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Show Yourself I read the rabid fan letter attempting to gloss over the sleazy conflict of interest and self-dealing practices of Gallaher Homes and Bill Gallaher’s Poppy Bank (Letters to the Editor, Sept. 19) and found it worthy of comparison with Donald Trump playing his own publicist on the phone. What a colossal joke this obvious shill for Bill Gallaher is!

Makes me think that this anonymous writer just might be ol’ Bill himself.

Otherwise, BananaBolt, why the pseudonym instead of having the courage to use your real name?

Furthermore, just how dumb do you think we really are?

BananaBolt criticized Bohemian reporter Peter Byrne and the Bohemian for publishing the previous week’s piece “One-Stop Shop.” However, I found that piece to be excellent reporting— comprehensively researched and wellwritten—and was grateful as hell to see it in print.

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What incentive do small growers (including those who don’t make a living off weed) have to pay ridiculous prices with ridiculous taxes and fees when you can get better quality and cheaper? That’s real true capitalism.

What’s going on now with legalization is a combination of extortion and throwing legitimate growers out of the market.

For what? State taxes. The ripoff market is never going to be fully realized until the state reduces profits and taxes. Then maybe it will get the revenues it needs.

Right now, it’s a classic ripoff.

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Hot-Tubbers Who Care Hardly a day goes by when the reality of homelessness in Marin County doesn’t hit home and break your heart. It’s heartwarming to realize that in one of the most affluent communities in the world, a spirit of compassion and empathy lives large. From Adopt a Family of Marin, to the St. Vincent de Paul Society, and many more caring resources in between, it is with an outright sense of pride to be residing among those citizens a politician once referred to as “misguided Marin County hot-tubbers.” May Marinites always be so misguided.

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Fare Thee Well An alternative-paper veteran hangs up his hat BY STETT HOLBROOK

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esterday, Sept. 25, was my last day at the Bohemian and Pacific Sun. After four and a half years, I’m leaving my position as editor and hanging up my newspaperman’s fedora. Well, sort of.

I’ve taken a job at Harvester Clothing Co. in Sebastopol, where I’ll be writing and curating stories of compelling people and places from Crescent City to Oaxaca in support of made-inCalifornia apparel.

I’m excited for this new chapter in my life, but I will miss the privilege of reporting on life in the North Bay, particularly at this fragile time in our nation’s history.

The Bohemian and Pacific Sun will be in good hands. Gary Brandt, who has been with the Bohemian for 17 years and has worked on more than 800 weekly issues, has been promoted to managing editor and will be responsible for shepherding the papers to press. Charlie Swanson will take on an expanded role as arts editor and help produce digital content. News editor Tom Gogola will have a larger role as well, as he focuses on the Bohemian and Sun’s coverage of local issues, public affairs and investigative journalism.

As a 20-year veteran of news business, I’ve long believed in the value of a free press. With our democracy teetering on the whims of a venal and ignorant president, I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say the press and the ballot box are all that stand between us and Tweet-powered authoritarianism.

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REBORN? Yarrow Kubrin says incarceration transformed him, but he still works as a consultant in the cannabis industry.

Redemption A Jew in jail and beyond

J

ail can be hell. But not many people know that jail cells can also be a place of rebirth. Yarrow Kubrin lives in Sonoma County with his wife and children. A longtime marijuana grower and dealer, he knows the two extremes that exist behind bars and inside thick walls.

BY JONAH RASKIN

Kubrin will not harvest a crop this year, though he has a bumper crop of memories in his head.

As a religious Jew, he knows the joy and the sadness of Sukkot, the Jewish holiday celebrated at the end of September that traditionally marked the end of the harvest time and the culmination of the cycle of the agricultural year.

“I understand why people connect to spirituality while in

jail,” Kubrin says. “Spirituality is a natural reaction to depravity.”

Locked up for a year, Kubrin saw the kind of depravity he had never seen before. He also experienced a sense of spiritual uplift.

Kubrin’s life crashed all around him in 2010 when he was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell. It was the third time he was busted on pot charges. In 2010, Sonoma

County police found the three big no-no’s—cash, cannabis and guns—in his house. District Attorney Jill Ravitch depicted him as a threat to public safety and a menace to his own family.

Local media wrote damning articles. The stories about him continue to haunt him.

What about the guns?

According to Kubrin, the weapons that the police confiscated—many of then unfired collectables intended for sports hunting—were legally acquired, legally registered and locked away. He says he did not have the key to unlock the cabinet were they were kept.

“I come from a family in which guns were part of our heritage,” Kubrin says. “My father, David Kubrin, helped to register black voters in the Deep South in the 1960s. The KKK pursued him. He raised me with the idea that every family should have a rifle.”

Prosecutors say Kurbrin had assault rifles, flak jackets and a shrine to the Sopranos.

What’s also significant in Kubrin’s case is that none of his or his father’s guns were at the site where cannabis was cultivated, though a friend who was also a deputy sheriff was living at one of his properties. That deputy had a gun, a snub nose .38.

“He was not a member of our collective or our operation,” Kubrin says. “He was a pal who needed a place to stay.”

A longtime Sonoma County marijuana activist who spoke in confidence told me, “Every American has the right to have guns. That right applies to marijuana growers.”

Kubrin echoes that sentiment.

“Jewelers can have guns to protect their diamonds,” he says.

“Cannabis cultivators should have the same constitutional right.”

After his arrest, Kubrin was lucky to be able to rely on his wife, Heather, his kids, his friends who showed up in court to lend their support, and his lawyer, Chris Andrian, who has defended marijuana growers and dealers for decades. Kubrin also had the backing of a rabbi named George Gittleman and the congregation at Shomrei Torah in Santa Rosa.

—Rabbi George Gittleman “It was a hard time for Yarrow,” Gittleman says. “His whole life was turned upside down. Prison wasn’t on his agenda.”

Gittleman pauses for a few moments and then adds, “Most of us don’t know what it means to go to jail. You lose your time and you can lose your humanity.”

Gittleman’s comments come just after the celebration of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur at Shomrei Torah, which were followed by Sukkot. Thousands of years ago, Sukkot was the most important Jewish holiday because it was the time of the year when people found out whether they had enough food for the year ahead, or would starve.

“Sukkot is about the fragility of physical existence,” Gittleman says. “Yarrow Kubrin came to understand that fragility when he went to jail. After visiting him, I knew he’d be OK and would likely go on to counsel others. He had a great attitude.”

Jews like Kubrin, who observe Sukkot, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and who worship at synagogues, don’t ordinarily find themselves in handcuffs and in court facing years behind bars.

Judge Rene Chouteau sentenced Kubrin to one year in jail and four years under supervision. Before he surrendered to the authorities, Kubrin gave up his real estate license, said goodbye to everyone he loved and entered Sonoma County’s North County Detention Facility, where he served one year.

He has until October 2019 before his four years of supervision are over.

“My sentence felt like a bullet coming at me in slow motion,” Kubrin says, adding, “It injured my soul, but there was a silver lining to my experience. I shawshanked my conviction.”

In the movie The Shawshank Redemption, two convicts, played

by Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, are redeemed by their acts of human kindness.

The characters in the film inspired Kubrin. But he was also disappointed by the realities of the criminal justice system “Unfortunately, the emphasis in the probation department, here and elsewhere, is on punishment, not on rehabilitation,” Kubrin says.

Behind bars, Kubrin—who grew up and went to public schools in San Francisco—made the best of a bad situation. It helped that Rabbi Gittleman visited him regularly.

It helped, too, that Kubrin signed up for classes, studied the Old Testament, wrote letters for inmates who needed a bit of his poetic license, befriended “men with terrible addictions” and steered clear of trouble. On one occasion, Kubrin says, guards took prisoners out of their cells, beat them bloody and locked them up again.

“I was the only openly practicing Jew in the jail,” Kubrin says. “If you’re a Jew behind bars, you’re a distinct minority and you’re viewed as the enemy by many of the other prisoners who think Jews are inferior human beings.” He adds, “I saw more swastikas while in jail then while watching the History Channel for years. Most of the swastikas were

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tattooed on white inmates as a symbol of white pride.”

Kubrin was released on Halloween 2017. That night, he went out trick-or-treating with his son and daughter in Sebastopol.

This September, he celebrated the Jewish New Year. Then it was on to Sukkot.

Six months after he was released from jail, Kubrin began to volunteer with the Sonoma County Growers Alliance. Soon afterward, he became a cannabisindustry consultant. Later, he returned to the Healdsburg real estate office where he had worked for years and where he had built up an extensive clientele. But he returned as an unlicensed associate and as a marketing manager, not as an agent.

Since his release from jail, Kubrin has also talked to his congregation about cannabis and shared his experiences behind bars.

California Assembly Bill 1793, which has passed both house of the California State Legislature, but has not been signed by Gov. Brown, would allow for some marijuana convictions to be expunged from the record. Kubrin thinks he won’t be eligible. After all, he deposited large amounts of cash from the sale of marijuana in an Exchange Bank account. In the eyes of the law, he was guilty of money laundering. He said he was trying to be transparent. Kubrin claims that tens of thousands of dollars that the police confiscated at his house never made it to the evidence locker.

“We’re going to have to deal with the whole banking issue if we want to change the law and keep people out of jail,” Kubrin says. “We’re also going to have to address the problem of police misconduct. It’s not about one bad apple, but about a whole system that’s bad.”

On the earthly scale of saints and sinners, the old Kubrin falls somewhere between the two. In jail, among men with criminal records, he was delivered from the unthinking, risk-taking life he’d been living and became aware of his own flawed humanity. Out of denial came acceptance.

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Name Games Sonoma County winegrowers navigate the politics of ‘sustainability’ BY JAMES KNIGHT

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hat are you doing to my wine?”

That’s what Karissa Kruse, president of the Sonoma County Winegrowers, heard from more than a few consumers in response to the organization’s ambitious sustainability initiative. The voluntary program is aiming to make Sonoma County the nation’s first 100 percent sustainable wine region by the year 2019.

The organization says it’s taking on the project to ensure the longterm viability of grape growing and agriculture in Sonoma County, but also to help move the region a peg up in the global marketplace.

Consumers do not reward organic labeling the same way they do when shopping for food and

other products, and, apparently, some people confuse “sustainable” and organic wine, which was just too darn crunchy for them.

“Historically, we’ve seen that more around biodynamics and organics,” Kruse says. “There’s been some consumer confusion— that the practices that go into it impact the taste of the wine.” In other words, people were making the age-old association of dirt with “dirty.”

But increasingly, consumers are getting a new message: sustainability is green, and “clean.”

The feedback they’re getting to questions like, “Why would you buy sustainable wine?” is the opposite, Kruse says. “It’s because they think the quality is better.”

The five-year sustainability plan was launched in 2014. As 2019 approaches, Sonoma County

winery and vineyard operators have implemented progressive environmental and personnel development projects too numerous to list here.

But as the Sonoma Sustainable label rolls out to consumers, are wineries aiming to have their Chardonnay and drink it, too— passively benefiting from the positive messaging of organic farming practices while evading inconvenient prohibitions on fertilizers and pesticides?

In recent years, I’ve noted a war of words in discussions about organic and sustainable certifications that does not seem necessary. It’s not enough to tout the benefits of one; the other must also be put down. Sometimes, those who favor organics complain that when a winery says it’s sustainable, it doesn’t mean anything. More

often, winery representatives tell me that sustainability “goes beyond organics.” I was once told, in all earnestness, that sustainable farming only selectively targets pests, like a smart bomb, while, “in organics, they kill everything!”

It isn’t the Sonoma County Winegrowers pushing this view.

“We have growers that are organic and biodynamic and sustainable,” Kruse says. “And they’re all good.

Any time farmers are focused on what they’re doing is good. I think people try to pit the programs against each other, and I don’t think that’s fair to the farmers who are trying real hard to do the right thing.”

The Winegrowers’ reports on the initiative’s progress published since 2015 do a great job of explaining their goals, and include many profiles of local growers and ag leaders who have found cost savings or other benefits by implementing best practices in energy use, habitat and human resources. It’s worth noting that the reports make minimal mention of organic or biodynamic certified vineyards. For example, one report discusses how Ridge Vineyards uses cover crops, but doesn’t say the vineyards are certified organic.

What does it mean to be sustainable for the Winegrowers?

Is it more than just marketing?

To get a better idea of the nuts and bolts of the program, I sat down with former Winegrowers sustainability manager Emily Farrant last year to discuss the grape growers’ self-assessment, the first step of the certification process. She’s now an independent auditor of the program.

To become Sonoma Sustainable, there are four ways to go. The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance certification program is the main standard the Winegrowers use. Three other programs with their own rules are also accepted: Fish Friendly Farming, Lodi Rules and Sustainability in Practice.

Organic certification will not get you a Sonoma Sustainable seal of approval.

Here’s how it works: the workbook has 16 chapters, each dealing with an aspect of vineyard management, human resources, winemaking practices and other topics. Each section contains

higher percentage of frequent premium wine consumers would be more likely to buy a certified sustainable wine than could identify what it means.

A 2018 report issued by the nonprofit Wine Market Council finds that almost the same portion of respondents who felt “fairly confident” about the meaning of “sustainably produced wine,” 43 percent, also believed it meant “no use of synthetic pesticides/ fertilizers,” at 45 percent. That’s incorrect, and is actually the definition of wine made from organic grapes, which 87 percent did get right.

But while an equal number agreed that sustainably produced wine “conserves local water resources and habitat,” only 17 percent agreed that “wine made from organic grapes” does the same.

While the updated National Organic Program standards contain a number of points on soil stability and water quality, along with wildlife and woodland conservation, perhaps the perverse takeaway from informal interactions with sustainability promoters like I have had is working. Do wine consumers think that organic standards don’t protect the environment?

A 2017 report from Liz Thach, professor of wine at Sonoma State University, finds that among 301 wine consumers surveyed with the question “What appeals most to you,” statements about sustainable wine beat those about organic wine at 44 percent to 20 percent.

The phrasing of the statement is interesting. “Certified sustainable wine: made in a way that is environmentally friendly, equitable to employees and economically viable to winegrowers. No agrichemicals are applied, unless necessary to save the crop.”

The first three parts mirror the

“triple bottom line” approach of the Winegrowers, the so-called three p’s of “people, planet and profit.” The fourth is something of a misrepresentation of the certification requirements, failing to acknowledge the routine use of what you might call the fourth p— pesticides.

Mention that in the feel-good context of the sustainability initiative, and you might as well be tagged with two more p’s, for party pooper.

About the above survey, Kruse makes an oft-heard argument: “Organics uses pesticides and chemicals, too—so it’s the same definition.”

Organic and biodynamic growers are allowed to use certain products that kill bugs or inhibit mildew, but qualitatively, the chemistries are different.

In 2017, the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance issued an addendum to the workbook: a “red list” of 28 materials that are prohibited in the second year of certification, and a “yellow list” of 10 chemicals that may be accepted if justification is provided.

Red list materials that were used in 2016 in some Sonoma County vineyards, according to pesticide use reports (PUR) available from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, include carbaryl, mancozeb and zinc phosphide. Yellow list materials included 2,4-D, abamectin, diphacinone, paraquat dichloride and simazine.

Notably absent from the 2016 PUR is chlorpyrifos, a nerve agent that was banned for home use 17 years ago, but wasn’t prohibited outright until this summer when the Ninth Circuit court overturned former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s efforts to keep the substance legal. Yet in this past year, chlorpyrifos turns up under the brand name Lorsban

‘It’s a pretty good step in the right direction, but it’s not enough.’

in several Sebastopol locations— used on apples as well as wine grapes, by the way.

Diphacinone is a tricky substance. This anticoagulant rodenticide can be fatal to the very rodent-hunting owls that the sustainability code recommends building nest boxes for, if operators choose to double down and employ both methods.

Glyphosate, a systemic herbicide better known by its Monsanto brand name Roundup, has come under increasing scrutiny. It was named a probable human carcinogen by the World Health Organization, and was recently banned from use in parks by Santa Rosa and Windsor due to public concern. It’s widely used to keep vineyards weed-free.

If consumers are to believe that Sonoma County is now using such chemicals only when necessary, or are committed to decreasing their use, what’s the record been since the Winegrowers launched its sustainability initiative four years ago?

We’re up, we’re down, but there is no dramatic downward trend, according to DPR statistics. In 2014, 76,975 pounds of glyphosate were applied in Sonoma County; 92,698 pounds in 2015 and back down to 76,890 pounds in 2016.

A comparison to other grapegrowing counties does not indicate that Sonoma is reining in the Roundup, even compared to Fresno County, which put on 65,577 pounds on wine grape acreage in 2016. (To be sure, Sonoma County grape growers are not in the same league as Fresno almond growers, who put 68,081 pounds of chlorpyrifos on their trees in the same year.)

Hoping to gain insight from a longtime West County winegrower who’s surrounded by neighbors in the Green Valley of the Russian River Valley region, I ask Joy Sterling, partner and CEO of Iron Horse Vineyards, for her thoughts on the sustainability program. “I think it’s better,” Sterling says.

“You can be organic and not be sustainable.”

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a series of statements in four categories, and respondents are asked to choose which category best describes their operation.

For example, in section 7-5 on wine quality, answering “Knowledge of wine quality consisted of only tasting local wines or none at all,” will get you category 1. The better answer is, “Wine regions elsewhere in the state and internationally had been visited and toured,” one of three prerequisites for best-practices category 4.

In section 3-3, on leaf removal, category 2 states, “Leaf removal was sometimes done, or very lightly done, to minimize costs.”

Most of the best-practices answers here have been taught for decades as simply good, modern farming. Doing just a little better than showing up will earn a category 2.

But growers cannot hang out in category 2 forever and be recertified, Kruse says. “Every year, you’re having to do something, whether lowering water use or doing something for employees.

You have to do something that shows you’re moving the needle in one of the assessments.” Continual improvement is the mantra of the program.

Best practices guide growers to use fewer chemicals, but they are not prohibited.

All of this isn’t free, except for the initial self-assessment paperwork.

After that, administration fees and auditing costs can run up hundreds of dollars—small change for big wineries, but a burden for small growers. Currently, Winegrowers is offering to help defray costs.

Also, it’s holding up the notion that consumers will be willing to pay a buck or two, even $7 and change, according to one Wine Intelligence survey, for wines that bear a sustainable label.

Now that I know what the Sonoma County Winegrowers mean by sustainable wines, what do those consumers know?

Not much. Glance at any number of cheery articles about sustainable and organic wine, and you’ll often find the terms used interchangeably. According to consumer research commissioned by the Winegrowers in 2017, a

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But I’ve hardly begun to ask about the misgivings some county residents have about farming inputs, when Sterling says she’s become depressed, comparing them to the protesters at the recent Climate Summit. “It’s never enough for some people,” she sighs. “We do our very best.”

Up on Sonoma Mountain, vintner Tony Coturri is also dismayed, for a different reason: he didn’t realize that people elsewhere are still spraying paraquat. “I’m just amazed. That’s just amazing to me. Wasn’t that Agent Orange?”

Coturri’s out of the loop with his five acres of uncertified vineyards farmed without chemical inputs, however. While his wines have gained recognition in the natural wine bars of New York City and Los Angeles he says he doesn’t register with Sonoma County Winegrowers.

“Nobody’s talked to me,” Coturri says. “I’m pretty much a pariah in the business.”

Like Coturri, other organic and biodynamic winegrowers I talked to acknowledged that farming without modern systemic chemicals involves trade-offs, like more tractor passes in the vineyard to control mildew.

“There’s a little give and take there, sure,” says Sophie Drucker, vineyard manager at Boisset Collection. “But I think it’s overstated to say we’re polluting the environment because we’re farming organically.”

Drucker says that, for her, it amounts to an extra tractor pass or so per year. “But organic sets a higher standard and is much more limiting as far as what tools you have to accomplish your farming.”

Boisset Collection, which includes DeLoach Vineyards, also got certified sustainable, but pays a premium to its contracted growers for organic grapes.

Dry Creek Valley’s FerrariCarano Vineyards isn’t known for its biodynamic practices, yet vineyard operations manager Todd Clow says that the winery’s sustainability efforts have

encouraged him to work on a proposal to achieve a biodynamic certificate for a small vineyard in an environmentally sensitive area.

“The cynic in me,” Clow says, “agrees with people’s misgivings about the sustainable certification, because there are holes in the program.”

Although Ferrari-Carano farms over a thousand acres conventionally, it is among those operations working to move away from Roundup, Clow says, as well as proactively aiming for category 3 and 4 sustainability targets. “From what I’ve seen in the last decade, we’ve made a lot of progress, and we have a lot more progress to make.”

Still, says Clow, “we can’t apply biodynamic or organic farming principles to 1,500 acres; we wouldn’t be in business if we did that.”

In Sebastopol, winegrower Paul Sloan is undecided on the sustainability program, slowing down in the midst of a busy harvest to ponder the question. Sloan agrees that organic wine carries a stigma that is lagging 20 years behind the larger marketplace.

But he says he farms his Small Vines vineyard, where his family also lives, with only organically approved inputs for reasons of wine quality and environmental health, not for marketing purposes.

If he was asked to self-assess for the sustainability initiative, which he says he hasn’t been so far, Sloan is philosophical.

“It’s a waste of my time, but it is possible that it is better for the whole of the growing community, for me to go though the process,” Sloan says. “Or maybe I stand on the soapbox a little bit. I don’t want to be a negative to the whole, but at the same time I don’t think this has gone far enough. It’s a pretty good step in the right direction, but it’s not enough—it’s just one step in the process.”

Winegrowers president Kruse says that some growers are so committed to eventually taking extra steps to best-practices categories in the sustainability code, that they ask her, “What if we max out everything we can do to improve?” Kruse says. “Well, I hope we get there.”

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Re-Imagined Theater

Experimental troupe the Imaginists are known for bending the rules of live performance with daring original works of contemporary theater. Now the proud owners of their own space in downtown Santa Rosa, the Imaginists host a hybrid of performance art with the inaugural Artist Occupied Festival. The fest welcomes performers from the Bay Area and beyond to present a diverse array of dance, art, storytelling and theater, with Imagnists artistic directors Amy Pinto and Brent Lindsay offering a new work, Friday–Saturday, Sept. 28–29, at 461 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa. 7pm both nights. $15–$25. 707.528.7554.

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Harvest Run

Located in the Roseland neighborhood, Bayer farm and garden is a six-acre urban oasis owned by Santa Rosa and managed

by LandPaths that feeds and engages the community through several agricultural activities. It’s also the site of this weekend’s Roseland Unity Run and Harvest Festival, in which participants can walk or race in a 5k through the neighborhood before enjoying a bountiful afternoon of festivities. Registration includes snacks and other finishline fun, happening on Saturday, Sept. 29, at Bayer Farm, 1550 West Ave., Santa Rosa. Race registration, 7am; festival, noon to 3pm. $10 for adults in timed run; free for youth and walkers. landpaths.org.

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The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art is marking two decades of exhibitions this month with equal parts celebration and remembrance. This weekend, the museum opens its anniversary show, “20 Sonoma Collectors,” featuring works from 20 local art enthusiasts, while also opening a commemorative show, “From Fire, Love Rises,” that shares stories from the local arts community impacted by last October’s fires.

The public is invited to see both of these inspiring and intimate exhibits when SVMA hosts a community celebration featuring an artist’s roundtable discussion and more on Saturday, Sept. 29, 551 Broadway, Sonoma. 11am. Free admission 707.939.7862.

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n the early hours of Oct. 9 last year, poet Ed Coletti and his wife, Joyce, were among the thousands who fled their home from the firestorm.

The Colettis escaped with their lives, but lost their home and possessions to the Tubbs fire. It’s an experience Coletti will never forget, and one he revisits in his new poetry chapbook, Firestorm, self-published on his longtime imprint, Round Barn Press.

“We were so traumatized, and poetry gave me a way to express the things that I hadn’t quite worked out yet, and still haven’t,” Coletti says.

In Firestorm, Coletti reflects on the terror of those early hours while also recounting the support of his family, friends and the community that helped him move forward, including purchasing a new home in May. Here is an excerpt:

I’m watching scores of rock doves swoop these Oakland hills evade the stoop of circling red tail hawks eye level with our refuge from the fire of that black sensesdeadened infant morning’s blind-eyed rush sans a single dorsal fin to warn or woo while now and here in hills across the Bay awake to strangeness: curse of phantom pain we know but still we want the easy comfort of our house the sense of going home to what we know to what we together purchased once we married I seek a new thesaurus to explain things Here in space where furniture doesn’t fit me in and out of my body feeling freaky If it’s true that attachment equaled suffering I’ve been shoved on to the road of enlightenment all too quickly here in a region known as Purgatory atoning for my sin of routine comfort We almost died We did not die We lost a house And all possessions Much more remains In the rubble of our pain The innocence of sharks very much maligned Ed Coletti reads from ‘Firestorm’, Sept.

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REPRESENTING Joan Jett has turned her bad rep into musical icon status.

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ddly, it seems Joan Jett has quite a good reputation. The inspiring documentary Bad Reputation, named after her early 1980s hit, is a paean to the veteran rocker. She gets praise from Iggy Pop and Blondie’s Deborah Harry; we learn of her good influence on artists as diverse as Miley Cyrus, Darby Crash, Laura Jane Grace and actor Michael J. Fox. We note her days as a hardcharging musician, as a stand-up person who traveled to Iraq and Bosnia to entertain the troops, and her work for animal rights. Jett’s

excessive drinking in the rough times after her first band, the Runaways, broke up is about the only character deficit admitted to here.

Gifted with a Silvertone guitar by her parents one Christmas, the smoldering Jett parlayed that into L.A.’s glam rock scene, mostly at a small L.A. disco run in the mid 1970s by Mountain View–bred Rodney Bingenheimer.

Kim Fowley—who has a mixed reputation, either as pervy mastermind or astute, if eccentric, music producer—pre-fabbed the underaged band the Runaways during a time of ’70s gender blur.

“Guys are turning into fags so the girls are turning into John Wayne,” Fowley says in the film. When the Runaways began, the macha Jett wasn’t even the lead singer. The feedback changed as their market widened. As Jett puts it, “It went from ‘cute and sweet’ to ‘slut and whore.’”

Director Kevin Kerslake’s efforts to underscore Jett as a groundbreaker means downplaying the rock chops of some of her contemporaries, such as Joni Mitchell (she wasn’t all just “Big Yellow Taxi”). While the testimonials for Jett abound, particularly from Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill, we don’t get very deep into her inner life.

It’s a warm film, though. For decades, Jett’s back has been guarded by Kenny Laguna, a vet of the bubblegum music craze of the late 1960s, and his wife and daughter. Kenny’s main lesson on songwriting comes from Casablanca records founder Neil Bogart: “Don’t bore us, get right to the chorus.”

It’s pleasant to see the easiness between Laguna and Jett, sharing a spliff, or grousing together about stage costumes as Jett takes some electrical tape to a black spandex outfit in danger of a seam-split.

And the documentary is full of savory odds and ends, including the sight of Jett absolutely rocking “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” and the story of how 23 record companies turned down Jett’s demo. They didn’t get “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll.”

Perhaps it was too deep?

‘Bad Reputation’ opens Wednesday, Sept. 26, at select North Bay theaters for a special screening.

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Walter SalasHumara shares his American story

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n the landscape of Americana music, few songwriters travel as much ground as well as veteran songwriter Walter Salas-Humara.

The child of Cuban refugees, Salas-Humara embodies the melting pot of the American experience and shares his story through his songs. This week, he also shares the bill with Jeff Crosby when they appear in the North Bay for two shows.

“There’s a couple different ways to approach a musical adventure, so to speak,” Salas-Humara says.

“One is to create and identify yourself with a sound, and the other is to tell stories that connect emotionally with people.”

Walter Salas-Humara and Jeff Crosby perform in Petaluma on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 4:20pm at the Lagunitas Tap Room (1280 N. McDowell Blvd.; free; 707.778.8776), and in Bolinas at 9pm on Saturday, Sept. 29, at Smiley’s Saloon (41 Wharf Road; $10; 415.868.1311).

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Salas-Humara has crafted two dozen albums of rock, country and Americana over his 30-year career. The bilingual songwriter first made his mark as the founder of longtime New York City country-rock revival group the Silos in 1985. Now living in Flagstaff, Ariz., he embraces his culture and heritage on his latest solo album, 2018’s Walterio, which features traditional storytelling folk, psychedelic rock and Latininspired sounds.

“Over the years, you get categorized in certain ways,” SalasHumara says. “Now they call it Americana, or whatever. But I’ve also been compared to everything from Nirvana to Townes Van Zandt, which usually pisses artists off, like, ‘I’m so misunderstood,’ but to me the whole thing’s funny.”

Throughout Walterio, SalasHumara’s lyrics alternate from funny to poignant, with two tracks sung in Spanish, including the opening track “El Camino de Oro,” which he describes as a “power to the people” anthem. The record also contains some of his most melodic ballads to date, such as the reflective “Come in a Singer,” sung from the point of view of an aging artist.

“When you’re young, you think, ‘I’m going to be a great artist, because art is so important, one of the important things in life,’” he says. “When you get older, you realize it’s just about making the art for yourself. If you start worrying about if anybody gives a shit or not, you’re screwed.”

Partnered with Nashville-based songwriter Jeff Crosby on the current tour—with the performers sharing band members—SalasHumara is excited to visit the North Bay. “It’s really a tight band,” he says. “There’s a good mix of dancing, beautiful singing to spark emotions, and Jeff’s really sexy.

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Concerts Clubs & SONOMA COUNTY Venues

Green Music Center Weill Hall

Las Cafeteras Los Angeles outfit blends Afro-Mexican rhythms and rhymes in dynamic live performances. Sep 28, 7:30pm. $25 and up. Green Music Center Weill Hall, 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

Johnny Marr Iconic guitarist and founding member of the Smiths plays a solo show. Sep 28, 7pm. $50.

Gundlach Bundschu Winery, 2000 Denmark St, Sonoma.

707.938.5277.

MARIN COUNTY Bread & Roses Fall Benefit Concert Nonprofit arts organization hosts a concert with Ziek McCarter and Ben Andrews of Con Brio, Dark & Stormy and Johnny Colla. Oct 1, 7:30pm. $52 and up. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 415.388.3850.

Whistlestock Benefit concert for Marin’s Whistlestop features Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio, Tommy Castro & the Painkillers and others. Sep 29, 11:30am. $150. Lagoon Park, Marin Civic Center, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael.

415.473.6800.

NAPA COUNTY First Aid Kit BottleRock presents the Swedish sisterly folk duo, with Australian songwriter Julia Jacklin opening. Sep 29, 8pm. $45. JaM Cellars Ballroom at the Margrit Mondavi Theatre, 1030 Main St, Napa.

707.880.2300.

For the Love of Music: Fall Fusion Chamber orchestra performance offers variations on classical pieces that embrace the spirit of harvest.

Sep 30, 3pm. Free. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Dr, Yountville.

707.944.9900.

SONOMA COUNTY A’Roma Roasters

Sep 28, Organix Duo. Sep 29, Denise Morris. 95 Fifth St, Santa Rosa. 707.576.7765.

Aqus Cafe

Sep 28, Steve Wolf and Mason Holcomb. Sep 29, the jKev Experience. Sep 30, Aqus Jazz Project. 189 H St, Petaluma.

707.778.6060.

Barley & Hops Tavern

Sep 30, 6pm, Michael Solström.

3688 Bohemian Hwy, Occidental. 707.874.9037.

The Big Easy

Sep 26, Wednesday Night Big Band. Sep 28, Lovin’ Dead. Sep 28, Trouble in the Wind. Sep 30, Dark Bright and the Spindles.

Oct 3, Rockville Roadkill Big Band. 128 American Alley, Petaluma. 707.776.7163.

Bluewater Bistro

Sep 27, 5pm, New Skye.

21301 Heron Dr, Bodega Bay. 707.875.3513.

BR Cohn Winery

Sep 30, 2pm, the 7th Sons.

15000 Sonoma Hwy, Glen Ellen.

707.938.4064.

Brewsters Beer Garden Sep 27, Stony Point Ramblers.

Sep 28, the Casual Coalition.

Sep 29, 2 and 6pm, Manzanita Moon and Trainwreck Junction.

Sep 30, 3pm, the Bloodstones.

229 Water St N, Petaluma.

707.981.8330.

Crooked Goat Brewing Sep 29, 3pm, Michael A Gabriel. 120 Morris St, Ste 120, Sebastopol. 707.827.3893.

Elephant in the Room Sep 28, Miss Moonshine. Sep 29, Big G Trio. Sep 30, 6pm, Awesome Hot Cakes. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg. elephantintheroompub.com.

First Presbyterian Church of Petaluma

Sep 29, 3pm, Pacific Empire Chorus a cappella concert and pie auction. 939 B St, Petaluma. pacificempire.org.

Flamingo Lounge

Sep 28, Project 4. Sep 29, Rewind. 2777 Fourth St, Santa Rosa. 707.545.8530.

Sep 29, the Gentleman Soldiers. 21025 Geyserville Ave, Geyserville. 707.814.0036.

Sep 29, Sonoma State Symphony Orchestra Season Opener. Sep 30, 3pm, Brentano String Quartet. 1801 East Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, 866.955.6040.

HopMonk Sebastopol

Sep 28, Sensamotion. Sep 29, the Red Baron and Gabriel Francisco. Sep 30, 5pm, the Coffis Brothers & the Mountain Men with Nicole Marden. 230 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol.

707.829.7300.

HopMonk Sonoma

Sep 28, Erica Sunshine Lee. Sep 29, Charles Henry Paul.

Sep 30, 1pm, Gutter Swan.

691 Broadway, Sonoma.

707.935.9100.

Hotel Healdsburg

Sep 29, Myron Cohen Trio with David Udolf and Chris Amberger. 25 Matheson St, Healdsburg. 707.431.2800.

Lagunitas Tap Room

Sep 26, Gypsy Trio. Sep 27, Jeff Crosby and Walter Salas-Humara. Sep 28, the Contraptionists. Sep 29, Joe Kaplow. Sep 30, Risky Biscuits.

Oct 3, David Correa. 1280 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma.

707.778.8776.

Paul Mahder Gallery

Sep 26, the Harold López-Nussa Trio. 222 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg.

707.473.9150.

The Phoenix Theater

Sep 29, Chief Keef. Sep 30, Revocation. 201 Washington St, Petaluma. 707.762.3565.

Ray’s Deli & Tavern

Sep 28, 6pm, Domestic Harmony. 900 Western Ave, Petaluma. 707.762.9492.

Red Brick

Sep 27, Elaine Lucia Group. Sep 28, Weekend at Bernie’s. Sep 29, Chime Travelers. Sep 30, Aquilar Blumenfield Project.

101 Second St, Petaluma.

707.765.4567.

Redwood Cafe

Sep 27, open belly night with Helm. Sep 28, the Big Fit. Oct 1, West Coast Songwriters Competition.

8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.795.7868.

The Reel Fish Shop & Grill

Sep 28, Fragile Thunder: David Gans & Stephen Inglis.

401 Grove St, Sonoma.

707.343.0044.

Remy’s Bar & Lounge

Sep 29, Prezi. 130 Stony Point Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.578.1963.

Rio Nido Roadhouse

Complicated Animals. 19380 Hwy 12, Sonoma. 707.938.7442.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse

Sep 27, Levi’s Workshop with Willy Jordan. Sep 28, Derek Irving & His Combo. Sep 30, backyard BBQ with One Grass Two Grass.

Oct 1, the Blues Defenders pro jam. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove. 707.795.5118.

Viansa Winery

Sep 29, 11am, GB Gents. Sep 30, 11am, Tom Duarte. 25200 Arnold Dr, Sonoma. 707.935.4700.

Whiskey Tip

Sep 28, Black Sheep Brass Band. Sep 29, Marshall House Project. 1910 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.843.5535.

MARIN COUNTY Fenix

Sep 27, Larry Vann & the House Band. Sep 28, Michael Skinner & the Final Touch Band. Sep 30, tribute to Carole King with Dallis Craft Trio. 919 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.813.5600.

HopMonk Novato

Sep 28, Aerocksmith with Ann Halen. Sep 29, Hackjammers and Rock Candy. Sep 30, Stephen Kellogg and Bob Hillman. 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 415.892.6200.

Iron Springs Pub & Brewery

Sep 28, the Fargo Brothers.

Sep 29, Court ‘n’ Disaster.

14540 Canyon 2 Rd, Rio Nido.

707.869.0821.

Oct 3, Late for the Train.

765 Center Blvd, Fairfax.

415.485.1005.

Sep 27, Willie Perez. Sep 28, Wiley’s Coyotes. Sep 29, Wendy DeWitt. Sep 30, Levi Lloyd.

16280 Main St, Guerneville.

707.869.0501.

Sebastopol Community Center Annex

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Sep 28, 6pm, Friday Night Jazz with Lee Waterman and Jazz Caliente. Sep 30, 12:30pm, Folkish Festival with Mads Tolling and friends.

2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur. 415.461.5700.

Main Street Bistro

Sep 29, 12pm, Sun Kings. Sep 30, 1pm, Poyntlyss Sistars.

911 Village Court, Santa Rosa.

707.545.3844.

Murphy’s Irish Pub & Restaurant Sep 28, Tudo Bem. 464 First St E, Sonoma.

707.935.0660.

Mystic Theatre & Music Hall

Sep 28, Wonder Bread 5. Sep 29, Marty O’Reilly & the Old Soul Orchestra with Rainbow Girls. Oct 3, Grieves with Greater Than. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma. 707.775.6048.

Occidental Center for the Arts

Sep 30, 5pm, Hohlax Trio. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct, Occidental.

707.874.9392.

Sep 28, Richard Smith & Julie Smith. 425 Morris St, Sebastopol. 707.823.1511.

Sep 29, Hippie Sabotage. 1100 Valley House Dr, Rohnert Park. somoconcerts.com.

Sonoma Speakeasy

Wed, Acrosonics. Sep 27, Jamie Clark Band. Sep 28, Scarlett Letters. Sep 29, Valtierra Latin Orchestra. Sep 30, Sonoma blues jam. 452 First St E, Ste G, Sonoma. 707.996.1364.

Spancky’s Bar

Sep 28, Wild Mint. 8201 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

707.664.0169.

The Star

Sep 30, Lee Vandeveer Band and Star Blue Band. 6957 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol.

707.634.6390.

Starling Bar

Sep 29, Monica Da Silva and

Marin Country Mart

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Terrapin Crossroads Sep 26, Grant Farm. Sep 27, Circles Around the Sun. Sep 2829, Melvin Seals & JGB birthday show. Sep 30, Nathan Moore.

100 Yacht Club Dr, San Rafael.

415.524.2773.

Throckmorton Theatre Sep 28, the Black Market Trust.

Sep 29, Blame Sally. Sep 30, 5pm, Kimrea’s Pro Showcase with Grant Ewald. 142 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley.

415.383.9600.

NAPA COUNTY Andaz Napa Sep 26, Benny Bassett. Sep 29, Vince Costanza. 1450 First St, Napa. 707.687.1234.

Beringer Vineyards Sep 29, 11am, Carlos Herrera Trio. 2000 Main St, St Helena, 866.708.9463.

Blue Note Napa Sep 26, Homenaje. Sep 27-29, Brian McKnight. Oct 3, Anthony Thomas & the Hustle. 1030 Main St, Napa. 707.880.2300.

Ca’ Momi Osteria Sep 28, Afrofunk Experience.

Sep 29, Nate Lopez and George Anthony. 1141 First St, Napa.

707.224.6664.

Deco Lounge at Capp Heritage Vineyards Sep 29, Jon Shannon Williams. 1245 First St, Napa.

707.254.1922.

Goose & Gander Sep 30, 5pm, Lonesome Locomotive. 1245 Spring St, St Helena. 707.967.8779.

JaM Cellars Sep 27, Mondo Mariscal. Sep 28, the Smoking Flowers. 1460 First St, Napa. 707.265.7577.

Sep 26, Frankie Bourne Band.

Sep 27, Rhythms & Rhymes. Sep 28, the Asteroid No 4. Sep 29, El Cajon. Sep 30, 4pm, tribute to Johnny Cash with Jimmie Ray. 17 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax.

415.459.1091.

Priest Ranch Tasting Room

No Name Bar

Sep 27, Jason Bodlovich. Sep 28, Kristen Van Dyke. Sep 29, Syria Berry. 1600 Soscol Ave, Napa. 707.320.9000.

Sep 27, No Room for Zeus. Sep 28, Michael Aragon Quartet.

Sep 29, Chris Saunders Band.

Sep 30, Timothy O & Co. 757 Bridgeway, Sausalito.

415.332.1392.

Sweetwater Music Hall Sep 26, John Doe Folk Trio.

Sep 27, John Oates. Sep 28-29, Petty Theft. Sep 30, Lydia Pense & Cold Blood. 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley.

415.388.3850.

Sep 27, 6pm, salsa dancing and lessons with DJ Willie. 6490 Washington St, Yountville.

707.944.8200.

River Terrace Inn

Silo’s Sep 27, VibraSON. Sep 28, the Sun Kings. Sep 29, Carlos Reyes and friends. 530 Main St, Napa.

707.251.5833.

St. Clair Brown Winery Sep 29, Joshua Cook & the Key of Now. 816 Vallejo St, Napa.

707.255.5591.

Gallery Openings SONOMA COUNTY Graton Gallery

Sep 26-Oct 28, “Abstractions, Distractions, Reactions,” featuring artists Bruce K Hopkins, Susan Shore and others. Reception, Sep 29 at 2pm. 9048 Graton Rd, Graton.

Tues-Sat, 10:30 to 6; Sun, 10:30 to 4. 707.829.8912.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts

Sep 28-Oct 21, “Sonoma County Art Trails Preview Exhibition,” featuring the work of several artists participating in the upcoming open studios tour. Reception, Sep 28 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

Sep 29-Jan 6, “20 Sonoma Collectors,” view contemporary art from important Sonoma collections alongside “From Fire, Love Rises,” which commemorates artists who were impacted by the October 2017 fires. Reception, Sept 29 at 6pm. 551 Broadway, Sonoma. Wed-Sun, 11 to 5.

707.939.SVMA.

NAPA COUNTY Napa Valley Museum

Sep 29-Oct 28, “Paintings by Marvin Humphrey,” features recent works from the beloved St Helena artist. Reception, Sep 29 at 5pm. 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. Wed-Sun, 11 to 4.

707.944.0500.

Comedy Don Friesen

The only two time winner of the prestigious SF International Comedy Competition takes the stage for a night of laughs.

Sep 27, 7:30pm. $20-$25.

Trek Winery, 1026 Machin Ave, Novato. 415.899.9883.

Evil Comedy Show

Devilish improv comedy sketches and standups offer

the funniest in gallows humor.

Sep 28, 7pm. Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

707.528.3009.

Dance Diamantes de Color

An evening of Flamenco features Seattle-based dancer Savannah Fuentes. Oct 1, 7pm. $7-$36. Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater. 100 California Dr, Yountville 707.944.9900.

Events All Hallow’s Art Fest

Local artists show and sell their Halloween-themed art works and collectibles. Sep 29, 9am. $5. Hermann Sons Hall, 860 Western Ave, Petaluma.

707.762.9962.

Community Celebration & Free Day at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Join in a special day commemorating the anniversary of the Sonoma fires and the resiliency of community. Sep 29, 11am.

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, 551 Broadway, Sonoma.

707.939.SVMA.

Happy Forever: Game Night

Entertainer Spy Emerson hosts a family-friendly night of immersive performance art that’s part dinner theater, part experiential game play. Mon, Oct 1, 6:30pm. Free admission.

The Big Easy, 128 American Alley, Petaluma. 707.776.7163.

Healdsburg Art After Dark

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

Sep 28, 6pm. Free. Healdsburg Center for the Arts, 130 Plaza St, Healdsburg. 707.431.1970.

Heroes for Y Kids Charity Golf Tournament

Proceeds go toward scholarships for kids and families to attend programs offered by the Sonoma County Family YMCA. Sep 28, 11am. $175 and up. Windsor Golf Club, 1340 19th Hole Dr, Windsor. scfymca.org.

Open Studios Napa Valley

Artists open their doors for this annual event, where selfguided tours around Napa Valley let you discover new and exciting art. Maps and info online. Through Sep 30. Free.

Napa Artists’ Studios, various locations, Napa. artnv.org.

Roseland Unity Run & Harvest Festival Inaugural event features a 5k run and more. Sep 29, 8am.

Bayer Farm, 1550 West Ave, Santa Rosa. landpaths.org.

Sonoma Strong Healing Fair

Receive healing treatments like massage, acupuncture and life coaching, with speakers, vendors, silent auction, kids’ area and more. Sep 29. Free.

Santa Rosa Veterans Building, 1351 Maple Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.753.0046.

Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival

Sonoma Valley celebration includes Friday night gala and weekend of music, family-fun activities, art, beer and wine garden and more. Sep 2830. Sonoma Plaza, First St E, Sonoma.

Film The Atomic Cafe

Filmmaker Jayne Loader presents a screening of the restored indie cult classic, with Q&A. Sep 29, 7:30pm. $11-$13. Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael. 415.454.1222.

Best of the Fest

See the feature film, “Letters from Baghdad,” which screened at the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. Sep 27, 7pm. $10-$12. Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S High St, Sebastopol. 707.829.4797.

The Bicycle Revolution

Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition hosts a screening of the film about creating bicyclefriendly cities. Oct 2, 7pm.

Free. Sports Basement, 1970 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, 628.207.8136.

Culture & Diversity Film Festival

See a diverse selection of films from around the globe.

$125-$250. Charles Krug Winery, 2800 Main St, St Helena. 707.253.0868.

LunaFest

Kendall-Jackson Harvest Celebration

Traveling film festival spotlights films by talented women filmmakers with thought-provoking themes.

Sep 27, 5:30pm. $10. Sonoma State University, 1801 E Cotati Ave, Rohnert Park, lunafest.org.

Petaluma Cinema Series Shot in Santa Rosa, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt” screens with preshow lecture and post-show discussion. Oct 3, 6pm. $5-$6; $45 season pass. Carole L Ellis Auditorium, SRJC Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Pkwy, Petaluma, petalumafilmalliance.org.

Tribute to Paul Greengrass

Program features an onstage conversation with the director and a screening of his new film “22 July.” Oct 2, 7pm. $25.

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

415.454.1222.

Food & Drink Blue-Ribbon Winners from the American Cheese Society Cheese expert Janet Fletcher leads a tasting with beer and wine available. Sep 29, 1pm. $65. Healdsburg Shed, 25 North St, Healdsburg.

707.431.7433.

Breakfast at Breathless

Pair a sweet or savory French crepe from Brittany Crepes and a glass of bubbles in the tasting room and garden.

Sun, Sep 30, 9:30am. $23.

Breathless Wines, 499 Moore Lane, Healdsburg.

707.433.8400.

Flavors of Fall

Tour the vineyards and sip your favorite Champagne and wine with delicious food pairings from chef John Ash. Sep 29, 10:30am. $25.

Korbel Champagne Cellars, 13250 River Rd, Guerneville.

707.824.7000.

Hands Across the Valley

Taste the latest from noted chefs and winemakers, with silent and live auctions benefitting Napa safety-net food programs. Sep 29, 4pm.

Enjoy the best of Sonoma County’s bounty with fresh produce, bites, wine, food demonstrations, live music and more. Sep 30, 11am. $150.

Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate & Gardens, 5007 Fulton Rd, Fulton. 707.576.3810.

Tomato Fiesta

Fifth annual benefit for Courtney’s Pumpkin Patch features tomato and salsa competitions, live music, kids’ zone and more. Sep 29, 11am. $15. Citrus Fairgrounds, 1 Citrus Dr, Cloverdale. tomatofiesta. com.

Readings Angelico Hall

As You Like It

Shakespeare Napa Valley presents an interactive and family friendly adaptation of the comedy. Through Sep 30, 7pm. Free admission. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa.

707.967.2530.

A Chorus Line

Classic musical is for everyone who’s ever had a dream and put everything on the line to make it come true. Through Sep 30. $18-$30. Novato Theater Company, 5240 Nave Dr, Novato. 415.883.4498.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

This stage adaptation of the novel about a teenage detective is funny and enthralling. Through Sep 30. $16-$26. Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. 707.588.3400.

Guys & Dolls

Sep 29, 1pm, “In Pieces” with Sally Field, in conversation with Janis Cooke Newman. $40.

Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael. 415.457.4440.

The broadway classic opens 6th St Playhouse’s season with high-stakes fun. Through Oct 7. $25-$35. 6th Street Playhouse, 52 W Sixth St, Santa Rosa.

707.523.4185.

Petaluma Copperfield’s Books

The Naked Truth

Sep 28, 4pm, “Last Kids on Earth” with Max Brallier. Sep 28, 7pm, Weird Fiction Hour with Andrew J Stone and friends. Sep 29, 2pm, “Owl Love You” with Matthew Heroux and Wednesday Kirwan. Oct 2, 3pm, “Dreamers” with Yuyi Morales.

140 Kentucky St, Petaluma 707.762.0563.

Santa Rosa Copperfield’s Books

Sep 29, 7pm, “Strange Contagion” with Lee Daniel Kravetz, includes panel of experts discussing suicide prevention. 775 Village Court, Santa Rosa 707.578.8938.

SoCo Coffee

Sep 29, 4:30pm, “Fire Storm” with Ed Coletti, poetry chapbook launch includes music and reading. Free. 1015 Fourth St, Santa Rosa 707.433.1660.

Theater Artist Occupied Festival

The Imaginists present their first annual performance festival featuring renowned Bay Area dance and theatrical artists. Sep 28-29, 7pm. $15-$25. The Imaginists, 461 Sebastopol Ave, Santa Rosa.

707.528.7554.

Left Edge Theater opens their season with the comedy about five women struggling to conquer pole dancing. Through Sep 30. $25-$40. Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Rd, Santa Rosa. 707.546.3600.

Tapas Short Play Festival

Pegasus Theater Company performs a collection of 10-minute plays written

by Northern California playwrights. Through Oct 7. $15-$18. Mt Jackson Masonic Hall, 14040 Church St, Guerneville. 800.838.3006.

Time Stands Still/ Church & State

Raven Players’ mini-rep presents two contemporary plays about complex issues; performed on alternate days.

Through Oct 7. $10-$25.

Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg. 707.433.3145.

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Sep 29-30. $5. Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati.

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Senior Strains

Cannabis club vs. pickleball at Oakmont

BY MICHAEL BARNES

T

he medical marijuana dispensary located on Todd Road in Santa Rosa is hosting a field trip of sorts for the recently established Oakmont Cannabis Club. Members of the club, most of whom are residents of the Oakmont Village retirement community, peruse the dispensary shelves in search of alternatives to what ails them.

Oakmont Village resident Tina Hoogs, a founding member of the Oakmont Cannabis Club, studied medicinal marijuana at Oaksterdam University in Oakland, which touts itself as “America’s first cannabis college.”

Hoogs envisioned the club as an alternative for members of the retirement community disillusioned with the cost and effectiveness of traditional pharmaceuticals.

“It’s about making it less mysterious for most elderly

people who have a preconceived notion that a dispensary is like a headshop,” Hoogs says.

Last May, Hoogs, founding member Jim Byrne, and club spokesperson Heidi Klyn put up a flyer proposing the club to Oakmont residents. “The first day we thought we’d get maybe 10 people. We had almost triple that,” Hoogs says.

The Oakmont Village Association eventually held a meeting and voted in favor of formally recognizing the club as an organization; now, more than a year later, the club has over 200 members.

Retirement communities have long been synonymous with more traditional recreational activities like arts and crafts, gardening and pickleball—the last of which caused a minor scandal in Oakmont Village over the construction of new courts in 2017.

“During that whole pickleball controversy I said, ‘Can’t we all just a get a bong?’” Byrne says. He estimates that the club has helped anywhere from 50 to 100 members successfully quit opioids.

“What seniors stand to benefit the most from legalization is treating their ailments with minimal side effects,” says Michael Zick Doherty, a business and marketing consultant in the Sonoma County cannabis scene who hosted a workshop for the club on how to properly extract cannabis to infuse into edible substances like butter or oil for cooking. “We would love to see the club become a model for other senior residential communities in the area,” he says.

Despite issues and concerns associated with legalization for senior citizens—the cost, feeling comfortable in dispensaries—the potential of the plant’s healing power can’t be overlooked.

“I know one person who has been battling breast cancer, and felt that chemo was literally killing her, and chose to use cannabis instead,” Hoogs says. “A year and a half ago she looked like very ill, and now she seems like a picture of health.”

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GEMINI (May 21–June 20) Gemini regent Queen Victoria (1819–1901) wore crotchless underwear made of linen. A few years ago, Britain’s Museums, Libraries and Archives Council accorded them “national designated status,” an official notice that means they are a national treasure. If I had the power, I would give your undergarments an equivalent acknowledgment.

The only evidence I would need to make this bold move would be the intelligence and expressiveness with which you are going to wield your erotic sensibilities in the coming weeks.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) I’ve taken a break from socializing, my fellow Cancerian. In fact, I’m on sabbatical from my regular rhythm. My goal for the coming days is to commune with my past and review the story of my life. Rather than fill my brain up with the latest news and celebrity gossip, I am meditating on my own deep dark mysteries. I’m mining for secrets that I might be concealing from myself. In accordance with the astrological omens, I suggest that you follow my lead. You might want to delve into boxes of old mementoes or reread emails from years ago. You could get in touch with people who are no longer part of your life even though they were once important to you.

How else could you get into intimate contact with your eternal self?

LEO (July 23–August 22)

Here’s a quote from A Map of Misreading, a book by renowned literary critic, Harold Bloom: “Where the synecdoche of tessera made a totality, however illusive, the metonymy of kenosis breaks this up into discontinuous fragments.” What the cluck did Harold Bloom just say? I’m not being anti-intellectual when I declare this passage to be pretentious drivel. In the coming days, I urge you Leos to draw inspiration from my response to Bloom. Tell the truth about nonsense. Don’t pretend to appreciate jumbled or over-complicated ideas. Expose bunk and bombast. Be kind, if you can, but be firm. You’re primed to be a champion of down-to-earth communication.

VIRGO (August 23–September 22) A data research company, Priceonomics, suggests that Monday is the most productive day of the week and that October is the most productive month of the year.

My research suggests that while Capricorns tend to be the most consistently productive of all the signs in the zodiac, Virgos often outstrip them for a six-week period during the end of each September and throughout October. Furthermore, my intuition tells me that you Virgos now have an extraordinary capacity to turn good ideas into practical action. I conclude, therefore, that you are about to embark on a surge of industrious and high-quality work. (P.S.: This October has five Mondays.)

LIBRA (September 23–October 22) Biologists are constantly unearthing new species, although not new in the sense of having just appeared on our planet. In fact, they’re animals and plants that have existed for millennia. But they’ve never before been noticed and identified by science. Among recent additions to our ever-growing knowledge are an orchid in Madagascar

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that smells like Champagne, an electric-blue tarantula in the Guyana rain forest and a Western Australian grass that has a flavor resembling salt and vinegar potato chips. I suspect you’ll be making metaphorically comparable discoveries in the coming weeks, Libra: evocative beauty that you’ve been blind to and interesting phenomena that have been hiding in plain sight.

SCORPIO (October 23–November 21) There

is no such thing as a plant that blooms continuously.

Phases of withering and dormancy are just as natural as phases of growth. I bring this fact to your attention to help you remain poised as you go through your own period of withering followed by dormancy. You should accept life’s demand that you slow down and explore the mysteries of fallowness. You should surrender sweetly to stasis and enjoy your time of rest and recharging. That’s the best way to prepare for the new cycle of growth that will begin in a few weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 21) If you were ever going to win a contest that awarded you a free vacation to an exotic sanctuary, it would probably happen during the next three weeks. If a toy company would ever approach you about developing a line of action figures and kids’ books based on your life, it might also be sometime soon. And if you have ever had hopes of converting your adversaries into allies, or getting support and backing for your good original ideas, or finding unexpected inspiration to fix one of your not-so-good habits, those opportunities are now more likely than they have been for some time.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 19) An 81-year-old Capricorn man named James Harrison has donated his unique blood on 1,173 occasions. Scientists have used it to make medicine that prevents Rhesus disease in unborn babies, thereby healing more than 2.4 million kids and literally saving thousands of lives. I don’t expect you to do anything nearly as remarkable.

But I do want to let you know that the coming weeks will be a favorable time to lift your generosity and compassion to the next level. Harrison would serve well as your patron saint.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 18) On a spring morning some years ago, a smoky aroma woke me from a deep sleep. Peering out my bedroom window into the backyard, I saw that my trickster girlfriend Anastasia had built a bonfire. When I stumbled to my closet to get dressed, I found my clothes missing. There were no garments in my dresser, either. In my groggy haze, I realized that my entire wardrobe had become fuel for Anastasia’s conflagration. It was too late to intervene, and I was still quite drowsy, so I crawled back in bed to resume snoozing. A while later, I woke to find her standing next to the bed bearing a luxurious breakfast she said she’d cooked over the flames of my burning clothes.

After our meal, we stayed in bed all day, indulging in a variety of riotous fun. I’m not predicting that similar events will unfold in your life, Aquarius. But you may experience adventures that are almost equally boisterous, hilarious and mysterious.

PISCES (February 19–March 20)

I’ve got three teachings for you. 1. Was there a time in your past when bad romance wounded your talent for love? Yes, but you now have more power to heal that wound than you’ve ever had before. 2. Is it possible you’re ready to shed a semi-delicious addiction to a chaotic magic? Yes. Clarity is poised to trump melodrama.

Joyous decisiveness is primed to vanquish ingrained sadness. 3. Has there ever been a better time than now to resolve and graduate from past events that have bothered and drained you for a long time? No. This is the best time ever.

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