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The late Winsor activist Bill Patterson once told me that politicians these days are trying to get us to believe that black is white and white is black. Nowhere is this more true than on our local board of supervisors. Lynda Hopkins talks about progressivism (“Redwood Empire Fights Back,” Dec. 21) as though she herself demonstrates progressive characteristics. Before we make up our minds on that one, let us talk about money in politics.

Hopkins was quoted in the Press Democrat saying, “I think that the whole idea that money buys influence is a false argument.” Another female Democrat by the name of Hillary Clinton was asked on Meet the Press if she thought Goldman Sachs expected anything in return for the $675,000 she was paid by them for giving three speeches. Her reply was “Absolutely not.”

On the other side of the coin you have David McCuan, political science professor at Sonoma State University.

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influential.” Donald Trump was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying, “As a businessman and very substantial donor to very important people, when you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do.” At a rally in Iowa last year Trump said, “When I call, they kiss my ass, OK?” Anybody who does not have their head completely buried in the sand knows that on this issue Trump and McCuan are the truth tellers and Hillary and Hopkins are the ones blowing smoke. If telling the truth constitutes a tenet of progressivism, then Hopkins doesn’t quite fit the bill.

By Tom Tomorrow

How could there be anything progressive about buying your way into office on the backs of the growth machine? Keep in mind here that the growth machine is directly responsible for a large percentage of our environmental problems. Follow the money, people. Contemplate the conundrum of a politician with two degrees in environmental science accepting campaign donations from four of the most environmentally destructive forces in the history of Sonoma County.

That would be realtors, developers, the wine industry and the Sonoma County Farm Bureau.

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The Fine Print Napa Sen. Bill Dodd steps between consumers and lenders BY TOM GOGOLA

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apa’s Bill Dodd says that when he introduced his first bill (SB 33) as a freshly minted state senator early this past month, bankers and businessmen approached him in Sacramento and wondered, what the heck is this former Republican up to?

Dodd is also a former business owner who sat on the board of the Napa Community Bank.

He says his bill sprang from the recent controversy at Wells Fargo—and from his own experience as a victim of identity theft. He’s aiming squarely at socalled forced arbitration clauses in contracts that bar consumers from suing lenders in court when

there are charges of fraud or identity theft.

The Wells Fargo scandal involved employees at the California-based bank who were caught opening some 2 million bank accounts for existing Wells Fargo customers without their knowledge or consent, and then passing along millions of dollars in fees and charges to

the unwitting customers. When customers got wise to the scam, they sued, but Wells Fargo successfully argued that the controversy should be settled through arbitration and not the courts. This “forced arbitration” clause is a standard part of lending contracts designed to protect lenders against expensive lawsuits played out in the courts.

The clause is just the sort of fine-print exercise in bank favoritism that has been scrubbed by multiple Obama-era consumer-protection reforms that pushed back against fees and hidden charges in contracts—where, as is often is the case, says Dodd, “people don’t know what they are signing.”

His bill dovetails with other work he has done on identity theft and consumer-fraud issues while serving as an assemblyman, and also with federal-level efforts to reform the arbitration-clause backstop for banks and lenders through the besieged Consumer Fraud Protection Bureau (CFPB). Last October, the CFPB announced its intention to scrub forcedarbitration language from lending contracts.

“I am not a fan of the clauses,” says Dodd. “In the end, they favor whoever is contracting out for the arbitrator, for obvious reasons. My bill essentially says that if a bank or financial institution [has] either defrauded or perpetuated consumer fraud on a customer . . . the bank would lose the ability to automatically go to the arbitration clause, and the employee or victim could have their claim heard in a court of law.”

Wells Fargo argued that because the defrauded customers had legitimate accounts with the bank, the arbitration clause in the customers’ contracts kicked in when charges of fraud emerged. Dodd says that a Wells Fargo whistleblower discovered the scam but “that person lost in arbitration.” ) 10

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Dodd says that members of the banking industry have approached him and said, “We can’t believe you are doing this,” as they highlight court costs associated with out-of-contract lawsuits. Dodd’s identity-theft case ended favorably for him and for the bank that had let it happen, but the arbiter, he says, dropped all court and legal fees associated with the case.

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Now, he says, when he’s approached by bankers, “I say to them, have you ever seen a time when you or your employee has committed fraud on customers or employees?” Their answer is typically no, to which Dodd responds that they then shouldn’t object to a bill that would adjudicate fraud in court instead of through arbitration.

“I am gong to work on a bill that will make an arbitration system that is more fair,” says Dodd, “and if there’s a solution to arbitration that was equally fair to business and the consumer, I’m all in.” Until then, he says, he’s putting the emphasis on protecting consumers instead of the banks’ bottom line.

“I really do believe that the arbitration system favors the employers, favors the companies,” he says.

Dodd’s bill comes amid intense

discussion over the fate of the CFPB, an agency spearheaded by progressive firebrand Sen. Elizabeth Warren. A similar attempt to enact Dodd’s proposed arbitration language at CFPB has met strong opposition from Republicans, many of whom are hell-bent on destroying the agency.

In a recent interview with the Bohemian, Kevin Stein, deputy director of the consumerrights nonprofit the California Reinvestment Coalition, said potential rollbacks at the CFPB were a “major concern, and an area where we will fight to protect the agency and the rules and access it gives to consumers to complain about unfair practices.”

Dodd says he’s not totally conversant in all the efforts undertaken at the CFPB, but he’s generally a fan of consumer protections, even as he echoes concerns that the agency’s purportedly big-foot approach to regulating big banks and lenders has also put the screws to community lenders.

Senate Bill 33 is the first and only bill that Dodd has introduced in his capacity as chair of the State Senate’s Banking and Finance Committee.

The bill has gotten the support of state consumer-rights groups such as the Consumer Federation of California.

Dodd says he’s eager to work as a champion for consumer protections that are fair to consumers and lenders alike.

“This is my first foray into this area,” he says as he highlights that the arbitration-reform issue has been editorialized in newspapers ranging from the Boston Herald to the New York Times, and that California Rep. Brad Sherman recently co-sponsored a similar bill in Washington.

But Dodd says he didn’t sponsor the bill to get the positive press or to align with the CFPB. “I’m doing this on my own,” he says.

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or a company that celebrates its mistakes, missteps and bloopers with such success, Lagunitas Brewing Company sure makes an aromatically consistent product.

To my nose, almost every Lagunitas beer, from Belgianinspired Stoopid Wit to a sort of Scotch-style brown ale whose name cannot be printed, shows, well, a chronic similarity to the Dogtown pale ale. That’s great—big, resinous and dry, it’s a winning profile. But if in the chill of a winter’s gloaming, a sweeter, maltier brew is better cheer, here’s a sampling of seasonal beers and one-hitters from the unlikely mega-microbrewery (or as mega as it gets in North Bay craft beervana) that step it up all the way over the top.

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Last year, a few remaining 22ounce bottles of 2015 High Westified were generously retrieved from the Lagunitas beer library and hand-delivered for the Bohemian’s whiskey barrel brew tasting (January 13, 2016). The new 12-ouncers at least give your better angels a fighting chance at responsibly consuming this toothsome brew. (12.2 percent ABV.)

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Bitter Pill Will the cure for the Affordable Care Act make matters worse?

BY TOM GOGOLA

WHAT NOW? Republicans will now

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his bill is being shoved down the throats of the American public” was a well-traveled Republican refrain around the Affordable Care Act as it wended its way through the legislative process back in 2009, and a favorite rhetorical talking point of former House Speaker John Boehner.

Now the Republican majority promises to repeal Obamacare as the first order of business for the 115th Congress. And it appears that they aren’t proposing any

sort of replacement for it, a move that will likely cause pain in California and across the country.

The Republican plan is to “repeal and delay,” but nobody knows if a GOP omnibus health bill is in the offing that would replace some of the popular aspects of Obamacare, which include a ban on denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions and a ban on annual caps on coverage.

“What we don’t know yet is, when will it take effect?” says U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman. “Will there be a two-year cliff or a fouryear cliff?”

The GOP plan also includes a

promise of extortion if Democrats don’t go along. House majority leader Kevin McCarthy says that if Democrats don’t participate in post-Obamacare, then they’re responsible for whatever consequences ensue.

The Sonoma County chapter of Organizing for Action, the post-Obama, activist-outreach organization, has been busy protesting McCarthy’s office and that of fellow California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa, neither of whom support the idea of healthcare as a basic human right, but who represent districts with significant buy-in to the ACA. “When they know that their

district is going to push back on them, it might give them pause,” says Sonoma-based OFA organizer Linda Hemenway.

“We’re trying to educate the public about what’s going on, and our basic premise is that you can’t repeal it without a replacement that has been presented to Congress and explained to the American public, instead of this fantasy replacement that the American public supposedly supports. We’re on the defensive, we’re under attack and we’re going to say, ‘Do you really want these rights and benefits taken away from you?’” ) 14 Obamacare has

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generally been a benefit to California and to the North Bay. The state embraced the Medicaid expansion that went along with the healthcare overhaul, and was one of the first states out of the gate to set up a state-run exchange, Covered California.

Thanks to Obamacare, the state halved its uninsured population, and the reforms have trickled down to hospitals, which are seeing fewer people in their emergency rooms—amid a greater, holistic appreciation for the benefits of preventative care. The Sutter Health system has experienced big savings in its hospitals located throughout California, including one in Sonoma County. The company reported that it spent $52 million in uncompensated “charity care” in 2015, compared to $91 million in 2014.

The North Bay has embraced the Obamacare benefits and mandates, and stands to lose if the ACA is repealed. The Sonoma County Economic Development Board published a report in 2016 that highlighted benefits brought to Sonoma County citizens under the law, especially given the county’s aging population and composition of its labor force.

Many lower-income immigrants qualified for the Medi-Cal expansion.

“Healthcare is contributing to the economy’s vitality,” the report noted.

The potential post-ACA risk for a place like California, which enthusiastically embraced Obamacare and a Medicaid expansion, is that it has the most to lose under a Republican repealand-delay plan.

The Urban Institute estimates

that up to 30 million Americans will lose insurance if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, and even if the Republican Party decides that the politics are against them and starts cherry-picking popular aspects of the law, it’s unclear how they’ll keep the ban on denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions without, as Huffman says, “wading into risk pools and market forces.”

Previous GOP repeal bills haven’t addressed those issues.

The Republican position on Obamacare has also helped to drive down enthusiasm among younger people to sign up, a key piece of the bill’s success in driving down the cost curve over time.

The previous GOP push to undo Obamacare has been pretty simple: repeal it and send the bill to Obama who dutifully vetoes it.

Now that the GOP has total power

to eliminate it without a replacement, there are signs that there are limits to “shove it down your throat” politics. Even as the Republicans vow to disable the law, Americans continue to flock to the ACA-created health exchanges to buy an insurance product suitable to their budget. “Will [Republicans] be smarter,” says Huffman, “or just set up some distant cliff and count on everyone to come together before the cliff takes effect? We’ll see.”

Whatever happens, Huffman says, congressional Dems will try to hold the line. “Obviously, we will fight that,” he says. “We will focus our efforts on the effects it will have on Medicaid and on Medicare, because the ACA actually stabilizes [Medicare] and provides funding to seniors.”

The latest plan from House Speaker Paul Ryan is to reform Medicare, a legacy of the LBJ-era Great Society programs.

One of the strangest things about Obamacare, as it has been received by Americans, is that, while there is wide support for many of its benefits, the law itself remains unpopular, and one of the reasons has to do with a basic question of nomenclature. A 2014 CNBC poll found that while 46 percent of Americans were opposed to “Obamacare,” only 37 percent opposed the Affordable Care Act. Part of the explanation for this disconnect is the rhetorical violence that has met the bill since its inception in 2009.

Democrats have not adequately addressed the rhetorical divide.

“The sales pitch by the Republicans was much more effective than the sales pitch on our side,” Hemenway says.

And yet nobody seems to remember that, as part of his sales pitch for the bill, President Obama put the ACA framework into the hands of pragmatic Maine Republican Susan Collins and said, “You write it.”

But Collins joined every Republican in voting against the bill, even as liberals screamed betrayal that Obama hadn’t implemented a single-payer system that would have destroyed the employer-based healthcare system. “It was a step forward,

‘The sales pitch

by Republicans was much more effective than the sales pitch on our side.’

The Affordable Care Act is more than 2,000 pages long and part of the reason for that is lawmakers from around the country were able to include health reforms targeted at the particulars of their district, even when they opposed the bill as a whole. As they did with the first Obama economic stimulus package, Republicans rejected the bill, but not before making sure their constituents were appeased in some way.

That fact leapt into the media last week in a well-traveled news story on CNN from the heart of coal country, where residents who had, in the main, voted for Donald Trump now wondered about those parts of Obamacare that dealt with the effects of black lung disease on coal workers and their families.

A standard Republican talking point on the ACA at the time was

that it was too much, too fast and that a better legislative strategy would have been—and will be—to pass each of its component parts as a separate bill.

If the Republicans make good on their plan to repeal and delay replacement, that will give lawmakers like the Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell time to write up a targeted bill for his constituents.

In California, repeal means that the state would have to pick up the slack and account for a Medicaid expansion that has helped the state halve its uninsured population from 6.8 million pre-ACA to under 3 million now. There’s been buy-in across the state and the region.

Marin County recently reported that about one-fifth of its 250,000 residents have in some way been touched by Obamacare, either through the Medi-Cal expansion or through Covered California.

Napa State Sen. Bill Dodd says Sacramento Democrats are ready to take up the fight in the likely event of repeal-and-delay.

“I’m an ardent supporter of Covered California,” he says.

“The idea of people not getting insurance at all, forcing families into poverty or, worse yet, forcing them to suffer, is not my idea of a prudent 2016 or 2017 health policy.”

Dodd is a former Republican who readily admits that while the ACA is not perfect, the needed reform is not repeal. “While I’d be the first to admit that the cost of Obamacare is not what we’d all have liked to have seen the markets move to, they are what they are and I’m hoping that the next presidential administration will be a little more pragmatic and look at Obamacare through a lens of not political but practical,” Dodd says as he promises a forceful pushback to the Republican’s push to repeal and delay the ACA. “You are going to see the Democratic Party in the Legislature defending the people who are on Obamacare,” he adds.

“The Republicans could have gotten involved in this system instead of trying to kill it.”

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The art of collage and assemblage is a worldwide phenomenon, and this week, Sebastopol Center for the Arts brings an international collection of artists together for its ‘Marvelous!’ exhibit. The roster of artists whose work will be on display includes Koji Nagai (Japan), Jacques Muller (France), Mongobi Bibiana Mele (Italy), Deborah Oropallo (U.S.) and Deborah Wildenboer (South Africa). The juried show, running through Feb. 12, will also feature collage workshops later in January and opens with a reception and award ceremony on Friday, Jan. 6, at Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S. High St., Sebastopol. 6pm. 707.829.4797.

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Outside the Bubble

New York City playwright and performer Dan Hoyle knows the best way to escape the “liberal bubble” is to get boots on the ground and see the Midwest, small-town America for yourself. That’s why he spent a hundred days driving through the Rust Belt, living out of a van, meeting locals and hearing their stories. Hoyle turns those honest encounters into his funny and poignant one-man show, ‘The Real Americans,’ which gets an updated telling in the wake of the presidential election. America gets real on Saturday, Jan. 7, at Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 8pm. $25–$40. 415.383.9600.

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North Bay artist and printmaker Sami Lange has spent 15 years developing her artistic vision: she sews small, detailed drawings together for a larger work that has the appearance of a paper quilt. On display in a new solo show, Lange’s drawings are inspired by everyday details of the world around her, as well as her personal relationships and memories, assembling works that reflect life’s balance between chaos and control. Lange’s display of colorful and intricate work opens with a reception on Monday, Jan. 9, at Shige Sushi, 8235 Old Redwood Hwy., Cotati. 5pm. Free. 707.795.9753.

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Everyone knows the Harlem Globetrotters as the preeminent basketball entertainers of the world, but did you know that among their antics and action the team also holds over a dozen Guinness World Records? This past year alone, the Globetrotters claimed—or reclaimed—nine records, including longest basketball hook shot, longest basketball shot blindfolded and most basketball three-pointers made by a pair in one minute. See these crazy shots and more when the Globetrotters return to the North Bay for a family-friendly exhibition game on Wednesday, Jan. 11, at the Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa. 7pm. $32 and up. 866.777.8932.

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HEAVENLY SOUNDS Harp virtuoso Marie-Pierre Langlamet joins the Santa Rosa Symphony for three performances at the Green Music Center in Rohnert Park. See Concerts, p21.

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ulianne Skai Arbor has always loved trees. Growing up in the flat and treeless Midwest, she says she was born with an affection for trees that was just waiting to take root.

When she moved to the Bay Area for graduate art school in 1993 and experienced California’s grand wild places, Arbor’s inner yearning blossomed and she

became TreeGirl, her arboreal alter ego.

For 20 years, Arbor has been traveling the globe, encountering majestic trees and photographing nude self-portraits among them. These stunning images are accompanied by revealing personal essays and more in her new book, TreeGirl: Intimate Encounters with Wild Nature.

Arbor releases the book with a launch party that includes a gallery showing, a reading, live

music and food and refreshment made exclusively from trees on Jan. 15 at Occidental Center for the Arts.

Arbor’s first transformative experience with trees was on a post-college, three-month walkabout in Australia where she saw two small trees that seemed to be dancing together.

“I wasn’t on anything,” she jokes, “but I saw these trees and was overcome with this need to be part of them, to be with them.

I was traveling with a friend. I took my clothes off, handed him a camera, intertwined with the trees and said, ‘Take my picture.’”

That was the beginning. Arbor says in that moment she found her art form, her spiritual practice and her joy. She followed up that first trip by studying the many impressive species of trees in Northern California, from the redwood and sequoia to the oak and bristlecone pine.

“We’re so fortunate to have some of the most amazing trees in the world right here,” says Arbor, who has lived in Sonoma County for 16 years.

Arbor, who is also a certified naturalist and conservation educator, soon started seeking out the biggest, most unusual trees in the world, such as the African baobab pictured on the cover of the new book, a seventrunked, 2,000-year-old tree known as the “Seven Sisters” by locals in Botswana.

The decision to photograph herself nude with the trees was inspired by artist Georgia O'Keeffe and the nude photography she did with Alfred Stieglitz in the 1920s.

“It gave me a place to feel comfortable in my body,” says Arbor.

Arbor says that TreeGirl is her way of showing that there is no separation between human beings and nature. “The message of the book is that we are nature, and we forget that in our modern world,” she says. “I want to remind people about our ancient bond with the wild and invite them to reconnect with it.”

Julianne Skai Arbor releases ‘TreeGirl: Intimate Encounters with Wild Nature’ on Sunday, Jan. 15, at Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Court, Occidental.

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t started as a dream— literally,” says Sharon McNight, describing how her affection for the music of late vaudeville legend Sophie Tucker became the one-womanshow Red Hot Mama.

A Tony-award nominee for her lead performance in the 1989 fantasy-musical Starmites, McNight will be bringing her acclaimed solo show to the Cinnabar Theater for a threeweekend run beginning Jan. 6.

The run will mark McNight’s first appearance in Sonoma County.

It began with that dream—but it wasn’t McNight’s dream. “It was the guy who signed me to my first record contract,” she recalls. “He said that he saw me playing Sophie Tucker on a Broadway stage. This was 1981, and I was in performing in Provincetown, Mass., at the time.

“The guy woke up, called my manager, and he said, ‘I had this dream about Sharon and Sophie Tucker, and I think it’s a really good idea. Tell Sharon to get Sophie Tucker’s biography and start putting together a show. It’s important that this happen. I think it could be really big for her.’”

It was, it turns out, a dream come true, though it took a few years for the Sophie Tucker project to get rolling. Eventually, Red Hot Mama hit the stage, and has since become a source of constant discovery and opportunity for the Modesto-born McNight. She’s won critical acclaim for the show, and for several others she’s written and performed over the years.

“She was really something,” McNight says of Tucker, whom the Los Angeles Times once called “one of the great wonders of the musical stage.”

“At a time when women were not all that independent,” McNight says, Tucker “was totally in control of her own life. She decided early on that her best hope of earning money to take care of her kid was to hit the road, so she did.

“She carried her own suitcases, negotiated her own contracts, chose her own path. She was amazing, though her life was never easy, largely because of those choices.”

In the show, McNight sings dozens of Tucker’s songs, from lesser known gems to some of the tunes she’s most associated with, including “Red Hot Mama,” “Some of These Days,” “My Yiddishe Mama” and “I Don’t Want to Get Thin.”

“It’s those songs that I first fell in love with,” says McNight. “Sophie could beautifully sell a song. She really knew how to tell a story.”

And so, clearly, does Sharon McNight.

‘Red Hot Mama: The Sophie Tucker Story’ runs Jan. 6–29 at the Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. Friday–Saturday, 8pm; Sunday matinees, 2pm. $25–$40.

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he problem of looking back at the year in film is that it involves looking at the year 2016, and who wants to do that?

Captain America: Civil War is an unnecessary sequel with one fight scene too many. But the directors, the Russo brothers, caught the national sense of division and of blowback begetting blowback.

If liberal snowflakes are threatening to get out of the U.S. now, what does it say that even the Cap decided to head for the hills?

Strange that with all the efforts to retrieve the magic of the studio-era film—La La Land, Rules Don’t Apply, Café Society and Hail, Caesar!—the most original pastiche, The Witch, channeled a silent film from 1922, the Swedish classic Häxan, aka Witchcraft Throughout the Ages. The Witch’s Georges de la Tour lighting and the ingenious payoff worked its magic.

While it was made for TV, the eight-hour O.J.: Made in America took a long look at this hero’s plummet and the way he allowed himself to be used as a palliative against America’s racism during the white backlash of the 1960s.

Zootopia, Loving and, perhaps the best film of the year, Moonlight did justice to our reeling times in three different approaches to the subject of dangerous liaisons. Fences was a haunting film that showed how post-traumatic slave syndrome destroys a tough, ingenious man.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople seems like a movie that will find its niche during repeated viewings; it’s the one film you can recommend to anyone, even during times of schism.

The kinky and beautifully framed Handmaiden describes the cost of snobbery. And Hell and High Water’s splashy, sagebrush-rebellion populism is less key to its quality than the way it treats—with wit and fierce excitement—the lives of outlaws.

As for the worst of the year, why search for a more dispiriting movie than Alice Through the Looking Glass? It cost a fortune, it rubbished a great book, and it had the last of Alan Rickman in it, as if to remind us of one more loss in a year of heavy losses.

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he Ronstadt clan traces their roots in Tucson back five generations, and each one of them has been a musical family. Everyone of a certain generation knows the name Linda Ronstadt, but she’s not the only singer and songwriter carrying on the family tradition.

Formed in 2009 by Linda’s brother, Michael J., and now fronted by his sons Michael G. and Petie, Ronstadt Generations blend almost 200 years of Southwestern musical folk heritage to create a lush, sun-drenched and multigenre repertoire. The band performs twice in the North Bay this week, hitting up the HopMonk taverns in Sebastopol and Novato

on Jan. 6 and 7 respectively.

Only 13 months apart, Michael G. and Petie grew up with music ingrained in family activities and gatherings, though they also got to see the professional side of that life early on.

“When we were young, my aunt [Linda] was doing mariachi records,” Petie says, “and my dad was singing with her, so we got to travel to studios and be a part of that. Looking back on it, it was impactful in how we came up as musicians—it really left a big imprint on my life.”

The brothers formally got into music through school bands.

Michael G. chose the cello, “because he could sit down to play it,” jokes Petie. “And he’s taken the cello to other levels. In my opinion, he plays the cello like no one else. He’s a great improvisational player, a great folk player and a great classical player.”

Petie started on violin before moving to upright bass and guitar.

“I just try to expand my musical library of instruments,” he says, noting that he also dabbles with the banjo and tuba.

“Whatever palette of colors we can paint with,” he says, “the broader the palette makes for a more interesting band.”

After a few years of playing as a trio on the road, Michael J. and sons evolved the band into a six-piece ensemble by recruiting fellow Tucson musicians Alex Flores (tenor sax and vocals), Sam Eagon (upright and electric bass) and Aaron Emery (drums and percussion), and expanding the band’s moniker to Ronstadt Generations y los Tucsonenses.

Michael J. Ronstadt died last year, but his sons are committed to keeping the family tradition going.

“We all put a lot of heart into it,” Petie says. “I think he would want to see it live on.”

Ronstadt Generations y los Tucsonenses perform on Friday, Jan. 6, at the Sebastopol HopMonk (230 Petaluma Ave.) and Saturday, Jan. 7, at the Novato HopMonk (224 Vintage Way). 8pm. $15. hopmonk.com.

Concerts SONOMA COUNTY John McCutcheon

Songwriter and folklorist returns to Sonoma for another round of melodic Americana.

Jan 9, 7:30pm. $25. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma.

707.996.9756.

Santa Rosa Symphony The symphony’s first show of 2017 is a program titled “Heavenly Harp” that features renowned virtuoso MariePierre Langlamet. Jan 7-9. $20 and up. Green Music Center, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

MARIN COUNTY Aaron Redner & His Band of Love Ninjas

Food drive concert benefitting St. Vincent De Paul society also features James Nash, Bryan Horne, Ben Jacobs and Lucas Carlton. Jan 8, 6:30pm. $12$14. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley.

415.388.3850.

Muriel Anderson

The renowned fingerstyle guitarist presents a show titled “Wonderlust” that’s a musical and visual journey. Jan 8, 7pm. $12-$15. Fenix, 919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.813.5600.

A Broadway Cabaret

Marin Musical Theatre Company presents song and dance from top Broadway shows in a bistro setting with wine, raffle prizes and a silent auction. Jan 6-7, 8pm. $30-$75.

The Playhouse, 27 Kensington Rd, San Anselmo. 415.258.4640.

NAPA COUNTY Alvon Johnson

The versatile performer is known as the Ambassador of Blues around the world. Jan 7, 7 and 9:30pm. $10-$20. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.603.1258.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA COUNTY Arlene Francis Center Tues, Open Didgeridoo Clinic.

Jamison’s Roaring Donkey

Wed, Open Mic. 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.3009.

Wed, open mic night. 146 Kentucky St, Petaluma.

707.772.5478.

The Big Easy

Lagunitas Tap Room

Jan 4, Buckley. Jan 5, Free Peoples. Jan 6, Ricky Ray Band. Jan 7, the Pleasure Palace. Jan 8, Festival Speed.

Jan 10, Buck Thrifty. Jan 11, the Wednesday Night Big Band.

128 American Alley, Petaluma.

707.776.4631.

Blue Heron Restaurant & Tavern Jan 10, 6pm, Michael Hantman. 25300 Steelhead Blvd, Duncans Mills.

707.865.2261.

Brew

Jan 4, Little Jonny and Aki Kumar. Jan 5, Matt Lax. Jan 6, Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88s.

Jan 7, the Smiling Iguanas.

Jan 8, Timothy O’Neil Band.

Jan 11, Hot Grubb. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma.

707.778.8776.

First Thursday of every month, 5:30pm, Music for Enjoyment and Pleasure. 402 Moore Ln, Healdsburg. 707.433.9199.

Brixx Pizzeria

Murphy’s Irish Pub

Jan 8, 4pm, “Renaissance Glory” with the Festival Consort. $20.

550 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.528.6370.

Coffee Catz

Tues, 12pm, Jerry Green’s Peaceful Piano Hour.

6761 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.6600.

Corkscrew Wine Bar Jan 6, the Stratospheres.

Jan 7, Mystery Pacific. 100 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.789.0505.

Dry Creek Kitchen

Jan 9, 6pm, Dick Conte and Steve Webber Duo. Jan 10, 6pm, Jim Adams and John Potter Duo. 317 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg.

707.431.0330.

HopMonk Sebastopol

Jan 5, Kimock. Jan 6, Ronstadt Generations. Jan 7, Johnny Downer Tribute. Jan 8, Parcivillian. Jan 9, Monday Night Edutainment with Young Fyah. Tues, open mic night.

230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol.

707.829.7300.

HopMonk Sonoma

Jan 6, Sean Carscadden. Jan 7, Dan Martin. 691 Broadway, Sonoma. 707.935.9100.

Hotel Healdsburg

Jan 7, 6:30pm, Lorca Hart

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Jan 7, Levi Lloyd. Jan 8, George Heagerty. 16246 First St, Guerneville. 707.869.3377.

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Jan 6, Emily Lois.

555 Healdsburg Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.303.7372.

Jan 7, Dirty Red Barn.

16 Kentucky St, Petaluma.

707.766.8162.

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Jan 6, David Gans & the Broken Angels. Jan 7, Three on a Match. 464 First St E, Sonoma.

707.935.0660.

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Jan 7, Tommy Castro & the Painkillers with Shana Morrison. Jan 10, Midge Ure Band with Luvplanet. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.765.2121.

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Jan 6, E Money with NU and G Rob. Jan 7, X-Method and Thought Vomit. 201 Washington St, Petaluma.

707.762.3565.

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Jan 5, 6:30pm, Dom DeBaggis.

701 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma. 707.774.5226.

Redwood Cafe

Jan 4, Irish set dancing. Jan 5, Kevin Russell and friends.

Jan 6, Ruminators. Jan 7, Phil Lawrence with David and Linda LaFlamme. Jan 8, 3pm, Celtic Fiddle Music. Jan 8, 6pm, Irish jam session. Jan 9, Open Mic with DJ Loisaida. Jan 11, Brian Rashap and friends. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7868.

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Remy’s Bar & Lounge First Friday of every month, Jay Fresco. 130 Stony Point Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.578.1963.

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Finch Trio. 765 Center Blvd, Fairfax. 415.485.1005.

Truthlive. 848 B St, San Rafael.

415.454.5551.

to Midnight. 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.664.0169.

Marin Country Mart

Sweetwater Music Hall

Spoonbar

Wed, 6pm, Michael Hantman.

219 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.433.7222.

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

Twin Oaks Roadhouse Jan 5, Levi’s Workshop with Levi Lloyd. Jan 6, the County Lips. Jan 7, Weekend at Bernie’s. Jan 9, the Blues Defenders pro jam. Jan 10, open mic with RoJo. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove.

707.795.5118.

Whiskey Tip

Jan 6, the Restless Sons and Domenic Bianco. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.843.5535.

MARIN COUNTY The Belrose

Thurs, open mic night.

Second Wednesday of every month, Ragtime jam.

1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael.

415.454.6422.

Benissimo Ristorante & Bar

Sebastiani Theatre

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

415.927.2316.

Fenix

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Jan 4, Pro Blues Jam with the Bobby Young Project.

Jan 5, Pat Wilder Band. Jan 7, Stephanie Keys Band. Jan 8, 11:30am, Sunday Brunch with David Bialos Trio. Jan 10, songwriters showcase with Sara Rodenburg and others.

Jan 11, pro blues jam with Dallis Craft. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.813.5600.

Grazie Restaurant Jan 7, Gail Muldrow.

823 Grant Ave, Novato.

415.897.5181.

HopMonk Novato

Jan 5, the Happys.

Jan 6, Metal Shop. Jan 7, Ronstadt Generations.

224 Vintage Way, Novato.

415.892.6200.

INCAVO Wine Tasting & Collective Tues, 7pm, Open Mic Night with Simon Costa.

1099 Fourth St, Ste F, San Rafael. 415.259.4939.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery

Jan 4, Giggle Sticks. Jan 11, Tom

Jan 6, 5:30pm, Friday Night Jazz with Jeff Derby Trio.

2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur.

19 Broadway Club

Jan 6, First Friday reggae with Broken Silence Sound System.

Jan 7, King & Ace. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

No Name Bar

Jan 6, Michael Aragon Quartet. Jan 9, Kimrea & the Dreamdogs. Jan 10, open mic.

757 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.332.1392.

Panama Hotel Restaurant

Jan 4, John Hoy. Jan 5, Vardo.

Jan 10, Panama Jazz Trio.

Jan 11, Lady D & the Tramps.

4 Bayview St, San Rafael.

415.457.3993.

Peri’s Silver Dollar

Jan 4, the Weissmen. Jan 6, Afroholix. Jan 7, Ann Halen. Jan 8, the Brian Travis Band. Jan 9, Billy D’s open mic. Jan 10, Fresh Baked Blues. Jan 11, the New Sneakers. 29 Broadway, Fairfax.

415.459.9910.

Presidio Yacht Club Jan 7, the 7th Sons. 600 Sommerville Rd, Sausalito.

415.332.2319.

Rancho Nicasio

Jan 6, Jerry Hannan. Jan 7, Rancho All Stars with Annie Sampson and others. Jan 8, 4pm, Jeremy D’Antonio with Darren Nelson and friends.

1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio.

415.662.2219.

Sausalito Seahorse

Wed, Milonga with Marcelo Puig and Seth Asarnow. Jan 6, Doc Kraft and Company. Jan 7, Wobbly World and Freddy Clarke. Jan 8, 5pm, Karabali. Jan 10, Noel Jewkes and friends.

305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito.

415.331.2899.

Servino Ristorante Jan 6, Lloyd Gregory.

9 Main St, Tiburon.

415.435.2676.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon

Jan 5, James Patrick Regan. Jan 6, Lisa Marie Johnston. Jan 7, Rainbow Girls. Jan 9, Epicenter Soundsystem reggae.

41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas.

415.868.1311.

Spitfire Lounge

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

First Friday of every month,

Jan 5, Talking Dreads. Jan 6, Rush vs Yes with Fred Barchetta and Shine Delirious.

Jan 7, Mustache Harbor. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley.

415.388.3850.

Travis Marina

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

NAPA COUNTY Billco’s Billiards

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

Blue Note Napa

Jan 4, 6:30 and 9pm, Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. Jan 5, 6:30 and 9pm, Sandy Cressman & Homenagem Brasileira. Jan 6, 7 and 9:30pm, the Funk Revival Orchestra. Jan 8, 7 and 9:30pm, the Michael O’Neill Quintet featuring Kenny Washington and Tony Lindsay. Jan 11, 6:30 and 9pm, Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers.

1030 Main St, Napa.

707.603.1258.

Hydro Grill

First Saturday of every month, Always Elvis. 1403 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga.

707.942.9777.

Jarvis Conservatory Jan 7, It’s a Grand Night for Singers. 1711 Main St, Napa.

707.255.5445.

Molinari Caffe

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

Napa Valley Roasting Company

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

707.224.2233.

Silo’s

Wed, 5pm, Mike Greensill’s evening jazz. Jan 5, flamenco guitar with Jason Wright. Jan 6, C4 Inc. Jan 7, Petty Theft. Jan 11, David Kelleher. 530 Main St, Napa. 707.251.5833.

Uncorked at Oxbow

Thurs-Sat, live music. 605 First St, Napa. 707.927.5864.

Uva Trattoria

Jan 4, Justin Diaz. Jan 5, Duo Gadjo. Jan 6, Tony Macaroni Trio. Jan 7, Jack Pollard and Dan Daniels with Party of Three. Jan 8, 6pm, Trio Solea. 1040 Clinton St, Napa.

707.255.6646.

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Jan 6

Arts Guild of Sonoma, “Annual Invitational Exhibition,” Arts Guild of Sonoma kicks off its 40th anniversary year with this popular show. 5pm.

140 E Napa St, Sonoma.

707.996.3115.

Finley Community Center, “Alchemy + Stitches,” Kristin Meuser combines loves of chemistry and machinery in her fantastical art. 5pm.

2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.543.3737.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts, “Marvelous!” an international exhibit of collage, assemblage and other constructed works. 6pm. 282 S High St, Sebastopol. 707.829.4797.

Jan 7

Graton Gallery, “New Paintings by Sandra Rubin & Thea Goldstine,” with several guest artists also displaying. 2pm.

9048 Graton Rd, Graton.

707.829.8912.

Healdsburg Center for the Arts, “Members’ Exhibition,” see an extraordinary

Galleries SONOMA COUNTY Aqus Cafe Through Jan 4, “Small Works,” group show features diminutive art. 189 H St, Petaluma. 707.778.6060.

Art Museum of Sonoma County Through Jan 29, “Faith Ringgold: An American Artist,” features storyquilts, works on paper, tankas, soft sculpture and original illustrations from the African-American artist.

425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa.

Tues-Sun, 11 to 5. 707.579.1500.

Charles M. Schulz Museum Through Feb 19, “Lucky Dogs & Presidential Pets,” learn more about the lives of presidential

array of art in several mediums shown without constraints of a theme. 5pm.

130 Plaza St, Healdsburg.

707.431.1970.

Jan 9

The Art Wall at Shige Sushi, “Sami Lange: Paintings & Drawings,” Lange’s works on paper, created by stitching together detailed drawings, give the appearance of intricate paper quilts. 5pm.

8235 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. 707.795.9753.

Jan 10

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, “Annual Members’ Show,” O’Hanlon Gallery presents their members’ show with a special auxiliary show at the Mill Valley Community Center.

6pm. 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.4331.

Throckmorton Theatre, “Mary Black & Millicent Tomkins,” the two artists share wall pace and present their latest abstract encaustics and magical realism works of art. 5pm.

142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

pets, and how Snoopy himself handles being elected to high office. Through Jan 16, “Peanuts & the Picture of Health,” showcase looks at the sporty and active pursuits 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.

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Through Jan 12, “Increasingly Precious,” Catherine Richardson’s artwork is fueled by research, emotions, imagination and her observations from flying over Greenland during her annual journeys between UK and California. 100 Santa Rosa Ave, Ste 10, Santa Rosa.

707.543.3010.

Finley Community Center

Through Jan 26, “Alchemy +

Stitches,” Kristin Meuser combines loves of chemistry and machinery in her fantastical art. Reception, Jan 6 at 5pm. 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, 8 to 6; Sat, 9 to 11am. 707.543.3737.

Graton Gallery

Through Jan 29, “New Paintings by Sandra Rubin & Thea Goldstine,” with several guest artists also displaying.

Reception, Jan 7 at 2pm. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. Tues-Sat, 10:30 to 6; Sun, 10:30 to 4.

707.829.8912.

Guerneville Bank Club Through Apr 30, “Glory Days,” exhibit by Russian River Historical Society is a tribute to Clare Harris, who helped turn Rio Nido into the town it is today. 16290 Main Street, Guerneville. Daily, 11am to 9pm 707.666.9411.

Hammerfriar Gallery

Through Jan 28, “Small Works Show,” eight artists display a variety of small paintings, sculptures and multimedia works to deck your walls and tables. 132 Mill St, Ste 101, Healdsburg. Tues-Fri, 10 to 6.

Sat, 10 to 5. 707.473.9600.

History Museum of Sonoma County

Through Apr 2, “The Beat Goes On,” exhibit looks back on peace, love and rock ‘n’ roll in the North Bay. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 4.

707.579.1500.

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Occidental Center for the Arts

Through Jan 15, “Toute Petite,” a unique exhibit and affordable art sale for the holidays. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental.

707.874.9392.

Paradise Ridge Winery Through Apr 30, “Geometric Reflections,” sculptures by 10 renowned artists celebrates 10 years of the Voigt Family Sculpture Foundation. 4545 Thomas Lake Harris Dr, Santa Rosa. Daily, 11 to 5. 707.528.9463.

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Riverfront Art Gallery

Through Jan 8, “Scenes from Sonoma County,” features breathtaking oil paintings from Henry White and stunning photographs from Michael Riley. 132 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. Wed, Thurs and Sun, 11 to 6. Fri-Sat, 11 to 8.

707.775.4ART.

Sculpturesite Gallery

Through Jan 7, “Sculpturesite Gallery Group Show,” mediums ranging from glass, bronze, steel, ceramic, stone, wood and mixed media are installed in a series of six large concrete winemaking vats. 14301 Arnold Dr, Ste 8, Glen Ellen. ThursMon, 10:30am to 5:30pm.

707.933.1300.

Sebastopol Gallery

Through Jan 31, “An Invitation to Imagine,” new folkloric paintings from artist Teri Sloat. 150 N Main St, Sebastopol. Open daily, 11 to 6.

707.829.7200.

West County Museum

Through Mar 5, “The Hippies,” memorabilia recreates the environment of rebellion against consumerism and conformity built in the forests of Graton and Occidental in the 1960s and ‘70s. 261 S Main St, Sebastopol. Thurs-Sun, 1 to 4.

707.829.6711.

MARIN COUNTY Art Works Downtown

Through Jan 7, “AWD Members Exhibition,” showcasing the many talented artists who are members of the Art Works Downtown community. 1337 Fourth St, San Rafael. Tues-Sat, 10 to 5. 415.451.8119.

Bay Model Visitor Center Through Jan 7, “A Touch of Blue,” a show of new, and some old, quilts using mainly blue or just a bit of blue.

2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.332.3871.

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

Gallery Route One

Through Jan 22, “Tell Tales,” Madeline Nieto Hope’s repurposed art shows in the Center Gallery, while “The Inverness Almanac: Collective Retrospective” shows in the project space and Isis Hockenos’ “She Said She Said” shows in the annex. 11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. Wed-Mon, 11 to 5. 415.663.1347.

Marin Community Foundation

Through Jan 13, “Om Prakash: Intuitive Nature,” renowned Indian artist’s abstract paintings display. 5 Hamilton Landing, Ste 200, Novato. Open Mon-Fri, 9 to 5.

MarinMOCA

Through Jan 8, “Sandi Miot: The Medium Is the Muse,” retrospective exhibit of the Marin-based artist is a visual look at her journey through wax and encaustic works.

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

415.506.0137.

Marty Knapp Photo Gallery

Through Jan 16, “The Night Sky,” Knapp shows new photographs of the starry skies above the Point Reyes coast and the deserts of Southern California. 11245 Shoreline Hwy, Point Reyes Station. Fri-Sun, 11am to 5pm. 415.663.8670.

Robert Allen Fine Art Through Jan 27, “Abstract Works on Canvas,” group exhibition features Beatrice Findlay, Jeffrey Long, Michael Moon, Richard Saba and Geoffrey Williams. 301 Caledonia St, Sausalito. MonFri, 10 to 5. 415.331.2800.

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Through Jan 31, “California Colors,” plein air oil paintings

by Laura Culver boast vibrant colors and light. 2017 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larksput.

415.461.9900.

Corte Madera Library Through Jan 5, “Global Wand’ring…Bali and Back,” photos by Terry Peck brings the world to you. 707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera. 707.924.6444.

Desta Art & Tea Gallery

Through Jan 15, “Reality, Memory & Fiction,” exhibit of paintings by Stephen Namara features people, objects and landscapes seen as snapshots

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Through May 28, “Based on a True Story,” exhibition illuminates the hidden stories and connections of Northern California art history spanning the last six decades. 5200 Sonoma Hwy, Napa. Wed-Sun, 10 to 6. 707.226.5991.

Napa Valley Museum Through Jan 8, “Down the

Rabbit Hole,” exhibit of innovative, independent video games includes 10 fully playable gaming stations featuring diverse indie games.

Through Jan 8, “Iconic Labels,” Anchor Brewing illustrator James Stitt displays drawings, prints and labels from his career in the Spotlight Gallery. 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. Wed-Sun, 11 to 4.

707.944.0500.

Comedy Improv Skills Workshop

Learn the tricks to developing improvised sketches and skits.

Mon, 7pm. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

707.528.3009.

Mort Sahl

Sahl takes the stage every week to deliver his legendary, take-no-prisoners wit. Thurs, 7pm. $20. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Tuesday Night Live

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

Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

Events Agents’ Day & Pitchfest

Redwood Writers hosts a day of talks and panels offering insight into the publishing industry and how to pitch your book. Jan 8, 2:30pm. $10. Flamingo Resort Hotel, 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa.

707.545.8530.

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.

Harlem Globetrotters

The world-famous basketball ambassadors of good will play two exhibition games in Santa Rosa on the heels of setting nine Guinness world records.

Wed, Jan 11. $32 and up. Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 866.777.8932.

MEMBERS ONLY Work by Brett Hopper and others is on display at O’Hanlon

Center for the Arts’ annual members show, opening Jan. 10. See Receptions, p23.

Loving-kindness Meditation Practice

A day-long practice intensive offered by the Santa Rosa Zen Group. Jan 8, 9am. $20-$40.

Lomitas School House, 2421 Lomitas Ave, Santa Rosa.

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Refuge Recovery

Addiction recovery meeting is hosted by non-theistic, Buddhist-inspired approach.

Jan 7, 9am. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

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Santa Rosa Gem Faire

Find fine jewelry, precious and semi-precious gemstones, millions of beads, crystals, minerals and much more at manufacturer’s prices.

Jan 6-8. $7. Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa.

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Solar Plexus Chakra Workshop A night of deep cleaning your chakra. Jan 11, 7pm. $30. Crystal-Rose, 210

Vallejo St, Suite C, Petaluma.

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Wild Cat Adventure

Five live cats from around the world strut their stuff with professional handlers. Jan 8, 3pm. $5-$10. Sebastopol Community Center, 390 Morris St, Sebastopol. 707.874.3176.

Field Trips Coho Salmon Creek Walk Tour

Explore the Lagunitas Creek watershed and learn about the ecology of the endangered native population of coho salmon. Sat, Jan 7, 12:30pm. $35. Samuel P Taylor State Park, Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Lagunitas, catie@tirn.net.

Family Camp

Weekend is focused on getting outdoors and playing, learning, serving and working in our

National Park. Through Jan 8. $275 per family. Point Bonita YMCA, 981 Fort Barry, Sausalito.

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French Garden Farm Tour

Join Dan Smith for practical tips on growing your own garden. First Sat of every month. Free. French Garden Farm, 11031 Cherry Ridge Rd, Sebastopol. 707.824.2030.

Garden Volunteer Day

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

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

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

Reservations required two weeks in advance. Ongoing.

$59. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen. 707.938.5216.

A walk and talk explores the fungal bounty of the Redwoods. Jan 7, 10am. $16$20. Armstrong Volunteer Center, 17000 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville.

Trail Crew: Spiff Up That Old Sled Trail

Meet on Bolinas-Fairfax Road at Old Sled trailhead to help perform long overdue maintenance on tread, drainage and vegetation. Jan 7, 9am. Marin Municipal Water District, 220 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera.

Film Burn Country

New thriller filmed in Guerneville, Monte Rio and around the Russian River features James Franco and Melissa Leo. Jan 6-8. $10. Rio Theater, 20396 Bohemian Hwy, Monte Rio. 707.865.0913.

CULT Film Series

Two of Stanley Kubrick’s best films get a double bill, when “A Clockwork Orange” and “2001: A Space Odyssey” screen back to back. Jan 5, 7pm. $10.

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

707.525.8909.

For Your Consideration View some of the year’s most distinguished international films, many of which are film festival prizewinners and all of which were submitted to the Academy for Oscar consideration. Jan 6-12. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

Food & Drink Calistoga’s Winter in the Wineries

Purchase a passport to tour, taste wine and meet winemakers at several heralded wineries, both large and small, in and around the town at the top of Napa Valley.

Through Feb 5. $50. Calistoga wineries, various locations, Calistoga, visitcalistoga.com.

Marin Jewish Women’s Chai Tea Gathering Enjoy a celebration of loved

Lectures 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.

Fashion & Culture in the Impressionist Era

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco docent Ellen Harden discusses how Impressionists and other artists captured the time through their paintings and works of art. Jan 10, 12pm.

San Anselmo Library, 110 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo.

415.258.4656.

Kaffee Extravaganza

Mt Tam Quilt Guild hosts Christine Barnes and Heidi Emmett to share their knowledge of San Francisco born and London based designer Kaffee Fassett. Jan 10, 7pm. Aldersgate Methodist Church, #1 Wellbrock Heights, San Rafael.

Readings Book Passage

Jan 5, 7pm, “Hippie Inc” with Michael Klassen. Jan 6, 7pm, “The Journey to Wealth” with James Demmert. Jan 7, 1pm, “Six Months to Live” with Cathy Anello. Jan 7, 4pm, “Sharon” with Leon Borensztein. Jan 7, 7pm, “You Can Complete That Book!” with Leslie Keenan. Jan 8, 1pm, “At What Cost” with Jim L’etoile. Jan 9, 7pm, “My Life on the Ragged Paths of Pan” with Thanasis Maskaleris. Jan 10, 7pm, “A Prison Story: Iran” with Mehri Dadgar. Jan 11, 7pm, “How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen” with Julie King. Jan 11, 7pm, “Swing Time” with Zadie Smith. $30. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Diesel Bookstore

Jan 6, 6pm, “I Don’t Want to be Big” with Dev Petty, a kids pj party with the children’s author. 2419 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur 415.785.8177.

Napa Bookmine

Jan 10, 6:30pm, Poetry Book

Club, join a discussion of “World of Made and Unmade”

by Jane Mead. 964 Pearl St, Napa 707.733.3199.

Theater Becoming Dr. Ruth

Humorous and life-affirming one-woman play starring Ann Woodhead tells the story of Dr Ruth, America’s most famous sex therapist. Jan 5-22. $15-$30. Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol.

707.823.0177.

The Lover

The intriguing one-act play by Harold Pinter that examines the private intricacies of modern marriage gets a limited run from the Valley Players. Through Jan 5.

Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville.

707.944.9900.

Private Lives, Private Lies

North Bay playwright Dianna L Grayer’s original play about the struggles and joys of eight LGBTQ characters plays for one weekend only. Jan 7-8. Lucky Penny Community Arts Center, 1758 Industrial Way, Napa.

707.266.6305.

The Real Americans

Playwright and performer Dan Hoyle gets out of his bubble for this fascinating and funny oneman show about a roadtrip through the rust belt. Jan 7, 8pm. $25-$40. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Red Hot Mama

The acclaimed one-woman musical biography of entertainment legend Sophie Tucker comes alive with the sights and sounds of Broadway, vaudeville and Las Vegas nightclubs. Through Jan 29. $25-$40. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.763.8920.

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Mushrooms of the Redwood Forest

ones hosted by journalist, author and speaker Allison GIlbert. Jan 8, 3pm. $20. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.

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Missing Link?

Terpenes and cannabis research

BY MICHAEL HAYES

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erpenes are the essential oils in cannabis, and are responsible for its unique aromatics, as well as some psychoactive effects. Strains like Cherry AK, Sour Diesel and Pineapple aren’t just names; they also refer to the smells of the strain emitted by the terpene content.

There are over 120 identified cannabis terpenes. One in particular, myrcene, is reputedly responsible for the effects normally associated with indica vs. sativa strains. The more myrcene in your strain, the more likely you will experience the “couch-lock” effect associated with indica-dominant strains. The absence of myrcene will give you a soaring or sativa-like effect. These effects, including medical efficacy, are influenced not only by the cannabinoid profile (THC, CBD, etc.), but by the combination of the cannabinoids and terpenes.

Science hasn’t focused enought

on terpenes. A Google Scholar search of “THC” produces more than 1,000,000 articles; a search of “THC” and “terpenes” produces 15,000 articles. So only 1.5 percent of the scientific articles concerning THC mention terpenes, and presumably even fewer of them have looked at the role of terpenes in the individual studies. Given that scientists pride themselves on doing experiments that can be reproduced, the failure to mention terpene content casts a massive shadow over past cannabis research.

Another look at Google Scholar yields the following: “THC” and “cancer” shows 78,000 results, while “THC,” “cancer” and “terpenes” comes up with only 3,000 results. Why is this important? There is a small body of research out there that says the addition of a certain class of terpenes known as sesquiterpene lactones combined with THC/ CBD has greater efficacy in fighting cancer than THC alone.

(Note to breeders and cultivators: look for strains that have a CBD to THC ratio of one to one, with a strong sesquiterpene lactone profile. One mother plant could make the world a better place.)

The role of terpene content in treating epilepsy shows the same research pattern. Less than 4 percent of the scientific articles mention terpenes. Does the terpene profile make a big difference in treating epilepsy with cannabis-based therapies?

Maybe, maybe not. The fact that the science is largely silent on the subject is troubling for parents trying to figure out how to help children suffering from seizures.

Is the addition of sesquiterpenes really better at fighting cancer?

It’s possible, but some classes of sesquiterpenes have produced toxic side effects. We need more research. Terpenes matter. Go back to the lab, scientists, and get busy.

Michael Hayes works for CBD-Guild.

Contact him at mhayes399@comcast.net.

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One of the cornerstones of his work was a set of 20 equations with 20 unknowns. But a younger scientist named Oliver Heaviside decided this was much too complicated. He recast Maxwell’s cumbersome theory in the form of four equations with four unknowns. That became the new standard. In 2017, I believe you Aries will have a knack akin to Heaviside’s. You’ll see the concise essentials obscured by needless complexity.

You’ll extract the shining truths trapped inside messy confusions.

“The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road,” wrote Franz Kafka. “It must catch fire if you want to go further.” Let’s analyze this thought, Taurus. If it’s to be of maximum use for you in 2017, we will have to develop it further. So here are my questions. Did Kafka mean that you’re supposed to wait around passively, hoping the thornbush will somehow catch fire, either through a lucky lightning strike or an act of random vandalism? Or should you, instead, take matters into your own hands—douse the thornbush with gasoline and throw a match into it?

Here’s another pertinent query: Is the thornbush really so broad and hardy that it blocks the whole road? If not, maybe you could just go around it.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20) The fictional character Scott Pilgrim is the hero of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s series of graphic novels. He becomes infatuated with a “ninja delivery girl” named Ramona Flowers, but there’s a complication. Before he can win her heart, he must defeat all seven of her evil ex-lovers.

I’m sure your romantic history has compelled you to deal with equally challenging dilemmas, Gemini. But I suspect you’ll get a reprieve from that kind of dark melodrama in 2017. The coming months should be a bright and expansive chapter in your Book of Love.

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CANCER (June 21–July 22) The creature known as the short-eared elephant shrew is typically four inches long and weighs a little more than one ounce.

And yet it’s more genetically similar to elephants than to true shrews. In its home habitat of southern Africa, it’s known as the sengi. I propose we regard it as one of your spirit animals in 2017. Its playful place in your life will symbolize the fact that you, too, will have secret connections to big, strong influences; you, too, will have natural links with powerhouses that outwardly don’t resemble you.

LEO (July 23–August 22) “When I look back, I see my former selves, numerous as the trees,” writes Leo poet Chase Twichell. I’m sure that’s an experience you’ve had yourself. Do you find it comforting? Does it feel like being surrounded by old friends who cushion you with nurturing familiarity? Or is it oppressive and claustrophobic? Does it muffle your spontaneity and keep you tethered to the past? I think these are important questions for you to meditate on in 2017. It’s time to be very conscious and creative about shaping your relationships with all the people you used to be.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) “‘Life experience’ does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone . . . without any help from life.” So said Nobel Prize–winning author Elias Canetti, who was born in Bulgaria, had British citizenship and wrote in German. Although his idea contradicts conventional wisdom, I am presenting it for your consideration in 2017. You’re ready for a massive upgrade in your understanding about the nature of reality—and firsthand “life experience” alone won’t be enough to ensure that.

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) I am rooting for you to be flagrantly unique in 2017. I vehemently want you to be uninhibited about expressing your deepest, rawest, hottest inclinations. In this spirit, I offer the following four rallying cries: 1. “Don’t be addicted to looking cool, baby!”—my friend Luther.

2. Creative power arises when you conquer your

BY ROB BREZSNY

tendency to stay detached.—paraphrased from poet Marianne Moore. 3. If you want to be original, have the courage to be an amateur.—paraphrased from poet Wallace Stevens. 4. “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.”—Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

“There is a desperation for unknown things,” wrote poet Charles Wright, “a thirst for endlessness that snakes through our bones.” Every one of us has that desperation and thirst from time to time, but no one feels the pull toward perplexing enchantments and eternal riddles more often and more intensely than you Scorpios. And according to my astrological meditations on your life in 2017, you will experience this pull even more often and with greater intensity than ever before. Is that a problem? I don’t see why it should be. In fact, it could make you sexier and smarter than ever—especially if you regard it as a golden opportunity to become sexier and smarter than ever.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21)

I hope you will seek out a wide range of intoxicating experiences in 2017. The omens predict it. Fate sanctifies it. I hope you will gracefully barrel your way through the daily whirl with a constant expectation of sly epiphanies, amusing ecstasies and practical miracles. There has rarely been a time in your life when you’ve had so much potential to heal old wounds through immersions in uncanny bliss. But please note: The best of these highs will not be induced by drugs or alcohol, but rather by natural means like sex, art, dancing, meditation, dreamwork, singing, yoga, lucid perceptions and vivid conversations.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) I thought of you when I read a tweet by a person who calls himself Vexing Voidsquid. “I feel imbued with a mysterious positive energy,” he wrote, “as if thousands of supplicants are worshipping golden statues of me somewhere.” Given the astrological omens, I think it’s quite possible you will have similar feelings on regular occasions in 2017. I’m not necessarily saying there will literally be golden statues of you in town squares and religious shrines, nor am I guaranteeing that thousands of supplicants will telepathically bathe you in adoration. But who cares how you’re imbued with mysterious positive energy as long as you are?

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) When it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the birds known as arctic terns hang out in Greenland and Iceland. Before the chill sets in, they embark on an epic migration to Antarctica, arriving in time for another summer. But when the weather begins to turn too cold there, they head to the far north again. This is their yearly routine. In the course of a lifetime, a single bird may travel as far as 1.25 million miles—the equivalent of three roundtrips to the moon. I propose that you make this creature your spirit animal in 2017, Aquarius.

May the arctic tern inspire you to journey as far as necessary to fulfill your personal equivalent of a quest for endless summer.

PISCES (February 19–March 20)

In June 1962, three prisoners sneaked out of the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, located on an island in San Francisco Bay. Did they succeed in escaping? Did they swim to safety through the frigid water and start new lives abroad?

No one knows. Law enforcement officials never found them. Even today, though, the U.S. Marshals Service keeps the case open, and still investigates new evidence when it comes in. Are there comparable enigmas in your own life, Pisces? Events in your past that raised questions you’ve never been able to solve?

In 2017, I bet you will finally get to the bottom of them.

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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