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There Goes the Neighborhood What I’ll miss about Carmen’s Burger Bar BY DR. JOHN OMAHA

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Carmen’s Burger Bar was a focal point for the neighborhood. All that will change after June 30, when the Stark’s juggernaut displaces Carmen’s with a new iteration of the upscale Willi’s Wine Bar that burned down in the October fires.

The Stark empire comprises four upscale Sonoma County restaurants metastasizing from Stark’s Steakhouse. Willi’s Wine Bar was located on Old Redwood Highway north of town. None could remotely be classified as a neighborhood restaurant. I have never seen a kid in a sports uniform in any of them.

Proctor Terrace organizes a warren of streets around a small shopping center featuring the Pacific Market and Carmen’s, brooded over by the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery. The new Willi’s Wine Bar will not be a place to take your kids after a tough game or to socialize with the parents of the kids’ teammates. Not a place to watch the Giants on one of Carmen’s two TV sets, or to feed a family of four for $50. Willi’s attracted crowds of young, well-paid, Mercedes-driving, college-educated professionals who could afford the steep prices. If they had children, they’d left them with a sitter.

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f you’re still looking for a fruit-forward wine that doesn’t suck rocks, get with it: wet stones are the hot topic in wine these days. Minerality is the ontrend, catch-all term for aromas of crushed rock and flavors of wet slate, and some winemakers are trying to find out how to get more of it in the bottle.

So what is minerality? The big surprise at a seminar on minerality recently presented by the wine lab Enartis USA in Windsor was how little time was spent on what it is not: minerals. When asked something along the lines of, “You all know that minerality doesn’t come from the soil, right?” none of the attendees dared shake their head in ignorance.

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he has often compared wines to the sight of the vineyard soils, veteran winemaker Christian Roguenant said it’s just the power of suggestion. In his presentation, Roguenant ticked off a list of reasons that various aromas like iodine, flint and fossilized seashells—all common descriptors for wines of various regions—are not actually derived from the mineral composition of the soil or the wines, with the possible exception of some salts, which, romantic notions of sea breezes aside, can land on the grapes as dust, far from the ocean.

“We need a little romance,” said presenter Deborah Parker Wong, global wine editor for The SOMM Journal and a wine instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College, “but the facts can be just as interesting as fiction.” She said that when her students understand the terms of minerality, even after learning it’s not a direct taste of the soil (as is still touted by wine marketers and vignerons, alike), they’re willing to trade up in wine quality—and price—all the same. Parker Wong lamented that American wineries lag far behind the Europeans in using mineral terms in a consumerfriendly way.

I hit the minerality jackpot when I received a bottle of Benziger 2017 Paradiso de Maria Sonoma Mountain Sauvignon Blanc ($36), as it’s one of the few domestic wines that mentions minerality on the back label, and the wine’s showy aroma of crushed tufa brings me right back to the Enartis classroom, where I was treated to a neutral wine spiked with benzyl mercaptan—with a background hint of the stemmy pyrazine sample.

These and other compounds, formed during winemaking but also, presenters said, influenced by viticulture and sometimes terroir, are responsible for the aromas wine tasters experience as minerality.

Fruit aromas are largely sidelined here, although crushed lemon blossom and white grapefruit add character to the candied, crystalline acidity. But now I’m thinking back to the time I visited the place where the winery crushes crystals in its biodynamic preparations shop, so there’s that power of suggestion again.

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The Sword and the Shield Is CEQA to blame for the North Bay’s housing crisis?

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he landmark California Environmental Quality Act of 1970 was intended as a shield against construction projects that imperiled the environment. But in a case of unintended consequences, critics charge that the powerful law has been wielded as a sword by labor groups, environmentalists and neighborhood groups to defeat proposed housing developments. The result, they argue, is that a well-intentioned law has driven up the cost and lowered the supply of affordable housing in the North Bay and California at large.

In a way, this is a tale of two competing points-of-view about CEQA. In one corner, CEQA critics decry the law as a leading impediment to building transit-oriented and infill housing in the state—and especially in urban regions such as Los Angeles and the greater North Bay. That’s the gist of a recent legal study by the San Francisco law firm

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Holland & Knight. The analysis was published in the Hastings Environmental Law Journal.

In the other corner are supporters of CEQA who say those claims are overstated, and perhaps wildly so, and that the real driver behind the region’s struggles to deal with its affordable housing crisis, or any housing for that matter, are the local agencies (zoning

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boards, planning commissions) that also must sign off on any proposed development.

That’s an argument advanced in another recent report published

by UC Berkeley School of Law, called “Getting It Right,” which serves as a handy counterpoint to the Holland & Knight report.

This is more than an academic debate. The discussion comes at a key moment in the North Bay, which is still reeling from last year’s devastating wildfires that destroyed more than 5,000 homes in the region, making an acute housing crisis even worse.

A bill co-sponsored by State Assemblyman Jim Wood (AB 2267) “would exempt from the requirements of CEQA specified actions and approvals taken between January 1, 2019, and January 1, 2024.” According to a legislative analysis, the bill sets out to determine whether Santa Rosa and Sonoma County would need additional legislative support from Sacramento to ensure the rebuilding process isn’t slowed by red tape. Santa Rosa has already passed an ordinance, its Resilient City Development Measure, that set the stage for the broader CEQA exemptions for the region now under contemplation in Sacramento.

Baked into Wood’s bill is an assertion that generally jibes with the Berkeley study: CEQArelated lawsuits are actually not that common, and that exempting Sonoma County and Santa Rosa from CEQA won’t lead to a rash of lawsuits. “Although certain interests believe CEQA litigation to be a swathing impediment to some projects, the numbers . . . indicate otherwise,” says a Senate Environmental Quality Committee report on the Wood bill from June 11, which further notes that “the volume of CEQA litigation is low considering the thousands of projects subject to CEQA review.”

Among other supporters, the Wood bill is favored by the city of Santa Rosa. The Sierra Club has opposed it, and the local Greenbelt Alliance has not taken a stand on it.

Gov. Jerry Brown has been on the side making the “swathing impediment” argument when it comes to CEQA’s intersection with organized labor. In past comments, Brown put the blame for any CEQA abuse squarely on the state’s powerful Building Trades Council, as highlighted in the Holland & Knight report.

Brown told the UCLA magazine Blueprint in 2016 that CEQA reform is impossible in California, since “the unions won’t let you because they use it as a hammer to get project labor agreements.”

Project labor agreements (PLAs) guarantee a development project will use union labor.

Unsurprisingly, local labor leaders do not share the viewpoint that PLAs are contributing to the North Bay housing crisis.

“We’ve supported CEQA for years and years,” says Jack Buckhorn, executive director of the North Bay Labor Council, AFL-CIO. He doesn’t support CEQA reform, he says, because there is nothing to reform when it comes to PLAs and organized labor. “It’s an easy target to say labor is the problem, but all the research we’ve done—it doesn’t prevent projects from going forward. They are making this stuff up to try and jack labor.”

Buckhorn says he’s unaware of Brown’s comment to the UCLA

paper, but says, “We don’t buy into these arguments. I reject the argument that projects are abandoned or not built because of abuse of CEQA.” Marty Bennett of North Bay Jobs for Justice echoes Buckhorn’s pushback.

“We feel in terms of ensuring highly skilled, highly qualified labor, that PLAs are in the best interests of the public.”

A PLA was adopted in advance of a recent development project undertaken at Santa Rosa Junior College, and if securing a union contract with good pay serves to delay a project, then so be it, he says.

approval, it argues, can typically be drawn back to local review and not a last-gasp, anonymous lawsuit. The Berkeley study looked at residential development projects in San Francisco, San Jose, Redwood City, Palo Alto and Oakland.

The Holland & Knight study, meanwhile, keys in on the North Bay and Los Angeles, and identifies Marin County as one of the wealthiest counties in the state, with the oldest average population of any county. The study also indicates that Marin County is ripe with “NIMBY-ism” when it comes to residents swinging the sword of CEQA at development projects they don’t like.

The firm identifies that two biggest sources of CEQA lawsuits in the state are in “transitoriented development” projects and infill projects in established neighborhoods. Those projects are often interchangeable.

That development emphasis also happen to be the most cited “smart growth” strategy in the North Bay by civic leaders, environmentalists and developers—and also from well-meaning residents who are otherwise committed to smart growth, but in someone else’s neighborhood.

High-density development along a transportation corridor like Highway 101 aids in the containment of sprawl, may help the state meet its greenhouse-gas reduction goals and undercuts against the “trade parade” phenomenon of commuting workers, where people cannot afford to live where they work and must drive long distances. Jennifer Hernandez, author of the Holland & Knight study, notes the irony of climate-change-conscious Marin County elders opposing public policies that are designed to beat back climate change.

“NIMBYs are often progressive, environmentally minded individuals who believe in climate action and recognize that sprawl is unsustainable,” she writes.

“They just want to preserve the look and feel of the neighborhood they call home.”

The study drills down on how some CEQA suits have

handcuffed municipalities beholden to the California mandate of a growing economy, a healthy environment and a steady supply of affordable housing.

Meanwhile, the region’s affordable-housing crisis continues apace, and is now met with the urgency of the firewrought destruction of more than 5,000 homes to go along with skyrocketing rents and real estate costs across the entire Bay Area.

The NIMBY anti-development phenomenon has been met by a pro-development and millennialdriven YIMBY culture in San Francisco that’s supportive of big new developments. But the issues in San Francisco are not the same as those in Marin County or the North Bay. The YIMBY movement, recently detailed in an in-depth In These Times piece, sprouted in San Francisco along with the advent of Google buses ferrying a well-heeled tech sector to their Silicon Valley cubicles, and as such, the YIMBY push in the city is ultimately a progentrification push. Its adherents have supported large residential development projects in the Mission District and other San Francisco communities whose historical demographic has been poor, gay or Latino (or all three).

The San Francisco gentrification script is flipped in the North Bay, especially in Marin, where an older class of retirees works to keep its neighborhoods intact and free from high-density development—and historically free even of granny units, or accessory units, in existing homes.

Some CEQA suits have been brought against homeowners who want to add an accessory unit to an existing home. As Hernandez notes, those units don’t in any way expand the footprint of the home, since they typically transform existing space in a home into an apartment. “Even this most modest of changes to existing neighborhoods has prompted CEQA lawsuits against individual units,” she writes, “and against local zoning regulations that allow such units to be constructed.”

The San Francisco–based

Bridge Housing Corporation ran into a buzzsaw of opposition in Marin County in 2016 when it tried to build an affordablehousing development along the Highway 101 corridor in Marinwood. The organization has built numerous affordable and market-based infill housing projects from Seattle to Santa Rosa, Marin City and San Rafael.

The company says the North Bay presents its own special challenges, given the CEQA overlay and disposition of some residents.

“It is tricky up there, to be honest,” says Bridge Housing CEO Cynthia Parker of the North Bay. “The CEQA is a device that tends to be used by a number of folks, including those who are concerned about ‘not in my backyard.’”

Much of the opposition to affordable housing, Parker says, is a push for low-density housing— or no housing at all. “The challenge with CEQA is the costs are high in the North Bay, labor is expensive all over, but when you couple that with an extreme desire for low density or lower density, then you don’t have quite the economy of scale to build and develop and manage.”

In 2014, Bridge Housing set out to re-develop a debrisstrewn grocery store parking lot in Marinwood and wound up spending about $600,000 on its environmental review—then didn’t build at all. Opponents prevailed in shutting down the Bridge Housing plan after it had gone through the environmental review.

“We as a matter of course go through a full CEQA process on each and every project that is brand-new,” Parker says.

“We want to bulletproof our projects. If people want to make a challenge, we’ve gone through the environmental and siting—it takes a year to 18 months to go through the full CEQA process.”

But all the due diligence in the world was no match for the Marinwood neighbors, who focused their ire on the prodevelopment stance then taken by former Marin County Supervisor Susan Adams, who ) 12 lost her seat over the

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“A PLA can cause delays in the development process, but in terms of serving the public interest, those delays are well worth the time—particularly in terms of environmental consequences.”

In its report, Holland & Knight tees off on what it perceives as Brown’s lack of action on the CEQA front. The law firm has represented numerous developers. Its years-long study of CEQA suits and their impact on development projects focuses on post-approval, sometimes “frivolous” lawsuits which the author claims slow down projects across the state.

For developers without unlimited budgets to fight legal challenges to their plans, the historical “frivolous lawsuit” argument is that the late-game lawsuits can delay a process that’s just been completed and approved by local or state agencies—and send the developer back to the drawing board to deal with challenges filed to its environmental impact review. The process serves to drive up the cost of development.

As the accompanying chart shows, the CEQA process is a long and detailed road toward final approval, with multiple layers of public participation and agency review. While citizen-led CEQA lawsuits by themselves can’t put an end to a project, they can add costs, or force a developer to back out if legal fees become onerous—or in the case of housing, try to recoup costs by increasing the sale price.

Individuals have the right to sue under CEQA rules—and even sue anonymously. Inasmuch as the multitiered permitting process at many North Bay city halls and supervisors’ chambers has also served to slow or otherwise derail housing development, Holland & Knight argues that so, too, do CEQA-centric suits launched by organized labor, NIMBY neighbors or competing business interests.

But the Berkeley Law report notes that “what drives whether and how environmental review occurs for residential projects is local land use law” (italics added). Delays in a project’s

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set-to on election day that year as opponents of the proposal prevailed.

“We went through quite a process,” recalls Parker, as Bridge Housing set out to develop the property and add a couple dozen units of housing. “We were going to put in market-rate as well as affordable housing. We really intended for it to be housing for middle income,” she says, but the firm eventually withdrew its proposal, given the local opposition. “There was quite a bit of pushback, and there were political ramifications,” she recalls, “as a county supervisor lost her seat over it.”

Bridge Housing had another recent run-in with the neighbors, in the city of Napa, when the company set out in 2013 to redevelop the site of the abandoned Sunshine Assisted Living center on Valle Verde Drive. After several years of local pushback from residents, Bridge Housing abandoned this plan, too.

The city of Napa approved the company’s plan to build the housing complex in 2013, and the organization planned to rehab an existing building on the site that had fallen into disrepair, and provide dozens of new units in a county with a housing-vacancy rate that hovers between zero and 2 percent.

Bridge Housing withdrew its plans for what it called Napa Creekside, but not before the organization spent some $2.5 million, says Parker, including $1.5 million in legal fees to fight against local opponents, who highlighted the proposed project’s density and proximity to the nearby Salvador Creek.

Letters to the city of Napa highlight residents’ concern about the fish, the environment, the traffic and the number of housing units in the plan.

The remaining $1 million was spent on the planning process, Parker says. Faced with opposition and a successful legal challenge by opponents in Napa County Superior Court, Bridge Housing and the city of Napa

bailed out on the Valle Verde project—before an EIR had even been completed. “At the end of the day, there were two neighbors that were carrying the ball and one of them was an attorney,” Parker recalls. Bridge abandoned the plan in 2016 and sold the land to the Napa-based Peter A. & Vernice H. Gasser Foundation for $5 million. Lark Ferrell, manager of the Napa Housing Authority, said CEQA was the culprit in the disappointing defeat of an affordable-housing project years in the making. She told the local Napa Valley Register in 2016, “I think there’s a lot of support in the community for affordable housing. It’s just unfortunate there was a neighbor who, through CEQA . . . was able to derail this project.”

Ironically, in its proposal, Gasser is calling for an even bigger footprint with more housing units than the Bridge Housing plan—and with an emphasis on housing a highly visible and vulnerable population of the formerly homeless.

As it did with the Bridge plan, the city of Napa has approved the Gasser Foundation proposal, which would ultimately bring close to 90 new housing units to the now-abandoned area, spread over two buildings, along with onsite supportive services at one of them to help with the residents that would populate the rehabilitated senior center facility. The project would have two parts: a new affordable-housing project with 24 units, and the remodeled senior center with 66 units of permanent supportive housing. Their building application has been submitted with the city, says Cassandra Walker, housing consultant at the foundation, and the next step is to conduct an environmental impact review.

How will Gasser succeed where Bridge Housing failed?

“We’re trying to be transparent and open,” Walker says. “We’ve met with the neighbors twice already.”

Time will tell how the neighbors respond, and whether CEQA will be the sword or the shield in this latest development battle in the North Bay.

Deep Noir

S A N TA R O S A As a psychologist and media educator, Terry Ebinger takes a unique approach to film studies in her Cinema & Psyche classes; blending film, history, psychology, cultural anthropology and more. This summer, she presents a new series, “Masterworks of Noir,” that focuses on the art of the heist in classic crime films like The Asphalt Jungle, The Killing, Dog Day Afternoon and others. Go deep in exploring existential parables and everyman sagas when Cinema & Psyche’s program kicks off on Thursday, June 21, at Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa. $135 for six weeks. cinemaandpsyche.com.

Books as Art

SEBASTOPOL This week is your chance to finally judge a book by its cover, as the Sebastopol Center for the Arts gathers three bookmaking and book-art themed exhibits featuring local and international artists. In the main gallery, “Bibliophoria V” shows off visual and sculptural re-interpretations of books, their components and methods of making. In gallery II, “Blind Stitching” and “In Touch with Art” feature textile works by artists with vision loss. Gallery III’s “Bound & Unbound” includes works by the Sonoma County Book Arts Guild. All shows open with a reception on Friday, June 22, 282 S. High St., Sebastopol. 6pm. 707.829.4797.

Birthday Music

P E TA L U M A Ever since his time in the Wildwood Boys with Jerry Garcia and his co-founding of New Riders of the Purple Sage in the 1960s, David Nelson’s place in Bay Area music history has spanned rock, bluegrass, country and more. Fronting the David Nelson Band for 25 years, Nelson turns 75 this year and celebrates both milestones with a massive concert featuring the members of the band and several special surprise guests on hand to help blow out the candles. Friday, June 22, at Mystic Theatre & Music Hall, 23 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma. 7:30pm. $50. 707.775.6048.

Laugh with Pride

N A PA New York City is the place to be if you’re a standup comedian, and one of the city’s hottest standups right now is Emma Willmann. She’s been named one of the “Top 10 Funniest Women in NYC” by Time Out New York magazine, appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and currently co-hosts the podcast Inside the Closet, in which she talks about being a member of the LGBTplus community. This week, Willmann travels from the big apple to wine country for a special Pride event on Friday, June 22, at Blue Note, 1030 Main St., Napa.

7pm and 9pm. $20 and up. 707.603.1258.

—Charlie Swanson

SOUNDS FROM ANOTHER PLANET Experimental songwriter Michelle Zauner’s sci-fi indie-rock project Japanese Breakfast performs on Tuesday, June 26, at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael. See Concerts, p17.

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GUITARS AND CANVAS Neal Barbosa (left) joins musicians like Danny Click onstage to paint when they play this weekend at Italian Street Painting Marin in San Rafael.

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Novato’s Neal Barbosa paints to the beat of live music BY CHARLIE SWANSON

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ive music makes people do all sorts of things. Some folks are compelled to dance, some can’t resist singing along and some feel the need to shout “‘Free Bird’!”

For Neal Barbosa, live music puts him in the mood to paint, and he does it onstage while bands perform at venues throughout the

Bay Area and beyond, a practice known as live painting.

Originally from Orange County, Barbosa was already a talented young artist when he moved to the North Bay at age 15 to live with his “hippie uncle.”

“He introduced me to all kinds of music that was going on around here,” Barbosa says. “I really wanted to be involved in that, but I didn’t play an instrument at the time, so I asked myself, ‘What do

I do?’ And I came up with the idea of live painting.”

Barbosa isn’t the first to paint live onstage; artists like Denny Dent have been painting along to live music since the 1960s, though Barbosa didn’t know about Dent when he started. Evolving organically over the last 15 years, Barbosa’s live painting was born out of a love for music and art, and his work synergizes both creative endeavors.

“I’ve worked with so many bands that like it, because it’s something new and something that gets the crowd going,” Barbosa says. “I’ve had musicians tell me that they can feel my energy, and vice versa, and it sparks them to do something a little more.”

Barbosa originally went to gigs without a clue as to what he would paint, but he’s refined the process in the last decade and a half. These days, he’ll sketch out several rough ideas before the set so the crowd can watch a piece take shape in a timelier manner, usually over the course of three to five songs. Some pieces are portraits, some are abstract; Barbosa says it all depends on what energy he taps into once he hears the music.

Barbosa has painted onstage with artists like Les Claypool, the Wailers, the New Mastersounds, Eric Lindell and others. This week, he’ll be on an outdoor stage in downtown San Rafael, painting along to live sets by Danny Click & the Hell Yeahs! and Moonalice at the annual Italian Street Painting Marin fine art event on June 23–24.

For this annual showcase’s 2018 theme, “Wonders of Space & Time,” Barbosa is incorporating images of celestial bodies into his planned live paintings, which will be available for sale after they’re completed.

“I’m really excited about it,” Barbosa says. “I’ll be painting with both hands.”

The Italian Street Festival happens Saturday and Sunday, June 23–24, in downtown San Rafael. Saturday, 10am to 8pm; Sunday, 10am to 6pm. $10–$15; kids 12 and under are free. italianstreetpaintingmarin. org. For more info on Barbosa, visit livepainter.com.

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The Tom Jones/Harvey Schmidt musical traces its roots back to Shakespeare and Greek and Roman mythology, and yet if feels more dated than that.

Director Elly Lichenstein utilizes several authorized revisions to make some of the show’s more problematic elements palatable to today’s audience, and it mostly works. The music is nostalgic (“Try to Remember” opens the show), the staging is colorful, and the cast is excellent, with Bacon and Khalikulov in fine voice and Pelican and Wilson providing welcome comedy relief.

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HAMMER OF THE GODS Viking metal rockers Arm the Valkyrie combine heavy music with cosplay.

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onceived over a game of Magic: The Gathering and named for the Viking spirits, the North Bay’s newest heavy metal outfit, Arm the Valkyrie, come armed with an array of Norse mythology, Dungeons & Dragons lore, comic-book cues and cosplay culture built into its grindingly ethereal sound.

"The goal was to allow no restrictions on scope or vision, no compromise of identity,” says vocalist Anjrew Joseph Johnson, who goes by the name of Spectre; all five members have adopted pseudonyms, like characters in a role-playing game.

“We listen to everything we

can get our hands and ears on,” Johnson says. “And between the combined experience of all the members, there probably isn’t a style of metal we haven’t played in some past project.”

For Arm the Valkyrie, the band members decided to pool their resources into a new body of music. The results can be heard on Arm the Valkyrie’s debut threetrack EP, Sojourn, which displays a diverse crossover of prominent metal styles blended into a new brand of Viking metal.

Each track on the EP builds in speed and scale, lyrically evoking images of frost-covered vistas while haunting atmospheres of sonic otherworldliness permeate through the use of aggressively strummed 12-string bass lines, pummeling percussion and smoldering guitar riffs.

Recorded live in one afternoon at Loud & Clear studios in Cotati, Sojourn sounds all the heavier due to Johnson’s extreme vocals, which were exasperated by a bout of bronchitis.

“It was a wretched experience for sure,” he says. “Our bassist, Mordred [Ben Shackelford], thought the effects of the sickness just added to the sound and insisted we keep the take.”

Originally a four-piece, Arm the Valkyrie recently added guitarist Ed “the Shred” Fullmer, whose other band, Barren Altar (“Play It Black,” March 1, 2017), just released their doom-laden debut LP, Entrenched in the Faults of the Earth, to rave reviews in the metal community. Arm the Valkyrie open Barren Altar’s album-release concert on June 22 at the Arlene Francis Center.

“Every one of us is in the band that we want see play live,” Johnson says. “That’s the reason why we do this, and as long as you stay true to that ideal, you stop needing any other reason to play music.”

Arm the Valkyrie storm the North Bay with Barren Altar and others on Friday, June 22, at the Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St., Santa Rosa.

7pm. $13; all ages. armthevalkyrie. bandcamp.com.

Concerts SONOMA COUNTY Barren Altar

Sonoma County black metal heavyweights release their debut album, “Entrenched in the Faults of the Earth,” and are joined by Aberration, Arm the Valkyrie and others. Jun 22, 7pm. $13. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

707.528.3009.

Rock & Wine Fest

Inaugural event blends classic rock from Y&T and Dokken with free tastings from select wineries. Jun 23, 5:30pm. $65.

SOMO Village Event Center, 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park. somoconcerts.com.

SEVA 40th Anniversary

Wavy Gravy hosts a celebration of the Berkeley-based organization with a headlining set by Dark Star Orchestra.

Jun 27, 8pm. $50-$75. Mystic Theatre & Music Hall, 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.775.6048.

MARIN COUNTY Japanese Breakfast

Experimental musician Michelle Zauner crafts a genre-bending sound that lies somewhere between Roy Orbison and “Blade Runner.”

Jun 26, 8:30pm. $25. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773.

Occidental Gypsy

New England outfit plays an exhilarating blend of swing, jazz and world music. Jun 21, 8pm. $20-$35. Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley. 415.383.9600.

Red Baraat

Dubbed the “best party band in years” by NPR, the eight-piece Brooklyn group plays off their forthcoming album, “Sound the People.” Jun 25, 8pm. $20$25. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley.

415.388.3850.

NAPA COUNTY Blair Crimmins & the Hookers

Atlanta-based banjo star dials up a the Dixieland for a

throwback folk-jazz sound. Jun 21, 7 and 9pm. $15-$35. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa.

707.603.1258.

Symphony Napa Valley

Violinist Vadim Repin joins the orchestra in a program of music from romantic-era Russian composers. Jun 23, 5pm. $30-$55. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville. 707.944.9900.

Clubs & Venues SONOMA COUNTY Aqus Cafe

Jun 22, Leeroy Stagger. Jun 23, Highway Poets. Jun 24, 6pm, the David Hamilton Band.

Jun 26, Sharkmouth. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. elephantintheroompub.com.

Flamingo Lounge

Jun 23, the Hots. Jun 24, Santa Rosa Salsa Nights. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.545.8530.

Geyserville Gun Club Bar & Lounge

Jun 23, Sean Carscadden Trio. 21025 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville. 707.814.0036.

Green Music Center Weill Hall

Jun 27, Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Guerneville Plaza

Jun 21, Rockin’ the River with Zepparella. 16201 First St, Guerneville. rockintheriver.org.

Healdsburg Plaza

Jun 22, 2 of Us. Jun 23, Blue Seven. Jun 24, 2pm, Gary Vogensen & the Ramble Band. 189 H St, Petaluma.

707.778.6060.

Jun 26, 5pm, Tuesdays in the Plaza with Charlie Musselwhite. 217 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. 707.431.3301.

The Big Easy

Jun 22, Funky Fridays with Poyntlyss Sistars. 389 Casa Manana Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.833.6288. funkyfridays.info.

Jun 21, Otto & the Moaners with Strange Hotels. Jun 22, Mike Saliani Band and the Dictator Tots. Jun 23, Jon Hartford tribute with members of Dusty Green Bones and One Grass Two Grass. Jun 24, the Beguilers. Jun 26, Matt Dorrien and Faustina Masigat. Jun 27, Wednesday Night Big Band.

128 American Alley, Petaluma.

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BR Cohn Winery

Jun 24, 2pm, Justin Brown.

15000 Sonoma Hwy, Glen Ellen.

707.938.4064.

Brewsters Beer Garden Jun 21, Stony Point Ramblers.

Jun 22, New Skye Band. Jun 23, 2 and 6pm, the Shots and Matt Reischling & the Black Box. Jun 24, Savannah Blu. 229 Water St N, Petaluma. 707.981.8330.

Cloverdale Plaza

Jun 22, 6:30pm, Friday Night Live at the Plaza with Afrolicious. 122 N Cloverdale Blvd, Cloverdale. 707.894.4410.

Crooked Goat Brewing Jun 23, 3pm, Joshua James Jackson. 120 Morris St, Ste 120, Sebastopol. 707.827.3893.

Dry Creek Vineyard

Jun 23, 1pm, Summer of Zin concert with the Sun Kings.

3770 Lambert Bridge Rd, Healdsburg. 707.433.1000.

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HopMonk Sebastopol Jun 22, Domenic Bianco & the SoulShake. Jun 23, the Muddy Roses. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol. 707.829.7300.

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Jun 22, Sean Carscadden. Jun 23, Adam Traum. Jun 24, 1pm, Matt Bolton. 691 Broadway, Sonoma. 707.935.9100.

Hotel Healdsburg

Jun 23, Susan Sutton Trio. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg.

707.431.2800.

Lagunitas Amphitheaterette

Jun 25, Live at Lagunitas with Deer Tick. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.778.8776.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Jun 20, Ashleigh Flynn & the Riveters. Jun 21, Charles Wheal Band. Jun 22, Arms Akimbo.

Jun 23, Staggerwing. Jun 24, Mama BRD. Jun 27, the Beer Scouts. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma. 707.778.8776.

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HIP-HOP• DOORS 7:30PM • 21+

KATCHAFIRE NOTIS HEAVYWEIGHT

Mc T’s Bullpen

SAVED BY THE 90'S

Rare opportunity to see this band LIVE in a small venue.

STEELIN' DAN

Meet and Greet included with 7pm show.

TUESDAY

STEPHEN MALKMUS &

70’s hits include: You are The Woman, Just Remember I Love You

FRIDAY

BOOKER T. JONES

FRIDAY

JUL 13 SATURDAY

COVER ⁄ TRIBUTE• DOORS 7:30PM • 21+

MUSIC OF STEELY DAN JUL 14 THE COVER ⁄ TRIBUTE• DOORS 7:30PM • 21+

JICKS JUL 17 THE INDIE ROCK• DOORS 7:30PM • 21+ JUL 27

Jun 22, Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox. 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa.

707.546.3600.

Main Street Bistro

MARSHALL HOUSE PROJECT & BANJO BOOM BOX FUNK⁄SOUL• DOORS 7:30PM • 21+

ROCKAZ, E.N YOUNG & IMPERIAL SOUND REGGAE• DOORS 7:30PM • 21+

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts

Tickets: $59– $80

SOUL• DOORS 7:30PM • 21+

8⁄2 Zoso: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience, 8⁄3 Raging Fyah, 8⁄5 Ace Frehley, 8⁄10 Charley Crockett with The Highway Poets, 8⁄11 Freddie McGregor, 8⁄19 Amanda Shires, 8⁄30 Igor & Red Elvises, 9⁄7 Movie Showing: Reel Rock 12, 9⁄8 The Zombies, 9⁄12 Marcus King Band, 9⁄22 The English Beat

Jun 22, DJ MGB. Jun 23, Stone Peoples Medicine. Jun 24, George Heagerty. 16246 First St, Guerneville. 707.869.3377.

Montgomery Village Shopping Center

Jun 21, 5:30pm, Kalimba. Jun 23, 12pm, Caravanserai with Tony Lindsay. Jun 24, 1pm, Jess Petty and the Michael Brandeburg Jazz Trio. 911 Village Court, Santa Rosa.

707.545.3844.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall 530 Main Street, Napa 707.251.5833 | silosnapa.com

WWW.MYSTICTHEATRE.COM 23 PETALUMA BLVD N. PETALUMA, CA 94952

Jun 22, David Nelson Band and friends. Jun 23, Charley Peach and One Armed Joey.

23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.775.6048.

The Phoenix Theater Outdoor Dining Sat & Sun Brunch 11–3

Din n er & A Show

Fri

Jun 22 toMMy tHoMsen

thu Western Swing Hall of Fame jun 21 8pm/ $10 Adv $12 DOS Fri soul fuse jun 22 8:30pm/Dancing/$10 sat funknroll jun 23 8:30pm/Dancing/$10 wed Holus bolus jun 27 8pm/no cover charge thu tHe HigHer logiC proJeCt jun 28 8pm/Dancing/$10 Fri afrofunk experienCe jun 29 8:30pm/Dancing/$10

pride Celebration feat sat jun 30 sang Matiz + More!

7pm/ $10 Adv $15 DOS

MiCHael boliVar & thu jul 5 ligHtforCe

8pm/Dancing/$10 Adv $15 DOS

Fri tHe Melt jul 6 8:30pm/$10 sat JoHnny rawls witH jul 7 tHe blues defenders 8:30pm/Dancing/$15 Capturing reality Photography May 14–July 17...Stan Angel, Kenneth Bradley,Michael Riley, Cathy Thomas.

Visit our website, redwoodCafe.CoM 8240 old redwood Hwy, Cotati 707.795.7868

Lunch & Dinner 7 Days a Week

Todos Santos

Cantina Americana 8:00 / No Cover Sat Reefer Madness Meets Rhythm and Booze!

23 Jun Lavay Smith 1930s Taboo Super Club 8:30

BBQs on the Lawn are Back!

Sun

Annual Beatle Q with Jun 24 The Sun Kings

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

4th of July Weekend

Sun

Jul 1

Stoned Soul Picnic

Blues Broads / Sons of the Soul Revivers Wed Jul 4 The Zydeco Flames HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Sun Peter Rowan’s Annual

Jul 8 Sun

Birthday Bash

Jul 15 Tommy Castro & The Sun

Painkillers /The Illeagles

Jul 22 Paul Thorn Band Sun Jul 29 the subdudes Sun Chuck Prophet Aug 5 Sun

& the Mission Express + special guest Matt Jaffe

Jun 22, Cabbagehead with Justin Schaefers & the Blind Barbers and Sharkmouth. Jun 23, Hatchet album release show with Blind Illusion and Cultural Warfare. 201 Washington St, Petaluma.

707.762.3565.

Redwood Cafe

Jun 21, Tommy Thomsen.

Jun 22, Soul Fuse. Jun 23, FunkNRoll. Jun 24, Irish jam session. Jun 25, Open Mic with DJ Loisaida. Jun 26, pop-up jazz jam with Debra Anderson.

Jun 27, Holus Bolus. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7868.

The Reel Fish Shop & Grill

Jun 22, Kevin Russell and the Rhythm Rangers. Jun 23, Latino night with Veneno Musical. Jun 24, 5pm, Buck Nickels & Loose Change. 401 Grove St, Sonoma.

707.343.0044.

Remy’s Bar & Lounge

Jun 23, J Stalin. 130 Stony Point Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.578.1963.

Rio Nido Roadhouse

Reservations Advised

Jun 23, the Pulsators. 14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido.

707.869.0821.

On the Town Square, Nicasio

Sonoma Speakeasy

Aug 12 “Uncle” Willie K

415.662.2219

www.ranchonicasio.com

Jun 20, the Acrosonics. Jun

21, Plan Be. Jun 22, Michael Sigmon and friends. Jun 23, Jim Holland & Sonoma All-Stars with Jodi Stevens. Jun 24, 5pm, King Daddy Murr & the Prince of Thieves. Jun 24, 8:30pm, Sonoma blues jam. Jun 26, American roots night with Lou Rodriguez and friends.

452 First St E, Ste G, Sonoma.

707.996.1364.

23, Austin Hicks. Jun 27, John Vicino. 1450 First St, Napa.

707.687.1234.

Taft Street Winery

Jun 24, 3pm, Rob Watson and Groovality with Paul Branin.

1207 Foothill Blvd, Calistoga.

707.942.5605.

Jun 24, 2pm, Chris Webster and Nina Gerber with Solid Air Duo. 2030 Barlow Lane, Sebastopol.

707.823.2049.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse Jun 22, Buck Nickels & Loose Change. Jun 23, Jeffro Squid.

Jun 24, 6pm, Backyard BBQ with Barrio Manouche. Jun 25, the Blues Defenders pro jam. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove. 707.795.5118.

Viansa Winery

Jun 23, 11am, Buck Nickels & Loose Change. Jun 24, 11am, Ken Teel. 25200 Arnold Dr, Sonoma. 707.935.4700.

Whiskey Tip

Jun 22, ‘80s night. Jun 23, Motorboat. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.843.5535.

Windsor Town Green Jun 21, 6pm, Soul Fuse. 701 McClelland Dr, Windsor. townofwindsor.com.

MARIN COUNTY Rickey’s Restaurant & Bar

Jun 26, Chime Travelers. Jun 27, Tracy Rose. 250 Entrada Dr, Novato. 415.883.9477.

Sweetwater Music Hall Jun 21, Della Mae. Jun 22-23, Zepparella. Jun 24, Trashcan Sinatras. Jun 26, Lauren Murphy Band and Achilles Wheel. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

Terrapin Crossroads

Jun 20, Incubators. Jun 21, Ross James’ Cosmic Thursday.

Jun 24, Otto & the Moaners.

Jun 25, Grateful Monday with China Cats. Jun 26, the Casual Coalition. 100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael. 415.524.2773.

Throckmorton Theatre Jun 24, 5pm, Kimrea’s pro showcase with Lisa Kindred.

Jun 27, noon concert with Angela Lee and Britt Day. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

NAPA COUNTY Andaz Napa

Jun 20, Vince Costanza. Jun

Blue Note Napa

Jun 20, Mark Goldenberg.

Jun 23, Electric Flag. Jun 26, Secure the Sun. Jun 27, Danielle Nicole. 1030 Main St, Napa.

707.603.1258.

Buster’s Southern Barbecue

Ca’ Momi Osteria

Jun 22, Laura Weinbach and Anton Patzner. 1141 First St, Napa. 707.224.6664.

Deco Lounge at Capp Heritage Vineyards Jun 23, Michael McNevin.

1245 First St, Napa.

707.254.1922.

Fairwinds Estate Winery

Jun 23, 2pm, Project 4 Band.

4550 Silverado Trail N, Calistoga, 877.840.6530.

Goose & Gander

Jun 24, 1pm, the Diva Kings.

1245 Spring St, St Helena.

707.967.8779.

JaM Cellars

Jun 21, Dustin Saylor. Jun 22, Sunny & the Black Pack.

1460 First St, Napa.

707.265.7577.

Pioneer Park

Jun 21, 6:30pm, the Boys of Summer. 1308 Cedar St, Calistoga. 707.942.2838.

River Terrace Inn

Jun 21, Karen Shook. Jun 22, Nate Lopez. Jun 23, Craig Corona. Jun 24, Amber Snider.

1600 Soscol Ave, Napa.

707.320.9000.

The Runway

by Patrick

Jun 23, Soul Kat. 2044 Airport Rd, Napa.

707.258.6115.

Silo’s

Jun 21, Julius Melendez & Conjunto Seis de Montuno.

Jun 22, Top Shelf. Jun 23, Martha Davis & the Motels.

530 Main St, Napa.

707.251.5833.

Veterans Memorial Park

Jun 22, 6:30pm, Napa City Nights with Road Eleven and Matt Jaffe. 850 Main St, Napa. napacitynights.com.

Yao Family Wines Jun 22, 6pm, Al James.

929 Main St, St Helena.

707.986.5874.

Arts Events SONOMA COUNTY Gallery 300

Jun 23-Jul 29, “New Spaces,” Gallery 300’s first exhibit in the Barlow features paintings and functional art from Jennifer Hirshfield, Terry Sauve, Lisa Thorpe and others. Reception, June 23 at 5pm. 6780 Mckinley Street, #130, Sebastopol. MonSat, noon to 5; Sun, noon to 4.

707.332.1212.

Hammerfriar Gallery

Jun 23-Aug 25, “13 Years,” Hammerfriar celebrates its first 13 years with a retrospective featuring 41 artists. This is the final show curated by retiring gallery founder Jill Plamann.

Reception, June 23 at 6pm. 132 Mill St, Ste 101, Healdsburg.

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

707.473.9600.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts Jun 22-Jul 29, “Bibliophoria V,” homage to all things book-arts related features graphic and sculptural works that re-interpret books and bookmaking. Reception, Jun 22 at 6pm. 282 S High St, Sebastopol. Tues-Fri, 10 to 4; Sat-Sun, 1 to 4. 707.829.4797.

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

Jun 23-Sep 16, “Private Landscapes & Public Territories,” works by Amalia Mesa-Bains focus on place and memory through botanical prints, mapping images, landscape shadow boxes, altars, folding books and installations. Reception, Jun 23 at 6pm. 551 Broadway, Sonoma. Wed-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.939.SVMA.

NAPA COUNTY di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art

Jun 23-Dec 31, “Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times,” two-part exhibit continues with featured artists Victor Cartagena, Ranu Mukherjee, Lava Thomas and Lexa Walsh addressing current socio political issues. Reception,

Comedy Comedy at the Blue Note Rising standup star Emma Willmann and special guest Alex Josef appear in a special PRIDE event. Jun 22, 7 and 9pm. $20-$50. Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa.

707.603.1258.

Flying Leap Improv Theater Ensemble

Local actors play out audience suggestions. Jun 22, 7:30pm. $15. Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental. 707.874.9392.

The Laugh Cellar

Fri, Jun 22, 7pm, Dane Wine Country, LGBTQ and friends dance party features guest DJs. $12. 5755 Mountain Hawk Way, Santa Rosa. 707.843.3824.

Jennie McNulty

Standup comedian offers infectious fun with a disarming delivery. Jun 22, 7pm. $20. The Laugh Cellar, 5755 Mountain Hawk Way, Santa Rosa.

707.843.3824.

Standup Comedy at St. Anne’s Crossing The folks at the Laugh Cellar pop up in Kenwood with comedians Liz Stone, Zack Chapaloni and Julie Ash. Jun 23, 7:30pm. $28. St. Anne’s Crossing Winery, 8450 Sonoma Hwy, Kenwood. 707.598.5200.

Events Calistoga Fitness Festival

Join in a three-hour workout class, followed by a welldeserved glass of wine and paired bites. Jun 24, 9am. $45.

Calistoga Motor Lodge & Spa, 1880 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga.

707.942.0991.

Calistoga Summer Sidewalk Sale

Several participating shops take to the streets, with a gift basket raffle and live music. Jun 22-24. Downtown Calistoga, Lincoln Ave, Calistoga, visitcalistoga.com.

FREE LOCAL LIVE MUSIC

Giro Bello

Rotary Club of Santa Rosa hosts three routes of picturesque bike riding and an expo featuring live bands and food. Jun 23, 7am. $60$95. O’Reilly Media, 1005 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol. girobello.com.

Healdsburg Art After Dark

Thu 6⁄21 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $20–$24 • All Ages Grammy Nominated Americana Band

Della Mae

with Ashleigh Flynn & the Riveters Fri 6⁄22 & Sat 6⁄23 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $22–$25 • 21+

Zepparella

the All-Female Zeppelin Powerhouse Sun 6⁄24 • Doors 6:30pm ⁄ $28–$31 • All Ages

Trashcan Sinatras

+ James Oakes (The Bellows) Mon 6⁄25 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $20–$25 • All Ages

Event series on the plaza is filled with visual art vendors and various live performances.

Fri, Jun 22, 6pm. Free.

Healdsburg Center for the Arts, 130 Plaza St, Healdsburg.

707.431.1970.

Meditation to Help the World

Experience a simple, group meditation that makes a positive difference in the world and deepens your own spirituality. Jun 23, 2pm. Free.

Rincon Valley Library, 6959 Montecito Blvd, Santa Rosa. share-international-west.org.

Midsummer Medieval Feast

Red Baraat + Maggie Belle Band "The best party band in years." -NPR Tue 6⁄26 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $17–$20 • All Ages

Lauren Murphy Band & Achilles Wheel Trio + Special Guests Thu 6⁄28 • Doors 7pm ⁄ $22–$27 • All Ages

THE ELECTRIC FLAG 50TH ANNIVERSARY

with Nick Gravenites, Barry Goldberg

& Harvey Mandel

Fri 6⁄29 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $27–$32 • 21+

Fleetwood Mask

The Ultimate Tribute to Fleetwood Mac Sat 6⁄30 • Doors 8pm ⁄ $10–$15 • All Ages

Moonalice with SF Airship Acoustic A Benefit for Internet Archive

www.sweetwatermusichall.com 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley Café 388-1700 | Box Office 388-3850

Cheer on jousting knights while sipping on wine and feasting on a courtyard dinner. Jun 22, 6:30pm. $180.

Castello di Amorosa, 4045 N St Helena Hwy, Calistoga.

707.967.6272.

GIGS LIVE MUSIC. NEW STAGE AND SOUND. NEW DANCE FLOOR. NEW AIR CONDITIONING. SUDS TAPS - 18 LOCAL & REGIONAL SELECT CRAFT BEERS & CIDERS. EATS NEW MENU, KITCHEN OPEN ALL DAY FROM 11AM ON. CHECK OUT OUR AWARD WINNING BABY BACK RIBS. DIGS DINING OUT-DOORS. KIDS ALWAYS WELCOME - NEW KID’S MENU. RESERVATIONS FOR 8 OR MORE. HAPPY HOUR M-F 3-6PM. $2 CHICKEN, PORK OR BEEF TACOS. $3 HOUSE CRAFT BEERS. CALENDAR WED JUN 20 • HONKY TONK NIGHT WITH THE TWIN OAKS GEAR JAMMERS EVERY 1ST AND 3RD WEDNESDAY 7:30PM / ALL AGES / FREE THU JUN 21 • COUNTRY LINE DANCE EVERY 1ST AND 3RD THURSDAY 7PM / ALL AGES / $10 FRI JUN 22 • EZ STREET AN EVENING WITH 2 SETS! 8PM / 21+ / FREE SAT JUN 23 • JEFFRO SQUID AN EVENING WITH 2 SETS! 8PM / 21+ / FREE SUN JUN 24 • TWIN OAKS BACKYARD BBQ SERIES, BARRIO MANOUCHE 5PM / ALL AGES /$20 SHOW + BBQ / $10 SHOW ONLY CHECK OUT OUR FULL MUSIC CALENDAR www.TwinOaksRoadhouse.com Phone 707.795.5118 5745 Old Redwood Hwy Penngrove, CA 94951

Sebastiani Theatre Presents

The Incredibles 2

Russian River Rodeo

Enjoy a weekend of roping, riding and other traditional cowboy activities. Jun 23-24. $4-$12. Bill Parmeter Field, 23450 Moscow Rd, Duncans Mills. russianriverrodeo.org.

Sierra Nevada World Music Festival

Three-day music and camping festival featuring the best in roots reggae and world music. Two outdoor stages, a late-night Dance Hall, Festival Village of international cuisine, arts, crafts and an extensive array of children’s activities.

Jun 22-24. Mendocino County Fairgrounds, 14400 Highway 128, Boonville.

707.895.3011.

Sonoma Pueblo Day

Celebrate the beginning of Mexican civil governing of Sonoma in 1834 with a walking tour featuring activities and ice cream. Jun 23, 11am.

Free. Sonoma Plaza, First St E, Sonoma. ) 707.996.1090.

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Maenad Alignment by Michael McMillan, 2003

456 Tenth St, Santa Rosa • Tue–Sat 11–5 707.781.7070 • calabigallery.com

HANDY JIM • carpentry/painting • seismic retrofit • structural work • stucco/concrete • gutter cleaning • roofing

FAR WEST RESTORATION & CONSTRUCTION 707.280.4891 • FarWestConstr.com Jim Kennedy CA License #751689

Starts June 15th

Yellow Submarine July 16

Dr. R.K. Rhotens

Magical Medicine Show July 27th, 28th & 29th www.SebastianiTheatre.com

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Gallery Openings

Jun 30 at 5pm. 5200 Sonoma Hwy, Napa. Wed-Sun, 10 to 6.

707.226.5991.

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Sonoma Stompers Baseball Pride Night

Minor league team that boasts the first openly gay player in professional baseball celebrates Sonoma Pride.

Jun 22, 6pm. Arnold Field, 280 First St West, Sonoma. stompersbaseball.com.

Sonoma-Marin Fair

Annual county-crossing fair features headlining concerts from En Vogue, Clay Walker, 38 Special and others, with fair food, carnival rides, ugliest dog contest, livestock and more.

Jun 20-24. $10-$18 / kids under four are free. Petaluma Fairgrounds, 100 Fairgrounds Dr, Petaluma.

Summer Nights at RLSM

Museum dedicated to writer Robert Louis Stevenson stays open late and serves up refreshments. Fri, Jun 22, 5pm. Free admission. Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, 1490 Library Lane, St Helena.

707.963.3757.

Toyota/Save Mart 350 NASCAR’s in Northern California featuring top drivers on the road course. Jun 22-24. $10-$180. Sonoma Raceway, 29355 Arnold Dr, Sonoma.

800.870.RACE.

Wheels & Wings Car Show

Classic cars and fighter planes make for a fun-filled family day. Jun 23. $10/kids under 8 are free. Pacific Coast Air Museum, 2330 Airport Blvd, Santa Rosa. 707.575.7900.

Where’s Waldo Interactive Mural

Get involved in a giant art collage project focused on the bespeckled puzzle-book star.

Jun 24, 3pm and Jun 25, 4pm.

Napa Bookmine, 964 Pearl St, Napa. 707.733.3199.

Field Trips Birding at Wright Hill Ranch

Birding hike features coastal views and a colorful history.

Jun 23, 10am. Wright Hill Ranch, Hwy 1, Jenner. landpaths.org.

Nature Nights Summer Campout at Bohemia Preserve

Spend the day exploring and

relaxing, gather to share a potluck meal and enjoy the preserve after dark. Jun 23-24. Bohemia Ecological Preserve, 8759 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental.

Tomales Bay Kayak Tour

Paddle toward Hog Island for a glimpse of local wildlife.

Jun 23-24. $89. Miller Park, Hwy 1, Tomales Bay, pointreyesoutdoors.com.

Film CULT Film Series

See a special Mel Brooks double-feature screening of “Spaceballs” and “Dracula: Dead & Loving It.” Jun 21, 7pm. $10. Third Street Cinema Six, 620 Third St, Santa Rosa.

707.528.8770.

Future Weather

“Science on Screen” series presents the emotional drama about a 13-year-old loner, her jaded grandmother, a rural home and a carbon sequestration experiment.

Jun 26, 5pm. Cameo Cinema, 1340 Main St, St Helena.

707.963.9779.

KRSH Backyard Movies

Wine Country radio station screens “Walk the Line” at dusk. Jun 21, 7:30pm. KRSH, 3565 Standish Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.588.0707.

Ratatouille

Beloved Pixar film screens in a benefit for Camp Hope Napa County, with a special surprise guest. Jun 24, 2pm. $15. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville.

707.944.9900.

A Thousand Cranes

Rare screening of Brian Kahn’s award-winning documentary is followed by a presentation by Veronica Bowers of Native Songbird Care & Conservation. Preregistration required. Jun 21, 7pm. $12-$25. Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental Center, 900 Sanford Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.527.9277.

Worlds Apart

In modern-day Greece, three distinct stories unfold, each representing a different generation of Greeks in love with a foreigner. Jun 23, 4 and 7pm. $10. Jarvis Conservatory, 1711 Main St, Napa. 707.255.5445.

Food & Drink Black Stallion Lobster Feed

Annual feed features wine and lobster served on the terrace. Jun 23, 6pm. $150.

Black Stallion Winery, 4089 Silverado Trail, Napa.

707.253.1400.

Chosen Family Pride BBQ

Bring your chosen family and celebrate Pride month with delicious food, music and community. Jun 27, 5pm. Voices, 714 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. lgbtqconnection.org.

Comstock Wines Winemaker Dinner

Hosted by veteran Winemaker Chris Russi. Jun 22, 6:30pm. $109. Bay View Restaurant at the Inn at the Tides.

800 Hwy 1, Bodega Bay. 707.875.2751.

Crayfish Boil

Casual affair boasts craft beers, crayfish, andouille sausages and other Cajun fare, with live music from T-Luke & the Tight Suits.

Jun 23, 12pm. $25. Old Possum Brewing Company, 357 Sutton Place, Santa Rosa.

707.303.7177.

Paws 4 Wine

Many participating tasting rooms donate some portion of their sales to Canine Companions for Independence.

Jun 23, 11am. Free admission.

Wine Road wineries, various locations, Healdsburg. wineroad.com.

Pine Ridge Vineyards 40th Anniversary Celebration

Enjoy food stations, current release Pine Ridge Vineyards wines and live music. Jun 23, 4pm. $55. Pine Ridge Vineyards, 5901 Silverado Trail, Napa. 707.252.9777.

Season of Wine & Lavender

The Sonoma Valley estate becomes an ocean of lavender and offers a variety of experiences including winetastings, harvest lunches, celebration dinners and open houses. Book events online now. Through Jul 31. $5-$10 and up. Matanzas Creek Winery, 6097 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa. matanzascreek.com.

For Kids World-class guest artists offer courses in various dance styles, percussion and more to kids ages three and up. Scholarship programs available. Through Jun 28. New World Ballet, 905 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.536.9523.

The Secret Garden

Missoula Children’s Theatre presents the classic tale for little ones. Jun 23, 2 and 4:30pm. $2-$13. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

Summer Cyber Security Camp

High school students can get introductory information security training and participate in team competitions and awards.

Meals provided. Jun 25-29.

Free. SRJC Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma. petaluma.santarosa. edu/summer-cyber-camp.

Lectures Making the Most of Movies at Home

Film industry veteran Steven Lester makes it easy to understand all the options for upgrading your home theater or enhancing movie-watching at home. Jun 21, 5:30pm. Free.

Lavish HiFi, 1044 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.595.2020.

Staying True to the Spirit of Cannabis

Evening aims to connects the cannabis community and includes a talk by author and alchemist Scarlet Ravin and professional networking. Jun 26, 6pm. $25-$35. Whiskey Tip, 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.843.5535.

Bullshot Crummond

Book Passage By-the-Bay

The Fantasticks

Jun 20, 6pm, “Eye of the Shoal” with Helen Scales. Jun 27, 6pm, “Dry-Me-Dry” with Sarah Horowitz. 100 Bay St, Sausalito.

415.339.1300.

Healdsburg Copperfield’s Books

Jun 21, 6pm, “The Devil’s Half Mile” with Paddy Hirsch. 106 Matheson St, Healdsburg.

707.433.9270.

Laurel Glen Vineyard Tasting Room

Jun 24, 4pm, “The Vines We Planted” with Joanell Serra.

969 Carquinez Ave, Glen Ellen.

707.933.9877.

Napa Bookmine at Oxbow

Jun 23, 10:30am, storytime with Michael Slack. 610 First St, Shop 4, Napa. 707.726.6575.

Petaluma Copperfield’s Books

Jun 22, 7pm, “Fare Thee Well” with Joel Silvin. Jun 26, 7pm, “Calypso” with David Sedaris.

140 Kentucky St, Petaluma.

707.762.0563.

Readers’ Books

Jun 23, 1:30pm, “A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees” and “Kitchen Inheritance” with Kendra Tanacea and Christopher DeLorenzo. 130 E Napa St, Sonoma. 707.939.1779.

Santa Rosa Copperfield’s Books

Jun 21, 7pm, “A Taste for Vengeance: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel” with Martin Walker. Jun 22, 7pm, “Stories Make the World” with Stephen Most. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa. 707.578.8938.

Readings Theater Book Passage

Jun 20, 7pm, “Fare Thee Well” with Joel Selvin. Jun 23, 11am, “Two Problems for Sophia” with Jim Averbeck. Jun 23, 1pm, “Every Night’s Friday Night” with Andrea Huff. Jun 24, 1pm, “The Sacred and the Silly” with Bishop Swing. Jun 24, 4pm, “My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood” with Claude Jarman. Jun 25, 7pm,

Broadway Under the Stars

Transcendence Theatre Company’s annual outdoor song and dance performance series kicks off with “Stairway to Paradise,” featuring songs from Broadway and beyond.

Pre-show picnics available.

Through Jul 1, 5pm. Jack London State Park, 2400 London Ranch Rd, Glen Ellen, transcendencetheatre.org.

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Curtain Call Theatre performs the audacious, steampunkinspired comedy of the dashing WWI ace up against a dastardly count. Through Jun 23. $20.

Russian River Hall, 20347 Hwy 116, Monte Rio. 707.524.8739.

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New World Ballet Summer Arts Camp

“The Pitcher and the Dictator” with Ace Smith. Jun 26, 7pm, “The Third Bank of the River” with Chris Feliciano Arnold. Jun 27, 7pm, “I Will Be Complete” with Glen David Gold. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera.

415.927.0960.

Timeless musical is lovingly produced in memory of late Cinnabar performer Stephen Walsh. Through Jun 24. $25$45. Cinnabar Theater, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma.

707.763.8920.

Hamlet

Marin Shakespeare Company presents the epic drama in a contemporary setting in this production directed by Robert Currier. Through Jul 8. $12-$38.

Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, 890 Belle Ave, Dominican University, San Rafael. marinshakespeare.org.

Honky

Left Edge Theater presents the dark comedy about race, rhetoric and basketball shoes.

Through Jul 1. $25-$40. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

Illyria

Modern musical take on Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” mixes mistaken identities and clever melodies for a romantic tale of hijinks. Through Jul 8. $22-$38. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

707.523.4185.

Shrek, the Musical

Raven Players presents the music-filled stage show about the unlikely hero. Jun 22-Jul 8. $10-$35. Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg.

707.433.3145.

Straight White Men

When Ed and his three adult sons come together to celebrate Christmas, they confront issues about identity and privilege. Through Jul 8. $10-$49. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.5208.

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mong the many illogical aspects of federal drug policy, the classification of hemp as a Schedule I narcotic is near the top. But that may be over with the Senate’s passage of a new farm bill last week.

Great for making clothes, paper and biodegradable plastic (but incapable of getting you high), hemp is classified the same as heroin and PCP, thanks in large part to the racist roots of American drug policy that saw use of cannabis— redubbed “marijuana” because it sounded scarier and more foreign— as a scourge among blacks and Latinos. Hemp, a non-psychoactive form of Cannabis sativa once a staple crop in America, got caught up in the dragnet.

The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 regulated the cultivation and sale of all cannabis varieties, hemp included. The Nixon-era Controlled Substances Act of 1970 classified all forms of cannabis as a Schedule I drug. But the good news is the bad policy is slowly unraveling.

While you’d never hear him say a discouraging word about Donald Trump’s ruinous policies, Sen. Mitch McConnell is bullish on hemp as an alternative to tobacco in his home state of Kentucky.

Before the Senate’s vote on a five-year farm bill last week that included a hemp rider, McConnell championed the plant. The Senate Majority Leader’s legislation, the Hemp Farming Act, removes industrial hemp from the list of federal controlled substances.

“I think it is time to act. People have figured out this is not the other plant [cannabis],” McConnell said. “I think it is an important new development in American agriculture.”

McConnell backed a pilot program in the 2014 farm bill that allowed for industrial hemp production for fiber and edible seeds.

Besides legalizing hemp as an agricultural commodity, the legislation names states as the primary regulators of industrial hemp, encourages research through USDA competitive grants and allows hemp farmers to apply for crop insurance, reports the Food and Environment Reporting Network.

The House of Representatives takes up the farm bill next; if it passes, it then awaits the president’s signature.

Meanwhile in California, an industrial hemp bill from Sen. Scott Wilk, R-Antelope Valley, is making its way through committee. Among other things, SB 1409 would open the door to more hemp farmers and hemp varieties by removing the requirement that industrial hemp seed cultivars be certified on or before Jan. 1, 2013. The bill would also create a hemp pilot project like that conducted in Kentucky and also Oregon and Colorado.

Critics of the bill, however, say it restricts hemp cultivation to larger, deep-pocketed companies at the expense of small-scale farmers looking to reap the economic benefits of hemp, which is a major source of CBD oil.

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ARIES (March 21–April 19) According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you have cosmic permission to enjoy extra helpings of waffles, crepes, pancakes and blintzes. Eating additional pastries and doughnuts is also encouraged. Why? Because it’s high time for you to acquire more ballast. You need more gravitas and greater stability. You can’t afford to be top-heavy; you must be hard to knock over. If you would prefer not to accomplish this noble goal by adding girth to your butt and gut, find an alternate way. Maybe you could put weights on your shoes and think very deep thoughts.

TAURUS (April 20–May 20) You’re slipping into

the wild heart of the season of discovery. Your curiosity is mounting. Your listening skills are growing more robust. Your willingness to be taught and influenced and transformed is at a peak. And what smarter way to take advantage of this fertile moment than to decide what you most want to learn about during the next three years? For inspiration, identify a subject you’d love to study, a skill you’d eagerly stretch yourself to master, and an invigorating truth that would boost your brilliance if you thoroughly embodied it.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20)

Playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969. Four of his works were essential in earning that award: the play Waiting for Godot, and the novels Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable.

Beckett wrote all of them in a two-year span during the late 1940s. During that time, he was virtually indigent.

He and his companion Suzanne survived on the paltry wage she made as a dressmaker. We might draw the conclusion from his life story that it is at least possible for a person to accomplish great things despite having little money. I propose that we make Beckett your role model for the coming weeks, Gemini. May he inspire you to believe in your power to become the person you want to be no matter what your financial situation may be.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) I suggest you ignore the temptation to shop around for new heroes and champions. It would only distract you from your main assignment in the coming weeks, which is to be more of a hero and champion yourself. Here are some tips to guide you as you slip beyond your overly modest self-image and explore the liberations that may be possible when you give yourself more credit. Tip #1: Finish outgrowing the old heroes and champions who’ve served you well. Tip #2: Forgive and forget the disappointing heroes and hypocritical champions who betrayed their own ideals. Tip #3: Exorcise your unwarranted admiration for mere celebrities who might have snookered you into thinking they’re heroes or champions.

LEO (July 23–August 22) “A waterfall would be more impressive if it flowed the other way,” said Irish writer Oscar Wilde. Normally, I would dismiss an idea like this, even though it’s funny and I like funny ideas.

Normally, I would regard such a negative assessment of the waterfall’s true nature, even in jest, to be unproductive and enfeebling. But none of my usual perspectives are in effect as I evaluate the possibility that Wilde’s declaration might be a provocative metaphor for your use in the coming weeks. For a limited time only, it might be wise to meditate on a waterfall that flows the other way.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) Stage magicians may seem to make a wine glass hover in mid-air, or transform salt into diamonds, or make doves materialize and fly out of their hands. It’s all fake, of course—tricks performed by skilled illusionists. But here’s a twist on the old story: I suspect that for a few weeks, you will have the power to generate effects that may, to the uninitiated, have a resemblance to magic tricks—except that your magic will be real, not fake.

And you will have worked very hard to accomplish what looks easy and natural. And the marvels you generate will, unlike the illusionists’, be authentic and useful.

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) The coming weeks will be a favorable time to accentuate and brandish the qualities that best exemplify your Libran

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Be pushy in your attempts to harmonize. Be bold and brazen as you make supple use of your famous balancing act. I’ll offer you a further piece of advice, as well. My first astrology teacher believed that when Librans operate at peak strength, their symbol of power is the iron fist in the velvet glove: power expressed gracefully, firmness rendered gently. I urge you to explore the nuances of that metaphor.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

If I were your mom, I’d nudge you out the door and say, “Go play outside for a while!” If I were your commanding officer, I’d award you a shiny medal for your valorous undercover work and then order you to take a frisky sabbatical. If I were your psychotherapist, I would urge you to act as if your past has no further power to weigh you down or hold you back, and then I would send you out on a vision quest to discover your best possible future. In other words, my dear Scorpio, I hope you will flee your usual haunts. Get out of the loop and into the open spaces that will refresh your eyes and heart.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21)

Sex education classes at some high schools employ a dramatic exercise to illustrate the possible consequences of engaging in heterosexual lovemaking without using birth control. Everywhere they go for two weeks, students must carry around a 10-pound bag of flour. It’s a way for them to get a visceral approximation of caring for an infant. I recommend that you find or create an equivalent test or trial for yourself in the coming days. As you consider entering into a deeper collaboration or making a stronger commitment, you’ll be wise to undertake a dress rehearsal.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) Members of the Dull Men’s Club celebrate the ordinary.

“Glitz and glam aren’t worth the bother,” they declare.

“Slow motion gets you there faster,” they pontificate.

Showing no irony, they brag that they are “born to be mild.” I wouldn’t normally recommend becoming part of a movement like theirs, but the next two weeks will be one of those rare times when aligning yourself with their principles might be healthy and smart. If you’re willing to explore the virtues of simple, plain living, make the Swedish term lagom your word of power.

According to the Dull Men’s Club, it means “enough, sufficient, adequate, balanced, suitable, appropriate.”

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) In the Georgian language, shemomechama is a word that literally means “I ate the whole thing.” It refers to what happens when you’re already full, but find the food in front of you so delicious that you can’t stop eating. I’m concerned you might soon be tempted to embark on metaphorical versions of shemomechama. That’s why I’m giving you a warning to monitor any tendencies you might have to get too much of a good thing.

Pleasurable and productive activities will serve you better if you stop yourself before you go too far.

PISCES (February 19–March 20)

Please do not send me a lock of your hair or a special piece of your jewelry or a hundred dollar bill. I will gladly cast a love spell on your behalf without draining you of your hardearned cash. The only condition I place on my free gift is that you agree to have me cast the love spell on you and you alone. After all, your love for yourself is what needs most work. And your love for yourself is the primary magic that fuels your success in connecting with other people. (Besides, it’s bad karma to use a love spell to interfere with another person’s will.) So if you accept my conditions, Pisces, demonstrate that you’re ready to receive my telepathic love spell by sending me your telepathic authorization.

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