”

Aiming to expose this new perspective to as many other people as she could, Doud curated Napa Valley Museum’s new exhibit, “Down the Rabbit Hole: Innovative Independent Video Games,” by assembling 10 adventurous games from artistically minded developers, and displaying them as fully playable gaming stations.

“They were games that were very different from what I had ever experienced in the classic

sense,” Doud says, “a whole genre of games that was very conceptually driven, aesthetically beautiful and engaging with their narrative.”

Steering clear of the typical violent games found in the mass market, Doud reached out to developers with family-accessible games that showed a diverse range of visual and aesthetic styles, gaming mechanics, music and plotlines.

“Down the Rabbit Hole” features games like Braid (pictured), with an animated avatar who uses time manipulation to find puzzle

pieces and solve riddles. There are also slower, exploratory games like Hohokum, made by British developer Honeyslug in collaboration with artist Richard Hogg, in which a multicolored serpent explores whimsical landscapes.

Other games in the show are much more narrative-driven and personal, such as Coming Out Simulator and That Dragon, Cancer, both of which tell truelife stories through simple, emotionally resonant, mechanics.

For this exhibit, Napa Valley Museum also teamed with Napa’s New Technology High School, showing work from students interested in game design who competed in various projects, such as 3-D digital modeling and creating in-game music.

The show also features a season of public programs ranging from film nights to hands-on workshops that focus on different ideas associated with video games. In September, a retro game marathon offers nostalgic gamers a night of classic arcade fare. And in October, a miniature city-building workshop for kids echoes the paper-tissue art seen in the video game Lumino City.

“I definitely think that video games can be an art form,” Doud says. “I think there’s also a serious cohort of developers not interested in thinking of games as art. That debate is fascinating, and it’s important for us to present the possibility that games can be art. Whether or not people believe that, I think they’ll find a new appreciation for aesthetics or education values.”

‘Down the Rabbit Hole’ runs through Jan. 8, 2017, at the Napa Valley Museum, 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. Wednesday–Sunday, 11am–4pm. 707.944.0500.

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HE’S NOT GONNA TAKE IT Drew

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That’s one way to define a “jukebox musical.” This year’s Summer Repertory Theatre Festival at Santa Rosa Junior College, includes two very different examples of the “jukebox musical,” in which the story is constructed around a random list of songs, rather than the other way around.

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Nice Work If You Can Get It, revolving around classic 1920s and ’30s songs by George and Ira Gershwin, is pleasant, classy, solidly performed and light as a feather. Rock of Ages, constructed from pop rock and metal tunes from the garish ’80s, is coarse, crude, exuberant and sprinkled with sleazy Sunset Strip darkness and danger.

Created by Chris D’Arienzo,

Rock of Ages employs songs

by Journey, Van Halen, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Starship and others in telling the story of Drew (Nate Stuckey), a wannabe rocker stuck cleaning the bar at an L.A. music club, and Sherri (Jessica Merghart), the aspiring actress he falls hard for. Yes, singing Steve Perry’s “Oh Sherrie” is inevitable. Both are working at a legendary rock venue called the Bourbon Room when their budding romance is derailed by the arrival of Stacee Jaxx (Mark Jammal), the amoral lead singer of a band called Arsenal.

A subplot involves a scheme by German developers to raze the Bourbon Room to make way for chain stores, galvanizing the club’s supporters into various forms of protest, including repeated group performances of Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” As written, it’s a bit of a hot mess, with a fair share of gleefully offensive moments and one potentially moving scene marred by the actors’ use of distasteful stereotypes. But overall, Rock of Ages is infectiously pleasurable, with loads of high energy, a kind of gritty, youthful innocence, and tunes written to stick in your brain for days.

Rating (out of 5): Meanwhile, Nice Work If You Can Get It, written by Joe DiPietro, seems to evaporate almost as soon as it’s over, along with the majority of its pleasing but strangely unmemorable tunes, the two or three exceptions including “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “ ’S Wonderful” and “Fascinating Rhythm.”

The plot, about a Prohibition– era playboy (a delightful Alex Stewart) falling in love with a sweet bootlegger (Aubrey Reece, also delightful) on the eve of his marriage to a famous dancer (Sophie Madorsky, hilarious), is slight and silly, but crammed with old-fashioned, simplistic charm.

‘Rock of Ages’ runs through Aug. 11, and ‘Nice Work If You Can Get It’ runs through Aug. 13. Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa. $15–$25. 707.527.4343.

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BEAMED UP A Darth Maul–looking Jaylah (Sofia Boutella) helps Scotty

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Engage!

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he Enterprise is our own leaky American ship as we love to envision her, stuffed with benign, theatrically accented foreigners all pulling together. “My wee Scottish gran said, ‘You can’t break a stick in a bundle’,” says Scotty (co-scriptwriter Simon Pegg) in Star Trek: Beyond.

The latest in the sci-fi franchise comes out of the gate funny. Kirk (Chris Pine), a one-man diplomatic delegation, tries to return an unwanted cultural artifact to a planet of angry gargoyles. It’s the 966th day in deep space. “Things have seemed a little episodic . . .”

Kirk tells his log wryly.

When the crew pull into Starbase Yorktown, there’s an emergency to deal with: a captain needs rescuing after she and her crew crashed on an uncharted planet behind a formidable asteroid belt. All the wisdom of Starfleet Command is present (Shohreh Aghdashloo is particularly good as a wise commodore), but it’s too bad Star Wars’ Admiral Ackbar wasn’t there to warn Kirk.

The great ship is ripped to pieces by an enormous fleet of spiky fighter pods, leaving the crew shipwrecked on a rocky planet, with Spock badly injured. Help arrives from an alien scavenger, Jaylah (Sofia Boutella). With black terrapin stripes on her clown-white face, she looks like ’60s star Ursula Andress done up by H. R. Giger. The lord of the planet is a two-legged iguana called Krall (Idris Elba).

He’s a minor Star Trek villain, but he fills the résumé as an asthmatic heavy breather who can growl the r’s in “Kirrrrrrrrrrk.”

The Trek series is now like any other superhero series, with a wobbly range between the realistic and the ridiculous. But the movie is sworn to fun, and it delivers, with plenty of sci-fi drama and the long-legged Jaylah pouring herself all over the captain’s chair.

Strange, then, that the most emotional moment is the new Spock contemplating a relic of the old Spock—a photo of a group of portly men and one woman, in polyester and turtlenecks.

‘Star Trek: Beyond’ is playing in wide release in the North Bay.

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bout this time last year, Napa restaurant and live music venue City Winery announced it was cutting ties with its downtown location at the historic Napa Valley Opera House amid reports of underwhelming cuisine and under-attended concerts.

That news was followed with word six months ago that another popular franchising venue, the Blue Note Jazz Club out of New York City, was in talks to take over the space by summer of 2016. Now, with summer firmly here, Blue Note is indeed planting roots in Napa, though it’s taking the slow and steady approach.

“The experience goes back a

number a years,” says Blue Note managing director Ken Tesler.

Having worked with Blue Note’s founding family, the Bensusans, for the last decade, Tesler first got the idea to bring the club—which also has locations in Hawaii, Japan and Italy—to Napa Valley during a winetasting trip nearly four years ago.

“I fell in love with the region,” Tesler says. “For a good three years, I took my time learning this area and this market. I was determined to put the right business model together.”

Tesler sought out friend and fivestar hotel and restaurant manager Jeroen Gerrese. “He has tremendous restaurant management experience, and I have the music experience,” Tesler says.

The partners looked at properties throughout Napa Valley before the Opera House became available last year. When word reached them of City Winery’s move, they jumped on it.

Tesler moved his family to Napa from the East Coast in April, when contracts were finalized. Since then, he says he and his staff have been “taking our time, making sure we do things correctly.”

The plan for the forthcoming Blue Note Napa is to turn the Opera House’s first floor restaurant into a 150-seat supper club featuring nightly live music from a roster of acclaimed jazz artists spanning the genre and beyond. “We want a little of that intimate New York jazz-club vibe,” Tesler says. “And we want it to meet Napa Valley, to have the best of both worlds.”

The second-floor theater, which holds upwards of 600 people standing, will remain the historic Opera House Ballroom, with Blue Note opening the space to other local promoters and events like the BottleRock Napa Valley after-shows that happened there last May. While there is no opening date yet, Tesler expects Blue Note Napa to take off by early fall. “You only get one shot to hit it out of the park,” Tesler says. “When we open our doors, we have got to show people we can do it right.”

Concerts SONOMA COUNTY Memories That Linger Party

Two nights of throwback ‘50s rock, boogie-woogie, big band and blues features Poyntlyss Sistars, Billy Mac, John Allair and members of the Dick Crest Band. Jul 29-30, 7pm. $12-$20. Rio Nido Roadhouse, 14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido.

707.869.0821.

Margo Price

Talented songwriter and performer with Nashville and Memphis roots performs a honky-tonk set of music. Aug 3, 8pm. $35. Gundlach Bundschu Winery, 2000 Denmark St, Sonoma. 707.938.5277.

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

The biggest-selling comedy recording artist in history gets weird in Sonoma County as part of a world tour. Jul 30, 7:30pm. $25 and up. Green Music Center, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

MARIN COUNTY Global Guitar Summit Indian nylon string guitarist Konarak Reddy, American scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort and German fingerstyle guitarist Teja Gerken perform solo and ensemble pieces. Jul 31, 6:30pm. $12-$15. Fenix, 919 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.813.5600.

Heart of Gold Band Reunion

Donna Jean Godchaux-Mackay, Steve Kimock, Greg Anton, David Mackay and Mookie Siegel come together in a concert celebration on Jerry Garcia’s birthday. Aug 1, 8pm. $32-$37. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.1100.

NAPA COUNTY Napa Porchfest

More than 100 folk and roots groups take over historic porches throughout downtown Napa. Take a walking tour and hear dozens of different bands.

Jul 31, 12pm. Free. Downtown Napa, Fourth St, between Franklin and Coombs, Napa.

O.A.R.

Longtime hard-rock favorite, known for their exciting live shows, get loud in Napa Valley. Jul 30, 7pm. $80 and up. Robert Mondavi Winery, 7801 St Helena Hwy, Oakville.

707.968.2203.

Uke-a-Palooza

Celebrate Polynesian culture with food, drinks, clothing, music by the Maikai Gents and a family-friendly ukulele jam.

Jul 29, 6pm. Free admission.

Oxbow Public Market, 610 First St, Napa.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA COUNTY A’Roma Roasters

Jul 29, Hillwilliams. Jul 30, Chris Lods. 95 Fifth St, Santa Rosa.

707.576.7765.

Aqus Cafe

Jul 27, bluegrass and old time music jam. Jul 28, flamenco gathering with Mark Berry.

Jul 29, MCB. Jul 30, Rivertown Skifflers. Jul 31, 2pm, Gary Vogensen’s Sunday Ramble. 189 H St, Petaluma. 707.778.6060.

Barley & Hops Tavern

Jul 28, Burnside and the Betty Blues. Jul 29, Jacob Green.

Jul 30, Hilary Marckx. 3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental.

707.874.9037.

The Big Easy

Jul 28, Howard Wales and Terry Haggerty. Jul 29, Miss Moonshine with the Dollhouses. 128 American Alley, Petaluma. 707.776.4631.

Cellars of Sonoma

Jul 28, John Pita. Jul 29, Craig Corona. Jul 30, Ricky Alan Ray. Jul 31, Falcon Christopher.

133 Fourth St, Santa Rosa.

707.578.1826.

Jul 31, Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles and the Santa Rosa Symphony. Free; ticket required.

1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Green Music Center Schroeder Hall

Through Aug 4, pianoSonoma Music Festival. 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Healdsburg Plaza

Aug 2, 6pm, New Breed Brass Band. 217 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.431.3301.

Hood Mansion

Jul 29, Funky Fridays with Gator Nation. 1450 Pythian Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.833.6288. www.funkyfridays.info.

HopMonk Sebastopol

Jul 28, Dirtwire and DJ Dragonfly. Jul 29, Vokab Kompany and Soluzion. Jul 30, Rass Kass and Planet Asia.

Jul 31, Lagos Roots Afrobeat Ensemble. Aug 1, Monday Night Edutainment with DJ Jacques and DJ Guacamole.

230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol.

707.829.7300.

Jul 29, 5pm, John Lester. Jul 29, 8pm, Timothy O’Neil. Jul 30, 1pm, Michael Bloch. Jul 30, 8pm, Sean Carscadden. Jul 31, 1pm, Smorgy. 691 Broadway, Sonoma. 707.935.9100.

Hotel Healdsburg

Jul 30, 6:30pm, Alan Hall Trio with Jeff Denson and Dan Zemelman. Jul 29, 6pm, Michael Hantman and Carol Shumate. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg. 707.431.2800.

Jul 27, 5pm, Peacetown concert series with Annie Sampson and Bonnie Brooks.

Aug 3, 5pm, Peacetown concert series with Lost Dog Found and Kevin Russell.

Willow Street and Jewell Avenue, Sebastopol.

Lagunitas Tap Room

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Jul 29, 6pm, the Peter

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Philly Joe James & Louisiana Love Act Fri 7/29 • Doors 8pm • ADV $16 / DOS $18

Jerry Joseph & a Guitar

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Lunch & Dinner Sat & Sun Brunch

Jul 28, Susan Sutton jazz piano.

Jul 29, Blyth Klein Streetwise.

Jul 30, Bad Ass Boots. Jul 31, Cazadero Jazz Project. Aug 2, Mac & Potter. Aug )

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Ives Park

Jul 29, Restless Sons. Jul 30, Lisa Stano Trio. Aug 2, the Rivertown Trio. 100 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.789.0505.

Jul 30, the Beautiful Questions.

177A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.473.8652.

Wed 7/27 • Doors 7pm • ADV $12 / DOS $14

Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds with KOLARS

Sun 7/31 • Doors 7pm • ADV $25 / DOS $30

Multi-Grammy Winning Legendary Guitarist

Albert Lee with Kate Taylor Wed 8/03 • Doors 9:30pm • ADV $17 / DOS $20 An Evening with

Cody Canada & The Departed Thur 8/04 • Doors 7pm • ADV $25 / DOS $27 British Blues Awards Guitarist of the Year 2010, 11, & 12

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Sat 8/06 • Doors 8pm • ADV $17 / DOS $20

Natural Wonder

A Stevie Wonder Tribute Band www.sweetwatermusichall.com 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley Café 388-1700 | Box Office 388-3850

HopMonk Sonoma

Jul 27, HowellDevine. Jul 28, the Heaters. Jul 29, Danny Montana. Jul 30, Timothy O’Neil. Jul 31, Staggerwing.

Aug 3, Ain’t Misbehavin’. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma.

707.778.8776.

Corkscrew Wine Bar

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Aug 13 Sat

Maria Muldaur

High Energy New Orleans Blues, R&B and Swamp Funk 8:30

Aug 27

Lavay Smith’s “1940’s Supper Club”

featuring the music of Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Count Basie 8:30

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Sun, Aug 7 • the subdudes Sun, Aug 14 • Zulu Spear

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Sun, Aug 21 • Petty Theft Sun, Aug 28 • Asleep at the Wheel Sun, Sep 4 • Chuck Prophet

plus San Geronimo

Mon, Sep 5 • The Sons of Champlin Sun, Sep 11 • “Uncle” Willie K Sun, Sep 18 • Buck Nickels &

Loose Change/The Jones Gang Gates open at 3pm / Music at 4pm Reservations Advised

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3, Rhonda Benin. 16280 Main St, Guerneville. 707.869.0501.

Whiskey Tip

Monte Rio Community Center

Aug 1, 6:30pm, Monte Rio supper club with Old Century Blood. 20488 Hwy 116, Monte Rio. 707.865.9956.

Montgomery Village Shopping Center

IN WINE COUNTRY

Jul 28, 5:30pm, Wonderbread 5.

Jul 30, 12pm, Super Diamond.

Jul 31, 1pm, Vernell Anders. 911 Village Court, Santa Rosa.

Mystic Theatre

“...Broadway Under the Stars completely blew me away.”

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Jul 29, Bebel Gilberto. Aug 3, Protoje and Raging Fyah. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.765.2121.

Osmosis Day Spa

Jul 28, 6:30pm, Benefit for the Center for Climate Protection with Rumi’s Caravan. 209 Bohemian Hwy, Freestone.

707.823.8231.

Redwood Cafe

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Jul 27, Don Hall. Jul 28, 1/2 Cup of Sunshine. Jul 29, Luvplanet.

Jul 30, 3pm, Gold Coast Jazz Band. Jul 30, 8:30pm, Maldito Tango Duo. Aug 1, Open Belly Dance. Aug 2, Rock Overtime student performance. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7868.

Rossi’s 1906

Jul 30, Gethen Jenkins & the Freightshakers. Jul 31, 5pm, Hot Grubb. Jul 31, 9pm, Sunday Night Blues Jam. 401 Grove St, Sonoma. 707.343.0044.

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BIG STICKY MESS 1–4pm Every Sunday this Summer thru 9/4 NO COVER Live music, cocktails & food outside in the garden

Calistoga July 28-31 Napa County Fairgrounds

Windsor Aug 18-21 Keiser Park

showtimes: 7pm thurs & Fri 4pm & 7pm sat 1pm & 4pm sun

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1245 Spring St, St. Helena 707.967.8779

Jaw dropping, Top Quality entertainment for all ages!

Jul 29, Ian Franklin & Infinite Frequency. Jul 30, DJ MD and Extreme DJ Madness. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.843.5535.

MARIN COUNTY Angel Island State Park

Jul 30, 2pm, Blithedale Canyon.

Jul 31, 2pm, Kelly Peterson. 1 Main St, Tiburon. 415.435.3972.

Elk’s Lodge

Jul 29, 6:30pm, Veterans fundraiser with Quartet Andoni.

1312 Mission Ave, San Rafael.

415.952.5502.

Fenix

Jul 27, Pro Blues Jam with the Bobby Young Project. Jul 28, Captain Paisley. Jul 29, Soul Power. Jul 30, Howard Hewett.

Aug 2, West Coast Songwriters Competition. Aug 3, pro blues jam with Dallis Craft Band.

919 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.813.5600.

George’s Nightclub Jul 31, Mexican Banda.

842 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.226.0262.

HopMonk Novato

Jul 29, tribute to Merle Haggard with Attila Viola & the Bakersfield Boys. Jul 30, Parcivillian and Bodacious Ancients. Jul 31, 5pm, Sean Hayes. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery

SOMO Village Event Center

Jul 27, UB40 with the Wailers.

1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park.

Jul 27, Jerry Garcia Birthday Tribute Show. Aug 3, Michael Lamacchia and friends.

765 Center Blvd, Fairfax.

415.485.1005.

Sonoma Speakeasy

Marin Country Mart

Jul 28, singer sit-in night with Dallis Craft. Jul 29, 5pm, the Bossanova Duo. Jul 29, 8pm, the Disclosures. Jul 30, 5pm, Full Circle. Jul 30, 8pm, Steve Willis and friends. Jul 31, 4pm, Bruce Gordon & the Acrosonics.

452 First St E, Ste G, Sonoma.

707.996.1364.

Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds

Jul 30, 1pm, We Ben-Jamin Music Festival.

175 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma.

707.763.8920.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse Jul 28, Timothy O’Neil Band and Buck Thrifty. Jul 29, Dylan Black Project and the Melt. Jul 30, Arizona & the Volunteers with Janie & the Reformers.

Aug 1, the Blues Defenders pro

Jul 29, 6pm, Friday Night Jazz with the Mike Olmos Quartet.

Jul 31, 12:30pm, Folkish Festival with Ain’t Misbehavin’. 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur.

Menke Park

Jul 31, 5pm, Summer Sunday Concerts with Danny Click.

Redwood Ave and Corte Madera Ave, Corte Madera.

415.302.1160.

19 Broadway Club

Jul 27, Liquid Green. Jul 28, Deep Blue Jam with Lorin Rowan. Jul 29, 5:30pm, Darren Nelson and Michael Weiss.

Jul 29, 9:30pm, Matt Jaffe & the Distractions. Jul 30, 5:30pm, Grey & Siler. Jul 30, 9:30pm, Newen Afrobeat with Lagos Roots. Jul 31, 1pm, Buck

Nickels & Loose Change. Jul 31, 5pm, the Jazz Roots Band.

17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.

415.459.1091.

No Name Bar

Jul 27, Mendonesia. Jul 28, Snake Plissken Band. Jul 29, Michael Aragon Quartet. Jul 30, Art Khu Trio. Jul 31, Clem & Them. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.1392.

Osher Marin JCC

Jul 30, 7pm, Pacific Mambo Orchestra. $25-$35/kids free. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.

Osteria Divino

Jul 27, Deborah Winters with Ken Cook. Jul 28, Passion Habanera. Jul 29, Nicholas Culp Trio. Jul 30, David Jeffrey’s Jazz Fourtet. Jul 31, Ian McArdle Trio. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito.

415.331.9355.

Panama Hotel Restaurant

Jul 27, Charlie Docherty. Jul 28, C-JAM with Connie Ducey.

Aug 2, Swing Fever. Aug 3, Rivertown Trio. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael. 415.457.3993.

Papermill Creek Saloon Jul 27, Hobo Warble and plunk songwriters jam. 1 Castro, Forest Knolls. 415.488.9235.

Peri’s Silver Dollar

Jul 27, the New Sneakers. Jul 28, Mark’s Jam Sammich.

Jul 29, Slim Jenkins. Jul 30, Heath Haberlin and friends.

Aug 2, Waldo’s Special. Aug 3, the Weissmen. 29 Broadway, Fairfax. 415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio

Jul 29, Gary Vogensen & the Ramble Band. Jul 30, the Paul Thorn Band. Jul 31, 4pm, the Paul Thorn Band and Sons of the Soul Revivers. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio.

415.662.2219.

Rickey’s

Jul 29, Kimrea & Dreamdogs.

Jul 30, Andoni. 250 Entrada Dr, Novato. 415.883.9477.

Sausalito Seahorse

Jul 28, Free Peoples. Jul 29, DJ Jose Ruiz. Jul 30, Wavelength.

Jul 31, 5pm, Julio Bravo & Salsabor. Aug 1, 6pm, open mic with Judy Hall. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito.

415.331.2899.

Servino Ristorante Jul 30, Liza Silva & Voz do Brazil. 9 Main St, Tiburon.

415.435.2676.

Sweetwater Music Hall Jul 27, Andre Thierry. Jul 28, Trevor Hall. Jul 29, Songhoy

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Blues. Jul 30, Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds. Jul 31, Albert Lee with Kate Taylor. Aug 3, Cody Canada and the Departed.

19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.1100.

Terrapin Crossroads

Jul 27-28, the Greyboy Allstars.

Jul 29, Top 40 Friday with Scott Law & the Terrapin All-Stars.

Jul 30, Brian Rashap and the Terrapin All-Stars. Jul 31, the Incubators. Aug 1, Jerry Garcia Birthday show with Stu Allen & Mars Hotel. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773.

Tomales Town Hall

Jul 30, 6:30pm, One Grass Two Grass. 27150 Hwy 1, Tomales.

707.878.2006.

NAPA COUNTY Ca’ Momi Osteria

Jul 29, David Correa and Tommy Hill. Jul 30, Harletson. 1141 First St, Napa. 707.224.6664.

Deco Lounge at Capp Heritage Vineyards

Jul 30, Craig Corona. 1245 First St, Napa. 707.254.1922.

Goose & Gander

Jul 31, 1pm, Reservoir Days.

1245 Spring St, St Helena.

707.967.8779.

Pioneer Park

Jul 28, 6:30pm, the Vivants.

Free. 1308 Cedar St, Calistoga.

707.942.2838.

RaeSet

Jul 29, Gretschkat. Jul 30, Nate Kanae. 3150 B Jefferson St, Napa. 707.666.9028.

River Terrace Inn

Jul 28, Dan Martin. Jul 29, Nate Lopez. Jul 30, Smorgy.

1600 Soscol Ave, Napa.

707.320.9000.

Silo’s

Jul 27, Savoy. Jul 28, Secure the Sun. Jul 29, Garage Band 101 for Adults. Jul 30, Petty Theft. Jul 31, 7pm, Porchfest afterparty with the Deadlies.

Aug 3, Syria T Berry. 530 Main St, Napa. 707.251.5833.

The Red Hen Cantina Jul 30, Fugitive Dust.

4175 Solano Ave, Napa.

707.255.8125.

Uptown Theatre

Jul 30, Dirty Dozen Brass Band. 1350 Third St, Napa.

707.259.0123.

Uva Trattoria

Jul 27, Trio Solea. Jul 28, Le Hot Jazz. Jul 29, Fundz Jazz. Jul 30, Jackie and friends. Jul 31, Tom Duarte. 1040 Clinton St, Napa.

707.255.6646.

Out of the Garage Napa PorchFest takes over the neighborhood Reportedly the first of its kind west of the Mississippi, Napa’s free, daylong PorchFest marks its sixth year this weekend, with over a hundred local bands showcased on stoops, steps, in yards and, yes, on porches throughout Napa’s historic downtown neighborhood on July 31.

With each venue in comfortable walking distance of several others, a sturdy pair of shoes is all that’s required as you stroll through the neighborhood’s Victorian houses. Or pack a picnic, blanket and lawn chairs, and set up at any one of the nearly 60 stages to watch regional songwriters and bands perform everything from bluegrass to classical and Celtic folk to gospel.

This year’s lineup includes Calistoga/ Santa Rosa–based roots rockers the Restless Sons, fresh off a tour in Japan, playing at noon at 1456 Pine St. with indie songwriter Zak Fennie. Visitors to the Churchill Manor B&B will get to hear Napa rhythm and soul storyteller Brian Coutch and his band split the afternoon with Bay Area blues veterans the Jimmy Smith Band. And Napa’s main library at 580 Coombs St. hosts sets by jam rockers the Benders, Nuclear Blonde and the Diamond T Band.

This year’s theme, “Out of the Garage and onto the Porch,” signifies the volunteer-run event’s ongoing evolution and expansion, boosted by the community’s continued support. Also boasting a bevy of food trucks and a family-friendly atmosphere, PorchFest goes down throughout downtown Napa.

Noon to 6pm. Free. napaporchfest.org.

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Arts Events Galleries RECEPTIONS

May, who crafts wire birds and animals infused with energy and realism. 140 E Napa St, Sonoma. Wed-Thurs and SunMon, 11 to 5; Fri-Sat, 11 to 8.

707.996.3115.

Bump Wine Cellars Jul 29

Sebastopol Center for the Arts, “Boundaries,” juried show features engaging art related to geographical, emotional or physical boundaries. 6pm. 282 S High St, Sebastopol.

707.829.4797.

Falkirk Cultural Center, “Unleashed,” Terra Linda Ceramic Artists present a show that explores the concept of each artist’s idea of what it means to be unleashed, untethered, released or free. 5:30pm. Free. 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael.

415.485.3438.

Jul 30

Gallery One, “New Work,” invited artists Isis Hockenos, Joyce Kelly, Judy Klausenstock, Sandra Speidel and Joanne Tepper show their latest multimedia works. 5pm. 209 Western Ave, Petaluma.

707.778.8277.

Aug 2

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, “Bay Area Women Artists,” a collection of the latest from several talented artists. 6pm. 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.4331.

SONOMA COUNTY Alchemia Gallery

Through Aug 28, “Earth, Wind & Fiber,” mixed-media collection featuring works of art from three distinct mediums: ceramics, glass mosaics and fiber arts. 111 Kentucky St, Petaluma. Mon, Tues, Fri - 10am - 5pm Wed, Thurs, Sat - 10am - 4pm Sun 11am - 4pm 707.775.3794.

Arts Guild of Sonoma Through Aug 1, “July Art Exhibition,” month’s show focuses on sculptor Loran

Through Jul 31, “Art Is the Clothing of a Revelation,” artistic couple Shotsie and Kristine Gorman exhibit their paintings.

521 Broadway, Ste A, Sonoma.

Mon-Thurs, 1 to 6; Fri-Sun, noon to 6; Closed Wed. 707.228.9214.

Charles M. Schulz Museum

Jul 27-Jan 16, “Peanuts & the Picture of Health,” showcase looks at the sporty and active pursuits that found themselves playfully depicted in the panels of Peanuts. 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, noon to 5; Sat-Sun, 10 to 5. 707.579.4452.

Cutting Edge Salon

Through Aug 31, “Sightings,” seven photographers reveal gorgeous, though not often noticed, details of our world. 7773 Healdsburg Ave, Sebastopol. 707.823.3307.

Graton Gallery

Through Aug 14, “Don’t Make Me Laugh,” featuring works

by Mylette Welch and Maria Ester Sund with guest artists including Tim Dixon. Showing in conjunction with the juried Cigar Box show. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. Tues-Sat, 10:30 to 6; Sun, 10:30 to 4. 707.829.8912.

Healdsburg Center for the Arts

Through Aug 28, “Reflections | Shadows,” regional juried exhibit presents a diverse selection of works based on the theme. 130 Plaza St, Healdsburg. Daily, 11 to 6.

707.431.1970.

IceHouse Gallery

Through Aug 22, “Past Tense, Present Tense,” a vibrant career-spanning exhibit of paintings by Jack Stuppin.

405 East D St, Petaluma.

707.778.2238.

Paul Mahder Gallery

Through Aug 21, “A Fine Line,” a selection of over 35 works by living masters of the art of drawing. 222 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg.

Petaluma Historical Library & Museum Through Aug 28, “Tribal

Voices,” historical Native American artifacts and contemporary artwork from Becky Olvera Schultz and Christine Cobaugh. 20 Fourth St, Petaluma. Wed-Sat, 10 to 4; Sun, noon to 3; tours by appointment on Mon-Tues.

707.778.4398.

Sebastopol Gallery Through Aug 6, “Clay, Pigment & Precious Stones,” featured artists Chris Boyd, Paula Matzinger and Joann Lustig display works that range from ceramics to oil paintings to jewelry. 150 N Main St, Sebastopol. Open daily, 11 to 6.

707.829.7200.

Sebastopol Library Aug 2-30, “Don de Vivieros & the Art of North America,” featuring imaginative and skillful works from the late artists and professor. 7140 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol. MonTues, 1 to 5 and 6 to 9; WedSat, 1 to 5. 707.823.7691.

University Art Gallery Through Jul 31, “Palate to Palette,” features a rich and diverse selection drawn from more than 440 works by regional, national and internationally known artists that are part of the Sonoma State University art collection.

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

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

MARIN COUNTY Art Works Downtown Through Aug 5, “Phases,” featuring recent work

by Raylene Gorum that contemplates the various passages of time. 1337 Fourth St, San Rafael. Tues-Sat, 10 to 5.

415.451.8119.

Commonweal Gallery Through Aug 5, “Indications in the Field,” winemaker Sean Thackrey’s original photography is on display. 451 Mesa Rd, Bolinas. Mon-Fri, 10 to 4. 415.868.0970.

Corte Madera Library Through Aug 18, “Commitment to Creativity,” group show by Golden Gate Marin Artists celebrates women in the visual arts. 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera. 707.924.6444.

Desta Art & Tea Gallery Through Aug 15, “Shifting Tides,” encaustics painter Robin Denevan’s imagined landscapes and scultpor Phyllis Thelen’s telling forms display.

417 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo. Mon-Sat, 10 to 6 415.524.8932.

Headlands Center for the Arts

Through Aug 26, “Summer Project Space Exhibitions,” witness and engage with the artist-in-residence space both as working studios and complete exhibitions.

Reception, Aug 14 at 3pm. 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito. Sun-Fri, noon to 4. 415.331.2787.

Marin Society of Artists

Through Aug 10, “Sparks,” juried photography exhibit features works from guest artists as well as MSA members. 1515 Third St, San Rafael. Wed-Sun, noon to 4 pm 415.464.9561.

MarinMOCA

Through Aug 28, “Artists of MarinMOCA,” juried group show features a diverse selection of works by over 70 Bay Area artists. 500 Palm Dr, Novato. Wed-Fri, 11 to 4; SatSun, 11 to 5. 415.506.0137.

Osher Marin JCC

Through Aug 21, “Not Forgotten,” exhibition of collage and multimedia works from Israeli-based artist Erella Teitler. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.

Room Art Gallery

Through Aug 28, “Laurel Shear Solo Show,” the artist’s large, lush oil paintings of abstract expressionism are on display.

86 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. Mon-Fri, 10 to 6; Sat, 10 to 4. 415.380.7940.

San Geronimo Valley Community Center

Through Jul 29, “Photographers Group Show,” range of works includes landscape, still life, nature, portrait, abstract and experimental approaches to photography. 6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Geronimo.

415.488.8888.

NAPA COUNTY Napa Valley Museum

Through Jan 8, “Down the Rabbit Hole,” exhibit of innovative, independent video games includes ten fully playable gaming stations featuring diverse indie

games. 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. Wed-Sun, 11 to 4.

707.944.0500.

Comedy The Cure for Comedy Tour

Standup show features California comedians Andrew Boydston, Mason Wilkes, Michael Zalusky and others.

Jul 27, 9pm. $5. Bergamot Alley, 328-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.433.8720.

Heather McDonald

Headlining standup comedian has been seen on Showtime and Netflix. Jul 29, 8pm. $25.

Sally Tomatoes, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park.

707.665.0260.

Events The Barlow Street Fair

The Barlow takes over McKinley Street every Thursday this summer with local food, beer and wine, as well as live music and family-friendly activities. Thurs, 5pm. through Sep 29. Barlow Event Center, 6770 McKinley St, Sebastopol.

Chrysalis Fashion Benefit

Party starts with a genderfluid fashion show made from repurposed and upcycled clothing, followed by a butterfly release, dinner and silent auction to benefit Worth Our Weight and the Monarch Butterfly Conservation Fund. Jul 31, 5pm. $20-$30. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa, chrysalisfashionbenefit.bpt.me.

Community Media Center of Marin Orientation

Get answers to your media questions and learn how to produce digital media at the center. Tues, Aug 2, 7pm. Free.

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

415.721.0636.

Community Meditation Practice

Sitting and walking meditation with free instruction. Followed by tea and snacks. Sun, 9:30am. Free. Santa Rosa Shambhala Meditation Center, 855 Seventh St, Santa Rosa.

707.545.4907.

Critique Night

Artists are invited to bring work in for feedback, critique

or processing among other artists in a friendly communal atmosphere.. First Wed of every month, 6pm. Free. Prince Gallery, 122 American Alley, Petaluma. 707.889.0371.

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.

Divorce Options Workshop

Volunteer group of attorneys, financial specialists and mental-health professionals offer four-hour workshops on divorce. Last Sat of every month, 9am. $45. Family Service Agency, 555 Northgate Dr, San Rafael. 415.492.9444.

The Draped Figure

Draw or paint from live models in a variety of costumes and settings. Tues, 10am. $15.

MarinMOCA, 500 Palm Dr, Novato. 415.506.0137.

Fiber Arts Forum

Informal gathering of fiber artists for idea sharing. All disciplines and experience levels, ages 15 and up. Last Fri each month, 1 to 3. $5 donation. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol. 707.829.4797.

Flynn Creek Circus

Acrobats, aerialists and daredevils perform in the classic big-top tradition. Jul 28-31. $17-$25. Napa County Fairgrounds, 1435 N Oak St, Calistoga, flynncreekcircus. com.

Fort Ross Festival

International celebration boasts diverse flavors and cultures with a food bazaar, beer garden and music. Jul 30, 10am. $20 per car. Fort Ross State Historic Park, 19005 Hwy 1, Jenner.

Mystery Writers’ Conference

Annual event offers info on writing and publishing your mystery novel, with writers, editors, agents and others. Jul 28-31. $550. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera.

415.927.0960.

Napa Valley Writers’ Conference Local literary institution celebrates 36 years with public readings, poetry and fiction workshops and

The market moves to a new location and features pony rides and a petting zoo for the kids, a wine garden for the adults, local food vendors, drinks, live music and more.

Tues, 4pm. through Oct 25.

Forestville Downtown Park, 6990 Front Street, Forestville.

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Honoring the Honey Bee

FASHION TAKES FLIGHT Sonoma County designer Michael Powell (second

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lectures. Full schedule at napawritersconference.org.

Through Jul 29. Napa Valley College, Upper Valley Campus, 1088 College Ave, St Helena.

Sonoma County Fair

The Fair’s theme “Lights, Camera, Fair!” turns the hall of flowers in a Sonoma County cinema celebration, with carnival rides, exhibits, horse racing and more on hand. Through Aug 7. Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.545.4200.

Spray Can Slam

Watch artists display their spray can skills on canvas and try out your hand at it on a graffiti wall, with tie dye tent for kids and BBQ. Jul 30, 11am.

Free. Napa Valley Art Supplies, 3250 California Blvd, Napa.

707.224.2775.

Field Trips Pattern Language

Take inspiration from both the natural and humanmade systems of the Marin Headlands in this patternmaking and natural dyeing project. Jul 31, 1pm. $100-$115.

Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito.

415.331.2787.

Wildlife Watching

Travel to Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary and learn how to identify and observe pelagic seabirds, marine mammals and reptiles. Jul 30, 6:30am. $240-$260. Point

Reyes National Seashore, 1 Bear Valley Road, Point Reyes Station, (415) 464-5100.

Film

computer engineer transported to a digital world screens as part of “Down the Rabbit Hole,” the museum’s video game art exhibit. Jul 29, 6pm. Free. Napa Valley Museum, 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. 707.944.0500.

Chariots of Fire

The Unruly Mystic

Inspiring 1981 Oscar winner about two young British sprinters competing in the 1924 Olympics screens in celebration of this year’s Olympic ceremonies. Aug 1, 4pm. Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur.

415.924.5111.

Marin Country Mart Movie Night

Gather friends and family to enjoy a classic film on the green throughout the summer.

Wed, 6pm. Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur.

On the Map

Award-winning Israeli filmmaker Dani Menkin presents and discusses his new documentary, the story of the 1977 Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team that brought the first European Cup to Israel.

Jul 31, 7pm. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

The Temple of Wonders

The Art & Architecture film series shows the documentary about the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, a home to great artists and composers for over 200 years. Aug 3, 1 and 7pm. Rialto Cinemas, 6868 McKinley St, Sebastopol. 707.525.4840.

Tron

Classic 1982 film about a

Filmmaker Michael Conti presents his uplifting documentary about his relationship with 12thcentury Saint Hildegard.

Jul 31, 7pm. $10. Songbird Community Healing Center, 8297 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.2398.

Food & Drink Dog Bar Ongoing happy hour event with treats for you and your pup benefits Napa Humane and includes special guests discussing healthy dog lifestyles. First Tues of every month, 5pm. through Oct 4. $25. Bardessono Hotel & Spa, 6525 Yount St, Yountville.

707.204.6000.

Farm to Table Dinner Biodynamic dinner from classically trained French chef Michel Cornu. Jul 29, 6pm. $150. Buena Vista Winery, 18000 Old Winery Rd, Sonoma.

800.926.1266.

Farmers Market at Long Meadow Ranch Fri, 9am and Sat-Sun, 11am.

Long Meadow Ranch Winery, 738 Main St, St Helena.

707.963.4555.

Local honey vendors, the Sonoma County Beekeepers Association, Hallberg’s Butterfly Gardens and many others will be on hand for a bee-centric day at the Forestville Farmer’s Market.

Aug 2, 4pm. Free admission.

Forestville Downtown Park, 6990 Front Street, Forestville.

707.766.4597.

Sunday Supper

New weekly dinner series and etiquette class celebrates classic French cuisine that reflects the season. Sun, 4pm. $30-$45. Left Bank Brasserie, 507 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur.

415.927.3331.

Sunset Winemakers Series

Tastings from Enriquez Winery, a Petaluma Gap winery with Pinot Noir, Tempranillo and a field blend of Muscat and Sauvignon Blanc. Jul 28, 6pm. $15. Corkscrew Wine Bar, 100 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

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Taste of Place with John Ash

Ash speaks on wild and uncultivated foods, with a dinner prepared by Shed’s Perry Hoffman and wine from Baker Lane Vineyards. Jul 28, 5pm. $115. Healdsburg Shed, 25 North St, Healdsburg.

707.431.7433.

Lectures Book Promotion & Marketing for Absolute Beginners

Join the discussion about today’s world of book promotion and sales. Learn how to start, what works, pitfalls to avoid and more.

Aug 3, 5pm. Free. Readers’ Books, 130 E Napa St, Sonoma.

707.939.1779.

CityZen

Evening of sitting meditation, tea and dharma talk. All are welcome. Mon, 7pm. Free.

Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.568.5381.

‘Twelfth Night’ & the Whirligig of Time Talk by Marin Shakespeare Company director Lesley Currier. Aug 1, 7pm. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. 415.927.0960.

Readings Book Passage

Jul 27, 7pm, “Deep Six” with DP Lyle. Jul 28, 5pm, “The Fall” with John Lescroart. Jul 28, 7:30pm, “The Murder of Mary Russell” with Laurie R King. Jul 29, 7pm, “Ping-Pong Heart” with Martin Limon.

Jul 30, 10pm, “Harry Potter & the Cursed Child” trivia night and release party. $10. Aug 2, 7pm, “Valley of the Moon” with Melanie Gideon. Aug 3, 7pm, “A Way to God” with Matthew Fox. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Diesel Bookstore

Aug 2, 6pm, “Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human” with Daniel J Siegel, includes mindfulness practices and guest speakers. 2419 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur 415.785.8177.

HopMonk Sebastopol Jul 27, 6pm, “The Lost Girls” with Heather Young, Debut Brews event is hosted by Copperfield’s Books. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol 707.829.7300.

the Cursed Child” midnight release party. 138 N Main St, Sebastopol 707.823.2618.

Theater Beauty & the Beast

Sixth Street Playhouse’s school of drama presents its teen production. Jul 29-31. $10-$15. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 West Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

707.523.4185.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Presented by Main Stage West’s youth summer drama camp. Jul 29-31. $10. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol.

707.823.0177.

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. Sat, Jul 30, 7pm. $68. Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor.

707.837.0019.

Puss in Boots

This re-telling of the classic tale will delight audiences of all ages. Jul 29-Aug 7. $12-$22.

Cloverdale Performing Arts Center, 209 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale. 707894.2214.

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Jamison’s Roaring Donkey

It’s theater without a net as playwrights, directors and actors write, direct, and present plays based on an audience-selected theme in 24 hours. Jul 29-30, 8pm. $20.

Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg. 707.433.3145.

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Jul 30, 5pm, “Smuggler’s Cove” with Martin Cate, tiki happy hour party hosted

by Copperfield’s Books.

146 Kentucky St, Petaluma 707.772.5478.

Jul 30, 11pm, “Harry Potter & the Cursed Child” midnight release party. 3740 Bel Aire Plaza, Napa 707.252.8002.

Petaluma Copperfield’s Books

Jul 28, 7pm, Marin Poetry Center Summer Traveling Show.

Aug 3, 4pm, “Lion Lessons” with Jon Agee. 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma 707.762.0563.

Point Reyes Presbyterian Church

Jul 27, 7pm, “Die Wise” with Stephen Jenkinson. $20. 11445 Shoreline Hwy, Point Reyes Station 415.663.1349.

Sebastopol Copperfield’s Books

Jul 30, 11pm, “Harry Potter &

Shakespeare’s gender-bending comedy explores the desires of love among moonstruck eccentrics. Through Aug 21. $10-$35. Marin Shakespeare Company, 890 Bella Ave, San Rafael. 415.499.4488.

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Indiana has tough marijuana laws, with possession of even the smallest amount of pot worth up to six months in county jail and possession of more than 30 grams (slightly more than an ounce) a felony punishable by up to 18 months in prison. Selling any amount more than 30 grams is also a felony, punishable by up to two and a half years in prison.

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Pence did sign emergency legislation allowing for needle exchange programs in some Indiana counties last year, but only after initial resistance, during which more than 150 cases of HIV/AIDS were reported in one county alone. His hesitation was in line with his anti-drug values, as evidenced by his 2009 vote as a U.S. representative to maintain a federal ban on needle-exchange funding.

Pence is also a gung-ho drug warrior when it comes to the Mexican border, having voted to support billions in funding for Mexico to fight drug cartels and for using the U.S. military to conduct anti-drug and counterterror patrols along the border.

Bizarrely enough, there is one drug Pence has no problems with, but it’s a legal one: nicotine. He is an apologist and denier for Big Tobacco.

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ARIES (March 21–April 19) Free your body. Don’t ruminate and agonize about it. FREE YOUR BODY! Be brave and forceful. Do it simply and easily. Free your gorgeously imperfect, wildly intelligent body. Allow it to be itself in all of its glory. Tell it you’re ready to learn more of its secrets and adore its mysteries. Be in awe of its unfathomable power to endlessly carry out the millions of chemical reactions that keep you alive and thriving. How can you not be overwhelmed with gratitude for your hungry, curious, unpredictable body?

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cultures have imagined the sun god as possessing masculine qualities. But in some traditions, the Mighty Father is incomplete without the revitalizing energies of the Divine Mother. The Maoris, for example, believe that every night the solar deity has to marinate in her nourishing uterine bath. Otherwise he wouldn’t be strong enough to rise in the morning. And how does this apply to you? Well, you currently have resemblances to the weary old sun as it dips below the horizon. I suspect it’s time to recharge your powers through an extended immersion in the deep, dark waters of the primal feminine.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) An Interesting Opportunity is definitely in your vicinity. It may slink tantalizingly close to you in the coming days, even whisper your name from afar. But I doubt that it will knock on your door. It probably won’t call you seven times on the phone or flash you a big smile or send you an engraved invitation. So you should make yourself alert for the Interesting Opportunity’s unobtrusive behavior. It could be a bit shy or secretive or modest.

Once you notice it, you may have to come on strong— you know, talk to it sweetly or ply it with treats.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) [Editor’s note: The counsel offered in the following oracle was channeled from the Goddess by Rob Brezsny. If you have any problems with it, direct your protests to the Queen Wow, not Brezsny.] It’s time to get more earthy and practical about practicing your high ideals and spiritual values. Translate your loftiest intentions into your most intimate behavior. Ask yourself, “How does Goddess want me to respond when my co-worker pisses me off?” or “How would Goddess like me to brush my teeth and watch TV and make love?” For extra credit, get a T-shirt that says, “Goddess was my co-pilot, but we crash-landed in the wilderness and I was forced to eat her.”

LEO (July 23–August 22) Be alert for white feathers gliding on the wind. Before eating potato chips, examine each one to see if it bears a likeness of Rihanna or the Virgin Mary. Keep an eye out, too, for portents like robots wearing dreadlocked wigs or antique gold buttons lying in the gutter or senior citizens cursing at invisible Martians. The appearance of anomalies like these will be omens that suggest you will soon be the recipient of crazy good fortune. But if you would rather not wait around for chance events to trigger your good luck, simply make it your fierce intention to generate it. Use your optimism-fueled willpower and your flair for creative improvisation.

You will have abundant access to these talents in the coming weeks.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) You have just begun your big test. How are you doing so far?

According to my analysis, the preliminary signs suggest that you have a good chance of proving the old maxim, “If it doesn’t make you so crazy that you put your clothes on inside-out and try to kiss the sky until you cry, it will help you win one of your biggest arguments with Life.” In fact, I suspect we will ultimately see you undergo at least one miraculous and certifiably melodramatic transformation. A wart on your attitude could dissolve, for example. A luminous visitation may heal one of your blind spots. You might find a satisfactory substitute for kissing the sky.

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) For many years, my occupation was “starving artist.” I focused on improving my skills as a writer and musician, even though those activities rarely earned me any money.

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at low-end jobs—scrubbing dishes at restaurants, digging ditches for construction companies, delivering newspapers in the middle of the night and volunteering for medical experiments. During the long hours spent doing tasks that had little meaning to me, I worked diligently to remain upbeat. One trick that worked well was imagining future scenes when I would be engaged in exciting creative work that paid me a decent wage. It took a while, but eventually those visions materialized in my actual life. I urge you to try this strategy in the coming months, Libra. Harness your mind’s eye in the service of generating the destiny you want to inhabit.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21) You

have every right to celebrate your own personal Independence Day sometime soon. In fact, given the current astrological omens, you’d be justified in embarking on a full-scale emancipation spree in the coming weeks. It will be prime time to seize more freedom and declare more autonomy and build more self-sufficiency. Here’s an important nuance to the work you have ahead of you: Make sure you escape the tyranny of not just the people and institutions that limit your sovereignty, but also the voices in your own head that tend to hinder your flow.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21)

Of all the forbidden fruits that you fantasize about, which one is your favorite? Among the intriguing places you consider to be outside of your comfort zone, which might inspire you to redefine the meaning of “comfort”? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to reconfigure your relationship with these potential catalysts. And while you’re out on the frontier dreaming of fun experiments, you might also want to flirt with other wild cards and strange attractors. Life is in the mood to tickle you with useful surprises.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) You have a special talent for accessing wise innocence. In some ways you’re virginal, fresh and raw, and in other ways you’re mature, seasoned and well-developed. I hope you will regard this not as a confusing paradox but rather as an exotic strength. With your inner child and your inner mentor working in tandem, you could accomplish heroic feats of healing. Their brilliant collaboration could also lead to the mending of an old rift.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) “Where is everybody when I need them?” Even if you haven’t actually spoken those words recently, I’m guessing the voices in your head have whispered them. But from what I can tell, that complaint will soon be irrelevant.

It will no longer match reality. Your allies will start offering more help and resources. They may not be perfectly conscientious in figuring out how to be of service, but they’ll be pretty good. Here’s what you can do to encourage optimal results: 1. Purge your low, outmoded expectations. 2. Open your mind and heart to the possibility that people can change. 3.

Humbly ask—out loud, not just in the privacy of your imagination—for precisely what you want.

PISCES (February 19–March 20)

Millions of Pisceans less fortunate than you won’t read this horoscope. Uninformed about the rocky patch of Yellow Brick Road that lies just ahead, they may blow a gasket or get a flat tire. You, on the other hand, will benefit from my oracular foreshadowing, as well as my inside connections with the Lords of Funky Karma. You will therefore be likely to drive with relaxed caution, keeping your vehicle unmarred in the process. That’s why I’m predicting that although you may not arrive speedily at the next leg of your trip, you will do so safely and in style.

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

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