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The Meat We Eat I really appreciated Ari LeVaux’s article (“Omnivorous,” Jan. 25). The author reveals that he is a meat eater, but like many people, he acknowledges that the question of whether or not to eat meat is a complex one and something that is under more scrutiny than ever.

With meat and dairy’s heavily negative impact on the environment and the health benefits of eating more plant foods becoming widely accepted, and even recommended by major medical

institutions, the expanding plant-based meat and cheese section of the store is welcome. The trend to eat more plants and fewer animals is positive progress, and we can use some of that for 2017.

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The mechanism for evolution is natural selection. When a mountain lion kills a deer, it usually gets the weakest, slowest, most genetically deficient member of the herd. This leaves the strongest members of the herd to reproduce.

When a human hunts a deer, they usually get the biggest, strongest, meatiest member of the herd to take home to their partner and kids. This leaves only the genetically inferior

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I can’t believe that while it appears we are slipping into a fascist dictatorship and people are worried about being deported, among other horrors, the Bohemian offers up an issue on boutique hotels! (“Boutique Boom,” Jan. 25).

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Counting the Vote In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, there has been much criticism of the Electoral College, and calls for electing the president based on the national popular vote.

Many of the critics point to the disparity of the Electoral College representation per capita of populous states like California compared to low-population states like Wyoming. They say that it is unfair that Wyoming gets one elector per 200,000 residents, while California only gets one elector per 700,000 residents. However, even if the number of electoral college votes allocated to each state was based solely on its population, with each state getting one elector per 200,000 residents, Trump would still have won the electoral college by a vote of 913–702.

Choosing the president by national popular vote would dramatically change voting habits and patterns. There is no way to predict how voter turnout would have been affected. I suspect that Trump would have received more votes in California and New York if the popular vote had mattered.

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Last Saturday’s women’s march made history BY SHEPHERD BLISS

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ver 5,000 women, children and men marched in Santa Rosa on Jan. 21. They joined hundreds of thousands at the Women’s march in Washington, D.C., and millions at over 600 places around the world.

This resistance is being spearheaded by what the new president calls “nasty women,” a term these liberators embrace. Allies include people of color, immigrants, Muslims, people of diverse sexual and gender identities, the disabled and others who object to the rise of sexism, racism, homophobia and other oppressions. Groups such as Black Lives Matter and Planned Parenthood were at the forefront of the marches.

Moveon.org describes them as “the largest set of protests in U.S. history—a gorgeous showing of resilience, strength, and solidarity.”

According to the Santa Rosa police report, “The crowds were very peaceful and well-organized. No disruptive incidents were reported.”

Many families participated, including parents with strollers and infants in their arms and elders.

A dozen Sonoma County elected officials joined. “I left the march inspired and energized,” wrote Supervisor Lynda Hopkins. “Women, children and, yes, men, stood up for what I believe in. We can be part of a worldwide awakening of progressivism. This movement wasn’t just against Trump. It was for shared values.”

Rep. Jared Huffman echoed Barack Obama’s words in his final days as president: “Being an American is not about where you’re from, or what you look like, what language you speak, how you worship, who you love.”

Among the many signs were the following: “No Person Is Illegal”; “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights”; “Keep the Immigrants/Deport Trump”; and “We the People Means All of Us”; and “My Pussy Is Not Up for Grabs.”

“This is an extraordinary day,” observed California senator Kamala Harris at the D.C. march. “We all should be treated equally.

Immigrants represent the heart and soul of this country.”

It remains to be seen if this was merely a well-organized, highly successful one-day event or the start of a nonviolent mass movement.

For another take on the march, go to Open Mic at Bohemian.com.

Dr. Shepherd Bliss (3sb@comcast.net) is a retired college teacher and has contributed to 24 books and farmed for the last two decades.

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DEBR IEFER KOWS Crushed After a months-long battle with Sebastopol locals, radio station KOWS was denied a permit to site its antenna in the town, even after the Sebastopol City Council approved it last year.

KOWS personality Robert Feuer wrote in with the news that a group of Sebastopol locals had threatened to sue over a new antenna that would increase the KOWS signal, and give Sebastopol its own public-radio station in the bargain. The station relocated from Occidental to Sebastopol in anticipation of the antenna’s approval. The problem, notes Feuer, is that the KOWS signal isn’t strong enough for most of Sebastopol to tune in.

“The KOWS group of 80 to 100 people is hurting down deep,” writes Feuer, who notes that the antenna project has been ongoing since 2011. “Does the station have the energy to start over on another antenna project, or even continue broadcasting?”

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rump may have the Winston Churchill bust in the West Wing, but the people own the legendary British leader’s Nazi-stomping message, in the North Bay and the nation of dissent at large.

Speaking to an overflowing

crowd at Santa Rosa Junior College in Petaluma last Thursday, environmental lawyer Michael Wall alluded to the famously spine-tingling Churchill quote: “We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

Wall, co-director for ligitigation at the National Resources Defense Council, was joined on the panel

by Drew Caputo of Earthjustice and Ann Hancock of the Santa Rosa–based Center for Climate Protection. U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, recently named ranking vice-member on the House Committee on Natural Resources, organized the event—and, given the tenor of the times, )

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It was a nice crowd for a Sunday evening in Santa Rosa as Petaluma filmmaker Ron Rogers shared with the audience a trailer of his in-the-works documentary about Andy Lopez, the 13-year-old who was shot and killed by a Sonoma County sheriff’s officer in 2013. The filmmaker was on-hand for a fundraiser to help him finish the film, which asks: “What is the legacy of Andy Lopez? We don’t know yet . . .”

One visible sign of his legacy was the presence of Jerry Threet at the fundraiser who was hired in the agonizing aftermath of the shooting as director of the newly established Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach.—Tom Gogola

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The congressional minority has not yet been outlawed, whew. A couple of dark chortles emerged from the crowd.

The meeting mirrored the spirit of recent protests and marches—a demonstration of resiliency, decency and solidarity. Questions at the event boiled down to “What the heck is going on in Washington with that maniac tweeter in chief, and what is to be done?”

Huffman noted the “unprecedented threats facing our environment,” which include attacks on state efforts at carbongas emission reduction as well as bills Huffman authored to sequester carbon in cattle fields and keep fossil fuels in the ground. The fate of those bills is up in the air, as is Huffman’s bill to permanently ban offshore drilling.

“I’m going to keep trying to move the bills, keep the conversation alive,” Huffman said. “Those bills are unlikely to get hearings in this congress, they are not supported by this administration—it’s environmental policy in exile right now.”

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And the proposed REINS Act (Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny) would be “the kill switch on any regulation of any kind,” Huffman said. The act from House Republicans would require that any regulation proposed by the president would be subject to congressional pre-approval.

Huffman noted that the bill would run into a stiff separationof-powers wall in the Senate, and that a power-consolidating Trump probably wouldn’t like it either.

But overall, Huffman said, “this is a very aggressive and ambitious agenda that [legislators] are setting, and they are going to get a lot of help from . . . Trump.”

In the short term, new and stringent regulations that set standards for venting and flaring of natural gas on public lands are on the firing line, as are orders that regulate toxic slag removal from coal-blown mountaintops.

Rick Perry Donald Trump picked the former Texas governor to be his Secretary of Energy after Perry himself couldn’t recall the name of the agency during a 2012 GOP primary debate, while vowing to eliminate it all the while, never understanding that the DOE is responsible for the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Huffman described him as “a guy who combines Texas swagger with a memory problem.” The Senate has hit pause on his full confirmation vote “indefinitely,” so there’s that.

Standing Rock “If we’ve learned anything in six days, it’s: worry,” said Drew Caputo, executive director of Earthjustice, which is representing the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in its battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Obama administration stopped the pipeline from crossing sacred Sioux land in its waning months and ordered a full environmental review on the project. Last week, Trump signed an executive order declaring that the pipeline would be built and that the Obamarejected Keystone project would go forward as well.

Caputo described the Trump executive order as a “wink-wink, nod-nod” gesture to expedite a process that’s been stalled under the Obama order—and compared it to King Henry VIII, “won’t someone relieve me of this troublesome priest,” to nervous chuckles from the audience. “If

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“We’ll give him a chance for success that the Republicans never gave President Obama,” Huffman said. “I’m skeptical, but I always leave open the possibility.

Speaking as a Democrat, obstruction worked across the board for [John] Boehner and [Mitch] McConnell—they shut it down. That’s not my brand. We want government to be good and to do good things for people. That said, most of what is coming at us is really bad, and we have to work to defeat it.”

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Trump’s choice for the Environmental Protection Agency has sued the agency a dozen times; case closed, he’s a disaster.

Huffman pointed to his colleagues’ “heroic nature to spotlight the terrible choice. [But] this is a 51vote question, and every GOP member is going to vote for Scott Pruitt. I don’t think there is realistically a chance to stop Scott Pruitt.”

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Well, maybe not Pruitt himself.

The speakers noted generally that while voters put Trump into office, they did not vote against the environment and called upon conservationist-minded Republicans to prevail on Trump to address climate change. They celebrated Obama’s move to ban drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, even as the soon-to-be secretary of state and former Exxon-Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson leaves a multinational energy concern that plans to drill in the Arctic. If Trump’s

EPA won’t defend attacks on the environment from an unloosed corporate community, “looking over the long term, we have the capacity to fight everywhere we can in the federal court system,” Caputo said.

“People know there is a difference between fact and fiction,” said the NRDC’s Hall before throwing down the justice gauntlet on Trump. “The president is going to try and undo a lot of good things,” he noted. “He doesn’t rule by fiat, and executive orders are not necessarily the law of the land. He has to comply with statutes and the law. He can’t just wave a pen and make them go away. We’ll fight in congress, in the court of public opinion—and, most importantly, in the courts.”

Reasons for Hope “The White House is a lost cause,” Huffman said, “but the courts—most of the laws get made in the appellate courts around the country, and 10 of the 13 have a majority of judges who were appointed by champions of the environment. Others aren’t political—they’re fair and they enforce the law. Every step of the way, when he does things that are illegal, we will meet him here in court, and that is a genuine cause for hope,” Huffman said, to the delight of all in attendance.

“The American people didn’t vote against the environment, but not enough people voted for the environment,” Wall said.

State, local and regional efforts reducing greenhouse gases are the new normal, as are gasefficiency standards and a roaring wind- and solar-power economy that sparked the much-cited observation that the number-one in-demand job in the country right now is wind power tech.

Hancock at the Center for Climate Protection cited the bending curve of dirty energy use in Sonoma County and anywhere the community-choice movement has taken foot. Locally, she said, Sonoma Clean Energy “has lowered greenhouse gas emissions by 48 percent.”

Further Reasons for Hope Gov. Jerry Brown nearly blew a righteous aneurysm last week when he took to the California bully pulpit and told Trump, in effect, We ain’t playin! The stiffening opposition to the administration has hit its stride in recent days over the cruel and unusual refugee ban and the quicksilver protests in the state and nation that greeted Trump’s announcement on the Dakota Access and Keystone pipelines.

Brown’s cri de coeur was welltimed and delivered from the highest perch in a state that has gone beyond federal calls for greenhouse gas emissions and fuel-efficiency standards.

Some of California’s energy reforms on greenhouse gases were implemented only through the issuance of federal waivers, permitting them to go beyond federal standards. Those waivers, alas, may be wavering under the hot hand of a climate-change denying administration bent on sticking it to blue states. More to the point, Hancock noted that there are more jobs available in renewables than in fossil fuels these days.

“There are lots of benefits to an energy-efficient future,” she said, recalling to attendees and activists that California’s achieved all of this within the framework of a growing economy. “As we go green, our economy continues to flourish,” she said.

When Does Impeachment Start?

It’s coming, folks, Huffman says, it’s coming.

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Trump’s financial interests in the Dakota Access project have been widely reported, and Huffman joked that attendees— live or on Facebook, where the event was live-streamed—should sell their stock in Energy Transfer Partners. “Get out of there!”

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Dining BLAZING A TRAIL With the opening of Trail House Shane Bresnyan, left, and partner Glenn Fant have created a club house for Sonoma County’s mountain-biking community.

One for the Road Santa Rosa’s new Trail House is a biker bar for fat-tire fanatics BY STETT HOLBROOK

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lenn Fant and Shane Bresnyan have been riding the 40-odd miles of trails at Annadel State Park for more than two decades. Fant owns Santa Rosa’s NorCal Bike Sport and the Bike Peddler; Bresnyan was the former manager at the Bike Peddler.

After a day of hammering the trails, the friends head out for beers but used to lament the lack

of any place close to Annadel that fit the bill. They solved that problem by opening Trail House just a short ride down from their beloved park.

The six-week-old venture serves as the ultimate post-ride hangout with a dozen beers on tap, a basic but brew-centric food menu, a comfy lounge, three monitors with biking and other sporting events and a wall map of Annadel for reliving your ride or figuring where you took that wrong turn.

They also serve Sight Glass coffee and pastries for pre-ride fuel.

But Trail House is more than a cafe. There’s a bike mechanic on duty, a rental fleet of demo bikes and a full range of bike gear, like helmets, tubes, shoes and apparel—basically everything but bikes for sale. They leave that to Fant’s other shops. Trail House will also offer 24-hour repairs with the help of an after-hours mechanic, a very quick turnaround for a bike shop.

Trail House is really a clubhouse for Sonoma County’s thriving mountain-biking community. A dozen or so vintage

bikes hang from the ceiling, early models from Scott Nicol (founder of Sonoma County-born Ibis Cycles) and other frame builders, as well as Fant’s first mountain bike and a cruiser that that once rode the trails at Annadel back in the sports’ infancy in the 1970s.

Bresnyan plans to curate the bikes with brief narratives about the bikes’ place in Santa Rosa cycling history. There are also plans to offer membership with benefits like bike storage, showers, mechanic service and personal beer steins.

At times Bresnyan isn’t sure what to call Trail House. Bike shop cafe? Biker bar? He likes “a place of community.”

“We’re super-proud of Santa Rosa and our community,” he says. “The mountain-bike scene is pretty amazing.”

The cafe-within-a-bike-shop phenomena isn’t new. Santa Rosa’s Trek Bicycle Store opened a short-lived coffee bar inside its shop in 2015. Bresnyan points to Fairfax’s Gestalt Haus, a mountain biker–friendly pub at the foot of Mt. Tamalpais, as a source for inspiration. He says the idea is part of an effort to stay competitive in an era when online bikes sales are putting many shops out of business.

“The bike shops that don’t change are going to go away, but you can’t get this online,” he says, looking around Trail House.

Bresnyan is quick to add Trail House is not a restaurant.

Installing a ventilation system and commercial kitchen would have been prohibitively expensive. Instead, they outsource burritos from nearby Lepe’s Taqueria and pizza slices from Mary’s Pizza Shack. They also make an upgraded version of an Egg McMuffin called a Western Spirit sandwich that’s an ode to one served by a beloved Utah mountain-biking outfitter.

Bresnyan hopes Trail House will become as much of a draw as the nearby state park. “Annadel is becoming a destination,” he says.

“It’s a point of significance. That’s what we want to be.”

Trail House, 4036 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa. 707.843.4943.

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Just remember that the language of sparkling wine, like the language of love, can be complicated—even idiotic sounding—and “extra-dry” is not the driest level of sparkling wine; it’s just less sweet than “sec.” Observing the woefully underappreciated tradition of popping a bubbly to celebrate being alone and unloved? Even better. Hit the sweet sauce.

Iron Horse 2012 Winter’s Cuvée ($65) If this evocatively titled cuvée smells a little like a spicy, boozy Tom and Jerry, that’s not just a fireside fantasy—each vintage is spiked with Pinot Noir brandy the winery made back in 1987. But it’s just a little of a good thing, and plays well with notes

of nutty almond paste and flaky croissant. A cool stand-in for hot apple cider, it’s tangy like Granny Smith apple and not over-sweet, and may be available at the tasting room only—when it’s available.

Toad Hollow Risqué Sweet Sparkling Wine Limoux ($15.99) This wine may look a little flaky at first glance, all but saying “Do you like to party?” on the front label and then oversharing on the back, admitting to a “doux” level of sparkling wine sweetness at 11.5 grams of sugar per fiveounce serving, but only 6 percent alcohol by volume—or 7.9 percent, according to the tech sheet. It’s made from the Mauzac blanc grape in the “méthode ancestrale,” which is French for the way people been doing it a long time. Maybe I’m easy, but I think this import is super fun: aromas of burnt wood turn into toasted almonds in a sweet pasty, and an ennobling hint of seashell saltiness underlies sweet Golden Delicious apple flavor.

Iron Horse 2012 Russian Cuvée ($44) Still made to commemorate the custom bubbly that Iron Horse delivered to the Gipper-Gorby meet-up in the 1980s, this sparkler lets your dearest know you “trust but verify.”

Showing a little sweetness on the finish, this brut-level wine seems conservatively styled, and has served as a toasting wine at the White House for five consecutive administrations—thus far.

Korbel Extra Dry ($11.99) Herbed with rosemary, just a little honeyed like a fine mead (an excellent alternative to sparkling wine, by the way—try Marin County’s Heidrun sparkling mead), this straightforward wine has only 1.5 percent sugar. If you just want to skip to the secs, Korbel has those too, plus an even sweeter cuvée they call “sweet cuvée.”

Sofia Blanc de Blancs ($19) Wrapped in pink cellophane and bearing a back-label warning to not use a corkscrew on it, this simple pleasure is surely aimed at the hearts of special-occasion sparkling wine drinkers with its sweet, apricot and honey flavors.

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Those prices are so high because Sonoma and Napa counties are considered destination spots for weddings, with unparalleled views and deckedout wineries available for the right price. But that also means locals

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Without realizing it, we decided to embark on what what’s being called a “slow wedding,” defined as a simple wedding that is locally sourced, seasonally catered and more environmentally sustainable. Here’s how we did it.

Wed Your Way

The first big decision is where to have the wedding. We decided to eschew the vineyard and chateau settings, as great as they are, for a venue with a personal touch.

In general, a slow wedding is best enjoyed in a backyard or other familiar, intimate and mellow venue. The personalized setting comes with a sense of comfort that you can’t get when walking into an unfamiliar space.

And while professional venues might offer a pre-set look, a home, grange hall or, in our case, parish hall is a blank canvas for your decorative imagination. Run wild with it.

Pro tip: Rope and string lights are instantly enchanting and can transform even the blandest hall into a wonderland. Don’t skimp on the lights.

Get Hands-On As tempting as it may be, onestop shopping weddings websites are not the answer. Sites like the Knot and Weddingwire have endless lists of local vendors, but, like browsing Netflix titles for two hours, everything looks the same online.

In addition, Yelp reviews are useless, especially for weddings, where planted, fake or just plain crazy reviews and ratings are

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the norm. Besides, the volume of talented people in the North Bay means there’s a good bet that whatever you need is only a personal recommendation away.

The biggest lesson I learned in wedding planning is to meet people in person.

Our first locally sourced vendor was Santa Rosa stationery store Sincerely Yours, who specialize in wedding invites. Their attention to detail helped ease our worry, and their choices for invites resonated with what we were looking for.

Part of a slow wedding means keeping it casual, which is how we found ourselves tasting cake next to bags of charcoal near the checkout counters at Oliver’s Market in west Santa Rosa. A little gawking from curious shoppers didn’t bother us, though; we were too busy cramming our face with chocolate ganache and lemony frostings in the process of

assembling our wedding cake. It tasted amazing, and I love telling people that the best cake I’ve ever had came from a local grocery store.

Another personal recommendation was to visit ER Sawyer Jewelers in downtown Santa Rosa, and let me tell you, make friends with your jeweler.

As a guy who’s never worn any jewelry, I can easily say I was out of my element walking in there, but the guidance from sales associate Leslie Griswold set me at ease. On top of that, her enthusiasm was genuine—she even bought us a wedding gift.

It’s also important to make friends with your photographer.

We met Sonoma County photographer Maria Villano, who works primarily with families and wedding parties, through my wife’s work colleague. Villano’s personal mantra includes ) 20 making friends over

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Who knew a cake from a local grocery store could taste so good?

Slow Wedding ( 19 business contacts, and right off the bat we were on friendly terms, spending more time getting to know each other than talking shop.

When the big day came, Villano was the perfect photographer, instinctually capturing all the intimate and unexpected moments along with the formal poses. During our “romantic” photo shoot, we stumbled upon a grove next to the church where we were married and Villano deftly photographed us looking lovingly into each others eyes while also discreetly cropping out the small hobo camp that had appeared the night before under the shady trees.

Count on Your Friends The best part about planning a wedding is all of the free, unsolicited advice you get. The secret is to listen to it. And to listen to your friends when they

offer to help. In our case, we put together “save the date” cards with a friend who works as a graphic designer. We got fresh, in-season flowers from a family friend who owns a house-painting business and also happens to create gorgeous corsages in her spare time, and we nibbled on appetizers at the reception, courtesy of chef, author and friend Michele Anna Jordan.

The final aspect of our slow wedding was thinking green. It’s easy to reduce your wedding’s carbon footprint by simply keeping the ceremony local or where most guests already live, using all compostable tableware for the reception and recycled paper for everything from invites to programs. Lastly, make sure you get the leftovers, and see that they don’t go to waste.

Two weeks after the wedding, my most prevailing memories are how much support I felt from the local community vendors we worked with, and how easy it was to go slow in creating our fun, warm and welcoming wedding. I’d almost do it again.

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SONOMA: Sonoma Chocolatiers; 6988 McKinley St., Sebastopol.

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BEST WINETASTING ROOM NAPA: Raymond Vineyards; 849 Zinfandel Lane, St. Helena.

707.963.3141. SONOMA: KendallJackson Wine Center; 5007 Fulton Road, Fulton. 707.576.3810.

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SONOMA: Kunde Family Estate; 9825 Sonoma Hwy., Kenwood.

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BEST CLOTHING STORE—WOMEN’S NAPA: Miyamo; 1128 First St., Napa. 707.255.5858. SONOMA: Silk Moon; 195 N. Main St., Sebastopol.

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707.257.7733. SONOMA: Cokas Diko; 3499 Industrial Way, Santa Rosa.

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BEST CABERNET NAPA: Raymond Vineyards; 849 Zinfandel Lane, St. Helena.

707.963.3141.SONOMA: Jordan Vineyard & Winery; 1474 Alexander Valley Road, Healdsburg. 800.654.1213.

BEST LINGERIE SHOP NAPA: Pleasures Unlimited; 1424 Second St., Napa. 707.226.2666.

SONOMA: Ma Cherie et Moi; 2332 Magowan Drive, Santa Rosa.

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SONOMA: Longboard Vineyards; 5 Fitch St., Healdsburg.

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BEST PLACE TO DANCE NAPA: Trancas Steakhouse; 999 Trancas St., Napa. 707.258.9990.

SONOMA: Flamingo Resort Hotel; 2777 Fourth St., Santa Rosa.

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BEST MUSIC VENUE NAPA: Uptown Theatre; 1350 Third St., Napa. 707.259.0123. SONOMA: HopMonk Tavern; 230 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol. 707.829.7300. 691 Broadway, Sonoma. 707.935.9100.

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BEST PERFORMING ARTS CENTER NAPA: Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater; 100 California Drive, Yountville.

707.944.9900. SONOMA: Luther Burbank Center for the Arts; 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

BEST HAIR SALON NAPA: Bloom salon; 1146 Main St., Napa. 707.251.8468. SONOMA: Leading Edge Salon; 1235 N. Dutton Ave., Ste. B., Santa Rosa.

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BEST FULL SERVICE BEAUTY SALON NAPA: Hen House Salon; 705 School St., Napa. 707.927.3229.

SONOMA: Brush the Salon; 322 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg.

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BEST SKIN CARE SPA NAPA: Pure Skin Spa; 1401 Lincoln Ave., Napa. 707.738.9511.

SONOMA: Bliss Organic Day Spa; 186 N. Main St., Second Floor, Sebastopol. 707.861.3434.

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707.266.2454. SONOMA: Tarot Art & Tattoo Gallery; 17977 Sonoma Hwy., Sonoma. 707.938.3000.

BEST DAY SPA NAPA: Solage Calistoga; 755 Silverado Trail N., Calistoga.

707.266.7534. SONOMA: Osmosis Day Spa; 209 Bohemian Hwy., Freestone. 707.823.8231.

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707.942.4913. SONOMA: Flamingo Conference Resort & Spa; 2777 Fourth St., Santa Rosa.

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SONOMA: Milk & Honey; 123 N. Main St., Sebastopol. 707.824.1155.

BEST WEDDING RECEPTION VENUE NAPA: Hans Fahden Vineyards; 4855 Petrified Forest Road, Napa.

707.942.6760. SONOMA: Paradise Ridge Winery; 4545 Thomas Lake Harris Drive, Santa Rosa.

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Mendocino County artist Dianne Neuman has been obsessed with hearts lately. Over the last few months, her bold and colorful abstract acrylic paintings have been spreading the love with depictions of the international symbol for Valentine’s and romance, and this week she displays her new pieces in the ‘Let’s Make Some Love’ exhibit. Joining Neuman is collage artist and gallery owner Douglas DeVivo. Both artists will be on hand, and visitors can make their own love-filled heart art, when the show opens with a reception as part of the Guerneville First Friday Art Walk on Friday, Feb. 3, at Blue Door Gallery, 16359 Main St., Guerneville. 3pm to 8pm.

Free. 707.696.5801.

For four decades, the engaging exhibits and educational opportunities at Sonoma State University’s University Art Gallery have made it a vital resource and cultural center. This weekend, you can do your part to keep the gallery’s mission moving forward by attending the Art from the Heart benefit auction. Art from more than 130 artists is available during a silent auction, and live music from the Dave Getz Trio and lots of delicious food and wine make for a festive evening. Fall in love with art on Saturday, Feb. 4, at the University Art Gallery, Sonoma State, 1801 East Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park.

6pm to 9pm. $25 suggested donation.

707.664.2295.

Best known as one half of the 1970s Hawaiian pop duo Cecilio & Kapono, Henry Kapono has spent a lifetime making the world a little more laidback through hugely popular island jams and sunny, positive vibes. A long-time solo performer, Kapono goes back to the beginning this weekend with a concert performance of the most beloved songs of Cecilio & Kapono. And he’s bridging the generation gap by welcoming special guest Blayne Asing, named the most promising artist of 2016 by Hawaii’s Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. A prolific songwriter in his own right, Asing joins Kapono for two classic sets on Saturday, Feb. 4, at the Blue Note Jazz Club, 1030 Main St., Napa. 7pm and 9:30pm. $25. 707.603.1258.

Two wildly different sisters must travel through a wondrous jungle of mystery and splendor in the African tale ‘Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters.’ Resembling the story of Cinderella, this fairy tale follows the sisters as they vie for the attention of a king. This month, the story comes to life in an exciting stage show filled with African drumming, colorful spectacles and expressive choreography, presented as part of the Clover Stornetta Family Fun Series.

Come early and partake in arts and crafts projects and enjoy pizza and concessions before the show takes you on a magical journey on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa. 6:30pm. $12–$17.

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—Charlie Swanson

BEST FRIEND Doesn’t your dog deserve some Valentine’s Day affection?

Puppy Love How to show your canine companion you care BY RITA S. LOSCH

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f the love of your life is your dog, why not celebrate Valentine’s Day with him or her and treat yourselves to a retreat in the North Bay’s doggie paradise?

Sonoma County Regional Parks allows civilized, licensed and leashed dogs on most trails.

Riverfront Park in Windsor offers a meditative hike around Lake

Benoist. Taylor Mountain’s easy switchbacks lead up to an idyllic cow pasture where dogs can wonder at grazing black-andwhites who are too big and too busy grazing to notice them.

A flat one-hour walk around Santa Rosa’s Spring Lake Park is always perfect. Spontaneous doggy-paddling happens here, but avoid getting chased by an irate goose or an even meaner swan.

Sebastopol’s Ragle Ranch Park

offers an off-leash enclosed dog area, where Fido can socialize or read his pee-mail to gather notes for his dogma or doggerel.

How about giving your Valentine buddy her annual bath at U-Do-It Pet Bathing in Rohnert Park (6 Enterprise Drive, 707.585.3810)? Or treat her to holistic therapies at Lucky Dog Canine Wellness in Petaluma (luckydogcaninewellness.com)?

Or memorialize your pet with a

portrait at Pet Food Express in Sonoma Feb. 11 from 11am to 1pm (500 W. Napa St., 707.935.0777)?

And when your pup gets hungry, head to Three Dog Bakery in Sonoma (526 Broadway, 707.933.9790) for dog-pleasing “red velvet heart” treats.

Dotting the North Bay are numerous dog-friendly places to stay that not only put up with dogs, but put dogs up, graciously.

In Sonoma County, check out Bodega Bay Inn (bodegabayinn. com); the CazSonoma Inn (cazsonoma.com); Cloverdale’s Alexander Inn (thealexanderinn. com); the Geyserville Inn (geyservilleinn.com); Glen Ellen’s beautiful Olea Hotel (oleahotel. com); Guerneville’s Highlands Resort (highlandsresort.com); and the Hotel Healdsburg (hotelhealdsburg.com).

In Napa County, Calistoga’s Bear Flag Inn cottage (bearflaginn.com) sports a private, heart-shaped patio, and Napa’s Blackbird Inn (blackbirdinnnapa.com) offers comfortable lodging for man and beast.

The best choice on Valentine’s Day may be to stay home sofasnuggling with Fifi under a pile of chewed-up afghans. Read aloud to your pooch—he will lap up every word of The Hound of the Baskervilles. He understands English and knows what you feel before you feel it. His emotional vocabulary, like his olfactory sense, is far more exquisite than our paltry human lexicon.

So on Valentine’s Day—when humans stuff themselves silly with designer chocolate bonbons and buy exorbitant long-stemmed roses—you can avoid candlelit prenuptial disagreement by enjoying the mutually unconditional love of your fuzzy, furry, hairless, wire-haired, silky or smooth, shiny and sleek best friend.

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AMERICAN STORY Jerod Haynes

and Ryan Nicole Austin deliver powerful performances in ‘Native Son.’

‘Son’ Rises

Richard Wright’s masterpiece hasn’t lost its power

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eauty isn’t always pretty.

Richard Wright’s 1940 masterpiece Native Son— among the most important and powerful American novels ever published—has been alternately praised and condemned, drawing kudos and criticism for the very same things—mainly, the brutal honesty, realism and shocking violence of Wright’s supremely crafted depiction of life as a poor, undereducated black man in midcentury America.

Powered by a poetic, elegant script by Nambi E. Kelley, the Marin Theatre Company brings Wright’s explosive novel to the stage, with an extraordinary cast giving perfectly tuned performances under the steady guidance of director Seret

Scott. The result is a remarkable theatrical experience that is at once astonishing, beautiful, visceral, vibrant and inescapably ugly. Kelley, succeeding where countless others have fallen short, strips Wright’s epic-length novel to its bones, then dresses it back up again in brilliant theatrical ideas, enhancing rather than diminishing the power of Wright’s ingeniously crafted, ethical puzzlebox of a story.

Bigger Thomas (a superb Jerod Haynes) is barely scraping by, living in a rat-infested Chicago slum with his mother (C. Kelly Wright), sister Vera (Ryan Nicole Austin) and brother Buddy (Dane Troy). Bigger is, for obvious reasons, a frustrated man, a combustible blend of anger, hopelessness and fear.

Bigger’s violent internal struggles are brilliantly illustrated through his conversations with the Black Rat (William Hartfield), the playwright’s impressively wrought illustration of Bigger’s conflicted inner battles. The Rat represents the way society sees him, a view that is constantly in conflict with how Bigger sees himself.

Even the possibility of a decent job, chauffeuring for a wealthy, liberal white woman (Courtney Walsh), is rife with danger. Her daughter, Mary (Rosie Hallett), and her communist boyfriend, Jan (Adam Magill), attempt to show Bigger how open-minded they are, clueless about how their public shows of “equality” are putting him in danger.

As the story moves ahead with ferocious speed—told in a single, 90-minute act—Bigger steps back and forth from present to past, with flashbacks underscoring his rising fear and fury with heartbreaking power.

The story may be set in the 1940s, but that so little has changed is clear. That, along with the ugly beauty of his storytelling, is why Wright’s brutal masterpiece continues to have such resonance after more than 75 years.

Rating (out of 5): ‘Native Son’ runs Tuesday–Sunday through Feb. 12 at Marin Theatre Company. 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley.

Times vary. $20–$58. 415.388.5208.

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I’VE SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE There’s a reason ‘1984’ is popular again.

It Can Happen Here ‘1984’ in 2017

52 W. 6th Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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or some reason, George Orwell’s 1984 is a current bestseller on Amazon. Something to do with the new administration and its forward-thinking views on the mutability of facts? I wouldn’t want to speculate.

Orwell’s satire was based on the author’s time working for the BBC, where he was a wartime propagandist. He even named his protagonist “Winston,” as if in honor of Churchill. The book is a hammer against those who looked the other way at the crimes of England’s then-ally, the USSR. Details of the show trials, the paranoia and the use of raw alcohol to cope are straight from the communist regime.

Available for free on Vudu—free, if you can stand a barrage of noisy commercials—director Michael Radford’s 1984 does an outstanding job of illustrating the book. It’s a parallel universe, where WWII is in its 45th continuous year. Loyal party member Winston Smith (John Hurt, who died last week) is starting to have doubts about the news he’s made to obliterate at the Ministry of Truth. Against the will of the state, and its symbol Big Brother, he starts an affair with a fellow party member, Julia (Suzanna Hamilton, whose intensity and haircut suggests Ayn Rand).

The standard critique of 1984 is that Julia isn’t much of a character, being a symbol of hope and romance more than a protagonist. No argument here. The necessarily hushed dialogue makes it hard for those who aren’t familiar with the plot.

In the credits, Radford notes that the movie was shot in the spring of 1984, the time frame of the novel. At that date, there was still enough post-industrial wreckage left in London to serve as backdrop for this bleak parable. That wrecked London is gone now, but it’s the linguistic cargo—the story of “newspeak,” the outlining of the censor’s calling— that still makes this tale frightening.

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2 ⁄20 Lucero, Esmé Patterson, 2 ⁄21 Uli Jon Roth, 2 ⁄25 Moon Hooch, 3 ⁄3 Wonder Bread 5, 3 ⁄4 Red Fang, Big Jesus, 3 ⁄7 Matisyahu, 3 ⁄10 Tainted Love, 3 ⁄11 House of Floyd - An Evening of Pink Floyd, 3 ⁄12 Delhi 2 Dublin, 3 ⁄16 The Russ Liquid Test, Gladkill, 3 ⁄17 LYDIA PENSE & COLD BLOOD, Frobeck

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WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957) Mon, Feb 13; $10

“WAKING NED DEVINE” (1998) on March 13

“THE GREAT ESCAPE” (1963) on April 1 “THELMA & LOUISE” (1991) on May 15; “GREAT EXPECTATIONS” (1946) June 12

Movies call 707.996.2020 Tickets call 707.996.9756 SONOMA sebastianitheatre.com

AMERICANA MAN David

Luning switched from film scoring to troubador and never looked back.

Stay ‘Restless’ David Luning takes the next step

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Aaron Redner & His Band of Love Ninjas

Concert & Food Drive Starring: James Nash, Bryan Horne, Ben Jacobs and Lucas Carlton Thu 2/9 • Doors 7pm / $17–$20

IrieFuse & Sol Horizon

Bob Marley Tribute Fri 2⁄10 & Sat 2⁄11 • Doors 8pm •$22 ADV/$27 DOS/$38 2-DAY PASS

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Sun 2/12 • Doors 7pm • $17–$20 / All Ages

The Cold Hard Cash Show

Tribute to Johnny Cash Tue 2/14 • Doors 7:30pm / $20–$25 / All Ages

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orth Bay native David Luning was playing piano and studying film scoring at the Berklee College of Music in Boston when his world turned upside down.

“I was hanging out with friends who lived in my apartment building and listening to music.

They played me John Prine and Old Crow Medicine Show and Ryan Adams, stuff like that,” Luning says. “I had never really heard that music before, and I knew then what I wanted to do with my life.”

That spark of inspiration led Luning to drop out of Berklee, return to the North Bay and take up the guitar in a transformation from cinematic composer to Americana troubadour. Now a full-fledged rambling man, Luning presents his new album, Restless,

in concert on Saturday, Feb. 4, at the Mystic Theatre in Petaluma.

After relocating back to his hometown of Forestville, Luning built up a repertoire of countrytinged folk and assembled a backing band to join him on the road. His first album, Just Drop on By, came out in 2012 to wide acclaim.

Luning says of his early songwriting aspirations that he wanted to “write about real things, and make it more honest. I just really loved creating layers in the lyrics.”

Coincidentally for the one-time film-score student, several songs from his first album found their way into films and television programs, propelling Luning onto larger and larger stages. A constant traveller, the songwriter has appeared at festivals all over the West Coast and has shared stages with the likes of Elvin Bishop and Robert Earl Keen.

Now with Restless, Luning rises to the occasion with a polished, confident collection of country rock and Americana music that’s both radio-ready and emotionally resonant. Luning credits some of the new sound to producer Karl Derfler, who has worked with Tom Waits and Dave Matthews.

“That was a huge learning curve,” says Luning. Although he was initially nervous about allowing an outside input into his music, he says Derfler quickly proved intuitive and supportive of his vision. “He knew where I wanted my music to be at, even before I knew it sometimes.”

Recorded at Panoramic House studios in West Marin, a stunning and sonically unique studio space, Restless moves from exuberant rock and roll to softly melodic ballads with ease, reflecting the record’s wandering themes with songs that act as character studies inspired by moments in Luning’s travels.

Those travels will continue after Luning’s album release show this week. “We’re going to play everywhere,” he laughs. “And all the time.”

David Luning performs on Saturday, Feb. 4, at the Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. 8pm. $17–$22. 707.765.2121.

Concerts SONOMA COUNTY Acoustic Guitar Summit Evening of acoustic guitars features Australian star Adam Miller and North Bay musicians Teja Gerken and Nate Lopez. Feb 3, 7pm. Free.

Aqus Cafe, 189 H St, Petaluma.

707.778.6060.

David Luning Fast-rising North Bay songwriter performs an album release show, with support from Jason Crosby and Elliott Peck. Feb 4, 8pm. $17. Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.765.2121.

Seth Walker The revered modern roots artist combines Gospeldrenched melodies and a rich Southern-inflected voice. Feb 2, 8:30pm. $15$20. Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7868.

MARIN COUNTY Bill Callahan The sonorous songwriter and former frontman of dour indie band Smog performs a reflective solo show with support from Richard Osborn. Feb 2, 8pm. $28-$33.

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

415.388.3850.

A Mozart Extravaganza Maestro Alasdair Neale conducts the Marin Symphony’s wind ensemble in a program of several Mozart works, followed by a screening of “Amadeus,” broadcast live from the National Theatre.

Feb 7, 6:30pm. $45-$50. Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur. 415.924.5111.

Sanskriti Annual festival explores Indian cultural heritage with music and dance performances by world-renowned artists and emerging talent. Feb 4, 5pm. $45. Marin Center Showcase Theatre, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael.

415.499.6800.

NAPA COUNTY Donald Harrison Quartet

New Orleans jazz saxophonist brings his band to Napa for three nights of funky and classical entertainment. Feb 1-3, 7 and 9:30pm. $35-$45.

Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.603.1258.

The Everly Brothers Experience

The Zmed brothers, Zachary and Dylan, of the band the Bird Dogs, play the greatest hits from the Everly Brothers’ catalogue of country and classic pop songs. Feb 3, 8pm. $25-$35. Uptown Theatre, 1350 Third St, Napa.

707.259.0123.

Fred Lessman & the Backroad Warriors

Napa Valley musician releases his new album, “3 AM,” with a bluesy rock show. Feb 4, 8pm. $20. Grace Episcopal Church, 1314 Spring St, St Helena.

707.963.4157.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA COUNTY Aqus Cafe

Feb 2, Celtic music. Feb 4, Side Dish. Feb 8, open jazz jam. 189 H St, Petaluma. 707.778.6060.

The Big Easy

Feb 1, David Bialos Quartet. Feb 2, Dead Again. Feb 3, the Melt with the Fixins. Feb 4, the Hots with Robbie Elfman. Feb 5, Awesome Hotcakes. Feb 7, Wild Jane. Feb 8, Wednesday Night Big Band. 128 American Alley, Petaluma. 707.776.4631.

Blue Heron Restaurant & Tavern Feb 7, 6pm, Michael Hantman.

25300 Steelhead Blvd, Duncans Mills. 707.865.2261.

Coffee Catz

Tues, 12pm, Jerry Green’s Peaceful Piano Hour. 6761 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol.

707.829.6600.

Corkscrew Wine Bar

Feb 7, the Rivertown Trio. 100 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.789.0505.

Flamingo Lounge

Feb 3, Rosetown Soul. Feb 4,

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Geyserville Gun Club Bar & Lounge

Feb 4, Derek Irving & His Combo. 21025 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville. 707.814.0036.

Green Music Center

Feb 8, 1pm, SSU Jazz Forum with Kahil El’Zabar & Ethnic Heritage Ensemble. SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

707.664.2122.

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Guerneville Library

Feb 4, 2pm, De Colores.

14107 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville. 707.869.9004.

HopMonk Sebastopol

Feb 3, Anthony Presti & the Tusslers with the John CourageTrio. Feb 4, Sol Horizon with the Bloodstones. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol.

707.829.7300.

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THE PARTY STARTS NOW TOUR

Feb 3, the Aqua Velvets.

Feb 4, Erica Sunshine Lee. 691 Broadway, Sonoma.

707.935.9100.

Hotel Healdsburg

Feb 4, Bennett Friedman Quartet. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg. 707.431.2800.

Jamison’s Roaring Donkey

Feb 3, Van Goat & the Fell Swoop. 146 Kentucky St, Petaluma. 707.772.5478.

Lagunitas Tap Room Feb 1, Misner & Smith.

Feb 2, Aqua Velvets. Feb 3, Erica Sunshine Lee. Feb 4, the Hucklebucks. Feb 5, New Copasetics. Feb 8, the Gentlemen Soldiers. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma.

707.778.8776.

Lavish Hi-Fi

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

Local Barrel

Feb 3, Pat Jordan Band. 490 Mendocino Ave #104, Santa Rosa. 707.890.5433.

Main Street Bistro

Feb 2, Susan Sutton. Feb 3, Wild Janie Jazz Band. Feb 4, Yancie Taylor. Feb 5, Mac & Potter.

16280 Main St, Guerneville.

707.869.0501.

Mystic Theatre

Feb 1, Prof with Finding Novyon, Metasota and Willie Wonka. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.765.2121.

Occidental Center for the Arts Feb 4, Mariah

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

Harbor View Dr, Sausalito.

415.331.2899.

Parker’s Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental.

707.874.9392.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon

Petaluma Historical Library & Museum

Feb 3, 6:30pm, the doRiaN Mode. 20 Fourth St, Petaluma.

707.778.4398.

Phoenix Theater

Feb 4, Jay Williz with No Limit Creation and LaDarius Spikes.

201 Washington St, Petaluma.

707.762.3565.

Redwood Cafe

Feb 3, Junior Toots. Feb 4, Soul Section. Feb 5, 5pm, Gypsy Kisses. Feb 7, Rock Overtime student performance. Feb 8, singer-songwriter competition.

8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7868.

Rio Nido Roadhouse

Feb 4, Captain Paisley. 14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido.

707.869.0821.

Ruth McGowan’s Brewpub

Feb 4, the Cherry Pickers.

131 E First St, Cloverdale.

707.894.9610.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse Feb 2, Levi’s Workshop with Levi Lloyd and Bill Noteman.

Feb 3, Firewheel. Feb 4, Johnny Tsunami & the Hurricanes.

Feb 5, David Thom Invitational Bluegrass Jam. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove.

707.795.5118.

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Whiskey Tip

Feb 3, DJ Sizzlak & DJ Dinga.

Feb 4, reggae show. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.843.5535.

MARIN COUNTY Fenix

Feb 2, C4 Inc. Feb 3, Reed Fromer Band. Feb 4, Michael Henderson. Feb 5, 6:30pm, Lloyd Gregory and friends.

Feb 7, West Coast Songwriters Competition. Feb 8, pro blues jam. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.813.5600.

Grazie Restaurant

Feb 4, Kurt Huget and Peter Penhallow. 823 Grant Ave, Novato. 415.897.5181.

HopMonk Novato

Feb 2, Happnstance with Natalie Smith. Feb 3, Neon Velvet. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

INCAVO Wine Tasting & Collective Feb 4, 7pm, Terry Savastano.

Feb 1, Todos Santos. Feb 8, Kurt Huget and friends.

765 Center Blvd, Fairfax.

415.485.1005.

Marin Country Mart

Feb 3, 5:30pm, Friday Night Jazz with Joshua Smith Trio.

2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur.

19 Broadway Club

Feb 1, 5pm, Buddy Owen Band.

Feb 1, 8:30pm, the Damon LeGall Band. Feb 3, 5:30pm, Danny Montana and friends.

Feb 3, 9pm, First Friday reggae with Broken Silence Sound System. Feb 4, 5:30pm, Michael Brown and friends.

Feb 4, 9:30pm, New Monsoon.

Feb 5, 6pm, 19 Broadway Good Time Band. Feb 5, 9pm, Elvis Johnson’s blues jam.

Feb 6, open mic. Feb 8, the Substitutes. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

No Name Bar

Feb 3, Michael Aragon Quartet.

757 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.332.1392.

Feb 3, Het Hat Club. Feb 4, Sean Hayes. 41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas.

415.868.1311.

Sweetwater Music Hall

Feb 3-4, Petty Theft. Feb 5, 12pm, Roger McNamee.

Feb 6, open mic with Austin DeLone. Feb 8, Aaron Redner & His Band of Love Ninjas. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley.

415.388.3850.

Terrapin Crossroads Feb 6-7, Phil Lesh & the Terrapin Family Band. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael.

415.524.2773.

Throckmorton Theatre Feb 2, an evening with David Lindley. Feb 3, Blithedale Canyon and the Jones Gang. Feb 4, Richard Howell and Sudden Changes. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

NAPA COUNTY Blue Note Napa

Osher Marin JCC

Feb 4, 7 and 9:30pm, Henry Kapono with Blayne Asing.

Feb 8, 6:30 and 9pm, Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. 1030 Main St, Napa.

707.603.1258.

Panama Hotel Restaurant

Ca’ Momi Osteria

Feb 4, the Colors of India & Bollywood Dance Party with Dholrhythms Dance Company.

200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.

Feb 1, Dan Brown Trio. Feb 2, Haute Flash Quartet. Feb 7, Swing Fever. Feb 8, J Kevin Durkin. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael. 415.457.3993.

Peri’s Silver Dollar

Feb 1, the Weissmen. Feb 2, Mark’s Jam Sammich. Feb 3, Swoop Unit. Feb 4, Cookie.

Feb 5, Matt Bolton. Feb 6, Billy D’s open mic. Feb 7, the Good Guys. Feb 8, the New Sneakers. 29 Broadway, Fairfax.

415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio

Feb 3, Jerry Hannan. Feb 4, the Mike Duke & Annie Sampson Show. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio. 415.662.2219.

Feb 4, Minus Mary. 1141 First St, Napa. 707.224.6664.

Hydro Grill

First Saturday of every month, Always Elvis. 1403 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga. 707.942.9777.

Jarvis Conservatory Feb 4, It’s a Grand Night for Singers. 1711 Main St, Napa.

707.255.5445.

RaeSet

Feb 3, Friday Night Blues with Gretschkat. Feb 4, Randy’s open mic. Feb 6, jazz lab.

3150 B Jefferson St, Napa.

707.666.9028.

Silo’s

Rickey’s

Feb 3, SwingSet. Feb 4, Charles Wheal Band. 250 Entrada Dr, Novato. 415.883.9477.

Feb 1, Syria T Berry. Feb 2, Second Street Band. Feb 3, Lef Deppard. Feb 4, Midnight Dust Busters. Feb 8, David Kelleher. 530 Main St, Napa.

707.251.5833.

Sausalito Seahorse

Uva Trattoria

Wed, Milonga with Marcelo Puig and Seth Asarnow. Feb 2, Cuervos. Feb 3, Doc Kraft & Company. Feb 5, 5pm, Julio Bravo & Salsabor. Feb 7, Noel Jewkes and friends. 305

Feb 1, Trio Solea. Feb 2, Dan & Margarita. Feb 3, Tony Macaroni Trio. Feb 4, Kickin the Mule. Feb 5, David Ranconi. Feb 8, Justin Diaz. 1040 Clinton St, Napa. 707.255.6646.

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Autism in the Family Keynote Speaker Dr. Temple Grandin

707.546.3600 lutherburbankcenter.org

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with Billy Cox, Buddy Guy, Zakk Wylde, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and more!

Tickets: Premium $30 • General Advance $25; Door $28

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Experience Hendrix

Friday, February 3 at 8:00pm

General Advanced: $10 • Age 12-18: $5 Ages 11 and under: Free; Door $13

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Arts Events RECEPTIONS Feb 3

Arts Guild of Sonoma, “Romance Month,” features the artisan jewelry of Nancy Martin. 5pm. 140 East Napa Street, Sonoma.

707.996.3115.

BackStreet Gallery, “The Art of Resistance,” pop-up show includes powerful new work by 30 local artists, curated by Suzanne Edminster and Adrian Mendoza. 5pm. behind 312 South A St, Santa Rosa.

707.568.4204.

Blue Door Gallery, “Let’s Make Some Love,” hearts abound in this show featuring works by Dianne Neuman and Douglas DeVivo. 3pm. 16359 Main St, Guerveville. 707.865.9878.

Desta Art & Tea Gallery, “Unbridled Flow,” featuring works by longtime Marin artist Nicholas Coley. 6pm.

417 San Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo. 415.524.8932.

Feb 4

Erickson Fine Art Gallery, “CANTOS: Songs for the New Year,” abstract paintings in

Galleries SONOMA COUNTY The Art Wall at Shige Sushi Through Feb 26, “Sami Lange: Paintings & Drawings,” Lange’s works on paper, created by stitching together detailed drawings, give the appearance of intricate paper quilts. 8235 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

Hours vary. 707.795.9753.

Charles M. Schulz Museum Through Feb 19, “Lucky Dogs & Presidential Pets,” learn more about the lives of presidential pets, and how Snoopy himself handles being elected to high office. 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, noon to 5; Sat-Sun, 10 to 5.

707.579.4452.

the search for celebratory moments by artist Carol Setterlund. 5:30pm. 324 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg.

707.431.7073.

Graton Gallery, “Small Works Show,” sixth annual group show keeps it tiny.

2pm. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. 707.829.8912.

Sebastopol Gallery, “A Walk in the Forest,” botanical paintings by Lucy Martin explores beautiful and surprising life forms found in the forests. 4pm. 150 N Main St, Sebastopol.

707.829.7200.

Feb 7

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, “Red,” group show features art centered around the striking color.

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

The Spinster Sisters Restaurant, “Clark Swarthout Drawings,” Santa Rosa artist presents an exhibit of intricate and imaginative pen and ink drawings. 5pm. 401 South A St, Santa Rosa.

707.528.7100.

Chroma Gallery

Through Mar 11, “Art of the Figure,” art celebrates the timeless tradition of drawing the human figure. Reception, Feb 3 at 5pm. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa. 707.293.6051.

City Hall Council Chambers

Through Mar 9, “Hreint,” the Icelandic word for “pure” centers Santa Rosa photographer Collin Morrow’s new collection of photos from a summer tour of Iceland.

Reception, Feb 10 at 5pm. 100 Santa Rosa Ave, Ste 10, Santa Rosa. 707.543.3010.

Finley Community Center

Through Mar 31, “National Arts Program Exhibition,” 14th annual show and competition features local artists of all ages. Reception, Mar 5 at 3pm.

Through Mar 2, “Ed Dechant: Art Through 70 Years,” the Bay

Area artist shows off a lifetime of passion and pleasure. 2060 W College Ave, Santa Rosa.

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

707.543.3737.

Healdsburg Center for the Arts

Through Feb 5, “Members’ Exhibition,” see an extraordinary array of art in several mediums shown without constraints of a theme.

130 Plaza St, Healdsburg. Daily, 11 to 6. 707.431.1970.

IceHouse Gallery

Through Feb 18, “Mostly Monochrome Group Exhibition,” features over 80 images. 405 East D St, Petaluma. 707.778.2238.

Riverfront Art Gallery

Through Mar 5, “Photoshopped or Not?” Riverfront Gallery co-owner and photographer Lance Kuehne shows new work that concentrates on magnificent and vibrant local landscapes. 132 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. Wed, Thurs and Sun, 11 to 6. Fri-Sat, 11 to 8.

707.775.4ART.

wood, employing traditional techniques to explore contemporary cultural issues.

2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.332.3871.

Corte Madera Library

Through Feb 10, “Corte Madera the Way It Was,” an exhibit of historical images shows Corte Madera from 1887 to 1960.

707 Meadowsweet Dr, Corte Madera. 707.924.6444.

Falkirk Cultural Center Through Feb 25, “High School Arts Mashup,” local high school student poetry and art coordinated through the Arts Mashup exchange program.

1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael.

415.485.3438.

Gallery Route One

Through Feb 19, “Beginnings,” juried group show features Northern California artists working in all media.

Reception, Jan 28 at 3pm.

11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station. Wed-Mon, 11 to 5.

415.663.1347.

Marin Society of Artists

Through Feb 4, “Roadside Attractions,” a showing of unique 2D and 3D works. 1515 Third St, San Rafael. Wed-Sun, Noon to 4pm. 415.464.9561.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts

MarinMOCA

Steele Lane Community Center

Osher Marin JCC

Through Feb 2, “Santa Rosa Photographic Society Members’ Show,” featuring photographs in a wide variety of styles and subjects.

415 Steele Ln, Santa Rosa.

Mon-Thurs, 8 to 7; Fri, 8 to 5.

707.543.3282.

Through Mar 10, “Traces of Sepharad,” etchings by New York-based artist Marc Shanker are based on Judeo-Spanish proverbs and densely layered with meaning and cultural connections. Reception, Jan 26 at 6:30pm. 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael. 415.444.8000.

West County Museum

Robert Allen Fine Art

Through Feb 12, “Marvelous!” an international exhibit of collage, assemblage and other constructed works. 282 S High St, Sebastopol. Tues-Fri, 10 to 4; Sat-Sun, 1 to 4. 707.829.4797.

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 Bay Model Visitor Center

Through Feb 25, “Fixed Landscapes,” sculptor Brian Andrews works with

CRITIC’S CHOICE

Through Feb 19, “Hidden,” juried exhibition featuring the artists of MarinMOCA explores the concept of concealed or disguised imagery. 500 Palm Dr, Novato. Wed-Fri, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, 11 to 5. 415.506.0137.

Feb 2-Mar 31, “Works on Paper,” group exhibit features prints, drawings and mixed media pieces from several artists. 301 Caledonia St, Sausalito. Mon-Fri, 10 to 5.

415.331.2800.

Comedy

Art for All Occasions

SOFA art district hosts three shows at once The collection of studios, shops and restaurants in Santa Rosa’s South of A arts district (SOFA) are constantly offering up new shows and exhibits, but this week’s First Friday open studios event is one of the corner’s most expansive offerings yet.

On Friday, Feb. 3, SOFA opens three eclectic art shows. First on the docket, Chroma Gallery opens its third annual “Art of the Figure” group show, featuring work by several Bay Area artists. Every month, Chroma Gallery hosts live models to pose for artists of all levels in a figure drawing group, and this show represents much of the work done in the last year.

In the alley off South A Street, Backstreet Gallery & Studios is getting political and hosting a special pop-up show, “The Art of Resistance,” inspired by recent events and featuring passionate works by local artists in diverse mediums.

On top of these wildly different shows, various other SOFA studios will display “Walls of Small Works,” packing an artistic punch in affordable pieces and offering glimpses into works in progress. With live music and refreshments on hand, this is an art stroll you won’t want to miss.

SOFA’s First Friday open studios happens on Friday, Feb. 3, 312 South A St., Santa Rosa.

5pm to 8pm. Free admission. sofasantarosa. com.—Charlie Swanson

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.

Trivia & Standup Night Trivia contest is followed

An exciting evening of art, food, fine wine, and music by Dave Getz Jazz Trio benefits SSU’s art gallery exhibitions, publications and lecture programs. Feb 4, 6pm. $25.

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

707.664.2295.

Community Media Center of Marin Orientation

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

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

415.721.0636.

Domestic Violence Advocate Training

Become an advocate over five day-long sessions, and make a difference in your community.

Through Feb 4. $300. Center for Domestic Peace, 734 A St, San Rafael.

Dream Circle

Explore dreams together using Robert Moss’s Active Dreaming process. Feb 8, 6:30pm. $25.

Harmonia, 2200 Marinship Way, Sausalito. 415.332.1432.

Guerneville First Friday Art Walk

Event includes artist receptions and food pairings. First Fri of every month. Free.

Downtown Guerneville, Main St, Guerneville.

The Lighthearted Side of Life

An entertaining evening of original stories and poems by local writers highlights a community of like-hearted women. Feb 3, 7pm. Free.

Center for Spiritual Living, 2075 Occidental Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.546.4543.

Media Mixer

Public is invited to a mixer that features seasoned video maker and CMCM member Ed Dudkowski in a presentation.

RSVP requested. Feb 1, 7pm.

Free. Community Media Center of Marin, 819 A St, San Rafael, marinartists@hotmail.com.

Metta Gathering

Monthly session features a

Stroll among art exhibits at various galleries and stores, as well as city hall and the community center. Feb 7, 6pm.

Mill Valley Depot Plaza, 87 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

Network Entrepreneurial Women of Marin

An evening where you can network with other entrepreneurial women, hear from a guest speaker and enjoy delicious dining. RSVP required.

Feb 7, 6pm. Piatti’s Ristorante & Bar, 625 Redwood Hwy, Mill Valley. 415.380.2525.

Rumi’s Caravan

The popular North Bay poetry ensemble marks its 17th year with two mystical and poetic performances accompanied by live music and an optional benefit dinner. Feb 4, 2 and 7pm. $25-$35 and up.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol.

707.829.4797.

Sebastopol Art Walk

Downtown area galleries and businesses showcase local artists. First Thurs of every month, 6pm. Sebastopol Plaza, Weeks Way, Sebastopol.

707.874.9462.

The Stargate Experience

Day-long workshop consists of short guided meditative experiences. Feb 4, 10am. $111.

Corte Madera Inn, 56 Madera Blvd, Corte Madera.

Walls of Small Works Open Studios

Casual open studio night during this month’s First Friday event includes artists showing walls of small pieces. Feb 3, 5pm. SOFA Arts District, 312 South A St, Santa Rosa.

Field Trips Dogbane Cordage & Stewardship

Learn about the important Native American cultural uses of the Dogbane plant as you explore. Pre-registration required. Feb 5, 12:30pm.

Dogbane Preserve, Alba Lane, Santa Rosa, landpaths.org.

Family Camp

Weekend is focused on getting

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Garden Volunteer Day Help the native plant garden.

No experience necessary, training and tools provided.

RSVP for large parties. Feb 3, 9am. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.527.9277.

Habitat Hike

Redwood forests are the habitat focus in this walk.

Feb 4, 10am. Free. Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, 2605 Adobe Canyon Rd, Kenwood.

707.833.5712.

Laguna Kayaking & Hiking

Celebrate World Wetlands Day on the laguna. Preregistration required. Feb 2, 9am. $50. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.527.9277.

Film

52 W. 6th Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401

CULT Film Series

Romance has never been stranger than when “Harold & Maude” and “Heathers” screen back to back. Feb 2, 7pm. $10.

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

707.525.8909.

Food & Drink Corte Madera Farmers Market Wed-noon. Town Center Corte Madera, 100 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera.

415.382.7846.

affordable clothing boutique OPEN 11–6 Mon–Sun 707.242.3027 8200 Old Redwood Hwy Cotati

Fresh Starts Chef Event

Chef Heidi Krahling shares recipes drawn from her two San Anselmo restaurants, Insalata’s and Marinitas.

Feb 1, 6:30pm. $60. Next Key Center, 1385 N Hamilton Pkwy, Novato.

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

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

707.963.4555.

Paint a

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Moon by Robyn Beattie, Ceramic

Art from the Heart

Mill Valley Art Walk

outdoors and playing, learning, serving and working in our National Park. Through Feb 5. $275 per family. Point Bonita YMCA, 981 Fort Barry, Sausalito.

415.331.9622.

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Events

dharma talk and meditation. Feb 7, 7:30pm. Buddhist Temple of Marin, 390 Miller Ave, Mill Valley.

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Fresh Starts Pop-Up Event

Sammy Hagar and Chef Henry Cortez of El Paseo host a party featuring dishes from the Mill Valley restaurant plus a signature cocktail made with Hagar’s Beach Bar Rum. Feb 6, 6:30pm. $75. The Key Room, 1385 N Hamilton Pkwy, Novato.

415.382.3363, ext 215.

Indian Valley Farm Stand

Organic farm and garden produce stand where you bring your own bag. Sat, 10am.

College of Marin, Indian Valley Campus, 1800 Ignacio Blvd, Novato. 415.454.4554.

Marin Country Mart Sat, 9am. Marin Country Mart, 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur.

415.461.5715.

Mill Valley Farmers Market

Feb 24, 25 & 26

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Fri, 9:30am. CVS parking lot, 759 E Blithedale Ave, Mill Valley. 415.382.7846.

Oakmont Certified Farmers Market

Sat, 9am. Berger Center, 6575 Oakmont Dr, Santa Rosa.

707.538.7023.

Petaluma East Side Certified Farmers Market Tues, 10am. Petaluma Community Center, 320 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma.

415.999.5635.

Redwood Empire Farmers Market

Sat, 8:30am and Wed, 8:30am.

Veterans Memorial Building, 1351 Maple Ave, Santa Rosa.

thrivehydro.com

707.433.4068

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lot, 241 First St W, Sonoma.

707.538.7023.

Wine’s Night Out

Try a variety of award-winning Sonoma County wine at one convenient place Second Wed of every month, 6pm. through Mar 8. $20. Flamingo Lounge, 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa.

707.545.8530.

For Kids Digital Photography for Kids

The Image Flow’s Constance Chu leads a six-session class for aspiring young photographers that’s a fun and challenging journey of photographic exploration and learning. Feb 1, 3:30pm. The Image Flow, 401 Miller Ave, Ste A, Mill Valley. 415.388.3569.

Museum Mondays for Little Ones

Children ages one to five and their families are invited to enjoy storytime, arts, crafts and museum activities. Mon, 10am. through Feb 27. $5.

Charles M. Schulz Museum, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa.

707.579.4452.

Lectures Biology Colloquium

Dr Simon Melov talks about identifying molecular hallmarks of aging and antiaging therapies. Feb 7, 12pm.

Darwin 103, SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

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Find out how to help honeybees feel welcome in your garden, and things to avoid. Feb 2, 6pm. Free.

Petaluma Seed Bank, 199 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

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Grape Day

Annual program provides research-based information on issues important to the production of north coast wine grapes. Feb 8, 8am. $40-$45.

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.565.2621.

Kitchen Garden Series Part two in the series focuses on irrigation and extending the season for your plants.

Feb 4, 2pm. $125. Healdsburg Shed, 25 North St, Healdsburg.

707.431.7433.

Kokedama String Garden Workshop

Learn about the Japanese art form of living sculpture suspended in air. Feb 5, 1pm. $65. Petaluma Seed Bank, 199 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.773.1336.

Making a Sweeter Home for Bay Area Bees

Learn how beekeepers are doing their ecological duty by aiding the workings of nature.

Feb 2, 1pm. Outdoor Art Club, 1 W Blithedale Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.2582.

Queer Lecture Series

Sarah Schulman presents a talk titled “Conflict Is Not Abuse.”

Feb 6, 12pm. Ives 101, SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

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Learn important facts about how the college application process has changed since you were in high school. Tues, Feb 7, 6:30pm. Novato Library, 1720 Novato Blvd, Novato.

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Sonoma Speaker Series

Ten-week life planning workshop series for boomers helps you prepare for the next stage in life. Feb 4, 10am. $175. Shelter Bay Clubhouse, 2304 Shelter Bay, Mill Valley.

415.444.6556.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Markoff speaks on artificial intelligence and its implications. Feb 6, 7pm. Hanna Boys Center, 17000 Arnold Dr, Sonoma.

707.996.6767.

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Sat, 9am and Wed, 9am. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.522.8629.

Sun, 10am. Sebastopol Plaza, Weeks Way, Sebastopol.

707.522.9305.

Sonoma Mountain Marketplace Certified Farmers Market Sat-Sun, 10am. SOMO Village Event Center, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park.

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Talk will help retirees eliminate monthly mortgage payments and increase income producing assets. Thurs, Feb 2, 11am. $35.

Redwood High School, 395 Doherty Dr, Larkspur.

Help your garden flourish by understanding how roots really grow. Feb 8, 6pm. Free.

Petaluma Seed Bank, 199 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

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The acclaimed poet and motivational speaker brings his talents to the North Bay for a performance. Feb 7, 7:30pm.

Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall, SSU, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park.

Valentine Printmaking Workshop

Wild Napa

Talk focuses on the salmon and trout found in the Napa River.

Feb 8, 7pm. Free. Napa Main Library, 580 Coombs St, Napa.

707.253.4070.

Readings Aqus Cafe

Feb 6, 6:15pm, A-Muse-ing Monday with Rivertown Poets, poets Diane Frank and Erik Ievins read, followed by open mic. 189 H St, Petaluma 707.778.6060.

Book Passage

Feb 1, 7pm, “The Tsar of Love and Techno” with Anthony Marra, launch event for One Book One Marin 2017. Feb 4, 1pm, “Tips for Helping Your Aging Parents” with Kira Reginato. Feb 4, 4pm, “With Love for the Journey” with Lou Ann Granger. Feb 4, 7pm, “Raised in the Shadow of the Bomb” with Leah Steinberg.

Feb 5, 1pm, “West Marin Review, Volume 7” with various authors. Feb 6, 6pm, “Caraval” with Stephanie Garber. Feb 6, 7pm, “Prevention Diaries” with Larry Cohen. Feb 7, 7pm, “A Taste for Provence” with Helen Horowitz. Feb 8, 7pm, “Refinery Town” with Steve Early. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

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Feb 3, 6pm, “The Moon Inside” with Sandra V Feder, kids’ pj party with the author. 2419 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur 415.785.8177.

Marin Art & Garden Center

Feb 7, 6pm, “The Bee-Friendly Garden” with Kate Frey, includes talk and book signing. 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross 415.455.5260.

Napa Bookmine

Feb 7, 6:30pm, Poetry Book Club, read and discuss “Notes on the Assemblage” by Juan Felipe Herrera. 964 Pearl St, Napa 707.733.3199.

Rebound Bookstore Feb 2, 7pm, Teen open mic

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Feb 8, 7pm, “A Crooked Smile” with Terri Tate. 110 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo 415.258.4656.

Theater Buyer & Cellar

A struggling actor in LA takes a job working in the megabasement of Barbara Streisand in this one-man comedy making its North Bay premiere.

Feb 3-19. $10-$26. Studio Theatre, 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

707.523.4185.

The Clean House

Play about a housekeeper with aspirations towards comedy mixes humor and heartbreak in a whimsical look at class, comedy and the nature of love. Through Feb 12. $10-$25.

Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg. 707.433.3145.

Emilie

Ross Valley Players welcomes Lauren Gunderson, a playwright in residence at Marin Theatre Company, to bring 18th-century noblewoman Emilie du Châtelet to life in a night of theater you won’t soon forget. Through Feb 5. $10 and up. Barn Theatre, Marin Art and Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross.

415.456.9555.

Evita

Sonoma Arts Live opens a season dedicated to “Women Who Dare” with a performance of the Broadway sensation about Eva Peron. Through Feb 5. $22-$32. Sonoma Community Center, 276 E Napa St, Sonoma, sonomaartslive.org.

Lettice & Lovage

Comedy is about a flamboyant tour guide prone to outrageous embellishment of the history of the English country house where she works. Feb 3-19. $12$27. Novato Theater Playhouse, 5420 Nave Dr, Novato.

415.883.4498.

staging and powerful choreography brings this award-winning take on the Cinderella story to life. Feb 8, 6:30pm. $12-$17. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

Murder at Joe’s Speakeasy

Get a Clue Productions presents an interactive murder-mystery dinner theater show set in the Roaring Twenties. Fri, Feb 3, 7pm. $68. Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor, getaclueproductions.com.

Native Son

Stage adaptation of Richard Wright’s famous protest novel gets a West Coast premiere.

Through Feb 12. $22-$60. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.5208.

Stage Kiss

The charming and funny play about two actors with an amorous history cast as romantic leads in a 1930s melodrama makes its North Bay premiere. Through Feb 5. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 West Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

707.523.4185.

A Steady Rain

Gripping drama about two police officers and lifelong friends whose accounts of a harrowing case are wildly opposed. Feb 3-19. $15-$30.

Main Stage West, 104 N Main St, Sebastopol. 707.823.0177.

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Songwriter Linda Hirschhorn teams up with actor and director Naomi Newman for an evening of storytelling, memoir and music. Feb 4, 7:30pm. $20.

Congregation Ner Shalom, 85 La Plaza, Cotati.

You Got Older

Left Edge Theatre performs the quirky, darkly comic new play about family and illness. Feb 3-19. $25-$40. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.546.3600.

A Little Night Music

Lucky Penny presents Stephen Sondheim’s stunning tour de force musical work that has forever entranced the world of theatre. Through Feb 12. Lucky Penny Community Arts Center, 1758 Industrial Way, Napa.

707.266.6305.

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M

arijuana is going mainstream, as evidenced by the spread of medical marijuana and now outright legalization, not to mention its increasingly favorable position in popular culture.

There’s just one problem: pot remains illegal under federal law.

That’s a big problem for John Hudak, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution who has a keen professional interest in public policy implementation. In Marijuana: A Short History, Hudak takes marijuana legalization as pretty much a given—provided it isn’t screwed up too badly in implementation—and sees federal marijuana prohibition as an obstacle to getting pot policy right.

He sketches out the strange place we now find ourselves, with a booming industry enriching state tax coffers at the same time it remains federally illegal, and a federal government

largely turning a blind eye to the violations of federal law—at least for now—while at the same time refusing to allow that industry the banking privileges and tax breaks provided to legal businesses.

Meanwhile, marijuana sellers become Chamber of Commerce members in some states and prison inmates in others.

In Hudak’s view, we’re now in a “worst of both worlds” status quo: “The resulting situation in the United States may be worse than either national legalization or national prohibition. Legal realities are loosely defined by executive branch guidance and suggestions from the administration. This guidance fails to answer important questions and oftentimes creates new ones.

States are constantly asking the federal government how to deal with many of the problems they face; the answers are almost always insufficient.”

Now, at the start of 2017, the tensions Hudak highlights are even more acute, and the November elections brought them to the fore. At the same time the legal recreational market quintupled in size, with victories in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada, the nation elected Donald Trump, whose attorney general pick, Alabama senator Jeff Sessions, is an avowed foe of legalization. Hudak raises the right questions about marijuana’s future.

Marijuana: A Short History is serious stuff with a serious purpose: getting us down the path to a sane and effective marijuana policy nationwide. People with an interest in marijuana and marijuana legalization need to be thinking about these things, and Hudak is going to reward a serious reader. And he isn’t going to make you slog through 400 pages of academic prose along the way.

Phillip Smith lives in Sebastopol and is editor of the AlterNet Drug Reporter and author of the ‘Drug War Chronicle’

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I demand euphoria!” Given your current astrological aspects, Aries, I think you have every right to invoke that battle cry yourself. From what I can tell, there’s a party underway inside your head. And I’m pretty sure it’s a healthy bash, not a decadent debacle. The bliss it stirs up will be authentic, not contrived. The release and relief it triggers won’t be trivial and transitory, but will generate at least one long-lasting breakthrough.

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GEMINI (May 21–June 20) Here are your five words of power for the next two weeks, Gemini.

1. “unscramble”: Invoke this verb with regal confidence as you banish chaos and restore order. 2. “purify”: Be inspired to cleanse your motivations and clarify your intentions. 3. “reach”: Act as if you have a mandate to stretch out, expand and extend yourself to arrive in the right place. 4. “rollick”: Chant this magic word as you activate your drive to be lively, carefree and frolicsome.

5. “blithe”: Don’t take anything too personally, too seriously or too literally.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) The 17th-century German alchemist Hennig Brand collected 1,500 gallons of urine from beer-drinkers, then cooked and recooked it till it achieved the “consistency of honey.” Why? He thought his experiment would eventually yield large quantities of gold. It didn’t, of course. But along the way, he accidentally produced a substance of great value: phosphorus. It was the first time anyone had created a pure form of it. So in a sense, Brand “discovered” it.

Today, phosphorus is widely used in fertilizers, water treatment, steel production, detergents and food processing. I bring this to your attention, my fellow Cancerian, because I suspect you will soon have a metaphorically similar experience. Your attempt to create a beneficial new asset will not generate exactly what you wanted, but will nevertheless yield a useful result.

LEO (July 23–August 22)

In the documentary movie Catfish, the directors, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, present a metaphor drawn from the fishing industry.

They say that Asian suppliers used to put live codfish in tanks and send them to overseas markets. It was only upon arrival that the fish would be processed into food. But there was a problem: because the cod were so sluggish during the long trips, their meat was mushy and tasteless. The solution? Add catfish to the tanks.

That energized the cod and ultimately made them more flavorful. Moral of the story, according to Joost and Schulman: Like the cod, humans need catfish-like companions to stimulate them and keep them sharp.

Do you have enough influences like that in your life, Leo? Now is a good time to make sure you do.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) The city of Boston allows an arts organization called Mass Poetry to stencil poems on sidewalks. The legal graffiti is done with a special paint that remains invisible until it gets wet. So if you’re a pedestrian trudging through the streets as it starts to rain, you may suddenly behold, emerging from the blank, gray concrete, Langston Hughes’ poem “Still Here” or Fred Marchant’s “Pear Tree in Flower.” I foresee a metaphorically similar development in your life, Virgo: a pleasant and educational surprise arising unexpectedly out of the vacant blahs.

LIBRA (September 23–October 22)

When he was in the rock band Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh took his time composing and recording new music. From 1978 to 1984, he and his collaborators averaged one album per year. But when Mothersbaugh started writing soundtracks for the weekly TV show Pee-

BY ROB BREZSNY

Wee’s Playhouse, his process went into overdrive. He typically wrote an entire show’s worth of music each Wednesday and recorded it each Thursday. I suspect you have that level of creative verve right now, Libra.

Use it wisely! If you’re not an artist, channel it into the area of your life that most needs to be refreshed or reinvented.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

Many vintage American songs remain available today because of the pioneering musicologist John Lomax.

In the first half of the 20th century, he traveled widely to track down and record obscure cowboy ballads, folk songs and traditional African-American tunes.

“Home on the Range” was a prime example of his many discoveries. He learned that song, often referred to as “the anthem of the American West,” from a black saloon-keeper in Texas. I suggest we make Lomax a role model for you Scorpios during the coming weeks.

It’s an excellent time to preserve and protect the parts of your past that are worth taking with you into the future.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21) The mountain won’t come to you. It will not acquire the supernatural power to drag itself over to where you are, bend its craggy peak down to your level and give you a free ride as it returns to its erect position.

So what will you do? Moan and wail in frustration?

Retreat into a knot of helpless indignation and sadness? Please don’t. Instead, stop hoping for the mountain to do the impossible. Set off on a journey to the remote, majestic pinnacle with a fierce song in your determined heart. Pace yourself. Doggedly master the art of slow, incremental magic.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) Who can run faster, a person or a horse? There’s evidence that under certain circumstances, a human can prevail.

In June of every year since 1980, the Man Versus Horse Marathon has taken place in the Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells. The route of the race weaves 22 miles through marsh, bogs and hills. On two occasions, a human has outpaced all the horses. According to my astrological analysis, you Capricorns will have that level of animalistic power during the coming weeks. It may not take the form of foot speed, but it will be available as stamina, energy, vitality and instinctual savvy.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) Who would have guessed that Aquarian Charles Darwin, the pioneering theorist of evolution, had a playful streak? Once he placed a male flower’s pollen under a glass along with an unfertilized female flower to see if anything interesting would happen. “That’s a fool’s experiment,” he confessed to a colleague. “But I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.” Now would be an excellent time for you to consider trying some fools’ experiments of your own, Aquarius. I bet at least one of them will turn out to be both fun and productive.

PISCES (February 19–March 20)

In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, three witches brew up a spell in a cauldron. Among the ingredients they throw in there is the “eye of newt.” Many modern people assume this refers to the optical organ of a salamander, but it doesn’t. It’s actually an archaic term for “mustard seed.” When I told my Piscean friend John about this, he said, “Damn! Now I know why Jessica didn’t fall in love with me.” He was making a joke about how the love spell he’d tried hadn’t worked.

Let’s use this as a teaching story, Pisces. Could it be that one of your efforts failed because it lacked some of the correct ingredients? Did you perhaps have a misunderstanding about the elements you needed for a successful outcome? If so, correct your approach and try again.

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