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Rolling the Dice If you have taken the time to meet with Lynda Hopkins, you have found her to be both bright and personable.

You may have wondered about her qualifications to be a county supervisor but assumed that a smart person like her would simply learn on the job. It is a little harder to explain away her big money backers. We all know who they are by now.

This is Lynda’s big gamble. Can she take

considerable sums from these industries and still convince the voters that she is the environmental candidate?

Lynda says that she has not signed any pledges to special interests. So the obvious question is, why are they backing her? Why has the Sonoma County Farm Bureau placed those big “Hopkins” signs on all the vineyards? Is this the same farm bureau that opposes open space initiatives, community separators, riparian ordinances, GMO bans and other environmental regulations? Could they be afraid of the environmental record of Noreen Evans?

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I don’t have an opinion on whether the bill granting overtime pay to farmworkers should have excluded dairy workers (“Milk Money,” Sept. 7), and this unbalanced article did not assist me in making up my mind. The bulk of the views cited in

By Tom Tomorrow

the article came from an interview with Anja Raudabaugh, a dairy industry spokesperson, and legislators who opposed or abstained on the bill. The only “pro” quote favoring the overtime provisions was a few sentences from Marty Bennett of North Bay Jobs for Justice. Where are the interviews from actual dairy farmworkers or their representatives?

The article directs us to feel sympathetic to small dairies receiving federal subsidies producing high-priced luxury cheeses. Because life is tough for the dairy owners, farmworkers should make do without the same legal entitlements as other workers. So apparently, luxury products should be subsidized by workers.

Since some of those workers, due to their high skill level, make a whopping $20 per hour, they should not be entitled to the same overtime wages as a $20 per hour office worker in a nonfarming small business. Really? Why not?

Farmworkers “volunteer” for that job, states Raudabaugh; after all, they could have been aerospace engineers or attorneys or stock brokers, but since they’ve “volunteered” to be farmworkers, they’re stuck with whatever shitty legal protections exist.

Up your game, Bohemian! Present both sides of a story, or publish it as an editorial.

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Othello the Arab You know what would be even more “impressive” (“Out of Darkness,” Oct. 14)?

The day that any theater company actually casts an Arab in the role of Othello. A “moor,” by the name and the times of those days, was an Arab, not white, not African, not Indian, etc. God forbid anyone should ever actually break with stereotypes and tradition and complete a play as Shakespeare actually wrote it.

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Pedal It Forward Used bicycles are a gift that keeps rolling on BY SARAH HADLER

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hat starts with b and connotes freedom to young and old and in-between? If you guessed “bicycle,” you got it! My son, Sylvester, just turned five and he has been on one form of wheeled conveyance or other since he was three months old: bicycle trailer, handlebar front seat on my bike, tricycle, scoot bike, rear child seat on our bikes, trail-a-bike, back of a cargo bike, and he is now on his third two-wheeled bike.

The really cool thing is that every single one of these was handed down to us from bicycling friends who had outgrown them. And we, in turn, have handed down all that we have grown out of. The first two-wheeler that my son rode on his own was a small blue and white Specialized that we got from friends and, yes, part of me wants to have it bronzed and hung on our wall, but the more rational part of me knows that bikes need to get ridden by another little person finding his balance. And so we passed it on.

My son just graduated from 16-inch wheels to 20-inch wheels, and it is such a joy to ride with him as he navigates on this bigger bike. His current bike was given to him by a dear 10-year-old friend who had just gotten too big for it. My husband lowered the seat, put on some smaller handlebars and—voilà!—Sylvester was ready to roll. We go for longer rides these days, and Sylvester’s joy is as contagious as a ’60s pop song!

If you have any too-small bikes sitting in your garage collecting dust and rust, fix ’em up and think of a kid you might give one of them to—a neighbor down the street, a schoolmate, a niece or cousin, or a friend of the family. There are lots of kids out there who do not have bikes that fit them well, and by passing down your old, unused bikes, you’ll be spreading freedom, joy and health to our youth.

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DEBR IEFER ID Thievery Napa state assemblyman Bill Dodd announced last week that Gov. Jerry Brown had signed a bill he wrote to expedite the “resolution process for victims of identity theft who find themselves in debt collection.”

That sounds like a terrible fate for anyone, and Dodd notes that he has himself been a victim of identity theft and knows firsthand that current law around identity theft is inadequate—it doesn’t require debt collectors to work expeditiously when investigating claims of identity theft “or notify a consumer of the results of that investigation,” according to a statement from his office.

Dodd’s bill got the thumbs-up from Sonoma County district attorney Jill Ravitch, who noted in a statement of her own that an individual’s credit rating is often where the consequences of laggard investigations into identity theft play out.

I DECLARE Are Trump’s tax filings really under audit? We don’t know for sure, but a new bill will allow the IRS to state

whether a candidates’ taxes are under audit or whether they’re just lying to cover up shady dealings.

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Congressman Huffman calls out Trump on his tax-release dodge BY TOM GOGOLA

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s anyone who has been following this year’s presidential race knows, there are two main candidates for the office, and one of them has refused to release his federal tax records.

This despite a decadeslong tradition of presidential candidates releasing the information so that voters might, you know, make an informed

decision about who to vote for.

That candidate is known in some quarters as the Cheeto Jesus, and at last reckoning, he has still refused to release his recent federal IRS tax records.

Donald Trump has claimed that people don’t care, and has also claimed that releasing them would open the door to questions best left unasked.

It is surreal in the extreme that Trump is getting away with this degree of hands-off

media coverage of his taxes and financial entanglements, which a Newsweek story from last week found to be quite substantial and problematic from a nationalsecurity perspective.

Trump has claimed that he’s not allowed to release his tax returns because he’s under audit by the IRS, a position that some have referred to as “a lie.”

And U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman has just called him out on it.

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“Consumers can spend months trying to navigate through a confusing and overwhelming system to remove the negative reporting,” Ravitch says. “Any legislation that provides a more expedient resolution for cases of identity theft is a positive step for consumer protection.”

Dodd is a one-term assemblyman and a former longstanding Republican supervisor in Napa County who isn’t just a victim of identity theft; he claimed a new ID for himself. The shape-shifting pol, a social liberal and pro-biz conservative, jumped the GOP ship for the Democratic Party in late 2012 in advance of his run for the state Assembly. Now he’s running for state Senate in the 3rd District, the seat vacated by the termed-out Democrat Lois Wolk.

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County congressman introduced a bill designed to close the socalled liar’s loophole whereby candidates can lie about whether they are being audited in order to lie about why they are not releasing their returns.

Under current law, the IRS isn’t allowed to tell the public whether a presidential candidate, or anyone else for that matter, is being audited—but that restriction does not restrain a candidate from making news of one’s audit a matter of the public record, as mega-billions liberal Warren Buffett recently and quite humorously noted during a post-convention appearance with Hillary Clinton.

Buffett is himself under audit, and gave a presentation to Clinton supporters where he dismissed Trump’s malarkey claim that he was forbidden to release his returns: an audit does not restrict a candidates’ ability to release tax returns for the years that are being investigated by the IRS, despite Trump’s claims to the contrary.

In a statement, Huffman rightly notes that citizens have a right to evaluate candidates’ tax history, if for no other reason than to be “fully informed about the candidates financial ties.”

He goes on to note that “the current system allows candidates to provide what could be a trumped-up excuse for hiding their returns by claiming a pending IRS audit, whether or not that is actually happening.” That’s right. Trumped-up.

Huffman’s bill would close the liar’s loophole by “requiring the IRS to disclose whether a presidential candidate is subject to any pending tax audits. The stakes of a presidential election are too high to allow a candidate to hide from disclosing their tax returns by giving an excuse that cannot even be verified under current law.”

The bill has a whole pile of Democratic co-sponsors, including St. Helena U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson—but nary a Republican sponsor is to be found.

DEBR IEFER ( 8 Sonoma, 10am–noon. “Please join me and learn from the experts how best to protect your money and property,” Dodd says in a statement.

Sebasto-Pols The Sebastopol Grange is hosting a four-candidate forum next Wednesday, Sept. 28, that features the quartet of would-be contenders for Sebastopol City Council. Craig Litwin is a write-in candidate who has been endorsed by Sen. Mike McGuire and is a former mayor and Sebastopol councilperson. Jonathon Greenberg has written for this paper a few times and says he was inspired to run by Bernie Sanders.

Among his other passions, Greenberg is a big promoter of libraries.

Neysa Hinton says she’ll protect the environment and build affordable housing and invest in infrastructure.

Sounds good. Michael Carnacchi, the Main Street cobbler and lawsuitbringer—who played the role of David to the Goliath of U.S. Bancorp when the bank overreached after a four-day-late loan payment back in 2007 (he sued)—says he’s worried about traffic and parking downtown.

How very prosaic. We’ll have more on this race and many others in our election issue blowout in November.

When in A’Roma The Bohemian enjoyed a coffeewith-a-cop event earlier this year out in Roseland, and the Santa Rosa police force just keeps the events coming—next one’s at A’Roma Roasters Coffee & Tea in Railroad Square on Sept. 29 at 8:30am. This strikes us as a pretty choice locale for a meet-and-greet given the large numbers of downcast and downtrodden this part of town attracts, mostly because of the nearby Redwood Gospel Mission, and the hobo-draw of the railroad tracks. Santa Rosa city leaders have spent much time and energy in the last few years trying to deal with its large homeless-resident population, and it will be interesting to hear what Santa Rosa cops have to say about transience, trains and the

criminalization of the homeless and mentally ill.

Gualala Land The Sonoma Coast Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation gave us the heads-up last week that the Sonoma Superior Court had ruled on Sept. 15 to “temporarily halt further logging of the controversial Gualala River floodplain within the ‘Dogwood’ timber harvest plan while litigation proceeds.” That logging plan was approved in July (see Will Parrish’s “Last Stands” in the July 27 issue) and includes some 300 acres of redwood stands with trees up to 100 years old. Doug Bosco, the wellconnected former congressman, California Coastal Commission chairman and current general counsel at the Press Democrat, is one of the lawyers representing Gualala Redwoods Timber, which wants to cut the trees down. Now the county says no logging while the injunction is in place. FYI: trees are the source material of paper, on which news is occasionally printed.

Pot Luck The California Growers Association got in touch with us with a schedule of pre-regulatory meetings being held by various state agencies around California, the ones that are “responsible for licensing cannabis businesses.” And so it was that the State Water Resources Control Board met in Ukiah and Eureka and Weed (no, really); the California Department of Food and Agriculture held meetings all over the state and in Oakland and Coalinga this week.

How about a little pre-regulatory love for Santa Rosa? Coming right up. The Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulations and the California Department of Public Health are hosting meetings for transporters, manufacturers, distributors, labs and retailers, beginning on Sept. 19 in Redding and going through Oct. 5 in San Diego, with a stop-off in Santa Rosa this Thursday (Sept. 22). The event runs most of the day, 1–7pm, at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building, Lodge Room, 1351 Maple Ave.—Tom Gogola

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Dining BETTER THAN BEER NUTS Steele & Hops goes beyond classic brewpub fare with an inventive and exciting menu, and the beers to match.

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Steele & Hops elevates pub grub at hard-to-crack location BY FLORA TSAPOVSKY

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n every city it seems there’s a cursed corner, a location where restaurants don’t last long. For Santa Rosa, that corner is Mendocino and Clement avenues.

Over the years, several establishments have tried their luck there, including, most recently, Heritage Public House.

A month ago, it became the

home of Steele & Hops, a brewpub with a compact food menu and a long list of ales, IPAs and sours.

Not much has changed since it was Heritage: the decor is still the same, the patio is still cozy, the number of diners, on a Thursday night, still relatively modest. The food, however, got an upgrade.

Consider the Pub Caesar salad ($9.5), for example. The fresh, crunchy romaine lettuce wedges and the croutons are accented with briny boquerones (white wine vinegar–marinated anchovies),

which make the old classic taste significantly more exciting. The creamy dressing, flecked with black and chile pepper flakes, ties the whole thing together.

Then there are the appetizers.

The beet-pickled deviled eggs ($4) are a popular food right now, but they could use some taming at Steele & Hops. The egg whites are a bit sour and the filling too heavy on the horseradish. The mushroom toast, however, is as indulgent as they come. A crispy piece of sourdough, browned

button mushrooms, gooey Gouda and caramelized onion jam come together to form a delicious union.

For $7 apiece, it’s proof that San Francisco’s overpriced toast game is now strong in Santa Rosa, too.

Even better are the brisket cigars ($7), crispy, cigar-shaped phyllo filled with shredded, house-smoked brisket and mixed with cheddar and steak sauce.

Not many places favor the cigar, a throwback to the ’90s, but this version is daring and relevant thanks to the clever filling. Served with hot-pepper jelly, a liquid Sriracha-like dipping sauce, it’s the perfect balance of smoky and spicy, crunchy and chewy.

The winning streak continues with the seemingly humble smoked turkey pot pie ($13.5). The golden and properly flaky puff pastry hides mushrooms, potatoes, carrots, peas and cubes of smoked turkey swimming in a rich, spicy sauce. Not as starchy as some pot pies, it’s comforting yet bold.

The fish and chips ($14) are quite good, too, but pose a technical issue for me. The thickcut chips are easy to eat with your hands, and can be dipped in one of three sauces: ketchup, bright and fresh tartar sauce and a dodgy curry dip. The cod filet, however, arrives as one big piece coated in browned, crispy beer batter. The delicate flesh was very flaky, making breaking it to smaller pieces for dipping nearly impossible. The sauces have to be piled on the fish and eaten with a fork. I prefer an informal, eatwith-your-hands method for fish and chips.

Steele & Hops acts and looks like your average brewpub. The name change might go unnoticed, but the menu holds some pleasant surprises, especially when it comes to the reimagined comfort food. For the sake of the brisket cigars, the pot pie and the mushroom toast, I hope Steele & Hops breaks the corner curse and sticks around.

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Old Redwood Highway Brewery Part of the appeal,

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101 North Brewing Company A new addition CMT# 62066

to the North Bay craft beer scene, this brewery’s Heroine IPA has 101 North winning at the beer game just out the gate. . 1304 Scott St., Ste. D. Petaluma.

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Petaluma Hills Brewing Co. Petaluma

Hills has a friendly taproom where you can see beer being made and are encouraged to ask questions. And the brewery is known for great dark brews. Petaluma Hills Brewing Company, 1333 N. McDowell Blvd., Petaluma. 707.766.4458.

Russian River Brewing Co Tasty pizza

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

Ruth McGowan’s Brew Pub Straight outta Cloverdale, Ruth McGowan’s citrus wheat ale makes summer days fly by just right. During the colder days of winter, try the dry Irish stout. 131 E. First St., Cloverdale.

707.894.9610.

Sonoma Springs Brewing Co. With a

focus on German-Style beers and California ales, Sonoma Springs Brewing Co. boasts a good-looking lineup of ales.

19449 Riverside Drive, Ste. 101, Sonoma. 707.938.7422.

St. Florian’s Brewery

Florian’s Brewery has exploded of late. The company has plans to expand its space, staff and line of beers. 7704-A Bell Road, Windsor. 707.383.2739.

Stumptown Brewery

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.

Third Street Aleworks

Third Street is sometimes overshadowed by a worldrenowned brewery just around the corner, but this brewery can hold its own. 610 Third St., Santa Rosa. 707.523.3060.

Woodfour Brewing An

artisan brewery located in the Barlow in Sebastopol, Woodfour is one of the only completely solar-powered breweries in the country. 6780 Depot St., Sebastopol. 707.823.3144.

MA R I N CO U N TY Baeltane Brewing & Tasting Room Marin brewery proudly produces

artisanal ales specializing in Belgian, French and West Coast Ale styles. Enjoy a pint in the inviting tasting room featuring live music and absolutely zero TVs. 401-B Bel Marin Keys Blvd., Novato. 415.883.2040.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery Pub grub gets a pub-cuisine facelift. Fun specials, great live music.

765 Center Blvd, Fairfax.

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

415.459.4672.

Mill Valley Beerworks If there is a beer heaven, it might look a little like this Mill Valley gem of a spot. 173 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley.

415.888.8218.

Moylan’s Brewery & Restaurant At Moylan’s, the M stands for malty. Hit up this Novato landmark for traditional ales that won’t fail the taste test.

15 Rowland Way, Novato. 415.898.

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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. 902 Main St., Napa.

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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. 1 Executive Way, Napa.

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Napa Valley Brewing Company Located within the Calistoga Inn, this brewery produces an admirable Dugan oatmeal stout that just might replace your next egg-and-bacon breakfast.

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While feeding bright, green vines into a rattling green machine called the Hop Harvester 1000, Fogbelt Brewing co-founder and brewer Paul Hawley explains that this is what he means by picking hops—it’s not cutting down the trellised vines in the field. Because the delicate flower cones of Humulus lupulus, an essential ingredient to most beers and ales, are so light, it can take an hour for one person to pick one pound off the vines. At about $8 per pound for fresh hops, any profit the grower might have made is erased, relegating the local hop revival to an occasional indulgence for craft brewers.

“Small-scale hop farming is simply not feasible without this $14,000 piece of equipment,” says Hawley, who helped found the NorCal Hop Growers Alliance, connecting brewers with farmers.

Together they purchased the refrigerator-size machine, which strips 30 pounds of hops off the vine in half an hour.

Fogbelt released five “wet-hopped” beers in an event on Sept. 10 to help promote the movement. Other brewers making fresh-hopped beers from the Alliance’s hops this year include Russian River Brewing’s Vinnie Cilurzo.

Most commercial brewers, including craft brewers, use hops that are dried whole, or dried and pelletized. While this can be a high-quality product, there’s a difference. “It’s kind of like cooking with fresh herbs instead of dried herbs,” says Hawley.

Fogbelt’s Atlas blonde, brewed with Chinook and Columbus hops grown in Cloverdale, is a milky, citrus-tinged refresher that’s certainly wet, but not too hopped. Treehouse saison, all biscuit and orange peel, is lightly hopped with Cascade and Chinook hops from Fogbelt’s own plot.

Brewed with 100 percent Cascade hops—think Sierra Nevada— Sentinel pale ale is a mellower, fresher version of the classic California style. Contrary to my expectation that these beers would be hopped-up, they show agreeable restraint and balance. I am told that the Fresco Del Norte IPA is earthier than usual, without the pelletized hops that show a more tropical character. But the bitter oils from Clearlake-grown Centennial and Chinook hops outlast the toasty, woody malt flavor and linger for a long time after I’ve left the brewery. It’s bitter—but a clean, memorable, NorCal bitter.

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Barleycorn’ s Revenge Or how I learned to malt barley and thresh like an Egyptian

BY JAMES KNIGHT

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ood and fed up with John Barleycorn last fall, I plowed him down in the ground and, as in the ballad by ol’ Robert Burns, “put clods upon his head.” Would that it was the end of him.

I was inspired by my visit last year with brewer Nile Zacherle, who experimentally grew barley on four acres of fallow Napa Valley vineyard land for his Mad Fritz beer (“Craft Malt,” Bohemian, Sept. 23, 2015) and tantalizing rumors of other such projects. Up in Ukiah, Mendocino Grain Project’s Doug

Mosel has grown wheat for Almanac Beer Co., and says there’s interest from brewers for locally grown barley. Malted barley is, after all, the main ingredient in beer— besides water—and in an industry that constantly emphasizes pride of place like craft brewing, locally grown barley is sorely lacking.

Native to the Middle East, Hordeum vulgare, which is barley’s stripper name—wait, no, barley’s Latin name, sorry—grows just about anywhere that hay grows OK. Hay is for horses, while beer made from homegrown barley is for heroes. Besides a little honest toil, a bead of sweat or two off the brow, what could be easier?

After growing, malting and brewing my own barley into a sort of beer, I am completely amazed that ancient civilizations ever discovered brewing in the first place, and having gone through the hassle, why they didn’t quit at once and go back to fermenting goat’s milk. Yak’s milk.

Pinot Grigio—anything.

A Simple Plan I bought a pound or two of barley at a farm-supply store, scattered the seeds over an area of 700 or so square feet and raked them in the ground with a sort of harrow, the design of which the less said, the better. And waited for rain.

On schedule, John Barleycorn

got up again, and was easy to spot. Stout green blades of grass sprung out of the dirt, promptly catching the eye of a resident jackrabbit, also. For several months, I figured the well-mown barley crop was merely a donation to said bunny. Nevertheless, John Barleycorn, “weel arm’d wi’ pointed spears,” as our friend Burns put it, did sprout from the low-growing grass. By May, the seed heads had drooped and dried, and were ready to harvest.

This crop was too small even for the compact research plot combine operated by the Mendocino Grain Project that harvested Zacherle’s barley. I

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could have gone old-school with a scythe, but recalled what a grim (anyone?) failure it was when, years ago, I once tried mowing tall grass that way. I settled on kitchen scissors, which made for a slow-going spectacle. Indeed, I more than once heard a mocking voice—if only in my own head— quip, “That’s a hell of a way to brew a pint of beer, buddy!”

An Underqualified Peasant in the Wrong Century You’ve heard about separating the wheat from the chaff? Same

goes for barley. The kernels had to be separated from the mass of straw I’d collected, but without machinery of any kind, I turned to ancient Egyptian murals for reference. One way to thresh a crop is to beat the straw with a stick, but I settled on stomping and hopping around on an oil-stained garage, or threshing, floor. For this step, there was no imagined voice to mock me—just a few imagined, sadly shaking heads.

But when I brushed aside the spent straw, something wonderful was revealed, and gave me an ancient thrill to behold: a healthy pile of perfect, golden grains. After winnowing the remaining chaffs

and spikes, I had 12 pounds of barley to brew.

The Unexpected Habits of the Endosperm But not just yet. To prepare the starchy endosperm of the grain for brewing, it must first be malted, a process I’d only vaguely understood to have something to do with sprouting. In pictures I’ve seen of the malting floors of Scottish distilleries, this looks picturesque and tidy enough; up close, sprouting barley—trigger warning!—resembles a tangled

After it was dried and kilned, or whatever facsimile of this process I managed (most was air-dried or dried at low temperature in the oven, while a small portion was pan-roasted on a Coleman camping stove), the frizzy mass looked like something I’d brushed out of my cat’s tail. Then it was cleaned— again, tediously—through a sieve and brought to the Beverage People for grinding.

These homebrew suppliers charge only 10 cents per pound for the service, and their advice is free. If I’d asked it of them earlier, I might not have mashed my grain in water at 160 degrees Fahrenheit—a little too high, says the Beverage People’s Bob Peak, but probably not the reason I ended up with a wort, or unfermented beer, with the unimpressive specific gravity of 20 points. This would make a sort of beer, but almost a temperance beverage, a barley tea of 2 percent or so alcohol by volume (ABV)— perhaps it might aid the digestion, but not so nonalcoholic that the Feds wouldn’t crack down on health food stores for it, as they have for .5 percent ABV kombucha. Is my terroir telling me to tone it down?

A Curious Cultivar

Another culprit could be the cultivar that I planted, a barley by the name of UC 603. According to a helpful pamphlet from UC Davis that I only consulted after the fact, UC 603 sports a long-haired rachilla, and, should you need to know, “the glume is longer than one-half the length of the lemma.” Released in the 1980s, it was bred to be resistant to net blotch, scald, powdery mildew and leaf rust, but is already susceptible to some of those—so look over your shoulder, UC 603. More to ) 18

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mass of wriggling white spiders, or, as a friend to whom I’d texted a photo of this said, “Will looking at this make me pregnant?”

While the chits, or rootlets, emerge from the kernel and search for Mother Earth, inside the grain the turgid acrospire reaches for the sky. So you can see where ancient pagan cultures might have got some of their racier religious ideas.

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the point, UC 603 is a six-row feed barley, which means it’s higher in protein, less so in starch, which is allimportant to beer making. I might have done better with a two-row malting barley.

The malting process is where things most likely went awry, but it’s hard to say exactly how, since there are so many variables in temperature, timing and so on.

Again, it’s a wonder that ancient Mesopotamians and Germanic tribesmen alike figured it out without a BS in fermentation science.

If God created wine, it doesn’t follow that the devil made beer; worse, it seems that beer was designed by committee. A committee of nerdy engineers.

Drunk, nerdy engineers.

Rice to the Rescue Peak suggested I add rice extract to boost the alcohol potential of the ale without affecting the flavor profile.

I settled on three pounds of rice extract and one pound of light dry malt, and fermentation proceeded without a hitch thereafter. (I had planned to add hops that were grown quite locally in my yard, but like the groundhog of lore, they came up in spring and, not finding it to their liking, retreated once more

into the ground. So I brewed with purchased, mellow Golding hops, plus a smidgeon of Columbus and Spalt.)

After adding a dash of corn sugar to produce CO2 bubbles in my “Ranch barley Sonoma Valley terroir amber ale,” I brought a bottle to the Bohemian to get the staff’s reactions.

“Rooty” described the richly colored, amber ale’s aroma best; “sarsaparilla” put a sweeter spin on that. It’s malty, all right, but “fleeting,” with a hint of lemon that develops after time in the glass.

Confusion reigned as to which was which when I cracked open a bottle of curiously citrusy, amber Altbier I’d made with purchased malt, and brought for thirsty Bohos in case “ranch barley” was a flop.

The dry finish was noted to drop off, like Budweiser—which makes sense, since Bud is made with a good helping of rice, too.

But that rooty, malty flavor, like a soft caramel candy that’s just been dug up from the gravelly clay loam soil? Maybe that there’s the terroir—a fuzzy concept in beer, for sure, as fuzzy as the logic of growing, malting and brewing one’s own barley in the North Bay. Of course I’ll try it again.

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An eclectic celebration of cinema and culture, the Wine Country Film Festival marks its 30th anniversary this year and offers four days of international and independent films screening in Kenwood. Highlights of this year’s film festival include Mexico’s submission to the Academy Awards, 600 Miles; the Mediterranean-set animated film The Prophet, produced by Salma Hayek; and The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger, a vivid look at the philosopher written by Tilda Swinton.

The fest also boasts several short films, live music, special guests and more, Thursday through Sunday, Sept 22–25, at various venues in Kenwood. $25 and up. wcff.eventbrite.com.

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The second oldest festival in California, the Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival, is 119 years old, though it’s still a fresh mix of music, food and fun for the whole family. This year’s opening gala on Sept. 23 features ’80s dance band Notorious belting out the hits while attendees sample food and wine from local Sonoma restaurants. The party continues through the weekend, and features everything from 5k and 12k runs, grape stomps, the annual firefighter bucket brigade, art and music galore and a Saturday-night parade sure to light up downtown Sonoma. The community gets vintage Friday to Sunday, Sept. 23–25, Sonoma Plaza, First Street East, Sonoma. Free admission. valleyofthemoonvintagefestival.com.

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Petaluma native Stella Heath grew up on the jazz of greats like Louis Armstrong and New Orleans–infused swing and Gypsy music, and she incorporates all of that into her work as vocalist for French Oak. A worldly blues and jazz outfit, which also features members of Gypsy dance band Dgiin, French Oak is ready to unveil its debut album, Sunnyside, this weekend. Recorded in Santa Rosa and performed in both French and English, Sunnyside’s collection of standards and originals spotlights Heath’s magnetic vocals and the band’s tight rhythms, all of which is on display in an appropriately underground speakeasy-esque jazz club on Friday, Sept. 23, at the Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma. 8pm. $5. 707.776.4631.

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Arts Ideas CRAFTY MOVE Fieldwork’s expansion to the North Bay is part of a growing beer scene in Napa.

Napa Is Hopping Berkeley’s Fieldwork Brewing Co. headed to the land of Cabernet BY CHARLIE SWANSON

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t’s not all wine in Napa Valley. The area’s craft beer scene is on the rise.

Barry Braden was running a restaurant in San Diego when he met brewer Alex Tweet, formerly of Ballast Point and Modern Times breweries. The two quickly bonded over hoppy beers, relocated to Northern California and opened Fieldwork Brewing in the industrial setting of west

Berkeley in February 2015.

“It’s been going really well for us,” Braden says. “And one of the great things about our license, which is a small beer manufacturer license, is that we have the opportunity to open up to six what we like to call satellite taprooms.”

In addition to the Berkeley spot, Fieldwork opened its first satellite taproom in Sacramento in August, and now the brewery is working on its second satellite

location, at the Oxbow Public Market in Napa.

When Braden and Tweet open the new Napa taproom sometime in mid-October, they’ll be joining a small but dedicated group of Napa brewers, such as Napa Smith Brewery, Napa Palisades Saloon and nano-brewery Tannery Bend Beerworks.

One of the reasons Fieldwork wants to open these taprooms is to present and talk about their beer the way they want. Being

able to control the process from grain to tap is a priority for the brewery.

Directing the narrative of the many brews that Fieldwork offers is also important, since it produces many distinct and uniquely flavored beers. One of their rising stars is a Petit Verdot Grand Gose, a spin on the salty-tart beer originally from Germany, in which wine grapes are added.

Fieldwork also excels at hopforward IPAs and double IPAs, and nontraditional saisons, such as the Rancher Farmhouse Ale, which incorporates fresh lemon and black pepper aromas, and the refreshing Salted Cucumber Ale. All told, Braden estimates that Fieldwork has made 115 distinct beers since opening less than two years ago.

“Our whole thing is to rotate beers so the people visiting the taproom can always expect to see something new on the tap list.

That’s the fun part,” says Braden.

Fieldwork is also dedicated to serving the beer as fresh as possible. That’s why you won’t see Fieldwork beers in cans or bottles at the supermarket, though a huge part of their business in Berkeley are the growlers and increasingly popular crowler cans that the brewery fills onsite.

For Braden, the Oxbow location is essential to the decision to move to the North Bay, and he’s excited to join the community there. “The city of Napa was very high on our list,” he says, “though for us, it has to be about location.”

“There’s a lot of demand for craft beer in Napa,” Braden says.

“I think Napa is an underserved market, and I’m hoping we can carve out our own little niche there.”

For more info, visit fieldworkbrewing.com.

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our and hoppy beers are sharing the stage with a lineup of funky jazz bands at the first-ever Fünkendänk Oktoberfest, happening next month at SOMO Village Event Center in Rohnert Park.

Gordon Biersch cofounder and HopMonk owner Dean Biersch and RateBeer.com founder Joseph Tucker conceived of the idea, a twist on the traditional German harvest celebration, as a way to spotlight what are today the two most innovative craft beers being produced in the United States.

“We think they’re great companions, not only because they’re the two most popular styles of beer right now, but they’re also balanced flavors,” says Tucker of the sour and hoppy selections. As he explains, sour beers cleanse the palate after hoppy brews coat the tongue, and hoppy beers smooth out the prickly flavors of the sours.

Fünkendänk Oktoberfest happens on Saturday, Oct. 22, at SOMO Village Event Center, 1100 Valley House Drive, Rohnert Park. 2pm. $40 and up; 21 and over. somoconcerts.com.

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Biersch adds that the event is taking a page from Belgian brewers, where wild yeast produces more random flavors in the beer, in contrast to the German practice of precise beer making.

“You don’t expect to taste exactly the same beer every time around,” Biersch says. “I think that’s appealing to the small-batch beer culture happening right now; rather than looking for the same flavor every day, [people are] looking for the nuance.”

When hoppy and sour beers first emigrated here from Europe, American brewers pushed the flavors to their extremes. Tucker notes that beer makers are now concerned more with balance, subtly and complexity in their flavors.

“We’ve arrived with sour,” Tucker says. For German beer purists, Biersch will also be pouring traditional Hefeweizens and pilsners from huge oak barrels.

Fünkendänk Oktoberfest not only highlights these flavors from breweries like HenHouse, Lagunitas, Marin Brewing, Russian River and many others; it also boasts a lineup of nationally touring bands to add to the party atmosphere.

Headlining Fünkendänk is New Orleans institution Galactic, a funky favorite of the Crescent City for more than two decades who have cultivated a massive following. Also from New Orleans, Big Sam’s Funky Nation mixes in everything from hip-hop to rock ’n’ roll into their jazzy grooves.

Frontman Big Sam (pictured) HOR_Boh09_3rdpg.indd is a veteran of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and his ensemble’s credentials could fill a jukebox.

Brooklyn Afrobeat soul band Pimps of Joytime also make their way to the North Bay for the show.

Local trad and Gypsy-jazz groups the Dixie Giants and Royal Jelly Jive do their thing as well.

“These are jammy bands, great technical bands and super fun,” Biersch says. “The focus is to get the party started and make this an annual event.”

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Evening of funky, fun music features veteran songwriters Tracy Blackman, Jimmy Dillon, Mark Karan and Eric McCann.

Sep 24, 8pm. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Crystal Bowersox

Gifted singer-songwriter and former American Idol finalist returns to the North Bay for an evening of bluesy folk rock. Sep 28, 8pm. $27-$32. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.1100.

Melvin Seals & the Jerry Garcia Band

Two nights of music from the veteran luminaries offers both hits and super rare favorites from the band’s long career.

Sep 23-24, 8pm. $30. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773.

NAPA COUNTY Beethoven’s Fifth(s)

Maestro Michael Guttmann, virtuoso pianist Nikolay Khozyainov and Symphony Napa Valley presents two of Beethoven’s most famous works, his mighty Fifth Symphony and Fifth Piano Concerto, Sep 25, 3pm. $30$55. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville.

707.944.9900.

The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band

required. $15. 456 10th St, Santa Rosa. 707.781.7070.

Cellars of Sonoma

Sep 22, Craig Corona. Sep 23, John Pita. Sep 24, Simply Lyrical. 133 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.578.1826.

Chroma Gallery

Sep 24, 4pm, Soul Fuse. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa.

707.293.6051.

Cornerstone Sonoma

Sep 24, 1pm, Stewart Degner.

Sep 25, 1pm, Tom Farrallon.

23570 Arnold Dr, Sonoma.

707.933.3010.

D’Argenzio Winery

Sep 22, 6pm, Jeff Walters. 1301 Cleveland Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.280.4658.

Green Music Center

Sep 24, Chris Young. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Gundlach Bundschu Winery

Sep 21, 7pm, Iron & Wine.

2000 Denmark St, Sonoma.

707.938.5277.

Famed drummer of Fleetwood Mac returns to his love of roots music with an exciting ensemble of masterful musicians backing him up.

Jeffrey Halford opens. Sep 25, 8pm. $65-$105. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa.

707.259.0123.

Healdsburg Library

Clubs & Venues

HopMonk Sonoma

SONOMA COUNTY Barley & Hops Tavern Sep 22, House of Mary. Sep 23, Burnside. Sep 24, Hilary Marckx. 3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental. 707.874.9037.

Bergamot Alley

Sep 23, Sweetwater String Band. Sep 24, 10pm, Pickin’ and Pluckin’. 328-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.433.8720.

The Big Easy

Sep 21, Bruce Gordon & the Acrosonics. Sep 22, Jimmy Smith Band with Danny Hukill.

Sep 23, French Oak album release show. Sep 24, doRian Mode. Sep 25, Domenic Bianco with Jack Hamilton. Sep 27, American Alley Cats. Sep 28, Wednesday Night Big Band.

128 American Alley, Petaluma.

707.776.4631.

Calabi Gallery

Sep 25, 2pm, Sherry Austin with Henhouse. Reservations

Sep 21, 6pm, Mariachi Quartet Los Reyes. 139 Piper St, Healdsburg. 707.433.3772.

HopMonk Sebastopol Sep 24, Fruit Bats. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol.

707.829.7300.

Sep 23, 5pm, Adam Traum. Sep 23, 8pm, Hannah Jern-Miller and Courtney Carroll. Sep 24, 1pm, Vardo. Sep 24, 8pm, Dan Martin. Sep 25, 1pm, Matt Bolton. 691 Broadway, Sonoma.

707.935.9100.

Hotel Healdsburg

Sep 24, Grant Levin Trio with Chris Amberger and Louis Sweatt. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg. 707.431.2800.

KRSH

Sep 22, 6pm, North Bay Hootenanny’s Sonoma Grown Showcase. 3565 Standish Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.588.0707.

Lagunitas Amphitheaterette

Sep 26, 4:20pm, Con Brio and Chali 2na. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.778.8776.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Sep 21, Jeffrey Halford. Sep 22, Travis Hayes. Sep 23, Talley Up. Sep 24, the Soulshine Band.

Sep 28, O Happy Dagger. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma.

707.778.8776.

Last Record Store Sep 24, 2pm, Jen Tucker.

1899-A Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.525.1963.

CRITIC’S CHOICE

Main Street Bistro

Sep 21, Willie Perez. Sep 22, Susan Sutton jazz piano.

Sep 23, Eric Wiley. Sep 24, Levi Lloyd. 16280 Main St, Guerneville. 707.869.0501.

Din n er & A Show

Rivertown Trio Sep 23 with Julie Bernard Fri

Montgomery Village Shopping Center

8:00 / No Cover Fri 30 Swing Dance Lessons 7:45 Sep Stompy Jones 8:00

Sep 22, 5:30pm, Unauthorized Rolling Stones. Sep 24, 12pm, SuperHuey. Sep 25, 1pm, Nicolas Bearde. 911 Village Court, Santa Rosa.

Oct 2 Terry Haggerty with Sun

Mystic Theatre

Sep 22, Sly and Robbie & the Taxi Gang. Sep 23, Mad Caddies.

Sep 25, the Soul Rebels and Talib Kweli. Sep 28, Delhi 2 Dublin. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.765.2121.

Occidental Center for the Arts

Sep 25, 5pm, Helm: Folkloric Music from Turkey & the Arab World. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental. 707.874.9392.

Redwood Cafe

Sep 21, Irish set dancing.

Sep 22, Buzzy Martin. Sep 23, Reggae at the Redwood.

Sep 24, 3pm, Gold Coast Jazz Band. Sep 24, 8:30pm, Maldito Tango Duo. Sep 25, 3pm, Old Time Music Fiddle Jam. Sep 25, 6pm, Irish jam session. Sep 26, 12pm, Foy Vance. Sep 26, 6pm, Open Mic with DJ Loisaida.

8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7868.

Rio Nido Roadhouse

Sep 23, the Beer Scouts.

14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido.

707.869.0821.

Rohnert Park-Cotati Library Sep 24, 2pm, Sol Flamenco.

6250 Lynne Conde Way, Rohnert Park. 707.584.9121.

Rossi’s 1906

Sep 23, the Gravel Spreaders.

Sep 24, Choppin Broccoli. Sep 25, 5pm, Brandon & the Bee’s Knees. 401 Grove St, Sonoma.

707.343.0044.

Ruth McGowan’s Brewpub

Sep 24, Kevin Russell. 131 E First St, Cloverdale. 707.894.9610.

Sun

Oct 9

Fruitful Return Fruit Bats began as songwriter Eric D. Johnson’s four-track tape solo project in 1997, evolved into a full band in 2001, spawned five well-received indie folk-rock albums over the course of 10 years and then went silent in 2011 when Johnson suffered a family tragedy.

Grief-stricken over his wife’s miscarriage, Johnson abandoned the laidback, summery sounds of Fruit Bats for a 2014 solo album, simply titled EDJ. Still, the Fruit Bats moniker clung to Johnson’s psyche, and at the beginning of this year he announced that the band that had long defined his musical output would return. Last May, Fruit Bats released their sixth record, Absolute Loser, to critical praise. Despite its downtrodden title, Absolute Loser is actually a stunningly evocative pop record of full-bodied ballads and smoothly textured indie-rock gems that sonorously retrieve Johnson’s spirit from the depths it had fallen.

Aside from Fruit Bats, North Bay audiences know Johnson best as one of the principal organizers of the excellent Huichica Music Festival that since 2010 has annually gathered the best indie musicians from around the Bay Area and beyond to Gundlach Bundschu Winery in Sonoma.

Now fans get a chance to see Johnson back in his natural form when Fruit Bats play on Saturday, Sept. 24, at HopMonk Tavern, 230 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol. 9pm. $18; 21 and over. 707.829.7300.—Charlie Swanson

Sep 23, Steel Swingin’. 390 Morris St, Sebastopol. 707.874.3176.

Songbird Community Healing Center Sep 24, 6pm, Autumn Equinox

Guitar Virtuoso Oct 14 Freddy Clarke Fri

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Seasons of the Vineyard

Sep 24, 4pm, Chris Amberger & the Hot Dogs with the Young Brauts. 113 Plaza St, Healdsburg. 707.431.2222.

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Hannan Oct 7 Jerry Marin’s Troubador 8:00 / No Cover

Murphy’s Irish Pub

Sep 23, Ten Foot Tone. Sep 24, Highway Poets. Sep 27, Tudo Bem. 464 First St E, Sonoma.

707.935.0660.

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Sound Journey with Janet Carol Ryan. 8297 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.795.2398.

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

Sep 25, 5pm, “The Red Violin” with Elizabeth Pitcairn. 551 Broadway, Sonoma. 707.939.

SVMA.

Studio Barndiva

Sep 23, Terrie Odabi. 237 Center St, Healdsburg. 707.431.7404.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse Sep 23, Hot Grubb. Sep 24, the Flashbacks. Sep 25, 5pm, Lazyman. Sep 26, the Blues Defenders pro jam. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove.

707.795.5118.

Whiskey Tip

Sep 23, Marshall House Project.

Sep 24, Mr. V Band. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.843.5535.

MARIN COUNTY Ali Akbar College of Music

Sep 24, 7:30pm, Gala fundraiser with Swapan Chaudhuri & Ramesh Misra. 215 West End Ave, San Rafael. 415.454.6372.

Fenix

Fri 9/23 • Doors 8pm • ADV $15 / DOS $18

Shook Twins Go By Ocean

CheCk out the Art exhibit

thu sep 22

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fRi sep 23

Reggae at tHe RedwOOd

sat sep 24

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thu sep 29

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8:30pm/No Cover 8:30pm/Dancing/$10 8pm/Dancing/$5

Sun 9/25 • Doors 7pm • ADV $22 / DOS $25

Gaelic Storm

Mon 9/26 • Doors 5pm • FREE

Debate Watch Party

and Hillary Clinton Fundraiser On Our BIG Screen Tue 9/27 • Doors 7pm • ADV $20 / DOS $25

Ian Maksin (cello) & Goran Ivanovic (guitar) with CelloJoe

Wed 9/28 • Doors 7pm • ADV $27 / DOS $32

Crystal Bowersox

fOxeS in tHe HenHOuSe

with Olivia Davis Fri 9/30 • Doors 8pm • ADV $27 / DOS $32

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Eggs Over Easy Release Party

feat. Austin de Lone & Jack O'Hara with Caroline de Lone Sat 10/8 • Doors 8pm • ADV $27 / DOS $32

Prezident Brown & The Itals www.sweetwatermusichall.com 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley Café 388-1700 | Box Office 388-3850

Sep 21, pro blues jam with Alvon Johnson. Sep 22, Dylan Black Project. Sep 23, Jose Neto & the Neto Band. Sep 24, the Zins. Sep 25, 6:30pm, PaPa’s BaG: a James Brown Experience. Sep 27, Analog Jazz. Sep 28, pro blues jam with Dallis Craft. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.813.5600.

George’s Nightclub

Sep 23, Epiccenter. Sep 24, DJ Marroquien. Sep 25, Mexican Banda. Sep 27, hip-hop open mic. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.226.0262.

Grazie Restaurant

Sep 24, Arthur Javier. 823 Grant Ave, Novato. 415.897.5181.

HopMonk Novato

Sep 23, 5pm, Bruce Brymer’s Rockit Science. Sep 23, 9pm, Pop Rocks. Sep 24, Reisender with the Fell Swoop. Sep 25, 5pm, Diego’s Umbrella with Megan Slankard & the Wreckage. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

19 Broadway Club

Sep 21, Blonde Sinded. Sep 22, the Miles Ahead Group. Sep 23, 5:30pm, Tito. Sep 23, 9:30pm, Uncle Sea Monster and Blue Diamond Fillups. Sep 24, 5:30pm, W Dire Wolf Band. Sep

24, 9pm, Dance/House at Club 19. Sep 25, 5:30pm, C-JAM jazz quartet. Sep 25, 8pm, Lovelight Blues Band. Sep 28, Lender.

17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.

415.459.1091.

No Name Bar

Sep 21, Barnyard Hammer and friends. Sep 22, Home. Sep 23, Michael Aragon Quartet.

Sep 24, Chris Saunders Band.

Sep 25, 3pm, Flowtilla. Sep 25, 8:30pm, Hurricane Gulch. Sep 26, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs.

Sep 28, Robert Elmond Stone and friends. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito. 415.332.1392.

Osteria Divino

Sep 21, Deborah Winters with Ken Cook. Sep 22, Passion Habanera. Sep 23, Denise Perrier. Sep 24, Steph Johnson Jazz Trio. Sep 25, Joan Getz.

Sep 27, Rob Reich. Sep 28, Jonathan Poretz. 37 Caledonia St, Sausalito. 415.331.9355.

Panama Hotel Restaurant

Sep 21, Vardo. Sep 22, Rusty String Express. Sep 27, Lorin Rowan. Sep 28, Judy Hall and friends. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael. 415.457.3993.

Peri’s Silver Dollar

Sep 21, the Elvis Johnson Soul Revue. Sep 22, Mark’s Jam Sammich. Sep 23, the Receders.

Sep 24, Beso Negro. Sep 27, Sheet Metal. Sep 28, the New Sneakers. 29 Broadway, Fairfax.

415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio

Sep 23, Rivertown Trio. Sep 25, Whistlestock Benefit Concert.

1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio.

415.662.2219.

Sausalito Seahorse

Wed, Milonga with Marcelo Puig and Seth Asarnow. Sep 22, Mwanza Furaha and Michael McQuilkin. Sep 23, DJ Jose Ruiz.

Sep 24, the Brigham Brothers.

Sep 25, 5pm, Mazacote. Sep 26, 6pm, Judy Hall. Sep 27, Noel Jewkes and friends. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito.

415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon

Sep 22, DREA.M. Sep 23, Brett Hunter Band. Sep 24, RKS. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas.

415.868.1311.

Sweetwater Music Hall Sep 21, Third World and Soul Ska. Sep 23, Shook Twins and Go by Ocean. Sep 25, Gaelic Storm. Sep 27, Ian Maksin & Goran Ivanovic with CelloJoe. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.1100.

Trek Winery

Sep 23, Factor 11. 1026 Machin Ave, Novato. 415.899.9883.

Unity in Marin

Sep 21, 7pm, Steven Halpern: Art of Sound Healing. Free. 600 Palm Dr, Novato.

Wu Wei Tea House

Sep 24, 7pm, fingerstyle guitar with Teja Gerken. Free. 1820 Sir Francis Drake, Fairfax.

415.516.2578.

NAPA COUNTY Beringer Vineyards

Sep 25, 12:30pm, Twang Ditty.

2000 Main St, St Helena, 866.708.9463.

Ca’ Momi Osteria

Sep 23, Roem Baur. Sep 24, the LoWatters. 1141 First St, Napa.

707.224.6664.

Carpe Diem

Sep 23, Zak Fennie. 1001 Second St, Napa. 707.224.0800.

Deco Lounge at Capp Heritage Vineyards

Sep 24, California Zephyr. 1245 First St, Napa. 707.254.1922.

Downtown Joe’s Brewery & Restaurant

Sep 22, Shelby Lanterman. Sep 23, the Special Guests. Sep 24, Bobby Love and Sugar Sweet.

Sep 25, DJ Aurelio. Sep 27, Bay Area Blues Society Caravan of Allstars. 902 Main St, Napa.

707.258.2337.

RaeSet

Sep 23, Darleen Gardner. Sep 24, Brian Coutch. Sep 26, Zak Fennie. 3150 B Jefferson St, Napa. 707.666.9028.

River Terrace Inn

Sep 22, Dan Martin. Sep 23, Craig Corona. Sep 24, Smorgy.

1600 Soscol Ave, Napa.

707.320.9000.

Silo’s

Sep 21, Mike Annuzzi. Sep 22, Angela Kennedy. Sep 23, Anadel with Picture Atlantic and John Brazell. Sep 24, Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys.

Sep 25, the Jeff Denson Quartet. 530 Main St, Napa.

707.251.5833.

Uptown Theatre

Sep 23, Iris DeMent and Loudon Wainwright III. Sep 24, Big Head Blues Club. 1350 Third St, Napa. 707.259.0123.

Uva Trattoria

Sep 21, Tom Duarte. Sep 22, Gentlemen of Jazz. Sep 23, Tony Macaroni Trio. Sep 24, Party of Three. Sep 25, Duo Gadjo. Sep 28, Tom Duarte. 1040 Clinton St, Napa. 707.255.6646.

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Sep 21

Marin Community Foundation, “Om Prakash: Intuitive Nature,” renowned Indian artist’s abstract paintings display. 4:30pm. 5 Hamilton Landing, Ste 200, Novato.

Sep 22

Falkirk Cultural Center, “Falkirk’s Juried Exhibit,” featuring hundreds of Bay Area artists working in a wide range of media.

5:30pm. 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael. 415.485.3438.

Sep 23

Sebastopol Center for the Arts, “Sonoma County Art Trails Preview Exhibit,” showing several works from artists involved in Art Trails. 6pm. 282 S High St, Sebastopol. 707.829.4797.

Sep 24

Art Works Downtown, “20/20 Vision,” exhibition

Galleries SONOMA COUNTY Art Museum of Sonoma County

Through Sep 25, “Exposure,” femininity in photographic portraiture is explored through works by Imogen Cunningham, Helmut Newton, Nobuyoshi Araki, Robert Mapplethorpe and others. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.579.1500.

Calabi Gallery

Through Oct 15, “Summer Show,” featuring works by three Sonoma County artists, Terry Holleman, Bernadette Howard and Bambi Waterman, who share a sensibility of revering and preserving the natural world. 456 10th St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.781.7070.

Chroma Gallery

Through Oct 8, “Flight,” aerialinspired show features original paintings, sculptures, photos and prints by Sonoma County

celebrating 20 years of Art Works Downtown looks at the past, present and future.

6:30pm. 1337 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.451.8119.

Bolinas Museum, “Bounty,” exhibit looks at fine food production in coastal Marin, from 1834 to today.

3pm. 48 Wharf Rd, Bolinas.

415.868.0330.

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Dutton-Goldfield Winery, “Nancy Ray Ricciardi Solo Show,” breathtaking landscapes from the artist and teacher. 1pm.

3100 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol. 707.827.3600.

Gallery Route One, “Canto XXV,” immersive art and sculpture exhibit from Diana Marto is inspired by Chinese spirit paper. Shows in conjunction with Cynthia Tom’s “Stories to Tell” and tc moore’s “Reflections.”

3pm. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. . 415.663.1347.

and Bay Area artists. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa. 707.293.6051.

City Hall Council Chambers Through Sep 22, “Citizenship Test,” artist Monica Bryant’s installation is a large-scale painting of the American Flag covered with answers to questions every potential immigrant is asked in their test. 100 Santa Rosa Ave, Ste 10, Santa Rosa. 707.543.3010.

East West Cafe Through Sep 30, “ShoreLines & ShoreBirds,” exhibit by Bodega Bay photographer John Herhey features new works including his recent “Beaches of Sonoma Coast” series. 128 N Main St, Sebastopol. Mon-Sat, 8am to 9pm; Sun, 8am to 8pm 707.829.2822.

Finley Community Center Through Oct 13, “Cliff Strother: My Year with the Jari Tribesmen of South Vietnam,” the former Army medic shares his story through paintings and photographs. 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa.

Mon-Fri, 8 to 6; Sat, 9 to 11am.

707.543.3737.

Fulton Crossing

Through Sep 30, “September Art Show,” local and visiting artists display works in their working art studios. 1200 River Rd, Fulton. Sat-Sun, noon to 5pm 707.536.3305.

Graton Gallery

Through Sep 25, “Anything Goes,” juried art show is up for anything. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. Tues-Sat, 10:30 to 6; Sun, 10:30 to 4. 707.829.8912.

History Museum of Sonoma County

Through Oct 9, “Artistry in Wood,” annual exhibit brings together the best works of the Sonoma County Woodworkers Association. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 4.

707.579.1500.

Petaluma Arts Center

Through Sep 25, “Journeys Through Light & Dark,” highlights the emotional tales that emerge between doll artists and the creatures they create, and explores the nature of figurative art. 230 Lakeville St, Petaluma. Thurs-Mon, 11 to 5. 707.762.5600.

Sebastopol Gallery

Through Oct 1, “Above & Below – Into the Deep,” watercolor and mixed-media paintings by Susan St. Thomas is inspired by galaxies photographed by the Hubble telescope and the deepest realms of the sea. 150 N Main St, Sebastopol. Open daily, 11 to 6. 707.829.7200.

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

Through Sep 25, “Surf Craft,” exhibit looks at varied surfboard designs and the culture that surrounds them.

551 Broadway, Sonoma. WedSun, 11 to 5. 707.939.SVMA.

Upstairs Art Gallery

Through Sep 25, “Travelogue of Watercolors,” artist John Warner shares his world travels in the form of over a dozen watercolors. 306 Center St, Healdsburg. Sun-Thurs, 11 to 6; Fri-Sat, 11 to 9. 707.431.4214.

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MARIN COUNTY Bolinas Gallery

Through Sep 25, “Fitting Arts,” four west Marin artists show wildlife sculpture, prints and gourd art. 52 Wharf Rd, Bolinas. Fri-Sun, 11am to 6pm 415.868.0782.

Corte Madera Library Through Sep 29, “The Persistence of Memory,” local landscape artist Kathleen Piscioneri displays her recent works. 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera. 707.924.6444.

Desta Art & Tea Gallery Through Sep 30, “Wandering Remembrance,” featuring works by photographer Brendan T Kelly and painter Emily Lazarra. 417 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo. Mon-Sat, 10 to 6 415.524.8932.

Robert Allen Fine Art

Through Sep 30, “Abstract Works on Canvas,” group exhibit features Beatrice Findlay, Heather Gordon, Carol Lefkowitz and others. 301 Caledonia St, Sausalito. MonFri, 10 to 5. 415.331.2800.

San Geronimo Valley Community Center

Through Sep 29, “Gifting My Legacy,” retrospective art exhibit of the works of Fred Berensmeier features 40 prints.

6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Geronimo. 415.488.8888.

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Through Sep 30, “Raquel Baldocchi Solo Show,” the Bay Area fine artist displays. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

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Through Sep 30, “Amazing Landscapes,” paintings and photographs from three iconic Marin artists; Martha Borge, Richard Blair and Kathleen Goodwin. 11250 Hwy 1, Point Reyes Station.

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Through Oct 2, “Equilibrium,” exhibition explores the work of Paul Kos and reflects on the San Francisco-based artist’s longstanding engagement with the Western landscape. 5200 Sonoma Hwy, Napa. Wed-Sun, 10 to 6. 707.226.5991.

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Seen on Comedy Central, the standup appears in the North Bay with guest Dennis Gaxiola.

Sep 24, 8pm. $20-$25. Trek Winery, 1026 Machin Ave, Novato. 415.899.9883.

Jackass Live Show

Cast members of the MTV show recount tales of Jackass lore, perform stunts, pull pranks and stick around for a meet and greet. Sep 21, 8:30pm. $37-$47. Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.765.2121.

The Laugh Room

Crushers of Comedy presents standup stars and dinner events celebrating the fall season. Sat, Sep 24, 8pm. $20.

Union Hotel, 280 Mission Blvd, Santa Rosa. 707.538.6000.

San Francisco Comedy Competition SemiFinals Rising Bay Area comedians compete. Sep 24, 8pm. $46.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.877.6650.

The Jensie Gran Fondo of Marin

Popular cycling personality hosts three rides of 40, 70 and 100 miles respectively, offering road cyclists of all abilities the opportunity to participate. Sep 24, 7:30am. $90 and up. Stafford Lake Park, 3549 Novato Blvd, Novato.

415.328.9846.

Much Ado About Sebastopol

Seventh annual Renaissance fair include reenactments, entertainment, games and refreshments for the entire family. Sep 24-25. $8-$16. Ives Park, Willow Street and Jewell Avenue, Sebastopol.

Santa Rosa Toy Con

A day of guest celebrities, Lego exhibits, cosplay competitions and hundreds of collectibles and comics vendors. Sep 24. $15-$25. Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa, santarosatoycon.com.

The Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival

Cykel Scramble

Friday night gala and weekend of music and family-fun activities features music by Notorious, T Luke & the Tight Suits, Tommy Thomsen Band and others, with a parade, grape stomp, artists displaying their works, beer and wine garden and more. Sep 23-25.

Free admission. Sonoma Plaza, First St E, Sonoma.

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Events Bike relay race and festival combines wacky costumes, live band, food trucks, a beer garden and lots of other fun stuff. Sep 24. Marin Center, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 415.499.6800.

Renaissance fair includes music, entertainment, food and more, raising funds for Bridge Stone School. Sep 24, 11am. $2. Stone Bridge School, 1680 Los Carneros Ave, Napa. 707252-5522.

Globe Sound Healing Conference

Researchers, instructors, doctors, sound therapists and musicians in the field address important issues and topics in this rapidly expanding field of Sound Healing. Sep 24-26. Point Bonita YMCA, 981 Fort Barry, Sausalito, soundhealingcenter.com.

GMO Ban Fundraising Phone Bank Help raise money for the Sonoma County GMO ban on the November ballot, with training. Sep 26, 6:30pm.

Danny Says

Documentary portrait of Danny Fields, rock and roll impresario whose résumé includes the Doors, Cream, Lou Reed and the Ramones. Sep 24. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

The Endless Summer Seminal 1960s surf film is presented by the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. Sep 23, 7pm. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma.

707.996.9756.

Italian Film Festival

The fest turns 40 and once again offers eight great films, both comedy and drama, from Italy in Saturday presentations, plus the addition of two Sunday matinees. Sep 24-25. $15/$112 full series. Marin

Center Showcase Theatre, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. www.italianfilm.com.

Musical starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charlie Ruggles and Charles Butterworth from 1932. Fri, Sep 23, 7pm and Sun, Sep 25, 4pm. $5. Sonoma Film Institute, Warren Auditorium, SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

707.664.2606.

Making a Killing: Guns, Greed & the NRA

Film describes our country’s gun culture, who supports it, who profits from it and the lives that are hurt by it.

It also offers ways to make our country safer from gun violence. Sep 28, 11am. Free.

St Patrick’s Episcopal Church, 9000 Sonoma Hwy, Kenwood.

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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.

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Food & Drink Cellar Party

The eighth annual party offers preview tastings of Bear Republic’s entries to this year’s Great American Beer Festival, rare beers from off the shelf and food. Sep 25, 2pm. $65. Bear Republic Brewing Company, 345 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.433.2337.

Farm-to-Table Charity Dinner

On the eve of the Heirloom Tomato Fest, this dinner is prepared by several celebrity chefs and benefits No Kid Hungry.

Sep 23, 4:30pm. $225. KendallJackson Wine Center, 5007 Fulton Rd, Fulton. 707.576.3810.

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Book Passage

Sep 21, 7pm, “A Kingdom of Their Own” with Joshua Partlow. Sep 22, 12pm, “Commonwealth” with Ann Prachett, a literary lunch event.

Sep 22, 7pm, “The Power of Mercury” with Leslie McGuirk.

Sep 22, 7pm, “Rise & Shine” with Katie Sullivan Morford.

Sep 24, 1pm, “The Man Who Built the Sierra Club “ with Robert Wyss. Sep 24, 4pm, “Little Nothing” with Marisa Silver. Sep 25, 1pm, “The Haumana Hula Handbook” with Mahea Uchiyama. Sep 25, 4pm, “Lady Cop Makes Trouble” with Amy Stewart. Sep 26, 7pm, “The Past” with Tessa Hadley.

Sep 27, 7pm, “Let There Be Laughter” with Michael Krasny.

Sep 28, 7pm, “Here I Am” with Jonathan Safran Foer. $30. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

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Sep 24, 7pm, 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Healdsburg chapter of worldwide literary event features 11 writers.

130 Plaza St, Healdsburg.

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Sam Fuller Retrospective

Special Guests Christa LangFuller and Samantha Fuller attend a weekend of rarely screened titles from one of the most visually inventive American filmmakers. Sep 2325. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.454.1222.

Wine Country Film Festival

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Tam Valley Oktoberfest

Authentic German fest features music, food, beer and games in a family-friendly setting. Sep 24, 3pm. Tam Valley Community Center, 203 Marin Ave, Mill Valley.

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Sep 28, 7pm, “A Truck Full of Money” with Tracy Kidder, copresented with Book Passage. $35. Dominican University,

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Sep 23, 6pm, “Little Nothing” with Marisa Silver, followed by wine reception at Thumbprint Cellars. 104 Matheson St, Healdsburg. 707.433.9270.

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Sep 28, 6pm, “Bright Precious Days” with Jay McInerney, copresented with Copperfield’s Books. $40-$50. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg. 707.431.2800.

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Sep 27, 7pm, “Lady Cop Makes Trouble” with Amy Stewart, followed by cocktails at Susie’s Bar. 1330 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga. .707.942.1616.

Enjoy the flavors of hundreds heritage varieties of tomatoes grown in Kendall-Jackson’s gardens, along with tours, wine and food pairings, seminars and music. Sep 24, 11am. $90$175. Kendall-Jackson Wine Center, 5007 Fulton Rd, Fulton.

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Learn about local honey about the other symbols and rituals for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Sep 23, 3pm. Free.

Oliver’s Market, 9230 Old Redwood Hwy, Windsor. Sep 25, 12pm. Free. Sonoma Market, 500 W Napa St, Sonoma. Sep 28, 3pm. Free. Oliver’s Market, 560 Montecito Ctr, Santa Rosa.

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The center’s Film Night presents the film about how livestock production is ignored as one cause of climate change, with post-screening discussion. Sep 22, 7pm.

Peace & Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.575.8902.

Cinema & Psyche hosts PreCode Pearls film studies class that watches and discusses pre-Code essentials from 1932. Mon, 2pm. through Oct 17. $126. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 240 Channing Way, San Rafael. www. cinemaandpsyche.com. PreCode Treasures, Thurs, 6:30pm. through Sep 29. $110. Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

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Sep 25, 6:30pm, “The Seasoned Life” with Ayesha Curry, copresented by Book Passage. $120. 507 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 415.927.3331.

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50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa 707.546.3600.

Napa Bookmine Sep 22, 7pm, “One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses “ with Lucy Corin. 964 Pearl St, Napa 707.733.3199.

Osher Marin JCC Sep 21, 7pm, “Fifty Shades of Talmud” with Maggie Anton.

200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael 415.444.8000.

Petaluma Copperfield’s Books Sep 23, 7pm, “Children of the New World” with Alexander Weinstein. Sep 26, 4pm, “School’s First Day of School” with Christian Robinson. Sep 27, 4pm, “Max at Night” with Ed Vere. 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma 707.762.0563.

Readers’ Books Sep 21, 7pm, “Altamont” with Joel Selvin. 130 E Napa St, Sonoma 707.939.1779.

Rebound Bookstore Sep 28, 7pm, Hand to Mouth/ WORDS SPOKEN OUT, with authors Susan Cohen and Terry Lucas. 1611 Fourth St, San Rafael 415.482.0550.

Red Barn Gallery Sep 24, 7pm, “The Sea Forager’s Guide to the Northern California Coast” with Kirk Lombard. by donation.

1 Bear Valley Rd, Pt Reyes Station 415.464.5125.

Santa Rosa Copperfield’s Books Sep 27, 7pm, “Swarm” with Scott Westerfeld. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa 707.578.8938.

Theater The Big Meal Left Edge Theatre delicious family drama spans five generations and serves up humor and humanity. Through Sep 25. $25-$40. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

Lucky Penny Productions opens their 2016-17 season with a rollicking musical adaptation of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Through Sep 25. $27$38. Lucky Penny Community Arts Center, 1758 Industrial Way, Napa. 707-266-6305.

Call of the Wild

Actor and writer Charlie Bethel performs this one-man-show based on Jack London’s classic novel. Through Sep 25. $10$15. Studio Theatre, 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

707.523.4185.

Father Goose’s Tales

The first show of Marin Theatre Company’s family series presents classic Mother Goose fairy tales with imaginative puppetry. Through Sep 25. $18$22. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley.

415.388.5208.

The House That Jack Built

World premiere play charts a course through Jack London’s grudges, expenses, and injuries that led to the destruction of his Wolf House. Through Sep 25. $10-$26. Studio Theatre, 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

707.523.4185.

Measure + Dido

NapaShakes and the Folger Shakespeare Library presents dramatic readings of Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” combined with excerpts from Henry Purcell’s chamber opera Dido and Aeneas, starring actor Derek Jacobi and actor/director Richard Clifford. Sep 24, 7pm. $35 and up. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville. 707.944.9900.

Sep 25, 7pm. $35 and up.

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

The Most Happy Fella

Cinnabar opens its season with the touching, dramatic and intensely personal love story from the composer of “Guys and Dolls.” Through Sep 25. $25-$35. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.763.8920.

Murder at Joe’s Speakeasy

Get a Clue Productions presents a new murder mystery dinner theater show set in the roaring ‘20s. Sat,

Sep 24, 7pm. $68. Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor. getaclueproductions.com.

Othello Powerful tale of jealousy and manipulation follows the tragic transformation of a brave general driven to rage and regret when betrayed by his opportunistic and vengeful friend. Through Sep 25. $10$35. Marin Shakespeare Company, 890 Bella Ave, San Rafael. 415.499.4488.

REAL The Imaginists explore dreams, nightmares, reality and power in a revamp of their 2013 original production, performed in Spanish and English by six actors playing 20 different characters. Sep 22-Oct 8. $5-$25. The Imaginists, 461 Sebastopol Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.528.7554.

Romeo & Juliet Shakespeare’s tales of starcrossed lovers comes alive in the natural settings of the state park, presented by We Players. Through Sep 25.

Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park, 3325 Adobe Rd, Petaluma. www.weplayers.org.

Shanghai Nights New stage show from the Shanghai Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China dazzles audiences of all ages. Sep 25, 2pm. $25-$85.

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

866.955.6040.

We Interrupt This Life to Bring You Writer, performance artist, choral singer, hospice social worker and psychotherapist Christina Ingenito presents her one-woman show about the three words none of us want to hear. Sat, Sep 24, 5pm. $15-$20. Moj-San, 301 Wilson St, Petaluma.

808.333.0462.

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It’s my perception that there is still a vast population that does not know that they can benefit significantly from certain types of medical marijuana. To look at only one issue, research suggests that migraine headaches may be linked to an endocannabinoid deficiency. Endocannabinoids are cannabinoids (analogous to THC, CBD, etc.) produced within the body. Sometimes, under a condition known as clinical endocannabinoid deficiency syndrome, the body stops producing sufficient endocannabinoids, which can lead to various health problems.

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Will they laugh at me behind my back? Will I find someone who can answer my questions with some degree of clarity?

The first thing you need to access cannabis is a doctor’s referral. A Google search (“medical marijuana card” plus “Santa Rosa”) will give you multiple options. I go to Compassionate Health Options on Fifth and E streets, across from the parking lot behind Russian River Brewing Company.

Once you have your card, you will need to visit a dispensary.

Mercy Wellness (Cotati), OrganiCann (Santa Rosa) and Peace in Medicine (Santa Rosa and Sebastopol) are among the better-known locations in Sonoma County. (Petaluma and Healdsburg do not have dispensaries.)

The hard part is getting over the anxiety of your first visit. Embrace your newness. Ask dispensary employees if they have anyone experienced with new patients.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions.

Last week, I went to two dispensaries in Sonoma County and presented myself as a firsttime patient. I was underwhelmed.

My wine-industry friends talk about creating a “memorable guest experience” for new and returning visitors. Some of the local dispensaries need that same vision.

So if things don’t feel right, politely excuse yourself and try another location. Eventually, you will find that memorable guest experience and a regimen that works for you.

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LEO (July 23–August 22) What tools will work best for the tasks you’ll be invited to perform in the coming weeks? A sledgehammer or tweezers? Pruning shears or a sewing machine? A monkey wrench or a screwdriver? Here’s my guess: Always have your entire toolbox on hand. You may need to change tools in midtask—or even use several tools for the same task. I can envision at least one situation that would benefit from you alternating between a sledgehammer and tweezers.

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ARIES (March 21–April 19) Even if you are a wild-eyed adventure seeker with extremist views and melodramatic yearnings, you’ll benefit from taking a moderate approach to life in the coming weeks. In fact, you’re most likely to attract the help and inspiration you need if you adopt the strategy used by Goldilocks in the fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”: neither excessive nor underdone, neither extravagant nor restrained, neither bawdy, loud, and in-your-face nor demure, quiet and passive but rather just right.

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CANCER (June 21–July 22) The next four weeks will be a favorable time to come all the way home. Here are nine prompts for how to accomplish that: 1. Nourish your roots. 2. Strengthen your foundations.

3. Meditate about where you truly belong. 4. Upgrade the way you attend to your self-care. 5. Honor your living traditions. 6. Make a pilgrimage to the land where your ancestors lived. 7. Deepen your intimacy with the earth. 8. Be ingenious about expressing your tenderness. 9. Reinvigorate your commitment to the influences that nurture and support you.

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VIRGO (August 23–September 22) I’m confident that I will never again need to moonlight as a janitor or dishwasher in order to pay my bills. My gig as a horoscope columnist provides me with enough money to eat well, so it’s no longer necessary to shoplift bread or scavenge for dented cans of beets in grocery-store dumpsters. What accounts for my growing financial luck—I mean besides the fact that I have been steadily improving my skills as an oracle and writer? I suspect it may in part have to do with my determination to cultivate generosity. As I’ve become better at expressing compassion and bestowing blessings, money has flowed to me in greater abundance. Would this strategy work for you? The coming weeks and months will be a good time to experiment.

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) Here’s my translation of a passage from the ancient Gospel of Thomas, a gnostic text about the teachings of Jesus: “If you do not awaken and develop the potential talents that lie within you, they will damage you. If you do awaken and develop the potential talents that lie within you, they will heal you.” Whether you actually awaken and develop those talents or not depends on two things: your ability to identify them clearly and

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your determination to bring them to life with the graceful force of your willpower. I call this to your attention, Libra, because the coming months will be a highly favorable time to expedite the ripening of your talents. And it all starts NOW.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21) You can’t completely eliminate unhelpful influences and trivial saboteurs and debilitating distractions from your life.

But you’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when you have more power than usual to diminish their effects. To get started in this gritty yet lofty endeavor, try this: Decrease your connection with anything that tends to demean your spirit, shrink your lust for life, limit your freedom, ignore your soul, compromise your integrity, dishonor your reverence, inhibit your self-expressiveness or alienate you from what you love.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21)

Work too much and push yourself too hard, Sagittarius.

Eat corn chips for breakfast, ice cream for lunch and french fries for dinner—every day, if possible. And please, please, please get no more than four hours’ sleep per night. If you have any extra time, do arduous favors for friends and intensify your workout routine.

JUST KIDDING! Don’t you dare heed any of that ridiculous advice. In fact, I suggest you do just the opposite. Dream up brilliant excuses not to work too much or push too hard. Treat yourself to the finest meals and best sleep ever. Take your mastery of the art of relaxation to new heights. Right now, the most effective way to serve your long-term dreams is by having as much fun, joy and release as possible.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) I propose that you and I make a deal. Here’s how it would work: For the next three weeks, I will say three prayers for you every day. I will ask God, Fate and Life to send you more of the recognition and appreciation you deserve. I will coax and convince them to give you rich experiences of being seen for who you really are. Now here’s what I ask of you in return: You will rigorously resolve to act on your core beliefs, express your noblest desires and say only what you truly mean. You will be alert for those times when you start to stray from the path with heart, and you will immediately get yourself back on that path. You will be yourself three times stronger and clearer than you have ever been before.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) If you loosen yourself up by drinking an alcoholic beverage, don’t drive a forklift or ride a unicycle. If you have a hunch that your luck at gambling is peaking, don’t buy lottery tickets or play the slot machines. If you’re drawn to explore the frontiers of intimacy, be armed with the ancient Latin maxim, Primum non nocere, or “First, do no harm.” And if you really do believe it would be fun to play with fire, bring a fire extinguisher with you. In presenting this cautionary advice, I’m not saying that you should never push the limits or bend the rules. But I want to be sure that as you dare to experiment, you remain savvy and ethical and responsible.

PISCES (February 19–March 20)

I invite you to explore the healing power of sex. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to do so. You are also likely to generate good fortune for yourself if you try to fix any aspect of your erotic life that feels wounded or awkward. For best results, suspend all your theories about the way physical intimacy should work in your life. Adopting a beginner’s mind could lead you to subtly spectacular breakthroughs. (P.S.: You don’t necessarily need a partner to take full advantage of this big opening.)

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