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What a Year Thanks, Tom (“The Year in Review,” Dec. 20). You’ve recapped a momentous year that we are all looking forward to putting behind us. Now I’m relaxed.

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Humans Before Institutions Alan Wayne and Paul Livingston got letters printed in your Dec. 27 edition.

Although Mr. Wayne only hinted at it, Mr. Livingston actually brought out the old communist boogeyman. I do not want to get rid of either the market or the central government. I don’t think

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One of the things he was right about is that human institutions are just that—human institutions. Money and the market are human devices intended to aid in the distribution of goods and services among the population. When

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Journey Not Over Wondering where the coverage of Journey’s End mobile home park has gone? No news story of the fire in the last month, in any local media—KSRO, the Press Democrat, the San Francisco Chronicle or the Bohemian—mentioned how these victims are doing. Where are they? What is their situation now?

Surely they deserve more recognition.

The omission is glaring in some cases.

For instance, “Resilient City” in the Bohemian’s Dec. 13 issue read: “[T]he city adopted an ordinance aimed at speeding up reconstruction . . . [that] created a ‘Resilient City Combining District’ that loops Coffey Park, Fountaingrove, Oakmont, Montecito Heights and the Round Barn/Highway 101 corridor into a special building zone.”

Not a mention of Journey’s future.

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The Unmediated A no-headline holiday will cure what ails ya BY TOM GOGOLA

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ast week, as the holiday loomed and the news was pretty much all bad, I left the office in Santa Rosa for a homefront vacation notable for its descent into an immediate no-media sloth. I had one agenda, and a seemingly counterintuitive one for a news-gathering professional: in a desperate act of self-care, I resolved to commit to a total news-media blackout for five days.

Friends, that is harder to do than it sounds. But I stuck to it, and over the Christmas break did not tune in to CNN or Fox or MSNBC, or scan the New York Times or the Guardian. There was no Washington Post to toast, no Rachel to revel in, no Politico, Salon, Slate, New Republic, Nation, or L.A. Times. There was no Vox, no Vice, and no Vogue, either. I said no to the New Yorker, the Atlantic and the National Review, and blew off PBS too.

I also pledged to avoid Breitbart (not so hard) and would derail any hostile sneers I might be inclined to send in the direction of Drudge.

For the sake of purity (and to indulge my obsessiveness to its nth degree), I refrained from checking out the local Press Democrat. Hell, I didn’t even pick up the latest issue of this paper, or spend more than two minutes screwing around on Facebook over the break.

Total media blackout means just that, and I’d recommend it to anyone feeling that familiar sense of dread whenever the subject of President You-Know-Who comes up. There’s nothing like letting go of it all and taking a long walk in the woods instead.

I just looked at the calendar, and Lent is still six weeks away. But I’m in the mood for giving stuff up now. After five gloriously media-free days, I feel fresh and clean and un-befouled of the sinful vapors that have stunk up the American-discourse joint over the past couple of fake-news years. I’ve returned from the desert.

If I could continue my no-media fast, I would. But duty calls as the haranguing, taunting headlines are coming hard and fast again.

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ll is quiet on a breezy winter morning at Lawson’s Landing in Dillon Beach as land-use negotiations continue to play out between the Lawson family and the California Coastal Commission.

In its latest appearance before the 12-member commission in November, Lawson’s long-in-theworks wastewater-removal plan was rejected because it reportedly posed a threat to federally endangered red-legged frog habitat.

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consultant and self-described environmentalist Tom Flynn and the affable Mike Lawson, a coowner of the grounds, touring the variegated acreage and getting the rundown on their plan for a new wastewater system after the coastal commission shot down their latest iteration of the plan.

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forces tell the tale, Lawson’s has been working in good faith to come into compliance with various upgrades and state demands since 2008 when the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin (EAC) appealed a Marin County Board of Supervisors’ decision to approve low-cost camping on about 90 acres in the 950-acre property.

Lawson’s has been in operation since the 1950s and mostly serves out-of-town campers rolling in from the Central Valley. It’s a wind-scrubbed haven near the mouth of Tomales Bay that features camping, fishing and boating, and hosts a boat livery and machine shop for boat repairs.

The site had numerous environmental issues that predated the takeover of the facility by a younger generation of Lawsons. A sand-mining operation has been shuttered.

Numerous old bathrooms have been shut down and hundreds of camping spaces have been closed in order to accommodate the demands of the coastal commission.

The Lawsons submitted a Coastal Development Plan (CDP) that was approved by the commission in 2011 and which set out the contours of a plan that would keep Lawson’s in business, while addressing environmentalremediation issues over a period of years and projects.

Over the following six years, the family tried to meet the demands of both the EAC and the coastal commission, says Flynn, as it set out to bring the facility into full compliance with environmental law, and which included retiring some old bathrooms in sensitive camping areas. This transition at Lawson’s appeared to reach its most physically obvious and painful nadir when the Lawsons removed the last of the funky old legacy trailers from the site in 2016 as part of the 2011 agreement.

In early December, the place felt like it was lost in a limbo as the latest coastal commission vote represented a “back-tothe-drawing-board” moment for the Lawsons and Flynn. They’ve

Lawson’s wastewater plan has given rise to what pro-Lawson’s forces describe as a “move the goalposts” dynamic.

The characterization is not shared by the EAC, says the organization’s director, Morgan Patton.

At issue in the latest ruling is the fate of a resident population of red-legged frogs and making sure a wastewater system doesn’t impact their habitat.

Lawson’s Landing, a wind-scrubbed haven near the mouth of Tomales Bay, has been in operation since the 1950s.

On the one hand, Lawson’s was given permission to build new camping spaces under that part of the California Coastal Act that guarantees coastal access to all.

But the Coastal Act also restricts development in “environmentally sensitive habitat areas,” which is exactly where the frogs currently reside.

In essence, the original 2011 agreement with Lawson’s set out to find a balance between the two Coastal Act edicts, and hinges on the installation of a new wastewater-removal system in wetland areas that host the ponds that the frogs populate.

Flynn cites reams of documents and counter-arguments to the coastal commission, as he says the wastewater plan was supported by commission staff, but that a push from local environmentalists swayed a few of the commissioners.

In a bristling op-ed in the Marin Independent Journal

that followed the commission’s no-vote, Flynn also claimed that the Lawson’s plan to protect the frog was even superior to the one offered by the EAC. During a visit to the facility, Flynn and Lawson pledged to continue to work with the organization to find a solution to the wastewater dilemma, and they’ve already set out to offer a revised plan to transport wastewater to a place where it can be properly filtered before reentering the watershed.

In his letter to the coastal commission, Hochstrasser accused the EAC of setting out to “exclude rural property owners from succeeding to provide lowcost, visitor-serving recreational opportunities on coastal lands for future generations who live outside of Marin County.” In effect, he accused the EAC of trying to drive Lawson’s out of business.

The EAC’s Patton notes that the latest offering from Lawson’s had two problems: the impact on frog habitat, and a preexisting conflictresolution process enshrined in the Coastal Act that was already adjudicated in the original deal with Lawson’s.

That was the heart of the 2011 resolution between the competing demands of the Coastal Act, she says, when Lawson’s was given permission to develop recreational camping in wetlands areas, and also agreed to build a new wastewater system along with other environmental upgrades.

“The EAC has worked with the Lawsons along the way,” says Patton, strongly dismissing any notion that move-the-goalposts chicanery is afoot, or that the EAC is indifferent to the recreational needs of out-of-town beachgoers.

“We are supportive of what they are doing. We just want to make sure it’s in the appropriate place that’s not damaging the habitat.”

Patton says that the EAC is simply trying to hold the Lawsons to the agreement they signed in 2011 that set out their Coastal Development Plan.

“It’s not moving the goalposts,” she says. “It’s looking at the CDP.”

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been busily sussing out a new pathway for the wastewater pipes that won’t run afoul of the commission, by avoiding areas that the coastal commission says would unduly impact the frogs.

In the transition from the old wastewater system (which has been removed) to the new one (which has yet to be approved), Lawson’s has leaned heavily on portable toilets for its guests.

As for those old funky trailers, the idea was to replace them with higher-end cottage-trailers, says Lawson, and to expand the camping areas to accommodate tent campers.

Those spots now remain vacant, save for the addition of some picnic benches. It’s the slow season and the biggest crowd they’ve seen lately were the 500 or so folks who showed up after getting burned out in the North Bay fires.

Scott Hochstrasser, a former Marin County environmental review officer, submitted a letter to the coastal commision that summed up the history at Lawson’s to date, and the proLawson’s frustration at the EAC. Hochstrasser wrote that Lawson’s was “an appropriate place for expansion of visitor-serving facilities including overnight camping and boating, providing appropriate environmental resources were protected and sewage disposal facilities were improved to State Regional Water Quality Control Board standards.”

The latest setback for Lawson’s ensued after the commission voted 8–4 against a wastewatertreatment plan that was prepared by the hydrologist recommended by the EAC, says Flynn. In the meantime, says Mike Lawson, the family has been making all sorts of improvements to the business.

Lawson’s is now hosting a Fridaynight beer-and-oysters shindig, offering succulent bivalves from its recently upgraded camp store.

And they’ve put in new picnic tables with great views of Tomales Bay for day-use adventurers who head to this remote little part of Northwest Marin County.

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“It’s astounding to me,” winemaker Tony Coturri says approvingly of his new collection of amphorae, buried in the dirt floor of his cellar in between stacks of tarnished oak barrels that are looking fairly ancient too. “For 8,000 years they’ve been using these things.”

These clay vessels are actually quite younger than that—brand-new, shipped from the nation of Georgia, where wine made in the beeswaxlined fermentation vessels is

enjoying a renaissance among new fans of old traditions.

Coturri says he’s been getting interesting results from the odd-looking ovoids—a cloudy fermentation cleared up after the full moon, for instance. But how to clean these things, when they’re buried deep in the earth?

Luckily, he’s got a lanky assistant in the person of Caleb Leisure, a globetrotting young winemaker who, after stints in France, has been helping Coturri to reboot the winery in the last two years to meet increasing demand for the “natural” wine category.

Coturri grants that that he’s been called the godfather of natural wine, a loosely defined term that generally means wine made without added yeast or sulfites. When you’ve got good grapes, says Coturri, there’s no need to add sulfites.

Yet after Leisure lifts a heavy glass cover off the clay seal of an amphora to extract a sample of a firm, flavorful 2017 white wine that was fermented on its skins, he tops it with inert gas with the greatest of care. Even in this rustic setting, hygiene, not sulfur, is the key, says Coturri, relating what a Southern California wine distributor told him: “Tony, your wines are a bridge between conventional and natural wines—because they’re so clean, you can’t tell they’re natural.”

Strangely enough, there isn’t much of a market for such wines in the North Bay, Coturri says, even if he was the poster boy—or poster graybeard—for organic winemaking pictured on the wall of the local Whole Foods‚ until he pointed out that they no longer carried his wines.

An everyday red blend from Mendocino and Sonoma County fruit, the non-vintage Sandocino North Coast Lot No. 2 ($25) smells like mixed berries in a bed of hay, and brings me right back to the first Coturri Zins I sampled from a folding table they’d set up in the Sonoma Plaza for some wine event or other, about 10 years ago. Or is there something about this aroma more ancient than that?

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Antonio Villaraigosa makes his case for California governor BY JACOB PIERCE

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tanding in front of an 11-foot-tall Christmas tree, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa laid out a vision for housing and redevelopment in California, surrounded by a living room crowd of mayors, city councilmembers, county supervisors, former politicians and Democratic heavyweights. ) 12

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HEAD TO HEAD While the field of candidates for California governor is crowded, Antonio Villaraigosa’s main challenger appears to be Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Villaraigosa, a leading candidate in the 2018 California governor’s race, came to Santa Cruz for a meet-and-greet at the home of former county treasurer Fred Keeley, a friend of Villaraigosa going back to their days in the state assembly together. Villaraigosa preached an “all-of-the-above strategy” to bring down housing costs.

“If you don’t have a strategy of ‘all of the above,’ we’re really not going to deal with this crisis,” Villaraigosa said in a brief interview, after speaking and answering questions from the crowd. “Everybody talks about homelessness, everybody talks about the housing crisis, and we’re not treating it like it is a crisis, like it’s an emergency.”

Villaraigosa is campaigning in advance of the June 5 primary

election. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two candidates will go to a runoff in November.

Villaraigosa, 65, said he remembers buying his first home in a far different housing market at age 24, just by saving up— something he knows is impossible for most young people in 2017.

He has big ideas for how to make housing affordable once again. Some are hotly contested topics like increased housing density and building along major transit corridors.

He broke that plan into five bullet points: • Put together a housing trust fund. Create a statewide revenue source to fund affordable projects.

• Bring back redevelopment in what Villaraigosa calls “Redevelopment 2.0.” Even

though the original decision to ax redevelopment programs was a controversial one, Villaraigosa knows that bringing it back won’t be easy, because legislators have already gotten used to having the nearly $2 billion a year that comes from local property tax.

Still, he hopes to restore those tax increments—some of which used to go to affordable housing—to local governments. If elected, Villaraigosa hopes to restore the program, with the support of mayors from around the state, while eliminating the excesses that Gov. Jerry Brown had criticized while unveiling a plan to gut redevelopment in 2011.

• Encourage cities to plan “smart growth” housing construction. Cities that want to access state money would need a plan for affordable housing.

That would include building for a variety of lower incomes, adding density and building along major transportation corridors. “Every mayor here, every councilmember here knows part of why we have a crisis,” Villaraigosa said. “Because the more affluent communities, with single-family dwellings, constantly complain about the lack of housing, homelessness, and then push back every time you try to build. And the fact of the matter is you’ve gotta build.”

• Introduce regulatory reform.

Require that local governments quicken permitting for proposed projects. Villaraigosa said the state also needs to look at reforming the California Environmental Quality Act, without weakening environmental requirements.

Probably a hundred cities in the state have inclusionary zoning.

Let’s look at the best practices, let’s look at the places that are doing it well. I agree there is no question that some of these things could have the effect of delaying and raising the cost of housing. But in a crisis like this, we can’t let the perfect get in the way of the good.”

The idea of building may not go over well in all corners of the state, but Villaraigosa’s fellow candidate, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, has also called for a housing boom. Newsom, who leads Villaraigosa in the polls, says California needs to nearly quadruple its housing construction.

The race also includes state treasurer John Chiang, former state schools chief Delaine Eastin, attorney John Cox, and Assemblymember Travis Allen.

Villaraigosa on the Issues On support for the state’s public universities “I’m a product of UCLA. I was going to UCLA when our tuition was $275 a quarter. Even with that, we had Cal Grants. I think we’re going to have to really figure that out.”

On pension reform “If you talk to College Futures, and you ask, ‘What are some of the biggest driving costs for higher education?’ it’s pensions.

When I was mayor, we were looking at a bankruptcy. At the time, I said, ‘Not on my watch.’

I was going to have to lay off 5,000 employees out of 37,000 folks. I worked with our unions, and I said, ‘Look I don’t want to lay off people, but we’re going to have to do something.’ Under our constitution, you can’t take away someone’s pension. It’s an earned right, so you have to give them something of like value. So what I gave them was early retirement, and they went from 6 percent to 11 percent. Not everyone’s going

to agree with it, but the fact of the matter is a progressive is going also to have to balance budgets.

And we’re going to have to acknowledge that she [pointing to a young woman] has a right to a decent pension [too].”

On high-speed rail “I’m the guy who said, ‘We’ll build a subway.’ In the middle of the recession, we put a half-penny sales tax, generating $40 billion, built four light rails, lined one busway. We’re in construction on two more. I’m the infrastructure candidate. Having said that, we have to drive down the costs in value engineering. I think we have to look at a public-private partnership. . . . I do think we’re going to have to think out of the box in terms of cost.”

On the race “When I go to faith leaders, and they say, ‘I want to pray for you to win,’ I say, ‘No, pray for wisdom.’

Pray for that. I’d love your vote, but you know what I want you to do? I want you to pay attention.”

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Just hours earlier that same day, the Los Angeles City Council approved a linkage fee for new development that will charge developers between $1 and $15 per square foot, depending on the type of project and location.

Villaraigosa supports that approach and says these tools are important, even though they could get in the way of housing construction if they’re too cumbersome.

“You gotta find the balance,” he said. “Obviously, if it’s overly bureaucratic—that’s the argument that a lot of developers make. New York has inclusionary zoning.

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Conceived by Russian River Brewing Company brewer Jacob Totz and hospitality industry colleagues, Stand Up Sonoma is a comedy benefit that aims to use laughter to help the King Ridge Foundation help Sonoma County rebuild after October’s wildfires. The showcase features sitcom star Joel McHale (Community) and top-tier comics including Nick Kroll and Chris D’Elia, who’ve all been seen on Netflix comedy specials, television shows and movies. The massive benefit show starts with a reception and raffle before the standup stars shine on Thursday, Jan. 4, at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa. 8pm; reception, 6:30pm. $55–$125. 707.546.3600.

Scientists at NASA and other space agencies have begun shedding new light on the mysteries of the universe by studying gravitational waves, actual ripples in spacetime that can only be created by immensely powerful forces of energy. By examining data from these waves, we can now “see” things like black holes, neutron stars and other space objects that are thought to have created heavy elements on earth and formed the Milky Way. This week, UC Berkeley astronomer Eliot Quataert geeks out about these far-out findings with a talk titled ‘Cosmic Gold’ on Sunday, Jan. 7, at HopMonk Tavern, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 7pm. Free. 415.892.6200.

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In the Chinese calendar, 2018 is the Year of the Dog. To celebrate, Sebastopol Center for the Arts is honoring man’s best friend with a group art show, ‘Year of the Dog,’ that features nearly 90 pieces of art dedicated to mutts of all shapes and sizes.

Selected by the curating team at Napa’s di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Amy Owen and Kara Smith, “Year of the Dog” is a spirited showing that runs through Feb. 11 and opens with an artists’ reception on Friday, Jan. 5, at Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S. High St., Sebastopol. 6pm.

Free. 707.829.4797.

New Year’s resolutions are great to make, but sometimes you need inspiration to get you going.

For anyone whose resolutions include writing, there’s no better jolt in the North Bay than the Jumpstart Writing Workshop, returning this week after taking the last month off. All you have to do is bring a notebook and pen, and workshop leaders will get you writing with a variety of prompts to ignite the imagination. Whether you’re looking to write fiction, memoir or poetry, this weekly gathering will kick your creativity into gear on Mondays, beginning Jan. 8, at Copperfield’s Books, 140 Kentucky St., Petaluma. 6:30pm. $15 per week. 707.762.0563.

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MUSICAL FAMILY MAN Even though tickets for Willie Nelson & Family in concert at Graton Resort & Casino are sold-out, there’s no reason you can’t hang out and try to find Willie on Wednesday, Jan. 10, somewhere in Rohnert Park.

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BONDING Alter Theater’s excellent

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Top Torn Tickets The best of local stage in 2017

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nother year of theater has passed, and I’ve got a cigar box filled with torn ticket stubs. It’s time to reflect on the shows that moved me most to laugh, cry and change my view of the world. I present, once again, my 10 favorite theatrical experiences of the last 12 months.

‘Bondage’ (AlterTheater) Gorgeously written by playwright Star Finch and directed with passionate ingenuity by Elizabeth Carter, this world premiere opened in the spring, but has stuck with me all year long. With surreal, dreamlike staging and lyrical prose that flows like poetry, Finch, Carter and a brilliant cast breathed

‘The Birds’ (Main Stage West) Directed by Elizabeth Craven and stunningly well-acted, Conor McPherson’s eerie and unnerving adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s taut tale of ornithological apocalypse was tense, exciting, terrifying and, at times, sad and beautiful. The chilling sound design

by Doug Faxon lets us hear the birds we never see but quickly come to fear as much as the four survivors whose story we watch unfold.

‘In The Heights’ (Santa Rosa Junior College) Lin Manuel Miranda’s joyous celebration of the people who live, love and dream in New York’s Washington Heights was gorgeously and energetically staged by Santa Rosa Junior College. Fueled by hip-hop and dancing, director John Shillington, musical director Janis Wilson and their vast multicultural cast brilliantly presented the North Bay with its best musical of 2017.

‘Native Son’ (Marin Theatre Company) Nambi E. Kelley’s urgent and elegant adaptation of Richard Wright’s game-changing 1940 novel—which tells the tale of a frustrated, furious Chicago black man on the run from the law and the press who sensationalize his story, and thus unleash a racist rabble—was beautifully told in this shattering MTC production, viscerally directed by Seret Scott.

‘Peerless’ (Marin Theatre Company) A little bit Macbeth, a little bit Hunger Games, this wicked satire by Jihae Park skewers America’s current dog-eat-dog academic system.

Directed with dizzying razzledazzle and breathless pace by Margot Bordelon, it easily ranks as one of the year’s most savagely unforgettable plays.

‘You Got Older’ (Left Edge Theatre) Claire Barron’s drama about growing up in a kooky family, directed with breezy warmth by Argo Thompson, was weird but wonderful, kinky but kind, with an ending that was as lump-in-the-throat breathtaking as it was sweetly satisfying.

‘Paggliaci’ (Cinnabar Theater) Ruggero Leoncavallo’s operatic tragedy about infidelity and jealousy among a troupe of clowns, directed with aplomb by Elly Lichenstein, was paired with an immaculately staged silent clown– comedy presented by Clowns on a Stick. The first was beautifully sung and the second was dropdead hilarious—an unlikely but effective pairing that demonstrates Cinnabar’s ongoing commitment to opera and to shaking things up now and then.

‘Little Women’ (Spreckels Theatre Company) Spreckels’ delightful musical adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic tale of the March sisters was charmingly staged with musical simplicity (a piano, a cello and a violin) and a huge amount of humanity and warmth, generously supplied by director Michael Walsh, musical director Lucas Sherman and a strong cast powered by first-rate voices.

‘Becky’s New Car’ (Sonoma Arts Live) Steven Dietz’s fresh and funny comedy about a woman suffering a midlife crisis—the kind usually only talked about when men are doing it—was given a gregarious and highly entertaining production courtesy of director Carl Jordan and a coy cast who knew how to play against expectations for maximum comedic impact. A real charmer.

‘The Odd Couple’ (Cinnabar Theater) Neil Simon’s classic classic comedy was up-to-date and as funny as ever in director Jennifer King’s sprightly and open-hearted production. I’ve seen this show half a dozen times, and have never enjoyed it as much as here, with a stellar cast giving some of the best ensemble work of the year. This is how to make an old play seem new again.

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compelling, compassionate life into the story of an enslaved 13-year-old girl on an island plantation, and her relationship with the childhood friend who is strongly encouraged by relatives to take the role of “owner.” By pleasant happenstance, Bondage is being restaged by AlterTheater Jan. 13–20, at ACT’s Costume Shop Theater in San Francisco. altertheater.org.

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“much ado about nothing” movie, I, Tonya retells the true-life tale of the assault on skater Nancy Kerrigan in winter 1994, when a hired thug wielding a baton tried to get the Olympic athlete out of the way of her rival, Tonya Harding.

Over 20 years later, the circumstances of the assault are still murky, swamped in he-said, she-said details. Here, the story is heightened by frame-breaking. Its star and co-producer, Margot Robbie, strangely excels at direct address to the camera, as in The Big Short, when Robbie took a bubble-bath to better concentrate the minds of viewers while she explained the concept of the sub-prime mortgage.

Those convinced by Suicide Squad that Robbie couldn’t act will be astonished by the glittering, scowling vehemence she brings to this performance. It’s furious, and yet it’s never monotonous; she’s dead impressive as a talented woman whose troubles were arguably not her own causing.

I, Tonya reminds us of the scope of Harding’s achievements as a skater, as well as the way her dirt-poor Portland upbringing skunked her with the patricians in charge of the world of figure skating. But the movie adds pleading for Harding. First, it focuses on the battery she took from her mother (Allison Janney, a deep-down dirty figure from a melodrama—hissable but hard to believe). The abuse continues from her porn-’stached husband, Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan), whom mom warned Tonya about.

To the camera, Tonya denies she took a potshot at Jeff, even as we see her pumping the smoking shell out of the shotgun. After the scandal, we see her short-lived career as a boxer. The best known of Tonya’s bouts was the foxy-boxing match she did with Monicagate veteran Paula Jones for a loathsome reality show on Fox. There’s juicy material in Harding’s story, but director Craig Gillespie’s quest for excitement muddies the water.

‘I, Tonya’ is playing in wide release in the North Bay.

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STORYTELLER Though CDs don’t sell much anymore, John McCutcheon continues to release new material.

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olk songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John McCutcheon cannot keep himself from singing. Since 1975, McCutcheon has written, produced and put out a staggering 39 albums, and his latest, Ghost Light, is slated for release in early February.

“I had not planned on making [another] album this year,” says McCutcheon, whose last album, Trolling for Dreams, was released in early 2017 to some of his best reviews. McCutcheon’s thoughtprovoking and socially conscious approach to storytelling music continues with Ghost Light, written last spring after McCutcheon led a songwriting camp.

“In the closing of camp, people wanted to know how we keep this up,” says McCutcheon, referring to the inspiration to write music such

John McCutcheon performs Monday, Jan. 8, at Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St. E., Sonoma. 7:30pm. $25.

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as they produced in the camp’s setting.

In response, McCutcheon shared the story of Vedran Smailović, known as the “Cellist of Sarajevo,” who, in 1992, performed a piece of music every day for 22 days in a bombed-out downtown Sarajevo marketplace after a mortar round killed 22 people there during the Bosnian War. “It was a vigil, it was a defiant thumb in the eye of the violence surrounding him,” says McCutcheon. “This is what musicians can do, and must do, in fact. So if you want an exercise, honor that. Sit down and make music every day.”

McCutcheon took his own advice, and on May 27 last year, the 25th anniversary of that bombing, he began a daily songwriting exercise. Ghost Light is the result, and the 13 songs that make up the album are some of McCutcheon’s most revealing and heartwrenching tales yet.

Songs like “Burley Coulter at the Bank” and “She Just Dances” examine seemingly mundane events that relate larger ideas of loss or joy in their presentation.

McCutcheon’s penchant for activist songs comes through in tracks like “The Machine,” which addresses the rise of white nationalism in the U.S. over the last year through the perspective of a WWII veteran and references “This Machine Kills Fascists,” a message that Woody Guthrie wrote on his guitar in 1941.

Ghost Light also features a collaboration of sorts with Guthrie, as McCutcheon transformed 10 lines of unused lyrics from Guthrie’s archives into the song “When My Fight for Life Is Over.”

McCutcheon calls himself an anachronism for his prolific output, but he has no plans of slowing down any time soon.

“In this world where people don’t buy CDs anymore, I’m putting out these things still believing in the power of a group of songs, telling a story, that’s greater than the sum of its parts.”

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Music Concerts Clubs & SONOMA COUNTY Venues John McCutcheon Prolific folk songwriter makes his annual trek to Sonoma and plays off his forthcoming album, “Ghost Light.” Jan 8, 7:30pm. $25. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma.

707.996.9756.

Symphony Pops Powerhouse trumpeter Byron Stripling joins the Santa Rosa Symphony for a program titled “What a Wonderful World: A Tribute to Louis Armstrong.”

Jan 6, 3pm. $37-$80. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

MARIN COUNTY Housequake DJ Carlos spins a selection of Prince and other dance music from the ‘80s and ‘90s. Jan 6, 9pm. $5-$10. 19 Broadway Club, 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.

415.459.1091.

Soul Hammer Subvers!ve Music Foundation hosts a benefit with new supergroup featuring members of Monophonics, Vinyl, Soul Ska and more to help underprivileged youth.

Jan 7, 7:30pm. $77 and up.

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

415.388.3850.

NAPA COUNTY It’s a Grand Night for Singers Music Director Richard B Evans accompanies singers from all over the Bay Area for an engaging evening of classical and musical theater selections. Jan 6, 7pm. $20.

Jarvis Conservatory, 1711 Main St, Napa. 707.255.5445.

Latin Rhythm Boys Modern-day brainchild of musical brothers Earl and Henry Miranda Jr is a powerhouse of high energy Puerto Rican music, Salsa and Jibaro. Jan 6, 7:30 and 9:30pm. $15-$35. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa.

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SONOMA COUNTY Annie O’s Music Hall

Jan 6, NORTHBASS with Lenny Kiser and Suds. 120 Fifth St, Santa Rosa. 707.542.1455.

Aqus Cafe

Jan 3, aqus blues jam. Jan 4, Aqus Celtic Music Session. Jan 5, Tito. Jan 6, 10:30am, Haas Family Annual First Saturday Morning Concert. Jan 10, Aqus Jazz Project. 189 H St, Petaluma. 707.778.6060.

Arlene Francis Center

Jan 4, cafe show with the Rains and Hannah Werdmuller.

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Barley & Hops Tavern Jan 6, West County Jazz Night with Gabriel Case. 3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental.

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The Big Easy

Jan 4, Western Centuries. Jan 5, Ricky Ray Swanger Band.

Jan 6, Fly by Train. Jan 7, Ben Burleigh’s Birthday Band with Luq Frank and Justus Dobrin.

Jan 10, Wednesday Night Big Band. 128 American Alley, Petaluma. 707.776.7163.

Blue Heron Restaurant & Tavern

Jan 5, Ricky Ray. Jan 6, Willy and friends. Tues, 6pm, Michael Hantman. 25300 Steelhead Blvd, Duncans Mills.

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Coffee Catz

Jan 5, 1pm, Feedback piano with Jerry Green. Jan 8, open mic. 6761 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.6600.

Crooked Goat Brewing Jan 6, 3pm, Faux Tale. 120 Morris St, Ste 120, Sebastopol.

707.827.3893.

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Jan 10, Willie Nelson & Family.

Sold-out. 288 Golf Course Dr W, Rohnert Park. 707.588.7100.

Guerneville Library

Jan 6, 2pm, Ancient Future.

14107 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville. 707.869.9004.

HopMonk Sebastopol Jan 6, Petty Theft. Jan 7, Science Buzz Cafe. Jan 8,

Monday Night Edutainment with DJ Baysik. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.7300.

HopMonk Sonoma

Jan 5, Timothy O’Neil. Jan 6, Aki Kumar and Jon Lawton.

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Hotel Healdsburg

Jan 6, the Paul McCandless and Christian Foley-Beining Collaboration. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg. 707.431.2800.

Jamison’s Roaring Donkey

Wed, open mic night. Jan 6, JimBo Trout & the Fishpeople.

146 Kentucky St, Petaluma.

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

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts Jan 7, Kris Kristofferson. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

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Jan 5, 7pm, Jared O’Connell.

Jan 5, 9:30pm, DJ MGB. Jan 6, Levi Lloyd. Jan 7, 4pm, the River City Band. Jan 7, 8pm, George Heagerty. Jan 8, 5pm, Lithium Jazz. Jan 8, 9pm, DJ MGB. 16246 First St, Guerneville.

707.869.3377.

Pongo’s Kitchen & Tap Jan 4, 6:30pm, Emily Lois. Jan 6, 6:30pm, Dom DeBaggis.

701 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma. 707.774.5226.

Ray’s Deli & Tavern

Wed, 6pm, open mic session.

900 Western Ave, Petaluma.

707.762.9492.

Redwood Cafe

Jan 3, Irish set dancing. Jan 4, Le Hot Club Swing. Jan 5, Bobby Jo Valentine. Jan 7, 5pm, Gypsy Kisses. Jan 8, Open Mic with DJ Loisaida. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7868.

Sonoma Speakeasy

Jan 7, 5pm, JMB & the Big O. 452 First St E, Ste G, Sonoma.

707.996.1364.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse Jan 4, Country Line Dancing.

Jan 5, Kevin Russell & the Rhythm Rangers. Jan 6, Buck Nickels & Loose Change. Jan 7, 3pm, Invitational Bluegrass Jam. Jan 9, open mic. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove.

707.795.5118.

Whiskey Tip

Jan 6, Two Peace. 1910

FROM SPAIN TO SAN FRANCISCO Barrio Manouche kick off the new year with a night of Gypsy jazz grooves and flamenco funk on Jan. 5 at the Blue Note Jazz Club in Napa. See Clubs & Venues, below.

Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.843.5535.

Papermill Creek Saloon

Thurs, open mic night.

1415 Fifth Ave, San Rafael.

415.454.6422.

Jan 5, OMEN with Michael Mark Bello. Jan 6, 5pm, Mike McShea & Sweetie Pie. Jan 6, 9pm, Just Friends. Jan 7, 5pm, Papermill Gang. Jan 9, Agents of Change. 1 Castro, Forest Knolls. 415.488.9235.

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Jan 6, Stephanie Teel Band.

Jan 7, AZA. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.813.5600.

George’s Nightclub

Jan 6, DJ party. 842 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.226.0262.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery

Jan 10, Hopsauce.

765 Center Blvd, Fairfax.

415.485.1005.

19 Broadway Club

Jan 3, Damon LeGall Band. Jan 5, 5:30pm, Danny Montana and friends. Jan 5, 9pm, First Fridays Reggae Night with Broken Silence Sound System.

Jan 6, 5:30pm, Michael Brown and friends. Jan 7, 6pm, 19 Broadway Good Time Band. Jan 7, 9pm, Elvis Johnson’s blues jam. Jan 8, open mic. Jan 9, 6pm, Jeb Brady Band. Jan 9, 8:30pm, Guy and friends. Jan 10, Book of Birds. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 415.459.1091.

Panama Hotel Restaurant

Jan 3, Bryan Gould Trio. Jan 4, Rivertown Trio. Jan 9, Panama Jazz Trio. Jan 10, Ricky Ray. 4 Bayview St, San Rafael.

415.457.3993.

Jan 3, the Weissmen. Jan 4, Bobby Love & Sugar Sweet.

Jan 5, PSDSP and Modern Monsters. Jan 6, Liquid Green.

Jan 7, Matt Bolton. Jan 8, open mic. 29 Broadway, Fairfax.

415.459.9910.

Rancho Nicasio

Jan 5, Gary Vogensen & the Ramble Band with Rusty Gauthier. Jan 7, 4pm, Todos Santos. 1 Old Rancheria Rd, Nicasio. 415.662.2219.

Sausalito Seahorse

Wed, Milonga with Marcelo Puig and Seth Asarnow.

Jan 4, Latin Jazz. Jan 5, DJ Black Cat. Jan 6, Freddy Clarke & Wobbly World. Jan 9, Noel Jewkes and friends. 305 Harbor View Dr, Sausalito.

415.331.2899.

Smiley’s Schooner Saloon

Jan 4, Jon Emery Dodds. Jan 5, Honey B & the Cultivation. Jan 6, Marshall House Project.

41 Wharf Rd, Bolinas.

415.868.1311.

Sweetwater Music Hall

Jan 4, the Hidalgos and Sasha Dobson. Jan 5, Mustache

Harbor. Jan 6, Steelin’ Dan. Jan 8, the Sound Field album release show. Jan 9, California Kind. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

NAPA COUNTY Blue Note Napa Jan 3, Julius Melendez. Jan 5, Barrio Manouche. Jan 10, René Escovedo & the New E!.

1030 Main St, Napa.

707.603.1258.

Ca’ Momi Osteria Jan 5, La Notte Latina with DJ Tamayo. Jan 6, Ryan McCaffrey. 1141 First St, Napa.

707.224.6664.

Downtown Joe’s Brewery & Restaurant Jan 7, Sunday Funday with DJ Aurelio. 902 Main St, Napa.

707.258.2337.

Napa Valley Roasting Company Fri, jammin’ and java with Jeff Johnson. 948 Main St, Napa.

707.224.2233.

Napkins Bar & Grill Jan 5-6, DJ nights. , acoustic brunch with Doug Houser.

1001 Second St, Napa.

707.927.5333.

River Terrace Inn Jan 5, Johnny Smith. Jan 6, Smorgy. 1600 Soscol Ave, Napa.

707.320.9000.

Susie’s Bar Wed, Open Mic Night with Randy Foisy. 1365 Lincoln St, Calistoga. 707.942.6710.

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Arts Events Galleries RECEPTIONS Jan 5

Chroma Gallery, “Art of the Figure,” fourth annual group show features works by members of Sonoma County and Bay Area figure drawing group. 5pm. 312 South A St, Santa Rosa.

707.293.6051.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts, “Year of the Dog,” it’s the Chinese year of the dog, and several artists present their distinctive look at man’s best friend. 6pm. 282 S High St, Sebastopol.

707.829.4797.

Jan 9

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, “Annual O’Hanlon Members’ Show 2018,” see and purchase works from many of the 250 O’Hanlon Center members. 5:30pm. 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.4331.

Throckmorton Theatre, “Katy Kuhn and Diana Bradley,” the two artists show in the main gallery and Crescendo gallery respectively. 5pm. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

SONOMA COUNTY Art Museum of Sonoma County

Through Jan 7, “Artistry in Wood,” annual exhibit is presented by the Sonoma County Woodworkers Association. 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. TuesSun, 11 to 5. 707.579.1500.

Calabi Gallery

Through Jan 6, “After the Fire,” exhibit features poignant photography by Penny Wolin and a selection of international artwork. 456 10th St, Santa Rosa. Tues-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.781.7070.

Charles M Schulz Museum

Through May 21, “AAUGH! The Language of Peanuts,” explore the familiar expressions and catchphrases found throughout “Peanuts.”. Through Jan 14, “Behind Peanuts: Pigpen,” learn more about the popular character from Charles Schulz’s comic strip through original sketches and memorabilia.

Through Mar 11, “Mud Pies & Jelly Beans: The Flavor of Peanuts,” new exhibit covers the culinary side of the famous comic strip. 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. Mon-Fri, noon to 5; Sat-Sun, 10 to 5. 707.579.4452.

Downtown Cloverdale Through May 3, “Cloverdale Sculpture Trail,” year-round exhibit of sculptures by local artists includes self-guided audio tours. 101sculpturetrail. com. Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale. All day.

Graton Gallery

Through Jan 28, “From Clayton to Graton,” longtime local artists and old friends Fred Kling and Rik Olson display together. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton. Tues-Sat, 10:30 to 6; Sun, 10:30 to 4. 707.829.8912.

Hammerfriar Gallery

Through Jan 31, “428 Collective,” group of 11 Sonoma County artists brings awareness to innovative and boundary-pushing art being produced in the area. 132 Mill St, Ste 101, Healdsburg.

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

707.473.9600.

IceHouse Gallery

Through Jan 7, “Vita Collage,” artists and designers from the Pt Reyes studio shop present jewelry, textiles, glasswork and more. 405 East D St, Petaluma.

707.778.2238.

Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center Through Jan 4, “Form & Color: It’s Wild Out There,” wildlife photographs by Dave Strauss are on display in Heron Hall.

900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.527.9277.

Petaluma Arts Center

Through Jan 6, “Inaugural PAC Members Juried Exhibition,” eclectic works in diverse media display through the holidays.

230 Lakeville St, Petaluma.

Tues-Sat, 11 to 5. 707.762.5600.

Redwood Cafe

Through Jan 10, “Generations,” featuring works by five artists from the same family. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati. Open daily. 707.795.7868.

Riverfront Art Gallery Through Jan 7, “A Leap of Faith,” fine art acrylics and oils by Laura Tovar Dietrick shows alongside “Roaming Petaluma’s Hills” by Henry White. 132 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. Wed, Thurs and Sun, 11 to 6. Fri-Sat, 11 to 8.

707.775.4ART.

Sebastopol Gallery

Through Jan 27, “… Creatures Big & Small,” assemblage artist Rebeca Trevino and oils painter Jeff Watts display new works as Sebastopol Gallery celebrates a decade in in the community. 150 N Main St, Sebastopol. Open daily, 11 to 6.

707.829.7200.

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

Through Jan 7, “Magna Fide (The Great Belief),” David Ligare’s paintings, influenced

by Greco-Roman antiquity, are shown alongside “Forge & Stone,” featuring sculpture by contemporary California women artists. 551 Broadway, Sonoma. Wed-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.939.SVMA.

West County Museum

Through Apr 1, “Sebastopol Depot Centennial,” Western Sonoma County Historical Society celebrate 100 years since the construction of the depot that served the P&SR Railroad and is now the Society’s headquarters. 261 S Main St, Sebastopol. Thurs-Sun, 1 to 4. 707.829.6711.

MARIN COUNTY Book Passage

Through Nov 30, “Tom Killion Residency,” acclaimed Marin artist returns to Book Passage’s gallery for a yearlong exhibition of his original prints and hand-crafted books.

51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera. Daily, 9am to 9pm.

415.927.0960.

Desta Art & Tea Gallery Through Jan 18, “Eclat de Couleur,” featuring paintings

by Marius Bosc and sculpture

by Dina Angel Wing. 417 San

Anselmo Ave, San Anselmo.

Mon-Sat, 10 to 6. 415.524.8932.

Gallery Route One

Through Jan 28, “Contemplating OTHER,” artists Alicia Escott, Linda Guneste and Brigitta Varadi examine how our relationship with animals has altered over time.

11101 Hwy 1, Pt Reyes Station.

Wed-Mon, 11 to 5. 415.663.1347.

Marin Community Foundation

Through Jan 12, “Hypercosmos des Songes (Supercosmos of Dreams),” the first major exhibition in the United States for French-born and Marin-based artist Jean-Marc Brugeilles includes over 80 artworks. 5 Hamilton Landing, Ste 200, Novato. Open Mon-Fri, 9 to 5.

MarinMOCA

Through Jan 7, “Contemporary Landscape,” exhibit features works by artists from across the country, chosen by juror Chester Arnold while he was evacuated from his home during the recent North Bay fires. 500 Palm Dr, Novato.

Wed-Fri, 11 to 4; Sat-Sun, 11 to 5. 415.506.0137.

Robert Allen Fine Art Through Jan 31, “Nature Abstracted,” group show features works on canvas

by Amy Donaldson, Beatrice Findlay and John Maxon. 301 Caledonia St, Sausalito. MonFri, 10 to 5. 415.331.2800.

Stinson Beach Gallery Through Jan 13, “Collective Awakening,” featuring acrylic and pastel works by Jon Steven Walters and sculptural succulents by Jamie Johnson.

3445 Shoreline Hwy, Stinson Beach. Fri-Sun, Noon to 5pm And by appointment 415.729.4489.

NAPA COUNTY Napa Valley Museum

Through Feb 18, “France Is a Feast,” world-premiere exhibit is a photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child with rarely seen images from Paris in the mid-20th century. Through Jan 7, “Unearthed,” Angwin’s husband and wife team behind NBC Pottery displays one-of-akind ceramics with an organic edge and rustic flair. Sales during the exhibit benefit the museum. 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. Wed-Sun, 11 to 4.

707.944.0500.

Robert Mondavi Winery Through Jan 8, “Traveling

the World City by City,” artist Layla Fanucci’s paintings embody the mystery, thrill and contradictions of several international urban environments. 7801 St Helena Hwy, Oakville. Daily, 10 to 5.

888.766.6328.

Sharpsteen Museum

Team Trivia Contest

Jeopardy style questions, songs and visuals hosted by comedian Clark Peterson. Fri, Jan 5, 7pm. $3. The Club at McInnis Park, 350 Smith Ranch Rd, San Rafael. 415.492.1800.

Through Apr 30, “Out of the Attic,” see privately collected antiques, dolls and figurines, vintage photographs and other memorabilia ranging from 1937 to present. 1311 Washington St, Calistoga. Daily, 11 to 4.

707.942.5911.

Dance

Comedy

Redwood Cafe

Big Fat Year-End Kiss Off Comedy Show

Wrap up the year with a night of laughs featuring the Bay Area’s best comedians.

Jan 4, 7pm. $20. Sebastiani Theatre, 476 First St E, Sonoma.

707.996.9756. Wrap up the year with a night of laughs featuring the Bay Area’s best comedians. Jan 6, 8pm. $20.

Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg. 707.433.3145.

Fundraiser for Anova Center

Comedians Ronn Vigh, Jennie McNulty and Irene Tu join with DJ Lady Char for a night of laughs and dancing with raffle and silent auction to benefit the center currently recovering from wildfires. Jan 6, 7pm. $35. The Laugh Cellar, 5755 Mountain Hawk Way, Santa Rosa. 707.843.3824.

K-Von Comedy Special

Multi-cultural comedian performs a set of storytelling standup with impressionist and satirist Melissa Shoshahi. Jan 6, 8pm. $20-$35. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Novato Theater Company Comedy Festival

Theater’s third annual fest features diverse standup comedians all weekend, hosted by television and stage star Jason Kyle. Jan 5-6, 8pm. $20.

Novato Theater Company, 5240 Nave Dr, Novato. 415.883.4498.

Stand Up Sonoma

Massive fire relief benefit features comedy stars Joel McHale, Nick Kroll, Chris D’Elia and others. Pre-show reception and raffle also included. Jan 4, 6:30pm. $55-$125. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

Alma del Tango Studio Tuesdays, Lindy Hop & East Coast Swing Dance.

Wednesdays, Tango 1 & 2. 167 Tunstead Ave, San Anselmo 415.459.8966.

Jan 6, 8:30pm, Open Belly with Nathalie Tedrick. $10.

8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati 707.795.7868.

Events Art Spark Family Workshop

Families are invited to create plein air drawings of outdoor sculptures and then turn them into their own sculpted wire creations. Jan 7, 1pm. $5-$15/ Free for kids 3 and under. di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, 5200 Sonoma Hwy, Napa.

707.226.5991.

Cosmic Gold

UC Berkeley astronomer Eliot Quataert describes the remarkable new results coming out of using gravitational waves to study celetial objets like black holes and neutron stars. Jan 7, 7pm. Free.

HopMonk Novato, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

Domestic Violence Advocate Training

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

Jan 10. $300. Center for Domestic Peace, 734 A St, San Rafael. 415.457.2464.

Gallery Tour

Find out more about woodworking and learn about techniques, different kinds of woods and more from master woodworker Don Jereb in conjunction with the exhibit “Artistry in Wood.” Jan 7, 2pm. $5-$7. Art Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. 707.579.1500.

Jumpstart Writing Workshop

Bring a notebook and pen for the weekly workshop facilitated by Susan Bono

Art & Garden Center, 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross.

415.455.5260.

Locals’ Day at the Barlow

Join a healing walk through the redwoods. Wed, 10am.

Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve, 17000 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, stewardscr.org.

Jam-packed with discounts, two-for-one-tastings, freebies and other offerings from nearly 30 makers and merchants.

Thurs. Barlow Event Center, 6770 McKinley St, Sebastopol.

707.824.5600.

Marin Women at Work Networking Luncheon

Like-minded women can come together for networking, with presentations on health and wellness and self-care. Jan 9, 11:30am. La Plaza Conference Room, 4340 Redwood Hwy, Ste F138, San Rafael, marinwomenatwork.com.

Songs of the Klamath See a screening of Avery Hellman’s short film about music and nature, then enjoy evening of music from Hellman’s project Ismay, with Eli West and Alex Bleeker.

Jan 7, 6:30pm. ink.paper.plate studio and shop, 11401 State Route 1, Point Reyes Station.

415.873.6008.

Wild Cat Adventure

Five live cats from around the world strut their stuff with professional handlers. Jan 7, 3pm. $5-$10. Sebastopol Community Center, 390 Morris St, Sebastopol. 707.823.1511.

Wednesday Wellness Walks

Film CULT Film Series

The series presents two awesome ‘80s body-horror films from David Cronenberg, “Videodrome” and “Scanners,” screening back-to-back. Jan 4, 7pm. $10. Roxy Stadium 14 Cinemas, 85 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa. 707.525.8909.

Family Friendly Films

Take the kids to see a recent animated feature for free, first come first served basis. Sat, 11am. through Jan 27. Third Street Cinema Six, 620 Third St, Santa Rosa. 707.528.8770.

For Your Consideration See a selection of Academy Award submissions from around the world. Jan 5-11.

Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.454.1222.

Let’s Talk About Death

Field Trips

Final Passages’ ongoing film series screens 2007’s “Death at a Funeral,” followed by a lively and educational discussion. Jan 10, 6:30pm. $5-$15. Sebastopol Grange Hall, 6000 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol.

Grove of Old Trees Stewardship Kick-Off

May the Fork Be with You

LandPaths’ new monthly work day in the redwoods opens with the new year. Jan 6, 9am.

Grove of Old Trees, 17400 Fitzpatrick Ln, Occidental, landpaths.org.

Watch the new “Star Wars” and enjoy dinner created by Chef Cindy Pawlycn. Jan 8, 5pm. $45.

Cameo Cinema, 1340 Main St, St Helena. 707.963.9779.

Moorland Community Garden Work Day

Australian director Bill Bennett will present and discuss the first US screening of his latest film about intuition as the personal guidance system.

Jan 10, 7:15pm. $9-$12. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

New garden hosts it’s first work dau with LandPaths.

Jan 6, 11am. Moorland Neighborhood Park, Moorland and W Robles Avenues, Santa Rosa, landpaths.org.

Rose Pruning Demonstration & Work Party

Observe and practice correct winter pruning of roses and help with the task of pruning the roses in the MAGC Rose Garden. Jan 9, 11am. $5. Marin

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Sundance Short Film Tour

On the eve of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, see a program of seven shorts, including two award winners, from last year’s event. Jan 5-11. Smith Rafael Film Center,

21

1118 Fourth St, San Rafael.

415.454.1222.

Food & Drink Tides Wharf Crab Feed Series features chilled Dungeness crab and all the fixings. Reservations are recommended. Jan 5, 5pm. $60 and up. Tides Wharf Restaurant, 835 Hwy One, Bodega Bay. 707.875.3652.

Wine & Dine Wednesdays

Weekly three-course offering showcases local wines and music by Michael Hantman.

Wed. $36. Spoonbar, 219 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg.

707.433.7222.

Yoga & Beer

Beginner-friendly Vinyasastyle yoga class goes well with drinking fine craft beer. Sun, Jan 7, 10:30am. $12. Cooperage Brewing Co, 981 Airway Ct, Santa Rosa. 707.293.9787.

For Kids Model Train Spectacular

Lionel scale-model trains are featured in nostalgic smalltown winter settings. Through Jan 7. Free. Healdsburg Museum, 221 Matheson St, Healdsburg. 707.431.3325.

Museum Mondays

Enjoy stories, arts and craft activities and movement games Mon, Jan 8, 10am. $5.

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

707.579.4452.

Winter Workshops

Kids ages 5 to 8 can enjoy several engaging activities during the holiday school break. Through Jan 5. $37-$40.

Children’s Museum of Sonoma County, 1835 W Steele Ln, Santa Rosa. 707.546.4069.

Lectures Carbon Farming in Marin County

Learn how local agriculture is addressing climate change by improving the condition of our soils. Jan 4, 1pm. Free. Outdoor Art Club, 1 W Blithedale Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.2582.

PERSONAL GUIDE Australian filmmaker Bill Bennett brings his new globe-

spanning film about intuition, ‘PSG,’ to the Smith Rafael Film Center for its U.S. premiere on Jan. 10. See Film, this page.

Facilitated Women’s Support Group Explore what is holding you back from having the life you desire. Thurs, 6:30pm.

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Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous

Twelve-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating or bulimia. Sat, 8am. All Saints Lutheran Church, 2 San Marin Dr, Novato, 781.932.6300.

The Image of Woman in Western Art

From antiquity to today, educator Kerrin Meis examines how (mostly) male artists defined the female form over three weeks. Jan 5, 1pm. $105. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera.

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Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Learn about the design and development of mid-century style home decor from woodworker and amateur historian Michael Wallace. Jan 6, 3pm. $5-$7. Art Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St, Santa Rosa. 707.579.1500.

Sausalito Woman’s Club Scholarship Recognition Fund Applications

Permanent residents living in the Sausalito or Marin City School District planning to initiate or continue education at an accredited college, graduate school, vocational

or art school are eligible to apply. Through Mar 1. Sausalito Woman’s Club, 120 Central Ave, Sausalito, swcsrf.org/ applications.

Spiritual Healing

7pm, “The Doha Experiment” with Gary Wasserman. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera 415.927.0960.

Book Passage By-the-Bay

Weekly meeting covers various topics, with meditation and individual healing treatment.

Fri, 7pm. Spiritist Society Towards the Light, 1 Simms St, San Rafael. 707.225.5762.

Jan 9, 6pm, “The Happiness Hack” with Ellen Petry Leanse.

Jan 10, 6pm, “Nobody’s Boy” with Mike Denney. 100 Bay St, Sausalito 415.339.1300.

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Wed, 12:15pm. BodyVibe Studio, 999 Anderson Dr, Ste 170, San Rafael. 415.689.6428.

Telling the Story

Tod Hill of the Reflective Democracy Campaign presents ground-breaking research on political imbalances and shares stories of how progress is being made to challenge the status quo and build a reflective democracy.

Jan 10, 7pm. $10. Cloverdale Performing Arts Center, 209 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale.

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Transitioning to Clean Energy

Praxis Peace Institute hosts a program featuring the work of award-winning climate scientist Mark Z Jacobson. Jan 4, 7pm. $20. Vintage House, 264 First St E, Sonoma.

Readings Book Passage

Jan 9, 1pm, “The Immortalists” with Chloe Benjamin. Jan 10,

The Gumshoe Murders Get a Clue Productions presents a new murdermystery dinner theater show about a 1940s detective caught in a web of deception.

Reservations required. Fri, Jan 5, 7pm. $68. Charlie’s Restaurant, Windsor Golf Club, 1320 19th Hole Dr, Windsor, getaclueproductions.com.

My Way

Musical tribute to Frank Sinatra includes a New Year’s Eve party on Dec 31. Through Jan 14. $25$45. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

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We have smashed taboos and proclaimed, through experience and wisdom, now supported daily by new medical science discoveries, that cannabis is

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Understanding how and why our endocannabinoid system functions and is tuned through cannabis has reopened alliances with the rest of the plant and fungal worlds. Cannabis is the great potentiator.

California cultivators grew more cannabis this past season than any place ever has. It’s been a full-scale agrarian takeover, monumental and unrivaled in the history of plant medicine.

Yet this is a moment of duality and uncertainty. Medical or adultuse? Renegade or regulation?

Raging against the machine or assimilating with it? The challenges this new era poses, especially to the localized economies and individual members of the cannabis community, are daunting. Yet this move to legality demands creativity, community and collaboration. Innovation spawns from perceived catastrophe. The unbounded ability for the cannabis community to shine is exciting to imagine.

It is my belief that we, myself included, are doing the bidding of the plant herself. We have placed her in our bodies, minds, communities, economic and political systems. The abundance of resource, the catalyzing of effects medical discovery and the community support created by this moment is real.

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GEMINI (May 21–June 20) Influences that oppose you will fade as 2018 unfolds. People who have been resistant and uncooperative will at least partially disengage. To expedite the diminishing effects of these influences and people, avoid struggling with them.

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LIBRA (September 23–October 22) Before the 15th century, European nations confined their sailing to the Mediterranean Sea. The ocean was too rough for their fragile, unadaptable ships. But around 1450, the Portuguese developed a new kind of vessel, the caravel.

It employed a triangular sail that enabled it to travel against the wind. Soon, exploratory missions ventured into the open sea and down along the coast of West Africa. Eventually, this new technology enabled long westward trips across the Atlantic. I propose that we make the caravel your symbol of power for 2018, Libra.

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Aztecs were originally wanderers. They kept moving from place to place, settling temporarily in areas throughout the land we now call Mexico. An old prophecy told them that they would eventually find a permanent home at a site where they saw an eagle roosting on a cactus as it clutched a snake in its talons.

There came a day in the 14th century when members of the tribe spied this very scene on an island in the middle of a lake. That’s where they began to build the city that in time was the center of their empire. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, so it can serve as a metaphor to guide you in 2018. I suspect that you, too, will discover your future power spot—the heart of your domain for years to come.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21) Not every minute of every day, but when you have had the time, you’ve been searching for a certain treasure.

With patience and persistence, you have narrowed down its whereabouts by collecting clues and following your intuition. Now, at last, you know its exact location. As you arrive, ready to claim it, you tremble with anticipation. But when you peel away the secrets in which it has been wrapped, you see that it’s not exactly what you expected. Your first response is disappointment. Nevertheless, you decide to abide in the presence of the confusing blessing and see what happens. Slowly, incrementally, you become aware of a new possibility: that you’re not quite ready to understand and use the treasure; that you’ll have to grow new capacities before you’ll be ready for it in its fullness.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) Soulful beauty will be a major theme for you in 2018.

Or at least it should be. But I suppose it’s possible you’re not very interested in soulful beauty, perhaps even bored by it. Maybe you prefer skin-deep beauty or expensive beauty or glamorous beauty. If you choose to follow predilections like those, you’ll lose out on tremendous opportunities to grow wilder and wiser. But let’s hope you make yourself available for a deeper, more provocative kind of beauty—a beauty that you could become more skilled at detecting as the year unfolds.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) “Let your freak flag fly” was an expression that arose from the hippie culture of the 1960s and ’70s. It was a colorful way to say, “Be your most unique and eccentric self; show off your idiosyncrasies with uninhibited pride.” I propose that we revive it for your use in 2018. I suspect the coming months will be a favorable time for you to cultivate your quirks and trust your unusual impulses. You should give yourself maximum freedom to explore pioneering ideas and maverick inclinations. Paradoxically, doing so will lead to stabilizing and enduring improvements in your life.

PISCES (February 19–March 20)

In accordance with the astrological omens, I suggest you start compiling a list entitled, “People, Places, Ideas, and Things I Didn’t Realize Until Now That I Could Fall in Love With.” And then keep adding more and more items to this tally during the next 10 months. To get the project underway in the proper spirit, you should wander freely and explore jauntily, giving yourself permission to instigate interesting mischief and brush up against deluxe temptations. For best results, open your heart and your eyes as wide as you can. One further clue: Act on the assumption that in 2018 you will be receptive to inspirational influences and lifetransforming teachings that you have never before been aware of.

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